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[00:54:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03darkfeline [1030] 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 205 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:03] <exec> 08└─> If you've got so much work that you need to bring it home Hello, time traveler or alien visitor! Our race is currently experiencing a pandemic, so most of us are quarantined and thus must work from home.
[00:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:04] <exec> 08└─https://condenaststore.com/featured/woman-stands-at-the-front-of-a-board-room-holding-farley-katz.html [condenaststore.com] (New Yorker cartoon)
[00:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:06] <exec> 08└─Tattle-Tale Whether you're using Zoom's desktop client or mobile app, a meeting host can enable a built-in option which alerts them if any attendees go more than 30 seconds without Zoom being in focus on their screen.
[00:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:08] <exec> 08└─American product made by programmers from Chyna, how much does this app call home just like everything else designed by CCP controlled China.
[00:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:11] <exec> 08└─Not interested enough to even find out what Zoom is. I guess I am no longer included in "Everyone". Just remember, if I told you once, I have told you a million times, never exagerate.
[00:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:13] <exec> 08└─Here's some zoomies -- https://www.ebay.com [ebay.com] If you need a jargon-translation, happy to oblige!
[00:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:15] <exec> 08└─What is this zoom thing? You know, i'm no boomer (no offense to boomers), i used to be a hip computer programmer back in the dot-bomb days, partying at "raves" and shits. So, what is this zoom thing?
[00:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cyber Insurer Chubb Had Data Stolen in Maze Ransomware Attack - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:25] <exec> 08└─Now, the "bad guys" have a list of people who think their data is valuable enough to insure. So they don't spend their time breaking into a place, only to discover the owner is a hoarder, and has lots and lots of crap of little to negative value. I can tell you if you broke into my system, you will...
[00:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:46] <exec> 08└─The seven real stages of any kind of coding, OSS or not, are: 1. Shock: The utter surprise that there isn't a tool to do this already, or surprise that all the existing tools to do this suck. 2. Denial: A complete failure to recognize that you're either trying to solve a stupid problem, or are tryin...
[00:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:47] <exec> 08└─Open decision making means that your overworked penniless open source volunteers will be infiltrated by people who appear to have a lot of time. Because they are paid by the commercials or by the competition. Once in key roles they will troll, or implement bad decisions.
[00:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:47] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrEVwu5PH_Y [youtube.com]
[00:56:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03inertnet [4071] 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 119 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:15] <exec> 08└─It's nice that they're trying to treat infertility, but they could make a lot more money creating a male contraceptive.
[00:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:16] <exec> 08└─People in developed countries are also responsible for much more carbon emissions and resource usage. Ideally, every country should be working on reducing its population. A comprehensive sex education, free birth control, and reproductive freedom helps greatly with this.
[00:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:19] <exec> 08└─Doctors and countries could also stop being paternalistic about sterilization. So many women and men who don't want children are denied sterilization that they want, because the doctor thinks they may regret it. This is despite the fact that people who don't have children are the least likely to reg...
[00:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:21] <exec> 08└─Honestly, if they want to make money off this research, they should figure out how to CAUSE the lack of the enzyme and offer male birth control so that men can better control their futures. Yeah I know, condoms. And they've failed to prevent baby daddies for ages.
[00:57:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Quits Video Calls After Naked Man ‘Guessed’ the Meeting Link - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:03] <exec> 08└─Fake Nudes.
[00:57:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Says It Unintentionally Hid Some Competitors’ Faster Delivery Options - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:14] <exec> 08└─Parent here. > Clearly you have no software development experience. Does working with developers for 35 years including writing specs and testing alpha and beta code count? It's true that I am not a programmer. I've also been screwed by Amazon--as mentioned on SN a few times. Our small publisher (en...
[00:57:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unstable Deep Ocean Circulation; Altered Circulation Might Have Cooled Northern NA and Europe - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:55] <exec> 08└─Just take all those windmills, turn them upsidedown in the Gulfstream and power them with coal-fired powerplants. Problem solved.
[01:00:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tizan [3245] 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 308 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:36] <exec> 08└─When freezing milk and other liguids (soups, etc) remember to leave enough space in the container for the expansion. Those plastic gallons of milk, we commonly get at US grocery stores, will explode in a freezer ...you are better off using a little and remove the cap and let freeze before replacing...
[01:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:50] <exec> 08└─Regarding your tax software statement. Only cowards, idiots, whores or a combination thereof, fund the IRS and this is the same type of thinking that i find repugnant.
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[01:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:18] <exec> 08└─is it nice, wherever you are? Is it an alternate universe, or a different planet?
[01:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:19] <exec> 08└─Zoom, is a video chat program, like >many other programs [ionos.com] For those unable or unwilling to leave home due to Covid-19, it enables meetings and social interaction without leaving the house.
[01:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:21] <exec> 08└─zoom ,google hangouts, whatever else microsoft offers, apple lockin I couldn't care less - who needs to see anyone they talk with? Out of synch cues? Having said that, this crisis has seen an uptick on zoom meeting - perhaps because of habit. Then we have slack the crap remake of all of the above......
[01:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:24] <exec> 08└─Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For
[01:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:56] <exec> 08└─Retirement: So now we can retire, and know that the software will live on forever but we are homeless living on a diet of twigs and rain water because the meager donations to the project only covered 2 years.
[01:57:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Says It Unintentionally Hid Some Competitors’ Faster Delivery Options - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:22] <exec> 08└─Given how Amazon operates, with different teams having basically no interaction with each other, this makes sense. Somebody put in a quick hack to push back Amazon-backed delivery dates, and the team that manages the "buy box" algorithm probably didn't know that somebody in the past hard coded the A...
[01:59:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 182 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:22] <exec> 08└─In about the year 9997, when the Y10K problem is right around the corner, and everything must be udpated for five digit years, there will suddenly be a lot of job openings for COBOL.
[01:59:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03legont [4179] 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 187 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:55] <exec> 08└─As a one who actually had a chance to try one, I'd prefer to die than do it again. It is, basically, constant waterboarding. My wife was given an instruction to never ever give a consent.
[02:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techlectica [2126] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:35] <exec> 08└─These deaths are just some of the hidden cost of extra fatalities due to the media and government ordered panic.
