Daily Tech News 26 November 2022

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Elon Musk just decided to bring the worst people on the internet back to Twitter. (The Verge)

People who weren't banned from Twitter:

Chinese genocide apologists
Hitler-worshiping Hindu nationalists
Iran's terrorist leadership
Antifa goons actively planning assaults
Pedophiles
People illegally distributing puberty blockers to children (who were also pedophiles, strange coincidence there)
People running mass-reporting schemes (who were - yes - also pedophiles)

were

The New York Post for news stories inconvenient to Democrats
James Lindsay and the Babylon Bee for accurately identifying an adult male
Nick Rekieta for being the victim of a mass-reporting scheme
Me for suggesting a certain politician "needs to resign, or be thrown in a volcano, whatever works"

Hoping that particular politician will soon be out of office, but it's Melbourne and they're all insane down there.

Tech News

The Blue and the Gray and also the Gold: Twitter's verification system is coming back next week, with three different checkmarks. (The Verge)

Blue for humans, gold for companies, and gray for official government accounts.

With an optional extra verification so that, for example, CNN can verify that yes, the idiot you are making fun of is one of theirs.
Binance has announced a proof-of-reserves system that shows that funds a crypto exchange is allegedly holding for its customers is actually being held. (Binance)

Binance appears to have more funds than its customers have deposited, which is good.
Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, on the other hand, is looking increasingly fucked. (Yahoo)

Allegedly the company has $10 billion in Bitcoin, even more than Binance, but it is being the opposite of transparent about where those funds might be.

Disclaimer: It's nearly Christmas and I haven't taken down my Halloween tree yet.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Good evening Pixy
Hello everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2022 04:02 AM (xhxe8)

2 Mornin'!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at November 26, 2022 04:04 AM (9rIgP)

3 Insomnia is a bitch.

Hey guys.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 26, 2022 04:05 AM (U2p+3)

4 It's getting late pretty early tonight. Or something like that. Anyhoo, back to bed.

Posted by: Turn two at November 26, 2022 04:06 AM (AlObD)

5 >>>The Blue and the Gray

So that we can be marked out for a proper Civil War.

Posted by: m at November 26, 2022 04:06 AM (r8enq)

6 Still looking at Weird Dave content

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2022 04:11 AM (xhxe8)

7 5 >>>The Blue and the Gray

So that we can be marked out for a proper Civil War.

Probably just a coincidence that it worked out that way - the choices make sense if you want to keep them easily distinguished for common forms of colour blindness. They're distinct except for people who are completely colour blind, which is relatively rare.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 26, 2022 04:11 AM (BLOW1)

8 It's that internal time clock, I got no reason to be up

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2022 04:11 AM (xhxe8)

9 hiya

Posted by: JT at November 26, 2022 04:13 AM (T4tVD)

10 7 5 >>>The Blue and the Gray

So that we can be marked out for a proper Civil War.

Probably just a coincidence that it worked out that way - the choices make sense
Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 26, 2022 04:11 AM (BLOW1)

Agreed.

Posted by: m at November 26, 2022 04:14 AM (r8enq)

11 Not buying the bionic girl thing

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2022 04:14 AM (xhxe8)

12 Now do you show you have a few billion of nothing?

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2022 04:20 AM (xhxe8)

13 Lucy is snoring to wake the dead.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 26, 2022 04:23 AM (U2p+3)

14 Nine calls the election for Labor

Nine has just called the election for Labor, predicting a majority government led by Premier Daniel Andrews.

https://www.theage.com.au/

Posted by: m at November 26, 2022 04:26 AM (r8enq)

15 I'd go with..The Red and The Black. Because, well, Blue Oyster Cult Rocks.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at November 26, 2022 04:26 AM (AXxfu)

16 I googled

daniel andrews fascist

and got 249,000 results!

Posted by: m at November 26, 2022 04:34 AM (r8enq)

17 Off to work I go. Probably be able to post now and then today. Later...

https://youtu.be/FAvQSkK8Z8U

Posted by: Puddleglum at November 26, 2022 04:35 AM (sAmhv)

18 Labor wins the election

We’re now confident enough to call it: Premier Daniel Andrews will win a third term. -- However, it’s not yet clear exactly how many seats Labor will have in the Legislative Assembly.

https://www.theage.com.au/

Posted by: m at November 26, 2022 04:36 AM (r8enq)

19 From the ONT, 5% of Chinese are descended from Genghis Khan.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at November 26, 2022 04:44 AM (I9VC/)

20 Good morning! Holy kercfuk it's early. Need coffee....

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at November 26, 2022 04:47 AM (tBR6g)

21 China Xinjiang: Urumqi rocked by Covid lockdown protests after deadly fire

https://tinyurl.com/mr3c7ejp

Posted by: m at November 26, 2022 04:53 AM (r8enq)

22 "Nine has just called the election for Labor, predicting a majority government led by Premier Daniel Andrews."

Australian's Liberal Party is what the GOP would have been without Trump. A minority opposition party happy to sit back and watch their country go to hell.

Posted by: lowandslow at November 26, 2022 04:58 AM (qH6FZ)

23 OK, wasted a hour, might as well make coffee

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2022 05:00 AM (xhxe8)

24 23 OK, wasted a hour, might as well make coffee
Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2022 05:00 AM (xhxe

"Wasted"?

