2021-04-01

Cool

• OpenBSD Adds Support for Coordinated Mars Time (MTC)

  WARNING: It is currently not possible to use ssh to login between systems on MCT and any earth time zone (however usefull that might be). Fixes to the SSH protocols and programs are being handled by dtucker@.

• signed char lotte | Something Something Programming

• ANE TODAY - 202101 - The Enigmatic Tablets from Late Bronze Age Deir ‘Alla - American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)

Worthy

• NFTs Are The Hope For A New Tomorrow!

  Well, I guess the joke is on us today. If you for some reason wanted to bid on our NFT you may have noticed there is no way to actually do that. We lined up this gem of an article well in advance, but I only tried to put the token on sale last night and was blocked because the wallet had not been “Initialized”. Doing so means running a “free” transaction where all you pay is the gas cost — which is about $145 USD right now, sheesh! While I did mine some ETH a few years ago (who didn’t try that when they bought a new GPU?), it was only valued at about $45. My frantic attempt to buy more ETH worked, but there’s a 10-day hold time before you can transfer the tokens to a different wallet. Our attempt to deliver a joke on the futuristic Blockchain thwarted by an old-fashioned banking hold.

• Ambidexterity and Cognitive Closure

• Elon’s "Place" in US-China Relations

• “Pump” Carpenter and the grain binder

• Wi-Fi devices set to become object sensors by 2024 under planned 802.11bf standard • The Register

  "When 802.11bf will be finalized and introduced as an IEEE standard in September 2024, Wi-Fi will cease to be a communication-only standard and will legitimately become a full-fledged sensing paradigm," explains Francesco Restuccia,

  • IEEE 802.11bf: Toward Ubiquitous Wi-Fi Sensing

etc

• Police: Suspect in Southern California shooting that killed 4 knew victims and targeted them.

• Crowdfunding Legal Fees Is Not a Crime

• Latest EmDrive tests at Dresden University shows it does not develop any thrust

• 3,200-Year-Old Mural of Knife-Wielding Spider God Found in Peru

• US hunger crisis persists, especially for kids, older adults

• Supreme Court gives Georgia win in water war with Florida

Horseshit

• Show HN: Simplenetes – I replaced Kubernetes with 17k lines of shell script

• Building a Functional One-Party Democracy

• 54% of San Francisco homes are in buildings that would be illegal to build today

• Aircraft-Carriers Take to the Air

• Paul Simon sells music catalog to Sony

• Having children is not life-affirming: it’s immoral (2017) | Hacker News

Media / Many Ministries of Truths

• Facebook, Instagram scrub Donald Trump’s interview with daughter-in-law Lara

• U.S. Supreme Court lets FCC loosen media ownership rules

  + [Justices uphold FCC’s easing of local media ownership
      limits](https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-uphold-fcc-ease-local-media-ownership-limits-6e1e98bf28ae5aba8bbca37a50841bb1)
  

• Google pledges nearly $30M to fight online misinformation, fake news

• Instagram demanding bribes and shares of successful users business

• How Russia Is Stepping Up Its Campaign to Control the Internet

Identity Politics / Re segregation

• Asian hate doesn't stop in the tech industry

• EXPLAINER: How Floyd's 'spark of life' played out at trial

• University of Nevada denies that white students can't live in 'identity-based' dorms | Daily Mail Online

• America Has a Ruling Class

  Take Andrew Cuomo. On a recent call with reporters, the embattled Mr. Cuomo insisted that he was “not part of the political club.” The assertion was confounding because Mr. Cuomo is in his third term as governor of New York — a position his father also held for three terms. Mr. Cuomo has also served as state attorney general and as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

• Media Plays With Fire, Profiles Chauvin Jurors - Victory Girls Blog

  And isn’t just the New York Times. Both CNN and the Washington Post decided that speculative profiles about the jurors would be a splendid, not at all dangerous idea. It’s as if the media is playing with fire, and they are just waiting for a spark to start an inferno that they can’t control.

• French left tears itself apart over ‘non-white’ meetings

TechSuck

• Google and Amazon shun remote working and tell staff to get back in the office

• LG has decided to pull out of the smartphone business

• Tech workers left SF for Austin. They don't regret it

• Nvidia finally switches on GeForce GPU Passthrough

  For instance, Nvidia's GeForce GPU Passthrough technology only allows for one virtual machine to access the host machine's GPU. If you need to run multiple virtual machines using a single GPU, the company's GeForce graphics cards won't suffice. Instead you'll need to upgrade to either a Tesla or Quadro graphics card.

  • Buy this hardware, then we'll rent you the bits that let it do things.

• TSMC cancels chip price cuts and promises $100B investment surge

• Ubiquiti accused of covering up ‘catastrophic’ breach– and it’s not denying it

Economicon

• Coinbase to Pay $6.5M for False, Misleading, or Inaccurate Reporting and Trading

• Coinbase Announces Listing Date of Its Stock on the Nasdaq

• Goldman Sachs is close to offering Bitcoin to its wealth management clients

• U.S. Home Prices Rise at Fastest Pace in 15 Years

• New Guaranteed Income for Families with Children Is 'Stunning'

Poilitcks

• FBI very good at woke politics, not so good at catching killers

• EPA Dismisses Dozens of Scientific Advisors Picked Under Trump.

• Biden Actively Considering Cancelling Student Loan Debt of Up to $50k

• The era of big government is back with a vengeance

• Biden broadband plan will be hated by big ISPs, welcomed by Internet users

• FDR Took Down Giants. Biden Can, Too

• Meet The Russiagate Prober Who Couldn't Verify Anything In Steele Dossier, Yet Said Nothing For Years | ZeroHedge

• Microsoft: Why We are concerned about Georgia’s new election law

• "C'mon Man!": Biden Again Misrepresents Georgia Election Law While Supporting State Boycott | ZeroHedge

• Grassley, Johnson Seek Intel Records On Hunter Biden's Chinese Business Associates | ZeroHedge

Security / Militaria

• The Scholar's Stage: Welcome to the Decade of Concern

World

• U.S. defense officials reassure Ukraine of support amid tension with Russia

• China Tightens Its Grip on Hong Kong

• Myanmar orders wireless internet shutdown until further notice: telecoms sources

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Covid: Will your pet need a coronavirus vaccine?

• Ontario to enter four-week, province-wide Covid-19 shutdown on Saturday

• We Are Much Too Timid in the Way We Fight Covid-19

• Baltimore plant ruins 15M Johnson and Johnson coronavirus vaccines

• Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for Medicare: study

• Pfizer 91% effective in updated data, protective against South African variant

• Undetected Coronavirus Variant Was in at Least 15 Countries Before Its Discovery

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Mammoths could fight climate change

• Rapid global heating is hurting farm productivity

• We sampled tap water across the US – and found arsenic, lead and toxic chemicals

• Move over, corn and soybeans: The next biofuel source could be giant sea kelp