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@GayDeceiver

I mean it’s actively hostile to its users.

DOGE has gone too far
https://posts.rat.pictures/@hannah/114300903528986592

@bagder @nf3xn I agree in principle but 100 chars is the One True Line Length

STIC was secretly invented by threat actors to impede researcher/security team collaboration.
https://twitter.com/cyb3rops/status/1909296136017392104

@Dude what part of "America" didn't they understand?

It's not reciprocal of any tariff at all. It's an idiotic ratio of goods exports/imports. The highest-profit US firms like Microsoft sell software and cloud computing which are not even considered. I'd rather work at MS than a flyswatter manufacturer.
https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1907559189234196942

@darulharb I could understand that if I found strict quotas etc. but I can't find any significant amount of that either

@darulharb checking any of those numbers against any data source I have says they are insanely out of touch with reality.
https://social.scriptjunkie.us/@sj/114270555015861259

Where on earth did these insane numbers come from? The most extreme hypotheticals, from literally those who sell consulting to deal with Japan's tariffs, still detail <20%. Reciprocal tariffs is one thing, but claiming Japan charges 46% is nuts.
https://weconnect.co/japan/exporting-goods-to-japan-you-may-be-getting-ripped-off/

This is absolutely hilarious for the one or two #cycling nerds that maybe follows me #DDV25
https://x.com/LucGrefte/status/1907433004776997159

@nf3xn So I shared several concrete measurable statistics backing up just one point and you just don't want to believe it. You continue to suggest the opposite but you have no contradictory data at all telling a different story?

Why would I continue to try to explain why statistics can be insightful? I "want" to "believe" what there's scientific evidence and data for. You clearly don't value any of that. Why should I continue to explain and prove a point to be met with literally "idk"? I don't think I will continue.

@nf3xn "some seriously rich people to skew the numbers so badly" I don't think you know what median means then

He certainly did have some real accomplishments: https://wangxiaofeng7.github.io/ now, why would the S&P award, possibly the most prestigious, omit the title and subject of his paper?

From the abstract: "popular online stores (e.g., Buy.com... Amazon Payments) all contain serious logic flaws... As a result, a malicious shopper can purchase an item at an arbitrarily low price, shop for free after paying for one item, or even avoid payment."

So, not too keen on discussing his offensive cyber research exploiting major US websites 😅

Could totally see the FBI overreacting about stuff like that despite coordinated disclosure. Or maybe having more solid spying evidence. Who knows.

This is so sketchy. At this point I'm guessing XiaoFeng Wang got exfil'd from the country because he was a spy or suspected to be one before the FBI had enough evidence to arrest. But I guess we probably won't know details for a generation.
https://twitter.com/Byron_Wan/status/1907218328453869833

The American Association of University
Professors is reminding Indiana University's provost that as a tenured professor, XiaoFeng Wang is entitled to due process. The university, meanwhile, is maintaining radio silence, which isn't a good look to prospective students considering attending.

https://aaup.sitehost.iu.edu/reports/AAUP_March_31_Letter_Shrivastav.pdf

@nf3xn what specifically do you dispute? Do you not think the US has a high standard of living compared to other factors? The correlations between behavior like smoking and mortality? Obesity? Obesity and wealth? Population group outcomes? "Out of date" is a weird thing to complain about when some of the most critical data are trends over half a century. Do you think say this one dramatically changed so much in the past 10 years to invalidate the trend? On what basis? Pull up the current numbers for what you think is different.

@nf3xn not sure why you're commenting on it if you didn't even take the time to understand what it's saying

this is one of the most fascinating set of graphs I've seen
https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2016/11/06/us-life-expectancy-is-below-naive-expectations-mostly-because-it-economically-outperforms/

@taoeffect

Google specifically says keys are not stored on their server.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/14328489#zippy=%2Chow-is-cse-different-from-end-to-end-ee-encryption%2Chow-do-users-encrypt-data-using-cse%2Care-there-any-limitations-for-users-when-using-cse%2Cwhich-partner-key-management-services-can-i-use-with-cse%2Ccan-i-use-google-as-my-key-management-service%2Ccan-i-use-multiple-key-services%2Ccan-i-use-smart-cards-with-cse%2Ccan-i-use-both-a-key-service-and-hardware-encryption-keys-for-gmail

Two fish were in a tank. One turned to the other and said, "I sure hope you know how to drive this thing."