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Assange: Google is not what it seems (2014)

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11 points·by damhsa·letztes Jahr·0 comments

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damhsa
·vor 11 Monaten·discuss
i recently used this to download a PDF of an industry standard i legally had access to in a DRM-PDF format which i could not open on my computer. completely legal according to local legislation, just as long as the publisher doesn't find out ;-)
damhsa
·letztes Jahr·discuss
Mandiant is also Google and responsible for a lot of these "disclosures" about the Russkies & Chinks under the bed. https://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-27...
damhsa
·letztes Jahr·discuss
Mhmm. "First disclosed by Google." Sources include the State Department which commands the military arm of the CIA. Don't you know Google works for them? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigsaw_(company)#Google_Ideas
damhsa
·letztes Jahr·discuss
never used a huawei phone, but the huawei stuff i have used has been as bad as google & apple vis a vis taking linux, locking it down, & then pretending its somehow opensource
damhsa
·letztes Jahr·discuss
according to the CIA lol. & i suppose theres weapons of mass distruction in iraq too? sure buddy
damhsa
·letztes Jahr·discuss
it is a dash. you could use an em dash - or a 2em dash - but this dash is probably shorter than 1em - unless like me you have a monospace font. if it can be a hyphen-minus, it can be a hyphen/minus/dash. and that is what it is, because that is how it is used, ASCII be damned. the english language and its typography is beholden to neither ASCII™ nor UNICODE™.
damhsa
·letztes Jahr·discuss
a short dash - with spaces around it - is clearly a punction mark, not a word-joiner. what nonsense! anyway, you can not expect everyone to use 4 or more different key combinations depending what style they want. the only solution is to make firefox, word, etc choose the right dash for word-joining, punctuation, minus, number ranges, etc. somewhat similar to how they can choose the width of spaces in justified text.
damhsa
·letztes Jahr·discuss
if microsoft ever makes something that doesnt suck it will be a vacuum/hoover
damhsa
·letztes Jahr·discuss
the author condones public protest for the public sector; why not private protest for the private sector? had trump been master of ceremonies i suspect the author would support some protest.

as a unix hacker whose peace is often ruined by micros**t warez, i really dont care about bill nor gates. as a worker who can have my livelihood taken away at the whim of any myriad capitalists, i admire the will of american workers to risk their own livelihood to defend the lives of the many palestinians who will not live to the "precocious age of 19," which incidentally is older than the girl epstein procured for bill gates.
damhsa
·letztes Jahr·discuss
the amount lost is insignificant compared to that lost to wage theft, inflation, rent, interest -- forms of capital expansion

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Manifesto_of_the_Communist_Pa...
damhsa
·letztes Jahr·discuss
the data downloads i have done (that could be done by anyone with my unlocked phone and logins, such as US border forces) clearly do not even try to adhere to most of the clauses there (e.g. recipients of the data). tech companies dont try to apply GDPR outside of EU, but they are generally happy to give information to the police in all countries except china. i wonder if the chinese can download their data?
damhsa
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extraction by whom? i dont buy that. i have "downloaded my data" before and it never includes any kind of analytic marketing inferences they have made about me, only what i have done on the site, and they know i dont live in the EU. i assume pretend GDPR compliance is just a handy excuse thought up by marketing, killing two birds with one stone. im sure i heard at least one absurd marketing claim that it was to "let you take control of your data."
damhsa
·letztes Jahr·discuss
the amount lost is insignificant compared to that lost to wage theft, inflation, rent, interest -- forms of capital expansion

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Manifesto_of_the_Communist_Pa...
damhsa
·letztes Jahr·discuss
sadly this does not demonstate national sovereignty when it is done in obedience to america
damhsa
·letztes Jahr·discuss
after enabling JS in uBlockOrigin on Firefox, i had to press ctrl+f5 to flush the cache to get it to load after i got a CSP error in the JS console
damhsa
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is this why you can "download your data" from social media app sites? to make it easier for a fed to grep for wrongthink after they make you give them your login and phone password?
damhsa
·letztes Jahr·discuss
typo

    su root -c 'tar xfzCp src.tar.gz'
should be

    su root -c 'tar xfzCp src.tar.gz /usr/src'
damhsa
·letztes Jahr·discuss
i didnt understand it until i stumbled on the bsd supp docs that openbsd couldnt be ****** to include. i dont have the sources, but v7 vol2 is close enough:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/plan9-bell-labs/7thEdMan/bswv7.html

vol2 contains fuller book like manuals and tutorials for complicated things like ed, C, filesystem, UNIX, etc. and should be your first introduction to UNIX/BSD, while the man(1) program (vol1) serves as a complementary quick reference for experienced users and for short programs that dont need much explanation. sadly V7 wont tell you about the internet because that was started by the "net" releases of 4.3-4.4BSD (see kirk mckusicks history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEEr6dT-4uQ )

for vi, get the PostScript.ps files for the OTHER manual from keith bostics sources (openbsd src only has troff source and no troff):

https://sites.google.com/a/bostic.com/keithbostic/the-berkel...

    echo pkg_add ghostscript | su root
    tar xfz nvi-1.79.tar.gz
    cd nvi-1.79/docs/USD.doc
    (cd vi.ref; ps2pdf vi.ref.ps)
    (cd vi.tut; ps2pdf vi.tut.ps)
the interactive vi tutorial is also great:

    cp /usr/src/usr.bin/vi/docs/tutorial/* ./
    vi vi.beginner
    vi vi.advanced
assuming you installed the relevant src tar:

    ftp -C https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/"`uname -r`"/SHA256.sig &&
    ftp -C https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/"`uname -r`"/src.tar.gz &&
    signify -Cp /etc/signify/openbsd-"`uname -r|tr -d .`"-base.pub -x SHA256.sig src.tar.gz &&
    su root -c 'tar xfzCp src.tar.gz'
wouldnt it be nice if installation did this and syspatch patched it and sysupgrade merged it?

openbsd is also not very good at pointing you to the right manual. making them grepable was a small improvement for me.

    mkdir man && cd man &&
    for n in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
    do for m in /usr/share/man/man$n{/,/"`machine`"/}*
    do test -f "$m" && man $n "`basename $m .$n`" | col -b > "`basename $m`"
    done
    done
    grep relink * | grep kernel
maybe use it to train an LLM, idk.

the 15 min long boot is due to relinking done by /etc/rc

you can try pressing ^T to see whats going on at boot and ^C to skip anything

or just delete it from /etc/rc

    login root
    cp /etc/rc /etc/rc.old
    ed /etc/rc
    g/reorder/p
    /^reorder_libs[^()]*$/s/^/#
    /^wait_reorder_libs[^()]*$/s/^/#
    /reorder_kernel/s/^/#
    wq
you are now on the beginning of the long, tedious, futile and soul crushing journey of dealing with documentation and source code on openbsd.
damhsa
·letztes Jahr·discuss
for some reason firefox wasnt saving my changes when i saving as html-only, but saving as complete web page it did.