Oil and Gas Accounting Software Market: Trends, Growth, and Future Outlook
The oil and gas industry, characterized by its complex financial operations, is increasingly adopting specialized accounting software solutions to enhance efficiency, ensure regulatory compliance, and manage the intricacies of upstream, midstream, and downstream activities. This article delves into the current state and future projections of the oil and gas accounting software market.
Market Overview
As of 2024, the global oil and gas accounting software market was valued at approximately USD 2.5 billion. Projections indicate significant growth, with estimates suggesting the market could reach USD 5.1 billion by 2033, reflecting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.3% during the forecast period.
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Key Drivers of Market Growth
Several factors are propelling the demand for specialized accounting solutions in the oil and gas sector:
Regulatory Compliance: The industry faces stringent financial reporting requirements, necessitating robust accounting systems to ensure adherence to local and international standards.
Operational Efficiency: Integrated accounting solutions streamline processes, reduce manual errors, and enhance decision-making capabilities.
Cloud Adoption: The shift towards cloud-based platforms offers scalability, remote access, and reduced IT infrastructure costs, making them increasingly popular among oil and gas companies.
Technological Advancements: The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) into accounting software enables predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and automated reporting.
Market Segmentation
The oil and gas accounting software market can be segmented based on various criteria:
Deployment Mode:
Cloud-Based: Offers flexibility and scalability, leading to its growing adoption.
On-Premises: Preferred by organizations with stringent data security requirements.
Organization Size:
Large Enterprises: Require comprehensive solutions to manage vast operations.
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs): Seek cost-effective and scalable solutions to streamline accounting processes.
Application Area:
Upstream: Involves exploration and production activities.
Midstream: Covers transportation and storage.
Downstream: Pertains to refining and distribution.
Regional Insights
North America: Dominates the market due to the presence of major oil and gas companies and advanced technological infrastructure.
Asia-Pacific: Experiences rapid growth, driven by increasing energy demands and expanding exploration activities.
Europe: Focuses on sustainability and environmental compliance, influencing the adoption of specialized accounting solutions.
Leading Market Players
Several companies are at the forefront of providing accounting solutions tailored for the oil and gas industry:
SAP SE: Offers comprehensive enterprise software solutions, including specialized accounting modules for the energy sector.
Oracle Corporation: Provides cloud-based financial management solutions with features catering to the complexities of the oil and gas industry.
Microsoft Corporation: Through its Dynamics 365 suite, offers integrated financial management tools suitable for energy companies.
Infor: Delivers industry-specific solutions, including financial management tools tailored for the oil and gas sector.
AVEVA Group: Provides software solutions that integrate financial management with operational data for the energy industry.
Future Outlook
The oil and gas accounting software market is poised for continued growth, driven by:
Digital Transformation: Ongoing investments in digital technologies will further enhance the capabilities of accounting software.
Integration with Emerging Technologies: The incorporation of AI, blockchain, and IoT will revolutionize financial operations within the industry.
Focus on Sustainability: As environmental concerns become more prominent, accounting solutions will evolve to address sustainability metrics and reporting.
Conclusion
The oil and gas accounting software market is undergoing significant transformation, with technological advancements and regulatory requirements shaping its trajectory. Companies that leverage these specialized solutions will be better positioned to navigate the complexities of the industry, ensuring compliance, efficiency, and strategic growth.
everyone perceives China to be some socialist giant
No they don't.
You're not the only one with functioning eyes.
I don't even remember seeing a person actually arguing China is in any way communist. Just like people don't argue that NK is a democracy despite them calling themselves one.
Holy shit you can't be that childish.
Okay, let's go with "socialist" then because you're so childish that you're pretending like the form of socialism China is known to claim to be isn't communism.
If you have to pretend to be that stupid, then perhaps you're not in a good position, argument-wise.
China is a unitary communist state led by the CCP that self-designates as a socialist state.
All I've said is that in my personal experience visiting China this socialist state feels more capitalist than many other countries due to the insane amount of consumerism and mass consumption.
This is due to reform and opening up in 1978 and a burgeoning middle class with significant purchasing power.
I'm not belittling China with these facts, I'm merely observing what has happened.
