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Daily Tech News 22 April 2021

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Tech News

  • The Asus ZenBook 13 is a Ryzen 5800U laptop with an OLED screen and the four essential keys. (Tom's Hardware)

    That processor has 8 CPU cores and what they call 8 GPU cores - also known as CU for cluster units. 16GB of LPDDR4-3733 RAM, 1TB of NVMe SSD, two USB-C ports, one USB-A, HDMI, and a microSD slot.

    What it doesn't have is a headphone jack because there is apparently a requirement carved into the bedrock of the laptop industry that they have to fuck something up on every single model. It comes with a USB-C audio adapter, which is a pain but less of a problem with a laptop - where you carry it around in a bag anyway - than with a phone.

    We might forgive them that defect though because prices end at $999. Typically laptops in this class start around that price and by the time you get up to the full configuration you're paying 60% more. $999 is a good price for an 8-core laptop with an OLED screen.


  • I've called Docker the world's least efficient package manager, but that's not a fault of Docker's technology, but of it's philosophy. As an example of how well it can work in the hands of competent people, here's a web server in a 6kB Docker container. (DevOps Directive)

    That's quite small. The baseline container they started with was 150,000 times larger.


  • WSLug lets you run Linux GUI applications on Windows. (Bleeping Computer)

    This is currently a preview release but it's promising; as a developer I already find the ability to run Linux console apps on Windows extremely useful.


  • Europe is proposing strict regulations on the use of AI. (New York Times)

    In particular they are proposing a ban on the use of facial recognition cameras in public spaces. By private companies, that is. The governments will keep right on doing that.


  • Russian communications regulator Rozkomnadzor has demanded that Instagram stop blocking the Russian national anthem. (TorrentFreak)

    The DMCA takedown notices were apparently filed by a German TV show.

    Meanwhile the same agency has insisted that Google remove the blog page of a Ukrainian political party, because... You know why.


  • Intel has defeated a $3 billion patent lawsuit filed by VLSI Technology. (Tom's Hardware)

    This isn't the VLSI Technology, though. That company - founded back in 1979 - was acquired by Philips in 1999 and later spun off again as part of NXP.

    This is a different company with the same name, founded by Japanese investment giant Softbank purely for the purpose of screwing over companies that actually do R&D.

    Fuck 'em.


Worst Chemical Video of the Day
It's yellow, so it already started out with double demerits.


Disclaimer: Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is a nitrogen compound.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:15 AM




Comments

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1 Yay, tech thread!

Posted by: m at April 22, 2021 03:30 AM (nzEdf)

2 Faust?

Your Wonderdful Parade

https://youtu.be/DuxFkpLP_1E

Posted by: Corner Stone at April 22, 2021 03:31 AM (8mOxN)

3 Just saying Hi

Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2021 03:37 AM (Cxk7w)

4 For chemical hell fun, search Sand wont save you this time - article on chlorine trifluoride

Posted by: a dude in MI at April 22, 2021 03:45 AM (+I6Y/)

5 I'm lost as to why anyone would pair the music from Chip 'N' Dale with a video of the 1980's Anime 'Dirty Pair'.

Posted by: STV at April 22, 2021 03:51 AM (m4GYV)

6 It's kinda head-hurty hear at 3:00 am. I'm going back over to the ONT...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 22, 2021 03:52 AM (5SOal)

7
What was the Dogbert line from Dilbert?

"I like to con people and insult them - I'm a consultant!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2021 04:00 AM (dGXW9)

8
They did it to honor Venerable George Floyd. Prove them wrong.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2021 04:04 AM (dGXW9)

9 5: Japan, so it's on brand.

Posted by: Puddleglum on the train at April 22, 2021 04:10 AM (3E6AV)

10 Hope Pixy continues these tech threads. They are interesting.

Posted by: Puddleglum on the train at April 22, 2021 04:12 AM (3E6AV)

11
While I am willing to grant a conditional reprieve for the awful Australian accent, to have placed the captioning directly over the picture's area of interest was a truly amateur move.

Next time, give a couple of seconds to framing and setting up the shot, doofus.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2021 04:14 AM (dGXW9)

12 WTF is in the water in Minnesota?

Posted by: fluffy at April 22, 2021 04:32 AM (UnQlg)

13 Patrice Cullors-Trained Marxist founder of BLM says that outrage over her wealth is a" tool of terror."

https://tinyurl.com/568xsru3

From Legal Insurrection site

She must have had Al Sharpton as a mentor, although being a Marxist I guess she isn't a (faux) reverend and doesn't believe in God..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2021 04:32 AM (7hF2c)

14
Interesting term: "A phlegmatized explosive is an explosive that has had an agent added to stabilize or desensitize it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2021 04:35 AM (pNxlR)

15 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at April 22, 2021 04:35 AM (ju2Fy)