[02:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:15] <exec> 08└─Where do you want to meet for the taste test? I'll bring the baked (with dousing of Worcestershire) and you do it your way with petroleum.
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[02:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:58] <exec> 08└─Still no Klingon. Priorities, people!
[02:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:00] <exec> 08└─"What are people going to do if they use text-only browsers" Is there anything being said here that can't be said in ASCII ?
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[02:54:02] <exec> 08└─👍🏻
[02:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:04] <exec> 08└─I don't have the email from their list offhand, but they rejected Klingon because it is still under copyright and the rights holders won't release the rights to it.
[02:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:22] <exec> 08└─Why in the fuck would I use Zoom? Who is this even useful for? Why do I want to look at someone's face? That's not useful information. If they want to have a useful meeting, then all I need to see is the presentation on their screen.
[02:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:56] <exec> 08└─0. upload to self-hosted, public Gitlab server Microsoft could decide to close/restrict Github, so it's not the3 gold standard any more
[02:56:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Perspectives On James Clerk Maxwell And His Equations - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:55] <exec> 08└─The Hilsch tube is an intriguing machine - no moving parts and able to generate a substantial temperature difference. It also can be used for separation [wikipedia.org] of different density gases (the less dense components tend to go out the cold end), used for example, to separate uranium hexafluor...
[03:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:34] <exec> 08└─It seems Aargau is increasing the capacity. If they knew they had enough, why increase? Other places are or did not pick up extra resources in advance... and they are or will be at the limit. Then the will cross it and have to go with whatever they can get in a rush, like using hotels or hangars as...
[03:02:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 542 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:50] <exec> 08└─> mandatory decoupling between controller in the widest sense Agree. Occasionally I've been able to recover spinning magnetic hard disk data by replacing the controller board. Rather than take these (HPE SSD) kinds of risks with data, I'd be more inclined to use a controller that uses plugin microSD...
[03:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:19] <exec> 08└─>so I'm not sure what your point is. You should download the Azuma to English dictionary. For example when Azuma says: "You are the lowest entity in the universe, I would throw you into a black hole only to see the hole spit you back because you're too repulsive for it", it really means: "Hello ther...
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[03:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:12] <exec> 08└─I was half expecting the next major spec version to have support for animated glyphs to support more emoji.
[03:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:14] <exec> 08└─Pokémon; déjà vu; Björk.
[03:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:16] <exec> 08└─Please stick with plain text. My 'reader (Jaws from Freedom Scientific, the best available for Windows) can't see emoji. There's nothing there to read, it goes dead silent when encountering one, so every time someone writes using them it renders what they've said essentially & effectively useless. W...
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[03:54:18] <exec> 08└─> Pokémon; déjà vu; Björk. ASCII translation works for me, I won't confuse these if they are spelled like this: Pokemon; deja vu; Bjork. Yes, I know, I'm an ugly American, and I probably butcher the pronunciation. But this is a text forum.
[03:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:20] <exec> 08└─Is there anything being said here that can't be said in ASCII ?
[03:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:22] <exec> 08└─Isn't this something Jaws can fix? All emoji have English names. I think Jaws should be able to say SOMETHING instead of nothing at all when it reads a message with emoji in it. But I'm not a fan of the concept of using emoji to write messages. Screen readers aren't the only place where emoji cause...
[03:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:24] <exec> 08└─That quote just means that chatterboxes find an excuse to prattle endlessly after seeing a picture.
[03:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:27] <exec> 08└─When they put in those stupid skin colored modifiers that break some parsing (in a minor way) while ignoring REAL scripts needing support you know priorities are foobar. Emjoi need to STOP becoming virtual stickers. we had text faces before; we didn't need these and certainly not a ton of them. Food...
[03:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:29] <exec> 08└─Yea, all they have got so far is an animated "work in progress" roadsign glyph. It's right next to the "Best Viewed in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4" glyph.
[03:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:31] <exec> 08└─Saves headaches for the eds when some chucklehead uses non-ascii quotes or emdashes in a story. And gives us something else to mock /. about.
[03:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:33] <exec> 08└─I have been pondering about two ideas for handling emoji. One is a font that renders them as "words" instead of pictures. It would generate huge glyphs, and it would need to be created multiple times, one per language to support, as it would be a different glyph for each. It would be like those emai...
[03:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:35] <exec> 08└─We occasionally use one as a department value or when it's relevant, other than that we're old and grouchy and prefer anything outside ascii stay off of our lawns.
[03:57:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Perspectives On James Clerk Maxwell And His Equations - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:29] <exec> 08└─also, methinks the whole thing would be much easier explained with quaternions
[03:57:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Perspectives On James Clerk Maxwell And His Equations - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:31] <exec> 08└─And curl takes a 1-form to a 2-form.
[03:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:34] <exec> 08└─52K ought to be enough for anybody...
[04:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:12] <exec> 08└─Honeywell had a PL/I compiler. I don't know when it came into existence, but I used it at MIT circa 1970.
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[04:54:22] <exec> 08└─Yea, all they have got so far is an animated "work in progress" roadsign glyph. It's right next to the "Best Viewed in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4" glyph.
[04:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:26] <exec> 08└─Announcing the new Unicode standard! Now with even more emojis, including eight new poop emojis, an explosive diarrhoea emoji, and very topical, dozens of virus emojis! Also, stickers! Oh, and some languages and shit as well, but that's just an afterthought.
[04:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:29] <exec> 08└─Jaws considers emoji the same way it considers icons -- as tiny pictures with no text to OCR. No text means nothing to read & therefore inherently useless to the blind.
[04:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:48] <exec> 08└─What's Zoom?
[04:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Bigscreen is a New Smart TV Experience Powered by Raspberry Pi 4 and KDE - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:44] <exec> 08└─I have done a bit of reading on this and it is possible to substitute a self-hosted speech to text engine. But also seems that it takes quite a bit of training to get it working well. This repo shows an example of subbing in self hosted engines: https://github.com
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[04:56:54] <exec> 08└─I hasten to qualify this
[05:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:07] <exec> 08└─I'd guess that a lot of it is healthcare that can be put off. Things like knee/hip replacements, hernia operations, and procedures like yours may be put off depending on the opinion of your Doctor. There also moving stuff out of the hospital if possible. My sister needs to spend a day in hospital ev...
