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Comment · 2 years ago
GNU kind communication guidelines the report purports to be transphobic:

"Please think about how to treat other participants with respect, especially when you disagree with them. For instance, call them by the names they use, and refer to them using words whose meanings (as you understand them) cover those participants' stated gender identities. Please also show tolerance and respect for people who do that using different words from the words you use."

Also strongly disagree with stopping support FSF, in particular from an anonymous group.

Recommendations are quite of, despite the generally accurate and reasonable report.

Comment · 2 years ago
For once doesn't seem like a hit piece, the arguments are pretty solid and well documented.

Very thorough job and if RMS was smart he would gracefully step down.

The only argument I find here against it is the question of whether someone's personal opinions should be a reason to be removed from a leadership position.

Edit: Oh wow just read the recommendations. Can't agree to most of it, sorry.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I find the fact that media keeps talking about cancer as one single disease unhelpful at best.

Look at what the title of the research article is: "Antioxidants stimulate BACH1-dependent tumor angiogenesis"

The researchers conclusion: "We conclude that BACH1 is an oxygen- and redox-sensitive angiogenesis transcription factor."

Then compare how the author of the article put it.

Comment · 3 years ago
There is Shaarli and Wallabag (archives pages to read later) Both open source and self hostable.
Comment · 3 years ago
That said, like the barebones design.
Comment · 3 years ago
Had my share of free beer for eternity.
Comment · 4 years ago
KLA was actually funded by the US
Comment · 4 years ago
He says it wasn't likely because most systems were analogically controlled. Emphasis in most.
Comment · 4 years ago
Wonder if that makes sense given that Europe has just become dependent on US gas, and US being the main proponent of sanctions.
Comment · 4 years ago
Quoting the Washington Post:

> Portions of the operation have been disclosed earlier, including in a 1996 paper in Studies in Intelligence, a CIA journal.

Comment · 4 years ago
US also has a precedent (from the other thread):

> We actually did do this 40 years ago. Reagan covertly blew up a Soviet gas pipeline supplying Europe in 1982, which was publicized in 2004 when the former Secretary of the Air Force boasted about it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/02/27/r... ("Reagan Approved Plan to Sabotage Soviets" (2004))

- "At the time, the United States was attempting to block Western Europe from importing Soviet natural gas. There were also signs that the Soviets were trying to steal a wide variety of Western technology. Then, a KGB insider revealed the specific shopping list and the CIA slipped the flawed software to the Soviets in a way they would not detect it."

- "In order to disrupt the Soviet gas supply, its hard currency earnings from the West, and the internal Russian economy, the pipeline software that was to run the pumps, turbines, and valves was programmed to go haywire, after a decent interval, to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to pipeline joints and welds," Reed writes."

Possibly the first software supply-chain attack in history? Before the term even existed.

Comment · 4 years ago
But the main motivation for the Russians would be giving them a pretext to attack other infrastructure.
Comment · 4 years ago
Fair call Russia might have done it for those and other reasons.

However

1) Was there any gas flowing at all? Sure anything can cause speculation.

2) This also makes it a convenient timing for the western allies to do it, including Norway. Germany is way too complacent with Russian for US liking.

3) Such more so the US in terms of operatives in Europe and Russia. Who says the US is sensitive to gas prices in Europe?

Also Biden said they would do it. And at this point capabilities are not laking in either side.

But no we're not going to know for sure for a while.

Comment · 4 years ago

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