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Swede here, the article even mentions Sweden as an exception having an extra click.

While on the subject of Korean (game) shows, I found The Devil's Plan quite enjoyable.

It can be a major update even though it's a minor version bump.

I played around a few minutes with the various features. The voice removing was kind of impressive, though I don't know how novel that is.

I tried making some AI covers, too, which was kind of fun. For one of my tries, I submitted Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit for AI voice generation to make a cover of Carola's song "Främling" (Sweden's ESC song 1983 which came in third, a very non-Nirvana-type of song). At first, I thought the voice sounded pretty much like a Swedish Kurt Cobain, then the more I listened to it, all I could hear was the Swedish artist Nordman, and it dawned upon me that they have similar voice styles. I tried lowering the pitch, and then I was certain I recognised the voice from another artist but couldn't place it. So I'm leaning towards the AI voices being trained on some not-so-unfamiliar artists rather than there being some cool AI magic happening, though I'm out of my depth here.

If I'm understanding the article correctly, re: (2), the 'contract' was between Disney and the widower husband (Piccolo), not the deceased (Tangsuan). Disney claims he (Piccolo) must abide by Disney+ ToS and arbitrate while his defense argues he's a plaintiff for the deceased's estate and not representing himself.

Shame they deleted the scene explaining all that. It's still easy to find though.

Huh! I always thought the logic was that since the aliens used earth satellite systems they had already interfaced with human computer systems and the infection was made via the satellite system, which I believe the main character was knowledgable about.

I don't know if it's nostalgia or silliness, but I've at various times reused the ICQ uh-oh audio as irssi hilight/putty audio bell sound, SMS signal and Discord voice channel join sound over the years. Usually I find it entertaining the first two or three times and then it acts as a very large stressor.

Sweden, logged out from all devices, Google authentication to reset password results in error. Authorization codes sent via SMS to reset passwords seems non-responsive. Authorization codes to reset password sent by e-mail works, but setting passwords results in set password page two times in a row and after second try "An unexpected error occurred. Please try logging in again."

Pretty much the same here. I used mIRC extensively as shareware from 1994 to early the late 90s/early 2000s, then switched to BitchX and later irssi. It wasn't until somewhere around 2010 I purchased a license for all the joy mIRC had allowed me to access. Whenever I do a reinstall of my server and need to temporarily connect to IRC meanwhile I find myself downloading and using mIRC if only for a couple of hours since I use Windows as my desktop o/s.

Hijacking since you're dev for a straight answer. There's mentions of multiple voice choices. Is one of them a sampling of the red queen in RE movies? I loved her dialect/voice.

Just wanted to share that the US military spends a whole lot of effort on trying to understand group and leadership dynamics.

Yeah now that I think of it in hindsight I'd imagine most armed forces have this in one way or another, after all functioning as a group and solving different tasks in unison is pretty basic/mandatory for a successful unit.

They spend a lot of effort on figuring out the best ways to make that work, even if they fail at it a lot as well.

They (armed forces around the world) must be doing something right. I don't know if it's the x years of coherent training and purpose or some forced epiphany, but anecdotally speaking I usually find people with military backgrounds -- even if only 10 months of conscription service -- to be generally more adept at overcoming hardships and have a generally more pragmatic stance toward life, as opposed to many young adults that haven't done any such training and live with a sense of loss, inability to cope with certain things (e.g. boredom) and are generally 'later' or missing out on personal development. Most people I've talked about their military service with have said it was both their worst and best time of their life simultaneously. Of course, YMMV and I'm not taking into account extremes on either side. Just makes me wonder if maybe we should have some kind of mandatory self-exploration journey after school that would benefit people.

But the reality is, that shaping such an organization (or company!) is exceedingly hard and requires massive culture shifts within people of the organization (which bring their own baggage from outside) and incentives. It's easy to say you want to be Apple, but hammering a 3rd tier company filled with backstabbing juniors into a highly performing machine is going to be an impossible task.

(Disclaimer: I have not done any military service) The Swedish military had an educational course, now licensed to private companies, named UGL (Utveckling av Grupp och Ledare (Development of Group and Leader)). I took this course as part of a management position at a company and it focuses heavily on theoretical knowledge and practical exercises with regard to Susan Wheelan's work and research on group dynamics, i.e. what are the characteristics of different team 'levels' (1-4) and ways/prerequisites to get the team to the next level.

I've seen exercises and mentions to this model at other companies I've been at (it's quite popular and Wheelan is as I understand it an authority in this field), too, as well as various distilled forms from motivational speakers (e.g. 'being in the zone').

Very few teams rise to the highest level (before dissolution) and it takes tremendous work and good leadership, but from what I've learned it's hardly impossible. Of course, addressing the culture of backstabbing juniors is part of that process, so I guess you're right that it is impossible without change.