16
Let's try that again: "A phlegmatized explosive is an explosive that has had an agent added to stabilize or desensitize it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2021 04:36 AM (pNxlR)

17
Given that it's Belgium, I propse that the persons heretofore known as Flemish instead be referred to as Phlegmish.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2021 04:39 AM (pNxlR)

18 Given that it's Belgium, I propse that the persons heretofore known as Flemish instead be referred to as Phlegmish.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:

Or Belchin's

Posted by: Bruce at April 22, 2021 04:39 AM (1hpHR)

19
It is interesting that the three known halogen derivatives of ammonia -- ammonia trichloride, ammonia tribromide, and ammonia triiodide -- are reported to be colored to resemble their corresponding halogens -- chlorine (yellow green), bromine (orange), and iodine (purple).

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2021 04:44 AM (pNxlR)

20 Yes, superior in every way. Now you know. Stick around and it will rub off on you.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2021 04:46 AM (EZebt)

21 God, not one time, never ever mentioned atoms in his bible.
Posted by: Gringo

Atom and Eve

Posted by: Bruce at April 22, 2021 04:47 AM (1hpHR)

22 There are serious quality control problems with the trolls around here.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 22, 2021 04:47 AM (MqQvv)

23
Oh, look, a dummy wandered into view! Hi, dummy!

Freedom is slavery, dummy, or were you dozing during that part of your indoctrination? 'Bye, dummy!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2021 04:47 AM (pNxlR)

24
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 22, 2021 04:49 AM (DUIap)

25 So, I would like to share a positive experience which I had last night. A fellow I know is running for the State Senate, He supports faith, freedom an truth and transparency in government, the Constitution and the Bill of rights . Years ago he was a tea party person and is a conservative .At his gathering of about 15 were two Asian people, two Latino people ,two black people and the rest white, Everybody but one person voted for Trump. We live in a very diverse state, so anyone who is stupid enough to think conservatives are simply white supremacists deserves to be mocked.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2021 04:51 AM (7hF2c)

26 Check out the people who are not on the Party Line if you vote in the primaries. This guy is not on the Republican party line.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2021 04:53 AM (7hF2c)

27 I signed up for a "Tactical Home Defense" course at the local range.
It includes current Illinois laws regarding. Evidently there's more to it than emptying the magazine.

The more you know....DING

Posted by: Bruce at April 22, 2021 04:54 AM (1hpHR)

28
Lemme tell you a story, dummy, that was related to me by a Peruvian acquaintance of considerable scientific repute back in the day when we both were grad students. It concerns your assumed name, dummy.

It came to pass, back in the days when conflict was brewing between the United States and Mexico, that some units of U.S. troops -- volunteers, presumably -- were attired in uniforms colored green.

Not being popular with the native Mexicans, these troops were both unwelcome and encouraged to leave the area. This encouragement was vervally expressed by the natives as "Green, go!", which, over time, became the origin of the word "gringo".

Now tell us, dummy, true story or nonsense?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2021 04:58 AM (pNxlR)

29 This is a nice, rather amazing story about a man who tried to commit suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge and was saved by a sea lion:

https://tinyurl.com/48nhjbne

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2021 04:58 AM (7hF2c)

30 The Gopher story kind of encapsulates a problem $CIENCE is going to face soon....


They are too cute by 1/2 and will do great evil "as a sad necessity" too quickly. They have convinced themselves all the misdeeds of the past were by "other guys" never quite grasping that Axis perversion of science was enabled in its early stages by cooperation with Allied academics prior to the war. People trying to do the right thing can accidentally fall prey to evil, I have never seen people who set out to do evil accidentally do great good.

Posted by: sven at April 22, 2021 05:01 AM (Lzpvj)

31 Folks, I think the troll is a sock-not an actual troll. They're having a little fun. Maybe they'll come out under their real name.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2021 05:01 AM (7hF2c)

32 Beautiful pictures of light and landscape:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2021 05:03 AM (7hF2c)

33 19 Posted by: Gringo at April 22, 2021 04:38 AM (ScR6d)

Yes that makes more sense than tweaking and finishing the other site and letting the .7Alpha gerbils finally sleep.

Posted by: sven at April 22, 2021 05:03 AM (Lzpvj)

34
The irony of being harangued by a dummy concerning discarded medical practices when said dummy undoubtably subscribes to the One True Doctrine that all such dummies endorse -- that "gender is a social construct" and there are many, many of them -- is too rich for words.

Run your pronouns up the flagpole, dummy, and see who salutes.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2021 05:05 AM (dGXW9)

35 34 Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2021 05:05 AM (dGXW9)

Just be careful telling the nice agents your personal pronouns are "weapon of mass destruction", "garnish", and "cobalt."

