Daily Tech News 5 September 2021

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• [Not pure tech news, but I do branch out into the infectious cancer that is social media from time to time, so please bear with me — Pixy.]
  
  Rolling Stone, the best time to delete your account was right before you posted this. The second best time is now, except you're apparently all passed out in the bathroom.
  
  

  Gunshot victims left waiting as horse dewormer overdoses overwhelm Oklahoma hospitals, doctor says https://t.co/ke654AV6o1 pic.twitter.com/Is4nAsSOyA

  — Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) September 3, 2021

  
  
  Shall we make a list?
  
  
1. "Doctor says."
   
   
2. Calling ivermectin a "horse dewormer" when it is one of the premier drugs for treating parasitic illness in humans.
   
   
3. Photo that shows people rugged up for winter in an area where recent daytime temperatures have been in the high 90s.
   
   
4. An apparent - and yet somehow entirely unreported - epidemic of gun violence in rural Oklahoma.
   
   
   

• The story was of course circulated by the usual "intellectuals" and "epidemiologists" and "news organisations".
  
  

  ⚠️IVERMECTIN & ER—patients taking the horse de-wormer drug, ivermectin, based on #COVID19 misinfo are causing emergency room back ups. Also Oklahoma Center for Poison and Drug Info receiving more calls from people becoming ill after taking ivermectin. 🧵 https://t.co/79DsYoaTsF pic.twitter.com/n8juecvjgR

  — Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) September 4, 2021

  
  
  
  
• So what is the basis in truth for these claims?
  
  Turns out, there isn't any. Every single word is a lie.
  
  

  Jackie 2.0 https://t.co/4K1IgfDrkU pic.twitter.com/IHoSgt0NLa

  — James Lindsay, has cool dreams (@ConceptualJames) September 4, 2021

  
  
  There are ZERO cases of ivermectin overdose being treated in the eastern Oklahoma hospital system, and NOBODY has been turned away from emergency care.
  
  
  
• So, Rolling Stone, seeking to avoid another humiliation, immediately retracted their fairy tale, right?
  
  Nope.
  
  

  Further update: As of at least 3:48pm today, the article has added at least two paragraphs doubling down on the claims that E.R.s are overwhelmed, but not using Ivermectin O.D.s as the cause. My wife @flippanna
  is an editor and is going over the changes line-by-line.

  — Rick Simmons (@buttonfly42) September 5, 2021

  
  
  I did see one person back down when presented with these facts. They were not of the American left, though.
  
  
  

• The Ryzen 5300G may be the best APU you can't buy. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Not the fastest, but the best value for money, except that we don't know how much it costs because you can't buy it so the whole article is kind of guesswork.
  
  If you don't need sixteen cores and a 24GB graphics card, if you just want to check email, write your new novel, watch YouTube, play Minecraft - a modern quad core CPU with solid integrated graphics for $150 is likely all you need. If this does cost $150, which we don't know, because, well.
  
  Intel has quad core desktop parts with integrated graphics, but their desktop parts have the graphics engine scaled way down from the laptop parts, and lag well behind AMD. On GTA V for example, at 1080p low quality, the 5300G manages 80 fps, while the more expensive Core i5-11600K gets 52.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile AMD's next-generation Rembrandt APUs have already entered mass production. (WCCFTech)
  
  If that seems early, you need to understand that it takes months for a complex chip to make its way through the factory. There are dozens of processing steps and they're not fast.
  
  These chips support DDR5 (though not PCIe 5.0) and should deliver twice the graphics performance of AMD's current fastest APUs - well, other than their actual fastest APUs which power the Xbox and PlayStation. Something like 60% of the performance of the Xbox Series S.
  
  
  
• Spying on children is bad. Don't do that. (The Atlantic)
  
  When you've crossed the line so far that even The Atlantic - I refer to it as Fascist Quarterly - even The Atlantic notices, you might want to pause, take a deep breath, and quit your job and go take up potato farming because you're a miserable excuse for a human being where you are now.
  
  
  
• Cloudflare: Threat, menace, or just turning HEAD requests into GETs? (KMitov)
  
  A normal web request is an HTTP GET - it says "give me this page" and the server sends the page.
  
