2021-04-09

3 months, 7,100 items, what a load of crap!

Cool

• Total Solar Eclipse on April 8, 2024 (Great North American Eclipse )

  • Map of Total Solar Eclipse on April 8, 2024

• St. Vincent Volcano In Eastern Caribbean Experiences "Explosive Eruption" | ZeroHedge

• GitHub - DualCoder/vgpu_unlock: Unlock vGPU functionality for consumer grade GPUs.

  In order to make these checks pass the hooks in vgpu_unlock_hooks.c will look for a ioremap call that maps the physical address range that contain the magic and key values, recalculate the addresses of those values into the virtual address space of the kernel module, monitor memcpy operations reading at those addresses, and if such an operation occurs, keep a copy of the value until both are known, locate the lookup tables in the .rodata section of nv-kernel.o, find the signature and data bocks, validate the signature, decrypt the blocks, edit the PCI device ID in the decrypted data, reencrypt the blocks, regenerate the signature and insert the magic, blocks and signature into the table of vGPU capable magic values. And that's what they do.

  • looks at nvidia card y'all put this ick in my kernel!?! You're wasting my CPU cycles in a futile attempt to prevent me from using hardware I bought from you in ways you do not wish it to be used, because you want more rent money?

I'm very grateful for a workaround; especially in the face of such challenge and mis-spent effort on the part of the vendor.

Worthy

• » The Ratings Game, Part 1: A Likely and an Unlikely Suspect The Digital Antiquarian

  One might say that December 9, 1993, was the day that the games industry began to wake up to a sense of itself as a distinct mass-media entity in its own right.

• Home Alone: a Post-Incident Review

  Altogether, the house contained 15 people: the parents who owned the house and their 5 children (including the one who was later forgotten), the other brother with his wife and 5 children (one of which was youngest of the bunch), and finally one of the daughters of the Parisian uncle. Things were hectic around the crowded house: sleeping arrangements had been reviewed and modified, and everyone scrambled to finish packing their suitcases before the end of the night.

  During the night, strong winds blow over Chicago. At 4:37AM (10:37 UTC), the wind breaks a tree branch, which falls on an electric line and cuts all power to the house. This ends up resetting the hosts' alarm clock, a Panasonic RC-6067, which supports battery backup power. Unfortunately, this backup power source failed, and the family misses their wake up call.

• Collections: Clothing, How Did They Make it? Part IVb: Cloth Money – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

etc

• Setting up Starlink, SpaceX's Satellite Internet | Jeff Geerling

• They Are Not Alone: UFO Reports Surged in the Pandemic

• Eu_sst: 20% probability for large satellite collision at 2021-04-09T17:18:21 UTC

• Permits won't be needed to carry handguns in Tennessee

• Takoma Park, Maryland shooting: Two people shot and killed by off-duty Pentagon police officer are identified by authorities - CNN

• New four-volume Philip K. Dick collection by the Folio Society

• Why are these caterpillars climbing on each other? The science behind the swarm

Horseshit

• Plane in 'serious incident’ after every Miss on board assigned child’s weight

• Home inspector allegedly caught on camera pleasuring himself with doll during inspection | WKRC

• The Voice in Your Head

• Man’s body was found after lying in Norway flat for nine years, say police

• Vegan Cheese Is Ready to Compete with Dairy. Is the World Ready to Eat It?

• Bad software is turning some Mustang Mach-Es into ‘electric bricks’

• Watch: High School Coach Fired After Refusing To Enforce "Senseless, Irrational, Bullshit" Outdoor Masks During Sports

• A family that travels the world full time on a yacht for $2,500 a month

celebrity gossip

• Daily Mail Exposes Hunter Biden Bombshells After 'Tell-All' Book Holds Back | ZeroHedge

• Surely We Can Do Better Than Elon Musk

• Kim Kardashian’s Billion-Dollar Brand Defies the Pandemic

• Let's Make More MST3K & Build THE GIZMOPLEX! by Joel Hodgson — Kickstarter

Obit

• Prince Philip has died

  • Prince Philip, Husband of Queen Elizabeth, Dead at 99

  • Wince Philip: Prince's most famous comments and clangers

• Anne Beatts, comedy pioneer and original 'SNL' writer, dead at 74

• DMX Has Died at 50

  • Rapper DMX is not dead, his manager confirms after rumors of death goes viral

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Researchers detail systemic issues and risk to society in language models

• A Guide to Neopronouns

• CDC declares racism ’a serious public health threat’

• Why I’m Glad I Busted My Nose Playing High School Football | The Stream

• Collecting reports of anti-Asian hate crimes

• Airbnb listings in China are littered with racist discrimination

• Proctorio Is Using Racist Algorithms to Detect Faces

• Facebook’s ad algorithms are still excluding women from seeing jobs

• Facebook Shows Men and Women Different Job Ads, Study Finds

• Harvard and its peers should be embarrassed about how few students they educate

Media / Many Ministries of Truths

• Fact-Checking is Dead, Killed by Snopes over Biden's Broken Promise of $2,000 Checks | naked capitalism

• $200,000 streaming rigs and millions of views: inside the cottage industry popping up around SpaceX - CNN

  • When "journalists" don't do journalism, others will step up and fill that demand.

