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"Amazing" is a little generous for script kiddie stuff from the early 2000s.

The author has yet to learn the extent to which civilization depends on people not being cunts to one another for no good reason.


The lead says "how I approach IIS targets during bug bounty" (emphasis mine), so (assuming the author is being truthful) I'm guessing the tone of the title is just for fun.

Ah yes, the lulz, the great American pastime.

Civilization has a way of dealing with these individuals: prison.

There's like 90,000 computer fraud reports sent to the federal government every year and about 400 prosecutions total. Most of those are concentrated in whatever niche abuse category the government is focused on at the time (right now, crypto/phishing/ransomware).

note: Don't take this as your cue to start messing around with black hat. Don't become the guy trying to explain to your cell mate who's doing 50 years for a violent crimes what a unauthenticated supabase table is and why you deleted it.


  > Heck, I hate street views disfigured by huge privacy blobs.
Why should you - from the other side of the planet - have an unrestricted view into my front garden at your fingertips?

Why shouldn't I? Your garden is not of a particular interest to me. It's just one of millions of gardens that I might look at as a part of scenery, or to get my bearings if I happen to be in the area. You'd be better off fighting street views in general, unless you are OK with the Streisand effect.

> Your garden is not of a particular interest to me.

They why on earth do you care?


I prefer not to have views of my home permanently archived and made available to anyone in the world, unless they can present a reasonable need for it. City planners? Go ahead. Local people for navigation purposes? Go ahead. But some random bloke from another continent? That's clearly too far.

Services like Street View should have distance-based friction to preserve privacy. The further you are, the less (or at lower quality) should be available, to keep it proportional with the effort required to inspect the place in the real world.


This is just NIMBYism, literally.

Street View is one of the most amazing technologies ever invented. It brings humanity closer together. No longer do you need to get a visa and get on a plane to see what the world is like in a particular place. You can just look on street view. Throughout history people have given up their lives for that kind of world knowledge.

Your inclination to ruin one of humanity's greatest achievements with distance-based blurring to protect the privacy of what is already visible at street level is just sad.


NIMBY is something different, but I'm a proud NIMBY too. People can vote for what happens in their own towns.

At the expense of the overall economic health of everyone. See the rents in San Francisco for examples compared to places where countries actually build, like Singapore and China.

If that's good long-term for the people in SF who've already invested their time and money there, shouldn't be any other way. It's also not some zero-sum game where voting against development always benefits them at the cost of others; sometimes they want development.

It's not good long term for them though, as housing disparity statistically correlates to higher crime.

Maybe more development wouldn't have caused lower crime in SF, we won't know. And that's also not the only thing they care about.

> This is just NIMBYism, literally.

No. OpSec is not Nimbyism.

> It brings humanity closer together.

Sure, then they show up at your door angry about something they saw online. No thanks.


OK, feel free to ruin experience for millions of people.

Ok I will. I don't care, it's my house not theirs.

Watch for those indiscriminate youtubers driving around with their cameras.

There's not a lot I can do about that, but it doesn't really matter since random YouTube videos don't index my house into a globally available map view

> Services like Street View should have distance-based friction to preserve privacy. The further you are, the less (or at lower quality) should be available, to keep it proportional with the effort required to inspect the place in the real world.

How would the website validate how far I am from your neighborhood? What if I am your neighbor but I am traveling this week? Can I still check Street View of my neighborhood? This is how we get websites to require ID-based verification for everything.


Timeline from the article you linked does not support your argument:

  During the 2010 presidential election campaign, Party of Regions leader and candidate Viktor Yanukovych stated that the current level of Ukraine's cooperation with NATO was sufficient and that the question of the country's accession to the alliance was therefore not urgent. On 14 February 2010, Yanukovych said that Ukraine's relations with NATO were currently "well-defined", and that there was "no question of Ukraine joining NATO". 

  In February 2014, during Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, president Yanukovych fled the capital despite signing an agreement with the opposition. Parliament voted to remove Yanukovych from his post and schedule new elections, while an interim government was set up. 

  Ukraine's interim Yatsenyuk government took office on 26 February. The new government said that it did not intend to make Ukraine a member of NATO.

  In late February and early March 2014, Russian soldiers without insignia occupied Crimea.
As to Putin and Lavrov, they didn't even admit the invasion after the fact, which is why Russian soldiers were running around without insignia for the first few years of the war.

How exactly does it not support it ? Stop with your propaganda.

    On 9 February 2021, the prime minister of Ukraine, Denys Shmyhal, stated that he hoped that Ukraine would be able to receive an action plan for NATO membership at the same time as Georgia


    On 7 April 2021, after the start of the build-up of Russian troops near the Ukrainian border

And your last point lacks logic, the fact that they did not admit that they invaded does not invalidate the fact that they issued multiple and continuous warnings to Ukraine and NATO.

Can't you see that you are the victim of the US military industrial complex ?


Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, and by 2021, Ukraine and Russia were in the 8th year of the war.

The Russian "multiple and continuous warnings" (aka demands and ultimatums) were taken seriously in 2008 and Ukraine was not offered a path to NATO membership. Didn't save them from the invasion. The 2008 decision is now widely considered a mistake. The "Russia is afraid of NATO encirclement" argument has been conclusively falsified for a while now.


Because they thought that everything would be over in three days and business would continue as usual, as it did after 2014.


And yet, the US seems much closer to absolute monarchy than Belgium with their actual king.

But that’s my point. The US can act as a unified state whereas the EU often cannot.

The difference between “We the people” and “The King of the Belgians + 20 other leaders” is stark: one is united, the other is not.

No one wants Europe to be authoritarian, but it could stand to act more united.


Vehicles, not only tanks. For instance, the mobility of the Red Army relied on Studebaker trucks. The US delivered about 115 000 of them. In total, including other types of vehicles like Jeeps, the USSR received about 400 000 vehicles.

Roughly 50-65% of Red Army's transport pool was US-made.


Yep that. Definitely far less share of tanks. Not sure if the red army had any American made tanks, I've never heard that talked about.

People in arts and engineering can easily fill terabytes upon terabytes. RAW photos, uncompressed audio, 3D laser scans etc consume gigabytes like they're nothing, especially if you store many intermediary files of the same thing.


Осия 8:7.


Andrei Soldatov is not merely "one russian journalist". Since 2000, he has been operating agentura.ru, which publishes information about Russian security services. He is well-connected and widely considered one of the most serious independent experts on the Russian security apparatus.


But he is not in russia anymore since a while. I doubt his ability to get insights into the highest ranks of security let alone Putin's head himself.


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