Some do?

https://www.itv.com/news/2024-11-20/why-is-the-use-of-anti-personnel-mines-in-ukraine-so-controversial

Some mines are designed to have a time limit on them and become inactive after a set period of time.

However, other mines can remain active and dangerous for many years after the conflict has ended.

According my linked article:

US officials says the mines they send Ukraine will be “non-persistent”, meaning they have an internal mechanism to shorten the lifespan of the trigger.

The mines are designed to become inert after a set period of time ranging from as little as four hours to two weeks, officials said.

They say the mines use an electrical fuse that requires a battery, and the mine becomes inert when the battery runs out.

The US intends for Kyiv to use the anti-personnel mines in the eastern part of the country, US officials said, where Russian troops have made slow and steady progress against Ukrainian defensive lines.

Ukraine has also made assurances they will try to limit the risk to civilians.

Oh, that makes sense

Well, Tesla is a US company, as VW/Bayer was/is a German company.
The UK government took stewardship over VW after ww2 https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/how-major-ivan-hirst-and-the-british-government-saved-vw-after-wwii/
It also took bayer 30 YEARS to re-establish as a brand.

I would question VW/Bayer’s “driving force” behind the Nazis. There is some amount of “well, I guess we are doing holocaust now” kinda thing.
Regardless 80 years on, an entire world war, and massive trials… I feel like they have paid some dues.
No doubt still a shitty corporation, but unlikely in support of actively firing the people maintaining the nuclear arsenal, thinking internment camps are efficient (and they still have a “DEI” page https://www.volkswagen-group.com/en/diversity-and-inclusion-16087 (although their single mention of LGBT+ has an asterisk next to it which doesn’t seem to reference anything))

fElon owns a social media company. He is frauding governments, engineering the collapse of social support programs and science, gaslighting/propaganda-ing the population/government (felon controlling the government: https://truthout.org/articles/aoc-pharma-reforms-had-almost-unanimous-house-support-until-elon-musk-tweeted/ or https://www.forbes.com/sites/gebai/2024/12/31/blame-the-game-or-the-players-regulating-pharmacy-benefit-managers/ ) while his party engineers book-burningbanning, science denialism, creating lists of trans people (non-conformants), detaining people based on political opinion, and is starting a very aggressive trade-war.
Never mind the drugs fElon is on.

So yeh. There are lessons to be learned from ww2.
There are still companies around from then, and they have changed.
There are probably more scientists working for the US then there are Nazis working in the EU… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
But all that shit is documented. And now we can call that shit out a few weeks into the issue instead (hopefully instead) of having a big world war about it.

I would say cudos to VW and Bayer for being able to still be companies (respectable companies?) after being such a part of the nazi war machine.
Same with Hugo Boss. And Fanta. And BMW. And Kodak. And Siemens. And IBM. Even the Associated Press self-censored their news. Oh, and Ford.
https://historycollection.com/10-famous-companies-collaborated-nazi-germany/

I hope we have learned. I hope Tesla is a lesson to other companies. I hope America is a lesson to other countries.
Punish that shit behaviour. Burn that shit. Don’t let it start again

Go fascist, meet actual long term damaging effects.

Not got the same ring to it, but it’s not an empty promise.

I consider myself technically apt.

I was expecting a parcel from abroad so was expecting to have to pay customs.
Received an SMS that looked fairly legit, from a named SMS number that didn’t set off an alarm bell, asking for additional information. The only red flag that got me were some unusually personal questions, like date of birth. I was close to giving away a bunch of personal details.

Another one was a “your parking permit is about to expire”. We recently had permitted parking introduced, and I figured I’d messed something up. But thankfully I looked into that via the councils parking permit page, and knew I was months away from an expiry.

My parents received a “help, I’ve flushed my phone down the toilet and need a new one for work tomorrow. Sorry for the strange number, I’ve borrowed a friend’s phone. Can you send me $$$ to [account details] so I can get a new phone?” from a scammer pretending to be my sister.
Apparently they made it up to a “this is a new account number, are you sure this isn’t a scam?” prompt in their banking app when they finally decided to try and contact her. She immediately picked up and said “stop, it’s a scam”.