Posted by: sven at April 22, 2021 05:06 AM (Lzpvj)

36 Run your pronouns up the flagpole, dummy, and see who salutes.

That made me laugh. Thanks. It's good to have a little humor at 6:06 am EST.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2021 05:07 AM (7hF2c)

37 Well that's interesting. I went to Toms hardware to read up on Linux story and very glad I turned on my ad blocker...
247 ads blocked in 3 minutes. WTF

Posted by: sidney at April 22, 2021 05:08 AM (7/kmB)

38 37 Posted by: sidney at April 22, 2021 05:08 AM (7/kmB)

The future, since you will not watch the sh*t infotainment they produce for the tube and screen you will be forced to endure their ads to go anywhere worthwhile.

Posted by: sven at April 22, 2021 05:09 AM (Lzpvj)

39 My own adblock has clocked up 12,710,532.

A common thing these days is for scripts in the page to try to phone home, and adblock will block them every time. You can watch the counter tick over. Kind of soothing.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 22, 2021 05:11 AM (MqQvv)

40 Can I authorize the police in advance to shoot anyone who might be stabbing me? Because that seems to be a problem.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2021 05:12 AM (EZebt)

41
I have noticed, since this site returned to its former cranky and lovable "normal", that ads are now getting slotted within posted articles whereas before they apparently were confined to the spaces between articles.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2021 05:14 AM (pNxlR)

42 40 Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2021 05:12 AM (EZebt)

You already have it is called "civic virtue" you get the benefit of cops keeping you safe from assaulting would-be murderers.

Where this is all falling apart, is that a certain segment of the population wants that protection without the second more troubling part of the bargain-in civic virtue you also agree to be shot by the same cop if you are trying to kill another citizen.

This population does not seek equality they seek license.

Posted by: sven at April 22, 2021 05:14 AM (Lzpvj)

43 41 Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2021 05:14 AM (pNxlR)

One can never go home again, and will often find great sorrow in trying.

Posted by: sven at April 22, 2021 05:15 AM (Lzpvj)

44 This is kind of cute and funny. Guy who runs an urban rescue for animals in TX shows how to train a rhea-which is something like an ostrich. About a 3 minute video:

https://tinyurl.com/hwsev8r6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2021 05:16 AM (7hF2c)

45
I downloaded and fired up the DuckDuckGo browser on my iPhone yesterday. I have only briefly used it so far, but one thing that it does is block tracking efforts by benign tech overlords like gargle and show those blocking acts in real time.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2021 05:16 AM (pNxlR)

46 44 FenelonSpoke

Kevin is kind of a jerk.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 22, 2021 05:20 AM (MqQvv)

47 mornin yall. A bit nippy in the swamp this morning 38 degrees. Keeps the skeeters away for now so not gonna winge about it.

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at April 22, 2021 05:21 AM (6Pqz7)

48 This population does not seek equality they seek license.
Posted by: sven at April 22, 2021 05:14 AM (Lzpvj)

===
I have come to the same conclusion only in the last few years, in a very painful process. I have hinted about my relationship with Kamala 20 years ago and how she completely distorted it by her own racism and accusations, which was the beginning for me.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2021 05:23 AM (EZebt)

49 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2021 05:23 AM (u82oZ)

50 47 Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at April 22, 2021 05:21 AM (6Pqz7)

Going to rain here between now and tomorrow afternoon, that will be good we have had intermittent small scale forest fire flare ups.

The debris from the two hurricanes last year is pretty hungry kindling at this point.

I am glad I do not smoke, or engage in behaviors that could flare up.

Posted by: sven at April 22, 2021 05:23 AM (Lzpvj)

51 Can I authorize the police in advance to shoot anyone who might be stabbing me? Because that seems to be a problem.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Al those that do NOT want to have LO interfere in someone causing them harm and or death should be required to wear a bright yellow vest with flashing lights

Posted by: Bruce at April 22, 2021 05:25 AM (1hpHR)

52 48 Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2021 05:23 AM (EZebt)

When you accept that the donks are terrified of demographic trends and not smug in the way they act it all makes sense. Without AMIGO GRANDE! they are a dying empire reliant on Tyrone and Karen. Their bullsh*t is alienating sane (which is a majority) portion of 10 million guys named Juan.

Just as happened the last time with the crime bills in the 90s Tyrone will get his way for a bit and then "BAM!" "super-predators."

I just want people to be equal, and ideally have access to equal prosperity.

Posted by: sven at April 22, 2021 05:26 AM (Lzpvj)

53 Morning all....


@RitaPanahi

Meanwhile, in Australia...

This is how we toughen up the young'uns.

https://tinyurl.com/ygh4el7t

Posted by: Tami at April 22, 2021 05:28 AM (cF8AT)

54 Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 22, 2021 05:20 AM (MqQvv)

Maybe you have to be kind of a jerk if you do animal rescue
If the critter is trying to bit your hand so that it bleeds you need to discourage it in some way. I do know ostriches can disembowel you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2021 05:29 AM (7hF2c)

55 53 Posted by: Tami at April 22, 2021 05:28 AM (cF8AT)

Kid needs to carry an alka-seltzer it will fix it right up.

