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Vortigaunton NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

― Upton Sinclair

Vortigaunton Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards

companies that sell plug-in systems argue that safety risks are minimal or nonexistent. Mr. Scherer of Craftstrom said his company’s systems would not shock electrical workers because they shut off automatically within one second of a power disruption or grid outage.

Mr. Boyce of UL Solutions said his company would certify panels only if they did not pose a risk to consumers or utility workers.

Vortigaunton Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy

Yeah some form of google's Web Integrity API will be forced one of these days

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrit...

Vortigaunton Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on

From what a quick google search told me, RHEL caps out at 13 years.[0] I'm curious what caused Canonical to offer 2 more years of lts support than Red Hat?

[0]https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata

Vortigaunton No adblocker detected

The FBI also makes a good argument that adblockers prevent scammers from directing people to malicious sites.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/22/fbi-ad-blocker/

https://web.archive.org/web/20230219020056/https://www.ic3.g...

Vortigaunton Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain malware

Looks like someone archived the page of firefox-patch-bin[1] and the only thing that stands out about the package itself is that it's supposedly the "Extended Support Release." Besides that it looks like it's depended on by 183 other packages/metapackages. While that seems more interesting, there isn't an archive of all of those packages.

[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20250718140411/https://aur.archl...

Vortigaunton Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme

Isn't it interesting how this post has more votes than anything else on the first page, is one hour old, and is currently on page 4. Seems like there's some interesting censorship going on in this website outside the consistent flagging of material deemed wrong-think.

Vortigaunton Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones

First thing that pops up on google:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/25/elon-mu...

Anyone still swayed by his vision is painfully naive

Vortigaunton Future of OSU Open Source Lab in Jeopardy

I ctrl-f'd Oregon State and didn't find it in the link you provided. I think you found UofO's endowment: University of Oregon - $1.651

Wikipedia states that OSU's endowment is $829.9 million (2023).[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_State_University

Vortigaunton Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney

"Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

Vortigaunton RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People

If we were back in the 1930's would you be worrying about the rate[0] of people being diagnosed with left-handedness?[1]

[0]https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image...

[1]https://archpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/...

Vortigaunton How 'Careless People' is becoming a bigger problem for Meta

Glad you reminded me of this:

ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard

ZUCK: just ask

ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns

FRIEND: what!? how’d you manage that one?

ZUCK: people just submitted it

ZUCK: i don’t know why

ZUCK: they “trust me”

ZUCK: dumb fucks

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/17/facebook-...

Vortigaunton Bill prohibiting police from lying to children passes Virginia Senate

Every time I see this pop up it reminds me of this part of an epsiode of This American Life [0]. At parts its quite difficult to listen to, however it seems like an important thing to be aware of. If they're willing to do this to children, what are they fine with doing to adults? It's beyond words how someone can imagine that this is moral behavior in the pursuit of justice. I don't see how anyone can harass a child like that - already distraught by the death of his sister - and to treat some kid like a murderer for hours on end.

[0] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/210/perfect-evidence/act-tw...

Vortigaunton The OBS Project is threatening Fedora Linux with legal action

From what I've read the Fedora project has an interest in providing solely open source and non patent encumbered software like codecs. Which sounds like something OBS may infringe on

Vortigaunton DoubleClickjacking: A New type of web hacking technique

Thankfully this shouldn't become a large problem, because websites simply don't load that quick

Vortigaunton We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

It'd be neat if you could create conditional blocklists. Like only whoever X person AND Y person block will be blocked from my feed. And so on...

I don't think that'd solve the problem, but it would marginally help (and should be better than the status quo)

Vortigaunton Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence

Like with everything else, the dosage makes the poison.

I personally intend to stay vigilante to dihydrogen monoxide poisoning.

Vortigaunton Tesla Robotaxi

Oh hey I get to copy paste a list of times elon said FSD would come out next year![1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

[1]https://fortune.com/2015/12/21/elon-musk-interview/

[2]https://x.com/elonmusk/status/686279251293777920

[3]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/02/self-driv...

[4]https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/driverless-tesla-will...

[5]https://x.com/elonmusk/status/823727035088416768

[6]https://www.ted.com/talks/elon_musk_the_future_we_re_buildin...

[7]https://x.com/elonmusk/status/866482406160609280

[8]https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1063123659290595328

[9]https://web.archive.org/web/20190220051410/https://www.ark-i...

[10]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEv99vxKjVI

[11]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucp0TTmvqOE

[12]https://web.archive.org/web/20200709130939/https://www.youtu...

[13]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2HXId2Xhg

[14]https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-interview-axel-spr...

[15]https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/elon-musk-full-self-drivi...

[16]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwq_PhtvLwo

(Or simply, https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/)

Vortigaunton Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links

Another one to be added to the list:

https://killedbygoogle.com/

Vortigaunton Tesla has taken down 2016 release noting full self driving hardware capability

But elon told me FSD would come out next year![1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

[1]https://fortune.com/2015/12/21/elon-musk-interview/

[2]https://x.com/elonmusk/status/686279251293777920

[3]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/02/self-driv...

[4]https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/driverless-tesla-will...

[5]https://x.com/elonmusk/status/823727035088416768

[6]https://www.ted.com/talks/elon_musk_the_future_we_re_buildin...

[7]https://x.com/elonmusk/status/866482406160609280

[8]https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1063123659290595328

[9]https://web.archive.org/web/20190220051410/https://www.ark-i...

[10]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEv99vxKjVI

[11]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucp0TTmvqOE

[12]https://web.archive.org/web/20200709130939/https://www.youtu...

[13]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2HXId2Xhg

[14]https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-interview-axel-spr...

[15]https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/elon-musk-full-self-drivi...

[16]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwq_PhtvLwo

(Or simply, https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/)

Vortigaunton Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf

Yeah it's gotten so bad that the FBI recommends an ad-blocker as a means to protect yourself from malicious sites.

https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221?=8324278624

Vortigaunton New privacy tools and policies to help you stay safe and in control online

Yeah as long as they get to control the narrative around how to stay "safe" online stuff like this will be swept under the rug.

Vortigaunton IRS moves forward with a new free-file tax return system

Please read the article next time.

>Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee in June proposed a budget rider that would prohibit funds to be used for the IRS to create a government-run tax preparation software, unless approved by a group of House and Senate committees.

>The move “safeguards the IRS from an obvious conflict of interest where the tax collector becomes the tax preparer,” the bill’s summary states.

Vortigaunton Paul Graham on Twitter's anti-Substack measures: “It's a mistake.”

Damn the weekly ""mistake"" that Musk makes. That reminds me of this quote by a famous hypocrite "The acid test for any two competing socioeconomic systems is which side needs to build a wall to keep people from escaping? That’s the bad one!"

Vortigaunton Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' control

Sadly this no longer works for Microsoft domains. Had Windows Defender mark my host file as having a 'severe' issue just because I copy pasted a list of Microsoft telemetry domains (1). Everything worked perfectly fine before that update.

(1) https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-h...