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  • Those agencies are under the executive branch, and its been made very clear in the past that they prefer sneaking in backdoors to valid best practices.

    The NSA sabotaging the Elliptic Curve method of random number generation used in the RSA algorithm comes to mind. They would otherwise be THE experts to trust, but lets look at the others:

    FBI - Waco, Ruby Ridge, planned to assassinate Martin Luther King and so many others. CIA - promotes fascism internationally, causing all sorts of chaos in Latin America and the Middle East. Ever wonder how Komeni’s faction overthrew the Shah? The CIA decided he had gone soft.

    Germany is so trusting of the US on cyber-security measures that their government has been trying to ditch Windows for over a decade.

    TL;DR: In the US, government experts do NOT have your personal security best interests at heart. They can and will use any dirty trick possible to spy on and control both our own citizens and those of other countries. Last authories that anyone should trust.

    https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-the-nsa-may-have-put-a-backdoor-in-rsas-cryptography-a-technical-primer


  • The life-expectancy of these countries is irrelavent to skilled immigrants or skilled temporary workers. They won’t be drinking the tap-water or partaking in really ANY of the activities that expose enough of that nation’s poor to risk so as to bring down those averaged numbers.

    Apologies that I did not zoom in enough to ascertain the true meaning of the graph, but still, women live longer than men in El Salvador, and life expectency has increased over the time period covered.

    The gender ratio is close to even, it turns out. So that leaves violent crime and pollution, things abstracted/averaged life-expectancy numbers don’t speak to, and one of which El Salvador has … “addressed”, granted in an incredibly inhumane and distasteful manner.


  • Left side is missing some context, and the whole thing could do with a title. Not every skilled professional is looking to get laid, and plenty of skilled professionals are women or gay men themselves.

    Is there some concern with countries prohibitting travel to El Salvador? or was your statement entirely in regards to gender ratios among Spanish-speaking countries ?

    EDIT: that’s enough upvotes. I merely failed to zoom in far enough, although I still disagree regarding the graph’s applicability to this Post.


  • 32-bit apps use a sub-set of the same instructions that still exist on current 64-bit systems. Running 64-bit alone does nothing to eliminate any flaws, real or imagined, from the 32-bit side of things.

    As @jarfil@jarfil@beehaw.org has stated, 32 bit repos are being de-listed because no one can be bothered to maintain them(on a professional, full-time basis), and that lack of code/functional review could allow flaws to slip through. Meanwhile, a lot of those same 32-bit repos continue to exist(as community-maintained versions - my preferrence anyways) and can be accessed by interested users from most distros. They aren’t blocked, just de-listed and unsupported by those distro maintainers.