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IF CHINA IS A PEACE-LOVING COUNTRY — WHY ARE ITS MARITIME MILITIAS OCCUPYING PHILIPPINE WATERS AGAIN? | China keeps insisting it respects peace and international law — so why are Chinese maritime militia vessels once again massing inside the Philippine EEZ near Escoda and Pag-asa? If these waters are not yours under international law, then what exactly are you defending there? Why does a country that calls itself a “friend” need swarms of militia ships to intimidate Filipino fishermen and coast guard personnel inside waters recognized by UNCLOS and affirmed by the 2016 Arbitral Award? A nation confident in its claims does not need to hide behind gray-zone tactics, harassment, and manufactured presence. A nation acting in good faith does not normalize encroachment every single week. The world is watching. So are Filipinos. If China truly believes its actions are lawful, then answer plainly: Why are armed maritime militias repeatedly operating deep inside another country’s Exclusive Economic Zone? And if this is “peace,” why does it always arrive in formations? The West Philippine Sea is not a stage for intimidation. It is home to Filipino communities, Filipino livelihood, and Filipino rights. #BRPSierraMadre #WPS #WestPhilippineSea #UNCLOS2016 #ArbitralRuling #ChinaBully

@darkosubotica Could this be done with an array of DVD-RW’s and would that be even stupider?

What is the most cursed storage system I could make? This is a RAID0 array running on 32 of the worst USB flash drives money can buy. 🤞 Right now, on top of it I am running an Amazon S3 compatible object storage system. Let's see how many 9s can I get!

When the Knesset yesterday, passed the law approving the death penalty for Palestinians ONLY, they popped champagne bottles in the chamber as they applauded. You read that correctly. Not your problem? It’s complicated? STILL SILENT? SILENCE IS COMPLICITY.

1. CONSUMERS paid most of Trump's tariffs, which the Supreme Court ruled were illegal. But CORPORATIONS will receive the refunds. Will they pass that cash back to consumers? Or pocket the money? We asked them. 🧵

@JeffLandry The question you should be asking yourself is: would Denmark’s system improve the health of Louisianans?

Denmark’s system fits Denmark, but it doesn’t fit Greenland. Just because Greenland has a similar healthcare structure to the Danes doesn’t mean their outcomes are the same.    Deploying a US military medical vessel to Greenland would dramatically expand access to advanced diagnostics, surgical services, and preventive care. President @realDonaldTrump is committed to strengthening healthcare outcomes across the territory.

It's the US govt that harboured him, that gave him sweatheart deals, that kept him out of jail, that eventually killed him when it was all about to come out. It's the US govt that's now (in violation of its own laws) withholding evidence. It's the US govt, you silly people.

It's comforting to blame Israel and or Russia, because, yeah they're obviously bad guys, but for the love of fucking God this man was USA all the way. Blame the USA. That's the root of all this evil.

It’s gotta be great being the CIA. Here we all are with an American operating in American interest from American soil with American co-conspirators and we’re all arguing over whether he’s an Israeli or Russian asset.

Russia abducted Ukrainian journalist Yana Suvorova in occupied Melitopol when she was 18. After a closed, staged trial, she was sentenced to 14 years for “terrorism” and “treason.” Her case is classified. She vanished from exchange lists, United24. 1/

@PatrickByrne Your geek is @mqudsi ? Would be a waste if he's not and you're doing double work. neosmart.net/blog/efta00400…

My geek working Epstein’s files writes: “I figured out how to reverse encoding on Epstein file attachments and bring hidden files to the surface. All redactions can be removed. This shit has to be intentional because I have a hard time believing it is solely incompetence.”

Last night, the Russians struck facilities critical to the operation of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants. Today, units at Ukraine’s NPPs reduced power generation, and one unit was automatically shut down. This is a level of attack that no terrorist in the world has ever dared, and Russia must feel the world's response. Russia must show that not only such strikes and the war matter to it, but also the ongoing negotiations that are supposed to deliver results.

@jimstewartson Giving

@jimstewartson Jim, wasnt he first and foremost an American? Sure he had all kinds of allegiances, but he was an American, operating from American soil, with mostly American associates, protected by an American govt. I think this whole “it was everyone but US”-thing is kinda missing the obvious

@beek38 De vorige was ook een VVD'er.

Dus we krijgen nu een de-boel-belazerende, hardcore-zioniste als minister van Defensie?

@el_san03 @vxunderground The contents of the files isn't (computer-readable-)text-in-a-font, rather it's image-of-text-in-a-font. That's why he's trying to OCR those images: to get back to text. The OCR step, however, has difficulty distinguishing between 1 and L, because of the font used in the image.

@vxunderground I don't know the format of these files or emails or anything, but maybe use a pdf editor to change the font or something? Would that work?

Chat, it's the space race. Except we're not racing to space, we're racing to programmatically decode attached Epstein email documents. Last time on Dragon Ball Z: nerds noted that in the Epstein documents the DoJ failed to censor Base64 encoded email attachments. This means we have the means to extract the email attachments from the Epstein documents and see what is inside and uncensored. Big problems occured. Upon further inspection nerds noted the Epstein documents use Corrier New. This font is a pain in the ass to work with. In summary, they cannot reliably tell the difference (programmatically) between an L and a 1. Now we're off to the races. Who can solve it first and (probably) be murdered by a spooky shadowy government? (but have lots of clout on the internet) The first proposed solution was brute force. Swap the L's and 1's, try every possible combination until it is successfully decoded. The problem with this method is that even a simple document has over 1,000,000 unique permutations. To swap every L and 1, try to decode, then test the file, would take (if your computer is fast as fuck boi) 3 seconds... so a small document would take (worse case scenario) 34 days to brute force. The second proposed solution was transforming the PDF documents into high resolution images then programmatically enhancing the L's and 1's to make it easier to work with. While this sounds easy, it has proven to be challenging. Not all L's and 1's have the same characteristics visually. In other words, there's lots of edge cases that need to be accounted for. This will take a long time too. The third proposed solution was using Claude or ChatGPT. While initially laughed it, Claude did have some minor success and did manage to successfully decode one document. Claude has subsequently failed on every other attempt thus far. Claude fails because of the points referenced in the proposed solution two up above (too many edge cases, font is inconsistent, not aligned, etc). While nerds are off the races and working tirelessly to reverse engineer and decode these documents, internet non-nerds have also chimed in. Most notably by saying things such as: - Why isn't it done yet? - Just don't fix the L and 1 - This isn't hard, bro. I could do it - You're doing it all wrong While they remain critical, these people have not contributed meaningfully to the collective goal. I have no idea why they're back seat driving this project. It's actually very frustrating to read. For reasons I do not understand, some people seem to be under the impression they're capable of solving a problem that hundreds, possibly thousands, of other people are actively trying to solve or are unable to solve. Will nerds find a solution that works consistently? Will people on the internet stop back seat driving? Will we give up and instead do a mass brute force campaign? Is the government concerned by the tsunami wave of weaponized autism? Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z

@SizeCow @vxunderground And there's prolly a whole bunch of optimization one could do with branching that I'm too stupid to work out. Prioritize branches that are likely to fail, so you minimize the amount of useless work, perhaps?

@SizeCow @vxunderground If a node finds a parseable chunk for its permutation of 1||L it reports back to the coordinator and all other nodes can stop work on that chunk and move to the next one.

@SizeCow @vxunderground Obligatory cat gif