2025-08-14 05:15:17
'We're at DEFCON 1': India, bruised by US tariffs, cozies up to Russia, China (Megan Messerly/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/04/were-at-defcon-1-india-bruised-by-u-s-tariffs-cozies-up-to-russia-china-00542765
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p68#a250904p68
What @… said here, and so well said.
Note that deciding it’s the wrong time to rub somebody’s nose in how incredibly wrong they were doesn’t make them any less wrong. Listening is not the same thing as accepting. Sometimes it’s a moment to say “you dumbass,” and sometimes it’s a moment to say “And how did that work out for you?” The wise know the difference.
People who were taken in by the likes of these scammers •can• walk out of it in moments of cognitive dissonance — and if you’re in a position to do what Luna describes with someone you know, you might just change a life.
https://defcon.social/@corbden/115329960629783431
Big congrats to our Austrian CTF team KuK Hofhackerei (https://bsky.app/profile/hofhackerei.at) having scored 9th place at DEFCON on their first try. This was truly a nice cross-university collaboration, and I am proud of all the students having contributed at that level.
I knew these systems but I didn't know how they worked. Until now:
https://social.afront.org/@MLE_online/115426247045556610
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