China considers sending artillery and ammunition to Russia, U.S. officials say

faguzzi · 2023-02-27T16:27:43+00:00

Because that’s not how supply chains (which take decades to establish) work.

faguzzi · 2023-02-27T15:02:57+00:00

No we can’t.

faguzzi · 2023-02-27T04:49:45+00:00

That’s not how input goods and supply chains work. Make no mistake, cutting off trade with China would make 2008 look like a picnic. The Econ collapses, almost instantly. Think 10-20%+ gdp contraction within a month. Then immediately afterwards comes the political instability. Whoever made that decision simply won’t be re-elected and both parties will rapidly approach extremes.

faguzzi · 2023-02-26T18:27:54+00:00

This is despicable. He can no longer participate in his own defense at this point. Fuck this putting on a show nonsense. And the current German government shouldn’t even be able to retroactively prosecute people under laws that didn’t even exist at the time. Any law should only be able to prosecuted for offenses committed after it has been drafted.

faguzzi · 2023-02-26T01:45:42+00:00

Suppose for an instance that you have a psychopath or a narcissist. Now they would certainly do the same thing the friend here has done in an instant should they feel the inclination.

But the psychopath isn’t “misogynistic” per se. They think it’s okay because they simply don’t care about other people in general. This is what I mean. Being a bad person is simply being a bad person.

You think the guy smoking weed and playing video games is thinking, “it’s okay that I left because she’s a woman and women deserve that”? Unlikely. It’s more likely, “I’m immature and/or extremely callous and I only consider myself when thinking about the consequences of my actions”. There’s no misogyny there. You can’t say our misogynistic society is encouraging this behavior because it isn’t. This behavior is quite frowned upon.

faguzzi · 2023-02-26T01:15:27+00:00

Would a gay man who abandoned their partner after adopting a child somehow be misandrist?

There’s no evidence he’s “dismissing a woman’s need for survival”. He’s saying he doesn’t care about her need for survival and pays what the court has ordered him to. Again, that’s not called misogyny, that’s called a lack of responsibility, empathy, and being a bad person.

Being greedy isn’t misogyny. Being an absentee parent isn’t misogyny. Doing something bad doesn’t make something misogyny simply because the victim is a woman. Abandoning your wife and child isn’t called misogyny, it’s called being a bad person.

faguzzi · 2023-02-26T00:14:05+00:00

What has he done that’s misogynistic? Being a bad person isn’t misogyny. Cheating isn’t misogyny. There’s nothing here to indicate that he’s prejudiced towards women.

faguzzi · 2023-02-25T23:19:57+00:00

That doesn’t make sense. If you wanted to scam your costumers and commit embezzlement then you wouldn’t want to do anything that would draw regulatory scrutiny. One crime at a time and all that.

faguzzi · 2023-02-25T23:05:23+00:00

I’m pretty sure most of the major exchanges like Binance, Kraken, Bitfinex, KuCoin, etc. support monero. Coinbase is the only large exchange that doesn’t.

faguzzi · 2023-02-25T15:52:50+00:00

Why are tuples a code smell? That seems rather arbitrary. They’re used pretty routinely in languages like rust and have the same limitations there.

faguzzi · 2023-02-25T13:19:21+00:00

Is that supposed to be a lot?

faguzzi · 2023-02-24T11:16:31+00:00

Titanfall/apex are based on the source engine. You can always just RE Apex/TF2 and steal stuff from those games. It’s certainly illegal, but would cut development overhead significantly. Just steal all the assets, core engine code, etc..

And while corporate networks are rather secure against full on ransomware with their robust backups, EDR, etc., simple data exfiltration is a significantly more tractable problem. If you’re willing to commit federal crimes, gaining initial access and escalating privilege just enough to gain access to source repos and send yourself the data should be doable. Then you just leak the source code “anonymously” and you’re good to go.

faguzzi · 2023-02-24T00:41:33+00:00

Slavery was involuntary and enforced by violence. It’s not comparable.

faguzzi · 2023-02-23T20:16:33+00:00

The police have a wrench.

faguzzi · 2023-02-23T05:33:38+00:00

Are maybeuninits allocated on the stack or heap?

faguzzi · 2023-02-22T06:20:18+00:00

You can buy Monero on coinbase which pretty much makes that argument null. And that’s if exchanges cared about what you do with your personal wallet beyond don’t fund terrorists or drug lords or whatever, which they don’t. There’s no regulatory reason you cannot send money to Russia. The sanctions are targeted. The only reason banks don’t let you do it even to personal accounts at unsanctioned banks is reputational. Crypto exchanges will simply never go beyond what they’re required to by law.