And who, besides the CCP, is arguing that China isn't just as capitalist as other large market economy countries despite calling itself socialist?
Moving topics/contexts from one community to another
At Piefed office hours, rimu@piefed.social and I got to talking about what's next for Piefed and the Threadiverse WG.
One of those things is moving stuff between communities (or in bbs parlance: moving topics between categories/forums).
Rimu suggested we use the already-existing as:Move activity, sent by the community (a group actor), with origin and target set, and with object being the post id itself.
I suggested we update this to use the resolvable context collection as object instead, which Piefed has supported since v1.2.
That should be enough to get a proof-of-concept implementation going between Piefed and NodeBB... a question remained as to whether this should be Announce(Move(Object)) or simply Move(Object).
Argument for former was that it was similar verbiage to other 1b12 actions.
Argument for the latter was that this is merely 1b12 adjacent and needn't follow prior art.
We'll likely put together an FEP for this.
Amazon blamed AI for layoffs, then hired cheap H1-B workers, senators allege
Amazon blamed AI for layoffs, then hired cheap H1-B workers, senators allege
Tech firms pressed to explain if H-1B workers are paid less than US workers.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
Kremlin bans fuel exports until the end of the year as Russia’s supply is disrupted by Ukrainian drones
Russia is banning exports of fuel until the end of the year as gas pumps across the country and in the areas under its occupation are increasingly running dry because of Ukrainian drone attacks.
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'We can end HIV': Groundbreaking preventative drug to be rolled out for $40 a year from 2027
Global health agencies announced Wednesday that generic versions of a groundbreaking injectable drug to prevent HIV will be made available from 2027 at around $40 a year in more than 100 low and middle-income countries, a move hailed as a potential gamechanger in the fight against the AIDS epidemic.
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'We can end HIV': Groundbreaking preventative drug to be rolled out for $40 a year from 2027
Global health agencies announced Wednesday that generic versions of a groundbreaking injectable drug to prevent HIV will be made available from 2027 at around $40 a year in more than 100 low and middle-income countries, a move hailed as a potential g…FRANCE 24
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Clients of a Trump-connected lobbying firm keep landing no-bid ICE contracts
Clients of a Trump-connected lobbying firm keep landing no-bid ICE contracts
Ballard Partners is helping companies cash-in on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.Mother Jones
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Google to merge Android and ChromeOS in 2026, because AI
Video: You'll see the results next year, but it's not the end of Googly lappies
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China launches trade investigation into Mexico’s planned tariff hike
China’s has initiated a trade investigation into the higher tariffs Mexico plans to impose on some Chinese products.
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South Korea passes landmark Bill to legalise tattoo artists
In South Korea, tattooing is a procedure that only medical professionals can legally perform.
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South Korea passes landmark Bill to legalise tattoo artists
In South Korea, tattooing is a procedure that only medical professionals can legally perform. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
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Trump says US will impose new tariffs on heavy trucks, drugs and kitchen cabinets
President announces 100% tariffs on imported branded drugs, 25% on heavy-duty trucks and 50% on cabinets
Microsoft and Asus open Xbox Ally preorders — the X costs $999
The Xbox Ally X is $999.
Microsoft and Asus open Xbox Ally preorders — the X costs $999
The Asus-built Xbox Ally X and Xbox Ally are ready to buy, with Microsoft and Asus opening preorders today for an October 16th sale date.Sean Hollister (The Verge)
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Chipzilla seeks investment from its top fab frenemy
Intel reportedly wants TSMC's help to end its reliance on ...TSMC
: Chipzilla seeks investment from its top fab frenemyTobias Mann (The Register)
US | Ex-FBI Director James Comey indicted on charges of lying to Congress and obstruction
James Comey has been charged with making a false statement to Congress and obstruction of a criminal proceeding.
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Intel asks TSMC for help ending its reliance on...TSMC
Intel reportedly wants TSMC's help to end its reliance on ...TSMC
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Former FBI Director James Comey indicted following pressure from Trump
Justice Department charges James Comey with lying to Congress
President Donald Trump suggested in a recent social media post that Attorney General Pam Bondi should prosecute Comey and other prominent critics like Sen. Adam Schiff.Peter Alexander (NBC News)
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Yeah that's silly.
