Finally someone comes up with some good rational analysis,...
Add to that: she was really paranoid. She thinks she is being targeted, often unfairly.
See this video. She makes some valid points about what is 'age restricted' and what should not be, but then in her mind it is 'they' are targeting her specifically.
Not only did she think that Youtube is 'filtering' her videos, and reducing their views, and demonetizing them, she was thinking that 'anti-vegan animal supporting supporting criminals' (her words) are trying to harm/kill her, because she found something piercing her tires. Looks like a hypodermic needle which may have been accidental. Yet she attributes that to animal rights stickers on her car!
For a comparison, one of my sites was de-listed from Google's index some years ago. They sent me an email saying that it had 'inappropriate content'. I contacted them back saying: tell me which page has that content, and I will remove it. They send back the same form letter, no specifics at all. On the third try, I mentioned that the probably objectionable content is where I compiled a list of common 419/Nigerian type scams, and that is to warn against them, NOT to promote them! They responded with a form letter that my site was being indexed again!
So, it was an algorithm glitch. Had I been as paranoid as her, I would have thought that I was being unfairly targeted because I am [insert pet conspiracy theory here].
She was living in a self-made up persecution complex, and then she went over the edge.
Finally someone comes up with some good rational analysis,...
Add to that: she was really paranoid. She thinks she is being targeted, often unfairly.
Not only did she think that Youtube is 'filtering' her videos, and reducing their views, and demonetizing them, she was thinking that 'anti-vegan animal supporting supporting criminals' (her words) are trying to harm/kill her, because she found something piercing her tires. Looks like a hypodermic needle which may have been accidental. Yet she attributes that to animal rights stickers on her car!
She was living in a self-made up persecution complex, and then she went over the edge.
I was dependent on Google Reader for the daily news (including Slashdot).
When it shutdown, I did not want to go to yet another online service that can shutdown, so I opted for a self hosted solution.
First, I used Tiny Tiny RSS for a few years. It worked well. I ran it on my home server. Written in PHP and using MySQL made it easy to host.
One day, it was choking on feeds from a certain site, and stopped updating.
So I switched to the original MiniFlux reader. Again, it is written in PHP, so easy to host. It can use either SQLite, MySQL, and other databases.
The same developer has gone in a different direction, with MiniFlux 2, which uses Go, and PostgreSQL (only!). The developer describes it as 'opinionated!'
Using Go is an odd choice here, since this is not an application that has to be super fast. The slowest parts will be retrieving feeds (limited by the speed of the network and servers that host the feeds), or reading the database. Moreover, being a single executable, it does not integrate with your existing Apache or Nginx (if you already have them and want to use existing SSL certificates,...etc.) and therefore has to run on a different port. PostgreSQL only is higher maintenance than MySQL, and if I don't not run PostgreSQL already, then I will not install, configure and maintain PostgreSQL just for the this one application.
So for now, the original MiniFlux does the job adequately, running behind SSL and password protected, so not much chance for a vulnerability getting exploited. Tiny Tiny RSS had a better user interface, but you get used to MiniFlux quickly. It even uses short cut keys that are like vim (j, k,...)
How about videos that have walls of text that you have to read instead of an audio/visual experience?
The videos are not narrated at all or for the most part. You have walls of text, which distracts from the video itself, and takes more concentration than just a video with audio narration.
Non other than BBC News has been going down that abyss. When I complained to them, I got back platitudes...
Yes, 'won' here is 'got there first'. It is how the documentary was named, not a conclusion by me.
Russia still has a functional system that takes stuff to orbit for cheap (e.g. payloads to the space station), unlike the space shuttle,...etc.
They built on their strength and did not invest much outside that. They don't have missions to Mars, they don't have space telescopes,...etc.
But to be fair, they had to deal with a lot of political turmoil after the collapse of USSR, contrary to other countries.
Now, the race is on again, with still cheaper and cheaper rockets like what India has, and then we have private companies joining the race (SpaceX...etc.). And Russia still does what it knows and only that.
Google issuing a fix for Android does not mean my Sony phone running 5.1.1 will get it.
