Earlier quoted context omitted.
This must be sarcasm.
This is an instance of "X would never do Y" with Y a quite specific thing. Which I usually take for sarcasm. Here I'm quite sure it is a reference to a quite recent event.
Fun with Red Star OS
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#82"The system is absolutely network-silent except when you actively do something that requires network access, like using the browser. It does not call the mothership, not for updates, not for telemetry, not to let Kim Jong Un know the status of your internal organs. Spoiler, he doesn’t give a fuck about your hentai porn. " Take that, Microsoft!
In a former job, I had to inspect network traffic on my mac. So I install Charles, open it up, and start looking around. I was astounded how much network activity is going on that I had no idea about .
There was a linux distro I checked out a few years ago that routed every connection through tor and also asked for permission for every app connecting to the internet and I was similarly astounded by the fact that pretty much everything is sending some sort of data and people knew nothing about
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is it surprising that the top 1% programmers of an entire country (many of them probably with western education) can produce quality software when put under deadly threat?
I don't think that any programmers in the DPRK will have access to western education. People who do are many, many tiers up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLDFAABtxfw
It's about north koreans who go ito other country's to make lots of money/spying/education and send the dollars/intel back to NK.
Found it just in German...sorry
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#84Purely based on the screenshots, I'd say that as UI design, theming and 'chrome' go, I'll take this over my current macOS (Big Sur) any day...
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#85"The system is absolutely network-silent except when you actively do something that requires network access, like using the browser. It does not call the mothership, not for updates, not for telemetry, not to let Kim Jong Un know the status of your internal organs. Spoiler, he doesn’t give a fuck about your hentai porn. " Take that, Microsoft!
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#86Is it really necessary to run third-party javascript that "checks my browser" (collects information about me?) before letting me read the article?
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#87https://youtu.be/8LGDM9exlZw - Florian Grunow and Niklaus Schiess, Lifting the Fog on Red Star OS - A deep dive into the surveillance features of North Korea's operating system The bit more detailed view, I'd say
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
> add a signature belonging to your install of the machine to pictures and video files But why?
The KGB used to require all typewriters to be registered, so they could identify the authors of anything they found objectionable. Being able to track who produced an image that's doing the rounds spreading "propaganda" seems like it adds a lot of value (from an authoritarian point of view, at least).
How could a specific typewriter be tracked from a typed document?
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is it surprising that the top 1% programmers of an entire country (many of them probably with western education) can produce quality software when put under deadly threat?
Look the government of NK sucks, but I think your model of the world is wrong if you think they are being forced to build this operating system under deadly threat. I doubt they had to take this job, it is probably a pretty prestigious one in NK society.
Plus plenty of people in other countries do the same work as their hobby. I doubt North Koreans needed any coercion to build it.
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#90Off-topic: the font in this blog renders very poorly. I know the solution is to disable remote fonts in ublock origin, but that means that websites that use fonts to show icons will not work properly. Has anybody found a solution?
Not sure what you mean with "renders very poorly", is it just the font that doesn't look good for you or seems like a bug? This is how it looks for me on Firefox/Ubuntu: https://imgur.com/a/WFx2okh Seems fine, although I'd probably choose a different font myself.
They probably use it mostly in Korean anyway so I don't think the English character rendering matters very much to them. After all they only have access to a national "intranet" which will probably also be in Korean.
Ps: yes a lot of assumptions here but it's North Korea :)