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> Attribution Scenarios: Option A: DPRK Operator Embedded in PRC

> Use of Korean language, OCR targeting of Korean documents, and focus on GPKI systems strongly suggest North Korean origin.

I'm don't follow how needing OCR to read Korean documents points to them being North Korean?

Could also point in the opposite direction of them needing to copy the text for translation.


Their shell history shows them using OCR tools. AFAIK it doesn't show them using translation tools.


Actually KIM was also using Google Translate (discovered through his browsing history)


Fair, and appears I missed the first part "Use of Korean language".

The OCR still tells us more about the target than the actor, but I guess they are suggesting the choice of target itself is the indicator.


We believe KIM is Chinese but working for both Chinese and North Korean interests/governments, he speaks only very little Korean, he translates Korean websites into simplified Chinese using Google Translate and use OCR to translate Korean documents into Chinese.


Twin studies are a classic demonstration of this: comparing identical twins to non-identical twins lets us prove a genetic component.

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=669...


You cannot do twin studies for effects in the womb. It's the same womb!


Thanks but this is only one study and they even conclude that some non-genetic factors may also contribute to causing autism

There are many causes of autism. Research suggests that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) develops from a combination of:

Genetic influences and

Environmental influences, including social determinants

Source: https://www.autismspeaks.org/what-causes-autism


My link isn't a study it's a layman's terms explanation, but there are lots of studies. Your link mentions a meta analysis of 7 studies concluding that up to 90% is genetic.

Yes environmental factors are there too, otherwise it would be 100%, but there's enough evidence pointing to genetics that it is really disappointing when people try to find spurious links to false causes instead.


Possibly of interest:

What heritability actually means https://dynomight.substack.com/p/heritable

> I couldn’t help but notice that there’s near-universal confusion about what “heritable” means. Partly, that’s because it’s a subtle concept. But it also seems relevant that almost all explanations of heritability are very, very confusing.

For example, they say speaking Turkish isn’t heritable but speaking English is. Weird!

> Heritability can be high even when genes have no direct causal effect. It can be low even when there is a strong direct effect. It changes when the environment changes. It even changes based on how you group people together. It can be larger than 100% or even undefined.


Autism speaks is a spiritually evil organization and the fact that you unironically linked them implies that you wish to wage cognitive warfare against all autistic people. Autistic people will respond by making sure you reincarnate as a durian fruit.


Misuse the trademarks licensed to one of their competitors while relying on that competitor to provide them infrastructure for software updates and provide product improvements.

Adjusting their product names sounds like a small change they could have made to avoid antagonising a close partner.

Running their own plug-in mirror infrastructure is something companies often do to reduce the risk from relying on a third party.

Similarly having some stake in the development of WordPress reduces risk of them being shut out if there is a license change that necessitates a fork.

Less about caving in on wishes as more that it's risky to choose both to rely on a third party and wind them up at the same time.


> Misuse the trademarks licensed to one of their competitors while relying on that competitor to provide them infrastructure for software updates and provide product improvements.

> Adjusting their product names sounds like a small change they could have made to avoid antagonising a close partner.

WP Engine updated everything that was potentially infringing two weeks ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1ftg581/finally_...


I had a similar experience in 2015: a doctor was trying to prescribe a choice between Venlafaxine (Effexor) and Duloxetine (Cymbalta) as third line ADHD medications. I was astounded that they didn't know that brain zaps were a common side effect and brought up some papers to show them. They apologized and indicated that they would likely stop prescribing them.

I was skeptical when they mentioned that other doctors had been promoting these drugs at gatherings, but what irritated me most was that they didn't have access to the research discussing the known side effects because the journals were behind a paywall. A willingness to pirate / use Google scholar to bypass paywalls shouldn't have been necessary to know about safety issues for a drug.


Today I Relearned: Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI) != Serotonin Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitor (SNRI) != Selective Norepinephrine Reuptake inhibitor (sNRI)


There are also SDRI and SDNRI. D -> Dopamine.


So late to the VR headset market they thought they needed to stick googly eyes on it... dunno maybe I'm missing something?


