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Re:iTerm2 critical security release on Friday January 03, 2025 @03:13AM (#42583659)
Don't get me wrong, I like it. But there's a fake nostalgia around terminals lately (nvim, oh-my-zsh, etc) and it seems emotional
Re:iTerm2 critical security release on Friday January 03, 2025 @01:31AM (#42583116)
The terminal is the last bastion of the "good old times" for many people. that's why a terminal aiming at modernizing the experience is so triggering
Re:86Box: Emulator of x86-Based Machines on Monday December 30, 2024 @10:21AM (#42550037)
wow, the screenshots attached to each release on github are deeply nostalgic

https://github.com/86Box/86Box/releases

Only when forgetting that the US was extremely naive towards Stalin after-WW2, breaking promises and taking over eastern europe.

This now classical approach where the US is some absolute evil confronted by the nice guy Stalinists could be funny if not widespread

Re:AI Guesses Your Accent on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @05:30PM (#42393773)
sorry, could not help myself :)
Re:AI Guesses Your Accent on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @05:26PM (#42393738)
it's a joke, but it's not inconceivable that chatbots which support voice like chatgpt will use voice fingerprinting for ads
Re:AI Guesses Your Accent on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @03:09PM (#42392304)
AI fingerprints your voice and sells it to ad companies
Re:Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @01:01PM (#42320092)
Waiting for OpenAI to take this concept and make it into a product
Re:The tech utopia fantasy is over on Saturday November 23, 2024 @02:07PM (#42223012)
to be fair, was there anything you didn't feel optimistic about in the 90s?

From what I remember everything about that decade was full of unrealistic optimism (end of history etc)

Re:Automat on Thursday November 07, 2024 @04:36PM (#42081348)
Reminds me of Spycraft: The Great Game

I am pretty sure it had this kind of interface complete with the sound effects, or maybe i am confusing it with another game from that era

Re:Accountability Sinks on Sunday October 20, 2024 @12:44PM (#41896627)
they claimed they had to change planes though i had selected that seat when booking the flight, and there were no humans available to address such issues
Re:Accountability Sinks on Sunday October 20, 2024 @01:35AM (#41893123)
I remember experiencing this in one of the German airports/airlines and having that exact thought.

It was this fully automated airport, where the checkin is self serviced and you only interact with computers.

Eventually, when I inserted my boarding pass I had a printed piece of paper back that said that they had to change my seat from aisle to midseat

I then tried to find someone to talk to the entire way, but computers can only interact in the way the UI was designed, and no programmer accounted or cared for my scenario

The ground attendant couldn't have done anything of course because it wasn't part of the scope of her job, and this was the part of germany where nice was not one of their stereotypes.

Eventually I got a survey a week later about a different leg of the flight, so could I really complain there? that one was fine? I had a paranoid wonder if that was intentional

Re:You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid on Saturday October 19, 2024 @08:30AM (#41887436)
in your opinion these are settlers illegally occupying land, in their opinion they came back after they were ethnically cleansed from Hebron in the 1929 and 1936 massacres

sometimes life is surprisingly complicated

Re:Israel's bulky pager fooled Hezbollah on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @02:10PM (#41861946)
2. I think the issue is whether it is an armed conflict between nations (but i am not a lawyer)

While even though hezbollah is part of the Lebanese government, their entire modus operandi is based on being a non-state organization, which helps them keep the conflict low intensity (until at least up until this year)

Re:Israel's bulky pager fooled Hezbollah on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @12:22PM (#41860943)
1. Then we will have to disagree, for me it was quite obvious what scenario they had in heart when writing the convention. While the difference here would at least mean a court will need to decide this applies here, as this is not clear cut relevant in any way

2. And so do terrorist organizations. As this does not qualify as an international conflict this does not apply without the annex

3. The civilian casualties are absolutely minimal in proportion to the military usefulness much more than a classic attack.

About the escalatory nature, this is purely my opinion but after 1 year of open conflict that left many refugees, Israel would have to attack eventually.

Also when looking at this entire conflict as an Iran-Israel confrontation, this is merely a natural continuation

Re:Israel's bulky pager fooled Hezbollah on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @11:52AM (#41860546)
I can sum up my position as this:

1. the original intent of the law was so further away from this scenario that it isn't really applicable in any form. You can see from the first clause that they envisioned a scenario where a soldier is hurt by a booby trapped flag being left in some base. Hence the fact this is part of the mine convention.