It will force everyone to use the same comically long strand of dental floss, though
The principle applied in the U.S.S.R. is that of socialism: From each according to his ability, to each according to his work." - Josef Stalin
But also
"I am the best at industrial policy, Tariff the Ukrainians to Make the Russian Empire Great Again" - Josef Stalin, probably
Also Stalin wanted to pretend he was as good friends with Lenin as Trotsky was, OP's painting is a massive manifestation of Stalin's historical revisionism. Quite ironic to make this text+image with such an obvious example of historical revisionism.
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The USSR was never imperialist, that's really a poor analysis based on the economy of the USSR. It didn't run an extractionary economy based on export of capital, nor was it under the control of financial capital.
Secondly, Stalin was better friends with Lenin than Trotsky. This isn't historical revisionism, Trotsky retained his Menshevik roots throughout his life in his style of theory and practice, while Stalin was a Bolshevik from the beginning and worked with Lenin directly for a longer time. The idea that Lenin disliked Stalin mostly comes from a letter demanding Stalin's resignation over the treatment of Nadezhda Krupskaya, Lenin's wife, for which Stalin tried to resign but was rejected.
Third, the USSR wasn't a monarchy. Even if Lenin personally liked Trotksy more, Stalin was voted in. Are you suggesting that the Soviet Union should have been a monarchy? Moreover, Trotsky's plan of assaulting the peasantry and hoping Europe would have a revolution and save the USSR from the backlash would have been suicide. Trotsky's Permanent Revolution depended on the peasantry being incapable of long-term alliance, but we know from history that that was obviously false and socialism was solidifed in the USSR.
Stalin was no saint, not everything he did was good, but at the same time not everything he did was bad, either. The CPC maintains that he was "70% good, 30% bad," upholding him as legitimate but recognizing missteps. Most communist orgs hold a similar line. Overall, he was comparatively much better than contemporaries like Churchill, despite being remembered as far worse by liberal historians.
::: spoiler Demystifying Stalin
I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
- J. V. Stalin
- Nia Frome's "Tankies"
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- W. E. B Dubois' On Stalin
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- Domenico Losurdo's Primitive Thinking and Stalin as Scapegoat
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- Domenico Losurdo's Stalin and Stalinism in History
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- Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend
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- Ludo Martens' Another View of Stalin
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- Anna Louise Strong's This Soviet World
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::: spoiler Stalin's Major Theoretical Contributions to Marxism
I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.
- Che Guevara
- Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR
- Dialectical and Historical Materialism
- History of the CPSU (B)
- The Foundations of Leninism
- Marxism and the National Question
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Read Marxism and the National Question(Joseph Stalin, 1913) on ProleWiki
The period of counter-revolution in Russia brought not only "thunder and lightning" in its train, but also disillusionment in the movement and lack of faith in common...ProleWiki
Replace Stalin with Hitler and it's the same vibe, stop trying to defend the thing that killed millions of people : Communism
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No, this is absurd. During the first 3 decades of the USSR's existence, ie the core years with Stalin as head of state, life expectancy over doubled from the mid-30s to the low-70s, housing was free or up to ~4% of incomes, education and healthcare were free and high quality, there was sweeping democratization, and society went from what was known as a "feudal backwater" with living standards common to the 1500s to a developed country that even competed with the US Empire in the space race. Socialism was dramatically better than Tsarism and modern capitalism, and the vast majority that lived in it want it back.
The Nazis, on the other hand, instituted industrialized mass-murder, solidified capitalist rule, killed off communists, labor organizers, disabled people, queer people, and more, as well as the mass slaughtering of Jewish peoples, slavic peoples, and more. What you are doing is Holocaust trivialization. I recommend reading Blackshirts and Reds. You also may want to read some of the articles, essays, and books listed under "demystifying Stalin," all are free to read and easy to do so on mobile.
