2021-01-09
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DELTA airlines boots two women for private conversation about Trump… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS
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Amazon Is Booting Parler Off AWS
- I can barely look at the comments around this one, "they're posting memes about 'make them afraid' with pictures of congress cowering; no democratic society can tolerate this"
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U-Haul Reveals 2020 Migration Trends As Pandemic And Taxes Take Toll | ZeroHedge
+ TN wins, if winning is having new neighbors to complain about the cows' lifestyle choices. -
Ugandan Govt Blocks Google Playstore, Apple AppStore, and YouTube
This is a watershed election for Uganda. In some small hyperbole Uganda could become the next Rwanda or the next Sudan, depending on whether or not the incumbent is unseated.
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This bonus security story also mentions squids on a Squid day as well as something good that the NSA did for the security community.
Speed runners playing for 100% completion of the Gamecube/WiiU game “Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker” (preview) have been irritated for years about a Battleship-like minigame called “Sploosh Kaboom.” The game is hard because it has been extremely difficult to predict where it will place “squids” on the board. Three squids of various sizes are hiding on the board and the player has a limited number of tries to find them all. Fortunately a large squid is four horizontal or vertical blocks long, then three, and then two blocks for the other squids. Since the game awards winners with items like a treasure map, these completionists are compelled to win multiple times. The randomness of the layout could make or break a speed run record.
Using the NSA reverse engineering tool Ghidra, they discovered that the game PRNG has a hard-coded seed to an otherwise decent algorithm. As the PRNG advances three to four times per frame, most people considered it impossible to predict the layout of Sploosh Kaboom since it appears a full 30 minutes into the game. As it turns out, the game has a limited number of board layouts which, with some careful work with statistics and the fact that these are speed runners who count frames, you can actually narrow down the selection of boards by quite a bit. So they built a “Sploosh Kaboom Probability Calculator” to throw out possible boards.
The Zelda Dungeon has another short write up and a link to an extraordinary video with some excellent visualizations of tough statistics. Linkus7 also has other videos about how they’ve analyzed the PRNG for fun and adventures.
I used to think that only state actors would take the time to do things like poison an entropy pool, but even hardcore gamers are in on the PRNG action.
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Russia’s SolarWinds Attack and Software Security
- I reserve the right to doubt "Russia", but I can agree with a lot of what he says.
a massive security failure on the part of the United States is also to blame. Our insecure Internet infrastructure has become a critical national security risk — one that we need to take seriously and spend money to reduce.
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Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech | Knight First Amendment Institute - from 2019, still quite relevant. #nntp4ever
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A Big Move to Ban Realtor 'Hate Speech' — At Work, Anywhere, 24/7
the National Association of Realtors, called the nation’s largest trade organization, has revised its professional ethics code to ban “hate speech and harassing speech” by its 1.4 million members. The sweeping prohibition applies to association members 24/7, covering all communication, private and professional, written and spoken, online and off. Punishment could top out at a maximum fine of $15,000 and expulsion from the organization. NAR’s decision, allowing any member of the public to file a complaint, has alarmed other real estate agents, and also some legal and ethics experts,
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Fatigue, breathing, mental health problems may persist for months after COVID-19 - UPI.com
- also: 6-month consequences of COVID-19 in patients discharged from hospital: a cohort study - The Lancet
More than 75% of people diagnosed with COVID-19 have at least one symptom of the disease six months after they were infected with the virus, a study published Friday by The Lancet found. Fatigue and muscle weakness were the most common persistent symptoms, affecting more than 60% of study participants, the data showed.
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oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: The Tyranny Nobody Talks About - via ZeroHedge
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Storm Filomena: Spain sees 'exceptional' snowfall - BBC News
the country was facing "the most intense storm in the last 50 years". Madrid, one of the worst affected areas, is set to see up to 20cm (eight inches) of snow in the next 24 hours. Four deaths have been reported so far as a result of Filomena.
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Deluge of Would-Be Bitcoin Traders Prompts eToro to Put Out the Unwelcome Mat - CoinDesk
- Minimum deposit raised from $200 to $1000
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FBI searching homes, offices of Tennessee lawmakers
FBI agents raided the homes and offices of Republican Tennessee lawmakers on Friday. Agents searched the homes and offices of former House Speaker Glen Casada and Rep. Robin Smith.
The Tennessean reported agents were spotted outside the offices of former House Speaker Glen Casada, Rep. Robin Smith and Rep. Kent Calfee. -
Elon Musk tweeted 'use Signal,' causing 1100% surge in unrelated stock - #madmarket
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Semiconductor Shortage
- lots of stories on this one, feels pushed
- HN comment:
I'm not in the car industry, but I am in the electronics industry and I have definitely felt the chip shortage. Some of my parts just aren't available, and lead times are 3-4 months. Seems to be the result of production stopping at the beginning of the pandemic and they still haven't caught up.
- HN comment:
It's true for a lot of commodities too. The prices for Steel have increased to over 45% of the price levels seen in January 2020. Capacity isn't coming up fast even enough to meet the demand, and manufacturers won't invest in new capacity because they know the demand is transient.
