If there was a race war that guy would join the Aryan Nation because any group opposing them would obviously be inferior.

I will add that Austria is a known money laundering destination and I remember when Schäuble (famous later for ruining Greece when they were caught in a debt trap during his time as German minister of finance) got caught with a case full of cash at the Bavarian-Austrian border. Chancellor Kohl famously never gave up where the money came from (probably weapons deal kickbacks or something of that sort), instead he sordidly claimed they were (off the books) donations stemming from “Jewish inheritances”. The implication here being that these Jewish inheritors were just so grateful to the CDU and also just very shy about donating in public.

I’m sure the Hungarian authorities were acting on Orban’s personal orders when they decided to impound two vehicles on their way to Austria, and detain the drivers that they just picked up with two trunks full of cash, which is not suspicious at all.

Update: After reading some Austrian news on this:

• Hungarian anti-terror unit HEK detained them at a high way rest stop.
• Ukraine claims this was an official and registered transport.
• 40m $, 35m €, 9 kg gold seized.
• Hungarian authorities say that this year [what year?], 900m $, 420m €, and 146 kg gold were transported through Hungary by Ukraine.
• Hungary claims money laundering investigation.
• Ex-general of Ukrainian intelligence service among the detained.
• Hungarian authorities released them back to Ukraine.

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I’m inclined to think that the Hungarian authorities have a point that this is related to money laundering, but also that they’re fucking with them for political reasons. It’s interesting that they all let them go. They either do not have anything substantial to charge them with or they don’t want to create some sort of diplomatic incident.

Right now some people are still engaging even with known LLM bot submissions, but I predict everyone’s patience will run out real quick and AI bots will be plonked on sight, even a whiff of LLM will result in an immediate ban if the problem gets worse. Maybe most the spammers give up then, maybe they won’t, depends probably on how convincing (and arguably genuinely useful) and cheap the bots will be. Still, if you treat it as a spam problem, you can whitelist competent contributors. Some may be caught up in the shoot-on-sight spam policy as false positives, but I hope that won’t be existential to the projects.

I’m hoping and predicting vibe coders are going to bring down a couple of major (and minor) corporations in the next few years, so I say let them cook.

Free software projects will be less impacted I think, the people in charge aren’t under the same kind of pressure to take shortcuts usually. The longevity of many projects already proves that maintainability is a high priority for them.

Mission impossible

What else would it be? Iran cannot shoot down airplanes that far out I don’t think. They shot down their own plane when they were attacking Yemen so that seems very plausible.

Let’s hope so. Regardless seems like a smart move to attack there. Apart from hurting these bootlicker’s interests and reputations, and making the US look unreliable and uncaring, it’s also apparently really easy.

I saw a DougDoug video where he made a chatbot play chess, and, as one would expect, it’s completely incapable of following the rules, since it’s a fucking chatbot and cannot reason, and probalistically spits out its training data, presumably from books containing chess games.

In this case, probably the fucking training data (reddit, pop culture, serious game theoretical analysis even) leads it to eventually autocomplete “nuclear”, and once that’s in the history, it just runs with it to the bitter end. Chatbots get stuck in stupid holes like this all the time.

Wouldn’t it be more likely for cooling?

Der Spiegel reports that the CIA held multiple meetings with the Nord Stream saboteurs, and were initially encouraging and supportive.

They say the CIA eventually stopped supporting them and advised against it. I rather think this is yet another limited hangout.

According to SPIEGEL research, the secret commando found a new sponsor: a Ukrainian private individual. He covered a large part of the approximately $300,000 in costs for equipment, boat rental, and explosives, according to insiders.

Der Spiegel doesn’t point out that going through middlemen is like the CIA’s favourite thing. Gives plausible deniability.

Ok I thought they put him in custody based on that headline, but they just took his passport and had him in limbo at the airport for a while. They did actually detain the/a producer though.

Theoretically yes, though I’m in inclined to believe this may be a false positive.

Whenever a program looks at the contents of a file, some code (called a parser) runs that goes over the file content in order to discern its structure and pluck out the relevant information. Parsers essentially take formatted data and turn it into easy-to-work-with data structures. Since the parser’s input could be some random file off the internet, potentially crafted by an attacker, a flaw in the parser code can easily be a security vulnerability. I think most security vulnerabilities are in parser code actually.

Now, the torrent file format is pretty simple, so the parser code ought to be simple as well, but that does not mean there cannot be security issues with it. So it is not impossible, in theory, that opening a torrent file could infect your computer with malware, same as opening any other file you get off the internet. You’d hope/expect, if any such security bug is found in any bittorrent software and/or is being exploited in the wild, it would be fixed quickly with an update.

Btw, antivirus software itself must look at the contents of a file, and as such can itself have security issues. This has happened. It is exacerbated by the fact the antivirus has elevated privileges and literally looks at all the files.

Don’t they have kids?

Posted translations of two junge Welt articles:

First one about a PdL (“The Left” party) supported speaker, Evelyn Deller, running cover for Azov-Nazis: https://hexbear.net/post/7620661

Second one about the state of the Russia-Ukraine war, and how it can be seen through the lense of Cybernetics: https://hexbear.net/post/7620823

The fact that these social fascists keep getting away with appropriating Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht is disgusting. Not as disgusting as supporting Israel and Azov Nazis, but still.

Norm loves and idolizes Chomsky, doesn’t he? He hung out with him regularly. I saw him talk about that not long ago.

Ok, but is bread crust maillard or caramelization? Because I won’t know how to cook before I figure that out.

That’s like eight full boxes of tea per cup. I can’t afford that.

This is so infuriatingly frustrating I love it. Also probably there’s a lesson in there somewhere.