2021-03-24

Cool

• Multiple Destroyers Were Swarmed By Mysterious 'Drones' Off California

  The log reflects that the drone managed to match the destroyer's speed with the craft moving at 16 knots in order to maintain a hovering position over the ship’s helicopter landing pad. To further complicate what was already a complex maneuver, the drone was operating in low visibility conditions (less than a nautical mile) and at night. By this point, the encounter had lasted over 90 minutes—significantly longer than what commercially available drones can typically sustain.

• The Intel Community's UFO Report May Blow Minds | Trail of the Saucers

• The World's Earliest Known Wooden Statue Is More Than Twice as Old as Stonehenge, New Research Suggests

• A Simple But Effective High-Flow Oxygen Concentrator From Hardware Store Parts | Hackaday

• Amateur Astronomer Spots a Rare Visible Nova

Worthy

• WireGuard bounces off FreeBSD—for now (LWN.net)

  By all accounts, WireGuard itself is an excellent VPN solution, but it would seem that unlike the usual approach for a network protocol, where multiple implementations are made independently based on a specification, WireGuard needs to be treated differently. Donenfeld is justifiably proud of his accomplishment, but his requirements for other implementations seem far too rigid—at least for some communities. As we have seen in several different operating system projects (Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD), Donenfeld often expects that the other, much larger projects conform to his exacting standards and methods. In the end, that attitude may discomfit more than just graybeards.

  • comment:

    From the imported Netgate code (https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/sys/dev/if_wg?id=2338...), I think the "random sleep" are the 'pause("link_down", hz/4)' etc. And they were explicitly added to avoid race conditions (https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26137#611017). wg_allowedip_valid is a "validation functions that just returned true". __chacha20poly1305_decrypt looks like "random printf statements deep in crypto code". (The commented-out WARN_ON calls are sloppy but probably don't count).

    That doesn't look as terrible as Donenfeld implies, but his points seem basically true, and those are all quite obvious issues that suggest the code was merged without being reviewed to a high standard. Those specific issues could have been fixed with some iterations of reviewing and patching, but it seems hard to have much confidence that there aren't a lot of more subtle bugs that will slip past all those reviews, since it doesn't look like the code was developed with a particularly security-oriented mindset from the start.

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• Lawyers used sheepskin as anti-fraud device for hundreds of years to stop fraudsters pulling the woo

• Bees have higher brain cell density than birds – but ants don’t

• Guatemala airport closes amid volcanic eruption after planes, ...

• Liberal Pluralism Is Fake. The coolest thing about modernity is… | by Matt Bruenig | Medium

• Humpback whales are organizing in huge numbers, and no one knows why

• A Cargo Ship Drew a Giant Dick Pic in the Ocean Then Got Stuck in the Suez Canal

  • Suez Canal Ship Blockage Closer to Resolution on Efforts to Move Ship

• Arkansas governor signs computer science requirement bill

• Astroscale Celebrates Successful Launch of ELSA-d - Astroscale

• German Catholic clergy rebel against Vatican over same-sex unions

• Scientists discover why humans have such big brains | Science | The Guardian

• LA homeless mull staying as they await fate of massive encampment: report

• The Solution of the Zodiac Killer’s 340-Character Cipher—Wolfram Blog

• Murder rate jumps back to 1990s levels, data show.

• Why did Alibaba's Jack Ma disappear for three months? - BBC News

Horseshit

• (Reddit) Over twenty subreddits including Cringetopia, SoftwareGore and ThatHappened have gone private. : SubredditDrama

  • Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘censorship’

• Why Does the U.S. Have So Many Mass Shootings? Research Is Clear: Guns

• FSFE disapproves FSF electing Stallman as board member

• Danish Red Cross launches $3M blockchain-based volcano disaster relief bond

• Venus Flytraps Have Magnetic Fields Like the Human Brain

• Intel Unleashed, Gelsinger on Intel, IDM 2.0 – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

  Yesterday’s keynote delivered on almost every meaningful strategy change I have asked from Intel, from building out a foundry business to re-organizing the company (it’s not a split, but close) to explicitly addressing geopolitics to embracing modularity to channeling Andy Grove.

• Programming Language Converts Laws into 'Provably Correct' Computer Code

Media / Ministry of Truthy

• Medium Tells Journalists to Feel Free to Quit After Busting Union Drive

• Utah governor signs divisive measure to require porn filters

• Mike Lindell’s New Social Media Site Is Just Named Frank

• CHARLOTTESVILLE MAYOR’S SOCIAL MEDIA POST REMOVED BY FACEBOOK

  + [Mayor of Charlottesville tweets bizarre message about city
      ‘raping’ its
      residents](https://thepostmillennial.com/mayor-of-charlottesville-tweets-bizarre-message-about-city-raping-its-residents)
  

Identity Politics / Race Baiting / Re segregation

• Appalachian State pairs ‘Black Male’ housing initiative with ‘Black Panther’ course.

• Boulder Shooter Threatened Fake Hate Crime Charges Against Classmates He Attacked – Summit News

  • Boulder Shooter Known To FBI, Threatened Fake Hate-Crime Charges Against Classmates He Attacked | ZeroHedge

• Austin City Officials Planning to Build Segregated ‘Black Embassy.’

