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[00:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:16] <exec> 08└─Ok, Boomer.
[00:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:17] <exec> 08└─It's hardly a surprise to find out that there are racists in the US. I don't think that revelation is worth giving into to braying mobs over.
[00:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:19] <exec> 08└─I'm sure you never frequent any of those places and have never ever questioned your sexuality ever like a good little cisgender anyway so you won't be missed. Another 20 years and the Boomer problem will take care of itself. Millennials will work their problems out just like the Boomers did(n't).
[00:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:22] <exec> 08└─The whole stinking mess called Social Media has to be done away with.
[00:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:24] <exec> 08└─https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/the-true-face-of-authoritarian-threat/ [israelhayom.com]
[00:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:26] <exec> 08└─Millennials will may or may not work their problems out just like the Boomers did(n't).
[00:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:28] <exec> 08└─Southeners bitching and moaing about identity. Your identity is a noose. Ignint crakas.
[00:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:30] <exec> 08└─What I see is that people get along just fine, and then the media (in general) throw an incendiary article/story and ignite division.
[00:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinnia Zirconium [11163] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:32] <exec> 08└─Facebook makes a nice compression algorithm. And because they're an advertising company, they call their compression Zstandard to convince you to use it. It's the standard. Seriously though Zstandard is fast and effective.
[00:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:35] <exec> 08└─Antifa did it. Bubba had nothing to do with it, he's as much a victim as if some Southern Democrat hood-wearing redneck had done it.
[00:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:37] <exec> 08└─Comrade Jacinda should have blocked FB for 30 days plus a HUGE fine.
[00:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:39] <exec> 08└─Of course there are racists in the US. There are white people in the US. All white people are racists. Therefore, there are racists in the US. QED. With all these racists around who go out every single night to kill black people, it's a wonder there's so many black people left.
[00:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:41] <exec> 08└─It's a business decision, not politics.
[00:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:43] <exec> 08└─Z for Zendetta.
[00:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:45] <exec> 08└─Us, Boomers, won't live to see how they'll screw up their world.
[00:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:47] <exec> 08└─Another bites the dumb.
[00:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:50] <exec> 08└─Are Millennials doing the looting though? They are are in their 30's and 40's now, and the crowds I see are much younger. I think it's the Z's that are the idiots doing most of the looting.
[00:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:52] <exec> 08└─Dear friends, must we fight so? I call upon all Soylentils to reach out and build bridges for unity. We can have differing opinions yet still be proud to live in the Land of the Free! Work together instead of against one another. Your friendly neighborhood Care Bear, apk
[00:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 1088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:54] <exec> 08└─Business and politics are related, but I'm sure you knew that. A "business leader" who reads the signs correctly, can get ahead of the competition by calling for something that everyone wants anyway. It's all bullshit, but it's something of an art. In related news, Dick's sporting goods has "lost mi...
[00:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:10] <exec> 08└─I'll have to ask the UMW about that.
[00:23:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:37] <exec> 08└─I'll bet I saw colors of sound in the 1970's after taking 4 tabs of Orange Sunshine at a concert, that I defy hummingbirds to imagine!
[00:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:51] <exec> 08└─Insects and reptiles have been known to have (at least) 4 color receptor types that cover a wider spectrum than human eyes for a good while. Our early mammal ancestors lost 2 of the receptors probably because they were nocturnal and relied mostly on sound and smell. Simians eventually gained a 3rd r...
[00:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:53] <exec> 08└─I saw Orange Sunshine take hydroxychloroquine on the news.
[00:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Side Channel Attack? - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:41] <exec> 08└─No no, if Lawyers are congregating on your lawn, the prices aren't going to hell - you're in hell. The souls milling around include non-lawyers too if you take the time to look, just, few in comparison.
[00:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Side Channel Attack? - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:42] <exec> 08└─Heartbleed & ilk actually impact many folks. Weaponization wasn't limited to state actors. (bah apparently this isn't long enough, or some other filter blocks post?)
[00:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:35] <exec> 08└─> It's OK, Trump told him it's all good. FTFY it's all about the maga baby!
[00:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:37] <exec> 08└─Some days I feel like the politicians' main skill is gas-lighting. The winner is the one who can make the other person doubt their own story. Nothing more.
[00:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:39] <exec> 08└─> It's good to know who we can trust. The anonymous voice on the internet. It's like the invisible hand of the free market - it's always right.
[00:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:41] <exec> 08└─> There is no "truth", just facts and evidence. Along with their anti-particles, fake facts and false evidence.
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[01:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06"BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers" - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:56] <exec> 08└─I looked at the files and they were just a bunch of mugshots of Black people,
[01:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06"BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers" - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:58] <exec> 08└─When are these great "leakers" going to reveal the mafia connections to our politicians? I remember when Anonymous threatened to reveal some cartel docs, and they chickened out. Fuck them! What bullshit!
[01:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06"BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers" - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:00] <exec> 08└─I say good for BlueLeaks. Transparency in law enforcement has been sorely lacking since, well, forever. Even if it is a small window into the dark inner workings, maybe future windows will be more illuminating.
[01:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinnia Zirconium [11163] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers" - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:02] <exec> 08└─Yup, high resolution photos of tattoos would explain the gigabytes. Wait. No it doesnt. Big data should be bigger.
[01:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06"BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers" - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:04] <exec> 08└─That's a large data dump. Give it some time. The fusion centers should have some interesting stuff since they allow ordinary cops to LARP as DHS/FBI agents. When are these great "leakers" going to reveal the mafia connections to our politicians?