Communist Nostalgia As The Reality Of Bourgeois Democracy Hits Home In Eastern Europe
Communist Nostalgia As The Reality Of Bourgeois Democracy Hits Home In Eastern Europe Stalins approval rating hit a record high amongst Russians recently showing a 70 percent approval rating of Josef …Richie Brown (Medium)
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Ten days that Shook the World (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) - Anna’s Archive
John Reed, John Reed John Reed conveys, with the immediacy of cinema, the impression of a whole nation in ferment and dis Penguin Classicsannas-archive.org
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Pretty decent overview, especially for the actual moments of the October Revolution, but I don't see how that's relevant to the USSR's history and economic model following the revolution, the split of Trotsky from his temporary adherance to Marxism-Leninism back into petite-bourgeois menshevism, or Stalin's merits/demerits. The sources I provided as a whole go far more in-depth, and go far beyond 1917.
Not really sure what you're trying to say here, other than "actually existing socialism bad."
As a side-note, the Prolewiki version of Ten Days that Shook the World is also a nice option for those who prefer that format while reading on mobile!
Read Ten days that shook the world(John Reed, January 1, 1919) on ProleWiki
Introduction With the greatest interest and with never slackening attention I read John Reed’s book, Ten Days that Shook the World. Unreservedly do I recommend it...ProleWiki
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good friends with Lenin as Trotsky was
Tell me you've never read Lenin without telling me
Trotsky arrived, and this scoundrel at once ganged up with the Right wing [...]What a swine this Trotsky is: Left phrases, and a bloc with the Right.
This is an instance of high-flown phraseology with which Trotsky always justifies opportunism... The phrase-bandying Trotsky has completely lost his bearings on a simple issue.
Trotsky has never yet held a firm opinion on any important question of Marxism. He always contrives to worm his way into the cracks of any given difference of opinion, and desert one side for the other.
Trotsky behaves like a despicable careerist and factionalist of the Ryazanov-and-co type. Either equality on the editorial board, subordination to the central committee and no one’s transfer to Paris except Trotsky’s (the scoundrel, he wants to ‘fix up’ the whole rascally crew of ‘Pravda’ at our expense!) – or a break with this swindler and an exposure of him in the CO. He pays lip-service to the Party and behaves worse than any other of the factionalists.
This is just a random sample, if you want more I can go on, for as long as you like.
Canadian man shot, killed on U.S. golf trip while walking to hotel
Canadian man shot, killed on U.S. golf trip while walking to hotel
Local police found the victim, Giovanni Michael 'Mike' Robinson, 32, suffering from a gunshot wound on Wednesday in Sheboygan Falls, Wis.Katie Scott (Global News)
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Intel asks TSMC for help ending its reliance on...TSMC
Intel reportedly wants TSMC's help to end its reliance on ...TSMC
: Chipzilla seeks investment from its top fab frenemyTobias Mann (The Register)
Microsoft Blocks Israel From Using Tech To Survey Palestine | Flipboard
Microsoft Blocks Israel From Using Tech To Survey Palestine
The Guardian is reporting that Microsoft has cut off the Israeli military’s access to the technology that it has been using to conduct surveillance …Kotaku - Kenneth Shepard
Teachers and Unions Fight Back as UC Campuses Prepare to Fuel Trump’s Witch Hunt
Teachers and Unions Fight Back as UC Campuses Prepare to Fuel Trump’s Witch Hunt
A coalition of University of California faculty, students, staff, and labor unions is suing the Trump administration.Gridwork
Meta launches 'Vibes,' a short-form video feed of AI slop | TechCrunch
Meta launches 'Vibes,' a short-form video feed of AI slop | TechCrunch
Think TikTok or Instagram Reels, but every single video you come across is essentially just AI slop.Aisha Malik (TechCrunch)
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Former FBI Director James Comey indicted on criminal charges
Former FBI Director James Comey indicted on criminal charges
"No one is above the law," Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a post on X as news of the indictment of James Comey broke.Kevin Breuninger (CNBC)
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[Announcement] Major Endgame Changes in Patch 0.3.1 for Path of Exile 2
As you know, the improvements to the endgame are a big focus of our next 0.4.0 content update for Path of Exile 2. However, we realised that it might be better to introduce some of the mechanical changes to the endgame sooner than that. Next week, we are planning to release Patch 0.3.1 with major changes and improvements to the endgame. Watch the video below!