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[05:54:07] <exec> 08└─It's been known these things are very vulnerable from day 1, and there has been a ton of speculation Diebold deliberately borked the security. Not only did anyone in tech that was in tech for anything but the money know it, but you have to assume the leaders of both parties, not to mention the 1%'er...
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[05:54:08] <exec> 08└─“The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent. They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices. Their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness. We have been lulled into a trance. They have made us indif...
[05:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO’s 'Kill Chain' Documentary Highlights Flaws in US Election Machines - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:10] <exec> 08└─I admire the optimism. Maybe this time in 2000^w 2004^w 2008^w 2016^w 2020 people will come to their senses and stand up and demand a return to open and fair elections [osce.org] through the removal of both those fraudulent devices and their backers in the oligarchy [rollingstone.com]. However, mor...
[05:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:35] <exec> 08└─NOT EVEN A PROBLEM NOW. Try getting a printer to print Japanese characters from a Spanish language laptop reading from a English based server. Go through this everyday. Then toss in misconfigured machines where FTP is one Code Set, HTTP using another, TElnet using a third, Printers using a forth, a...
[05:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:36] <exec> 08└─Emojis leave me cold. The most important feature was that it finally gained support for symbols used on old computers. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[05:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:39] <exec> 08└─Who are the clowns that suck money by adding ever more clown "characters?"
[05:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:41] <exec> 08└─Are the poop emojis available in all colors and genders?
[05:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:43] <exec> 08└─Damn, no, they're only available in brown. Will have to fix that in 13.1.
[05:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:45] <exec> 08└─This so much. They can add different skin colors, various combinations of people, 3 genders, etc. But they insist on Han unification.
[05:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:47] <exec> 08└─Mine reads the official description out loud. I believe JAWS can be set to do that too.
[05:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:08] <exec> 08└─You drop-out reprobate, The Magnetisized Brasstard, you notice that there are no liquor stores on Zoom, so they are hardly essential. Drunks will drink, but the thirst for education is insatiable! This is why you fail, TMB, you stopped being edumacated.
[05:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:16] <exec> 08└─What we need is an easily applied, and easily reversed permanent male contraceptive. There's supposed to be one in the works where they inject something into your sperm ducts that blocks the sperm, but otherwise leaves everything alone, and doesn't require any surgery (just two small injections, no...
[05:57:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:17] <exec> 08└─According to his wife, yes.
[05:57:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:19] <exec> 08└─As a doctor of my acquaintance put it: "America is the only country where medical decisions are made in the courtroom." I don't know whether it's strictly correct, but it might well shine a light on why some doctors are hesitant to perform sterilisations without, at least, in-depth and detailed disc...
[05:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06School Quits Video Calls After Naked Man ‘Guessed’ the Meeting Link - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:06] <exec> 08└─This happened in Norway. The kids probably were disgusted (mostly because the man was probably ugly), but Europe isn't like America where people completely freak out when they see someone's genitals.
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[06:54:17] <exec> 08└─Red states don't care because the prior meddling benefited then. They will only care once they take a hit. Human nature, not just red nature.
[06:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06HBO’s 'Kill Chain' Documentary Highlights Flaws in US Election Machines - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and worse, it's yet another "Russian Hackers" story even though Israel, China, and our own intelligence agencies working with the two are our own worst enemies. If we wanted a workable voting system we would have goddamn had it already. Also, "We also hear from an Indian hacker who says he was...
[06:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:52] <exec> 08└─It is sort of funny to get random emojis read out loud. Two messages that I've seen recently with replacements made as to how I heard them. Gonna get some tonight!! WINKING FACE AUBERGINE SPLASHING SWEAT SYMBOL
[06:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:53] <exec> 08└─There are two classes of problems, getting shit done and fiddling. Fiddling is why you have to write pages of Python code to make the text the Twitter API returns neatly jibe with your code, or why there's no function for a particular binary operation so you have to convert it into a string before f...
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[06:54:55] <exec> 08└─Make the other one black-colored, then. There's Guinness and Coffee that can easily do that to a person. The eyes and smile on a black poop would be more dramatic anyway.
[06:57:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:57:23] <exec> 08└─I don't know whether it's strictly correct, but it might well shine a light on why some doctors are hesitant to perform sterilisations without, at least, in-depth and detailed discussion and the signing of many waivers.
[06:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret About Uranus - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:24] <exec> 08└─Continuing the off-topic topic that the Head Editore Emeritas has deemed worthy of a reply: I am always amazed at what the editores do not know about the daily experience of the average Soylentil. Yes, until a day or so ago, we could see the filters for pending submissions. The disruption of informa...
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[07:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Archive Suspends E-Book Lending "Waiting Lists" During U.S. National Emergency - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:06] <exec> 08└─Waiting lists are a germ, a virus. Heck, most people don't even know what to call them.
[07:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Perspectives On James Clerk Maxwell And His Equations - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:57:51] <exec> 08└─You are aware that the service of those who do no actual work but constantly make decisions is always the most expensive? I don't think you could afford my services!
[07:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret About Uranus - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:25] <exec> 08└─I am always amazed at what the editores do not know about the daily experience of the average Soylentil
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[08:54:06] <exec> 08└─The copyright cartels could waive the restrictions and allow the books to be distributed freely. Even if the offer was only available and expired after a limited time. They could help a lot of people and it would cost them very little. But, of course, they care more about their precious copyrights t...
[08:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Suspends E-Book Lending "Waiting Lists" During U.S. National Emergency - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:07] <exec> 08└─Lets see how long this lasts before some publisher slaps with some lawsuit... wait, are lawyers considered an "essential" business that may remain open? :P At the rate things are going, I'm honestly wondering if things will ever get back to normal. This emergency has allowed so many things to happen...
[08:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Archive Suspends E-Book Lending "Waiting Lists" During U.S. National Emergency - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:09] <exec> 08└─Copyright is an anachronism for any passive consumer of content. You can find everything you want for the cost of a few electrons, and downloading it is like a bear shitting in the woods.
