2021-04-21
Cool
Worthy
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How I Became a Libertarian | Cato Institute
Kibbutz is bottom‐up socialism on the scale of a small community. It thereby avoids the worst problems of state socialism: a planned economy and totalitarianism. The kibbutz, as a unit, is part of a market economy, and membership is voluntary: you can leave at any time. This is “socialism with a human face” — as good as it gets.
In retrospect, I should have known right away, from my first day, that something was wrong with utopia. On my arrival, I was struck by the fact that the pantry of the communal kitchen was locked.
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ISO 8601: Ending The Date Wars And Confusing Everyone Equally
etc
Horseshit
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US owners find American-style greed doesn't play well in European soccer
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"Spirited Away" The film that captures millennials' greatest fear - BBC Culture
Spirited Away still taps into something elemental; Caird has described his belief in Miyazaki's themes ("care for the environment, reverence for nature, a belief in the force of the good spirits within us and the empowerment of young women and men to change the world for the better"), and both its spell and earthly message remain multi-generational.
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Speedrunning Undertale helped me understand my gender better
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Genetics of psychic ability – A pilot case-control exome sequencing study
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Amazing: Are Things Really That Bad For Millennials – Grey Enlightenment
Millennials and gen-z may hit their peak earnings years later in life compared to boomers, but it may be a higher peak and a longer one due to delayed retirement.
A lot of young people are making substantial sums of money on platforms such as Instagram, Only Fans, Patreon, Twitter, trading options (such as on /r/WallStreetBets), selling shoes, etc., none of which existed 30-50 years ago. Although most people will not be able to make a living this way, it still nonetheless represents new opportunities that didn’t exist for earlier generations.
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Postal Service is running covert operations to monitors social media posts
celebrity gossip
Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination
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Nextdoor to alert users before they post something racist
“As a reminder, All Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter content is explicitly prohibited on Nextdoor when used to undermine racial equality or the Black Lives Matter movement,” the release says. “Support for White Lives Matter is prohibited on Nextdoor, as it is most commonly associated with white supremacist groups.”
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Columbus Police Release Body Cam Footage Showing Fatal Shooting Of Teen Girl | ZeroHedge
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Are Intellectual Property Rights Neoliberal? Yes and No - ProMarket
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Virginia police officer fired after donating to Kyle Rittenhouse defense fund
Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship
TechSuck
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In epic hack, Signal developer turns the tables on forensics firm Cellebrite | Ars Technica
+ [Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer](https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/)For example, by including a specially formatted but otherwise innocuous file in an app on a device that is then scanned by Cellebrite, it’s possible to execute code that modifies not just the Cellebrite report being created in that scan, but also all previous and future generated Cellebrite reports from all previously scanned devices and all future scanned devices in any arbitrary way (inserting or removing text, email, photos, contacts, files, or any other data), with no detectable timestamp changes or checksum failures. This could even be done at random, and would seriously call the data integrity of Cellebrite’s reports into question.
In completely unrelated news, upcoming versions of Signal will be periodically fetching files to place in app storage. These files are never used for anything inside Signal and never interact with Signal software or data, but they look nice, and aesthetics are important in software. Files will only be returned for accounts that have been active installs for some time already, and only probabilistically in low percentages based on phone number sharding. We have a few different versions of files that we think are aesthetically pleasing, and will iterate through those slowly over time. There is no other significance to these files.
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Linux kernel developers do not like being experimented on
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Leadership in the University of Minnesota Department of Computer Science & Engineering learned today about the details of research being conducted by one of its faculty members and graduate students into the security of the Linux Kernel. The research method used raised serious concerns in the Linux Kernel community and, as of today, this has resulted in the University being banned from contributing to the Linux Kernel.
We take this situation extremely seriously. We have immediately suspended this line of research.
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They are now "coordinating revert patches for everything committed by University of Minnesota email addresses." The experiment shows that attacking a public project's "in good faith" aspects can indeed negatively impact the project and one's neighbors, too.
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Linux bans University of Minnesota for sending buggy patches
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Researchers Tried to Add Vulnerabilities to Linux Kernel, Got Banned
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Greg Kroah-Hartman bans University from Linux development for deliberate bugs
Interesting, looks like the 2nd time they're doing the same thing, and 2nd time they're in hot water for it. They even apologized the first time by pleading naivete: https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/clarifications-hc.pdf
First time they initially skipped IRB review for sending malicious patches to the mailing list, which people do install. (So IRB exemption should not apply.) A top security conference allowed a paper with a broken IRB process, and UMN IRB, when a later IRB exempt request was filed, explicitly allowed this. Bad, bad, and bad.
The latest Linux incident seems like a repeat by the same CS dept, advisor, student, & presumably, UMN IRB. No naivete excuse anymore, this is now business as usual.
The bigger fail to me is the UMN dept head + IRB, and the security conference review process around IRB norms. Especially damning that it's a repeat of the same IRB mess. IRB exemption matters a lot for practicing scientists, and leadership tolerating this stuff is what will get it taken away for everyone else.
Fool me once..
- comment from kernel dev Ted Tso
gregkh sent a 190 patch series to revert all of the "easy" UMN reverts, pending review. People are now looking at the patches and saying things like, "that's one OK, don't revert".
There are another 68 commits which did not revert cleanly, in some cases because they were later fixed up, already reverted, or some other patch has touched those lines of code. This will require further manual work.
We basically at this point assuming bad faith for all UMN patches and reviewing them all before allowing them to stay in. (Or if they get reverted by default, someone else can manually apply them after they go through strict review.)
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice....
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DNS Root servers official Statement on DNS Encryption (pdf)
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Europe proposes strict regulation of artificial intelligence
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Man sues Apple for terminating Apple ID with $24K worth of content | AppleInsider
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Streaming Audio codec Mythbusting Tidal’s MQA Format – How Does It Measure Up?
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Home-Mining Crypto Chia Sparks Hard Drive Shortage Ahead of Trading Debut
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nice contrast:
Economicon
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He spent $200k trying to open an S.F. ice cream shop but failed
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Hertz Gets Sweetened Offer as Bankruptcy Bidding War Escalates
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Credit Suisse’s Prime Unit Risk Chief Had Been Archegos Salesman
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How more alcohol availability hurts finances for some people
Results showed that people didn’t just spend more on beer, wine and liquor: There was a multiplier effect by which every dollar spent on alcohol led to $4.50 in additional spending. “Just extending the hours of liquor stores had real implications for the lives of low-income people in the affected areas of Sweden,” said Itzhak Ben-David, co-author of the study and professor of finance at The Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business.
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Foxconn mostly abandons $10B Wisconsin project touted by Trump
Poilitcks
Security / Militaria / Crime
World
Health / Medicine / COVID
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J&J to Resume E.U. Vaccine Rollout, with Warning of Rare Side Effect
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The FDA’s War on Nicotine Will Encourage Americans To Smoke More Cigarettes – Reason.com
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Wearing two face masks can nearly double the filtering out SARS-CoV2 particles
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By Wednesday morning, the agency already released a series of scathing observations on the cross contamination, sanitary issues and lack of staff training that caused the contract manufacturer to dispose of millions of AstraZeneca and J&J vaccine doses.
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Making Vaccines Is Straightforward; Getting People to Take Them Isn't
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Toilet flushing can create infectious aerosols even when lid is closed
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‘It is much worse this time’: India’s devastating second wave