What is the exact mechanism that will send it to me? I only know of two: the phone manufacturer issuing a security update (and we all know that they have not been doing this), or Google Play Services, but you are saying that is not it. So how will it be pushed to phones that are not made by Google?
Related: A list of affected vendors for KRACK quotes Google as saying "Android 6.0 and higher" is affected and that they will issue a fix in a few weeks. Does this mean 5.1.1 is not affected, or affected but they will not issue fixes?
If we wanted, we could invade Africa, one country at a time, kill all the warlords, take away all the guns and provide all the necessary items. That was the idea in Somalia, and it is the correct and probably only workable idea for accomplishing that. But some asshole on Slashdot would be on whining about "imperialism" or us trying to be the world's policemen, which would eventually stop it.
Yeah, the USA should really try this idea out...
Like for example, in Afghanistan... where the Taliban are a major source of instability with frequent suicide bombings and indiscriminate attacks.
Or, for example, Iraq, where Saddam was deposed, only to open up a huge power vacuum providing a breeding ground for extremists, like Al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria, which later became Daesh (known as Islamic State, ISIS, ISIL,...etc.) They took over vast territories, American weapons from the fleeing Iraqi army, hundreds of millions of dollars in cash from the Mosul central bank, and oil fields, and instated the most harsh state of affairs on millions. It is taking years to loosen their grip on the lands they controlled.
Oh, but if only the USA can invade more countries, things will be better...
Don't bother with the expensive solar filters, unless you already have them, from a reputable source.
Use welding glasses, but they have to be #14, not anything less.
The other way is to use projection. A small binocular is enough. Tie it to a tripod, and cover one side. Tilt it so it projects an image on a white piece of cardboard, then look at the cardboard with your back to the sun. This is safe. I did it for the Mercury transit last year.
I have been using Linux as my main desktop for around 15 years, and Kubuntu as my main desktop from ~ 2006 until last February or so. I switched to Xubuntu because Kubuntu 16.04 started going down the 'dumb it down by removing configurability' track.
So, I can't comment on Unity or Gnome since I never used them, and probably never will. XFCE does what I want, as did KDE before it.
I also use Linux for all my clients (Ubuntu LTS Server).
What bugs me is that Ubuntu decided to go down the systemd route blindly. If it was made optional, I would not mind much. As in: choice! But it is is not, and I cannot make a server or desktop be 'systemd free' by just removing packages and installing others.
The arguments against systemd are known to any experienced system admin with lots of years in the field.
I disagree that systemd centralization of services is a good idea. That is exactly what got it into this bug, and there will be more.
But, regarding this:
At this point, the only real solution I can see is making a fork of systemd, banning the current systemd creators from participating in it, and trimming it to size.
Systemd has only two advantages:
1. Startup Sequence Dependency Management. A way to tell daemon X that daemon Y and Z have to start first.
2. An easier syntax. I myself don't mind shell script startup inits, but it seems that other do, perhaps the younger generation.
To that end, there is a solution that addresses the above two advantages, while abandoning all the other bad things about systemd, such as scope creep, swallowing all other services,...etc.
It is called uselessd. It seems dormant at the moment though, but that is the right approach.
If systemd is replaced by uselessd, AND a given distro (e.g. Debian) allows for multiple init replacements, without a deep dependency chain (e.g. most Desktop Environments today), then I don't mind those who want systemd to remain as an option. The rest of us can just replace it with uselessd, or OpenRC, or anything else and everything works, and continue the UNIX philosophy of many components each specializing in one thing: do one thing and do it right.
... never heard about this sinister plot to lie about weatherr (FOR SOME REASON) when I was writing the bloody code running some of those "lying"weather statiions.
Well, the conspiratorial mind will immediately jump to the conclusion that what you just said is yet another proof of the imagined conspiracy. "Of course the powers that be want us to think there is no conspiracy, and they trot out such arguments to make us believe there is none... no?"
