Despite this, the affected specialists and their families were doing well compared to citizens of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Zone, apart from the suffering of deportation and isolation. The specialists earned more than their Soviet counterparts. The scientists, technicians and skilled workers were assigned to individual projects and working groups, primarily in the areas of Aeronautics and rocket technology, nuclear research, Chemistry and Optics. The stay was given for about five years.

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After this period of intellectual quarantine had passed, the specialists returned to Germany between 1950 and 1958, the majority of them before 1954. Before leaving, they were taught to keep their years in the Soviet Union secret. Some specialists received chairs in GDR universities (e.g., Werner Albring, Waldemar Wolff), became an East German party official like Erich Apel. Otherwise the GDR had difficulties to offer adequate jobs because the industry was mostly down. Brunolf Baade was given responsibility for developing and producing a passenger jet. A portion of about 10% made it to West Germany, Austria or the US, among them Fritz Karl Preikschat, Helmut Gröttrup and Kurt Magnus.

Yeah, sounds like the Soviets punished them harshly. Totally treated them like “resources” and not better than most of their own citizens.

Irregardless, I don’t think theirs really a difference between the too in this case.

“AI” has become synonymous with “Generative AI”

He’s not entirely wrong:

BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. It is based on a program called " xenix", which was written by Microsoft for the US government. These programs are used by hackers to break into other people’s computer systems to steal credit card numbers. They may also be used to break into people’s stereos to steal their music, using the “mp3” program. Torovoltos is a notorious hacker, responsible for writing many hacker programs, such as “telnet”, which is used by hackers to connect to machines on the internet without using a telephone.

You can learn more here.

Yea, its sort of weird to me that someone hasnt built some kind of bridge to just convert the front page of a federation instance to a webpage, and even let people make accounts and post

Lol

I have an LG smart TV. It’s never been allowed to connect to my home network and is exclusively a display for a Pi 5 running Kodi.

For that use case it’s decent for the price.

I have far fewer fucks to give about the “impact” of my boycotts than I have for my integrity.

I refuse to give my money to fascists if it’s at all avoidable. I will inconvenience myself and pay more for alternatives, or forego things completely if I can’t make a compelling argument for having them.

I have yet to hear such an argument for a streaming service.

I had a math teacher in highschool that allowed us make a “cheat sheet” during tests – it had to be hand written on an index card. I discovered that if I actually made a “cheat sheet” I rarely needed to look at it. It’s the same for hand-written lists when I’m shopping.

For a lot of people there’s something about actually writing information down (by hand) the makes it “stick” better in memory.

I did something insane: I actually read the article.

The students interviewed used pen and paper because they lack the tempting distractions a laptop/tablet/phone has. One states they feel they “use their brain more” when using a pen and paper. They also mention using a computer to write the final version of an essay for submission, but do most of the work on pen and paper first for the aforementioned reasons.

• giving files to a friend and not caring if you get the drive back

I feed the bodies of dead raiders to my pigs and GITMO-ed a Space Racist into giving up his bigoted ways.

I’m not sure how I feel about calling the experience “fun”.

For what content?

Seriously though, quality 4k media is hard to find outside of … “finding it” on the internet.

It’s funny, because that’s exactly what I did around the age of 13 to bypass my school’s firewall. I had everything on a USB drive, including Ghostzilla and PuTTY so I could browse through an SSH SOCKS tunnel. Mind you, my home computer was the SSH server – but these days it wouldn’t be hard to get a VPS in a less restrictive country:

“Hey [parent], can I borrow your credit card to set up a server so my friends and I can play [game] together?”

It takes one kid in a group to set something like this up.

My daily driver laptop, home servers, media center, NAS, etc are all Linux.

My gaming computer isn’t – as much as I would like it to be. There are certain things (particularly VR) that don’t want to work well in Linux.

can review it yourself.

You’re a supervisor and you have 2 employees: Bill and Jim. As a supervisor your job is to ensure the work is being done correctly.

Bill is competent and rarely makes major mistakes. Jim does a decent job most of the time … but he’s also a savant at screwing up – he regularly fucks up in ways that aren’t immediately obvious but are guaranteed to cause serious problems days to weeks from the screw up.

You can glance over Bill’s work and be fairly certain it’s fine. You need to go over every single piece Jim’s work to check for problems, and even then some are probably going to slip through.

AI is currently Jim, and Jim has no business writing code for anything privacy or security focused.

Theft, rape, and murder are “natural” too.

I had a 9" HP mini 2140– the keyboard was surprisingly good given its size.

It’s just a shame the build quality matched the price and they fell apart in short order.

They make a lot more than car navigation systems. Their recreational gear and avionics are top of the line.

You can’t get a manual gearbox here any more.

Huh, let’s see why

Another factor contributing to the discontinuation of manual transmissions is the increasing emphasis on safety features and the integration of advanced driver-assist technologies.

Ew.

Technology has never been the problem: there’s nothing wrong with genetic engineering, AI, etc. They can (and have) been used for good.

The problem has always been the “greed is good” sociopaths using it for evil.