- Car manufacturing hit by global semiconductor shortage
- Global chip shortage threatens automakers
worldwide
- https://www.usa-vision.com/car-manufacturing-hit-by-global-semiconductor-shortage/
- Semiconductor shortage forces automobile production cuts
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Indonesia Plane Crash
Twitter Drama
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Twitter Zaps Iranian Supreme Leader Tweets Calling US-UK Vaccines "Untrustworthy" | ZeroHedge
"Importing vaccines made in the US or the UK is prohibited. They’re completely untrustworthy. It’s not unlikely they would want to contaminate other nations," he said. "Given our experience with France’s HIV-tainted blood supplies, French vaccines aren’t trustworthy either."Reportedly it was specifically the "contaminate other nations" part of Khamenei's vaccine tweet that triggered the deletion, given the Persian-language message was left standing and it does not contain the phrase.
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Twitter suspends Sci-Hub account amid Indian court case - #unperson
Insurection
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@ ~10pm CST Lin Wood on Parler
BE PREPARED FOR AN IMMINENT BLACKOUT. President Trump will be using be using emergency broadcast system. We have a man of courage & faith at the helm. He will be at the helm for 4 more years per the RULE OF LAW. Pray for President, our country & ALL. Steady.
- https://parler.com/post/a825de062e114f4da99747b710978e83
Ok all you negative Nancy’s? I’ve got some questions for you! Why hasn’t Trump conceded or congratulated Biden? Why hasn’t Harris given up her seat? Why is Pelosi completely freaking out right now? Why is nobody on the left acting like they’ve won? Do you really believe EO13848 and the others were just for show? What was in the DNI report? Why are so many people resigning right after it was released? Are they really resignations? When was the last time Trump lost or lied directly to Patriots? Today is 30 days of silence from Q. Why are all of the drops starting to come together perfectly? Why would a President who had just “lost” an election bring back executions by hanging, firing squad and gas chamber knowing that the people “coming in” hate him? Whose side is Pence really on? Think about it hard...which side really? Why are they trying like Hell to impeach a President who leaves in 12 days? This election was a sting operation! We all know it’s true!!!
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Pro-Trump riot on Capitol Hill was even worse than it looked on live TV - CNN
it's becoming clear that as heinous as the attack looked in real time, on live TV and in our social feeds, it was even worse than we knew then. It was even more violent. It was even more treacherous. And Trump's behavior was even more disturbing.
"it is entirely possible that there were people in that crowd, looking to apprehend, possibly harm, and possibly murder the leaders of the political class that the President, and people like Mo Brooks, and even to a certain extent Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, have told them have betrayed them."
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Pelosi: Capitol rioters chose their 'whiteness' over democracy | Fox News
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MSNBC Dismisses GOP Denunciation of Violence, Whole Party Is Now ‘Violent,’ ‘Fascist’ | Newsbusters
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The Police’s Tepid Response to the Capitol Breach Wasn’t an Aberration
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US Capitol riots: DoJ warns national secrets may have been stolen | Daily Mail Online
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The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance - Unexpected, everything seems to justify expanded surveillance.
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The Boot Is Coming Down Hard And Fast | ZeroHedge - Caitlin Johnstone; on Biden, the PATRIOT Act, and more
A Venn diagram of people who support the latest social media purges and people who secretly hope Trumpers freak out and attempt a violent uprising would look like the Japanese flag.
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Lisa Desjardins told NPR yesterday that she realized the danger she was in when she noticed police had abandoned their posts inside the Capitol building. She was barricaded in a room with several congressional representatives who held hands and prayed, worried that they were about to be killed.
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Extremists intensify calls for violence ahead of Inauguration Day
"We are seeing ... chatter from these white supremacists, from these far-right extremists -- they feel emboldened in this moment," said Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, which tracks and counters hate. "We fully expect that this violence could actually get worse before it gets better."
Unpersonation
tags: #dogpile #deplatform #unperson #trump #censor
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In Pulling Trump’s Megaphone, Twitter Shows Where Power Now Lies
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The war between Silicon Valley and Washington takes a new turn - POLITICO
Silicon Valley is punching back.
“An overdue step,” tweeted Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee. “But it’s important to remember, this is much bigger than one person. It’s about an entire ecosystem that allows misinformation and hate to spread and fester unchecked.”
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We need more than deplatforming - The Mozilla Blog
> We need solutions that don’t start after untold damage has > been done.
The decisions by Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and others to suspend and/or block President Trump’s communications via their platforms is a simple exercise of their rights, under the First Amendment and Section 230, to curate their sites. We support those rights. Nevertheless, we are always concerned when platforms take on the role of censors, which is why we continue to call on them to apply a human rights framework to those decisions. We also note that those same platforms have chosen, for years, to privilege some speakers—particularly governmental officials—over others, not just in the U.S., but in other countries as well.
also: The deplatforming of a president: An unprecedented week for the tech industry
also: /R/DonaldTrump Banned from Reddit
also: Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
also: Trump tweets from POTUS handle account taken down almost immediately
also: Trumps email campaign service has suspended him
There hasn't been any Trump emails for more than 48 hours. Almost unheard of -- he sent 33 in the first six days of Jan; 2,500+ last year. (h/t @TrumpEmail)
At least one of the services the team used, @CampaignMonitor , has suspended Trump's access, the company confirmed.
He's chasing all the email blasters for 'do you have any trump accounts"
> Interesting that their excuse is basically: "They weren't using us
> that much, so we don't see the problem."
ooo author comments:
> As the tweets say, I've only confirmed that one provider of many
> has pulled the plug. I'm looking into the others.
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25697628