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Shame on Iran for using the Palestinians as a pawn once again.

Damn! It's going good for Russia now. The Russian economy is surely booming and the sanctions are totally useless!

Everyone knows that Belarusian gasoline is top quality. No wonder that Russia choose that from all their alternatives....

You make it sound like corporations invent a new revolutionary wheel each quarter. They don't.

What fantastic new beverage have Coca Cola launched the last couple of years? What astonishing new car technology has GM or Volkswagen released lately?

Most companies are doing what they've always have done and guarding their market share. Now and then some small competitor with something revolutionizing pops up and either starts eating market share it gets aquired by one the bigger ones.

So between a competition popping up or one of your engineers coming up with a lucky accident, all you do is to manage the business as you always do.

No. Middle management is a lot of repeating tasks that an AI could do. The thing is that were not talking about replacing all middle management, we're talking about giving 10% of the managers the tools to run 90% of the repetitive, tedious and boring tasks.

Yes. And it will.

If God existed, Trump would have woken up on Robben Island tomorrow morning.

Yes they do and Russia is happier than ever. The more that people talk about Israel/Gaza, the less they talk about the Russian strategy in Ukraine being mass murder, rape and torture of civilians.

Yeah and Titanic was unsinkable.

If the controller in your SSD fries, it doesn't matter how many unused gigabytes your SSD has got for relocating bad sectors. It is still fried. For you, that data is forever gone.

This is why you have redundancy. Full redundancy. You can go for RAID1, one disk die and you still have no data loss, or go bananas with RAID6, two full disks can die and you're still going strong.

Ps. Spinning harddrives have had hidden sectors used for relocation of bad sectors for ages. It's nothing new. If you have to much time on your hand, Google harddrive hidden sectors nsa.

I don't have the answer your looking for but maybe a pointer for where to look and what to look for ..

What you want is essentially done in two steps.

1. Optical Character Recognition - an image consists of pixels. There is no text, just pixels. You need a program that can see the difference between pixels forming an A and an B. Tesseract is a very competent program for this and it's free. However, it's command line only but I know there are GUI applications based on Tesseract.
2. Translate text from one language to another - maybe Dialect?

Wall of text, I know, but I had trouble sleeping so... Yeah... Here goes;

Knowledge is power.

Here in Sweden there's a service that has been pouring money on marketing the last two years. The service is called House ID and they let you store all important documents about your house for free.... Free... Free?

So what will they make money on?

Well, let's jump 10 years into the future and just imagine the possibilities.

Criminals can easily check what house owners have upgraded their locks or purchased home alarm systems. They could even purchase data about all the houses in an area that has a specific lock type with a known flaw.

Your phone is, with all its sensors, a fantastic surveillance device and people happily take it with them wherever they go.

In the 90's, when I worked for IBM, the buzzword was "Data mining". Ordinary people never understood what it was and I was often asked about it. Extremely simplified: look at the data you have and try to read between the lines to generate data that you originally didn't have.

The biggest chain of convenient stores in Sweden launched banking services and a pay card around this time. If you used the card for grocery shopping you'd get a monthly bonus and great offers and discounts. So I gave an innocent example of what your purchase data could be used for. They could see that a woman purchased pads on fairly the same time each month or quarter. Now, when cross checking this with purchase history from other women they could see that a lot of those women also purchased chocolate at the same time they purchase pads. Something something with a lot of women getting cravings of chocolate around the same time each month. Yes, it's a generalization but still a real life example in this case. So they sent out coupons for chocolate, matching the time around when the customer normally purchased pads, and what do you know? The sale of chocolate increased. Significantly.

Now, pads isn't a very sensitive subject of you're older than 15... But think what data Tinder registers. They can't know for sure if you're liberal, conservative or even a communist... or can they? By looking at your behavior in their app, what you did, where (Tinder uses GPS, remember?) you did it and when you did it, they can draw conclusions about a lot of things that you never intended to share with them.