It instantly changed how I work. Seems like a lasting change.

I sit on my couch with a MacBook Air (very couch friendly) developing with many screens of relevant info arranged around me.

A mundane but profound benefit of “spatial computing” is no longer having visual information limited to the “keyholes” of hardware screens.

Apple seems to get that the Vision Pro wants to be a Mac replacement, not an iPad replacement.

Counterintuitively, the stereo 3D is the secondary benefit. Albeit a natural and significant one.

Everything in Vision works with both see-pinch and track/mouse click.

Hoping see-pinch comes to Mac screen in Vision, or simply Mac becomes redundant.


>dunno maybe I'm missing something?

Yeah, vision.


Chrome as a project was still a Google thing even if they used Konqueror's rendering library.

The process model was the novel selling point at the time from my memory [1].

[1] https://www.scottmccloud.com/googlechrome/


The faster javascript runtime was what made it a success IMO.


The leveraging their search monopoly to push it and paying other software to sneak it into installs is what made it a success.


Nah. Safari did plenty of monopoly abuse and sneaking into installs, but still never got big on Windows. At some point the user experience does matter.


How much of the speedup comes from more efficient memory usage vs faster memory access times and faster CPU?

I wouldn't expect lightweight office use to be primarily limited by the amount of memory available so perhaps that isn't a fair comparison still.


Office use is actually where you are highly likely to have a lot of applications open at once (lots of web tabs, mail client, document editor, excel and maybe some PDF views) but do not need a whole lot of performance either in single thread (for blocking UI change/computations) of multithread for parallel tasks.

You just need to be able to load all the apps at once in RAM and let them sit there as long as possible. The actual computation needed for those workflows is pretty low once the apps are loaded. It's all a trickle of mini task depending on the user interaction. Sometimes you need to export/convert something, and it takes longer but it is not very problematic.

In fact, RAM is a pretty big determining factor in your experience, especially if you use the office suite or google tools. Apples knows this, and it is exactly why they sell such a low amount of RAM at entry level. They want people to pay up or use their (inferior) tools. Their entry level MacBook are a terrible choice for office, in fact you are unlikely to either need or use all the computer power they sell in the marketing, but you are highly likely to feel the pain of too little RAM with the relentless message asking to close some apps.

The fact they came out to justify their choice is just the hammer driving the nail. It is all expected behavior from the greediest corporation on earth...


Battery life is significant worse with 32GB ram and laptop reviews often place heavy emphasis on battery life. By offering an 8Gb base model for reviews the manufacturer ensures their laptop will score well in reviews, even if users end up buying a higher spec laptop. It also allows users who want to multitask less to get more out of their laptop.

On desktop the impact of power consumption is lower, so it is better to offer a slightly higher spec base model.


Unlocking the password manager means I need to type a master password in while in a public place. Feels higher risk when it is an unimportant website but potentially gives access to all websites. Still better than the passwords being accessible on disk but having individual passwords would reduce the impact of any password leak.


I have this InputStick USB [1] dohicky that I keep with my keys shows up as a generic USB keyboard when plugged in but is also an encrypted Bluetooth dongle (part of pairing allows you to configure a shared encryption key so that only devices that know the key can use the stick, and only sticks with the key are recognized by the client apps). There's a plugin to Keepass2Android that I use to type passwords from my phone. I use that to unlock my password manager (using a giant untypable passphrase). So entering mosterous passphrases is very easy... bot only if you can unlock my phone and use biometrics to open Keepass2Android.

It really is dumb that phones can just generically play USB HID (without running custom kernels)

[1] http://inputstick.com/

[2] http://inputstick.com/kp2a-plugin/


1password uses biometrics on my 7 year old MacBook Pro, so even if I'm out and about I still don't need to type it.


1p works great on my mac but still asks for a password from time to time, I'm not sure of the exact mechanic.

OTOH even Chrome's password manager now integrates with the Mac fingerprint auth.


It's every two weeks. If your threat model involves being spied on over the shoulder for your master password while in a cafe you "just" need to ensure you enter your password in a safe location every two weeks.


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