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Non-sequitur.


So does South Africa. However, capable administrators are severely lacking.


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If I was looking to cite evidence that South Africa has a racist past I'm not sure stadium chants would be my _first_ example...


One of the main figures lionized in that song (which is an anti-colonialist chant to be clear) is a white guy, Joe Slovo. These people are unserious.


It's "anti-colonialist" in the sense that it encourages the mass murder of the descendants of the original colonialists.

I don't know the US well enough to give you an exact equivalent, but "shoot the WASP" might be more or less the same thing. It wouldn't be any better if the same song sang the praises of a white member of the Weather Underground.


Save me the pearl clutching. The song was penned by people living directly under the thumb of those poor innocent descendants and waging an active battle for their freedom. You'd even deny them their rage against those directly culpable for their oppression.


Poor innocent descendants -> I did not call them poor, or innocent.

Deny rage -> of course not. I'd be furious too.

But singing songs like "bring my machine gun" and "shoot people from that ethnic group" just aren't justified, especially since South Africa has been a democracy for decades now.


Who are you to say what is justified?


Moral relativism at its finest. Turn away now, because this is a dead end my friend. "ethnic cleansing is justified if the violence goes the way I prefer" is the red flag of all red flags.


I guess, except that ethnic cleansing bit is something you just made up. What is actually happening is that you've been memed into caring about the winners of a justified war singing their old war songs.


wow you're really trying hard to be dehumanize someone based on their race.


Joe Slovo isn't Boer; of course he has no problem with Kill the Boer as he allied himself with the ANC againts the Boer. Being white doesn't excuse you from tribalism/racism.


Tribalism is not when you colonize a country and terrorize the former residents from centuries. Tribalism is when your multi-racial coalition pens a song expressing their rage at said terror. I understand now, priors updated.


Are you familiar with South Africa?

There's at least a dozen different tribes, of which only two are white. There's been inter-tribal violence between all of them since time immemorial leading up to today.


Are you?

Because I don't know a single South African who would describe historical intertribal violence and Dutch colonialism and apartheid as basically the same thing.


Your argument was "there's no tribalism except what the whites brought to South Africa", remember?

And elsewhere you say that because of this, violence against white South Africans are justified.

This is not only insane, but simply historically incorrect. I'm going to stop replying to you now (apparently there's a "HN Blocklist" Chrome addon!) but feel free to keep justifying calls for political and ethnic violence.

It should make interesting reading for others in the decades to come.


> replies to my comment

> gets a bunch of basic facts wrong

> stomps off, hits block button

The apartheid fans are not bringing their best I'm afraid.


> The apartheid fans are not bringing their best I'm afraid.

Oh believe me, they are.


I feel like there is some other racism South Africa might be infamous for...


Actual race-based apartheid ended 9 years after the first Windows release.

The Boer in question were the people enforcing apartheid for generations. They're also still the majority land-owners in South Africa due to the apartheid system. As of 2017 it was around 73% of Agricultural land owned by the beneficiaries of Apartheid.

I'm sorry but you can't just cry foul when your racism record setting attempt falls apart in the age of the internet and the victims hold a grudge.


Has anyone managed to build cregit [1] recently?

[1] https://github.com/cregit/cregit


The guy in the video went full Art Jimmerson [1].

[1] https://www.espn.com/mma/ufc/story/_/id/38827608/art-jimmers...


>is that even it's design purpose?

It is not. The closest thing you'll get to it that has the features you mention, is Qubes OS [0].

When it comes to the L4 family, Google's adoption of seL4 [1] might be interesting to you, and possibly L4Re [2] [3], which is open source (not their tooling, though) with commercial support.

Edit: there's a bunch more open source activity in this field, but I'm not familiar with it.

[0] https://www.qubes-os.org/

[1] https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/10/announcing-kataos-...

[2] https://l4re.org/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8jxINR-q40


Google Research, https://github.com/AmbiML/sparrow-manifest

> Sparrow is a project to build a low-power secure embeded platform for Ambient ML applications. The target platform leverages RISC-V and OpenTitan. The Sparrow software includes a home-grown operating system named CantripOS, that runs on top of seL4 and (ignoring the seL4 kernel) is written almost entirely in Rust.

> Archived on Jan 4 2024


Apparently they moved out of Github, https://github.com/AmbiML/we-moved


Thank you.


A pretty cool video on seL4 where they give the red team root access on a Linux VM running inside of seL4, which controls a helicopter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s5FDX5PkZI



>QubesOS

Look into Makatea[0], a seL4-based QubesOS-like system.

0. https://trustworthy.systems/projects/makatea/


vaporware


Why is there a question mark in the title on HN? It is not a question, and the source does not contain a question mark.


Wish there was a phone where the camera on LineageOS is as good as the stock. On my Samsung Galaxy S7 using the camera on non-stock in painful (takes seconds to focus, when it focuses at all).


Hi,

Would you mind telling me what immunotherapy you get, specifically for cats? I'm currently on Grazax for grasses etc. I would love to be able to get a cat, but I am quite allergic and get flu-like symptoms after a while. (Also, my blood tests don't show that I'm allergic to cats, so that complicates things).


In the US, most clinics don’t make a point of showing the patient what the product is. They screen the patient (usually a skin test), prescribe either a single antigen formulation, a combination of antigens in different vials, or they mix up a custom vial for the patient, and they keep it in a fridge in the clinic. The antigens come from whatever provider the clinic buys them from.


Having seen the AI up scaled versions of DS9, I would be surprised if that ends up being something I want to watch. I definitely don't see the point of changing the aspect ratio.


The point would be to get more screen estate and hence a more immersive experience. It's why The Shield was later released in widescreen despite originally being cropped for 4:3. Similarly there's a non-matted full-frame video from Jurassic Park and it's a whole different experience because you see so much more. AI would allow generative fill to create the environment and truly experience the vast space or see the environment even in close-ups. The counter argument would be that frame and composition matter.


Something of note though is that things are shot for the aspect ratio they're shooting for. I'm guessing The Shield was intentionally shot with both Widescreen and 4:3 in mind if that happened, because it's pretty common to look through your viewfinder as a cinematographer, see that there's a boom in the shot, but it's outside of the matte and proceed with filming.

If we were to trust AI to do this, we'd need to build models specifically for this, with a way to give context to the rest of the set for the scene in question. From a technical perspective, I find the concept interesting, but from a practical sense, the amount of energy and time required to do this is almost a non-starter, and in doing this, we'd be going beyond the director's intent for the work at hand, which makes a transformative interpretation a degree or two removed from the intent of the director and production team.


He already has ;)


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