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Unfortunately, I think most of the users here have no insight into every day Chinese life - myself included… in fact if not from your post, I would have had no idea this is a thing.

Anyhow, this is disgusting behavior, and I can’t really rationalize it.

Though for a lot of people, the source of grievance is pretty abstract. They could be victims of the system, and taking it revenge in that is difficult.

I still remember the hype and the disappointment. I mean it was a fun idea but in the end, the expectations for the overall usefulness were too high.

so much for the tolerant left

Oh, this wasn’t to take from his point, I didn’t even read your comment in the first place. Hilarious reply though. It just triggered another pet peeve of mine

Meet English (American?) News websites where every sentence is their own paragraph, I hate it

Just that Ukraine isn’t a NATO member so there’s no way to trigger article 5

And believe it or not, not many people want to fight in Ukraine, and not many countries want to send their people to fight there

Never seen it, it’s solely my favorite because it killed a Nazi.

Huh, I didn’t know I had something in common with Hitler, but we share the same favorite mountain.

A secret police is something different from officers without uniforms. A secret police is an instrument of the ruling party to oppress opposition and are part of a “justice” system outside of the official one, e.g. secret police can arrest you on whatever charges (don’t have to be revealed) and you’ll be put into a secret prison where your relatives can’t find you. The fact that they don’t wear uniforms goes beyond why regular police goes it: it’s to create an atmosphere of fear that everyone around you could be secret police, and that they can just arrest you, and there’s nothing you can do.

$57k is already laughable considering the amount of money deposited… but in gift cards?

You’re already handling cash, aren’t you?

These cards are over 10 years so this is understandable

38 years old neo Nazi, arrested at his mother’s place after threatening a sheriff on 4chan because the sheriff stopped them from spreading hate.

Such a loser… in Minecraft :)

I have full IPv6, none of my ports that I haven’t explicitly whitelisted in the firewall can be accessed from the Internet. I can open a host completely, but it’s not default. This is on the most common brand of consumer routers here.

Just because it’s not NATted doesn’t mean there’s no firewall in place.

At this point, Prime doesn’t make sense if you want to save on shipping. It made sense because it included a lot of good stuff (video before ads, some music, shipping, games) but just for shipping, there were better options.

I basically overpaid but didn’t care out of convenience - partner sometimes watched prime, I ordered occasionally, played some included games. But the changes to video were so shady that I cancelled it.

Please don’t bring in this worn out Reddit joke

I worked in software certification under Common Criteria, and while I do know that it creates a lot of work, there were cases where security has been improved measurably - in the hardware department, it even happened that a developer / manufacturer had a breach that affected almost the whole company really badly (design files etc stolen by a probably state sponsored attacker), but not the CC certified part because the attackers used a vector of attack that was caught there and rectified.

It seemingly was not fixed everywhere for whatever reason… but it’s not that CC certification is just some academic exercise that gives you nothing but a lot of work.

Is it the right approach for every product? Probably not because of the huge overhead power certified version. But for important pillars of a security model, it makes sense in my opinion.

Though it needs to be said that the scheme under which I certified is very thorough and strict, so YMMV.

My router will still block all ports not explicitly allowed for the hosts regardless of protocol, it’s a firewall after all and not just NAT. Just because the host addressable doesn’t mean its ports are reachable.

And the Bible being a justification for state executions is such a horrible excuse.

Which part of the Bible allow that? Is it this “an eye for an eye” thing? And if yes, do those people referring to it also honor the other verses in Leviticus (i.e. not eat shrimp)?

Salt the hash with something unique to that specific user so identical passwords have different hashes

Isn’t that… the very definition of a Salt? A user-specific known string? Though my understanding is that the salt gets appended to the user-provided password, hashed and then checked against the record, so I wouldn’t say that the hash is salted, but rather the password.

Also using a pepper is good practice in addition to a salt, though the latter is more important.

Testing is actually mandatory, what’s not mandatory though is to do it before deploying.