Posted by: sven at April 22, 2021 05:29 AM (Lzpvj)

56 We were over it. In fact, we were on to heightism, ableism, and fatism.

Until Obama and the Democrats decided race was a useful wedge issue.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2021 05:30 AM (EZebt)

57 I am about to embark on a long weekend getaway. Turning off the phone. Not going to watch the "it's all lies all the time™ News." Take care.

Remember: It's all lies all the time™ now.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at April 22, 2021 05:31 AM (xopIz)

58 Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2021 05:23 AM (u82oZ)

I'm not sure I can strike fear into anybody, but I can smile and be happy-and so far today, I am. I'm going to go walk and look at the fields of bluebells again and then watch the sun rise.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2021 05:32 AM (7hF2c)

59 The "green, go" is bullshit.

It would be Va Verde!

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at April 22, 2021 05:32 AM (xopIz)

60 Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at April 22, 2021 05:31 AM (xopIz)

That's great! Have fun. I think a break from news sometime is a good thing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2021 05:33 AM (7hF2c)

61 Remember: It's all lies all the time now.
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict

That's a lie!

Posted by: Bruce at April 22, 2021 05:33 AM (1hpHR)

62 https://tinyurl.com/ygh4el7t

Kid needs to see "The Birds"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2021 05:33 AM (EZebt)

63 the most stupid line in history is "He brought a knife to a gunfight". Only people who have never been in such fights would push that dumb, dumb line.

I know a guy who is a master IDPA shooter. He told me decades ago that a knife is way more dangerous than a gun. Sure the the issue is if you know how to use it. And I personally do not. But there are people who do know how to use them, and if they are close to you, you would pray they only had a firearm.

The Left will use any cliche because all they care about is votes and power. But anyone who thinks a knife is less dangerous than a firearm, has been duped, or they are thinking of particular situations and not the reality of when some rando attacks you up close.

Posted by: Quint at April 22, 2021 05:34 AM (fjS2+)

64 56 Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2021 05:30 AM (EZebt)

They are whipping their caucus, the new "normal" is the over the top tacit endorsement of the Globo-Marxo-Homo position as "the one true faith" by your tech lord overlords.

We are in for a bad half-century to half-millennia, sorry-we should have gone Jesus and the Money-Changers on the hippies in academia-we lost this in the 80s at a minimum if not the late 60s.

Posted by: sven at April 22, 2021 05:34 AM (Lzpvj)

65 The "green, go" is bullshit.

It would be Va Verde!
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict

Now, write it 1000 times in the public square

Posted by: Bruce at April 22, 2021 05:34 AM (1hpHR)

66 I'm not sure I can strike fear into anybody...

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2021 05:32 AM (7hF2c)

===
Your whiteboard has terrorized thousands.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2021 05:35 AM (EZebt)

67 FenelonSpoke

You have a sound plan in letting the beauty of nature wash over you. The ephemeral joy can wash over you, and make us realize the truth of God's creations. I do that daily in my travels to school and back. We have most dramatic skies.

Give my best to FenelonSpouse and FenelonSon.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2021 05:35 AM (u82oZ)

68 ALL LIES is always capitalized in the Stylebook

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2021 05:37 AM (EZebt)

69 Not only has hell frozen over....pigs are soaring.


@MonaSalama_

Did hell freeze over?!

Both CNN Don Lemon & Chris Cuomo defended the officer who fatally shot 16 years old Ma'Khia Bryant

"When they roll up on the scene, they see people tussling around. Someone has a knife & their job is to protect & serve every life on that scene"

Video: https://tinyurl.com/yevrcf36

Posted by: Tami at April 22, 2021 05:38 AM (cF8AT)

70 63 Posted by: Quint at April 22, 2021 05:34 AM (fjS2+)

Engage in some mirthful reductio ad absurdum, "so had he thrown a tomahawk at her it'd all be good with you?"

We are not really dealing with rational people, and these people are acting from a combination of: 1) socio-linguistically being programmed that guns bad m'kay?, 2) tribal loyalties, and 3) the seeking of license to flout laws based on racial grouping.

Even less rational than these idiots is the political class thinking mollycoddling this will lead to more civic virtue from the disfavored classes of people.

Posted by: sven at April 22, 2021 05:38 AM (Lzpvj)

71 Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2021 05:35 AM (EZebt

LOL. I think most people don't read it. Several people told me they can't stop because they are afraid of being creamed in the back of their car by people who go too fast on the road, but hey--thanks! I did find one guy about two away miles with the Trump sign still on his house reads the whiteboard signs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2021 05:39 AM (7hF2c)

72 69 Posted by: Tami at April 22, 2021 05:38 AM (cF8AT)

Don Le'Mon and Fredo understand the Floyd shit is probably LITERALLY "the limit."