  There's another request type called HEAD - yes, I know - which says "just let me know if you have this page, but don't send it to me".
  
  So if you accidentally turn HEADs into GETs, the load on the server and network utilisation will jump dramatically as every check for the existence of a web page suddenly has to deliver the entire page.
  
  Cloudflare - which is designed to protect websites from being overloaded by their users - misconfigured several hundred servers to do exactly that, in effect DDOSing their own customers.
  
  
  
• I bought a 1TB microSD card for the new laptop. And, since I was on Amazon, some cutlery as well. Been that kind of day, whatever that kind of day is.
  
  
  

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1 really?

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at September 05, 2021 03:09 AM (dB4Iz)

2 hiya

Posted by: JT at September 05, 2021 03:16 AM (arJlL)

3 You would think Rolling Stone would at least give its readers some help, like, for the best experience, should ivermectin be swallowed, smoked, huffed or injected?

Posted by: me again at September 05, 2021 03:22 AM (SmFPm)

4 I mean, I'm an Aussie, and my knowledge of Oklahoma extends as far as "that's not one of the square ones" and even I knew it was horseshit.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 05, 2021 03:25 AM (MqQvv)

5 I have no reason to get up.

Counter culture is now following the rules

Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2021 03:26 AM (2JoB8)

6 Horseshit, there has to be an ivermectin joke in there somewhere, but I cannot find it for all the horseshit. Another fail.

Posted by: delurk ergo fail at September 05, 2021 03:29 AM (SmFPm)

7 I imagine Australia and US are similar in population like coasts are populated with Leftists and the center rural are there to be left alone.

Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2021 03:30 AM (2JoB8)

8 Any word on the trucking strike down under?

Posted by: rd at September 05, 2021 03:30 AM (Z32m1)

9 Often said one uncle Is a Australian, my youngest aunt went to Australia for a job, stayed, married many years. They've in Alaska now.

Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2021 03:33 AM (2JoB8)

10 6 would have been funnier if it was- Horseshit, there has to be an ivermectin joke in there somewhere, but I cannot find it for all the dewormed horseshit. Another fail.

Posted by: delurk ergo failed again at September 05, 2021 03:34 AM (SmFPm)

11 I imagine Australia and US are similar in population like coasts are populated with Leftists and the center rural are there to be left alone.

Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2021 03:30 AM (2JoB

I think that is true, though I am no expert. But there is one problem with this. Almost everyone there lives on the coasts.

Posted by: Quint at September 05, 2021 03:37 AM (5L75r)

12 Often said one uncle Is a Australian, my youngest aunt went to Australia for a job, stayed, married many years. They've in Alaska now.

Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2021 03:33 AM (2JoB

I hope Aussies haven't changed much, but let's be honest, we all have over the years. I have never been to OZ but I have run into a lot of them. The defining feature i saw was a wanderlust.

The young people loved to not just travel, but work abroad, live abroad and experience new things. You would run into them everywhere in Europe from London to Greece. They would work the most menial hotel or bar jobs just for the experience. That doesn't fit with the modern idea of fortress Australia.

Posted by: Quint at September 05, 2021 03:42 AM (5L75r)

13 I guess I could get up and make coffee.

Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2021 03:42 AM (2JoB8)

14 I think that is true, though I am no expert. But there is one problem with this. Almost everyone there lives on the coasts.
Posted by: Quint

'Roos won't let them inland ?

Posted by: JT at September 05, 2021 03:43 AM (arJlL)

15 Emus.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 05, 2021 03:44 AM (MqQvv)

16 I guess I could get up and make coffee.
Posted by: Skip

You know you want to !

Posted by: JT at September 05, 2021 03:45 AM (arJlL)

17 JT should finish my LFL today

Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2021 03:48 AM (2JoB8)

18 Instead of waiting maybe month to get free material to finish , bought it on way home Friday.

Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2021 03:50 AM (2JoB8)

19 JT should finish my LFL today
Posted by: Skip

But you're gonna put it inland in Australia, so no one can see it !

