[–] 11 points 5 days ago

That's a little disingenuous. The Wikipedia article says that a man named Guler Dilaver was on an Interpol watchlist for killing a diplomat. And Uzbekistan, China, and Kyrgyzstan claim Guler is an alias of Huseyincan's.

So it's a little misleading to say it's an "internationally recognized fact."

A watchlist is not the same as "settled fact."

The Interpol Red List is an "arrest request" of persons with suspected links to terrorism. It doesn't mean the person is guilty. Additionally, countries may decide not to arrest and extradite because of differing local standards.

For example, Trump's DOJ might decide that posting pro-socialism content on the Fediverse is "terrorism," and issue a Red Notice. Individual countries could decide that's ridiculous, and decline to arrest (assuming there aren't other treaties in place).

Guler and Huseyincan might be different people

From the Wikipedia article, it's not certain that Guler definitively is an alias of Huseyincan's. There aren't any records mentioned of Huseyincan admitting it, and the three countries asserting the link have not provided proof to back up their assertions.

What is generally accepted is that China wanted Huseyincan for unrelated charges of "murder and terrorism" (arrested in 1994, the diplomat's murder was in 2002). He escaped and was eventually granted refugee status and Canadian citizenship (2001). This gives China a "realpolitik" motivation to extradite Huseyincan however they can. Is that what happened? Maybe, but we don't have the data to say for certain.

Summary

Did he do it? Maybe. Is it an "internationally recognized fact" that he did it? No.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    The audio is often a tell. Listen to a few that you know are AI and pay close attention to the "human" voices. They often make sounds that can't come from human anatomy. They also often sound "over produced" or "over compressed" (like poor quality audio).

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  • [–] 66 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    For a company "on-prem" might not mean the same as "local". You might run them in your company data center or in a colocated server (rented space in a data center). In either of those cases, the data center might be physically close to you, but it could be on a different continent.

    "On-prem" implies that the company has physical access/control of the server.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    That's a question that probably requires more digging than I want to do.

    On the DNS side, it depends on CNAME record types. Sources in the Wikipedia article suggest that was defined in 1987 and updated in 1997.

    On the server side, it depends on how easily the server software can be configured to use multiple domains for the same site (or how easy it is to set up a redirect). This sounds like a deep home to research, and I'm not going to bother. But cPanel and Webmin are both about 30 years old now.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    The lived experience is definitely very different. But if the wealthiest group was only worth hundreds of millions, we might be able to avoid having any homeless.

    I posted because people tend to have trouble internalizing just how big the wealth gap actually is. The brain can't really conceptualize how big a "million", "billion", or "trillion" actually is. It leads to a lot of misconceptions (another example, national budgets). I hope little nuggets like this will stick in people's brains to help them engage better with large numbers.

    Edit: here's more data on the wealth gap

    According to one source I found, there are 996 US billionaire+ that control $9.5 trillion. The bottom half controls $4.3 trillion.

    If we pretend that 171,469,137 people are able to organize to the same degree as 996 people, and that those 171,469,137 people don't need to cover necessities with their wealth, the billionaire+ still have an outsized financial impact on politics and power structures.

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