There are two points getting conflated, and rightfully so. Tucker does spout off a ton of white supremacy and homophobic garbage to gain the popularity with the far-right and he used his platform to echo Kremlin propaganda. Both of those points likely paid very well.

When it comes to misinformation campaigns, yes. Putin appears to call most of the shots. When Putin does any kind of speech, he essentially gives talking points for Russian media to amplify and repeat ad-nauseam for weeks afterward. This is also picked up by right/far-right social media sites and reporters in the US.

While Tucker was likely a useful ally at first, it seems the relationship between Tucker and the Kremlin was fully weaponized leading up to when Trump took office. This has resulted in far-right politicians getting elected and almost by default, their direction is set by Putin and Russian misinformation.

While Putin may not directly “call the shots”, his agenda likey sets the tone for all of his stooges.

TIL. It makes sense that they can be more efficient now that you pointed that out.

I can just pray my bills away? Neat!

More questions here than answers, unfortunately.

It’s my understanding that there is a cap at $5000/MwH ($5/kwH). That is still hella expensive, but would only be for a day or two at maximum?

For the headlines of +$16000 power bills, that is probably a one-off for heavy power consumers, like businesses that have massive freezers and such, correct?

Have you seen the volume of this shit? It’s the quantity of the same rehashed narrative that is pissing me off.

“Why the fuck are we getting astroturfed with this same style of article over and over on Lemmy?”

Was that the question?

That is an interesting comment coming from someone who is a heavy poster in a political community.

Apps are huge and compilers optimize the fuck out of the code. Code optimization doesn’t always make sense so you need to have a detailed understanding of which compilers were used. There could be hundreds of libraries involved or even layers of obfuscation in some cases. Loops can be unwrapped, or other bits of code optimized for specific architectures. Some of the logic won’t appear logical.

Disassemblers can do a decent job converting code back to C/C++, but even then, you have to go through the code line by line converting function names and variable names back to something that can be referenced later as a meaningful name.

You aren’t wrong: All the code is there. It’s just a matter of putting all the human readable references back into anything you disassembled.

Waaaay back in the day, we could tear apps apart easily if they were small. There were only a few flavors of assembly and compilers were still fairly basic for what they were. Regardless, it wasn’t a small task.

I played around with cracking for a while just to learn about it and honestly, it was kinda easy before everything was offloaded to “the cloud”. It’s just a matter of tracing execution and finding a few critical comparisons or jumps to alter. Even then, it could take me a day or two just to walk through what was basically one or two functions.

Experts say that is not possible.

I feel better knowing that Chinese military partners get to feel the joy as well. (Curbs can be a bitch sometimes…)

Why not? Those CPUs got perfect scores on Red Star OS.

I have years of experience in geolocation. My best guess, given the color of the soil and the unique foliage would be Detroit. (It’s a little known corner of Asia, btw.)

There is a large collection of poorly written articles/blogs on LinkedIn, actually. They are just bad enough to be good enough for Google.

Strangely enough, LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft. If Microsoft actually let Google use it as a data source, it was to sabotage Google’s AI training.

They already did?