While on the subject, I wonder how many armed forces throughout the world have curriculums containing inter-personal relationship courses and group exercises pertaining to this. From what little exposure I've had to this subject (TV and movies, mostly US such) it seems to be something being taught naturally and 'the hard way', but maybe it's just something that doesn't come naturally to us Swedes so we need extra education in these sort of things.

Schizophrenic here with a long time interest in computer security. I've had many discussions with my (previous) psychiatrist about exactly this, often arguing that it's not that far fetched that there are a swarm of entities (not just three-letter-agencies) that are interested in surveilling you. Add to that that your paranoia might be more or less well-founded, say that you're doing various criminal activities, the bounderies between justifiable paranoia and illness can become _very_ hard to make out.

I remember especially us discussing three-letter-agencies' mass-surveillance and I brought up NSA's ECHELON and other things that have been semi-known/-public for decades. About two years later the Snowden leaks came about and my psychiatrist started telling me about different cases he had had where people were misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and there later turned out to be real world explanations and not hallucinations and/or delusions.

I just wanted to share this anecdote. It's a shitty disease and you're absolutely on point about how it already is and will become even more so in the near future.

Wait, -paying- users get ads in the US? Then why do they pay?

Source?

Kaseya VSA, an RMM tool, have been attacked, creating a supply-chain attack against many, many MSPs and other customers using Kaseya. In part you could say that this is due to compromised Windows servers, but IMO that's a sloppy description that invites theories about the problem being Windows security. The problem here is Kaseya's security and a supply-chain attack isn't unique to Windows.

More information:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27718529

* https://helpdesk.kaseya.com/hc/en-gb/articles/4403440684689

* https://www.reddit.com/r/msp/comments/ocggbv/crticial_ransom...

Most definitely, googling "Coop" "Kaseya" gives a few articles showing they've implemented it for parts of their organizaiton since at least 2009.

Patients in Region Skåne were also unable to access their journals on Friday afternoon (possibly unrelated) and Coop's competitor ICA's apothecary company Apoteket Hjärtat seems to be affected by Kaseya/REvil attack also.

I think there is likely to be a wide variety of life. I think there are probably other human-like life forms in the universe, just as there are probably life forms that are so different that they might resemble ghosts and angels to us. Anyway, some life in the universe might be more easily anthropomorphized in this way.

I completely agree.

What if we're being visited by multiple types of interstellar life?

Sure, that's a possibility. This makes me think of that university (and more places certainly exist) that was simultaneously hacked by two different APTs (if memory serves me). Maybe humans/Earth is really that interesting that there are several different kinds of aliens, or alien ship designs from the same species, at the same time here. Intuitively that doesn't sit well with my gut instinct, on the other hand as it is an unknown, unexplained, speculative phenomenon, I guess all bets are off...

You might as well say "it's pointless to try to understand anything not strictly human".

No that's the opposite of my point. I'm saying that I believe we should try to understand the possible 'them' from a less anthropomorphic perspective.

I think we are allowed to discuss things from an anthropomorphic lens because thats the only point of reference.

That was pretty much my point in my last paragraph and why I in my original reply said I don't have a better system.

In my view, reasoning "this is what we would've done" or placing logical deduction based on -our- understanding of a fantasized encounter is exactly anthropomorphism.

While I'm not a stranger to the notion that eventual intelligent alien beings might in many regards have similar behaviors, wants and needs as humans, I'm personally inclined to think of aliens as much, much higher on the kardashev scale (c.f. ghosts and angels as discussed elsewhere in this thread) than something I personally imagine as a couple of hundred years into-human-future tech.

Autonomous / AI probes is a pretty nice theory and I somewhat adher to it myself as a techie, but it does reek of anthropomorphism IMO.

In either case, all our fantasies are colored by our experiences, I guess what I'm saying is that even though I think anthropomorphizing aliens is bad, I'm just explaining it from my frame of reference, too.

I don't think anthropomorphizing aliens is a good way to speculate on how they possibly would behave. I really don't have a better system, but I see this tendency in alot of discussions about 'them'. (Disclaimer: I usually play as isolationist in Stellaris)

This sounds like the event that is described in the book Masters of Deception: The gang that ruled cyberspace. The way I remember it the book attributes the incident to MoD, while of course still being the result of a bug/faulty design.

Tumblr is still up: https://theshadowbrokers.tumblr.com

I'm curious if they (in lack of better English) didn't mean 1 million USD in BTC. 1 million BTC is -a lot of money-, even for a release of Equation Group material.

Everything about this auction is lined up to incentivize a scam.

Yes, however the contents of the free sample seems very real. Without having dug into the binaries it's hard to tell, but it's hard to imagine someone wrote this to scam 1 million BTC out of the net.

If this is legit, a hack/leak of Equation Group files might just be the coolest hack in history.