[08:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:55] <exec> 08└─👍🏻
[08:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:57] <exec> 08└─Don't fork. When you deviate anyway, use the opportunity to fix all the errors Unicode made. Some of which are at a more fundamental level than the selection of characters to include.
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[09:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using an App to Track Your Bike Ride Could Result in Your Becoming a Suspect - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:08] <exec> 08└─Bookmark this story, so that you have it handy the next time someone claims: “If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide.”
[09:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using an App to Track Your Bike Ride Could Result in Your Becoming a Suspect - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:09] <exec> 08└─Useful idiots can be convinced to track themselves, so that when I commit a crime, someone else gets blamed. I love it. Maybe I will make a career change, and take up crime as a way of life!
[09:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using an App to Track Your Bike Ride Could Result in Your Becoming a Suspect - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:11] <exec> 08└─You would only bookmark this if you have something to hide.
[09:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using an App to Track Your Bike Ride Could Result in Your Becoming a Suspect - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:14] <exec> 08└─I'll have nothing to hide, after I've hidden your body! But, I'll leave the phone home while I'm doing that.
[09:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Suspends E-Book Lending "Waiting Lists" During U.S. National Emergency - 1183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:24] <exec> 08└─Oh yes. For groups that want things that are harmful or contrary to society know: 'Never let a good tragedy go to waste.' The reason they were able to pass the US PATRIOT act so quickly was because law enforcement and intelligence agencies had a wish list ready for the right tragedy that would allow...
[09:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HBO’s 'Kill Chain' Documentary Highlights Flaws in US Election Machines - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:36] <exec> 08└─"Fake it deeper!"
[09:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah, like 'ääliö'
[09:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:15] <exec> 08└─What are people going to do if they use text-only browsers or are visually-impaired?
[09:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:38] <exec> 08└─They make cheap but decent audio equipment. Their portable microphones are pretty damn good,
[09:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:39] <exec> 08└─How quickly the young forget. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
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[10:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using an App to Track Your Bike Ride Could Result in Your Becoming a Suspect - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:05] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, you are already guilty of at least something. No need to opt for a career change, you are already criminal.
[10:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Using an App to Track Your Bike Ride Could Result in Your Becoming a Suspect - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:06] <exec> 08└─The difference is, once you decide to be a real criminal, you can take satisfaction in a job well done! ;^)
[10:54:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bussdriver [6876] 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 765 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:49] <exec> 08└─When they put in those stupid skin colored modifiers that break some parsing (in a minor way) while ignoring REAL scripts needing support you know priorities are foobar. Emjoi need to STOP becoming virtual stickers. we had text faces before; we didn't need these and certainly not a ton of them. Food...
[10:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:11] <exec> 08└─>> Who are the clowns There's a pink-haired SJW clown emoji that answers your question.
[10:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:12] <exec> 08└─FreeBSD has Unicode console. No X11 necessary. Unlike poor Linux... But, best fonts are on Apples, as always were. That's why I use Mac for a terminal...
[10:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:14] <exec> 08└─🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬
[10:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:38] <exec> 08└─If Mazda doesn't do it for you, try this one - https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[10:56:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 849 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:08] <exec> 08└─The seven real stages of any kind of coding, OSS or not, are: 1. Shock: The utter surprise that there isn't a tool to do this already, or surprise that all the existing tools to do this suck. 2. Denial: A complete failure to recognize that you're either trying to solve a stupid problem, or are tryin...
[11:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:04] <exec> 08└─Aren't they zombie languages? I thought of Linear-A, the Phaistos Disc, Rongorongo, and the Voynich manuscript: any others? ...to answer myself, of course there are: there's a Wikipedia list of undeciphered scripts [wikipedia.org].
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[11:54:01] <exec> 08└─You've gone to all the trouble of getting an ion engine out there, to the asteroid you want to move. So - land, gently, reorient the thrusters, and push the asteroid along. Added benefits are, you get to keep all of your telemetry gear in working condition. Yeah, I understand, you'll "waste" fuel an...
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[11:54:02] <exec> 08└─I DONT WANT SKIN CANCER FROM THE SUN BUT I CANT USE GOLDFISH IN MY VAGINA THE LABIA FOLDS BACK AND LAUGHS AT ME SAYS THINGS LIKE HOW ABOUT SOME COCO PUFFS AND MY TERMINAL LANGUAGE CHANGES FROM ENGLISH TO CANTONESE AND THEN BACK AGAIN AFTER I PLEAD IN THE TERMINAL WITH THE PERSON READING MY WALL REQU...
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[11:54:15] <exec> 08└─http://archive.is/9uZqf [archive.is] https://info.security.kastle.com [kastle.com] Millions of Americans have some kind of front door camera. There are plenty of dashcams too, and automated license plate readers. Better get your murder sprees done...
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[12:54:02] <exec> 08└─>> one that — unlike a coronavirus — has the potential to end humanity Wait... you haven't seen what the virus has in store for next year after it's had some time to mutate.
[12:54:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Using an App to Track Your Bike Ride Could Result in Your Becoming a Suspect - 140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:09] <exec> 08└─Bookmark this story, so that you have it handy the next time someone claims: “If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide.”
[12:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using an App to Track Your Bike Ride Could Result in Your Becoming a Suspect - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:17] <exec> 08└─Well said!
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[12:55:22] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo [wikipedia.org]
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[13:01:13] <exec> 08└─I was taught in high school that dead languages were defined as those that never change. No words added. No meanings change. There was no qualification of speaker existence or written texts. Since some of these programming languages are under active development, that definition does not apply. Of co...
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[13:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:00] <exec> 08└─You can get cooties from other people's blood.
[13:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:02] <exec> 08└─But it's for our national corona emergency. Common sense and your rights don't matter anymore. If you resist, we must continue to shut the country down.
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[13:54:12] <exec> 08└─IANARS -- but I can see that threatening asteroids will have a velocity vector aimed generally in the direction of Earth, at least on their "final approach". Thus, to match velocity requires getting to a point on the approach path, and then reversing to perhaps an even higher velocity. This may not...