Today there are sensors placed strategically in shopping malls that registers what store windows you stopped to look at. They actually know, with a pretty high certainty, exactly what product in the window that caught your attention. How they can be so accurate you say? Because you have Bluetooth activated and the mall app installed. They just triangulate your exact position.

All of this is data about you that is correct. You did all of that and it was registered.

But what if corrupted data was registered? What if that data was the basis for you getting a loan for your dream house? How do you correct a conclusion that is obviously wrong when the bank just tells you that what data they purchase, from who and how they process it is a business secret and they refuse to share any details.

Now, all sorts of data has always been collected but in the old time it was stored on paper and cross comparison/compiling data was an expensive and tedious task. Today it is not. Today your phone could store and process data that would take months to process in the old times.

That slowness/inertia acted as a law of nature, protecting us and our life from being mapped.

It's not just that data is collected or what data is collected... It's what it might be used for that should bother you. Not only what is used for today but also what it could be used for tomorrow.

Oh.... The good old MFM disks.... Those were the days ...

I actually have no idea who sold what in this case and it's actually not even remotely relevant since the discussion was about updating the Geneva convention and who wouldn't sign.

However, you seem to imply that Israel lacks the knowledge and resources to create the Lavender system themselves. Intriguing! Please elaborate with some links supporting your claims.

Even if you got US and Israel to sign it, Russia, China and The Saudis would never.

Hmmm.... SU-27 replica on top of some "cheap" jet... Smoke from second engine.... Control it like it was a damaged SU-27 returned home....

Land it wherever Russia has their temporary airfields... Boom.

After a while we're going to see Russia shooting down their own jets 😁

No, I didn't miss it.

Somehow you take one fact, "US officials thought Ukraine was going to fall within..." and explain that that fact makes you sure about something unrelated.

First of all, as far as I remember we all drew the conclusion that Ukraine would fall within weeks. No one could imagine Ukraine was going to be able to shoot down planes transporting troops (a fact later challenged because of lack of proof) within the first days. Add to this how badly Russia performed. No one, no one, saw that coming from what we all thought was one of three military superpowers. We all had to change the world ranking on the fly when we saw, the now infamous, Russian Kyiv convoy unfold. You know, the one that essentially was fully exposed to Ukrainian attacks because logistical problems. No one predicted any of the noob shit Russia has been doing during the aggression.

So who do you mean saw all this coming before it happened in early 2022?

Yes, both things are about Ukraine but one is military intelligence and the other is a political strategy.

Your opinions on the matter are totally okay, it's a good ground for a healthy debate, but opinions are not facts.

The masters never cares about the people. Putin still lives the same way he did before in his palace.

Russia will most likely not collapse (as in "total chaos") as long as China, India, Brasil and other countries support them in their colonization efforts.

But it will bring them down on their knees and it will, if the West somehow is able to deliver ammunition etc, force Russia to end their war in Ukraine.

I'm not optimistic, especially not since the Americans are about to vote for the Russian asset in the upcoming election, but hope is the last thing that leaves you....

I'm pretty sure everyone underestimated Ukraine's ability to defend and overestimated Russia's ability to attack/invade.

However, you still talk about what you think, not what you know others thought.

"we"?

Russia was the third biggest exporter of oil in the world.

They were huge, and still are even though not as big as before, in oil, gas, coal, timber, fertwlizers and steel.

And you expected them to fold in a year or what?

Edit: coal and not coral...

There are two important sides to this and you are only focusing one of them.

One is of course supporting Ukraine, as you point out, but what is also extremely important is not to let Russia get away with their obvious bullshit propaganda.

Russia is working hard on getting rid of the sanctions. One of the main tools used are to try to get people in the West to believe to Russian economy is unaffected.

It is not.

(If it was, Putin wouldn't fx deal with North Korea like they've been doing the last year.)

So if no one was calling out Putin and his useful idiots on fx Facebook or Lemmy, how long do you think the public in the West would support Ukraine?

The amount of Russian friendly trolls and useful idiots on Lemmy are impressive... In a bad way.