This is all a cynical manipulation of the AA community for political gain.

Posted by: sven at April 22, 2021 05:40 AM (Lzpvj)

73 Give my best to FenelonSpouse and FenelonSon.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2021 05:35 AM (u82oZ)

Thanks; Have a good day transporting the young people to school. Stay safe and God bless. It really is an important job. People who drive buses or those married to them realize that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2021 05:41 AM (7hF2c)

74 FenelonSpoke

you have any insight on leaving a church? I have a church I have been a member of for ages, but it is certainly left me. The hard Left took over there and that is a real shame. This church has been successful for decades, many decades. IT was a conservative church in a liberal denomination. WE had a ton of military so that made a difference. Now the Left has taken over and they are so extreme now, they are doing the NBA "heat check".

I want to acknowledge people I have known for ages and respect their choices. I also want to acknowledge the church itself. There have been weddings and funerals, nuff said. But I know it is time to move on to something else. It is a time for discernment, as the church types often say.

Just wondering if you had any insight. I am talking burning a bridge that has spanned my entire life in some ways. But also, I see it has to be done. It sucks big time, but it is what it is.

Posted by: Quint at April 22, 2021 05:42 AM (fjS2+)

75 sven

Always appreciate your thoughts. Cogent.

It's almost like The Camp of the Saints but with stupid, short-sided, venal leaders, not Islamics.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2021 05:42 AM (u82oZ)

76 Time for work preps.

If you are lurking, Village Idiot's Apprentice:

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

We seem to miss each other by minutes in the comments.

You be safe tooling around your Op Area.

For everyone else, let the wonders of nature recharge you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2021 05:43 AM (u82oZ)

77 75 Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2021 05:42 AM (u82oZ)

The 20 year reprieve western civ got was when "the sane left" saw the writing on the wall from the nihilism of the late 60s to mid 70s and left them. "Camp of the Saints" was written by a Frog socialist. We like to joke about all the dystopic nihilistic bullshit being a how-to manual for the modern moonbat.

It has *always* been a how to manual, the answer may well be quitting the GOP and invading the donks and dragging them back to a stupid sanity.

Their desires will ALWAYS be stupid, but they can be sanely versus insanely stupid.

Posted by: sven at April 22, 2021 05:45 AM (Lzpvj)

78 That UMN news is incredible. Why did the university 'researchers' act so unethically in not just committing the hack, but denying that they did it to the open source community?

If the system in academia is based on truthfulness, this would be on the same level as plagiarism. I don't see why there's even a debate on this.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 22, 2021 05:46 AM (rzgDv)

79 Salty...

just got here..

Be safe!!!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 22, 2021 05:48 AM (3D/fK)

80 10 Hope Pixy continues these tech threads. They are interesting.
Posted by: Puddleglum on the train at April 22, 2021 04:12 AM (3E6AV)

Yes, they are interesting. And perilously - perilously - close to math.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 22, 2021 05:50 AM (rzgDv)

81 78 Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 22, 2021 05:46 AM (rzgDv)

They pretty plainly violated the first post-Nuremburg scientific ethical tenet.

"The voluntary consent of a test subject is crucial"

"watch this prank!" is not adhering to it.

Posted by: sven at April 22, 2021 05:50 AM (Lzpvj)

82 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2021 05:29 AM (7hF2c)
Kevin is the rhea.

Posted by: Pixy MqQvv at April 22, 2021 05:51 AM (MqQvv)

83 I am off to continue writing my new character-James Davis Ace Defense Reporter.

Posted by: sven at April 22, 2021 05:51 AM (Lzpvj)

84 I see the democrats in the Senate have reintroduced a bill to make everyone 50 and over eligible for medicare.

It will crash the program so they will have to step in with single payer for the entire Country to save Medicare.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 22, 2021 05:51 AM (JUOKG)

85 84 Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 22, 2021 05:51 AM (JUOKG)

Now you are thinking like a donkey.....

hats off "governance by Munchausen by Proxy" is the key

Posted by: sven at April 22, 2021 05:56 AM (Lzpvj)

86 Boker Tov

Hope lebron drops dead. Can I say that?. Better yet let him go broke and have to get a real yob diggin ditches

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 22, 2021 05:57 AM (G3ApL)

87 In re: Linux fake patch

I can only wonder: aren't these patches tested for God's sakes?

Or do they just accept them and put them out there for people to use on their systems because they haven't had a problem before?

This is crazy. Now I'm gonna be nervous about accepting any updates. I already was concerned about all the updates to the Linux Kernel. Seemed to me to be and awful lot in a short amount of time.