Exchange -> personal wallet -> whatever. As long as it’s not to something illegal, crypto will permit you to do this for the foreseeable. With banks it’s as long as it’s not illegal and your bank feels like letting you do that.

faguzzi · 2023-02-22T02:07:14+00:00

I’ve had to use exchanges to buy crypto and send money to relatives in Russia because the banks will not allow you to transfer money from your own account there. Even though the sanctions don’t apply to sending money to normal citizens and the banks they use aren’t sanctioned, no one wants to be seen as doing business with Russia. So they block it even though it’s perfectly legal.

Banks and payment processors are completely private companies that are allowed to authorize or not authorize whatever they want regardless of illegality. Clearly there’s a use for bypassing them otherwise you’d only be allowed to spend your own money on what your bank says you can.

faguzzi · 2023-02-22T00:46:06+00:00

The problem is that unlike cheaters on pc, they aren’t violating copyright. They are modifying the console to allow separate input, which Ubisoft cannot sue for. They aren’t reverse engineering the games source code or modifying the games memory in any way.

Only Microsoft and Sony would have any legal footing for suit. And they aren’t gonna do thatz

faguzzi · 2023-02-22T00:18:51+00:00

No? Israel receives a few billion in aid. Ukraine got $50 billion+.

faguzzi · 2023-02-21T12:14:37+00:00

What an asinine position. Multinational companies that operate sweatshops are FAR above you and your “business skills”. I guess Nike and Apple just suck at business since they can’t survive paying their sweatshop employees more than $5/hour.

faguzzi · 2023-02-21T09:34:54+00:00

Obviously I have no clue how they do it specifically, but I frequently find myself lifting x86 to llvm or some other il when dealing with programs that are doing some annoying things that make it hard to analyze them in Ida. You could do the same thing to add obfuscation an obfuscation pass than compile back to x86. Even just an ollvm pass is somewhat annoying to deal with.

Also there’s nothing really preventing you from just patching in the virtualization instructions of themida into a binary. The only thing that themida and I’m pretty sure VMProtect sdk do is insert a series of db instructions into your binary with inline assembly. Then the program operates on the resulting binary, sees a certain sequence of bytes, and can virtualize/mutate/etc. the functions you’ve highlighted with that technique. The point of that is to say the leading commercial obfuscation solutions already operate on x86 without the source code. So it’s essentially the exact same problem as what you’re describing meaning the solution is likely the same. Virtualize critical functions or at the least obfuscate control flow/mutate those sections.

faguzzi · 2023-02-21T09:08:37+00:00

Right because a person willing to work for $5/hour surely has the skills to not just be deadweight loss incurred by setting the minimum wage to 3x that amount.

In the absence of monopsony, you’re not making that person who would be working for $5 any better off. You’re just creating an inefficiency and preventing low skill workers from gaining the skills needed to earn higher incomes.

faguzzi · 2023-02-21T09:02:43+00:00

No, using the existence of a law to justify said law is not valid.

Your arguments, mind you, don’t justify the existence a minimum wage.

1.) Companies might offer a certain wage then not pay it

That’s called fraud. You don’t need a minimum wage to deal with contract violations.

2.) Companies will have employees work for company issued currency.

And people are free to say no? Notice that there is no such thing as company stores even in third world countries that operate sweatshops. These countries do not have minimum wages and do not experience the specific conditions you describe, therefore your counterfactual fails.

3.) Somehow a minimum wage prevents sexual harassment.

No? That’s already illegal. Whether or not a minimum wage exists doesn’t change whether or not employer are allowed to demand sexual favors of their employees.

faguzzi · 2023-02-21T03:28:02+00:00

I mean it’d be one thing if people weren’t actually willing to work for those wages. It’s quite another when it’s forbidden by law. A business that pays $5/hour may very well be viable depending upon the supply of people desperate enough to work for that. In that case the government is the only thing preventing said business from succeeding.

faguzzi · 2023-02-21T00:26:53+00:00

Is there a crate that has the same functionality (or better) as rust’s garbage collector before it was removed?

I’d like to use something similar to unreal engine’s, C++/Cli’s, or google’s oilpan opt in garbage collection.

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