I'm kinda glad I'm not in that job anymore, its frusturating as hell watching right wing newspaper and blog commenters straight up lie about you and not being able to do a damn thing about it, without gettiing in the target sights of some very shady campaiigners
That is sad, and unfortunate. It shows that the conspiratorials' strategy work by alienating qualified talent from the field.
Bring up the images of Baron Vladimir Harkonen, from Frank Herbert's Dune.
Or the rumors that were rampant in pre-2011 Egypt that President Hosni Mubarak is still in power because he gets blood transfusion from youth on a regular basis.
While Mozilla have taken several wrong turns with Firefox, it is still king when it comes to usability and resource usage.
If you don't like its look, then you can install Classic Theme Restorer and have it look like what you are used to.
If you are like me with lots of open tabs, then it works fine as well. My record open tabs is 1,488 (yes, not a typo). Right now it is around 492. You can do that if you install uBlock Origin and NoScript, and therefore web site would not eat your CPU and RAM by all there inefficient Javascript, or obtrusive ads.
Install the Auto Unload Tab, and memory usage will go down too. Set it to unload a tab after it was inactive for an hour or too.
To top it off, use Session Manager to be able to save sessions with all the tabs that are in it.
Yeah, despite all its drawbacks, Firefox is still the best.
Oh, and I am on Linux (XFCE4, via Xubuntu), on a 9 year old laptop that was upgraded to an SSD drive, and max RAM (8 GB).
Slashdot Mirror
Finally someone comes up with some good rational analysis, ...
Add to that: she was really paranoid. She thinks she is being targeted, often unfairly.
See this video. She makes some valid points about what is 'age restricted' and what should not be, but then in her mind it is 'they' are targeting her specifically.
Not only did she think that Youtube is 'filtering' her videos, and reducing their views, and demonetizing them, she was thinking that 'anti-vegan animal supporting supporting criminals' (her words) are trying to harm/kill her, because she found something piercing her tires. Looks like a hypodermic needle which may have been accidental. Yet she attributes that to animal rights stickers on her car!
For a comparison, one of my sites was de-listed from Google's index some years ago. They sent me an email saying that it had 'inappropriate content'. I contacted them back saying: tell me which page has that content, and I will remove it. They send back the same form letter, no specifics at all. On the third try, I mentioned that the probably objectionable content is where I compiled a list of common 419/Nigerian type scams, and that is to warn against them, NOT to promote them! They responded with a form letter that my site was being indexed again!
So, it was an algorithm glitch. Had I been as paranoid as her, I would have thought that I was being unfairly targeted because I am [insert pet conspiracy theory here].
She was living in a self-made up persecution complex, and then she went over the edge.
Finally someone comes up with some good rational analysis, ...
Add to that: she was really paranoid. She thinks she is being targeted, often unfairly.
Not only did she think that Youtube is 'filtering' her videos, and reducing their views, and demonetizing them, she was thinking that 'anti-vegan animal supporting supporting criminals' (her words) are trying to harm/kill her, because she found something piercing her tires. Looks like a hypodermic needle which may have been accidental. Yet she attributes that to animal rights stickers on her car!
She was living in a self-made up persecution complex, and then she went over the edge.
One year ago, to the day ...
With a map of where the devices where, and all the probable parties that would be using them ... domestic and foreign, friendly or otherwise ...
CBC investigation finds cell phone trackers at work near Parliament Hill and embassies.
Not only a) the algorithm has to be transparent, and b) its data inputs, but also c) how the results will be used.
See what Cathy O'Neill's says about the topic. She wrote a book, called Weapons Of Math Destruction, on the subject, and it is scary.
Why 'cloud' when local works well?
$ sudo aptitude install libttspico-utils
$ pico2wave -w h.wav "Hello World"
$ aplay h.wav
I was dependent on Google Reader for the daily news (including Slashdot).
When it shutdown, I did not want to go to yet another online service that can shutdown, so I opted for a self hosted solution.
First, I used Tiny Tiny RSS for a few years. It worked well. I ran it on my home server. Written in PHP and using MySQL made it easy to host.
One day, it was choking on feeds from a certain site, and stopped updating.
