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The last thing Xi wants is an emboldened Pyongyang—he has managed Kim adeptly for years.

How Xi can "manage" Kim when Pyongyang already is a telephone government? North Korea is a Chinese proxy.

When China wants to increase badness against US, JP, SK, it pushes forward its pawn, and orders Kim to do something to spook them.

The independence of NK regime when it completely existentially depends on China for everything is a myth.

The headline is completely disinformative.

It's individual Chinese companies being intimidated by American market denial who cut ties in Russia, not the other way around at all.

Chinese state companies continue to work with Russia as usual.

Change the headline.

The Israeli judiciary is unique in nominating itself and having given itself the power to cancel any law or demand any changes to laws/policy on any arbitrary basis;

1. Not completely. There are quite a few countries with fully independent judiciary, with judges appointing judges.

2. Courts with power to initiate, and prosecute a case by themselves also exist in other countries.

Preemptively posting what is people's biggest confusion:

Battery cell energy density is not the same as the whole battery pack energy density.

Western battery cell manufacturers chased the specific energy density figure, and in the process they decided to save weight on the casing, and electrodes as much as possible, resulting in very fragile battery cells.

To avoid 18650 cells being crushed, you will need a lot of structural reinforcements added to the battery pack, consuming weight.

Even with all of that, tiny, individually 18650 cells waste a lot of weight on the cell casing, on things like welds, terminals, relief valves, thermal interface material etc.

Bigger cells invariably have better casing to active material ratio, but the casing mass is still "useless.

Blade battery reverses all of above, and intentionally uses very strong, and thermally conductive case, to make the casing weight to contribute to battery pack mechanical strength.

LFP cathode feels very well at high temperatures, and has very high resistance to mechanical expansion during charge. This allows to make LFP cells much bigger than cells with other chemistries, and removes the need for liquid cooling system inside the battery pack, greatly saving weight.

And that's the difference. When you perform TouchID authentication, the secure enclave can decide to release a secret that can be used to decrypt your keyring. We can't easily do this under Linux because we don't have an interface to store those secrets.

The secret material can't just be stored on disk - that would allow anyone who had access to the disk to use that material to decrypt the keyring and get access to the passwords, defeating the object.

I'll provide a broader explanation: you cannot encrypt your key with a fingerprint.

A genuine "throw away the key" lock is only possible when the decryption key is completely erased from memory during the screen lock, and you cannot use your fingerprint or face image as a key by itself.

A screen lock using stored secret is inherently incapable of providing encryption at rest. It's like a password on a sticky note.

A "throw away the key" is only possible with a password, or a smartcard.

France has enabled nuclear weapons programmes of many rouge states.

Maybe Israelis just went to the Elysee palace, and asked?

Why are we in the area to begin with

Because of USSR

inserting ourselves into these volatile conflict zones?

Because America was protecting those nations/regimes who allied with America against USSR

We keep doing that and then acting surprised when we get caught in the crossfire

Because American former allies started to fight against each other, and not USSR

Lack of experience.

Most of the West has bailed out of the electronics race so long ago, that the experience gap in between practice, and what is told in universities is like 20-30 years now.

No university in the world will teach you how to make a modern stepper. Most of research in this space been going behind closed doors from the beginning of the semiconductor industry, and nearly completely closed since around 2010.

Only places like IMEC and few others are semi-public windows to what happens behind closed doors.

In principle, physics behind the operation of a stepper is nothing secret, components not secret, manufacturing techniques not secret, but the experience of how to arrange all of above in a way it is known to work is only available to, I would say, less than 100 people worldwide.

With "cloud" services being mentioned, they say hackers used cloud storage to evade detection, but what if the initial intrusion vector itself was planted by an AWS employee?

Saudis used their nationals inside Twitter quite brazenly. Imagine how many other rouge nation nationals are there being used by their governments.

At this point, somebody will jump in with

At this point you need to jump up and point to:

1. Ordinary banks are not sued for absolutely the same thing, which probably occurs to much bigger extent in major banks which pass many times more transactions than Binance

2. Forget about Russian darknets, Russian mafia lives in London, and New York in the open to complete disregard of the same financial regulators.

