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bit_flip | 4 years ago | on: Update Firmware of Samsung SSDs in Linux

Stupid question: is it not possible to use nvme-cli for Samsung SSD updates in Linux?

bit_flip | 4 years ago | on: Entire German bond yield curve back in sub-zero territory

As someone living in Europe, I’m really not sure how to financially insulate myself anymore. It’s not clear which asset class is safest to protect against inflation or a large negative economic event

bit_flip | 5 years ago | on: Israel’s lucrative and secretive cybersurveillance industry

Poor choice of words on my part. I meant British occupation of the region at the time and a promise by the British of the establishment of a home for Jewish ppl in the region.

As I mentioned in my earlier post, I’m not anti-Israel. Im saying that ppl shouldn’t be shocked that there was a hostile response by neighboring Arab nations when Jewish ppl asserted their claim to a new state in the region.

Basically what I did a terrible job of trying to get at is - that Israel isn’t special. Try create a new state anywhere and ppl around that area will get mad, doubly so if your beliefs don’t align.

bit_flip | 5 years ago | on: Israel’s lucrative and secretive cybersurveillance industry

“The nation of Israel was attacked by 7 Arab countries literally the day it was founded”.

So a bunch of foreign powers come in and take land off you and create a new nation state overnight and you’re supposed to just be chill!? Yeah - no shit they were attacked.

I’m not anti-Israel btw. Not in the slightest. I just find it funny that ppl act so shocked that - what was effectively an invasion - was not well received by the locals living in the region in the mid 20th century.

“But it’s their homeland...” Yeah I’d love to see how Americans would react if China/Russia came in overnight and carved out a new action state to give to Native Americans cause it was their homeland hundreds of years ago...