Video: Path of Exile 2: Major Endgame Changes
The video covers the broad strokes of the changes coming to the Endgame in 0.3.1, but there are other changes and details that will be important. Below we are covering some of the additional changes included in this patch.
Alchemy Orbs
With the introduction of tiered currency in 0.3.0, Alchemy Orbs became less valuable and had fewer uses. To give them more function and to smooth out the process of crafting your Maps, Alchemy Orbs can now be used on magic items. This will upgrade the magic item into a rare with 4 new random modifiers.
Towers and Tablets
As your tablets are now directly applied to your Maps, this means that you can now apply the content you desire to every single Map you run (assuming you have the tablet supply). However, the ceiling for the amount of content you can apply to a single Map has been lowered. Overall this results in a more streamlined and consistent experience, but in order to not have the ceiling come down too far, we've buffed the modifiers on Tablets. Generally the modifiers are approximately two to three times as powerful. Here's a few examples:
- Collector's now has a value of 10% to 30% increased Rarity of Items found in your Maps (from 7% to 10%)
- Teeming now has a value of 25% to 70% increased Magic Monsters (from 15% to 25%)
- of Strongboxes now has a value of 50% to 100% increased chance for your Maps to contain Strongboxes (from 30% to 50%)
We have also added a few new modifiers:
- of the Devoted - Area contains an additional Shrine
- of the Antiquarian - Area contains an additional Strongbox
- Crystallised - Area contains an additional Essence
- Exiled - Area is inhabited by 1 additional Rogue Exile
- Azmeri's - Area contains 1 additional Azmeri Spirit
- Summoner's - Area contains an additional Summoning Circle
- of the Summoning - Area has 25 to 50% increased chance to contain a Summoning Circle
And here's some other pieces of information to know about Tablets:
- Unique tablets have their own individual number of uses
- When using Tablets in the reforging bench, the resultant item will have the sum of the input tablets as its remaining number of uses. However this value cannot exceed the original maximum value
- When in an inventory like your personal one or a stash, the number of uses remaining on each Tablet can be seen on the bottom right of its icon
- Existing Tablets that have been applied to your Atlas will remain and you will not lose any value due to these changes
Map Size
Some Maps took considerably longer than others to navigate or complete, so we've reduced the size of the following Maps:
- Augury
- Bastille
- Blooming Field
- Channel
- Epitaph
- Fortress
- Grimhaven
- Hidden Grotto
- Oasis
- Penitentiary
- Rupture
- Savannah
- Slick
- Vaal City
- Wetlands
Atlas Trees
As a result of changes such as every Map now containing a Boss, we've had to make some modifications to the Atlas Tree. For example, the Crystal Realm notable on the Map Boss Tree, which previously added an additional Essence to areas containing a Map Boss, now only applies to areas with Powerful Map Bosses. Note this results in effectively no change; it is the same amount of Essences before and after.
In general the Map Boss Tree applies to all Map Bosses, with only a select few notables now specifically applying to Maps with Powerful Map Bosses. For example, the Fit for a King notable applies to all Map Bosses.
Additionally you'll notice a number of other nodes changing throughout the core Atlas Tree to account for mechanical changes around Towers. We've tried to make sure these are kept approximately the same before and afterwards, so your Atlas Trees will remain the same.
Citadels
Citadels have had their spawn rate increased by 66%.
Other Improvements
Modifiers that cause the area to be covered in Chilled/Shocking/Ignited Ground now cause much less ground to be covered. At least 66% of the ground effects currently covering the ground will be removed, this value is higher on lower tier Waystones.
We have fixed a few problems where Map Boss difficulty was not applying to many multi-form Bosses, so a few of the Maps with Deadly Map Bosses will now be more difficult as a result. It was always pretty odd that the second and third phases of some of these Bosses had ten-times less life than the first phase, this was an unintentional mistake.
Alongside the changes mentioned above, the patch contains various improvements and fixes to a plethora of issues. All the details will be covered in the full patch notes, which we'll post as soon as we can. Stay tuned!
