All good points.

That’s a fair point. Actively disabling it at the last minute, after everything had been underway, is significant.

Yeah, I honestly don’t understand why this narrative even needs to be played out.

I don’t know what angle there is by making Musk a scapegoat beyond, maybe, Ukraine trying to strengthen its supporting relationship with the US population, but it already has most of the US support anyway.

Musk has his issues, there’s no doubt about that, but not wanting to be involved is an ethical stance to take on his part.

wew

no cap

Sure. Not sure how that’s relevant though?

In general, finding an exploit requires looking for little tiny details that could exist in, really, any area of a given system; looking for a bug, and then exploiting that bug by understanding how input data can be used to create a deterministic chain of events.

This almost always requires thinking outside of the box.

There are people who are also paid to find these before malicious actors do.

It’s always going to be creative in some way, at least in the beginning.

It’s like when people first discover Quake’s fast inverse square root. Sure, the first time around it seems genius. In reality, code like that is actually everywhere, and there is a somewhat trivial aspect to optimizing those kinds of problems.

The way the hack was utilized is honest very creative and interesting;

That’s often the case with exploits.

but “fuck Meta/Google because they’re evil” is subjective as hell and gets us nowhere except back to Reddit culture.

That’s true. A lot of Reddit culture is cringe as well

For example, repeatedly resorting to war crimes when a war isn’t going your way, pretending to show up in public when there is a chance of assasination (but I guess Putin has plenty of enemies so it makes sense 🤣),

You sure his reasoning for performing those war crimes is because the war wasn’t going his way? I could see him performing them regardless of the outcome - it aligns with his ruthless behavior.

I still wouldn’t it cowardly though.

pretending to show up in public when there is a chance of assasination (but I guess Putin has plenty of enemies so it makes sense 🤣),

Of course he does: he’s a ruthless dictator. What do you expect? The dynamic has always been the same for people like that; Stalin, Hitler and Sadam each dealt with the same problems.

poisoning and killing anyone who doesn’t show 100% loyalty to you

If you’re a dictator, a lack of 100% loyalty implies you’re dealing with someone who would try and kill you if given the chance.

In the dictator’s regime, this isn’t cowardice; it’s survival.

and even jailing and using excessive force against protestors for simply appearing upset.

Again, he’s a dictator and a fascist. There’s nothing out of the ordinary here for someone who chooses to play that role.

At this point I am curious how this ends for him and Russia, but I am sure it won’t end well.

Well, yeah. The entire world is against what he’s doing.

Putin is just a dictator. You can’t survive as a dictator without doing all of these things that you’re associating with cowardice.

But that’s the thing: we’re talking about someone who would laugh if he was called a coward. He doesn’t care what you think.

But if you want to pretend that you’re a part of a country that holds a moral high ground above Russia’s dealings, you have that right in a non dictatorship.

The US government has been involved in and supported some of the most haneous shit you can imagine.

Yes, Putin is a scumbag. If you’re going to criticize someone, though, you should do it in a way that actually makes sense.

Otherwise, you’re just a part of the media mob.

After seeing how much of a coward Putin is I have a hard time seeing him be anything more than an opportunist who takes easy cheap shots. He is out if his league now.

A coward? Lol, idk about that.

It takes real balls to last as long as he has as a dictator. It also takes balls to piss off the entire UN while continuing to double down.

I don’t see this turning out well for him, but if he was really a coward none of this shit would have happened.

Nah, he’s just a dictator who finally bit off more than he could chew.

He is 19, he should be old enough to come to a reasonable conclusion that his family if profiting off of the suffering of the Pakistani people.

No, he shouldn’t be. You really have no idea what you’re talking about.