[13:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using an App to Track Your Bike Ride Could Result in Your Becoming a Suspect - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:28] <exec> 08└─Nah, just get smarter about it. Surveillance tech is so easily hacked. Get extra points for framing an enemy or three for your crime spree. During his bike ride, Mr. McCoy should've been towing a red wagon with 99 cell phones.
[13:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Suspends E-Book Lending "Waiting Lists" During U.S. National Emergency - 1390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I heard about that EPA move. How about, abortions being deemed not medically necessary? Abortion clinics are to preserve their medical supplies for Coronavirus victims. However, Americans should keep going to work, because the economy depends on it. And, that's face time, not just telecommute....
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[13:54:41] <exec> 08└─> You can find everything you want ... Actually, there is a lot of written material that is not available online, including trade secrets that have nothing to do with copyright. All sorts of specialized things have not been digitized. Our company library is full of interesting and potentially useful...
[13:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO’s 'Kill Chain' Documentary Highlights Flaws in US Election Machines - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:55] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure it won't wake anybody up, or tip any scales. And here's why: The party that controls most of the government is quite clear in its internal documents that if there's a free and fair election, they lose. So they're using all the power they have to make damn sure there isn't one. And be...
[13:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06HBO’s 'Kill Chain' Documentary Highlights Flaws in US Election Machines - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:56] <exec> 08└─When it comes to election hacking, I find it very strange that so many pundits like to blame foreigners when the people with the means, motive, and opportunity to cheat are the US officials in charge of running the elections.
[13:55:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 869 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:10] <exec> 08└─Please stick with plain text. My 'reader (Jaws from Freedom Scientific, the best available for Windows) can't see emoji. There's nothing there to read, it goes dead silent when encountering one, so every time someone writes using them it renders what they've said essentially & effectively useless. W...
[13:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:40] <exec> 08└─Write code on a mainframe using a 3270 emulator from an IBM PC clone where the flavor of the day could be EBCDIC or ASCII maintaining code written in the 1990s by people who thought it would run for at best ten years.
[13:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:42] <exec> 08└─Stop giving them ideas. Please.
[13:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:41] <exec> 08└─Elastic Search? Where you got to pay for actual security, but who wants to use a database without security?
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[14:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:06] <exec> 08└─AIDS AIDS AIDS My father. AIDS My sister. AIDS My uncle and my cousin and her best friend. AIDS AIDS AIDS The gays and the straights and the whites and the spades. Everyone has AIDS.
[14:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:08] <exec> 08└─Can someone do a proper clinical trial of this treatment? We very badly need some real science to know what treatments are actually going to do any good for those who have been afflicted by COVID-19, and so far, no one has yet performed a proper clinical trial that demonstrates the effectiveness of...
[14:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:10] <exec> 08└─You can also test for those cooties and remove the few people who have them from the blood/plasma supply like is currently done.
[14:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:12] <exec> 08└─Can someone do a proper clinical trial of this treatment?
[14:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powerful Ion Engine Will Be Flying On NASA's Dart Mission To Try And Redirect An Asteroid - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:23] <exec> 08└─This double asteroid system poses no threat to Earth.
[14:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Powerful Ion Engine Will Be Flying On NASA's Dart Mission To Try And Redirect An Asteroid - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:25] <exec> 08└─Watch the trajectory change just happen to drive it into some advanced civilization that doesn’t know it was an accident.
[14:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using an App to Track Your Bike Ride Could Result in Your Becoming a Suspect - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:41] <exec> 08└─Attention Citizen: YoU WoUlDn'T ThINk oF CoMmiTtiNg A tHOuGHt CriMe. Thoughts are murder. Stop thinking and save lives today! Thank you for your cooperation.
[14:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO’s 'Kill Chain' Documentary Highlights Flaws in US Election Machines - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:10] <exec> 08└─We spend just enough on the tech and publicity to keep the majority relatively quiet. Federal elections are 100% smoke and mirror BS. It doesn't even matter who "wins". Local elections - you can still make a difference there with a vote, or better yet, running for an office yourself. You know, if th...
[14:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO’s 'Kill Chain' Documentary Highlights Flaws in US Election Machines - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:11] <exec> 08└─is that how Biden, who was sucking BIG time in the polls, suddenly surged into the lead?
[14:55:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 258 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:36] <exec> 08└─Announcing the new Unicode standard! Now with even more emojis, including eight new poop emojis, an explosive diarrhoea emoji, and very topical, dozens of virus emojis! Also, stickers! Oh, and some languages and shit as well, but that's just an afterthought.
[14:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:58] <exec> 08└─Fiddling is also .. when I read your post, then start reading about unary and binary logical operations, then end up watching a 1:50 video covering axiomatic logic, propositional and predicate logic and it's use in mathematical proofs. Also how one of the 16 binary logical operators has a long stand...
[14:55:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:00] <exec> 08└─Rights holder sounds like a real Klingon bastard!
[14:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:02] <exec> 08└─It has been a long time since I read a comment I wanted to know more about so much. Links, please? I am also bored and curious.
[14:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:27] <exec> 08└─See (#976783) above -- dragster headers.
[14:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:02] <exec> 08└─What about code written merely to solve one person's problem or to amuse themself?
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[15:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:08] <exec> 08└─One could conceivably set up a clinical trial in as much time as Dr Raoult's team had, but without committing the same methodological errors. It would definitely NOT take years.
[15:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:09] <exec> 08└─If the cure works, they should have plenty of survivors to draw new blood from, shouldn't they? Basically, cure one person with blood plasma, then (if that person is not also infected with something else) draw blood from them to heal several others with.
[15:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:11] <exec> 08└─I'm sure someone will eventually. This looks like something that could work, but not be a really good answer, so even after the successful good trial, it will be replaced by something else really quickly. When my younger sister got polio, the treated the rest of us with blood plasm. (Well, they call...
[15:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:13] <exec> 08└─Can someone do a proper clinical trial of this treatment? We very badly need some real science to know what treatments are actually going to do any good for those who have been afflicted by COVID-19, and so far, no one has yet performed a proper clinical trial that demonstrates the effectiveness of...
[15:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Archive Suspends E-Book Lending "Waiting Lists" During U.S. National Emergency - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:54] <exec> 08└─But, of course, they care more about their precious copyrights than they do about people.