Early Access Announcements - Major Endgame Changes in Patch 0.3.1 for Path of Exile 2 - Forum - Path of Exile
Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.Path of Exile
Neon takes down app after exposing users' phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts
Call recording app Neon was one of the top-ranked iPhone apps, but was pulled offline after a security bug allowed any logged-in user to access the call recordings and transcripts of any other user.
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Hegseth abruptly summons top military commanders to a meeting in Virginia next week
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned the military’s top officers — hundreds of generals and admirals — to a base in northern Virginia for a sudden meeting next week, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The directive did not offer a reason for the gathering Tuesday of senior commanders of the one-star rank or higher and their top advisers at the Marine Corps base in Quantico. The people, who described the move as unusual, were not authorized to publicly discuss the sensitive plans and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The Pentagon’s top spokesman, Sean Parnell, confirmed that Hegseth “will be addressing his senior military leaders early next week.”
Across the military, there are 800 generals and admirals of all ranks. Many command thousands of service members and are stationed across the world in more than a dozen countries and time zones.
The meeting, first reported by The Washington Post, comes on the heels of several unusual and unexplained actions that Hegseth has taken involving military leaders.
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Some questions about ssh and Overthewire:wargames
Hi there,
In my search to learn a bit more about Linux, i came across this website called "OverTheWire", which teaches basic and some advanced concepts over SSH. It seems like a fun and engaging way to learn.
However, as a bit of a paranoid beginner when it comes to Linux and networking, i find myself worrying about the potential dangers of connecting to an untrusted network.
So, my questions are:
- Does anyone have any experience with the website?
- In the hypothetical case that I open an SSH connection to a compromised network, could that expose me to attacks?
(Aside from obvious risks like downloading malicious files myself.) - Should I use a virtual machine (VM) for this?
I sincerely appreciate any responses. Thank you!
firejail if you are on linux). Just for ssh, a very lightweight vm would cut it.
This is How Trump’s Monstrous Ballroom Will Dwarf White House
This is How Trump’s Monstrous Ballroom Will Dwarf White House
New renderings show that the White House’s new ballroom will tower over the executive mansion itself.Josh Fiallo (The Daily Beast)
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Bosch to cut 13,000 jobs in Germany to save billions in costs
Bosch to cut 13,000 jobs in Germany to save billions in costs
The engineering giant says increased competition and costs mean it must scale back.Faarea Masud (BBC News)
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Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the West Bank, the Guardian can reveal.
Microsoft told Israeli officials late last week that Unit 8200, the military’s elite spy agency, had violated the company’s terms of service by storing the vast trove of surveillance data in its Azure cloud platform, sources familiar with the situation said.
The decision to cut off Unit 8200’s ability to use some of its technology results directly from an investigation published by the Guardian last month. It revealed how Azure was being used to store and process the trove of Palestinian communications in a mass surveillance programme.
In a joint investigation with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call, the Guardian revealed how Microsoft and Unit 8200 had worked together on a plan to move large volumes of sensitive intelligence material into Azure.
The project began after a meeting in 2021 between Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, and the unit’s then commander, Yossi Sariel.
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy projectHarry Davies (The Guardian)
How do you get used to small form factors?
I've spent years with a lovely huge IBM Model M.
Then I've moved to a TKL (no numpad) keyboard: no pain at all, except (sometimes) when in need for Windows Alt-numpad sequences for special characters.
Then I've moved to a 68 keys split keyboard! And I love it, since I (almost perfectly) customised it for my needs.
And I'm now thinking to go to a 42-keys split keyboard... (see Piantor Pro)
But it also took less than a month to see my (tiny, still) wrist pain disappear because of better hands positioning.
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NATO encroaching
*Free Nations previously invaded and/or dominated by Russia desperate to join the Don't be Invaded by Russia Alliance
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You asserted "decades of peace" when Libya was fucking bombed. Libya presented zero threat to Europe or Europeans.
That's not peace.
Also, is Libya better off today than it was under Qaddafi?
