I think SuperNinKenDo is right. We are witnessing events now which are unprecedented.
For example, Australia is now at the point where we have the police force in a (once-)successful western democracy gaslighting for pro-terrorism protestors.
The NSW Police just did a press conference [1] where they said "forensic analysis has found no evidence the phrase "gas the Jews" was chanted in videos circulating online from a pro-Palestinian rally at the Sydney Opera House, despite witness statements saying it was."
They did not say who performed the forensic analysis.
If you have seen/heard the videos (the one I watched was posted on X/Twitter on the 10th October 2023), it is quite obvious that the protestors shouted "gas the Jews" multiple times and it is absolutely extraordinary that anyone would claim otherwise.
Here is another example.
On the national holiday, Australia Day, January 26th, in Melbourne, there was an "Invasion Day" rally with "thousands of Aboriginal and Palestine flags". Protestors held a large banner with the message "Kill the Australian in your head" (i.e. "kys in minecraft") and calling for destruction of the country. [2]
Read the article [3] about this incident that occurred near this protest:
An elderly couple had earlier attended the 21-gun Australia Day salute at the Shrine of Remembrance near the city centre. They wore Australian flags in their hats. After that, they found themselves near the path of the protest. A police officer approached the man and said "You are under arrest for inciting a riot".
We just had a copycat crime where teens stole cars and rammed cyclists and filmed it for TikTok [4], just like the well-publicized case from the USA last year.
>If you have seen/heard the videos (the one I watched was posted on X/Twitter on the 10th October 2023), it is quite obvious that the protestors shouted "gas the Jews" multiple times and it is absolutely extraordinary that anyone would claim otherwise.
The point is that those videos were almost certainly doctored to add that audio, almost certainly by the entity that claims responsibility for promoting the video, the AJA. That chant would have been a crime in Australia, so it became a police matter, and after investigating the video they found it didn't contain evidence of that crime. There were anti-Semitic chants at that rally (which were immediately and fully condemned by the organisers of the rally, who are good people, not anti-Semitic in the slightest, and who work with Jewish people constantly in their anti-Zionist activism), but there is no evidence that the specific chant the AJA alleged and provided likely falsified footage for was one of them.
What they wrote is factual, if unrelated to main topic.
Invasion Day started small, hundreds of people opposed to Australia's national day of celebration on Jan 26. The public holiday started in 1994, so it's not that old. There is common sense and reason around changing the date. Support from the wider Australian community is usually about compassion and understanding.
But now in 2024, the sentiments of Invasion Day protests suddenly and forcefully have merged with pro-Palestinian causes. To the point the Palestinian flag took front position, ahead of the Aboriginal flag. The messages tweaked, the speakers at the events now including those who had no previous connections with Aboriginal causes, suddenly they're "brothers and sisters unified against Australia." Not only that but the "decolonising" rhetoric and hate as increased. There's an undoubtedly "extreme left" (for want of a better description) element that promotes an unprecedented violent resistance.
No wonder some notable Aboriginal people such as Nova Peris and Marcia Langton have distanced themselves and oppose the unified causes.
Langton said: "there is very little comparable in our respective situations, other than our humanity".
Peris said: "It is historically and morally inappropriate to raise the Palestinian cause in conjunction with 26 January."
How about children skipping school to chant Allua Akbars in the CBD and holding signs saying "resistance is not terrorism"? That happened. How about "teachers for Palestine" caught in recordings promoting pro-palestine action plans for the classroom, including mathematics classes. Yep, they are planning to bring pro palestine causes while teaching algebra. Never mind this breaches Australian Education Dept rules. The teachers openly mocked those rules on the recording.
A lot is happening lately that falls into the unprecedented zone.
The context of "resistance" is the October 7 attack.
Some activists push the idea that Islamist terrorism can be defined as "resistance" and therefore vindicated from the moral and criminal dilemma of terrorism. Most rational people will define October 7 as an extreme terrorist attack on a massive scale, because that's what it was.
Allahua Akkbar is commonly yelled by Islamist terrorists before, during and after their brutality. A fact easily verifiable from countless videos of terrorist attacks, the horrors of which are a click away if you bother looking.
In the context of October 7, non-Muslim Australian children skipping school and holding signs given to them by Socialist Alliance activist groups, is unprecedented and wrong.
> "It's very clear that you are afraid..."
Instead of addressing my points, you've taken the ad hominem road. My objection to school children chanting Islamist war cries in the streets, has nothing to do with fear and everything to do with objecting to the indoctrination of children by activist groups with loaded religious and political sentiments. Hopefully I've been very clear.
