cypherpunks Now • 81%
would this text land differently if "public school" were replaced with "school"? 🤔
cypherpunks Now • 100%
Like… okay… I know this is me in the new brain, I’ll shut down the other one.
the other one: i'm pretty sure you've got it backwards, pal
cypherpunks Now • 100%
Copying my comment from another thread about this:
They're going to be "sovereign" over the whole archipelago, but only as long as they don't exercise their sovereignty over the largest island in it which constitutes more than half of its total land area (30 km^2^ of 56.13 km^2^).
Today’s political agreement is subject to the finalisation of a treaty and supporting legal instruments, which both sides have committed to complete as quickly as possible. Under the terms of this treaty the United Kingdom will agree that Mauritius is sovereign over the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia. At the same time, both our countries are committed to the need, and will agree in the treaty, to ensure the long-term, secure and effective operation of the existing base on Diego Garcia which plays a vital role in regional and global security. For an initial period of 99 years, the United Kingdom will be authorised to exercise with respect to Diego Garcia the sovereign rights and authorities of Mauritius required to ensure the continued operation of the base well into the next century.
The treaty will address wrongs of the past and demonstrate the commitment of both parties to support the welfare of Chagossians. Mauritius will now be free to implement a programme of resettlement on the islands of the Chagos Archipelago, other than Diego Garcia, and the UK will capitalise a new trust fund, as well as separately provide other support, for the benefit of Chagossians.
It will also herald a new era of economic, security and environmental partnership between our two nations. To enable this partnership the UK will provide a package of financial support to Mauritius. This will include an indexed annual payment for the duration of the agreement and the establishment of a transformational infrastructure partnership, underpinned by UK grant funding, to deliver strategic projects generating meaningful change for ordinary Mauritians and boosting economic development across the country. More broadly, the UK and Mauritius will cooperate on environmental protection, maritime security, combating illegal fishing, irregular migration and drug and people trafficking within the Chagos Archipelago, with the shared objective of securing and protecting one of the world’s most important marine environments. This will include the establishment of a Mauritian Marine Protected Area.
Nice touch making a new "Marine Protected Area" in the process; the current "Chagos Marine Protected Area" was created entirely to, well... lets let this 2009 US diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks explain:
1. (C/NF) Summary. HMG would like to establish a "marine park" or "reserve" providing comprehensive environmental protection to the reefs and waters of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), a senior Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) official informed Polcouns on May 12. The official insisted that the establishment of a marine park -- the world's largest -- would in no way impinge on USG use of the BIOT, including Diego Garcia, for military purposes. He agreed that the UK and U.S. should carefully negotiate the details of the marine reserve to assure that U.S. interests were safeguarded and the strategic value of BIOT was upheld. He said that the BIOT's former inhabitants would find it difficult, if not impossible, to pursue their claim for resettlement on the islands if the entire Chagos Archipelago were a marine reserve. End Summary.
I wonder how the "treaty will address wrongs of the past"; somehow I doubt it will involve any mention of the CIA torture site there.
cypherpunks Now • 95%
So, they're going to be "sovereign" over the whole archipelago, but only as long as they don't exercise their sovereignty over the largest island in it which constitutes more than half of its total land area (30 km^2^ of 56.13 km^2^).
Today’s political agreement is subject to the finalisation of a treaty and supporting legal instruments, which both sides have committed to complete as quickly as possible. Under the terms of this treaty the United Kingdom will agree that Mauritius is sovereign over the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia. At the same time, both our countries are committed to the need, and will agree in the treaty, to ensure the long-term, secure and effective operation of the existing base on Diego Garcia which plays a vital role in regional and global security. For an initial period of 99 years, the United Kingdom will be authorised to exercise with respect to Diego Garcia the sovereign rights and authorities of Mauritius required to ensure the continued operation of the base well into the next century.