Plus I found one kernel (I think) that caused some sort of looping test or examination of my hard drive. It just would not stop no matter what I did and I couldn't find what process was driving it.

I rebooted and still had the problem so I reverted to a previous kernel; problem solved. From then on I watched for strange behavior on the next kernel updates. So far it's all okay.

This does not make me happy to hear this.

Posted by: jakee308 at April 22, 2021 05:57 AM (LS3oW)

88
The "green, go" is bullshit


Of course it is.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2021 05:58 AM (pNxlR)

89 So the black community is fine with their children being 'knife sponges'?

Seems counter intuitive, but hey!!

Who am I to judge a culture?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 22, 2021 05:58 AM (3D/fK)

90
If we lose Princess LeBron then, truly, the Golden Age of Reading Table of Contents' Pages will have come to a sad end.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2021 06:01 AM (pNxlR)

91 Hmmm, Linux has more oversight than I thought (I'll admit to almost complete ignorance on the subject.) Considering the shittiness of people, that is a good thing.

Perhaps these little rascals (bastards, because this is not an innocent prank) should have studied 'ethics'. Probably Marxists, so it is a lost cause. Until they get mugged by reality.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 22, 2021 06:02 AM (lmikk)

92 Mentioned this on the ONT, but I watched They Shall Not Grow Old for the first time last night. I won't call it wonderful, because that feels wrong, but it was amazing.

I stand by my judgement that I think color is kind of vital for history work in a visual medium. Maybe vital is not the word. Useful?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 22, 2021 06:05 AM (lmikk)

93 "but I watched They Shall Not Grow Old for the first time last night."

Did it include 'the making of the movie' at the end. About 20 minutes of documentary concerning how the project came about?

As amazing as the movie, itself.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 22, 2021 06:08 AM (3D/fK)

94 sorry-we should have gone Jesus and the Money-Changers on the hippies in academia-we lost this in the 80s at a minimum if not the late 60s.
Posted by: sven

Truer words are rarely written.

I've been spending some time reading Marcuse. Hippies brought us to this point, and their philosophy was/is Marxist to the core (underneath all that nice free love stuff).

Posted by: lizabth at April 22, 2021 06:09 AM (L3Rsz)

95 89 So the black community is fine with their children being 'knife sponges'?

Seems counter intuitive, but hey!!

Who am I to judge a culture?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 22, 2021 05:58 AM (3D/fK)

Saves on lunch money.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 22, 2021 06:09 AM (yrol0)

96 84 I see the democrats in the Senate have reintroduced a bill to make everyone 50 and over eligible for medicare.

It will crash the program so they will have to step in with single payer for the entire Country to save Medicare.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 22, 2021 05:51 AM (JUOKG)

Same as Obamacare.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 22, 2021 06:10 AM (yrol0)

97 even conservatives use the the "taking a knife to a gunfight" line. I saw the footage, but I would need to see it again, many times. No problems with people investigating the footage, to get a sense of reality. But I hate that particular line only because it is bullshit. Ask the Brits about low gun crime and an a crazy amount of knife killings.

Posted by: Quint at April 22, 2021 06:11 AM (TPY/s)

98 Marcuse to Angie Davis and her Combahee River Collective to Patrice Cullors. There's your path to madness.

Posted by: lizabth at April 22, 2021 06:12 AM (L3Rsz)

99 I see the democrats in the Senate have reintroduced a bill to make everyone 50 and over eligible for medicare.""

It would seem that this should pass pretty easily. I wonder which donk dare stand in the way?

Posted by: lizabth at April 22, 2021 06:13 AM (L3Rsz)

100 Did it include 'the making of the movie' at the end. About 20 minutes of documentary concerning how the project came about?

As amazing as the movie, itself.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 22, 2021 06:08 AM (3D/fK)

Not yet. I stayed up way too late watching the movie itself.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 22, 2021 06:13 AM (lmikk)

101 Offered without comment.


https://tinyurl.com/5yzhcs8s

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 22, 2021 06:14 AM (3D/fK)

102 95 89 So the black community is fine with their children being 'knife sponges'?

Seems counter intuitive, but hey!!



I can see them being upset if it was Ma'rolls, or Ma'caddie, but Ma'kia? Seems an over reaction.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at April 22, 2021 06:15 AM (0H2Cq)

103 89 So the black community is fine with their children being 'knife sponges'?

Seems counter intuitive, but hey!!

***

If they lived somewhere else, they could stab (and shoot) each other as much as they pleased.

But they live here, next to us, and so they make it our problem.

Blacks are only 13% of the total U.S. population, but they commit more than 50% of the violent crimes in the U.S.