[01:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers" - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:06] <exec> 08└─They did. Look at the Wikileaks dumps. The result? The messenger was vilified.
[01:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:47] <exec> 08└─I'll leave aside the report about the noose, because not all the facts are known yet and you won't listen to me anyway. However, I can tell you what the Confederate flag means to me. It means FUCK YOU. It doesn't mean support for slavery. It doesn't mean I think one group of people are better than s...
[01:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:48] <exec> 08└─I don't have any friends, you insensitive clod!
[01:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:51] <exec> 08└─Just save some time and refer to all generations beyond the millennials as post-millennials. Age, after all, is just a number.
[01:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:53] <exec> 08└─I'd be perfectly willing to never buy outdoor apparel from The North Face ever again, but I never did in the first place because I try to avoid going outdoors.
[01:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 1551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:55] <exec> 08└─The so-called racism on Facebook is people asking questions and making statements that the lunatic left doesn't want. It is sensible people wanting the police to do their jobs and arrest the looters, arrest SPAZ or whatever his name is that took over the downtown of that city then calling for help f...
[01:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:57] <exec> 08└─like a good little cisgender
[01:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:59] <exec> 08└─apk would like to be your friend. Just let him unzip your trousers, and gobble whatever he finds there.
[01:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 1601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:01] <exec> 08└─Hanging the noose in Bubba's garage was an act of intimidation, not unlike burning a cross on someone's property. Those are the tactics used by the KKK from an era when lynching was common and segregation was the norm in many parts of the country. I get it, you're not using the rebel flag as a symbo...
[01:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:04] <exec> 08└─North Face is for Hillary-voting yuppies who shop at REI, drive Priuses, cycle in obnoxious neon spandex in the middle of the goddamn road, and hike with PFFFFFFFFFhahahaHAAAWWWWWW! *Wheeeze!*
[01:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:06] <exec> 08└─Why do you hate white victims of police brutality?
[01:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:08] <exec> 08└─That seems like a very specific market to aim at.
[01:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:10] <exec> 08└─I'm a GenX; we just sit on the side lines and watch the world burn.
[01:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:28] <exec> 08└─From space.
[01:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:30] <exec> 08└─They must have been provided Enough food and medical care to get the job done. So in other words minimum wage plus two fifteen minute breaks per day.
[01:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Evade Detection, Hackers are Requiring Targets to Complete CAPTCHAs - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:45] <exec> 08└─I believe the tools for SHAR are still around, for anyone who actually wants them.
[01:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Evade Detection, Hackers are Requiring Targets to Complete CAPTCHAs - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:47] <exec> 08└─Well good sir/madam/something else, it seems Microsoft is decades ahead of your exalted suggestion. Rest assured, they did not half-ass it...you[1] have been susceptible to even far worse security breaches and hacks for decades, and be comfortable in the fact that your computer will be goatse'd in p...
[01:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Evade Detection, Hackers are Requiring Targets to Complete CAPTCHAs - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:49] <exec> 08└─IIRC, a variety of software still uses shell archives (or at least scripts) to install itself. The Oracle JDK used to download as a shell archive not so long ago. And few times in recent memory I've seen installation instructions like 'wget $INSTALLMYCODEURL | /bin/bash'. I wonder how many people wo...
[01:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:03] <exec> 08└─This is the kind of lottery where 98% "win" according to your analogy.
[01:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:04] <exec> 08└─> It's good to know who we can trust. The anonymous voice on the internet. It's like the invisible hand of the free market - it's always right.
[01:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italian Glacier Covered with Tarps to Prevent Melting - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:38] <exec> 08└─Oooh you snarky bitch.
[01:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italian Glacier Covered with Tarps to Prevent Melting - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:39] <exec> 08└─I'd say when billions start getting displaced, nuclear war is a certainty.
[01:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italian Glacier Covered with Tarps to Prevent Melting - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:41] <exec> 08└─when billions start getting displaced, nuclear war is a certainty.
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[02:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Thinks It's Time to Return to Neptune with its Trident Mission - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:02] <exec> 08└─The proposal was made last year and selected as one of the Discovery Program finalists [nasa.gov] in February. This article came out because NASA put out an article [nasa.gov] last week. Trident would make another flyby of Triton, rather than orbit, which is disappointing. Uranus and Neptune haven't...
[02:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06NASA Thinks It's Time to Return to Neptune with its Trident Mission - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:04] <exec> 08└─Where is Elong Musky's long dong in this story?
[02:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Thinks It's Time to Return to Neptune with its Trident Mission - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:06] <exec> 08└─Your fantasy is unrealized. Try another one.
[02:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers" - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:19] <exec> 08└─low-hanging fruit Yes, how conveeeenient! As always, we will hear about "incompetence", never intent.
[02:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers" - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:20] <exec> 08└─Oh please! Give me something I can take to the prosecutor...
[02:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers" - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:23] <exec> 08└─What, do you want the leaker(s) to be caught?
[02:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers" - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:25] <exec> 08└─Gee, I thought the setup was pretty obvious, but okay
[02:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers" - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:27] <exec> 08└─Nobody cares (about anything).
[02:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers" - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:29] <exec> 08└─Can't we just #metoo the guy?
[02:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers" - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:31] <exec> 08└─I'm talking about their file cache. What links are there that we can we take to court and get the mob out of congress?
[02:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers" - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:33] <exec> 08└─Dataset link has been nonresponsive since this story was submitted
[02:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers" - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:36] <exec> 08└─Once the full thing hits torrents, there won't be any need to download it from there.
[02:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers" - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:38] <exec> 08└─'Good luck finding such convenient access for the "mafia connections to our politicians".' Didn't we pretty much stop drawing that line a while back?
[02:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:32] <exec> 08└─Sounds like someone is pulling a "Madonna Constantine".
[02:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:33] <exec> 08└─It's just because there are so many Millennials. Power in numbers. They are Baby Boomers, The Sequel. And it sucks like the original.
[02:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:35] <exec> 08└─C'mon, you know the routine, they play to their audience, tapping a very productive well
[02:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:38] <exec> 08└─I don't care about how black people see anything. Or what they feel about anything. Not anymore. I used to, but not anymore. Leftists either. Or even the useless right. I'm tired of the whole damn mess. I'll start to care again once the statues that have been torn down are put back up. Maybe. I hope...
[02:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:58] <exec> 08└─Musky landing burn.
[02:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:59] <exec> 08└─"No, these are anti-shafts." Pretty sure no one has ever been lost in an old mine anti-shaft or fallen into an elevator anti-shaft. :) Interestingly, dictionary.com seemingly isn't aware of shafts-as-holes; which is surprising given that it is not uncommon usage at all -- elevator shafts, mine shaft...
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[02:24:18] <exec> 08└─Following those instructions is a security risk, so yeah, don't do it. Precisely one of the points I was getting at with the post that started this thread.
[02:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:33] <exec> 08└─Wow. Is that Kool Aid tasty or what? The Trump Administration [fda.gov] says that Hydroxycloroquine is ineffecitve:
[02:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:35] <exec> 08└─Additionally, the WHO seemed stuck on "mask does not protect wearer" viewpoint, totally ignoring the "mask protects others from wearer" viewpoint for a very long time. I don't know why they were so tightly attached to only ranking mask usefulness against the "protects the wearer" measure for so long...
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[02:26:37] <exec> 08└─The Lone Ranger.
[02:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indonesia's Mt Merapi Erupts, Spewing Ash 6 Km High - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:48] <exec> 08└─Put some tarps over it to preserve the lava.
[02:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indonesia's Mt Merapi Erupts, Spewing Ash 6 Km High - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:50] <exec> 08└─Let's see if I can present a picture: Ash from Mount Merapi [imgur.com]
[02:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New System Uses Wind Turbines to Defend the National Grid from Power Cut - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:29] <exec> 08└─That sounds about right. Thank you for the thoughtful reply.
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[03:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Thinks It's Time to Return to Neptune with its Trident Mission - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:04] <exec> 08└─If the main craft can’t slow down you can fire microsats Into orbit using a railgun or even an artillery shell.
[03:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers" - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:27] <exec> 08└─[...] The fusion centers should have some interesting stuff since they allow ordinary cops to LARP as DHS/FBI agents. [...]
[03:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers" - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:28] <exec> 08└─It would be a shame if anybody found out that you beat your wife. A lot of people disapprove of violence against women.
[03:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:25] <exec> 08└─Fucking racist. I say we burn his battle flag!
[03:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:27] <exec> 08└─every other ethnicity in the US has gotten their shit together and don't murder each other by the dozens every day except for blacks and asking WHY (culture!)
[03:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:29] <exec> 08└─The irony is that for someone who doesn't care how what anyone else thinks or how they feel, you sure want us to care what you think and how you feel. I have no problem listening to the concerns of black people. I also have no problem listening to people who see the rebel flag as a symbol of souther...
[03:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:31] <exec> 08└─They'll be expanding into the comrade Jacinda supporting Prius driver market before you know it.
[03:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:53] <exec> 08└─You're not going to adjust, pick up, or otherwise move a hole dug through limestone though. And the fact that the holes form a circle strongly suggest they had some cultural significance, rather than being something purely functional - quarries, wells, cellars, prisons, etc. would be located in plac...
[03:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:39] <exec> 08└─Brown is low brightness Orange.
[03:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:41] <exec> 08└─nocturnal and relied mostly on sound and smell.
[03:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Logic, Before ICs - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:11] <exec> 08└─I am an engineer. I question your understanding of the utility of FPGAs when you apparently don't immediately think of Amdahl's law.
[03:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Side Channel Attack? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:33] <exec> 08└─Shhhhh! I swear you're gonna get us all exposed one of these days. Loose lips psink pshyps, dammit.
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[03:26:35] <exec> 08└─You might just be right about that.
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[03:26:37] <exec> 08└─So be patriotic ...wear a mask not to save yourself but most probably save somebody else if you are an assymptomatic spreader That's not patriotic. Being a patriot means refusing to wear a mask. That's what all the true patriots do. President Trump doesn't wear a mask, so you shouldn't either, becau...
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[03:26:39] <exec> 08└─Or people who want to stay healthy and keep others healthy and don't want some dumbfuck Trump supporter telling them what to wear and what not to wear? Such people are traitors and cowards. True patriots support Trump, and don't care about keeping anyone healthy because this is America, where we onl...
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[04:22:04] <exec> 08└─So let me see if I've got this right: The German regulator who was supposed to be watching them has been giving them special protections such as protection against shorting, including conducting criminal investigations of anyone publicly criticizing the company or questioning their bookkeeping, and...
[04:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Payments Firm Wirecard: $2.1 Billion in Missing Cash Balances "Likely Doesn't Exist" - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:05] <exec> 08└─Given how long this cash has been on the books, it just shows how inept the long line of auditors has been, not to mention the financial and inventory management inside the company itself. I can't see this company surviving this in any way or shape unless it is bought and re-imaged under another nam...
[04:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06NASA Thinks It's Time to Return to Neptune with its Trident Mission - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:16] <exec> 08└─First they worshiped Confederate flags, then they faked the moon landing after star fish prime pumped electrons into the van Allen belts. Defund NASA.
[04:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Thinks It's Time to Return to Neptune with its Trident Mission - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:18] <exec> 08└─They'd better not let anything gum up the works.
[04:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:43] <exec> 08└─poor people don't deserve any help [independent.co.uk] you don't want people 'like that' living near you (black [theroot.com] or poor [city-data.com])
[04:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:44] <exec> 08└─Hanging the noose in Bubba's garage was an act of intimidation, not unlike burning a cross on someone's property.
[04:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italian Glacier Covered with Tarps to Prevent Melting - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:26] <exec> 08└─Probably just a tourist attraction for Italy, but millions of people depend on glacier melt for fresh water. When the glaciers go away, entire regions will need to be abandoned, creating refugees. https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com]
[04:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italian Glacier Covered with Tarps to Prevent Melting - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:28] <exec> 08└─Your post is a sad reflection of internet discourse in general: divine verb divined; divining Definition of divine (Entry 3 of 3) transitive verb 1: to discover by intuition or insight : INFER divine the truth
[04:28:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 8 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:23] <exec> 08└─Web site
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[05:22:03] <exec> 08└─nm
[05:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Thinks It's Time to Return to Neptune with its Trident Mission - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:16] <exec> 08└─Space probes are better than no space probes, but the next missions to Uranus and Neptune need to be orbiters. Neptune is kind of too far to deploy an orbiter without new technology, but Uranus isn't if you are a little patient so the next outer planet mission should be to Uranus. There are two ways...
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[05:22:42] <exec> 08└─It would be a shame if anybody found out that you beat your wife. I can guarantee you that it would be a miracle! But, I have been called a miracle worker, so anything is possible
[05:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers" - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:43] <exec> 08└─Doubtful. The RIAA/MPAA have been honing their "poison seeder" skillz for years to block, slow down, and corrupt downloads of their precious thought-property. I'm sure they'll lend the authorities a hand in preventing the spread of information. Hollywood wants this out until they don't want it out.
[05:22:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 534 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:55] <exec> 08└─I know it's convenient for some people to rationalize things and pretend that racism is something you read about in history books. Someone hung a noose in NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace's garage yesterday. You may remember him as the driver who spoke out and called for NASCAR to ban Confederate flags....
[05:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:47] <exec> 08└─We could start with a federated service which isn't designed to manipulate sentiment. Facebook is not a social network as much as its a tool of social manipulation. "Connecting people" has virtue but it doesn't require a corporate overload sticking their noses in at every opportunity. Check out Mast...
[05:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:49] <exec> 08└─Let 'em destroy themselves.
[05:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Logic, Before ICs - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:30] <exec> 08└─when you apparently don't immediately think of Amdahl's law
[05:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italian Glacier Covered with Tarps to Prevent Melting - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:36] <exec> 08└─Your post reflects your poor state of pun disability (grin) Also, let me introduce you to the punishing convention of grinning [soylentnews.org]. As the author has put it, its totally your fault for taking me seriously and it's up to you if you want to waste your time.
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[06:22:01] <exec> 08└─The FBI at this point are all probably all Marxist Chicoms and/or gorging themselves on Cartel and Soros dollars. Just like the other neo-Bolsheviks, they'll blame Black Anti-Semitism on the "emerging threat of White Supremacy" and continue their seditious coup against our lawfully-elected president...
[06:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:03] <exec> 08└─The whole "going dark" idea was always nonsense. It used to be that communications between people wasn't saved at all - it was typically called a "phone call". Now, with email, SMS, WhatsApp, or whatever: most communications are saved. Even if the contents were securely encrypted (which they general...
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[06:22:13] <exec> 08└─So are you arguing for Marxist economics and against communism/socialism?
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[06:22:15] <exec> 08└─it just shows how inept the long line of auditors has been
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[06:23:58] <exec> 08└─I have no ill will towards our LGBTQ friends but cock gobbling isn't my thing, however if I was gonna gobble some cock it sure wouldn't be some AC neckbeard who probably has a new ecosystem spanning from bellybutton to taint. Wishing you the best and PM me your address for a quick dose of penicillin...
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[06:24:00] <exec> 08└─hate = destructive anti-hate = anti-destructive Simple math buddy
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[07:22:10] <exec> 08└─This is what Germany gets from not having term limits in government. 15 years of Mommy Merkel in power, the main opposition party trying to have their fingers in at all costs rather than providing an alternative. Things have just stagnated. Add to that the ludicrous covid-19 restrictions on the econ...
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[07:22:12] <exec> 08└─You mean that it's working out better for the US, where we do have term limits for the head of state, the opposition party provides an alternative instead of trying to get their fingers in at all cost, and covid19 restrictions have been carefully tuned to be effective yet not damage the economy? How...
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[07:23:59] <exec> 08└─And replaced with what? Newspapers telling us how to think. I hate social media as much as the next nerd, but I know banning it will mean they shut down Soylent and IRC first while Facebook gets exemptions.
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[07:24:01] <exec> 08└─Well then, at minimum, the MoJ have 100% failed in their role. Some legal process should have kicked off instantly after 15/3/19. In the end its the failings of the NZ Police on issuing gun licenses without proper checking that had this end result.... and the Jacinda-driven knee-jerk afterwards taki...
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[07:24:44] <exec> 08└─Following those instructions is a security risk, so yeah, don't do it. Precisely one of the points I was getting at with the post that started this thread.
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[07:27:11] <exec> 08└─Exactly what I was saying. It is a badge of honor for your thought controllers that in the partisan media battle, using Remdesvir and Hydroxychloroquine as idols, you assume somebody criticizing Team Remdesvir automatically means they are a cheerleader for Team Hydroxychloroquine.
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[08:24:04] <exec> 08└─I want to kill you. I may yet find a way, and an alibi. While buzzfuckface may disdain me, I've promised martyb cash, so sooner or later I'll get the log files. Quietly. . . See how good it feels to be on the receiving end of a threat? . . Fun fact: some threats cannot be treated as posturing. For a...
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[08:24:06] <exec> 08└─For the exhausted, a brief primer on how black on black crime is a lie [twitter.com], and why racist fucks won't give up on that particular bullshit distraction technique no matter how often it gets debunked.
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[09:21:58] <exec> 08└─I never liked PCs. Apple did wrong when going from the PowerPC to x64. Glad to see them stopping producing more PCs. Thanks Apple! And Amiga rules! Make it big endian compatible so we can run AROS on it! :-)
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[09:21:59] <exec> 08└─I see it as another step away from allowing general purpose computing. They won't achieve their goals all at once but, again, this is just another step. Because of the many previous steps heading that direction, I would say that is the main goal -- eventually -- if too few put up too small a fight....
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[09:22:10] <exec> 08└─Information overload. Millions of us are posting crap. Trying to find anything meaningful is an exercise in futility. I have hundreds of channels of TV, and more printed màterial sent to me than I can ever read. It's beyond my ability these days to even correctly fill out my tax forms. And most eve...
[09:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:12] <exec> 08└─Oh yes... About all the encrypted traffic these days...I believe it's an unintended but obvious consequence of music sharing legislation. Go through all that work of decryption only to uncover really bad music. My guess the DMCA is responsible for most of the encryption on the internet. Just kids sh...
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[09:22:25] <exec> 08└─Lol, nice try. You're blaming this on Covid? That's rich, given that the Financial Times has been reporting on them [ft.com] since 2016 [ft.com]. But hey, don't let the truth hit you on the way out.
[09:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03system32 [5465] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:16] <exec> 08└─Should we... Should we tell him about the much larger problem of black on black violence? Oh right, nevermind, doesn't fit the narrative... Sorry, forget the kids that were murdered in drive-by shootings over the last week...CNN must have forgot to mention that.
[09:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:17] <exec> 08└─The name 'North Face' sounds very Caucasian (to me as a European), so their name itself could be perceived as exclusive.
[09:25:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Logic, Before ICs - 466 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:36] <exec> 08└─>Logic gates built with the minimum number of transistors are barely digital at all: they may be better understood as analog amplifier circuits that happen to be amplifying digital signals. You mean, just like every logic gate in every IC in the world? Logic gates, like the transistors they're made...
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[10:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:11] <exec> 08└─God save us all. Not because Apple switches to their own silicon. Not because this might be the prelude to even more lock-in. From a technical standpoint it's even interesting. No, the trouble will be all the Mac fans. Now that the Mac becomes that exotic niche thing again with hardware almost no on...
[10:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:12] <exec> 08└─Apple was already good at making ARM chips that outperformed its Samsung/Qualcomm/MediaTek/etc. competition, despite having fewer cores and less RAM. And they sold many millions of iPhones and iPads while doing so. So the new ARM SoCs for Macs won't exactly be something no one has, since they will b...
[10:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 1519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:14] <exec> 08└─As much as I like them to once again switch, I'm less certain about how great it will actually be. Apple have this tendency to go for the walled-garden approach. To preserve their "specialness", just like they previously didn't want or allow say apple-clone machines to be built by third parties and...
[10:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:16] <exec> 08└─I winder if their code translator will also convert POWER Mac code to the new ARM code.
[10:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:19] <exec> 08└─I bought a PC a few months before the first Ma was released. I wanted to hold out for what promised to be a superior machine, but I needed a computer when i needed it, not when it would be convenient to need it. Was I ever glad when the Mac did come out. I had a machine I could program, and the Mac...
[10:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:21] <exec> 08└─I don't think putting more functions into a SoC necessarily puts an end to general purpose computing. There are other ARM SoCs that have added GPU, AI acceleration, audio handling, wireless, etc. but are not particularly locked down and run Linux. And what's the solution? RISC-V?
[10:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:23] <exec> 08└─No. It will create an instant disatrophe.
[10:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:25] <exec> 08└─You are talking technical specs on hardware. I'm talking behaviour of users. Two different things.
[10:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:35] <exec> 08└─People can definitely go dark and be able to foil evidence collection in some cases. It's just that 99% won't bother and they can usually be fingered for something. What they really fear is an ecosystem that is automatically resistant: 1. End to end encrypted communications. 2. Onion routing or othe...
[10:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers" - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:28] <exec> 08└─Those attacks can deter casual file sharing and streaming of TV/movies by hurting the pirate convenience factor. It won't work well against a data dump that people are determined to spread. This is small enough to spread by sneakernet too.
[10:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:42] <exec> 08└─What makes you think he's not aware of that? Isn't people-on-people violence exactly what you'd expect if law enforcement fails to protect?
[10:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:44] <exec> 08└─I can tell you what the Confederate flag means to me. It means FUCK YOU.
[10:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:46] <exec> 08└─It's mostly "Zoomers" and young Millennials, based on the photos I've seen. That said, older Millennials are only in their mid-30s — the people in their late 30s & early 40s are the Xennials [wikipedia.org]. (Which makes us sound like houseplants with an identity disorder, but whatever.)
[10:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:48] <exec> 08└─Yep. Better not go backpacking through the outback with one, you might get weird looks and people may refuse to help you.
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[11:22:03] <exec> 08└─Call me when they get to the cooking and DIY videos on YouTube. Those are intentionally misleading and no politics to argue over so no bad PR.
[11:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:21] <exec> 08└─Will their ARM cpu allow you to run Windows 10? Since there is an ARM-version of that.
[11:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:22] <exec> 08└─If the outrageous claims are close to being true, they aren't outrageous. It can be clearly seen with Apple vs. Android, where Apple has put out more powerful hardware and arguably a better software experience year after year after year. That's attributed to such factors as vertical integration, not...
[11:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:24] <exec> 08└─QEMU already emulates various models of ARM, presumably they'll soon support these as well. GPU will be harder. But just because it's ARM, doesn't mean you have to use an on-chip GPU. Apple has a lot of video production customers that aren't necessarily going to be happy about a 90% nerf to their GP...
[11:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:26] <exec> 08└─I have always been confused by the statement that "Apple does its own silicon" and hope to be enlightened here. My understanding has always been that ARM does not distribute its Verilog code, rather you get a mask design. You can arrange a SoC adding components and asking for your preferred mix of c...
[11:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:38] <exec> 08└─You missed the GP's point. That isn't "going dark", it's "remaining dark". As opposed to the "lighting yourself up like a beacon" like the 99% do because they won't bother.
[11:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:51] <exec> 08└─"When I use a word," said Humpty Dumpty, "it means exactly what I intend it to." But when you use a word, or a symbol, or a flag, outside of its well-known meaning, you risk being misunderstood. -- hendrik
[11:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:04] <exec> 08└─UV: Our corneas are opaque to UV. But there have been people whose corneas have been replaced with artificial corneas which happen to be UV-transparent. This happened to an astronomer, who noticed the night sky was different after his operation. He subsequently figured things out and published a pap...
[11:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Side Channel Attack? - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:59] <exec> 08└─It came out far too fast, it very rapidly went from its own 'secure' chip to blocking off bios rewriting from the end user without cryptographic signatures, neatly killing projects like coreboot, and it has proven itself susceptible to exactly the kind of dangers that make older hardware 'forced obs...
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[11:28:45] <exec> 08└─Both restrained and unrestrained capitalism have methods of 'regulatory capture'. One is politicians deciding so their favored capitalists corner the markets, and the other is the capitalists deciding the politicians so their favorite policies corner the markets for them. Since there isn't a free ma...
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[12:22:04] <exec> 08└─Call me when they get to the cooking and DIY videos on YouTube.
[12:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:25] <exec> 08└─And Amiga rules! Make it big endian compatible so we can run AROS on it! :-)
[12:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:26] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't this move have a side effect of making ARM processors (not only Apple's but the others too) more popular and a choice to fuel alternative development of say, Linux, on the ARM? Developers could be more motivated to make native ARM platform software, starting maybe by porting Apple ARM softw...
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[12:22:29] <exec> 08└─I think this is going to finally kill Apple Mac. Apple does not understand the power of legacy application. There is a real need to write things once and let them go forever. This is why Windows 10-32 bit still exists. This is why Microsoft Internet Explorer is still unremovably mixed in to Windows...
[12:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:31] <exec> 08└─Apple was already dead to me ever since it became impossible to boot Linux on the new Mac Minis. Not like I'd have bought one before that though, but I'd probably have accepted it as a gift. Now, it's a doorstop to me. Their new aarch64 Mac hardware will have locked bootloaders, just like their iPho...
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[12:22:33] <exec> 08└─Apple has survived two other transitions so far, M68K to PPC, and PPC to Intel. Now that Apple is worth 1.5Tn, there's no reason to think the Mac won't survive this.
[12:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:35] <exec> 08└─Good bye PC ? Worse than that, Good Bye Hackintosh. :-(
[12:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the 1% will stand out anyway, just because the 99% doesn't bother.
[12:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Payments Firm Wirecard: $2.1 Billion in Missing Cash Balances "Likely Doesn't Exist" - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:02] <exec> 08└─Or...perhaps complicit?
[12:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Payments Firm Wirecard: $2.1 Billion in Missing Cash Balances "Likely Doesn't Exist" - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:04] <exec> 08└─they will go all the way down, and find everyone who knew about this.
[12:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:03] <exec> 08└─Why is it that 73% of the US population is white, yet 82% of white murders are committed by other white people? ... By sheer number, 2,488 white people were murdered by other white people in 2014 whereas 2,205 black people were murdered by other black people in the same year. ... So your argument th...
[12:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:04] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to the South Butt? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[12:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:06] <exec> 08└─I don't know, taken over by the Left Nipple?
[12:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:08] <exec> 08└─Why do you think other people should allow you to advertise your hate and contempt for other people
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[12:29:01] <exec> 08└─... needs a unit ...
[12:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italian Glacier Covered with Tarps to Prevent Melting - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:03] <exec> 08└─You have a point that the unhappy billions are unlikely to have access to the nukes, but that does not mean that the nukes will not be used on the unhappy billions.
[12:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italian Glacier Covered with Tarps to Prevent Melting - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:05] <exec> 08└─If the nukes are being used on unhappy billions who don't control nukes themselves, is that nuclear war or just genocide?
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[13:21:54] <exec> 08└─So, this blip is interesting and would be good to understand. How about the long term trends? is there any comparable data pre 2006? Related movie mini-review: Honeyland, an interesting look at life in the countryside outside Skopje, Macedonia (general area of Kosovo). Beekeeping is a central story...
[13:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:04] <exec> 08└─This seems like a lot of work. Who will Google outsource it to? Bots?
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[13:22:13] <exec> 08└─I see it as another step away from allowing general purpose computing. They won't achieve their goals all at once but, again, this is just another step. Because of the many previous steps heading that direction, I would say that is the main goal -- eventually -- if too few put up too small a fight....
[13:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:32] <exec> 08└─They design their own ARM SoCs, including redesigned ARM cores, not just the stock designs that ARM licenses out: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] They are basically more powerful than all competition in the smartphone space. Obviously, chips like the Fujitsu A64FX [wikipedia....
[13:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:47] <exec> 08└─That's why I added #4 to the list. FBI likes to complain about criminals "going dark". This is obviously hyperbolic and something we should welcome anyway if true, but they do have a point. If SMS is suddenly replaced with end-to-end encrypted messaging on most phones, and the phones are not easily...
[13:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:48] <exec> 08└─Oh yes... About all the encrypted traffic these days...I believe it's an unintended but obvious consequence of music sharing legislation.
[13:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:50] <exec> 08└─"like the 99% do because they won't bother." To encrypt, or to recognize that they are being played off each other?
[13:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:52] <exec> 08└─Do you want to stop police investigations altogether? No tracking down criminals so they can be caught and charged? I know we'd all on this site like more privacy (well, some of us, the rest of you insist on using login accounts and barely tolerate us ACs), but there MUST be a balance between privac...
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[13:23:09] <exec> 08└─That's like when Wells Fargo got busted for creating millions of fake account for people, they fired a bunch of minimum wage positions and said "we've rooted out the problem and got rid of the people, nothing more to see here."
[13:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Thinks It's Time to Return to Neptune with its Trident Mission - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:24] <exec> 08└─I'll cross my fingers, but with a launch date of 2026 to make the deadline, it might get locked in. SpaceX not only has to get Starship operational, lifting payloads, and prove in-orbit refueling works. They should really create some buzz about how it can be used to enhance currently planned or prop...
[13:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03terryk30 [1753] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:14] <exec> 08└─houseplants with an identity disorder
[13:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:15] <exec> 08└─ACAB is also a lie. Many of the killings are justified, and the remainder are insignificant and declining.
[13:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:17] <exec> 08└─Throwing bricks and molotovs at cops isn't hate. It's just redress.
[13:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:20] <exec> 08└─See how good it feels to be on the receiving end of a threat?
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[13:28:32] <exec> 08└─The parent poster is right, Dr. Faucci admitted that the CDC lied about the efficacy of the masks early on in order to allow them to grab the supply that was available for hospitals and first responders. Yes, they should have been higher priority, but lying to the people has had the effect of convin...
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[13:28:33] <exec> 08└─If he doesn't get more or fewer children out of this than he would otherwise have had, evolution has nothing to say about it. Seriously, how fucking stupid are you, people, that you can't grasp that? The possibility of more children doesn't matter to evolution if it doesn't translate into more child...
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[14:22:01] <exec> 08└─Doesn't this mean lockdowns are effective since once they were lifted the bees started surviving? And masks are ineffective since bees werent dying when no one wore masks but started dying when they did.
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[14:22:38] <exec> 08└─I'm not so sure of that. The RDF for the most part vanished with Jobs. There are always gonna be sycophants that create some bizarre emotional dependency on their choice of tech brand, but I think people are going to be a lot more down to earth about this. Just look at last year's WWDC when the audi...
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[14:22:39] <exec> 08└─Sites like AnandTech do deep dives into the architectural changes: https://www.anandtech.com [anandtech.com] Apple isn't going to reveal all the details, so there is some guesswork involved. But there is some discussion of specific design changes t...
[14:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:41] <exec> 08└─Because of a mis-placed apostrophe?
[14:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:44] <exec> 08└─I was trying to make a new word that has already been made. I'll try again: *disastrophe.
[14:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:01] <exec> 08└─The user has no obligation to give up their own privacy/anonymity to assist police. And anything that involves an encryption "backdoor" can fuck off. Using publicly available info on social media, like they are doing in this story, is fine. There are also plenty of cameras all over the place capturi...
[14:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Thinks It's Time to Return to Neptune with its Trident Mission - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:33] <exec> 08└─If Neptune gets "Trident", I wanna know what they are going to call the Venus missions.
[14:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Thinks It's Time to Return to Neptune with its Trident Mission - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:34] <exec> 08└─Boring answer: VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy) and DAVINCI+ (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging Plus).
[14:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:29] <exec> 08└─There is a huge moral difference between a civilian committing violence and a police officer. Police officers have special powers in law, granted under the assumption that they will be used to "protect and serve".
