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freedude··on Kids almost never transmitted Covid in schools, a major new study shows
Their resiliency isn't the issue. The issue is the harm caused by an unnecessary social experiment. The fact is some won't recover as well as others.
freedude··on The Finalists for the 2023 Pwnie Awards
Pwnie Awards Date: Wednesday, August 9 | 6:30pm-7:30pm ( Oceanside D, Level 2 ) Tracks: Pwnie Awards, Special Events

Black Hat USA will once again provide the venue for the Pwnie Awards, InfoSec's premier award show celebrating the achievements and failures of the security community over the past year.

For more information about the awards please visit the official Pwnie Awards website at pwnies.com.

https://www.blackhat.com/us-23/features/schedule/#pwnie-awar...

freedude··on Renderdoc Security Update
[SECURITY] [DLA 3501-1] renderdoc security update
freedude··on Microsoft August 2023 Patch Tuesday
"there are Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Message Queuing (CVE-2023-35385, CVE-2023-36910, and CVE-2023-36911). According to the advisory, the Windows message queuing service, which is a Windows component, needs to be enabled for a system to be exploitable by this vulnerability. This feature can be added via the Control Panel. You can check to see if there is a service running named Message Queuing and TCP port 1801 is listening on the machine. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute code on the target server. The attack complexity is low, no privileges and no user interaction are required. The CVSS for this vulnerability is 9.8."
freedude··on Cardiovascular Assessment One Year After Covid-19 Vaccine–Associated Myocarditis
"...The bad news: Small islands of scar could be substrate for future arrhythmias, that could be triggered by exercise. All these kids (even those without scar) would need exercise stress tests at 6 months to attempt to prognosticate this..."
freedude··on Cardiovascular Assessment One Year After Covid-19 Vaccine–Associated Myocarditis
Here is a review of the study. https://twitter.com/anish_koka/status/1687593607753015301
freedude··on Cardiovascular Assessment One Year After Covid-19 Vaccine–Associated Myocarditis
Cardiovascular Assessment up to One Year After COVID-19 Vaccine–Associated Myocarditis
freedude··on [dead]
FBI official who worked Trump-Russia probe, later accused of conspiring with Russia, to plead guilty
freedude··on Git Cheat Sheet (2022)
Link to [pdf] https://developers.redhat.com/content-gateway/file/Git-cheat...
freedude··on Microsoft Signing Key Stolen by Chinese
Senator Wyden thinks that the Solarwinds breach could have provided valuable insight to prevent incidents like this one.

" On May 12, 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order 14028, which among other things, created a Cyber Safety Review Board, whose first task would be to study the SolarWinds incident. That review never took place — the Board was subsequently directed by the Department of Homeland Security to study another hacking incident. I have repeatedly pushed CISA and DHS to direct the Board to study the SolarWinds incident, but have been rebuffed. Had that review taken place, it is quite likely that Microsoft’s poor data security practices around encryption keys would have come to light, and this most recent incident might have been averted. "

[PDF] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23888590-wyden_lette...

freedude··on Worldcoin to Allow Governments to Use Its Digital ID System
Controversial Eyeball-Scanning Worldcoin To Allow Governments To Use Its Digital ID System
freedude··on 14m trees have been cut down in Scotland to make way for wind farms (2020)
Scotland Admits Chopping Down 16 Million Trees to Make Way for ‘Green’ Wind Energy Farms
freedude··on Tesla, Inc. 8-k filing – CFO leaves Tesla
Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers.

As of August 4, 2023, Tesla, Inc. (“Tesla”) appointed Vaibhav Taneja as Chief Financial Officer in addition to his current role as Chief Accounting Officer, to succeed Zachary Kirkhorn. Mr. Kirkhorn stepped down as of August 4, after a thirteen-year tenure with the company, the last four years of which he has served as Master of Coin and Chief Financial Officer. During his tenure, Tesla has seen tremendous expansion and growth. Tesla thanks Mr. Kirkhorn for his significant contributions. Mr. Kirkhorn will continue to serve Tesla through the end of the year to support a seamless transition.

Prior to this appointment as CFO, Mr. Taneja, 45, served as Tesla’s Chief Accounting Officer since March 2019, as Corporate Controller from May 2018, and as Assistant Corporate Controller between February 2017 and May 2018. Mr. Taneja served in various finance and accounting roles at SolarCity Corporation from March 2016. Prior to that, Mr. Taneja was employed at PricewaterhouseCoopers in both India and the U.S. between July 1999 and March 2016.

freedude··on How Zoom’s terms of service and practices apply to AI features
jitsi

https://meet.jit.si/

freedude··on Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out
They updated their TOS again today. https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/
freedude··on CISA Releases Its Cybersecurity Strategic Plan
Link to Actual Plan [.pdf]

https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-08/FY2024-2026...

freedude··on PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default
Now wait and see what AI does with all of that data...
freedude··on PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default
> The decision to turn telemetry on by default was not taken by an engineer, so engineers at intel shouldn't feel ashamed of anything at first place.