  Earlier this month, the Democrat-run Austin City Council passed resolutions formally apologizing for the city government’s “active involvement in segregation and systemic discrimination,” while at the same time beginning discussions on how to spend more tax dollars based on skin color and making plans to construct a “Black Embassy” downtown.

• Elissa Mailänder on Bigamy and Nazi Pronatalism - JHI Blog

  Unsurprisingly, current far-right movements remain utterly conservative when it comes to gender.

TechSuck

• Hacker dumps Guns.com database with customers, admin data

• Intel chief Pat Gelsinger: Too many chips made in Asia

• Slack Says Letting Anyone Message Anyone with Few Limits Was ‘A Mistake’

• What happens when ICE asks Google for your user information

• (PDF) Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg Testimony - House Energy & Commerce (03.25.2021)

  • Zuckerberg Proposes Plan for Regulatory Capture

• Organizing Gravediggers, Cereal Makers and, Maybe, Amazon Employees

• Google says the SoC is the new motherboard

• It Shouldn’t Cost the Farm to Fix a Tractor

• Zoom Court Videos Are Making People's Darkest Hours Go Viral

  Many of the videos in the ZoomCourt subreddit feature a judge from St. Joseph county, Michigan named Jeffrey Middleton. One poster, who goes by the username Playoffasprilla, told Motherboard that Middleton's videos are the only ones he really watches.

• Silicon Valley firms in no hurry to open up offices despite easing of virus ban

• Today's Cyberattacks Foreshadow Wars to Come

• The DOJ Must Crack Down on the Scourge of Online Scams

Economicon

• Where are all the containers? The global shortage explained

• Shrinking Income Inequality

• The World Is Facing a Coffee Deficit in Supply Chain ‘Nightmare’

• You can now use bitcoin to buy a Tesla

• TSMC: A Taiwanese chipmaker became a linchpin of the global economy

• Online Gaming Platform Rec Room Valued at 1.25B

• DigitalOcean Raises $775M in IPO

  • Wonder why they're not "valued at " billions? That's the usual 2nd phrase of the headline.

• Crypto firm Blockchain.com rides bitcoin mania to a $5.2 billion valuation

• Samsung to Launch Drone Delivery for Galaxy Products to Irish Customers

Poilitcks

• Biden Administration Urges Supreme Court To Let Cops Enter Homes And Seize Guns Without A Warrant | ZeroHedge

• Austin Bay's On PointChina's Alaska Ambush of the Biden Administration, in Context

• WH Directs Federal Agencies to Officially Use Term ‘Biden-Harris Administration.’

• McConnell says he and Biden aren't talking

• US gun control: Biden calls for a ban on assault weapons

  • Kamala Harris calls for Congress to act on gun control: 'Slaughters have to stop'

  • Harris gives fiery response: 'Stop with the false choices'

• Biden Boosts Obamacare, Extends Special Enrollment Period

• Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte Violates Rule In Killing Of Yellowstone Wolf

Security / Militaria

• Justice Dept. Links Oath Keepers and Proud Boys Ahead of Capitol Riot

• New Evidence Points To Coordination Among Extremist Groups Ahead of Capitol Riot

• Outer fencing around Capitol comes down

• Black Lives Matter Traps Shoppers in Rochester Grocery Store.

World

• Children in Danger: Where is Madeisy Batista? | Michael Yon: America's most experienced living combat correspondent on Patreon

• "I Take Full Responsibility": Merkel Cancels Draconian Easter Lockdown Amid Backlash From Furious Germans

• 'Continuing Deadlock' As Netanyahu Lacks Votes To Win Israeli Election

• Australian art festival cancels plan to soak UK flag in indigenous blood

• China threat to invade Taiwan is 'closer than most think', says US admiral

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Outbreaks continue in some Oregon senior care homes after vaccination. Why?

• High IQs are associated with mental and physical disorders

• Coronavirus: How the common cold can boot out Covid

• Authorities raise red flags about AstraZeneca’s vaccine press release

• Novel coronavirus circulated undetected months before first Covid-19 cases

• The US is about to reach a milestone: too many vaccines, not enough takers

• Gen X and Gen Y Health Declining compared to parents at same age (U.S. Study)

• ‘Too Many Questions’: Deep-Rooted Mistrust Feeds Doubt About Vaccines

• (UK) One Year to Flatten Life as we Knew it

• EU finds 29M stockpile of Astra Zeneca vaccines in Italy

• International Women's Day: Understanding endometriosis in sport - BBC Sport

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Pollution from fossil fuel combustion deadlier than previously thought

• Paraquat firm accused of data cover-up to avoid making safer product

• Phthalates Threaten Humanity’s Ability to Reproduce

• We’re Hurtling Toward Global Suicide

• E.P.A. to Review Attacks on Science Under Trump

• Matt Damon: Climate change will most impact ‘the poorest people on earth’

• Banking on Climate Chaos

• Climate change has reduced ocean mixing far more than expected

• America’s Bald Eagle Population Continues to Soar

Obit

• 'Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf' Actor George Segal Dead At 87