So I switched to the original MiniFlux reader. Again, it is written in PHP, so easy to host. It can use either SQLite, MySQL, and other databases.
The same developer has gone in a different direction, with MiniFlux 2, which uses Go, and PostgreSQL (only!). The developer describes it as 'opinionated!'
Using Go is an odd choice here, since this is not an application that has to be super fast. The slowest parts will be retrieving feeds (limited by the speed of the network and servers that host the feeds), or reading the database. Moreover, being a single executable, it does not integrate with your existing Apache or Nginx (if you already have them and want to use existing SSL certificates, ...etc.) and therefore has to run on a different port. PostgreSQL only is higher maintenance than MySQL, and if I don't not run PostgreSQL already, then I will not install, configure and maintain PostgreSQL just for the this one application.
So for now, the original MiniFlux does the job adequately, running behind SSL and password protected, so not much chance for a vulnerability getting exploited. Tiny Tiny RSS had a better user interface, but you get used to MiniFlux quickly. It even uses short cut keys that are like vim (j, k, ...)
From an astronomy point of view, it was the eclipse that was interesting.
The blue moon is nothing but a calendar thing, and has no scientific meaning.
The super moon is indeed larger, but not to the naked eye.
The blood moon is just an atmospheric phenomenon, and happens regularly.
It is the eclipse that was significant for an astronomy fan, rather than pop culture or astrology.
Anyways, if you were clouded out, or did not wake up early, here is where you can watch the eclipse as it was streamed.
Distributing blankets infected with smallpox was certainly discussed by officials in 1763, way before Ward Churchill's alleged events.
See here and here.
Yeah, and this is news for nerds?
Why is this on Slashdot?
Forget 'reciting'. That is not too bad.
How about videos that have walls of text that you have to read instead of an audio/visual experience?
The videos are not narrated at all or for the most part. You have walls of text, which distracts from the video itself, and takes more concentration than just a video with audio narration.
Non other than BBC News has been going down that abyss. ...
When I complained to them, I got back platitudes
Yes, 'won' here is 'got there first'. It is how the documentary was named, not a conclusion by me.
Russia still has a functional system that takes stuff to orbit for cheap (e.g. payloads to the space station), unlike the space shuttle, ...etc.
They built on their strength and did not invest much outside that. They don't have missions to Mars, they don't have space telescopes, ...etc.
But to be fair, they had to deal with a lot of political turmoil after the collapse of USSR, contrary to other countries.
Now, the race is on again, with still cheaper and cheaper rockets like what India has, and then we have private companies joining the race (SpaceX ...etc.). And Russia still does what it knows and only that.
Not sure if this will play outside Canada or not.
But here it is: Cosmonauts: How Russia Won The Space Program, a fascinating look at the USSR's space program, and what they got right, and why.
Definitely worth watching.
You are missing my point:
Google issuing a fix for Android does not mean my Sony phone running 5.1.1 will get it.
What is the exact mechanism that will send it to me? I only know of two: the phone manufacturer issuing a security update (and we all know that they have not been doing this), or Google Play Services, but you are saying that is not it. So how will it be pushed to phones that are not made by Google?
Related: A list of affected vendors for KRACK quotes Google as saying "Android 6.0 and higher" is affected and that they will issue a fix in a few weeks. Does this mean 5.1.1 is not affected, or affected but they will not issue fixes?
You mean the Google Play Services thing?
It was supposed to update certain things, but I don't know if it would reach deep enough to update things like wpa_supplicant.
If you see an update that specifically says wpa_supplicant was updated, please post a reply.
A fix was just released for Linux (e.g. Ubuntu and derivatives).
The phones and tablets will be the hard part here.
A classic case of: Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi.
Yeah, the USA should really try this idea out ...
Like for example, in Afghanistan ... where the Taliban are a major source of instability with frequent suicide bombings and indiscriminate attacks.
