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This story reminded me of late CNet writer James Kim who died under similar circumstances (used Google Maps and ended up dying of hypothermia):

https://www.theage.com.au/technology/online-map-linked-to-fa...

Here is the source of all these articles with actual technical info on the attack:

https://www.guardicore.com/labs/please-read-me-opportunistic...

Yes, let's censor and ban everything you don't agree with.

I tried to export my subscriptions list as OPML today... Youtube has removed that option now. You cannot easily grab the RSS list of your subscribers anymore.

This whole incident is like something straight out of a Kafka novel. The level of insanity in tech community is just shocking to me.

>Cohen writes: "I chose Kazakhstan because it was a place that almost nobody in the U.S. knew anything about, which allowed us to create a wild, comedic, fake world." Why not just make up a fake country then? Why disparage real people for no reason.

Well said. By the way, before Borat, Cohen had a character called "Christo" who was Albanian [1]. It was the exact same character as Borat. But the word is that Albanian gangs, which are plentiful in London, have threatened him so he dropped the Albanian origin and switched it to Kazakhstan. Had Kazakhstan had some gangs in UK, he would have picked some other country to disparage.

[1] https://www.indiewire.com/2014/07/before-borat-there-was-chr...

No matter who wins in November, both the FB and Twitter will face massive regulatory scrutiny and they won't come out the same from that process.

As a side note, I became aware of Glenn Greenwald after the Snowden affair and I have been following his writings ever since. He is one of the sharpest minds in journalism today and is also one of the most objective journalists I've come across. In the past 4 years journalism has become extremely polarized and it's next to impossible for many of them to remain objective. As soon as one declares their opinion on something, they're skewered by the side opposing the issue. Somehow, Glenn has managed to remain largely objective.

Before anyone takes above comment seriously, do some investigation of your own.

That article is nothing more than a damage control and is completely funded by the "green tech" billionaires. Just look at the history log.

If you want to see how far these """green""" tech billionaires have gone to censor and suppress this documentary and what kinds of legal tricks and other pressure they've used, read Max Blumenthal's article.

>‘Green’ billionaires behind professional activist network that led suppression of ‘Planet of the Humans’ documentary

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/09/07/green-billionaires-planet...

Michael Moore also interviewed Max about this amazing investigation into how these rich people censor things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDIEqHGAveA

If you think that "green tech" is "green" or that it somehow eliminates fossil fuels out of the equation, please watch Jeff Gibbs' "Planet of the Humans" documentary. It will open your eyes to how this "green tech" movement really works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q2m_mCIrQY

DDG is based in the US. It's under the same laws as Google and has to honor search warrants from the police and has to comply with laws (including FBI's NSLs).

This is why I don't use a US-based search engine.

Take a look at this tweet: https://twitter.com/MichalPurzynski/status/12932205708850626...

It should also be noted that Mozilla has the smallest security team of all major web browsers. Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome security teams are an order of magnitude larger than Mozilla's team.

I've completely stopped my donations to Mozilla until they get rid of her CEO and management. They're completely irresponsible, answer to no one, and have totally screwed up that org by diverting funds to all kinds of nonsense instead of concentrating on delivering a good product. I've also stopped using FF because I've lost confidence in the team managing security of it.

I gave it a try a while back but it apparently needs IPv6 to be enabled to use its web interface. Is this still the case?

Then Section 230 needs to be revoked fully.

Sure, but then it shouldn't be allowed to hide behind Section 230.

> archive.is always seems to be struggling to stay online

Very good point. I will donate to them too. I've been donating to Archive.org for a long time but I use Archive.is more often these days so they deserve some love too.

I have a list of places where I make donations to on my profile page here.

This article reminded me to donate to Sci-Hub again. I feel like donating to various archives is some of the best use for my monthly donations budget.

My grandfather, who's in his 80s and has been using WP for the longest, has switched to WordGrinder about 8 years or so ago. He co-wrote several books with WG as well. He likes it a lot but it'd definitely not as feature-complete as WP. He mentioned to me that he still starts up WordPerfect every now and then to do some task.

When I bought a computer for him, an iMac, he asked me about WP and I setup a DOSBox with it for him. But then I managed to compile Wordgrinder and showed him how to use it and he's been using it since. Wordgrinder used to be a pain in the neck to compile on a Mac but it's much easier now after 0.7.x version was released. I still update it for him when I visit him.

You can see what WordGrinder looks like here: https://cowlark.com/wordgrinder/

Anyone know which CA did this? I'd like to add it to my list of 'entities to avoid doing business with'.

Don't speak Russian but this was awesome to watch. I guess like driving a bicycle, you don't forget how to fly a plane.

That was great! Thank you so much for a recommendation! If you have any more, pls share :)

>Are there any good videos like this where the dogfights are many-on-many instead of just one-on-one?

Something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWa7NrSd55w

Just yesterday I watched a few "real X pilot flies X in a simulator" videos. One of my favorites was a real Rafale pilot flying a Mirage 2000C in a dogfight in DCS [1]. Amazing instincts and skill.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlM53d9g9q4

Hi cmrdporcupine, you should also disclose that you actually work for Google.

>Why do schools need to know the race and ethnicity of their applicants in order to make merit-based admissions decisions?

School admissions in the US are almost never based on merit alone. If all these elite schools never saw the name or face or skin color of their applicants, their student bodies would look way different than they are now.

> Apple is about to get bitten hard for being a monopoly.

A monopoly in what? In making their own products?

>I would rather use Edge

You should rethink that.

>"We find that the browsers split into three distinct groups from this privacy perspective. In the first (most private) group lies Brave, in the second Chrome, Firefox and Safari, and in the third (least private) group lie Edge and Yandex."

https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-professor-says-edge-is-the-w...

Confirmation from a person on the Mozilla's (former) threat management team:

>They killed entire threat management team. Mozilla is now without detection and incident response. >Tristan, Alicia, Lucius, even our new director are gone

https://nitter.net/MichalPurzynski/status/129322057088506265...

I wonder how Tor will handle this...

Hi, this is exactly the same model that I got. Mine has a different branding on but many sellers seem to have re-branded the same white-label model from China. They work well. They generate ozone for 30 min and then for 5 min every hour until the battery runs out. It has a micro USB battery charging port.

You can search for them by using the model number (ST-807A) or by searching for "ozone generator fridge" on your fav shopping sites.

My family has been decontaminating our N95 masks with ozone. I bought a battery-operated O3 generator and if you place it into a tupperware container along with the mask, it will decontaminate it and then you can use it the next day. Yale School of Medicine has done a study on the efficacy of this method. [1]

I prefer this method because it doesn't degrade the mask at all, it needs no disinfecting/harsh chemicals, it penetrates into the pores of the mask completely, and it's near fool-proof.

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.28.20097402v...