[15:55:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06HBO’s 'Kill Chain' Documentary Highlights Flaws in US Election Machines - 225 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:08] <exec> 08└─When it comes to election hacking, I find it very strange that so many pundits like to blame foreigners when the people with the means, motive, and opportunity to cheat are the US officials in charge of running the elections.
[15:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06HBO’s 'Kill Chain' Documentary Highlights Flaws in US Election Machines - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:11] <exec> 08└─Is that how Trump won the election in 2016 ?
[15:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:00] <exec> 08└─I'd say submit a patch, but then I remembered what JAWS is. Is there still a reason you're on JAWS and not on something under a free software license, such as NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) [wikipedia.org]?
[15:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:27] <exec> 08└─Why do I want to look at someone's face? That's not useful information.
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[16:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:04] <exec> 08└─Retrospective limitation om equipment sold from US sources. That will make the industry reconsider buying any US equipment in the future. Today it may be chip-production stuff. Tomorrow it will be a hammer. Imagine a contract saying, you can buy this hammer, but if you need to hammer in a Chinese na...
[16:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:06] <exec> 08└─Boon for Apple, AMD, Nvidia, etc. or a disaster in the making?
[16:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:08] <exec> 08└─Coming up next, China figures out how to not-so-violently take over Taiwan. Trump takes no responsibility for actions, blames Hillary's email server instead.
[16:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:10] <exec> 08└─I can't see that we're choosing battles wisely, if we're choosing them at all. If it's Russian, it's evil, if it's Chinese, it's evil, if it's evil, kill it. FFS, I'm an anti-communist, dead set against most all socialism. But, even so, here we are in the world we have created. China ain't going awa...
[16:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:26] <exec> 08└─One could conceivably
[16:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:28] <exec> 08└─No biggie. Don't they teach children in school to spray for cooties?
[16:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Powerful Ion Engine Will Be Flying On NASA's Dart Mission To Try And Redirect An Asteroid - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:41] <exec> 08└─Bank shot, corner pocket.
[16:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO’s 'Kill Chain' Documentary Highlights Flaws in US Election Machines - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:30] <exec> 08└─Has it occurred to you yet that your God runs an eternal, celestial North Korea ("Heaven") and an eternal, *inescapable* set of concentration/death camps ("Hell" as Christians and Muslims commonly believe it) yet? In case I need to spell this out for you: the being you worship as God is Literally In...
[16:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:20] <exec> 08└─moderate: redundant and shit as well,
[16:57:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:23] <exec> 08└─Having been maintainer of a project that went through all those stages, I recommend you invoice those institutions at phase #6 (become freelance, make an invoice for your work, get paid). Because for sure, #7 will happen.
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[17:54:08] <exec> 08└─China Is Avoiding Blame by Trolling the World [archive.is] Yes, Blame China for the Virus [foreignpolicy.com] Stacks of Urns in Wuhan Prompt New Questions of Virus’s Toll [bloomberg.com] China theft of technology is biggest law enforcement threat to US, FBI says [theguardian.com] Relations with Ru...
[17:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:28] <exec> 08└─You've heard that Rome wasn't built in a day? Fact is, you can't build much more than a doghouse in a day. If you're that impatient, why don't you get your degree tonight, so you can join in the efforts tomorrow?
[17:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:29] <exec> 08└─Especially if you’re not working and the rent is due. Who knows, That person you’re donating to could even be your landlord and he’s not giving you a break on rent.
[17:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:31] <exec> 08└─> You think medical researchers are just sitting around twiddling their thumbs at the moment? No no we're all too busy hacking p-scores and guzzling down that sweet, sweet grant money. Ahhhhh suckers!
[17:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:34] <exec> 08└─I ordered my degree from Liberty U two weeks ago - where's my job saving lives? I have this idea about chloroquinamine. Another idea is to make a ring of roses and a pocket full of posies, a tissue tissue we all pick ourselves up by our bootstraps.
[17:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:36] <exec> 08└─The Landlord's income is sacrosanct, didn't you know? He's busy collecting 1/2 your paycheck, doesn't have time for excuses. Two weeks a month you work for the landlord, one week a month you work for the government. Only the last week of the month do you start putting money in your own pocket.
[17:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using an App to Track Your Bike Ride Could Result in Your Becoming a Suspect - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:05] <exec> 08└─Story: Two neighborhoods. Split by a 2 land country road. One built in the last 5 years, the other built 40 years ago. New neighborhood is about 33% more expensive for the same sized homes with no lawn. In the old neighborhood we have a wide range of folks from from 20's - 90's. New neighborhood...
[17:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using an App to Track Your Bike Ride Could Result in Your Becoming a Suspect - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:06] <exec> 08└─There is no point in this story. It's just a story.
[17:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HBO’s 'Kill Chain' Documentary Highlights Flaws in US Election Machines - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:39] <exec> 08└─did these documentary makers bother to bring up the main point of open vs closed? if not, they are useless fucks.
[17:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:30] <exec> 08└─Pirate a discrete math textbook and read the first few chapters of it. Truth tables are tedious as fuck but then you get into predicate logic and that's kinda counterintuitive. Then do Set theory and then see how it neatly applies to combinatorics. Then if you really want a kick in the dick, keep on...
[17:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:58] <exec> 08└─And to add insult to injury: https://www.diffordsguide.com [diffordsguide.com]
[17:57:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:35] <exec> 08└─> 4. Bargaining: Believing that if you can fudge the heuristics just right, this might actually work. Ha ha - very true! This is where many resources get spent in R&D. Nobody wants to call it like it is.
[18:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret About Uranus - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:18] <exec> 08└─There is a site variable that gates when the message such as this appears at the top of the main page: SoylentNews is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop. Only 15 submissions in the queue
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[18:54:15] <exec> 08└─and slowly isolating itself on the world stage and sliding into irrelevance.
[18:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:17] <exec> 08└─ok pooh bear
[18:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:41] <exec> 08└─My recollection is that we tried this during the last ebola outbreak and found blood plasma not to be an effective treatment. Perhaps this time is different. I don't have a source, so this is based on a very rusty memory of someone not working in healthcare.