The treaty will address wrongs of the past and demonstrate the commitment of both parties to support the welfare of Chagossians. Mauritius will now be free to implement a programme of resettlement on the islands of the Chagos Archipelago, other than Diego Garcia, and the UK will capitalise a new trust fund, as well as separately provide other support, for the benefit of Chagossians.
It will also herald a new era of economic, security and environmental partnership between our two nations. To enable this partnership the UK will provide a package of financial support to Mauritius. This will include an indexed annual payment for the duration of the agreement and the establishment of a transformational infrastructure partnership, underpinned by UK grant funding, to deliver strategic projects generating meaningful change for ordinary Mauritians and boosting economic development across the country. More broadly, the UK and Mauritius will cooperate on environmental protection, maritime security, combating illegal fishing, irregular migration and drug and people trafficking within the Chagos Archipelago, with the shared objective of securing and protecting one of the world’s most important marine environments. This will include the establishment of a Mauritian Marine Protected Area.
Nice touch making a new "Marine Protected Area" in the process; the current "Chagos Marine Protected Area" was created entirely to, well... lets let this 2009 US diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks explain:
1. (C/NF) Summary. HMG would like to establish a "marine park" or "reserve" providing comprehensive environmental protection to the reefs and waters of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), a senior Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) official informed Polcouns on May 12. The official insisted that the establishment of a marine park -- the world's largest -- would in no way impinge on USG use of the BIOT, including Diego Garcia, for military purposes. He agreed that the UK and U.S. should carefully negotiate the details of the marine reserve to assure that U.S. interests were safeguarded and the strategic value of BIOT was upheld. He said that the BIOT's former inhabitants would find it difficult, if not impossible, to pursue their claim for resettlement on the islands if the entire Chagos Archipelago were a marine reserve. End Summary.
I wonder how the "treaty will address wrongs of the past"; somehow I doubt it will involve any mention of the CIA torture site there.
cypherpunks Now • 100%
how are they "paying lip service" to IP rights? unless i'm missing some details that sounds like outrageous slander.
in any case, i do actually agree with the DOJ on one thing: people shouldn't pay for pirated ebooks (but, regardless of what country the people selling them might happen to be from).
(i've never seen one do it but iiuc some incarnations of Z-Library actually did charge for access?)
cypherpunks Now • 100%
cypherpunks Now • 25%
I was referring to the "This is actually a good sign for self driving" part of their comment.
The captcha circumvention arms race has been going on for over two decades, and every new type of captcha has and will continue to be broken as soon as it's widely deployed enough that someone is motivated to spend the time to.
So, the notion that an academic paper about breaking the current generation of traffic-related captchas (something which the captcha solving industry has been doing for years with a pretty high success rate already) is "good news" for the autonomous vehicle industry (who has also been able to identify such objects well enough to continue existing and getting more regulatory approval for years now) is...
cypherpunks Now • 50%
i hope you're joking. please, tell me you're joking?
cypherpunks Now • 87%
Copy left is very much not communist. Get out of here with that tankie rhetoric
i don't actually think copyleft is communist per se, but i dig that you're somehow mad about my joke - the intended butt of which was people who (typically disparagingly) insist that it is 😂
cypherpunks Now • 70%
yep, since it's under a "copyleft" (communist) software license that's how it has to be.
cypherpunks Now • 100%
yep, the concept of a "personal carbon footprint" was literally invented by an advertising agency working for British Petroleum https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oil-coined-carbon-footprints-to-blame-us-for-their-greed-keep-them-on-the-hook
cypherpunks Now • 100%
"make first contact with an alien race, and after you do, everything begins to change."
cypherpunks Now • 100%
for anyone who doesn't want to solve the captcha, that's an archive of https://www.wired.com/story/kia-web-vulnerability-vehicle-hack-track
...which contains a summary of what is in the researchers' post about it here: https://samcurry.net/hacking-kia
cypherpunks Now • 100%
You can use this design, but if you want it to accommodate 3½-inch disks you'll need to scale it down to two thirds of its specified size before printing it.
