Western media does not cover Chinese companies in the same manner and depth as they do Western companies. Regarding the Pentagon’s chief’s statement I would not take it seriously. It’s highly unlikely that he knows enought about machine learning to correctly comment on the situation. Plus American national security agencies like to portray themselves as enfeebled sometimes because it helps justify their massive fundings.
At our work, all our logs are stored in a postgres database. We don’t utilise fts, so if I want to find a log line that matches some text, I have to use LIKE or ILIKE. The problem is that searching like this does not utilise indexes unless you search for something like ‘sometext%’ which is rarely helpful. So unless I can specify a small timespam within which to search, the query takes very long.
Where does the file go if it is named with a.txt?
This technique is usually used with checksums because they have a predefined length and alphabetic characters can be safely casted to lower case. How do you want to differentiate between upper case and lower case here asauming that you are using a file system that is sensitive to it?
Regarding Instagram’s methods for limiting access to non-logged-in users, I have been able to work around them to some extent.
If you click on a post while viewing a profile and Instagram asks you to log in, you can instead right click on the post and open it in a new tab.
If you scroll down while viewing a profile and Instagram asks you to log in, you can use uBlock Origin’s zap tool to remove the pop-up message and dark translucent background. The should load normally when you scroll after that.
On Android, it’s a bit complicated but you if you are experienced you can use termux and yt-dlp.
You can use yt-dlp from a desktop too.
For youtube on android you can use newpipe. It allows streaming as well as downloading.