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myjino-ru is just a virtual hosting provider.

j19544519 - seems to be the username on this hosting.


Here is a commit with malicious code from a Microsoft employee:

https://github.com/promonlogicalis/asn1/commit/7bdca06d0edf8...


That commit was rewritten from https://github.com/Logicalis/asn1/commit/d60463189a563e49f19... which was signed, but is not in the fork.


Damn, github should show some big visible warning about this.


As long as the commit is not signed (marked green), that means nothing.


This is interesting. If you go to that user's profile, and look at the "contributions", there are none in July / August. Yet the commit is from two days ago.


It is very sad that the authors of the article either believed in all these accusations against the Russians or are afraid to say that this is nonsense so that they are not accused of supporting the Russians.

I want to note that the Russian government also accuses its political opponents of being foreign agents, using the same rhetoric.


It's well known that Russian trolls/bots use fake personas on social media in order to sow discord. Are you arguing that's not done at all, or that there is no evidence it's done in the article specific instance?

Here's an article examining how it's done in relation to anti-vaxx.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6137759/


While it is true there are "Russian trolls" on the internet, (and it is true the every nation with a national intelligence operation does the same)

The problem occurs when EVERY opposition statement from "the other side" is dismissed as "your just a Russian troll as no real American would ...."

"Russian Troll" and "Russian Bot" have been become a modern day no true Scotsman fallacy used by people to dismiss anyone that dares disagree with them on public policy, or the role of government as being Russian disinformation


Don't all governments to this to any other democratic government? This practice is as old as democracy itself.


The OP was specifically arguing the Russians are innocent, which I think has been been shown they are not. If you want to expand the conversation into generally how world governments use disinformation to their advantage, go for it.


Since when is Russia a democracy? But yes, foreign propaganda has existed for a long time.


No, all democratic governments receive foreign propaganda from other governments, regardless of the others being democratic or not.


These trolls really exist on Russian social networks, trying to refute any news from the opposition media. And some people (Russian enthusiasts) count and list these bots. But your article does not prove it to me, because some Russians are afraid of vaccinations and there are crazy paranoids in Russian social networks that convince not to get vaccinated, including vaccines that are done by Russian medicine - what do you think this proves? That Russian bots are trying to weaken their own nation? For me, these are not bots, but religious fanatics, religions often reject medicine. You may have noticed that many religions have denied the existence of COVID this year.


Any number is remarkable if you're smart enough to find why it's remarkable.


Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan about interesting and uninteresting numbers, Hardy remarked that the number 1729 of the taxicab he had ridden seemed "rather a dull one", and Ramanujan immediately answered that it is interesting, being the smallest number that is the sum of two cubes in two different ways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox


And if it's not remarkable, then that is in itself remarkable.


Aren't most transcendental numbers unremarkable?


No number is unremarkable. Let's construct the set of all unremarkable numbers. Now, let's construct the sequence of those numbers in order. The first member of that sequence has the remarkable property that it is the smallest unremarkable number. That is remarkable, so remove it from the set. By induction, the set must be empty.


That doesn't work because real numbers are not enumerable, so you cannot induce over them. That joke "proof" only works for natural numbers and goes like this:

Theorem: all natural numbers are interesting

* Base case: 0 is interesting because it is the smallest natural number, as well as the identity element of + operation.

* Inductive case: Assume the theorem holds for all m, m<n. Take n. If it is not interesting, then n is the smallest non-interesting number. But that's interesting because it's the smallest such number. Therefore it cannot be non-interesting. Therefore theorem holds for n.

By induction, we conclude all natural numbers are interesting. QED.


...only works for natural numbers...

That proof also works for the rationals with a suitable ordering. Example: 0, 1, -1, 2, -2, 1/2, -1/2, 3, -3, 1/3, -1/3, 2/3, etc....


Yes works for all enumerable set (i.e. all sets that have a bijection with natural numbers).


> Now, let's construct the sequence of those numbers in order. The first member of that sequence

Not happening. Sets of numbers do not always have a first in order.

Consider the set of unremarkable real numbers > 0 under the regular arithmetic ordering. Which one is first?


If it's an outdated pesticides, as suggested in another comment, then it's very related. Because it's a leakage from an old Soviet storage tanks.


Heh, yes, 'everything is related to everything somehow' is among the trickiest problems of online forums.


Using compiler hints, data can be placed directly in the code section.

Works on x86/x86_64 Linux:

char main[] __attribute__ ((section(".text"))) = "\xe8\x0d\0\0\0Hello world!\n"

#ifdef __x86_64__

"\x31\xc0\x8d\x50\x0d\xff\xc0\x89\xc7\x5e\x0f\x05\x31\xff\x8d\x47\x3c\x0f\x05";

#else

"\x31\xdb\x8d\x53\x0d\x59\x8d\x43\x04\x43\xcd\x80\x31\xdb\x8d\x43\x01\xcd\x80";

#endif


He is also one of the developers of Bad North, where islands are procedurally generated, much similar with this demo.


About that "write-ppm" example. Using PPM type 3 will increase the size of pixel data by 2-4 times. Use type 6.


I don't have the general problems with reading, but I do have the problem you mentioned. And I'm also kind of a speed reader, I think the problem is here.


My mother made scrapbooks for my siblings and I with samples of our schoolwork over the years.

If you go back and look at early examples of my handwriting, every "S" was backwards, my b and d were often flipped the wrong way, as were my p and q.

My spelling was atrocious, but my vocabulary was way above average.

I also had the issue with transposing numbers while doing math.

It wasn't until I reached High School that I had a teacher who recognized dyslexia when he saw it.


As sibling comments say, this is a common feature of learning to write that doesn't indicate dyslexia.

One of my relations wrote completely mirrored for a time, that was interesting. It did make me wonder if their brain was flipping the entire World; they've corrected it now. It reminded me of, da Vinci, who I think write in mirror writing for himself but used regular writing when writing for others.


Up to a certain age, the S/b/d/p/q issue is considered normal. I certainly did it through early elementary school, and since I have ADHD, I've been screened for dyslexia enough times to be fairly confident I don't have it. All 4 of my kids still did this at the end of first grade, with only one to go on to be diagnosed with dyslexia.


I think flipping and mirroring letters is just using our ability to see that the shapes are the same. You have to do some unlearning in a way, or rather recognizing that rotating a shape changes its meaning.


Yeah, I think most people don't read words, but recognize their shape, first and last letters being most significant. That's why it is relatively easy to read text with words internally scrambled. Unusual names, long words that are first learned from text, misread once and remembered like that forever. This is especially easy if you don't normally pronounce words while reading.

I still have to double take on "invertebrate", because I originally read it as "intervertebrate" or something like that :).


It reminds the index of the first element in an array in different programming languages. Some use one-based indexing, others use zero. Which causes problems (bugs) when porting the program to a language with different indexing.


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