• YouTube Censors Florida Governor DeSantis and His Science Advisors

• YouTube’s policies block ad targeting on Black Lives Matter videos

• Spotify Continues to Remove Joe Rogan Episodes – 42 Shows Now Deleted

• Team Pfizer, Moderna, or Johnson? Vaccine Rivalries Are Taking over TikTok

• YouTube’s Assault on Covid Accountability

TechSuck

• Signal adopts MobileCoin, a crypto project linked to its own creator Moxie Marlinspike – Amy Castor

  “Signal isn’t integrating just any random shitcoin, it is integrating Moxie Marlinspike’s random shitcoin. Gee, what a coinkidink. I wonder how much he’s unloaded on suckers already as a result of this pump & dump?,” said Nicholas Weaver, a researcher at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley.

• Tech Giants Won’t Name Foreign Companies They Give US ‘Bidstream’ Data To

• Toyota Prepared for the Chip Shortage Years Ago. Why Didn't Anyone Else?

• Flash is dead: On the challenges of moving past Flash

• LG dryer traffic – 1GB+ daily up/down

• PSA for US Congresspeople: here’s how to set your Venmo feed to private

• Facebook axes 16,000 accounts for trading fake reviews after UK intervenes

• Apple Admits Purposely Keeping iMessage Off Android Helps Lock Users In

• Peter Thiel firm takes majority stake in a brain computer interface startup

• Comcast nightmare: Six months without Internet despite $5k payment

• Amazon Has Enough Votes to Bust Bessemer Union

  + [Amazon workers vote against Unionizing in
  Alabama](https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-is-ahead-in-union-vote-as-tallying-set-to-resume-11617960604)
  

  • Comment: "71% no with 150% of the workforce vote counted"

Economicon

• SEC Warns SPAC Backers They Can't Bypass Securities Laws

• SEC Charges 1inMM Capital, LLC with Operating a $690M Ponzi Scheme

• The California exodus is a myth. But that doesn't stop the haters

  • Silicon Valley Is Flooding into a Reluctant Austin

• Rolls-Royce has best quarter in 116 years, as the wealthy snap up luxury cars

Poilitcks

• Generational changes pressure CEOs to take up political activism

• Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Isn’t About Infrastructure. It’s About Paying Off Political Allies. – Reason.com

• Biden To Boost Already Bloated Pentagon Budget With Proposed $715 Billion | ZeroHedge

• Georgia Secretary of State Defends State's New Voting Law

Security / Militaria

• Watchdog reveals warning about map of Capitol's tunnels that was posted before riot

• Three months after the Capitol attack: Forgetting won't save you

• Man Indicted For Attacking Officer With Skateboard During U.S. Capitol Riot

• OSINTtechnical on Twitter: "Why Russia wants to invade Ukraine, a thread. tl;dr it's because of water. (It's always water isn't it?). This is the North Crimean Canal, dammed up since the Russian invasion of Crimea. Crimea is rapidly running out of water, and Russia needs this canal flowing again.

World

• These People Were Arrested by the Khmer Rouge and Never Seen Again

  Cambodian authorities photographed many of their 2 million victims. These portraits, recently colourised, humanise that tragedy.

• Norwegian premier fined for breaking Covid-19 rules

• China’s Real Invasion of Taiwan Has Already Started Through the United Front

• 53% of Canadians on the Brink of Insolvency

• Rioters ignore pleas for calm as violence flares in Belfast

• A war in South America 39 years ago is still teaching China lessons about how to seize Taiwan

• US Intelligence Warns of Fractured Societies, Likelihood for Conflict

• Beijing now has more billionaires than any city

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out | Hacker News

  • This can be discussed now, apparently.

• EU reviews Johnson and Johnson Covid shot, blood clot link

  • EU begins investigating reports that J&J vaccine causes blood clots

• New York’s Excelsior Pass for COVID-19, on IBM Blockchain: doing the wrong thing, badly – Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

• The Pandemic’s Terrible Toll on Kids

• America may be close to hitting a vaccine wall

• The Vaccine Passport Debate Began in 1897 over a Plague Vaccine

• Did the coronavirus leak from a lab? scientists say we shouldn’t rule it out

• Has the Era of Overzealous Cleaning Finally Come to an End?

• Brazil has more than 4k Covid deaths in 24 hours for first time

• Chronic sinus inflammation appears to alter brain activity

• Women more prone to long-term harm from concussion, study says - UPI.com

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Planetary Sunshade Foundation

• The rice of the sea: how a tiny grain could change the way humanity eats

• Policy assessments for the carbon emission flows of Bitcoin mining in China)

• We're entombing the Earth in an impenetrable shell of dead satellites

• Food waste responsible for 10% of global emissions