edit: after 20 comments, i'm adding a post description here, since most of the commenters so far appear not to be reading the article: This is about how surprisingly cheap it is (eg $15,000) to buy a complete production line to be able to manufacture batteries with a layer of nearly-undetectable explosives inside of them, which can be triggered by off-the-shelf devices with only their firmware modified. ![screenshot of paragraph from the article saying "The process to build such batteries is well understood and documented. Here is an excerpt from one vendor’s site promising to sell the equipment to build batteries in limited quantities (tens-to-hundreds per batch) for as little as $15,000:" followed by a screenshot of "Flow-chart of Pouch Cell Lab-scale Fabrication" showing a 20 step process](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/9ac1801f-c7ce-4299-adcf-e8788fa0ff47.png)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20502769 > here is the talk description, from its [page on the schedule](https://kccncossaidevchn2024.sched.com/event/1fAqj/linux-kernel-cves-what-has-caused-so-many-to-suddenly-show-up-linuxcvedaelsdi-jiong-bi-dyags-greg-kroah-hartman-kernel-maintainer-linux-fellow) for *[KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2024](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-open-source-summit-ai-dev-china/)* (which Linux Foundation somehow neglected to put in their youtube upload's description): > > In Febuary the Linux kernel community took charge of issuing CVEs for any found vulnerability in their codebase. By doing this, they took away the ability for any random company to assign CVEs in order to make their engineering processes run smoother, and instead have set up a structure for everyone to participate equally. > > > > This talk will go into how the Linux CVE team works, how CVEs are assigned, and how you can properly handle the huge number of new CVEs happening in a simple and secure way. > > > > 今年二月,Linux内核社区开始负责为其代码库中发现的任何漏洞发布CVE编号。通过这样做,他们剥夺了任何随机公司分配 CVE 的能力,以便使他们的工程流程更顺畅,取而代之的是建立了一个人人平等参与的结构。 > > > > 本次演讲将介绍 Linux CVE 团队的工作方式,CVE 的分配过程,以及如何以简单且安全的方式妥善处理大量新出现的 CVE。 > > [Here is a PDF of the slides](https://git.sr.ht/~gregkh/presentation-security/blob/main/security-stuff.pdf) from Greg's [git repo for this talk](https://git.sr.ht/~gregkh/presentation-security).
here is the talk description, from its [page on the schedule](https://kccncossaidevchn2024.sched.com/event/1fAqj/linux-kernel-cves-what-has-caused-so-many-to-suddenly-show-up-linuxcvedaelsdi-jiong-bi-dyags-greg-kroah-hartman-kernel-maintainer-linux-fellow) for *[KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2024](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-open-source-summit-ai-dev-china/)* (which Linux Foundation somehow neglected to put in their youtube upload's description): > In Febuary the Linux kernel community took charge of issuing CVEs for any found vulnerability in their codebase. By doing this, they took away the ability for any random company to assign CVEs in order to make their engineering processes run smoother, and instead have set up a structure for everyone to participate equally. > > This talk will go into how the Linux CVE team works, how CVEs are assigned, and how you can properly handle the huge number of new CVEs happening in a simple and secure way. > > 今年二月,Linux内核社区开始负责为其代码库中发现的任何漏洞发布CVE编号。通过这样做,他们剥夺了任何随机公司分配 CVE 的能力,以便使他们的工程流程更顺畅,取而代之的是建立了一个人人平等参与的结构。 > > 本次演讲将介绍 Linux CVE 团队的工作方式,CVE 的分配过程,以及如何以简单且安全的方式妥善处理大量新出现的 CVE。 [Here is a PDF of the slides](https://git.sr.ht/~gregkh/presentation-security/blob/main/security-stuff.pdf) from Greg's [git repo for this talk](https://git.sr.ht/~gregkh/presentation-security).
Arthur Besse
cypherpunks@ lemmy.mlcultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions