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egberts··on She Exposed the Truth About ‘Dirty Money’: It’s Everywhere
paywalled
egberts··on Allies Believe U.S. 'No Longer a Good Model of Democracy,' Poll Shows
Newsweek, a heavily biased media website whose corporation was bought by a millionaire stereo mogul for just exactly $1.00 as a birthday gift for his wife, a former Democratic congresswoman, so she can use it as a yellow journalistic web rag. #caring
egberts··on Why didn't suicides rise during Covid?
Ummm, it did rise. Over 90,000 died from overdose in 2020, more than vehicle accidents or COVID.
egberts··on Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission
“... is still under debate ...” - NEXT!
egberts··on 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
That’s why you never use your real name nor birthdate ... on social media.
egberts··on What Would You Do If the Internet Went Away?
Enjoy life?
egberts··on Pfizer 91% effective in updated data, protective against South African variant
Effective? You meant efficacy?
egberts··on Systemd 248
Intel 960 graphic card here. XWayland. KDE. BTW, I meant encrypted swap->LUKS->LVM->md3->hds1
egberts··on Systemd 248
A cautionary tale on latest Linux, LUKS, and LVM’d swap partition: it still does desktop jankiness (intermittent screen freezes during swap).
egberts··on No one has been murdered in Norway so far this year
I think it is the lack of mental asylums here in US for Norway keeps the difficult cases off of the street that would best explains the disparate murder rate between two countries.

Norway has a rigorous involuntary admittance into mental asylums; US has at most strictest, 3-day VOLUNTARY admittance.

It is arguable that US mental asylums were dismantled by US Mental Health Systems Act of 1980.

In 1980 to 1993, Feds have shriveled up the states’ funds earmarked for fixed mental facilities and dedicated psychiatric hospitals of which took decades to recover in some form of private-funded psychiatry hospitals but still in no way covering all the US needs required for such care due to its “voluntary”-only approach and perhaps the lack of personal funding needed for its own mental health.

So, could that be the small price that US citizens pay for allowing freedom for some “insane” of their citizens just to roam ... freely and with unchecked access to firearms?

== Reference: ==

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Systems_Act_of_1...

- https://ijmhs.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13033-018-...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/Norway/comments/17tq0i/how_are_the_...

- https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210121/Researcher-explor...

egberts··on Permission.site
This is awesome. I used it to pre-configure all six web browsers’ access permission (nearly all to deny mode).
egberts··on TikTok vs. Douyin: A Security and Privacy Analysis
If TikTok does not access our local-based contact address book, then why does TikTok need access to our contacts?
egberts··on Serenity notes: E2E encrypted notes
Ummm, still no self-hosting method.
egberts··on American Chipmakers Had a Toxic Problem. Then They Outsourced It
Yes, unlikely. But if the driver lives near there, then it remains a viable option.
egberts··on In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click
Meanwhile, plugging in unfamiliar phone numbers no longer produces useful results at Google.com, as they WANT you to click in for more information.
egberts··on Rents for the rich are going down, rents for the poor are going up. Why?
California Proposition 13 is about how limited the state government can charge on property tax (one percent)?and how much the appraisal can go up year after year.

Nothing to do with density, although there are numerous county and local laws on density zoning (which is not Prop 13)

Of course, it has been 1973 when this happened and I think only twice has the state government tried to changed it by “stealthily titled” proposition and failed.

egberts··on Scientists Discover Cause of Blood Clots from AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine
Specially when It comes to Fauci commenting on about mask: on, off, not needed, on, double ...
egberts··on American Chipmakers Had a Toxic Problem. Then They Outsourced It
We should follow the paper trail of independent tanker-trailers leaving solar manufacturing plants in California. One driver has been heard to claim that he dumped cadmium-tainted water at the roadside culvert somewhere in Rhodes Island then went back to California for more pickup.

So glad that solar manufacturing has stopped, at least in California; but the environmental damage has probably been done across the country.

egberts··on CVE-2021-27135: xterm flaw may allow remote code execution, CVSS 9.6
Yes. UTF-8 was not a thing during VT-100’s lifetime.
egberts··on You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky
Isn’t the title better reworded as “You suck at Excel, with Joel ...”
egberts··on Media trust hits new low
Media? That includes AXIOS as well.
egberts··on Study: One in five Covid-19 cases do not get immunity
PCR?! Isn’t that the kind of test that can only detect active COVID.

I’d like to think that antibody test would be the one to use as it can determine whether or not a person has ever contracted COVID. Plus antibody has lower false positive and lower false negative than PCR.

Just a bit unclear as to why one would make a statistical case using short-ranged (short-insight) PCR that could have missed the ones who have already had been infected but recovered and then go on to get reinfected (whitepaper’s missed data points).

Oh wait, a case of FREE (short-insight) PCR tests provided by Dutch government. Never mind.

egberts··on EBPFSnitch: An eBPF based Linux Application Firewall
Using same bootlin search engine using your link, function nor variable not found.

Furthermore, the process ID is not yet identified at early inbound stage of EBPD. We would be talking about being past the pre-inbound stage, post-table-lookup stage, and specifically just during the input-to-user land stage.

egberts··on EBPFSnitch: An eBPF based Linux Application Firewall
I don’t see a single parameter of the process ID.
egberts··on EBPFSnitch: An eBPF based Linux Application Firewall
IRL, we are unable to force systemd NOT to use any network ports for security reason due to absence of Linux firewall ability to deal with this process ID on inbound packets.

Hence, OpenRC enters the picture instead just to ensure that network port is not being used.

Also, premise of the DEFAULT-DENY firewall modeling is to pinhole open the port(s) on a per-process (or per-parent-process group) basis.

egberts··on EBPFSnitch: An eBPF based Linux Application Firewall
only problem is that you can’t get the process ID for inbound packets like FreeBSD can, for that still remains Linux’s weakest feature.

— The said feature is critical to proper DEFAULT-DENY firewall configuration/modeling.

egberts··on Woman created deepfake videos to force rivals off daughter’s cheerleading squad
There’s a grain of truth in there somewhere.
egberts··on Woman created deepfake videos to force rivals off daughter’s cheerleading squad
Lawsuit filed in 2014. Deepfake then, not so much.
egberts··on The demise and potential revival of the American chestnut
I actually saw the last surviving American chestnut tree in Pennsylvania.

It was a lone tree on a hillside for miles around.

Those nuts too are still being harvest for biogenetic rework.

egberts··on Netflix considers crackdown on password sharing
Seems like Netflix is doing too much of those wokeism genre.
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