> The context of "resistance" is the October 7 attack.
Framing this as a conflict that started on Oct 7th is, again, biased. Oct 7th was a response to 70 years of war crimes committed by Israel on the Palestinian people on a near daily basis.
A conflict only possible because the US and UK decided to "give" the Jewish people a land that they (the US/UK) did not rightfully own.
> Instead of addressing my points, you've taken the ad hominem road.
> Allahua Akkbar is commonly yelled by Islamist terrorists before, during and after their brutality. A fact easily verifiable from countless videos of terrorist attacks, the horrors of which are a click away if you bother looking.
Your anecdotal experience aside, you very clearly spelled out a racist reaction. Like crossing the road when you see a black person.
You know what else is a click away? The knowledge that the Muslim god *is* the Christian god *is* the Jewish god. They're all Abrahamic religions they believe in the same god. Different prophets, different practices, same god.
So unless you're equally terrified when an American says "Bless you" when you sneeze, what you're describing is a racist reaction.
Repugnant. I suppose you think diverting funds meant for civilians to build terror tunnels under civilian infrastructure is also a "response." Taking hostages and teaching children to be martyrs is also a "response".
Look at a map. Israel is a tiny red dot in an ocean of green. The "get off my land" argument doesn't hold up. All humans are indigenous to planet Earth. The idea is to negotiate and resolve differences, not shout God's name as you butcher young people at a music festival.
Islamist terrorists are not a "race", they are criminals who hate everything about the freedoms we take for granted. Joining any particular religion doesn't make you a different race.
False accusations of racism are no better than actual racism. You've revealed yourself as a terrorism sympathiser. You sought a post above to be censored based on nothing but your disagreement of the contents. No wonder the free speech crowd are more vocal lately. Your ideology runs counter to positive resolutions and peace. Good luck anyway, but this is where I leave this thread.
Nobody defended terrorism. Do you prefer religious bigot to racist, because you're painting with a huge broad brush and not at all focusing your complaints on terrorists. And again this didn't start in October.
If you're going to act like this, you shouldn't join any future conversations on the topic either.
You are arguing with a dyed-in-the-wool bigot, but there are many here who would upvote you twice for confronting their heinous ideology, and thank you.
On the flipside, Australians have fallen over themselves to serve the interests of foreign powers in countless heinous, illegal wars, flying the Nazi flag in Afghanistan, committing war crimes with impunity - for decades now.
You can't make your heinously race-baiting claims without also accounting for our disgusting, utterly repugnant participation in America's racist wars.
The Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (AML/CTF Act) covers AML in Australia. Tranche (Part) 1 was implemented immediately. Tranche 2, covering real estate agents (among others) was supposed to follow reasonably soon after. It's now been ~17 years and it's still not implemented. [1]
In those years, the Australian property market boomed and states like New South Wales with its Stamp Duty tax generated billions ($9.379 billion for the 2020-21 financial year) in revenue [2]
Linked from Nicolas Wilson's twitter, this video, about a Tory MP and her husband's stealing of GBP 203m of Government money for useless PPE at the beginning of the COVID crisis, is staggering:
tl;dr: All 3 of my Samsung M.2 NVMe SSDs have failed in less than 3 years. 100% failure rate.
My first SSD was a 1TB Samsung 970 EVO. It failed after 2 years and 8 months. It was replaced under warranty with a 1TB 970 EVO Plus.
That replacement has now also failed after 1 year and 9 months.
I bought a 2nd 1TB 970 EVO Plus in May 2019. It has now also failed (2 years and 7 months).
Both are expected to be replaced under warranty.
The 2 970 EVO Plus SSDs clearly had hardware errors (that were not accurately reflected in SMART data) that caused everything from system hangs, game crashes to file corruption on OTHER drives. I couldn't believe it at first but after 5 days of testing and trial and error, I had it confirmed. As soon as I removed those SSDs, my PC was completely stable again.
In the meantime, I have bought a Kingston KC3000 1TB drive as I no longer trust Samsung M.2 NVMe SSDs. On the other hand, I have a Samsung EVO 850 SATA drive which has been rock-solid.
The article mentions issues with the 900-series drives. It seems like the 800-series are still rock solid (also been running them for s few years now without issue)
There may be multiple, different issues with Samsung parts at play here. The 900 series issues seem to have been addressed with a f/w update; the 870 EVO issues were - allegedly - caused by bad NAND and the devices needed to be replaced.
ofc part of the problem here is the lack of public acknowledgement / information from Samsung on these issues.
As an example, an old Asus board of mine has trouble with modern m2 drives. A PICe m2 adapter solved the problem and the Samsung ssd worked without issues thereafter.
