GnuLinuxDude @ GnuLinuxDude @lemmy.ml

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The statement did not use the term “occupation,” rather using the term “takeover,” due to legal ramifications for the civilian population in the enclave, Ynet reported.

when the fuck did legality ever matter to israel?

I also try, but it is invoked on my behalf. For instance, at work if I make a pull request now multiple AI bots are summoned to give an analysis of my code changes. It's extremely verbose and annoying, and I think basically nobody reads it because all it does is just spam the comments section with way too much text.

I vehemently hate OpenAI, ChatGPT, et al. At least it's funny when it summarizes my changes as significant improvements that improve code maintainability. I guess getting glazed by the bot in a way my manager can see is helpful to my career? Though honestly he probably also doesn't read that shit. So glad all this energy is wasted for nothing.

“The enigma of success” whoever came up with that line has truly mastered the art of auto-fellatio.

That’s slick in how straightforward it is. I like the offline element you get from printing it, too.

For both our sakes, I hope we can find something that works for us. I don’t need to be on my productivity grind 24/7. I don’t desire that at all. But I really don’t like the feeling of completely misspent time. I want the balance of doing what I want to do AND totally relaxing (physically+mentally) when I feel it’s time to relax

Less than 10% of plastic is recycled.

Less than 10% is recycled and nobody wants to recycle it anyway, because it is difficult to recycle and the resulting recycled plastic is worse.

I've never seen a distro take more than 2gb RAM ootb (ubuntu gnome and kde are probably the "heavy" contenders), excluding precached files. In either case, Windows or Linux, you lose big time the moment you launch a web browser.

I love the thought of productivity being measured as more and more LoC accepted month over month. This month it was 250k, but maybe next month it will be 350! Soon their OpenAI API front end will have more LoC than the Linux Kernel!!

Why does this story magically no longer become interesting because of a group that helps defected NKs?

There is nothing magic about it. The organization that's cited isn't the problem. The problem is the BBC cites that org as proof that this person's claims are true. But neither that org nor the BBC have said, "we have corroborated Jin-su's story." On the contrary, the BBC just admits they didn't or couldn't corroborate the story themselves. So in my mind I may as well have read this article on any rando's blog post, or in the NYT in 2001 under a Judith Miller byline. It lacks credence.

I wouldn't have had anything to say if BBC said that they reviewed some documents that showed Jin-su's claim. Maybe a few of the "hundreds" of fake IDs that he used, for example. But instead they just read another testimony from PSCORE. Was that other testimony verified? They don't bother explaining. So they just use an unverified testimony from PSCORE and pass that off to make the reader believe that that's good enough in place of actually verifying Jin-su's testimony!

Would you expect a news outlet to be able to somehow verify the testimony of a prisoner of war before reporting on it?

"If the circumstance were different would you expect something different?" is what you are asking me. The interviewee isn't a POW, but a defector. And not an escapee, because according to the article he was already sent abroad, so it's not like he fled with merely the clothes on his back and a story to tell. So I would presume he would have a bit more evidence to share with the BBC than just a story, just as many of the people responding to me seem to presume that because it's been reported by the BBC it's prima facie undeniably true.

I wish when i read benchmarks for computer hardware people would commonly include a fixed emulator version as part of their test suite.

You're tedious and annoying.

In cases like these the journalists can and often do say something to the effect of they were able to corroborate the claims. But you're super right about being careful, because they also can mishandle the data they receive to the point where they dox the anonymous source, too. That's what happened with Reality Winner and The Intercept. They botched it, and she was arrested.

I'm not doubting the N Korean scheme to infiltrate IT jobs. There's even that woman who was prosecuted (I think she lived in Arizona?) because she is one person who acted as a facilitator for this scheme. My point is the BBC ran a story with an "anonymous" source then admits in the middle that they couldn't substantiate any of the claims. That's the problem here.

You're not addressing the fact that BBC admits they didn't/couldn't substantiate his claims, which apparently is no problem for your own journalistic standards.

A TeamViewer shooter coming out to downvote you lol

The BBC cannot independently verify the specifics of Jin-su's testimony, but through PSCORE, an organisation which advocates for North Korean human rights, we've read testimony from another IT worker who defected that supports Jin-su's claims.

Oh. Ok. You'd think he can prove something with like a pay stub, at minimum. But I guess the standard of proof when reporting on N Korea is "an anti-n korea org also said so." I was genuinely interested in this article until that line.

They do love to get together. Sometimes publicly like at Davos to meet at the WEF. Sometimes they like to meet more secretively like at Bohemian Grove. Sometimes they all just know and pay a guy named Jeffrey Epstein.

So it kind of is a cabal. It’s the cabal of people that pay and blackmail each other for favors. And if you’re not quite in the club then you do the legal version of it called lobbying.

I have long contended that the computer industry is course-correcting with Android/iOS/mobile. They realized their prior "mistake" of letting people actually own, control, and modify their devices. Apple and iPhone is the worst in this regard.

Give them a nuke as compensation, with the added benefit that they can defend their sovereignty during future diplomatic talks.