Posts by zarvus

Yes, compare governments with freedom of speech enshrined in law and enforced in the judicial system with... what? Russia's kleptocracy? How many people has Putin disappeared?

Kaspersky is an imminent threat. He was trained at a KGB school. Antivirus has total control over your computer. Kaspersky just came out with a product for running critical power infrastructure that can be wiped out with a single update from central command (or the FSB). It's not too much to ask to have government facilities controlled by homegrown products, at the very least not a product in control of the Russian government, who has been interfering with democracies all over the world through its psyops attacks the past six years.

I'm not talking about the U.S., I'm talking about Russia, and Kaspersky, which is the point of this article. Please save the "whataboutism" for someone who will fall for that.

Re: this Russia blaming

I hope your government pays you well for your service, Natasha!

Re: Treat it as a reccomendation

Right, but Kaspersky is in control of the Russia government, run by a former KGB agent, and Kaspersky himself was trained at a KGB school. I'd prefer my antivirus with a little LESS obvious conflict of interest, please.

Otherwise, great point, Boris!

Re: Treat it as a reccomendation

Ha, ha, Comrade!

Re: this Russia blaming

Or it could be that Russia is perpetually looking for a villain so it can play the victim and distract its people from the ongoing theft at every level of government which is led by a former KGB agent. It's got a world class disinformation structure now and it's infecting every bit of the internet. Look at how many pro-Russia posts have suddenly appeared on this thread and been subsequently extreme-upvoted.

Ha, ha, Comrade!

Russia is far more likely to incite a revolt, change the shape of elections, steal former provinces it claims as its own, and sow discord abroad - as it has been doing for years now - and then use a bogeyman such as the U.S. to try to deflect attention from its kleptocratic oligarchy. They then claim "what about..." when called on their actions. All psyops, and very sophisticated ones.

The government's run by a former KGB agent. Kaspersky trained at a KGB school. I can't tell if a lot of the people posting here and upvoting and praising Russia while "whatabouting" the U.S. and U.K. are actually Russian trolls, but I find it highly suspicious.

That'd work for five minutes until the less scruples-focused admen (i.e., all of them) started paying remote employees with proxies to spam feedback on their ads so it _looks_ like people are enjoying it, regardless of the actual facts.

Preemptively!

Re: LEAN?

That's for _one_ ad? What about sites that have 20 ads on the same page? I've sat there and watched as my ad blocker counts up in the hundreds for blocked scripts whilst trying to read an article on some sites.

They should also be releasing standards for affiliate and revenue sharing, TBH - simply making the ads less annoying isn't going to solve the problem, the core issue is how sites get money for doing what they do. Without turning the internet into a clickbait-y headline-filled mess, as it is currently becoming. Headline is misleading or has nothing to do with the actual content of the article? No problem, it still generated hits! User leaves site in disgust? We don't track those metrics.

Re: Trench my yard

Same, but AT&T UVerse :D

Meanwhile, Google's offering a pay-per-GB mobile wifi that is priced slightly above everything else. Not sure what the point of that is.

Re: This whole debacle mirrors Gamergate

Node modules aren't loaded on page load separately, they are usually bundled into something larger. Think like Python modules or C libraries, they're part of a larger whole (except in this case they're JavaScript). I don't think that unpublishing his packages would 'break the internet', it would just stop people from updating their modules during development.

For client side JS, competent devs compile it into a bundle anyway and load it server side. Everyone wants you to use their CDN for some reason though.

The node package manager (npm), though, is abominable and incredibly easy to break.

I also think it's bullshit that the npm maintainer re-published his packages - if they give him the ability to unpublish his work, they are giving him the agency to do so at his choice. Someone could publish a new left-pad that does much of what his script does instead. Then he could sue them for trademark infringement and create a constitutional crisis.