And this lack of accountability is exactly why our world is the way it is. Just remember anyone can justify evil behavior if they try hard enough. Why? because people are not basically good by nature. They are basically evil by nature. Observe any 2-3 year old throwing a fit and you might begin to grasp the concept.

freedude··on In California, Car Buyers Are Choosing Electric over Gasoline in Record Numbers
It is typical that the "concerned scientists" that authored the article weren't concerned about overloading the electrical grid with all of the additional power draw from charging electric cars.

Why is every article that proclaims the value and benefits of electric vehicles ignoring the three factors that will give them a black-eye in public opinion?

1. Where does all of the power come from to generate electricity to charge the electric car?

2. How do we put out the fires when the electric vehicles' batteries catch fire on a daily basis?

3. Where does the additional infrastructure come from to charge all of the Electric Vehicles?

The basic math won't add up at the rate the government is promoting EV adoption. Run the numbers.

freedude··on Pushpin
https://github.com/automerge/pushpin#pushpin
freedude··on Pushpin
A collaborative digital workspace that works offline and syncs in real-time
freedude··on The cloud is a prison. can the local-first software movement set us free?
I was reading through the comments after reading the article and realized some didn't take the time. So TLDR;

Local-first software is about doing the work on the device at hand securely, effortlessly and serverlessly collaborating on that work using data structures that are designed to facilitate local-first collaboration. It is a platform shift in software development and if you are "all-in" on cloud technology it would behoove you to understand its tenets if for no other reason then to know "who moved my cheese" in the future.

freedude··on The cloud is a prison. can the local-first software movement set us free?
" the same teams that were doing it before, but with cloud guardrails instead of hacky bespoke solutions "

you do realize that "cloud guardrails" often started out life as "hacky bespoke solutions". you are assuming more business risk than is necessary.

freedude··on The cloud is a prison. can the local-first software movement set us free?
Yes, it only pushes the inevitable lean battle further down the road and never solves anything. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
freedude··on Latest Memo: In-line assistance – when is it more useful?
"The most widely used form of coding assistance in Thoughtworks at the moment is in-line code generation in the IDE, where an IDE extension generates suggestions for the developer as they are typing in the IDE.

The short answer to the question, “Is this useful?” is: “Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t.” ¯_(ツ)_/¯ You will find a wide range of developer opinions on the internet, from “this made me so much faster” all the way to “I switched it off, it was useless”. That is because the usefulness of these tools depends on the circumstances. And the judgment of usefulness depends on how high your expectations are."

freedude··on [dead]
"While China apologists turn a blind eye to the one-party communist State's continuing genocides against Christians, Tibetans, Uyghurs, Falun Gong practitioners, and other minorities, they champion the machinery of China's technocratic totalitarianism as a model for the rest of the world. It is deeply unsettling to see a destroyer of civilizations held up as the future for global civilization."
freedude··on New: Improved flexibility when configuring endpoint URLs with the AWS SDKs&tools
New: Improved flexibility when configuring endpoint URLs with the AWS SDKs and tools
freedude··on Low-temperature mineralization of perfluorocarboxylic acids
"Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are persistent, bioaccumulative pollutants found in water resources at concentrations harmful to human health. Whereas current PFAS destruction strategies use nonselective destruction mechanisms, we found that perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids (PFCAs) could be mineralized through a sodium hydroxide-mediated defluorination pathway. PFCA decarboxylation in polar aprotic solvents produced reactive perfluoroalkyl ion intermediates that degraded to fluoride ions (78 to ~100%) within 24 hours."
freedude··on Burning cargo ship towed to safe place off Netherlands coast to avoid
Burning cargo ship towed to safe place off Netherlands coast to avoid ecological disaster.

"The freighter is flying the Panamanian flag, and carried 3,783 new cars, including 498 electric vehicles, according to the company which chartered it.

The 18,500-ton cargo ship left the German port of Bremerhaven for Port Said in Egypt before heading back to Singapore, its final destination.

The cause of the fire, which first broke out overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday last, is still unknown, but one of the electric cars on board could be the cause."

freedude··on Fixes CVE-2023-38403 – Resolves: rhbz#2223729 [Red Hat CVE Discussion]
I think one of the issues is that recently Red Hat complained AlmaLinux didn't submit feedback/patches upstream to support the OS. When they did that, along with a patch they were given a song and dance. If you read down the comments there is a great summarization by Jeff Geerling that points to the problems at Red Hat that need to be addressed to better understand the process.
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