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Tools behind Belarus internet censorship potentially revealed:
According to a Bloomberg report, the technology used to block much of the internet access during the recent presidential elections in Belarus has come from a US-based company.
The report states that Sandvine Inc., had supplied the necessary equipment to the Lukashenko government a few months earlier through an intermediary.
On August 9, Belarus held the presidential elections where Alexander Lukashenko was elected for the sixth consecutive time. However, the Election Day was marked by irregularities that cast doubt on the transparency of the elections.
In addition to the barricades built by security forces that prevented the passage of civilians to Minsk, Belarus' capital, the internet services in the country had a major disruption that affected access to websites such as social networks, news pages, and messaging applications.
The disruption lasted for up to three days, and there are still websites that are inaccessible in a normal way, so citizens need to use tools such as VPNs or specialized browsers.
[...] This would not be the first time the technology has been accused of being used to repress a nation. Citizen Lab, a Toronto security firm, had indicated that in 2018 equipment from this manufacturer was used in internet blocks that occurred in Egypt and Turkey. Sandvine Inc. said this investigation was false.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Sunday August 30 2020, @05:33AM (10 children)
Do you have a citation for that? I've watched several videos. Only the less informed are still claiming that it was a molotov cocktail.
I see a plastic bag, containing *something* that I can't identify. It most resembles a glove, but it doesn't really look like a glove. Some sorta-finger-like doodiddies attached to a central circular area. Doesn't look like a bottle of water, but if you have an actual citation, I'd like to look at it.
Thank you.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2020, @06:58AM
Another thing that Runaway does not know! The man is a veritable black hole of ignorance! He even forgot he voted for Trump, conveniently.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by fakefuck39 on Sunday August 30 2020, @10:46AM (8 children)
We'll never know if it was a bottle of water. All we know is it was a plastic bag, and that those protesters have been throwing water bottles at the cops. So most likely a water bottle, but no way to tell.
bias source:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/conservatives-defend-kenosha-suspect-kyle-rittenhouse.html
The less informed are all over reddit, on every sub. It's overwhelmingly said by these idiots, whether on /politics or /memes that it was a molotov. Indeed, it's overwhelmingly said that floyd beat a pregnant woman with a gun - because that meme of some random woman who got beaten up in spain is literally their definitive news source, despite the actual trial documents being publically available in pdf.
The stupid is very strong. My phd geologist stepdad claims all man-made emissions put out less carbon dioxide than a single volcano. We have measured data showing human emissions are more than all volcanoes put together. His source? A meme he saw on facebook. But now when he says the meme authoritatively - "I know, I have a doctorate in geology."
"only the less informed" is misleading. "the less informed" - yes. But they are the majority, and the less informed they are, the stronger their opinions are.
A long time ago, Optane was coming out. I'm in data storage and servers - now a presales engineer who sells this shit. I explained, as people were talking about optane, that it's not like RAM, you can't mount it as a drive, and it's used for storage - mostly storage arrays and hyperconverged. How do I know this? I'm literally the guy who sells it. You and most other people here told me over and over again I didn't know what I'm talking about.
We had another conversation too. About transparent aluminum. I tried to explain, as a guy with an organic chemistry minor, that aluminum oxide is not aluminum. I gave the example that table salt is not chlorine. We argued on an on. That time I was only arguing with you though, everyone else was laughing.
I hate to tell you buddy, but those "less informed people" you keep talking about - that's you. In many many things. And as long as you don't admit it, you won't be informed, because you think you already are, so why learn new information.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday August 30 2020, @03:27PM (7 children)
There are several journals here that only confirm that eye witness testimony and even recordings are inconclusive at their very best. Watch over there and see two people take diametrically opposed opinions of what is on the very same tape. Or any other news story for that matter. Are people really supposed to take that shit seriously? I mean, aside from the the crooks they reelect for 40 years as a result? What does it say about majority rule? It's not like this wasn't predicted two thousand years ago or more. So, what's the escape plan?
Personally, I think Optane is a bit of a kludge to save pennies, an economic more than a technical advance, like those hybrid SSD/hard drives (but, pennies make a difference when you buy a hundred million of these things), but then I think computers are still in the stone age with abysmal file/storage/memory management in general. Moses had tablets that were more advanced, and probably much more durable, even if they were effectively WORM drives
Since you brought it up, can we do transparent aluminum yet?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by fakefuck39 on Sunday August 30 2020, @11:00PM (6 children)
I didn't read that ramble in the first paragraph, but optane is a kludge to save hundreds of thousands per purchase. If you take an EMC PMAX array, medium-sized, with all SSD and dedup+compression+thin provisioning, 7RAID5, here are your options, cost after a standard 60% discount:
4TB SDRAM cache, 3PB RAW storage, 7PB effective storage. It'll run you about $6mil. Read response time about 100microseconds. Write response time about 50microseconds for 10min at full continuous load, and about 2ms after those 10min.
Now let's say your write load is over 10min. You want to sustain it for an hour. You can double the cache. That's about $1.5mil. That lets enough data aggregate in the write buffer so it's dedupped, write folded, and compressed before it hits the backend. This lets you sustain the full load on the array indefinitely instead of for a 10min spike.
Or, you can add about 5TB of Optane, for about $300k. It lets you sustain that same write load indefinitely. You just saved $1.2mil, on what is a single medium-sized enterprise storage array. You have 10 of those arrays, and you refresh them every 5 years.
No one's buying Optane for consumer hybrid HDD+SSD configurations. Yes, I'm sure you can find me a couple of laptops on newegg that do that. I can also find you a guy who moves his piano in a minivan.
As far as transparent Al, no we don't have that yet, and I doubt we could at STP, since it would require some kind of a stable crystal structure for what is a flammable metal.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday August 30 2020, @11:11PM (5 children)
:-) Ah, so you're in denial too... Eh, whatever, I'm easy
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by fakefuck39 on Monday August 31 2020, @05:22AM (4 children)
Not sure what the denial is supposed to be about, just not interested in what you had to say after skimming the first sentence of your ramble, so I didn't read the rest. Pretty sure you actually said nothing though, but just used a lot of words to do it.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday August 31 2020, @05:51AM (3 children)
Well, obviously you read it if you spent the time to tell me it was nothing.
Whatever, peace out
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by fakefuck39 on Monday August 31 2020, @09:38PM (2 children)
Telling you is a fun thing to do on the toilet. It's what I imagine I would tell Trump or Bernie after their long speech - btw, I wasn't listening to that pile of retardation. It gives me pleasure to do that. I can enjoy telling you I didn't read it for hours (a poop after a meaty meal and not enough water. Still not worth 10 seconds for me to read it. Mr Sherlock Holmes of deduction we got over here.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday August 31 2020, @09:55PM (1 child)
:-) glad to see you're so easily entertained.
I'm sure it does. Be sure to clean up
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2, Funny) by fakefuck39 on Monday August 31 2020, @10:08PM
I did. I especially like getting the butthole nice and clean. You get the wet-nap and just press nice and hard in a circular motion for a minute or two. To get it even cleaner, you can sit on the edge of the bathtub and aim the hand shower on pulse right up there. Gotta get it clean. So the house-nigger's dick doesn't get shit on it.