3. It's practically impossible to catch people who can fake, or buy a passport to do small scale money laundering, but forget about the small fish.

BILLIONS of Russian money gets laundered through biggest US banks every day completely legally, through schemes known to all big banks, and financial regulators for decades.

No, I would say some ideological lines of thought are intrinsically leading to repeatable, predictable outcomes — parting and opposition to the society.

Take communism. There were many grassroots communist regimes in the 20th century, and certainly not all controlled by Moscow, but they all degraded into very tyrannical regimes, caste societies by following very similar paths.

Android has horrific UI latency despite heavily employing hardware acceleration.

Enlightenments EFL was exclusively software for a long time, but is buttery smooth despite largely using redraw most of the time.

Hardware acceleration does not compensate for the lack of hard computer science knowledge about efficient memory operations, caching, and such

Betrayers of The Free World reap the benefits of living in The Free World the most, and advance ahead on the social ladder towards decision making positions, perpetuating these bad decisions.

And people who did the right decision, have to pay twice. One is the opportunity price, and another is the externality price.

The better way was not releasing Victor Bout, who secured Shahed drones with his Iranian connections

Indeed https://www.cartanzania.com/en/vehicle_listings/ad-toyota-la...

That's more expensive than in UAE

This is a remarkably advanced assault, as if career military men were involved, and likely a prelude for something bigger coming from Lebanon, or even Egypt or Syria after a long while.

The world is unravelling. American abrogation of its defence obligations in 2014 provoked a sequence of events which could lead to a number of countries vanishing off the map by the end of this decade.

I want to remind what complacency costed Ukraine when they snuffed at "what a few dozen Russians penetrating the border on pickups can do?" in 2014.

Of course, they themselves didn't do much, but their actions were only an opener to set up a much bigger gambit.

Underestimating genius is bad, but the underestimation of idiocy is truly lethal.

The point of all the AML/KYC stuff isn't to prevent money laundering, but to replace a difficult-to-prosecute crime (money laundering) with an easy-to-prosecute crime (lying on bank forms).

Absolute nonsense. There was a time when like half of all Russian mafia lived in London fully in the open, and they only vacated the place when they started being kicked out through visa cancellations, not fraud charges.

This change changes really nothing in the fact that first world country governments don't want to prosecute those guys.

At most, they don't give a fuck, at worst, they are actively conniving.

And it's not that they are hard to prosecute at all. Anybody who can read some Russian can get a completely damning charge sheet with a few minutes googling on most of them, let alone British MI-6 analysts.

The crazy theory that you can somehow increase prosecution chances with "Al Capon charge" makes little sense if criminals whose offences are provable in 5 minutes without that are walking around. like nothing.

There are many accounts in the press of banks employees saying they send hundreds of suspicious activity reports for absolutely clear cut cases without any reaction. And they can't do anything on their own, as their paperwork is completely impeccable from the reporting standpoint.

Thinking rationally, it makes sense that a mafioso who is going to launder few billion $, will ensure that his paperwork looks more full, and accurate than that of a legit company. Few percents of such sums will hire legions of top lawyers to do the reporting.

Russian trade volume was 57% NATO members before the war, and close to 80 if you count Western allies.

Uh, your pops was rich then, and that means you were likely a kid of the communist elite?

Mine's lived in a wooden hut by 1991.

identified as a national security threat by the US DOD, essentially because there's no way to be sure that every second of GPS-tagged video shot by a DJI drone isn't going into a giant server farm owned by the Chinese intelligence service.

There are far more obvious reasons for that. These drones are of enormous military value. By buying them, US consumers are funding an obvious foreign military hardware production. US money may well be funding production of drones which may once be used to correct artillery strikes on Los Angeles.

DJI are particular seem to work in concert with "military civilian fusion," and have hardware, and software to defeat both very serious jamming, and attempts to fry its radio with pulsed microwaves. Military jammers for 2.4g band seemingly have near 0 effect.

You can easily use magnetically soft steel.

Classifies Semiconductors as Critical to National Security

Well, in a case of direct war with China or Russia, it will not be microchips you would be worried about.

USA is amazingly self sufficient nation, probably more than any other nation in the world, but... it lost far more critical items any nation must manufacture other than iphones.

You will not die from not receiving a new iphone, but you will die from lack of antibiotics if you catch gangrene, or something as dumb as typhus (my uncle died from it in his twenties)

USA can make a superweapons, but can't seem plainly make enough ammo for them. So much bad it is, a single German company produces more shells than entire American industry. All these big tanks, ships, and bombers will become useless in just 2-3 month of intense conflict.

After a big war, you will need huge amounts of basic materials to rebuild fast, before the enemy does the same. I have just to say: China has passed 1 gigaton of steel output per year

Reliable, cheap, and available in high number power supplies are surprisingly hard to come by.

Delta makes tons of money on satisfying the "reliable, and available" points, but not the "cheap" one.

Turkey is the biggest provider of bigger UAVs, but not toy sized ones. For that China takes the lead supplying both sides.

Ironically, every SIM card is a cryptographic secure element, and it would've been ideal to do public key login.

If you plug SIM card into desktop, you can actually do signing with it, and TLS authentication.

I recall, only Nokia S60 series, and A200 had a SIM card API exposed to apps. Ios does not give you access to SIM, Android does only for system apps.

The good part is there's no more brushes to wear out and no dry seal needed so the motor can now be oil cooled from the inside as well, but to me it raises the big question about the power losses incurred by the energy that's transferred to the rotor via induction versus the previous direct contact via brushes and slip rings.

Slip ringed motors can be perfectly oil cooler as well. And you will need oil seals and drains in under any circumstances you use oil cooling.

US DoD can't, in peacetime (wrt the US), technically force an unwilling US company to be complicit in attacking foreign military assets

It absolutely can, with a long line of court precedents on war powers being actual without formal state of war being declared

By crafting a malicious JPEG/PNG that specified inflated dimensions, an attacker could cause the decoders to allocate an overly large buffer to hold the decoded pixel data. When copying pixel data from the file into the buffer, the attacker could overflow the bounds of the buffer and overwrite adjacent memory.

This is such a trivial exploit, why in the world they decided to write an own JPEG decoder, and stumble on the seemingly most trivial case of input sanitation?

I would add sole reliance on sandboxing instead of principial stance on writing on overall secure, high quality, and higly verified codebase is obviously failing.

if you support the Ukrainian cause and U.S. military aid to Ukraine do you then support Anduril, a leading drone innovator during the largest drone war ever seen?

You should support the cause, but to begin with you should know if they are real. So far, for the amount of PR we see, it's a company without a single widget sold, but megatons of very photoshopy looking photos, and 3D animations. And Palmer Luckey, you know his reputation.

Anduril was previously caught passing off a Chinese toy helicopter as his own invention https://ibb.co/8DT5JMc . What it seems they did was to wrap a Chinese toy into a "military looking" sheet metal, with anodized trinkets glued on. I see the same parts in RC toy stores all the time.

The largest manufacturers of drones for Ukraine are Polish, and Ukrainians themselves. They are already reaching into tens of thousands. For recon, DJI are still the best due to excellent Sony cameras they have.

US can directly fund Ukrainian drone makers and have far bigger effect immediately, but better focus on what others can't: very large drones like Global Hawks, Reapers, and fighter jets.

And ammo issue, USA is not making even 1% of what it can. Even bombed out Ukraine now manufactures more ammo for itself than USA makes after billions sank into paperwork needed to expand the production, but only tiny actual investment into factories expansion.

Should people in the West start calling things their names? Public sector corruption, not unlike at all what once plagued Eastern European countries. I see the problem as very similar in nature, despite dramatically different origins.

The difference I see though, is that much of Eastern Europe hardcore criminalized things which would not amount to a crime at all in Western legal systems, and not pass the extreme standards of proof.

1. Look for nepotism in appointments

2. Illogical high profile job competitions

3. Oversized, omnibus projects

4. Strange demands in procurement tenders, or one intentionally made noncompetitive

5. Income beyond known means of supervising officials

6. Strange project structuring, and legal acrobatics

7. Illogical financing arrangements

8. Long periods of doing nothing to extract more fees

9. Unreasonable fees of intermediaries and third parties