It doesn’t take much to make you vulnerable to social engineering.
An expectation of events and something that would normally red flag suddenly doesn’t seem suspicious.
An emotional manipulation, time pressure, all that stuff, and it’s easy to ignore red flags.

I always say “if you ever feel pressure, take a moment and analyse the situation”. Time pressure, emotional pressure. And analyse looking for anything that seems odd, then pick at that thread.

So democrats have recently stood united?

This one is well matured, barrel aged with hints and aromas beyond my palette.
A rare meme in these times, to be sure.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/comical-ali-baghdad-bob

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I’ve seen a video of him with 2 left feet.
Not seen any proof from musk himself about this. I need some corroborated medical results and x-rays.
Even then, I probably won’t believe them

Sounds like ICE needs more prisons. Don’t bother with buildings. Just fences and tents. Might as well get free labour from them as well, seeing as they will just be sitting around doing nothing.
As for expanding monitoring programs, I feel some sort of yellow badge that immigrants must wear.

Obviously, I am describing concentration camps and the badges the Nazis made Jews wear.
Just to continue highlighting similarities.
I just wanted to make it clear that my suggestions are sarcasm, and yet the parallels are really fucking scary.

Holy shit.
That’s some shit that contravenes every security briefing, every security best practice.
Then they go and spoof a legit government installation with their own bullshit?!
Fucking Hilary and her email servers. But like times 10. Legitimately compromising the US government communications.
Why is this lawsuits, why isn’t this treason?!

Not deporting illegal immigrants.
Deporting foreign dissidents.

I’m not sure on German history. Is this a thing that’s happened before?

It’s been 4 days.
How did people get these email addresses?
I mean, the domain is known.
But was the system that president musk broke really holding back this torrent of abuse and garbage?
Feels like actual email addresses were leaked.
Unless it was a mailing list that was suddenly exposed.

Still seems strange that an email that simply says “yo” suddenly came through as part of the spam.
Feels like email addresses were posted somewhere, and someone jumped on for the lulz. Along with the wall of trolls and abusers jumping on.

I mean, as soon as I link a domain to an IP, I see all sorts of “security” scans turn up. Till then, firewall is pretty quiet.
And if I wildcard direct a domain to an ip, the root gets scanned but any sub domains don’t.
I feel email addresses would follow a similar pattern.

But this is the shit that America has voted for.
It’s been writ large since 2016.
And America wanted more of it.
So if I was a career politician, and I saw this bullshit voted in twice, yeh. I’d quit as soon as it was against my ethos. Clearly my ethos isn’t aligned with what Americans want.

Restricting access to sensitive information makes sense.
But screeching an organisation (especially one with as much momentum as a government) to a halt to accomplish this is fucking stupid.
This shit needs months, more like years, of planning and specifications to implement without grinding governments to a halt. I guess the only people (I mean, other than the employees) affected by this are the people that can’t afford to have employees that solve problems for them.
So, on brand of “crushing the poor & working class”

Edit.
Reassessing, it sounds like the people that oversee the system have been locked out by elons clowns.
Only reason to do that is to exfiltrate data, I guess

Narrator: They hadn’t.

I saw that shit on Disney plus.
Immediately cancelled my sub.
Kids can have Bluey from the warships on the ocean 🦜☠️.

I’d like to support content creators. They work hard, deliver their dream. And early on, a large delivery network is desirable! But if that provider enshitifies beyond my threshold, they are dead to me.

So set sail!

uses yaml for scripting so it’s clean and readable.

Eh…

I guess yaml is fine.
I hate the significance of whitespace, and the fact that I cannot find any editor that can auto-format. Which are both related, I guess: there is no way to know a yaml document is actually correctly formatted without knowing the intended schema.

Whereas JSON doesn’t have this ambiguity. But JSON has it’s own drawbacks.