Don’t waste your time with the haters: Israel has never lacked haters who doubt her, who do not accept her legitimacy, who do not believe our ancient people deserve a home of their own. Time spent arguing with these people only furthers the fog of war. Ignore them. Or shame them. But do not argue with them.

Just… Lol. I think this tells you everything you need to know.

I mean, yeah, sure, but that doesn’t change anything I said - even if he’s using it to cater to Russia, he’s still catering to Russia, playing god, pretending he’s a general, and it’s worse than the original quote of him criticizing the Ukrainian offensive.

Musk said he made the decision fearing that Moscow would retaliate with nuclear weapons.

I feel like this part is even worse. His opinion sucks and is fucking stupid, but he’s literally saying he’s making decisions (which have an impact on thousands of lives) because of his speculation on the Russian response.

He’s not a fucking general, this shit shouldn’t be his decision. He is not informed or educated on these decisions and he’s playing with people’s literal lives. He’s literally trying to play god with his space toys.

they have made a pretty good effort to patch Pegasus vulnerabilities whenever they come about,

I mean, they kind of have to? What’s the alternative, they leave it? Why are we applauding them for basically the bare minimum here?

Apple’s investment in discovering these problems seems pretty poor. There are multiple instances of Google finding exploits for them and then Apple downplays and complains about Google being too alarmist.

Sure, they fix things. But they fucking better, or there’s a very different problem. But their proactive investments in trying to discover them ahead of time seems pathetic.

Yeah, the argument that there’s money in this business only furthers the point here - there’s money in it because it’s valuable to abuse systems. Therefore the people running those systems should be the ones fucking funding it. And then using that agreement to keep the exploit details behind closed doors until they are able to fix it.

It’s almost like this should be an entire internal department. Maybe it could be named after the idea of keeping things secure?

If the company making massive profits off the sales of these devices isn’t going to fund it, who is? It’s fucking insane to me that Google basically funds the security of iOS for Apple, who’s their direct competition in that market. We probably wouldn’t even know this exists if it wasn’t for stuff like that.

because In real life, when users see a huge performance drop, they complain

Yeah, true, and the dead people don’t get to complain, so just prioritize performance because the dead aren’t complaining.

/s obviously. I don’t give a fuck how much performance you gain/lose by running an exposed system. Increasing road speed limits would help people get to work faster. But more of them would be dead. Road safety comes first, convenience and speed comes second.

I could understand people having a slightly different priority list 30 years ago when performance was shit and computers were obscure. But in this day and age, we’re making increases in performance 99.9% of the populace won’t notice and computers literally run our lives. The priority is security.

then you have situations like Intel’s Downfall, which has sizable AVX2/AVX512 performance penalties.

Yeah, exactly. Most people don’t utilize AVX all that much. And those that do likely have newer machines that are unnaffected. And Intel is patching it.