Posted by: JT at September 05, 2021 03:51 AM (arJlL)

20 All kidding aside, that's GREAT Skip !

Posted by: JT at September 05, 2021 03:52 AM (arJlL)

21 If 1 syringe of paste treats 1 1320 pound animal. Thats 6.6 doses for a 200-pound person. The ld50 (lethal dose) is 250 times the therapeutic dose. So whatever you do, don't eat 37 paste things of Ivermectin, in my medical opinion.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at September 05, 2021 03:53 AM (buTO7)

22 "Photo that shows people rugged up for winter in an area where recent daytime temperatures have been in the high 90s.

An apparent - and yet somehow entirely unreported - epidemic of gun violence in rural Oklahoma."

I like the part where the regional news reader does "serious look" and scolds us not to trust the internet. Crap, entire stories and world events go by and all of it based on people tapping away on the internet.

Hell, even the Watergate reporters would have made a few calls first.

Posted by: Quint at September 05, 2021 03:55 AM (5L75r)

23 An apparent - and yet somehow entirely unreported - epidemic of gun violence in rural Oklahoma."


Indian Territory

Posted by: JT at September 05, 2021 03:59 AM (arJlL)

24 1 really?
Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at September 05, 2021 03:09 AM (dB4Iz)

Apparently so!

Posted by: m at September 05, 2021 04:08 AM (RYc1G)

25 Hiya m !

Thanks for getting us out of Indian Territory !

Posted by: JT at September 05, 2021 04:10 AM (arJlL)

26 >>> should finish my LFL today
Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2021 03:48 AM (2JoB

That's cool, Skip! Are we going to see pictures?

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at September 05, 2021 04:15 AM (Z/jzm)

27 I've been looking at @EricTopol, who gathers some Covid data, but he writes very poorly and is all over the place and cites Dan Rather.... On New Zealand, he says (Sep 3), "Towards zero Delta. You go [NZ flag icon]."

Posted by: m at September 05, 2021 04:18 AM (RYc1G)

28 Hiya MLiiGRAM !

Posted by: JT at September 05, 2021 04:18 AM (arJlL)

29 "NHS Sequoyah has not treated any patients due to complications related to taking ivermectin."

And then a lawyer says, yeah, the press will find holes in that and send up another wave of panic press. Let's add:

"This includes not treating any patients for ivermectin overdose."

Posted by: m at September 05, 2021 04:21 AM (RYc1G)

30 Mornin', JT! (and all)

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at September 05, 2021 04:23 AM (Z/jzm)

31 I will send pictures in to COB to see if worthy.

Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2021 04:23 AM (2JoB8)

32 I will send pictures in to COB to see if worthy.
Posted by: Skip

"We're not worthy
We're not worthy !"

Posted by: JT at September 05, 2021 04:26 AM (arJlL)

33 What's LFL, Skip?

Posted by: m at September 05, 2021 04:27 AM (RYc1G)

34 But it comes in apple flavored paste, pretty tasty.

Thats 6.6 doses for a 200-pound person. The ld50 (lethal dose) is 250 times the therapeutic dose.
Posted by: Jimco Industries

Posted by: Colin at September 05, 2021 04:31 AM (hsfGy)

35 What's LFL, Skip?
Posted by: m

Little Free Library

Posted by: JT at September 05, 2021 04:32 AM (arJlL)

36 35 What's LFL, Skip?
Posted by: m

Little Free Library
Posted by: JT at September 05, 2021 04:32 AM (arJlL)

cool

Posted by: m at September 05, 2021 04:36 AM (RYc1G)

37 In my learned medical opinion, I think if we find out what AOCs' normal monthly dose of ivermectin paste is, we can deduce what ours can be.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at September 05, 2021 04:37 AM (buTO7)

38 I'm just happy they came up with a medicine I can spell.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at September 05, 2021 04:39 AM (buTO7)

39 I'm just happy they came up with a medicine I can spell.
Posted by: Jimco Industries

You can spell asspirin, right ?

Posted by: JT at September 05, 2021 04:41 AM (arJlL)

40 >>In my learned medical opinion, I think if we find out what AOCs' normal monthly dose of ivermectin paste is, we can deduce what ours can be.
Posted by: Jimco Industries at September 05, 2021 04:37 AM (buTO7)

Ok, that made me Laugh Out Loud

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at September 05, 2021 04:42 AM (Z/jzm)

41 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 05, 2021 04:45 AM (EZebt)

42 If you google

LFL disambiguation

you get all kinds of things that aren't Little Free Library.