And even though government crime statistics show that U.S. cops shoot white suspects at a slightly higher rate than they shoot black suspects, the media only give hysterical 24/7 coverage to the incidents that involve blacks. This creates a very distorted perception in the public that blacks are somehow "under attack" by cops in the U.S., when the opposite is true: blacks are typically the ones committing the violence.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 22, 2021 06:16 AM (k4dH2)

104
I see the democrats in the Senate have reintroduced a bill to make everyone 50 and over eligible for medicare.""



It would seem that this should pass pretty easily. I wonder which donk dare stand in the way?

Posted by: lizabth at April 22, 2021 06:13 AM (L3Rsz)

why not? when everything is free, who is going to stand against it? Pot was anathema to Americans a decade or two ago. Now, everyone loves pot, it is the grease that turns the wheel. The Left has taken over the culture in ways I think many can't comprehend. My best advice is to live in a red area, a very rural red area.

Posted by: Quint at April 22, 2021 06:17 AM (TPY/s)

105 That UMN news is incredible. Why did the university 'researchers' act so unethically in not just committing the hack, but denying that they did it to the open source community?

If the system in academia is based on truthfulness, this would be on the same level as plagiarism. I don't see why there's even a debate on this.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 22, 2021 05:46 AM (rzgDv)


The entire state's really been showing its collective ass recently. Linux and Unix kernels have been considered the gold standard in quality processing that much more intelligent people than those twatty fuckheads have contributed to. The school is a goddamn disgrace for pulling that shit.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at April 22, 2021 06:17 AM (y7DUB)

106 #95 They seem to be fine subordinating themselves to becoming a cartoonish combination of drug culture and plantation life. Very sad and not choices that will serve them well....a mass market for Chinese drugs peddled by armed 13 year old MesoAmericans, and vote-harvesting plantations for Marxist imbeciles. Very enobling....

Posted by: No Longer Amused at April 22, 2021 06:17 AM (RFf2u)

107 Blacks are only 13% of the total U.S. population, but they commit more than 50% of the violent crimes in the U.S.



Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 22, 2021 06:16 AM

Black males are only 3% of the population and the commit over 40% of all violent crimes.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 22, 2021 06:18 AM (JUOKG)

108 Why does the media do this ? Who benefits?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2021 06:18 AM (EZebt)

109 Every day I wake up and think... WTAF???

Actually, first I think I gotta take this dog out. Then while I'm waiting for her to do her business I think WTAF.

I might have to stop listening to the radio at all.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, Wild West Pimp Style at April 22, 2021 06:21 AM (CcOog)

110 If they drop Medicare to 50, watch how quickly private insurance for that group disappears. You will be forced onto the plantation.

Posted by: Only Context at April 22, 2021 06:21 AM (xEIoY)

111 My best advice is to live in a red area, a very rural red area.
Posted by: Quint

I do, although in IL. I am not leaving my country cottage, though. Could never afford its like in a red state.

We don't care too much about Springfield or Chicago, just ignore them.

Posted by: lizabth at April 22, 2021 06:21 AM (L3Rsz)

112 Wild West Pimp Style

https://tinyurl.com/ab9c93xw

Damn I need a T Shirt

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 22, 2021 06:22 AM (yrol0)

113 I can see them being upset if it was Ma'rolls, or Ma'caddie, but Ma'kia? Seems an over reaction.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at April 22, 2021 06:15 AM (0H2Cq)

***

I'm offended that you assumed her name is Kia. I'm going with Lexus.

Posted by: Reverend Chanequa Moron-Robbie Deonkay Smith III at April 22, 2021 06:22 AM (bm04m)

114 Has the Linux Foundation gone SJW? That's one of the strangest things I've read in a while. Very weird.


Oh, and morning peeps.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 22, 2021 06:23 AM (3H9h1)

115 I'm offended that you assumed her name is Kia. I'm going with Lexus.
Posted by: Reverend Chanequa Moron-Robbie Deonkay Smith III at April 22, 2021 06:22 AM (bm04m)

By Lexus I assume you mean at 20 YO ES300 (Camry) with 250k on the ODO.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 22, 2021 06:23 AM (yrol0)

116 I'm offended that you assumed her name is Kia. I'm going with Lexus.
Posted by: Reverend Chanequa Moron-Robbie Deonkay

I'm still trying to find the 'male prophet of the Bible' the mother claims her stabby-daughter was named after.

Posted by: lizabth at April 22, 2021 06:25 AM (L3Rsz)

117 You don't see too many black folks named Edsel.

Posted by: f'd at April 22, 2021 06:25 AM (Tnijr)

118 114 Has the Linux Foundation gone SJW? That's one of the strangest things I've read in a while. Very weird.


