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subw00f commented on China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 lunar landing spectrum.ieee.org/china-m... · Posted by u/rbanffy

adventured · 6 days ago

Trump was elected by the people of the United States. Twice. Soundly. Not a dictator.

Xi was never elected to his position by the people of China.

Being a bad president isn't the same thing as being a dictator.

subw00f · 5 days ago

Your mistake is to confuse universal suffrage and democracy. Neither of which really exists in the US, btw.

subw00f commented on China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 lunar landing spectrum.ieee.org/china-m... · Posted by u/rbanffy

JumpCrisscross · 6 days ago

> if you are American and still talk all this shit about China being a dictatorship and authoritarian this and “purge” that, I wish you would honestly shut the fuck up. Really. You are in no position to have an informed opinion on this because all of your information is force fed

Bit defensive there, eh?

China is an autocracy and Xi is acting in the predictably self-destructive ways a dictator does. The U.S. is heading down that same path, with Trump practically mimicking Xi. N = 2 doesn’t weaken an argument. And folks who lived through the Nazis saying they see similar veins today doesn’t undermine their credibility.

(The hilarity of it is if you take your comment and replace China and America with partisan or pro-American coding, you could pop it out of Hegseth’s office and it would be right at home. Your comment almost seals the point that Xi is all the problems of MAGA, except polling China instead.)

subw00f · 6 days ago

Yes, I'm aware how ignorant I may sound, but it's so goddamn frustrating to read this kind of bullshit everytime I come to an American platform.

Ok, China is an autocracy, right? Could you explain to me how China conduct elections? Can you explain to me how they approve laws? Do they have a constitution? A justice system? Try answering these questions without much looking up and even if you do, please note the sources. No need to answer me really. Just ask yourself whether you know this or not and how qualified are you to actually label a HUGE state like China with one single heavily charged word.

subw00f commented on China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 lunar landing spectrum.ieee.org/china-m... · Posted by u/rbanffy

wtodr · 6 days ago

This is the same trite bullshit we’ve been hearing for decades. Look at where China is today.

subw00f · 6 days ago

It's amazing. The American president is quite literally creating a parallel military force to jail and kill people on the streets, they're arresting opposing journalists, politicians, pressuring tv channels and news organizations to fire people, invading countries without congressional approval, threatening allies with annexation for no fucking reason, dismantling any social programs left, and all of that led by a proven pedophile billionaire that was the customer and friend of a huge human trafficker, as were most of his billionaire friends who he favors with absolutely no shame.

And this is just the latest news coming from over there. I won't mention the fact that there are people alive today who couldn't drink from the same fountain as other people because their skin is dark. It was never fucking great.

So if you are American and still talk all this shit about China being a dictatorship and authoritarian this and “purge” that, I wish you would honestly shut the fuck up. Really. You are in no position to have an informed opinion on this because all of your information is force fed down your throat by half a dozen mega companies that are in bed with your regime.

So yeah, I'm sure China has a lot of issues, but if you didn't live there for some time or even speak the language for that matter, just shut the fuck the up.

subw00f commented on US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

maqp · 9 days ago

Well the thing is, the key exfiltration code would probably reside outside the TCB. Not particularly hard to have some function grab the signing keys, and send them to the server. Then you can impersonate as the user in MITM. That exfiltration is one-time and it's quite hard to recover from.

I'd much rather not have blind faith on WhatsApp doing the right thing, and instead just use Signal so I can verify myself it's key management is doing only what it should.

Speculating over the correctness of E2EE implementation isn't productive, considering the metadata leak we know Meta takes full advantage of, is enough reason to stick proper platforms like Signal.

subw00f · 9 days ago

Not that I trust Facebook or anything but wouldn’t a motivated investigator be able to find this key exfiltration “function” or code by now? Unless there is some remote code execution flow going on.

subw00f commented on There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout loworbitsecurity.com/rada... · Posted by u/illithid0

refulgentis · a month ago

What happens when you start making nukes and the US doesn't want you to?

Ssetting aside the whole non-proliferation thing, or expense (see NK), etc.

Let's get serious, please.

subw00f · a month ago

Why set aside expense? You do it anyway by whatever means necessary, like the DRPK. And if you’re a “western democracy” (also known as capitalist dictatorship) and you’re part of the ruling class, you still have the incentive to protect your assets, things you exploit in your country, land, natural resources, etc, that the US won’t be sharing or that they want to decrease supply when they take over through puppets or multinationals, and you can always force the public to pay for such a project, like all the times western peoples had to bail out or spend their taxes to benefit private corporations, but now it would look like it’s to protect sovereignty, which is a bonus of course, it would be to protect the local ruling class’s interests, but anyway. It’s clear the Americans will stop at nothing to acquire whatever it is they want, including indirectly violent means like ordering their financial institutions and tech giants to destroy whoever is on the way. The monster was always there since the Cold War and just now it dropped any pretenses.

subw00f commented on How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips japantimes.co.jp/business... · Posted by u/artninja1988

mywittyname · 2 months ago

> get along with China better.

This will probably never happen. All countries are rivals, and the semblance of cooperation is really just the manifestation of a power imbalance.

China grew into their big boy pants and can hold their own on the international stage. They have no need to be cooperative because they are in the International Superpower Club. Their strategic ambitions do not align with those of their rivals, and they are strong enough to not need to play nice anymore.

Now that the US has also dropped their visage of being the benevolent world leader, there's even less reason for China to pretend to be cooperative. At this point, it's a matter of who is more apt to invade your country, US or China? And you buy weapons from the other one.

Maybe we see more "cooperation" between China and the EU or South America. But that will be entirely because those regions are under duress.

subw00f · 2 months ago

Yeah, all those countries China has invaded really shows how apt they are to do that.

subw00f commented on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service theregister.com/2025/12/0... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

xanthor · 2 months ago

No but I won’t rule it out for the incorrigible

subw00f · 2 months ago

Ok, but that’s still not effective as a leadership course of action. Calling people names might make you feel like a big man inside, but that’s it, it won’t accomplish anything, that’s only for your personal benefit, not the project, not the product and definitely not the team.

subw00f commented on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service theregister.com/2025/12/0... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

xanthor · 2 months ago

Why does intellectual work imply that people doing poor work need to be treated like fragile little birds?

subw00f · 2 months ago

Can you only provide clear and direct feedback on poor work by insulting people?

subw00f commented on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service theregister.com/2025/12/0... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

xanthor · 2 months ago

Sometimes people need to be shocked awake. Reality is harsh, and gentle language doesn't change that.

subw00f · 2 months ago

You’re not mining coal, get real. Either use efficient techniques to make people do the intellectual work necessary to achieve whatever goal you have in mind, or you’re just deluding yourself thinking you’re some kind of “reality expert” while being an asshole, meaning they might still do it, but it would be despite your leadership, not because of it.

subw00f commented on Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy jacobin.com/2025/11/peter... · Posted by u/robtherobber

fastball · 2 months ago

Power might be hard to ignore, but wealth you literally just can.

subw00f · 2 months ago

Wealth is power