[18:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:42] <exec> 08└─Can someone do a proper clinical trial of this treatment?
[18:55:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Using an App to Track Your Bike Ride Could Result in Your Becoming a Suspect - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:08] <exec> 08└─The difference is, once you decide to be a real criminal, you can take satisfaction in a job well done! ;^)
[18:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using an App to Track Your Bike Ride Could Result in Your Becoming a Suspect - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:16] <exec> 08└─n/t
[18:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO’s 'Kill Chain' Documentary Highlights Flaws in US Election Machines - 1390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:50] <exec> 08└─Open source does NOTHING for election integrity! If you think it does then you're a fool looking for a buzzword solution like the ignorant public that has doomed itself into it's continued decent into despotism. I feel compelled to explain out of hope maybe 1 reader is capable of conscious thought a...
[18:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:41] <exec> 08└─Ah, well...behind every dark cloud there's a silver lining.
[18:57:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:48] <exec> 08└─maybe they were using LO in Windows? i've haven't done that in years, but in a grown up's OS it works just fine.
[18:57:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:49] <exec> 08└─i like systemd just fine from a high level user perspective. it makes my life easier.
[18:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plasma Bigscreen is a New Smart TV Experience Powered by Raspberry Pi 4 and KDE - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:14] <exec> 08└─yeah, right. i hate nvidia a lot more than intel.
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[19:54:02] <exec> 08└─The only logo that I remember from way-back-when is NBC's peacock. I remember that it changed, though I can't say how many times. A half-arsed search of Youtube shows their embarrassing commercials from 1979 - which I don't recall because I was overseas. Anyway, earliest memories of that peacock was...
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[19:54:03] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoDuoegMpms [youtube.com]
[19:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ingenious Way TV Logos Were Made Before Computers - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:05] <exec> 08└─video [youtube.com] and description [grant-trebbin.com] of the lissajous curve used by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
[19:54:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 790 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:13] <exec> 08└─Retrospective limitation om equipment sold from US sources. That will make the industry reconsider buying any US equipment in the future. Today it may be chip-production stuff. Tomorrow it will be a hammer. Imagine a contract saying, you can buy this hammer, but if you need to hammer in a Chinese na...
[19:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:22] <exec> 08└─Only dumb people think that this and similar viruses couldn't possibly happen in any slaughterhouse or abattoir anywhere in the world. People flu mixing with animal flu created a new flu. Dumb people, following their dumb politicians, will try to blame a specific country when it could happen anywher...
[19:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:24] <exec> 08└─Except - it's not a flu virus. You need not be terribly sophisticated to understand this is not the flu.
[19:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:26] <exec> 08└─Only dumb people read the word BIOWEAPON in my comment. Or at least one dumb AC.
[19:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:52] <exec> 08└─I wonder if the people receiving the transfusion cure might have their own immunoresponses stunted, like people who take steroids and have their endogenous production systems shut down. Could go either way, on this and a hundred other variables, which is why they have to test it.
[19:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:54] <exec> 08└─That's because Ebola was God's revenge on Africans and you can't effectively fight God, whereas COVID is a man-made virus escaped from the Gates Foundation labs and more easily controllable.
[19:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:56] <exec> 08└─Unless, of course, you live in some place with cheaper rent and taxes.
[19:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:58] <exec> 08└─No! I need to live in the most expensive area of the country so that I can constantly complain about how little money I have!
[19:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:00] <exec> 08└─SN has turned into a dumpster fire of ignorant trolls, thankfully a few decent folks stick around and usually correct the stupidity.
[19:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:02] <exec> 08└─I need to live in the most expensive area of the country so that I can constantly complain about how little money I have!
[19:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:04] <exec> 08└─All the kids don't have school so they have plenty of time to waste getting internet points for the lulz
[19:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Using an App to Track Your Bike Ride Could Result in Your Becoming a Suspect - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:38] <exec> 08└─That was a really shaggy dog.
[19:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HBO’s 'Kill Chain' Documentary Highlights Flaws in US Election Machines - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:12] <exec> 08└─I doubt it simply because of how much political capital the DNC spent on Biden. Pretty much every candidate that dropped out has endorsed Biden, undoubtedly with promises of support for the political career. The DNC is still pretending that money, manipulation, and "legal" cheating via the DNC's wei...
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[20:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:04] <exec> 08└─What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable?
[20:54:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 1024 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:22] <exec> 08└─I can't see that we're choosing battles wisely, if we're choosing them at all. If it's Russian, it's evil, if it's Chinese, it's evil, if it's evil, kill it. FFS, I'm an anti-communist, dead set against most all socialism. But, even so, here we are in the world we have created. China ain't going awa...
[20:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:29] <exec> 08└─If TSMC uses an U.S. technology for critical production operation, why not Intel, to be competitive at least? Fact: Intel has no adequate technology. Therefore, it is very probable TSMC does not actually use U.S. technology for critical production operation. Another thing is sure: if such restrictio...
[20:54:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 314 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:46] <exec> 08└─Can someone do a proper clinical trial of this treatment? We very badly need some real science to know what treatments are actually going to do any good for those who have been afflicted by COVID-19, and so far, no one has yet performed a proper clinical trial that demonstrates the effectiveness of...
[20:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:03] <exec> 08└─Takes one to know one, asswipe.
[20:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:05] <exec> 08└─dot dot cootie shot!
[20:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 1601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:07] <exec> 08└─There will never [biospace.com], ever [nih.gov], ever [clinicaltrials.gov] be any clinical trials [clinicaltrialsarena.com] for "treatment" of "COVID-19" [hopkinsguides.com]. Why? Because it doesn't exist! It's all a conspiracy by the DNC, Hillary Clinton, Colin Kaepernick, Nancy Pelosi and Lt. Colo...
[20:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:09] <exec> 08└─That's because COVID-19 is God's revenge on those who don't support Trump and you can't effectively fight God, COVID is not a man-made virus, but divine retribution for hating real Americans!
[20:55:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Powerful Ion Engine Will Be Flying On NASA's Dart Mission To Try And Redirect An Asteroid - 648 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:16] <exec> 08└─You've gone to all the trouble of getting an ion engine out there, to the asteroid you want to move. So - land, gently, reorient the thrusters, and push the asteroid along. Added benefits are, you get to keep all of your telemetry gear in working condition. Yeah, I understand, you'll "waste" fuel an...