2. I am not convinced this actually applies in the legal sense of who signed what and whether these are armed forces at all. Generally intelligence agencies are not bound by international law and regularly do things such as use other armed forces uniforms which is illegal, or simply have non-uniformed paramilitary forces

3. The morale aspect: It is generally accepted among democratic nations that targeted assassinations against terror group members is legal. See US, UK, and a whole bunch of nations that were members of the Afghanistan, Iraq and anti-ISIS coalition.

If Israel had went with that route, each of those 3000 houses bombed would lead to many more dead by the surrounding families, similarly to in Gaza. While in this scenario, most were incapacitated in a non-lethal way (although still horrifying, this is war after all). Making this much better than the alternative

Re:Israel's bulky pager fooled Hezbollah on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @10:39AM (#41859587)
My understanding after reading the west point article is that Israel is only bound to the effect of an armed conflict between nations, not against Hezbollah as that is an Annex they haven't signed

Furthermore, from the language of the west point article I understand he only states that this (The booby trap clause) is the only part of international law that may apply, not that it actually applies in this case

Re:Israel's bulky pager fooled Hezbollah on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @10:22AM (#41859334)
I am rereading what you said and I don't see how it either applied to a non signatory nation or proclaims this is illegal, only that it may relate to that clause

Also I fail to understand how being a member of the UN makes each of its conventions a binding law for each member country, can you please explain why?

Re:Israel's bulky pager fooled Hezbollah on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @09:45AM (#41858982)
I read the site you linked and it was very interesting

I didn't see it was very definite in its conclusion that this was illegal.

In any case they mentioned that this only may be illegal under an annex which Israel is not signatory to, while Lebanon never was signatory to even the original

Re:Israel's bulky pager fooled Hezbollah on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @09:12AM (#41858703)
Your quote concerns the convention on POWs

His quoted convention refers to use of booby traps by armed forces on a battlefield.

This is a supply chain operation by a clandestine intel org (Mossad presumably) against an ununiformed miltia/designated terror org.

I am not an international lawyer but my opinion is that it is a stretch to apply it here

Re:Israel's bulky pager fooled Hezbollah on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @08:53AM (#41858517)
This is not "the literal Geneva Convention" but rather a UN convention held in Geneva.

Does it apply to unlawful combatants?

Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @06:19AM (#41577930)
Hezbollah has already claimed eight of the nine dead, while some of the injuries even happened in Syria where Hezbollah is fighting. Which leads me to believe otherwise, but do you have any other information?

In your metaphorical scenario in America does the following also hold for the said American political party:

* It has a parallel illegal army that is stronger than the US army

* It started a war attacking a neighbor using rockets, mainly attacking the enemy civilian population

* It is controlled by a foreign government

* Its attacked members are in active combat roles inside the united states

* It is part of the US government yet the government refuses to disarm it or take responsibility of its actions

Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @12:57AM (#41575951)
Any child death is tragic, but this is really one of the most targeted strikes in the history of warfare. It is safe to believe that everyone that was given a pager for secret communication by a terrorist group, is associated with such group, probably in a military capacity. Furthermore, videos show that extremely close bystanders are left unhurt.

I think this only goes out to show that criticism towards Israel waging warfare is not really about the way that warfare is fought, but really on the right of Israel to fight at all. As no one in history has achieved a more precise attack in urban setting towards a non-uniformed organization ever.

Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @12:31AM (#41575807)
source for the hospital video with hurt doctors? I've seen two such videos and it only included military aged males in civilian clothes
According to Hezbollah sources talking with Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/pagers-drones-how-...) pagers are used to evade Israeli surveillance on the battlefield, seems to be highly associated with the military wing
Re:gRPC: The Ugly Parts on Saturday September 14, 2024 @09:31AM (#41539686)
you are right, I checked now and these are based on gRPC

for some reason I remembered these used REST

Re:The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out on Saturday September 14, 2024 @08:58AM (#41539535)
For a really good book on most of these long life nutritional surveys and other food panics, check out:

https://www.amazon.com/Fear-Food-History-Worry-about/dp/0226...

Re:gRPC: The Ugly Parts on Monday September 09, 2024 @02:42AM (#41486020)
Fair enough

Although this might have some external implications, most of GCP does not rely on gRPC, even the external customers are not usually dependent on gRPC when using Google services.

Correct me if I'm wrong but gcloud uses REST and so do the libraries google publishes for using GCP apis in different languages.

The question is can Google stop supporting gRPC, protobuf or stubby tomorrow, and I still think gRPC is relatively at risk

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