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Fun with Red Star OS

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Re: Fun with Red Star OS

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Post by zepto »

monocasa wrote: post #158
zepto wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They allow and even encourage complaints about local government . But not the communist party or it’s officials, eh? You can’t seriously be claiming that China is a more open society which allows greater media analysis of it’s power structures.

I claimed nothing of the sort; I'm not sure how you jumped to that. I'm simply pointing out that the ability for media to complain about the local actions of security forces, .gov policy decisions, and the occasional high ranking official who serves as a focal point for malcontent does not make for a free and open society, using an example that we can both agree is neither free nor open.

> media to complain about the local actions of security forces, .gov policy decisions, and the occasional high ranking official who serves as a focal point for malcontent does not make for a free and open society, using an example that we can both agree is neither free nor open

Yes. I assert that this describes China, but not the US.

Are you claiming it also describes the US?

Which powerful individual or institutions do you think are protected from criticism?

Re: Fun with Red Star OS

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Post by laumars »

onkoe wrote: post #145
laumars wrote: post #135

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> Because code derived from GPL code is also GPL. I’m not happy with the Co-Pilot situation either but for the sake of correctness it should it should be pointed out that your point hasn’t actually been tested in court with regards to machine learning. In fact some lawyers have suggested the GPL might not cover that particular scenario.

No one should want to test this - it's terrifying for companies and developers alike.

I think it’s better we do know because that should lead to refinements in licences (eg a GPLv4 that explicitly allows humans to write original works conceptually based off content read but not derived from code from; while explicitly disallowing code use for machine learning except where the published work is also licensed GPL).

Re: Fun with Red Star OS

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Post by sudosysgen »

throwaway4good wrote: post #74
iJohnDoe wrote: post #17

Seems more privacy focused than Microsoft and Apple? So sad to even think that. Also, remember that China wouldn’t use Windows 10 due to how invasive the telemetry is unless Microsoft gave them a special version just for China. I’m not saying that NK or China are privacy focused. It seems like even the spies don’t like to be spied on.

China also insisted on and got its own version of the trusted platform module, a chip that is present on all pcs that can run windows. Rather than ridiculing what countries such as China or North Korea do in the name of national security, we tech people should pay strict attention as here are hints on how our own daily technology is being surveilled and controlled.

TPMs are also controlled in Russia IIRC.

Re: Fun with Red Star OS

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Post by int_19h »

lostcolony wrote: post #101
tenebrisalietum wrote: post #88

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How could a specific typewriter be tracked from a typed document?

So looking at a document, you'd not be able to know what typewriter it was written from, no. However, looking at a document, you may be able to tell the make and model of the typewriter, due to different typefaces and known mechanical differences across the make/model. That, coupled with a location or list of suspects, would allow you to examine specific typewriters. You may be able to determine a letter was written…

Or you could just require a sample page of printed text submitted for every typewriter. Which is exactly what KGB did.

Re: Fun with Red Star OS

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Post by calvano915 »

reaperducer wrote: post #111
danielvaughn wrote: post #5

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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 .

Macs have always had incredible network use, even way back in the dialup days when I started working with them. The software seems to be designed to assume a perfect, exceedingly fat network connection at all times, and that all processes can do what they want with it. In all the years I've been using Macs, as far as I can tell, there is nothing in the OS that says, "Oh, the person is sending e-mail over a crappy cel…

Windows allows the user to mark a connection as limited/metered which supposedly reduces background usage of services like OneDrive and Windows Update. I'm not aware of the degree of impact and what is allowed despite the setting. There is a secondary mechanism to reduce background usage when enabling Battery Saver mode.

Re: Fun with Red Star OS

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Post by fomine3 »

rwmj wrote: post #156
anthk wrote: post #127

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That's bullshit because Qemu it's an emulator too, so it will run Solaris and W95 perfectly. I am not a virt engineer but I could run W95, OS2 and heck, even Mac OS 9 under Qemu, recently. Seriously, if you are a virt engineer, drop your title down :). Qemu has an ISA pc module, and you need to disable kvm just to be sure. Set the CPU to Pentium and everything will be fine.

You might want to experiment yourself before making bold assertions, because you are wrong. I've just tried these (with qemu-system-x86-6.0.0-7.fc35.x86_64): • Microsoft_Windows_NT_Server_Version_4.0_227-075-385_CD-KEY_419-1343253_1996.iso (1996, own copy) Installer starts, locks up with screen corruption about 5 seconds in. • https://archive.org/details/windows-95_fixcpu_iso_windows_is... (1994-ish) Cannot read the…

What's your parameter for Qemu?

Could you provide link to discussion that i440fx going to be removed?

Re: Fun with Red Star OS

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Post by sam0x17 »

LogonType10 wrote: post #131
vkou wrote: post #128

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> - Github Co-pilot training on GPL Why is training Github on GPL bad, but training a language model on public domain books and texts not? Edit: Thank you for explaining the problem.

Because code derived from GPL code is also GPL. Co-pilot (sometimes) intelligently copies and pastes GPL code.

It's funny too because GitHub definitely knows the license for every single code sample in their database -- they could easily incorporate this

Re: Fun with Red Star OS

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Post by qwerty456127 »

This looks fantastic! I would migrate a ~hundred PCs to this if it had relevant drivers/fixes and no communist backdoors.

Honestly, I thought it's just a crappy rebrand of some old unpolished version of a major Linux distro, sort of "chinese" in the worst sense of the word. Apparently I was wrong and I'm astonished.

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