[20:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HBO’s 'Kill Chain' Documentary Highlights Flaws in US Election Machines - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:17] <exec> 08└─Trump is not the candidate the RNC wanted.
[20:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:38] <exec> 08└─There are others, but when I need a quick video conference/screen share solution I turn to Jitsi Meet (https://meet.jit.si). I don't host my own but they do have instructions if you are concerned for your privacy. Using Jitisi Meet is a very easy experience most, follow the link to connect.
[20:57:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 1152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:39] <exec> 08└─Obviously you are either a replicant or a psychopath...oh, if I only had a Venn diagram for this site. The most effective communication is two people face-to-face. While subjective projection exists in any similar situation, facial cues, body language, physical presence and tone of voice all augment...
[20:57:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:41] <exec> 08└─JITSI?? I didn't know that still existed! I used to play with that just before Skype gained popularity (~15 years ago maybe?). I was always disappointed though: performance wasn't great, IIRC you had to sign up for a SIP number (which wasn't effortless) and...who the hell used it? I'm having enough...
[20:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:57] <exec> 08└─Educating women also seem to be effective.
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[21:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:05] <exec> 08└─Exactly although a JS lib is not exactly a real killer [murderpedia.org] piece of software.
[21:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:06] <exec> 08└─I have an Javascript implementation of ReiserFS and I'm struggling.
[21:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:08] <exec> 08└─It's not like the code will spoil. In the craptastic world of Web two-oh, code has a very short shelf life: it needs updating every two hours, whenever a new exploit gets found out - not hard in the huge unnecessary stacks that underpin the internet we know today - and whenever it needs to support t...
[21:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:10] <exec> 08└─Let's lock them all up and drain the web swamp.
[21:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:13] <exec> 08└─The internet would be a better place.
[21:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ingenious Way TV Logos Were Made Before Computers - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:24] <exec> 08└─to design the icons for Google's Material Design language, designers cut and folded paper prototypes of the icons Paper must be banned with immediate effect
[21:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:18] <exec> 08└─I see you’ve made the shitty choice.
[21:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:20] <exec> 08└─I was going to mod you up as funny, but I realized, that since there are people actually so seriously fucked up that they believe all that--including some here on Soylent News--that there is an actual possibility (probably not, but it's a possibility) that you are being serious. Poe's Law...
[21:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:22] <exec> 08└─Stupid SJW twat, let me correct you... SN has always been a dumpster fire of ignorant trolls.
[21:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using an App to Track Your Bike Ride Could Result in Your Becoming a Suspect - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:56] <exec> 08└─I went out to get food, due to the anti covid measures we have to self-declare our destination. To make things possibly easier I decided to record a gpx trace (open format of your location in time) of my travel, so if I were stopped I could exactly tell the cops where I had been going so far. No sto...
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[22:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:14] <exec> 08└─It means angry fate. Users should knew better.
[22:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:15] <exec> 08└─What happened to Michael David Crawford's code when he died?
[22:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:17] <exec> 08└─As per his will, it was donated to the Aga Khan Foundation.
[22:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:45] <exec> 08└─Well, *someone* friendly to China with a raft of money behind them will begin fabbing chips that Chinese companies can use. The names and companies are temporary, and Huawei may not have any control (though they'll have a lot of input).
[22:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:47] <exec> 08└─I am quite sure China is lying about the extent of the Covid virus, because that is how they work. Western big business got exactly what they deserved when they did their deal with China. They wanted cheap labour and a whole new market of a billion people, and they didn't care what they gave away t...
[22:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:27] <exec> 08└─I modded it funny for you. The clue for me was the phrase "these guys" on the link the League of Women voters site.
[23:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06School Quits Video Calls After Naked Man ‘Guessed’ the Meeting Link - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:09] <exec> 08└─hard to identify a drag queen when the clothes are off. The clothes make the man.
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[23:54:30] <exec> 08└─Then good riddance.
[23:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:32] <exec> 08└─and whenever it needs to support the new shiny du jour.
[23:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:34] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure why you'd say that. After all, we have woodchippers.
[23:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:36] <exec> 08└─"are there any libraries you are depending on that have a single point of failure" No, I don't Qt has a single point of failure. I'm not a developer professionally, but if Qt were to go away I would would go through all 5 stages of grief, hold a fund drive and/or funeral, then just give up and use s...
[23:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:38] <exec> 08└─As long as people in high places are using his library, he may have little to fear [youtube.com]. It probably doesn't quite have *that* many skeletons in its closet, though.
[23:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:41] <exec> 08└─Like which ones, just curious?
[23:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:43] <exec> 08└─How so? Before JS there was Flash and Applets, after JS whatever shit is happening to your browser/web experience will continue to happen using a different tool. Aggro on the tool all you want, it ain't he cause of the problem.
[23:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:45] <exec> 08└─I'm not crafoo, but presumably imgui? [github.com]
[23:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:16] <exec> 08└─I dunno, the goal is probably good but the approach is probably not right, it ain't too late to walk down a different path but it takes time. There's plenty of cheap labor to be had in Asia and Africa - it is a better model for cheap labor as it is distributed across multiple countries so yer eggs a...
[23:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they're giving 'Anonymous Coward' a bad name. At this rate I might have to register or something.
[23:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:00] <exec> 08└─Modding stuff like this as funny is one of the best ways to make sure that people don't take this sort of thing seriously. It's also got the added benefit of ridiculing someone if they actually believe it.
[23:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:02] <exec> 08└─there is an actual possibility (probably not, but it's a possibility) that you are being serious.
[23:56:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Suspends E-Book Lending "Waiting Lists" During U.S. National Emergency - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:50] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lxwLHRKaB0 [youtube.com]
[23:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:06] <exec> 08└─I might just do that. A textbook would be handy. I've just been watching pieces of this video series building up the math necessary for modern physics. How I got there was confusing but fun.
[23:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:07] <exec> 08└─https://youtu.be/V49i_LM8B0E [youtu.be] that's the first video in the series I ended up on.