Oh, and morning peeps.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 22, 2021 06:23 AM (3H9h1)

On the Feasibility of Stealthily Introducing Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Software via Hypocrite Commits

Sound like SJWs trying to prove that words are violence.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 22, 2021 06:26 AM (yrol0)

119 The Gopher story kind of encapsulates a problem $CIENCE is going to face soon....


The UMN idiots were going for clout. Clout chasing is traditionally a female pastime, but today's low-T XY specimens are doing it too.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 22, 2021 06:26 AM (6XLoz)

120 Black males are only 3% of the population and the commit over 40% of all violent crimes.
__________

As a class, blacks are insanely violent compared to other racial groups.

But instead of admitting this ugly fact, the left insists it is not blacks themselves, but "the racist system" that needs to change. That is bullshit.

U.S. cops are actually quite restrained, as a general principle, when dealing with violent black criminals. Even though blacks commit a hugely disproportionate amount of the violent crime in this country, U.S. cops actually shoot white criminal suspects at a higher rate than they shoot black suspects. If this were really a raaaaacist country, as the left claims, that would certainly not be the case.

The left is pushing the myth of "systemic racism" to avoid discussing the real problem: rampant black violence.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 22, 2021 06:27 AM (k4dH2)

121 Why does the media do this ? Who benefits?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2021 06:18 AM (EZebt)
they are uber leftists. Their teachers never challenged them, and their parents did not give a shit. Yeah I went there, for every leftist, there is a parent who did not give a damn. The Left took over the schools because conservatives didn't care or see it. Hell the Left ran circles around us. They went after schools, school boards, the media, corporations, and the internet writ large. I say the internet was the worst thing that happened to traditional America. And if you want to say I am wrong, please give some examples of how we have improved.
I am no "net guy". But I remember distinctly computer guys chatting with others over the internet. That was in the very early 1980s. I saw it and though, "well that is cool I guess". Look at today, they use the net as a mob to destroy others. Americans are supposed to have their own views and beliefs. There should not be a mob unless you are pushing your views on others. I guess the name for that is politics.

Posted by: Quint at April 22, 2021 06:27 AM (TPY/s)

122 The UMN idiots were going for clout. Clout chasing is traditionally a female pastime, but today's low-T XY specimens are doing it too.
Posted by: Ian S

Bingo.

Posted by: lizabth at April 22, 2021 06:27 AM (L3Rsz)

123 Noot

Posted by: f'd at April 22, 2021 06:27 AM (Tnijr)

124 Japan Olympics
Per Rule 50, therell be no demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda.

Wait no burkinis??

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 22, 2021 06:27 AM (yrol0)

125 I was wondering if the was conceived in a kia. Does she have a brother named Ma'sofa? A sister named Ma'dennysrestroom?


(I'm sorry. I apologize. It is a strange name and I am only having fun. I mean no disrespect to the poor girl or her family. I do not approve of their behavior, but it is crude to make fun of her name.)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at April 22, 2021 06:30 AM (0H2Cq)

126 120 Black males are only 3% of the population and the commit over 40% of all violent crimes.
__________

Stick with the 13% number. Reducing it to just males is deceptive. If you want to just look at males, then just look at their percentage of the male population.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at April 22, 2021 06:32 AM (0H2Cq)

127 It is interesting that the three known halogen derivatives of ammonia -- ammonia trichloride, ammonia tribromide, and ammonia triiodide -- are reported to be colored to resemble their corresponding halogens -- chlorine (yellow green), bromine (orange), and iodine (purple).
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2021 04:44 AM (pNxlR)


I believe ammonia triiodide was the explosive that I used to make as a wee tad (10 or 11) of chemistry nerdish bent.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 22, 2021 07:03 AM (dWwl8)

128 69 Both CNN Don Lemon & Chris Cuomo defended the officer who fatally shot 16 years old Ma'Khia Bryant

"When they roll up on the scene, they see people tussling around. Someone has a knife & their job is to protect & serve every life on that scene"

Video: https://tinyurl.com/yevrcf36
Posted by: Tami at April 22, 2021 05:38 AM (cF8AT)

Wow. Nice.

Posted by: m at April 22, 2021 07:17 AM (nzEdf)

129 69 Not only has hell frozen over....pigs are soaring.

Posted by: Tami at April 22, 2021 05:38 AM (cF8AT)

. . . although I guess, in the context, "pigs" is not the word to be using.

Posted by: m at April 22, 2021 07:19 AM (nzEdf)

130 Please forgive my ignorance, but what are the four essential keys?

Posted by: Paul Morrison at April 22, 2021 09:43 AM (QM8VS)

131 Thanks for finally writing about >Daily Tech News 22 April 2021 <Loved it!

Posted by: proxied sites at April 22, 2021 03:17 PM (pZPP+)

132 Hi Pixy,

Is there any security reason Ace couldn't sign up for Brave Rewards tips?

Any Brave browser user can collect by viewing ads, and then donate to ANY VERIFIED SITE. https://creators.brave.com/

Please ask Ace to verify his site. I have ad money I've been saving to donate.

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