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Friday_

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    Comment #30896256

    Russia forces are outnumbered for invasion from the begining. No surprise there.

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    Comment #30895573

    Just block all outgoing traffic to AS15169 on your firewall.

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    Comment #30876105

    Deadliest war on planet is not waged by humans, but supercolonies of ants.

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    Comment #30872686

    It's usually needed only minor part of it. You dont need to code whole GUI library. Only what you need to solve specific task.

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    Comment #30871747

    Software programmer usually need to solve specific task, not worlds problems. If you go too generalized you will need 10x, 100x or 1000x more amount of time and code. Look at Big t…

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    Comment #30870948

    Build things by KISS principle. Dependencies will complicate system you are building. ( with things like supply chain attacks, bloat, liscensing etc...)

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    Comment #30869548

    Keep it simple, just don't use dependencies.

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    Comment #30868202

    True for Packet switching, it was concieved ( Baran early 60s, Davies 1965) to "withstand heavy enemy attacks". Decommissioned Internet precursor ARPANET was allegedly designed " t…

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    Comment #30867594

    > These days, closing down communications focuses on the enemy’s internet capabilities. It's mostly pictures of cats and memes.

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    Comment #30866138

    > Intelsat-12 is a bent-pipe satellite, whose "dumb" transponders rebroadcast anything that they receive within their frequency band. Bent-pipe satellites remain the most common te…

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    Comment #30865597

    When I read satellite hacking I recall Tamil LTTE ,hack of Intelsat.

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    Comment #30853288

    > A fusion of biology and tech Yes, many believe so.On skin mobile phones powered by body energy. Or it could be dead end. Smartphones haven't change much in few years. Same form f…

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    Comment #30843233

    Sounds like guy is proposing usage of Signal app, and maybe "flashing custom ROM", "special issue smartphone"? Good luck on that, producing your own smartphone . And you are going …

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    Comment #30841855

    Encryption is only for protecting message content. Nobody said that encryption will save you from enemy knowing who you are, where you are, who you talking to, etc.

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    Comment #30841119

    If old don't understand smartphones. Thats a valid reason for not using it. For anything important.

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    Comment #30840929

    > In November 2019, the young minister of the Cabinet of Ministers, Dmytro Dubilet, proposed... Thats a classic, you never read that "old and experienced" official propose smartpho…

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    Comment #30801920

    I prefer be able to pay bills, new way and old way. Because WSHTF principle. I'm preparing that someday maybe i would not be able to use smartphone or internet or bank or electrici…

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    Comment #30800948

    Allegedly some guy Allison Nixon claims that WhiteDoxbin is ringleader of LAPSUS, and this guy White happened to be doxed. More here : https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/03/a-closer-…

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    Comment #30792940

    Didn't know that you can buy ads for microlocations, interesting.

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    Comment #30779322

    Im thinking how navigation can work on feature phone. Possible solution and an idea for project : you connect Alexa / Cortana / Siri / voice chatbot to phone number and then you ju…

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    Comment #30769916

    Instant messaging was why I bought smartphone in first place. Could as well used it on laptop. On street? No way, it is distracting.

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    Comment #30769517

    I remember when i used dumbphone,and i had to find certain location I just called person to find me location. It worked allright. You need to check traffic? Just call someone at th…

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    Comment #30689934

    It's a lot like hot air.