Worth checking if you have any thermal issues with it. Mine failed in a similar way due to presumably a rookie mistake of forgetting to remove the thermal pad tape on the mobo.
It's not likely that thermal issues would cause bad reliability on these things. At worst you could expect intermittently bad performance. You can check for this condition with `nvme smart-log`. If your device was often overheated, it would have "critical composite temperature time" non-zero. My Samsung that has been in service for years and has no thermal solution has a value of 1 minute and I happen to know that is because I heated it with a hair dryer to find out what would happen if it crossed the critical temperature.
Ha, interesting! Makes sense, the drive is supposed to just throttle itself before it can reach unsafe temps. I’ll def try to check, didn’t know the drive recorded that - thanks for the tip. In any case, now I know RMA is in order
The controller is less thick than the NAND flash so don't make proper contact with the thermal pad. I just discovered mine is affected by this. After heeavy reading the controller is at 67C while the NAND is at 42C.
Your comment is almost certainly the stupidest thing I have ever read on HN.
I look forward to more insightful comments from you in this vein:
"I'm not sure how I feel about universities (which should be teaching modern history) teaching ancient 27BC stuff like the Roman Empire. Do you really want a new generation of people who think the Roman Empire was perfect and cannot be improved upon?"
I'm sure students would benefit more from MIT running courses such as "7.1729: An Introduction to 23 Not-Invented-Here JavaScript Frameworks" /s
Again, for historical reasons it's probably not a bad idea. But yes it would be a bad idea to teach students C and send them out into the world with the idea that writing C is how you're supposed to do it.
>But yes it would be a bad idea to teach students C and send them out into the world with the idea that writing C is how you're supposed to do it.
So your student have to tell Linus:
Sorry cant help you with your kernel that's not how you're supposed to do it, please learn Rust and rewrite your kernel RN! I don't know in what wannabe rainbow world you live.
BTW Students can think for themself, they honestly DONT believe you if you tell them unix or c nor rust are flawless, teaching something does not mean it's perfect but one way to do it.
As an example, the MMORPG "Elder Scrolls Online" [1], uses Lua as the interface and plugin ("addons") language. This allows feature-rich, very useful UI modifications such as "Bandits User Interface" [2]
There are/were issues with using the rpi-imager [1] under Windows, which would result in the configuration information not being written to the memory card. They claimed to have fixed it, but it never worked for me.
Instead, I downloaded a live Linux dist, kde-neon [2], wrote that to a USB stick with rufus [3], booted my PC with that, and imaged under Linux. Only then did it work.
After having yet another "gaming" mouse fail with the "double-click" problem I did some research which led to this in-depth video.
Essentially it's failed engineering and companies not wanting to spend even tiny amounts of money to fix the problems. Low-quality switches, out-of-spec electrical design, poor physical design (too much lateral movement in the buttons) and newer processors combine to produce mice that are guaranteed to fail.
For example, Australia is now at the point where we have the police force in a (once-)successful western democracy gaslighting for pro-terrorism protestors.
The NSW Police just did a press conference [1] where they said "forensic analysis has found no evidence the phrase "gas the Jews" was chanted in videos circulating online from a pro-Palestinian rally at the Sydney Opera House, despite witness statements saying it was."
They did not say who performed the forensic analysis.
If you have seen/heard the videos (the one I watched was posted on X/Twitter on the 10th October 2023), it is quite obvious that the protestors shouted "gas the Jews" multiple times and it is absolutely extraordinary that anyone would claim otherwise.
Here is another example.
On the national holiday, Australia Day, January 26th, in Melbourne, there was an "Invasion Day" rally with "thousands of Aboriginal and Palestine flags". Protestors held a large banner with the message "Kill the Australian in your head" (i.e. "kys in minecraft") and calling for destruction of the country. [2]
Read the article [3] about this incident that occurred near this protest:
An elderly couple had earlier attended the 21-gun Australia Day salute at the Shrine of Remembrance near the city centre. They wore Australian flags in their hats. After that, they found themselves near the path of the protest. A police officer approached the man and said "You are under arrest for inciting a riot".
We just had a copycat crime where teens stole cars and rammed cyclists and filmed it for TikTok [4], just like the well-publicized case from the USA last year.
Edit: Attempted honour-killings: In Adelaide, Afghan immigrants caught trying to murder a daughter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j7weY0gkfA
[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-02/nsw-police-opera-hous...
[2] https://archive.md/XBblW
[3] https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/shocked-melbourne-c...
[4] https://7news.com.au/news/teen-boys-arrested-after-cyclists-...