Posted by: m at September 05, 2021 04:47 AM (RYc1G)

43 SF news:
Elex Michaelson
@Elex_Michaelson
16h
#BREAKING @VP @KamalaHarris is scheduled to be in the Bay Area on Wednesday to campaign with @GavinNewsom.

Posted by: m at September 05, 2021 04:49 AM (RYc1G)

44 Wonder if Gruesome knows

Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2021 04:54 AM (2JoB8)

45 SF news:
Elex Michaelson
@Elex_Michaelson
16h
#BREAKING @VP @KamalaHarris is scheduled to be in the Bay Area on Wednesday to campaign with @GavinNewsom.

Good I could use a blow job about now.

Posted by: willie b at September 05, 2021 04:56 AM (weGKL)

46 KRAK OF DAWN IS UP

Posted by: Skip guy who says NOOD at September 05, 2021 05:01 AM (2JoB8)

47 Rolling Stone is such trash. Here's another RS headline:

"DeSantis Determined to Put Kids in Danger, Fights Court Mask Mandate Ruling"

Nice framing.

Posted by: m at September 05, 2021 05:04 AM (RYc1G)

48 Yeah. One interesting phenomenon is that the left became more brazen and thus more obvious about their lies since Trump was elected.

They and the corporate media revealed themselves to adhere to the old communist saying "by any means" and like Islam, lying in the cause of communism is good when done to your enemies.

Part of their lies isn't to convince anyone it's stories for their base. Because those on the left already believe this stuff so they don't look too closely at it. And those on the right can't reveal it to be lies because the left would think they're lying because they would.

In Re: horse dewormer. Anyone taking this without reading the directions (and they're right on the outside in big letters) deserves whatever happens to them. It states clearly and emphasised that the doesage (the entire thing) is for a 1500 pound horse. and that the dosage is 200 mcg or so per kg for any other ANIMAL. (we're animals) The nonsense about the formulation is about the filler not the ivermectin itself.

Posted by: jakee308 at September 05, 2021 05:13 AM (nzLi4)

49 The Cackle rooting for Gruesome

Wow, talk about winning... if you think of Tassafaronga as a US navalvictory

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 05, 2021 05:15 AM (5UyEo)

50 I guess Rolling Stone wasn't content to just shit the bed with the false fraternity rape story in 2014...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at September 05, 2021 05:36 AM (ZSK0i)

51 Ivermectin. Today's bad boy, or something. There has been one or two scarifying stories in our local McClatchy rag for the last two weeks, maybe. ODs, check. Of no medical value, check check. It's almost as if these dickweeds cannot read news coming out of India, Africa, Japan...

or they don't want to. I'm going with option B. Fuckity.

Posted by: GnuBreed, no circumstance at September 05, 2021 05:45 AM (F0YaR)

52 'morning...

Re: Rolling Stone: https://tinyurl.com/9h8hmvyw

Posted by: Oldowan at September 05, 2021 05:52 AM (Mfqer)

53
Well done, Pixy, on the Rolling Stone bullshit article.

Facts - how do they work?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 05, 2021 06:39 AM (+2sc/)

54 Pixy only covers the important stuff: lies in the media, tech news, and anime, lots and lots of anime.

Posted by: Draki at September 05, 2021 07:51 AM (hwhW9)

55 Pixy I've been thinking about the need to build our own internet. Ace scoffs, and it us preposterous, yet the need for domain registration services and web hosting that can't be taken away by the rulers is clear. What is the deal with .nu and do you manage a domain registrar?

Posted by: motionview (prep train organize) at September 05, 2021 08:26 AM (RKp8A)

56 I'll add a caveat about the Rolling Stone article: MAYBE, in the ENTIRE state of Oklahoma, it is true that 1) ERs admitted patients overdosed on ivermectin, and 2) gunshot victims arrived to full ERs, and 3) patients overdosed on ivermectin have reported vision loss. I don't know what part of the hospital system in Oklahoma is encompassed by the Northeastern Hospital System (and I don't know how Sequoyah and Sallisaw fit in, here). Maybe @flippanna will be all over that. The article is awful, but might not be entirely wrong.