Posted by: m at November 26, 2022 05:03 AM (r8enq)

25 Oh, look. Somebody left a plate of baclava over by the coffeemaker. Must have been intended as a little breakfast treat before I make bacon and eggs...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at November 26, 2022 05:08 AM (tBR6g)

26 Elon Musk has said he would support Donald Trump’s arch rival, Ron DeSantis, in 2024 if the Florida governor were to run for president.

https://tinyurl.com/35m6nvaw

Grauniad

Posted by: m at November 26, 2022 05:11 AM (r8enq)

27
Now do you show you have a few billion of nothing?
Posted by: Skip

Pull out your wallet, open it, and have a small moth fly out of it

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at November 26, 2022 05:11 AM (pNxlR)

28 Rain! Cool, cool, rain!

Posted by: Eromero at November 26, 2022 05:15 AM (0OP+5)

29 Good morning morons

Jeff Bezos advises spending less this Christmas. Exactly the opposite of what one should do in an inflationary economy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 26, 2022 05:15 AM (EZebt)

30
The Blue and the Gray and also the Gold:

... colours ...

Nine has just called the election for Labor, predicting a majority government led by Premier Daniel Andrews.

... Labour ...

OK, wasted a hour, might as well make coffee

... hour ... wait

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at November 26, 2022 05:18 AM (pNxlR)

31
Authorities in the city of Urumqi have denied claims that restrictions stopped people escaping Thursday's fire.

Omelets, eggs, some breakage required.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at November 26, 2022 05:21 AM (pNxlR)

32 Tryptophan seems to have laid waste much of the Horde.

Posted by: m at November 26, 2022 05:25 AM (r8enq)

33 Local TV news reports a man attacked a Muni driver, and hijacked an articulated bus in the Mission yesterday, hitting about 10 cars before being stopped by police.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 26, 2022 05:26 AM (EZebt)

34 Coffee is up

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2022 05:29 AM (xhxe8)

35 Our local football team made it to the state quarterfinals last night - was really touching seeing all the gang signs flashed after the game.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at November 26, 2022 05:30 AM (5tJAN)

36 It's hilarious that Elon is taking out all the pedos, and coincidentally they all happen to be big Antifa account. He needs to release all the info on who at Twitter was protecting these pedophiles, then maybe he can create a catapult company that we can use to launch them into a volcano.

In my journey to cut the tv cord, I went to go buy an Over the Air dvr, which needs a portal harddrive,, its been a few years since i purchased one, but holy crap 5 TBs for under $100, i think i paid like $300 for a 200 Gig once last time.

Though ive also rethought my router purchase and am back to being confused.

Posted by: Rbastid at November 26, 2022 05:32 AM (kFZbr)

37 I'm seeing video of huge riot at the Foxconn factory in China overcoming mass police presence.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 26, 2022 05:39 AM (EZebt)

38 Mornin', all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at November 26, 2022 05:46 AM (wbI6p)

39 Daniel Greenfield also writing about the protests in China over at Frontpage

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 26, 2022 05:46 AM (EZebt)

40 Greenfield implying these uprisings could signal the coming collapse of the CCP.

The protests seem centered on China's Zero COVID policies, lockdowns, and related predations.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 26, 2022 05:49 AM (EZebt)

41
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 26, 2022 05:51 AM (ENBF0)

42 American Thinker yesterday maybe, but somewhere reading Fauci sent a delegate to China at beginning of their world experiment and saw the Chinese went lockdown and when came back decided lockdown was the way to go. ( to get rid of Orangeman)

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2022 05:54 AM (xhxe8)

43 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2022 05:59 AM (u82oZ)

44 Skip

Long planned. To exploit Trump germaphobe nature. Clever, with no consideration of long-term effects. Those that planned this are some of the most evil people in history.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2022 06:01 AM (u82oZ)

45 Nood Krak.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at November 26, 2022 06:02 AM (I9VC/)

46 "Our local football team made it to the state quarterfinals last night - was really touching seeing all the gang signs flashed after the game."
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at November 26, 2022 05:30 AM (5tJAN)

Stopped in a local bar yesterday and caught the 4th quarter of the Iowa/Nebraska game yesterday. A few things that stood out for me, the really bad football, how these kids all thought they were the best players in the world and the need they all felt to embrace the thug culture.
Good grief, this was Nebraska vs. Iowa in Iowa City.

Posted by: lowandslow at November 26, 2022 06:06 AM (qH6FZ)

47 current US ambassador to China, twitter page

https://nitter.net/USAmbChina

Posted by: m at November 26, 2022 07:11 AM (0ixKl)

48 Better luck next elections, Pixy!

Posted by: m at November 26, 2022 07:15 AM (0ixKl)

49 Melbourne is full of citizens who cheerfully acquiesce in the destruction of their liberty, and are unfit to be free, and are incapable of self-government.

(And every single one of its cops needs to be in jail for their disgusting behavior during their protests over coof inspired tyranny)

Delende est Twitter.

Posted by: Catch Thirty Thr33 at November 26, 2022 10:33 AM (hcR8z)

50 "In my journey to cut the tv cord, I went to go buy an Over the Air dvr, which needs a portal harddrive,, its been a few years since i purchased one, but holy crap 5 TBs for under $100, i think i paid like $300 for a 200 Gig once last time."

I recall seeing issue #2 of "Byte" magazine, from 1975, and in it was an ad for a memory card for your S-100 bus computer: 64 kilobytes of memory for *only* $10,000! (Mind you, 10,000 1975-vintage dollars could buy a pretty nice car.) Times have indeed changed.

Posted by: Nemo at November 26, 2022 10:40 AM (S6ArX)

51 Insomnia is a bitch.
Hey guys.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 26, 2022 04:05 AM (U2p+3)
Read that as: "Insomniac is a bitch."
*ducking tire iron, running serpentine dodging 230 gr. FMJ*

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Posted by: Tom at November 26, 2022 12:09 PM (S8sNL)

54 pixy. what is your Twitter handle?

Posted by: Sunny at November 26, 2022 12:59 PM (Q47Lc)

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