Or, for example, Iraq, where Saddam was deposed, only to open up a huge power vacuum providing a breeding ground for extremists, like Al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria, which later became Daesh (known as Islamic State, ISIS, ISIL, ...etc.) They took over vast territories, American weapons from the fleeing Iraqi army, hundreds of millions of dollars in cash from the Mosul central bank, and oil fields, and instated the most harsh state of affairs on millions. It is taking years to loosen their grip on the lands they controlled.
Oh, but if only the USA can invade more countries, things will be better ...
Here are two composite photos showing the asteroid moving against the background stars: Florence 1 and Florence 2.
Don't bother with the expensive solar filters, unless you already have them, from a reputable source.
Use welding glasses, but they have to be #14, not anything less.
The other way is to use projection. A small binocular is enough. Tie it to a tripod, and cover one side. Tilt it so it projects an image on a white piece of cardboard, then look at the cardboard with your back to the sun. This is safe. I did it for the Mercury transit last year.
I have been using Linux as my main desktop for around 15 years, and Kubuntu as my main desktop from ~ 2006 until last February or so. I switched to Xubuntu because Kubuntu 16.04 started going down the 'dumb it down by removing configurability' track.
So, I can't comment on Unity or Gnome since I never used them, and probably never will. XFCE does what I want, as did KDE before it.
I also use Linux for all my clients (Ubuntu LTS Server).
What bugs me is that Ubuntu decided to go down the systemd route blindly. If it was made optional, I would not mind much. As in: choice! But it is is not, and I cannot make a server or desktop be 'systemd free' by just removing packages and installing others.
The arguments against systemd are known to any experienced system admin with lots of years in the field.
Make systemd replaceable please!
I disagree that systemd centralization of services is a good idea. That is exactly what got it into this bug, and there will be more.
But, regarding this:
Systemd has only two advantages:
1. Startup Sequence Dependency Management. A way to tell daemon X that daemon Y and Z have to start first.
2. An easier syntax. I myself don't mind shell script startup inits, but it seems that other do, perhaps the younger generation.
To that end, there is a solution that addresses the above two advantages, while abandoning all the other bad things about systemd, such as scope creep, swallowing all other services, ...etc.
It is called uselessd. It seems dormant at the moment though, but that is the right approach.
If systemd is replaced by uselessd, AND a given distro (e.g. Debian) allows for multiple init replacements, without a deep dependency chain (e.g. most Desktop Environments today), then I don't mind those who want systemd to remain as an option. The rest of us can just replace it with uselessd, or OpenRC, or anything else and everything works, and continue the UNIX philosophy of many components each specializing in one thing: do one thing and do it right.
Well, the conspiratorial mind will immediately jump to the conclusion that what you just said is yet another proof of the imagined conspiracy. "Of course the powers that be want us to think there is no conspiracy, and they trot out such arguments to make us believe there is none ... no?"
That is sad, and unfortunate. It shows that the conspiratorials' strategy work by alienating qualified talent from the field.
Bring up the images of Baron Vladimir Harkonen, from Frank Herbert's Dune.
Or the rumors that were rampant in pre-2011 Egypt that President Hosni Mubarak is still in power because he gets blood transfusion from youth on a regular basis.
Watch a documentary about him.
I have doubts that he is (the only) Dread Pirate Roberts after watching it.
Here it is: Deep Web
While Mozilla have taken several wrong turns with Firefox, it is still king when it comes to usability and resource usage.
If you don't like its look, then you can install Classic Theme Restorer and have it look like what you are used to.
If you are like me with lots of open tabs, then it works fine as well. My record open tabs is 1,488 (yes, not a typo). Right now it is around 492. You can do that if you install uBlock Origin and NoScript, and therefore web site would not eat your CPU and RAM by all there inefficient Javascript, or obtrusive ads.
Install the Auto Unload Tab, and memory usage will go down too. Set it to unload a tab after it was inactive for an hour or too.
To top it off, use Session Manager to be able to save sessions with all the tabs that are in it.
Yeah, despite all its drawbacks, Firefox is still the best.
Oh, and I am on Linux (XFCE4, via Xubuntu), on a 9 year old laptop that was upgraded to an SSD drive, and max RAM (8 GB).