Posted by: m at September 05, 2021 08:53 AM (RYc1G)

57 In the first sentence of the video, the female reporter specifies "southeastern Oklahoma emergency rooms." The letter is "from the administration of Northeastern Health System - Sequoyah." It's all messed up.

Posted by: m at September 05, 2021 09:07 AM (RYc1G)

58 I have two horses that I worm every three months.
The Mare takes her dose no problems, I have a Gelding named Bud light (he looks like a quarter horse size Clydesdale) who hates to be wormed, so I have to struggle to worm him, Using Ivermectin once I was struggling to hold him while I held the syringe and since he was demonstrating his reluctance quite fiercely I went to stick the syringe tube back into the cap I held in my mouth, Bud head butted me and I got a large dose of Ivermectin, well two things happened, I did not die and that stuff does NOT taste like apple.
The moral is, Ivermectin in a man sized gulp will not kill you.

Posted by: obsidian at September 05, 2021 09:12 AM (3P/PJ)

59 We truly have specialists in everything in the world at AoSHq!

Posted by: m at September 05, 2021 09:35 AM (RYc1G)

60 Rolling stone has simply made shit up for decades.

Back in 2003 they ran an article about the initial invasion where the embedded reporter claimed the platoon's SAW gunner lit up a kid and killed him; the entire exchange w/ a corpsman pinning it on the gunner was fabricated and utter bullshit, but the sort of utter bullshit a journo or non-gun person wouldn't pick up on.

He literally slandered the troops he was embedded with as child murderers. There is a good chance he even passed the fabricated corpsman's statements *to the SAW gunner at the time* rather than just tossing them in the article, and made him think he'd killed the kid.

These people are scum.

Posted by: somedood at September 05, 2021 09:39 AM (/z9fK)

61 Making stuff up to spread covid panic is all the media is for these days. Including of course the Instapundit and his deranged call for sacrifices. https://tinyurl.com/rd6yhrbd If supposed libertarians are going to do it, no way a far left rag is going to be left out. The only surprising part of this is that anyone is surprised. Of course Rolling Stone is spreading fear porn. Of course Rolling Stone imagines that life in Oklahoma is like life in Chicago or NYC. We don't need them to tell us what they are. We should already know that.

Posted by: BurkeanMama at September 05, 2021 02:21 PM (7PzLn)

62 >>60 Rolling stone has simply made shit up for decades.

Back in 2003 they ran an article about the initial invasion where the embedded reporter claimed the platoon's SAW gunner lit up a kid and killed him; the entire exchange w/ a corpsman pinning it on the gunner was fabricated and utter bullshit, but the sort of utter bullshit a journo or non-gun person wouldn't pick up on.

He literally slandered the troops he was embedded with as child murderers. There is a good chance he even passed the fabricated corpsman's statements *to the SAW gunner at the time* rather than just tossing them in the article, and made him think he'd killed the kid.

These people are scum.
Posted by: somedood at September 05, 2021 09:39 AM (/z9fK)

All through the Bush administration calling our troops baby killers was the modus operendi of the MSM. Conservatives stood by the troops and never lost faith in them. To thank us, Miley calls us domestic terrorists.

Remember the end of Rambo "I only wish America loved us as much as we love America." I only wish the Generals supported us as much as we, fools that we are, supported them.

Posted by: BurkeanMama at September 05, 2021 02:29 PM (7PzLn)

63 Drew Holden has written a thorough Pixy-like debunking of the Rolling Stone story:

https://twitter.com/DrewHolden360/status/
1434591443855753220?s=20

Posted by: m at September 05, 2021 03:05 PM (cME97)

64 I have a machine I built with a 2200G. It is a surprisingly nice, capable machine with snappy response and low power consumption, perfect for people who just want to get work done and sometimes watch some videos. Buy the APU used, though, new prices are stupid high.

Posted by: socratease at September 05, 2021 05:52 PM (oqnjT)

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