Trump approves TikTok deal through executive order, Vance says business valued at $14 billion
Trump approves TikTok deal through executive order, Vance says business valued at $14 billion
President Donald Trump on Thursday approved a proposed deal that would keep TikTok alive in the U.S.Jonathan Vanian (CNBC)
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in reply to Kben • • •Fuck Bibi and fuck zionism, but I find speaking about "genetic or genealogical" claim to a land a bit... iffy.
That's the same logic that ethno-nationalists apply.
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in reply to Prunebutt • • •No it's not.
You don't have to wonder in Palestine who the land belongs to. The owners are still alive.
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in reply to Prunebutt • • •Prunebutt
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •That's a cultural, not a genetic argument.
The problem is the settler colonialist part, not the genetic part. Let's say that some swedish woman moved to palestine to marry her palestinian fiance and they start a family there, integrating with the palestinian community. Would her grandchildren need to leave Palestine, because she's not "pure"?
If the ashkenazi migrants would have learned arabic and peacefully coexisted with the palestinians without starting an ethno-nationalist project, they wouldn't be settler-colonialists.
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in reply to Prunebutt • • •Yes but then there wouldn't be millions of them.
This is like wondering why there are so many white people in South Africa during Apartheid
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in reply to Prunebutt • • •The crux of the Israeli argument is that they have a high genetic connection to the land which gives them a 'right to return'.
If they use a Fascist talking point for colonization it needs to be addressed and debunked. Period.
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •You're not debunking it by accepting the premise. You're validating it, in fact.
Don't play the fascist's games.They'll drag you down to their level.
answersplease77
in reply to Prunebutt • • •Yes that's a good if and you're right that the FACT that Israelis did not come from Palestine ( palestineremembered.com/Acre/M… ) is not the main horrible evil issue of Israel and Palestine today; it is as you said the ethnic cleansing of palestinains and Israel becoming a genocidal ethnostate and a Jewish-supremacy aparthied.
If you click on the link above, you will read in 1947 there was 2% jewish population who were granted 7% of Palestine, then after Nakba of 1948, the zionists massacred and displaced 80% of Palestinains out and took over 70% of their country too.
So the "if" we are dealing with in reality is that if they claimed their ancestors are semitic and have the right to return to their land all while their country heavily bans DNA testings, and bans actual Palestinains whom all their ancestors were born there from coming back until this day, then give a jewish guy from Poland or anywhere in the world the right to come to Palestine and claim dual citizenship and land from a Palestinian family who lived there for hundrends of years before their ethnostate was even created.
So to counter this zionist narrative, we are willing to test it and expose it, too. No where here did we make it facist saying "you did not come from here, get out." That is not our argument. Our argument exposes another zionist bs justification for their genocidal ethnic cleansing which was made up through unverifible untestable bs religious beliefs "God promised us all this land 3000 years ago which had no people, and it is for people without land ." when history and DNA testings alone expose it to be the BS Zionist narrative that it is made up to hide its actual colonist land grabing project truth
Jewish Owned Land as of 1947 - Palestine Remembered
www.palestineremembered.comPrunebutt
in reply to answersplease77 • • •I disagree. I think that's a core assumend premise of the video. Otherwise, the statement that Bibi's from Poland doesn't make any coherent sense as an argument.
I disagree with the complete "blood and soil" premise that zionism is based on. But I critisize bs logic, no matter which camp it stated.
answersplease77
in reply to Prunebutt • • •I understand you, and even the two-state solution itself does not ask for Israelis to go back where they came from no. The hope is for them to live in peace side by side, and stop the genocidal jewish-supremacy.
Bro, it does make coherent sense; read my previous comment. It is to expose the Zionist bs narrative that it's their ancestors land 3000 yrs ago promised by god. And here where I disagree with you that you refuse to scoop low to their bs logic to prove it wrong. I'm willing to do that.
I really wish you have a good day. I really think we agree on more than what we disgree.
causepix
in reply to answersplease77 • • •Small correction, not relevant to the other commenter.
The two-state solution still implies an apartheid structure and in fact is exactly what has led to what we are witnessing today. A single state, where all people enjoy equal rights; where Palestinians are represented in the state, allowed to return to their homeland, and receive reparations; should be what we are looking towards as the most stable end to this violence. There will not be extended peace as long as there is land reserved to remain as a zionist ethnostate.