Ah, yes. I’ll add to this that she shouldn’t be a sadistic torturer and probable murderer (just thinking of my first love).

It’s as democratic as democratic gets on that scale.

That’s kinda sad.

Any girl

EU is not democratic. EU’s ruling entities are formed by governments of member countries. Which are supposedly democratic.

And about never voted through - sometimes putting pressure is enough.

due to conflicting, dated, or missing documentation.

Oh, let’s all use FreeBSD then. Please? Please?

It’s no different than shredding or burning paper files.

Both are normal if you work with information you wouldn’t like to leak. Or something very personal.

They are that thing you said only if they are unusual for the circumstance. When that gives information that a person did something not normal.

Because that’s a sign of something, kinda similar to shaking hands and missing shovel and sudden lack of time for guests.

Encrypting everything on Internet-connected machines is not unusual. It’s perfectly normal. It’s f* obligatory.

Encryption is also criminal in some contexts, like encrypted radio broadcasts on frequencies for public use.

Because that’s almost jamming, if everyone could broadcast all they can, nobody could use those frequencies. And since you have to make space there, private transmissions probably belong somewhere else. Doesn’t matter when using wire. This is irrelevant to encryption.

It definitely belongs as a talking point in a courtroom, imo.

No it doesn’t. Even if someone suddenly started encrypting everything, no. Maybe they learned how the world works and decided to learn to do it just in case.

That’s correct, but your point is not clear. Public infrastructure is not a closed system. If your “closed systems” have to communicate, they either build and support their own parallel infrastructure or don’t, or communicate without encryption over public infrastructure. Which is not acceptable.

People used encryption for commercial purposes since Antiquity.

If your point is how it mostly was right “before radio transmission” - that latency would break civilization. You’d have to send messengers with safes for correspondence. The contents of which would be encrypted.

By the way, in those days nobody in their right mind would suggest banning encryption. If you need to read something - get a court order to read it first, if you read it without that you’ve committed a crime and it’s not admissible. If it’s encrypted, you could get the court to demand someone to decipher it, if it’s certain that they can.

A lot of steps, see, to not infringe on private life.

You mean, for everyone to have their own infrastructure, many times what we have now, and still some jerk can literally wiretap like in old times?

Or send messengers?

Encryption is not just not a crime, it’s a republican virtue, those arguments usually used about guns, they are even better applicable to encryption. Encryption is actually a civil duty, because of herd immunity being damaged by people not using encryption. That public institutes’ erosion we are seeing in the last decades - it’s because the technological progress made the need for encryption to blow up, not accompanied with sufficient public perception. That erosion is a result of bad people having gotten orders of magnitude more information about everyone to plan their actions.

Ah. OK. That’s nicer. Makes sense in the time of consumer hardware dominating frontlines.

That be radar or the bombe’s?

Lasers are more useful in surveillance and navigation and guidance and precision work in production, for a weapon they are, most of the time, out of place. Expensive, unreliable and weak.

How is knocking out drone swarms different from knocking out any other communications?

I swear, such news are reminiscent of the notorious tech illiteracy in “Wraith Squadron” books from Star Wars EU. With that Bothan being, ya knaw, able to just check all of one planet’s communications from the orbit after arriving there. The author (not to insult him) didn’t even consider how preposterous it would be on our planet, which doesn’t know hyperspace travel and other SW-grade tech yet, to be able to process that amount of information, no “hacking” parts even being discussed.

Which is even worse when pre-Wraith parts of the series are pretty sane and Corran as a character knows what he’s doing.

Of course protocols used in such applications have DoS vulnerabilities that can be found and used. And a lot of existing equipment can be employed in that too. Just - why does the headline read so stupid.

I also don’t know to what extent Putin’s power is limited.

To no extent, but it’s more of a gang than a monarchy.

If you have any resources comparing modern Russia to pre-Soviet Russia, I’d be interested in reading more.

I’ll look for them, what I say is a digest of a lot of little things learned, so.

Rather they want new vulnerabilities to go right to the market and remain unknown for longer, because that makes the surveillance and other criminal activity by the government easier.

Oh, so NOSTR is not hated here anymore. Good Anakin good.

Seriously, an amazingly successful platform.

People always want to try subtler and subtler tech, and NOSTR’s dumb architecture with relays is something that could only be conceived by people not that fond of tech brilliance. And that’s good and right! And if those people are cryptobros, then so be it, they found the right way and this is what matters.

They had a task one can’t solve with classic P2P, because mobile devices and energy consumption and uptime. They solved it the old-fashioned way which is still right, kinda like Usenet, except reducing news servers to asynchronous relays.

NOSTR already has some standard extensions for moderated communities, I’m just not sure if there are any clients supporting that.

Maybe they were on a better trajectory, idk.

They were. Russia between 1905 and 1914 was developing faster than at any point under Bolsheviks.

I haven’t studied it extensively, so I could be very mistaken, but it seems like a case of rose colored glasses.

Not entirely, one can call NEP sort of a continuation of those few years.

I guess I struggle to see pre-socialist Russia as better than modern Russia, unless we’re merely looking at trajectory.

In quality, not in quantity. Most people were illiterate and rural, but those who were literate had better quality of that literacy, so to say. Among those capable of touching power it was more decentralized, however strange that would seem. Quality of those people was better too, it wasn’t an organized mafia group. They had professors in the parliament and they didn’t have thieves there.

During the nearly 200 years

I specifically said between 1905 and 1914, as in between the first revolution and wartime laws. Most of the 200 years Russia was basically a slaver society, but not as different in that from, say, Austria, as stereotypes might suggest.

Most people couldn’t read, and there was a ton of censorship for those that could.

Less than Soviet censorship. Imperial censorship was reactive, something published could be forbidden after it was published. Soviet censorship was proactive, nothing could be published without being vetted by censors.

Serfdom wasn’t abolished until the 1860s and most people still largely lived on farms through the end of the 1800s.

A country being mostly agrarian doesn’t by itself say much about freedom.

The abolition of serfdom created a land-owning peasant class (kulaks),

That’s Stalinist mythology. In fact there was a more US south-like dynamic, with plenty of poor farm workers from liberated serfs and farm owners hiring them, mostly nobility, but also, yes, more well-off farmers.

and that land was stripped from them by Stalin.

Land was stripped from everyone having some land. People could be punished for growing something to eat on a small space like suburb lawn in an American movie.

So there was a period of 50-60 years where a substantial portion (but still <20%) owned land, and even fewer could read amd write.

If you mention “kulaks”, then people classified as that in Stalin’s times formed a much bigger proportion of population.

Going back to pre-Stalin government (say, Duma under Nicholas II) might actually be worse than the current status quo.

No, you don’t realize the difference. A working absolutism with working democratic mechanisms, even if subordinate to absolutism, is better than a facade for a bunch of thieves Russia has now.

In any case one can’t just go back to it.

When I was sort of an audiophile, my first steps were to switch from ALSA to OSS under Linux. I still think I heard the difference for music, and probably yes - because that was OSS without mixing.

And I still think I hear the difference between FreeBSD newpcm and Linux sound stack. newpcm’s mixing is simpler (firefox starting, opening a sound device and music volume sharply dropping in half is not nice), but it seems to spoil the sounds less.