drenvuk's comments

I sincerely doubt that.

Just stating here that you'll almost never find Mullvad on a list of top vpns solely due to the fact that all of the top vpns are owned by the same company masquerading as separate ones and pays for all of those lists.

Thanks for open sourcing it.

I only spent about 20 minutes looking this up. Western nations overthrew Gaddafi in Libya in 2011. Less than two years after they're mostly done in Libya, they roll those forces over to Mali and get Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta in as acting president. NATO/UN forces had a hand in both situations. Western nations were just rolling our already funded and armed forces through the region to set things back up for proper resource and money extraction. This is all on wikipedia.

When I say "our" forces I mean any people who are holding weapons provided by us, eating food provided by us and working towards goals that are set by us. How all of that is funneled to them I have no idea.

Now that the west instated former leader of Mali was ousted France wanted to re-de-stabilize again it seems. It might or might not be worth it.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/8/mali-accuses-france...

I should have stated it more as an opinion rather than fact but I stand by it. It's hard to believe that the US has so much intelligence yet we're unable to predict the guys we're training are going to attempt to take over the country. It's also not hard to understand that if we're committing billions of dollars to a war effort there isn't someone or a group of someone who have a hugely vested interest in either keeping the status quo for existing streams of income or removing some impediment in a potential stream of income. Those streams mostly don't go to the governments themselves, rather they go to companies headed by well connected individuals who somehow are able to drive policy and decisions either directly or indirectly.

On the flip side of this, you might have competing interests from other nations as well so it may not be as clear cut. It's no longer border expansion, annexation and "this country" vs "that country". Instead now we have nameless rebels or terrorists (depending on who's side their on) who then sign deals and feed money and resources to their "sponsor countries", or get loans for construction, or some other financial games that are far more opaque.

I have no more specific information, this is all broad strokes based on what I've seen and read. Maybe I'm wrong.

At this point it's safe to assume that this is always the unstated part of the plan. Keeping individual areas destabilized

1. decreases nations' ability to organize,

2. prevents them from properly utilizing their natural resources,

3. reduces possible competition at the global economic level,

4. increases the the possibility of extracting resources and labor from them due to an increase of various factors like economic desperation and political variability.

It serves fully developed countries' interests better to keep everyone else down so they can be exploited. Negotiating with blocs rather than newly instated and flexible rulers annoying and difficult.

Are you joking or is this serious? I wouldn't want to date someone who could be deterred from interacting with another person solely due to the color of a text bubble. The fact that their mind allows for that possibility is a huge signal that they most likely don't have anything interesting for me to discover about them or discuss with them. Colors are shallow. Actions are not.

If anything I'm being more fair than they would be.

It works both ways. I wouldn't want to date someone who did that so it saves everyone time.

I like this. I've always had to force jumping down line by line to pick up words if I was trying to speed read, but with the extra highlighting I'm picking them out and jumping almost effortlessly. It's pretty neat.

I'm honestly wondering if this would make me lazy for reading non explicitly partway bolded text.

this falls apart the moment dang and the others decide to do something else is more important than quality community interactions.

I find them fun.

What's disgusting is when you solve the coding test with flying colors but the interviewer pulls the "candidate doesn't seem interested about X company" and still fails you. That should be illegal if the session you're in is called a Technical Screen.

Well I think it's reasonable to dump most of whatever isn't mentioned in conventional advice into the 'exceptional circumstances' bucket. They are anything that brings you off of the conventional happy path of normal income, normal job, normal career and life progression that isn't the result of your decisions after adulthood.

You seem intelligent - It looks like you've figured out how to compensate for the less than optimal hand that you were dealt. It's up to everyone else to figure it out as well. I have little sympathy for anyone who can't and I'd expect the same for anyone's opinion of my situation if something horrible and unforeseen were to happen to me.

I should've said barring exceptional circumstances like medical conditions. how about now, how do you deal with the MS?

The trick is to just be better than everyone else or use the rules in a way that others don't or can't, which in a way makes you better than everyone else.

Don't cry about it, there's always a way nowadays if you're intelligent and driven.

Voting me down instead of explaining how I'm wrong is both lazy and cowardly. I am a single data point, sure but I've lived it.

Strobe warning in case someone might be susceptible to it. You got a chuckle out of me.

The Atlantic. The New Yorker. The Economist. These are neutral to left facing. In a feeble effort to avoid being put in a different bubble, does anyone have something that an educated republican/conservative would read?

The main selling point to me for the file system access api is the ability to write directly to the file system on the device but from what I could understand in that blog post is that the 'files' that you write to don't actually map to the device's fs itself. Has anyone used it to write to an existing directory or is it just an alternative and more familiar interface to indexedDB?

as much as I'd like to use this no browser really supports it aside from chrome. the brave team even specifically disabled it due to security issues.

In order to understand things I need to use what I learn. So I try it out and if it's useful I drill it until I remember a few ways to apply it.

> this makes it essentially a cloud feature.

Wrong. Physically, the routines run on the device. It is not a cloud feature by definition. There are no wormholes here. The work happens on the device. When this work happens the device's battery gets drained so it's happening on the device. It's not a cloud feature. Both technically and physically you are wrong here. I hate that you have this wrong and continue to say it. Stop saying it because you are actually lying.

It's not a better outcome because other companies with the follower-like mentality that most product managers and execs have would attempt to copy and one up Apple only to create a worse and more easily abusable implementation, just like the notch. Just like any socially acceptable easily marketable act that can be hashtagged and spread. That idea would have been an infection of the worst kind.

You were wrong then and you're wrong now. It's not really possible to be cordial about this topic.

There should never be any process acting against the user's interests on a device that they own. Ever. Full stop. The only reasonable option is to do full encryption on the device without any system that allows inspection or identification of the material being encrypted. It didn't matter that vouchers enabled the decryption of the material after a threshold was hit. There would have been logic running on everyone's device acting as a snitch. At some point that functionality would be expanded and abused.

Your optimistic point of view does not align with the reality of how this kind of technical capability becomes misused over time. The ones that create these things are not the ones that control them 20 years later.

I don't think this matters much at all though. It's a pretty cool house and it's not like their pov needs to match everyone else's. You could find interesting stuff here just like someone describing their perfect vanagon/compact apartment/log cabin.