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Charlie Stross [email protected]

Snapchat instant messaging is insecure, apparently monitored in real time by state security services (possibly in several countries):

https://alecmuffett.com/article/109036

0daystolive 0daystolive
Maybe worth documenting a bunch of these dodgy ads some day and reporting to some government advertising bodies to see if any fines could be imposed, Google clearly don't do proper verification of whose ads they run especially the investment scam ads they proliferate

0daystolive 0daystolive
Looked at Youtube and Google News on my phone which I don't normally do and the amount of ads is crazy. I got a few outright scam ones (Musk wants to give you money) and reported them. A lot less ads all of a sudden (no ads at all in the News app anymore), funny how that works.

aGate to: peace and rest [email protected]

She's a 10 but she's a CVE

Molly White [email protected]

in hindsight, snark via strikethrough may have been a tactical error on my part

Quote from a newsletter post by Molly White: "But even the bitcoin ETFs are approved and it fails to have significant price impact, I think we will still all be able to celebrate bitcoin achieving an important milestone towards its original goals. Finally, people will be able to turn their money into an [begin strikethrough] anonymous peer-to peer [end strikethrough] asset [begin strikethrough] outside of government control, to which they own their own keys and thus control completely,[end strikethrough] with [begin strikethrough] out having to involve powerful financial institutions like [end strikethrough] BlackRock." Screenshot of text from a separate article: "We’ll close our coverage with the line of the day from tech blogger/Wikipedia super-editor Molly White: 'Finally, people will be able to turn their money into an anonymous peer-to peer asset outside of government control, to which they own their own keys and thus control completely, without having to involve powerful financial institutions like BlackRock.'" None of the text is struck out.

shibco [email protected]

lcamtuf verified verified verified [email protected]

Using sock puppet accounts to defend corporations embroiled in scandals is my passion.

elle [email protected]

[christmas day]

schrödinger: *handing a box to his daughter* open it honey

daughter: *already crying* daddy please no

Santa Claus [email protected]

Wait, NORAD tracks my sleigh? In real-time?! This is outrageous! I never gave permission for this!

Goodness gracious, all I want to do is break into your houses and leave gifts relative to how good I think you’ve been, which I’ve been tracking meticulously in my book along with your constant whereabouts and sleeping patterns.

Matthew Garrett [email protected]

the cpu is very tired. it is eepy. the cpu has had a very long day of leaking data and wants to take just a small sleep. it eeby and neebies to sleebie. cpu sleepy and need bed by time. the cpu is currently experiencing critical levels of being a sleehjy little guy and needs to go to beb.

This is what we refer to as "Race to idle", the idea that CPUs are more power efficient if they exhaust their workload in the shortest timeframe possible and then enter a low power state. In this essay I will

Ben Smith [email protected]

Whilst I like the idea of the ‘2 pizza team’ as originated by Amazon, at some point we are going to need more than just me on this.

David Buchanan [email protected]
the torment nexus is now carbon neutral

0daystolive 0daystolive
@augieray I'm not going to dive into the long covid research but I will say that a lot of things have long term effects, the solution isn't that everyone locks themselves away in a protective bubble. That has a very high opportunity cost.

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@augieray That Walgreens positive rate tracking doesn't show what you think it does and is more misleading than looking at confirmed case data.
Currently it shows a 26% positive rate on ~12,000 tests but the trend on the graph makes it seem like cases are way up - they're not. The high 2022 datapoint is from 450,000 tests with a 36% positive rate - a significantly worse situation. The 2023 peak datapoint of 44% positivity is only from 3000 tests. With a lot less testing happening the results are significantly skewed by selection bias.

We also can't make any comment on outcomes from the positivity results data but I'd wager more recent positive results are less likely to result in hospitalization or death (due to vaccines or natural immunity).

Another reason that COVID is less fatal now is that hospitals have more resources available (less hospitalizations) than they did during peak pandemic and thus can actually treat patients. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8025594/

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@augieray I'm sorry but when someone *DIES* the cause of death is recorded. This is not a newfangled COVID thing. Death statistics are probably one of the more accurate things to look at although there is a lag sometimes before they get compiled. Even if hospitals opted to not attribute deaths to covid you'd be able to see it in excess mortality rates if it was significant.

Thanks for the wastewater link, thats an interesting data source. Not sure why you think asking for a source is "sniping" you're the one who made a claim and I was interested in the basis and wastewater data isn't really in the top results of searches...

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@augieray Do you have a source for COVID19 transmission being higher? Any graph I can find shows hospitalizations are way down, confirmed cases are way down, deaths are way down. What do you think we all did the whole vaccination thing for? Do you not think that maybe you need to update your worldview from the one you had during peak pandemic? It is absolutely not the same level of risk now and it seems to me you haven't adjusted.

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@chrismarkevich that same book is part of the Christian Bible. People make defences like "oh don't take it literally", "old testament doesn't matter" but this is a good example of modern day usage of it to justify genocide (albeit from Jews rather than Christians) .

Battle Programmer Yuu [email protected]

I love looking up any major brand's Wikipedia page

Sara Lee owned...
Hanes
who...
Successfully lobbied the US State Department (along with
Levi's) to prevent the minimum wage of Haiti from going up in 2011

Hanes only had 3200 employees there btw

It started when Haiti passed a law two years ago raising its minimum wage to 61 cents an hour. According to an embassy cable: This infuriated American corporations like Hanes and Levi Strauss that pay Haitians slave wages to sew their clothes. They said they would only fork over a seven-cent-an-hour increase, and they got the State Department involved. The U.S. ambassador put pressure on Haiti’s president, who duly carved out a $3 a day minimum wage for textile companies (the U.S. minimum wage, which itself is very low, works out to $58 a day). Haiti has about 25,000 garment workers. If you paid each of them $2 a day more, it would cost their employers $50,000 per working day, or about $12.5 million a year ... As of last year Hanes had 3,200 Haitians making t-shirts for it. Paying each of them two bucks a day more would cost it about $1.6 million a year. Hanesbrands Incorporated made $211 million on $4.3 billion in sales last year. Thanks to U.S. intervention, the minimum was raised only to 31 cents. These papers have come to light thanks to Haiti Liberte, a small Haitian newspaper with offices in Port-au-Prince and New York City.

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Darn tootin'

aeva [email protected]

ars technica: we don't know how they did it but google chrome now extracts a pint of blood every time you log on

chrome user, dizzy from blood loss: I swear to god I am like this close to switching to firefox

another chrome user, on the verge of fainting from severe blood loss: no need to resort to that, just switch to [insert today's trendy chrome fork here] and be smart like meeee

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