[14:25:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 350 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:50] <exec> 08└─"No, these are anti-shafts." Pretty sure no one has ever been lost in an old mine anti-shaft or fallen into an elevator anti-shaft. :) Interestingly, dictionary.com seemingly isn't aware of shafts-as-holes; which is surprising given that it is not uncommon usage at all -- elevator shafts, mine shaft...
[14:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:53] <exec> 08└─I'll have to ask the UMW about that. They get really worked up about No Miners Allowed signs.
[14:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Logic, Before ICs - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:16] <exec> 08└─I suppose what you'd want is to de-energize 1 if any button *other than* 2 is pushed... Hmm... I want to say adding a pull-down resistor between the coil sink and ground, with the sink also wired directly to every button except its own button and the next. Push any other button and the low side of t...
[14:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Logic, Before ICs - 1177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:17] <exec> 08└─I would not have thought of that in 1975. At the point I built this relay thingy I was already thinking about TTL and pure digital logic. TTL was useful to think of pure boolean logic without having to give much thought to electrical characteristics -- mostly. Before I had tried out an adult friend'...
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[15:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06When Planting Trees Threatens the Forest - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:59] <exec> 08└─strong subsidy restrictions, such as prohibitions against replacing native forests with tree plantations
[15:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Planting Trees Threatens the Forest - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:00] <exec> 08└─How about water consumption, or ground water levels for that matter? More trees sucking up more water means less water somewhere down the line, or?
[15:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Planting Trees Threatens the Forest - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:03] <exec> 08└─When they plant pine plantations near pecans, the pecans wither due to all the water sucked up by the pines. Varies by soil layer type, apparently shale bedrock provides a better water profile than sandstone - and a thousand other variables. Contact your local Ag extension office for their soil prof...
[15:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmby [83] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Beekeepers Reported Lower Winter Losses but Abnormally High Summer Losses - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:13] <exec> 08└─More people at home spraying crap on their plants. Correlate the sales of pesticides to honey bee loss for the answer. Come-on people! Your plants survived millions of years without man-made poisons! "Hey, farmer, farmer Put away the DDT now Give me spots on my apples But leave me the birds and the...
[15:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Beekeepers Reported Lower Winter Losses but Abnormally High Summer Losses - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:15] <exec> 08└─This is what one should expect with the assumption that commercial sites use pesticides that weaken the bee immune system. In winter commercial bees are fed tailored food, as the honey they've produced is extracted for sale. In summer they are exposed to various different places where crops need to...
[15:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:26] <exec> 08└─Just wait for the porn clips fact-checking ... that is going to be hilarious.
[15:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:29] <exec> 08└─Bots cost too much to code. India probably.
[15:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:31] <exec> 08└─Indians cost to much to, perhaps it will just check how many likes it has on facebook. If enough, or the right, people like it then it must be true (or truthish).
[15:22:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 863 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:57] <exec> 08└─They design their own ARM SoCs, including redesigned ARM cores, not just the stock designs that ARM licenses out: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] They are basically more powerful than all competition in the smartphone space. Obviously, chips like the Fujitsu A64FX [wikipedia....
[15:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:03] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I agree. I mean, sure, people who do real business work with their computers need that, and people who care about value in their purchases want that. But Apple's market is : 1} People who have to develop for ios and therefore have to put up with whatever bullshit Apple wants to shove do...
[15:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:05] <exec> 08└─That is the thing in general tho, you don't have to have the best product -- it doesn't even have to be good. It just has to suck less then the competition. I guess that is their niche, or one of them: Apple -- sucking less! I wonder how many of those 1k monitor stands they sold. The apple aficionad...
[15:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:07] <exec> 08└─While that is technically correct, it ignores the company doing it. Apple has always striven to control the end user with incompatible formats, dating all the way back to the old floppy drives of the Apple ][. This doesn't necessarily mean that a new processor will be designed to control the end-use...
[15:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:09] <exec> 08└─*How* does Linux fall down as a desktop system? I've used it for years without significant problems. At one time the applications available were lacking, but these days it's got everything I want to use. To me it appears that what it lacks is a marketing department pushing it, and that's fine with m...
[15:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:11] <exec> 08└─True. But I would strongly suspect that there will be some heavily encrypted chip on the motherboard to show that this is a "proper licensed Mac" and things should run smooth and the hardware has not been messed with cause if you do it's brick time. Sort of like all the game consoles have done, and...
[15:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 1119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:14] <exec> 08└─ARM has many different IP licensing schemes. In general, they provide a precompiled block that doesn't give you any flexibility to modify but which your tools will still be able to use for timing and place-and-route. Certainly you can get full-source licenses allowing you to modify the design, and c...
[15:23:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 630 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:23] <exec> 08└─The whole "going dark" idea was always nonsense. It used to be that communications between people wasn't saved at all - it was typically called a "phone call". Now, with email, SMS, WhatsApp, or whatever: most communications are saved. Even if the contents were securely encrypted (which they general...
[15:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 2287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:33] <exec> 08└─The mindset of the 3-letter agencies divides the entire population of the world into 4 categories: 1. The people who work for their organizations. 2. The known bad guys (i.e. a threat to the 3-letter agencies or the handful of people allowed to give them direction, which has nothing to do with the l...
[15:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:35] <exec> 08└─Why do they have to be leftist to be evil? The FBI is fully capable of being a neo-fascist cult bent on taking away everyone's civil liberties without "Cartel and Soros dollars". They've been assassinating Americans for decades. Their war on black communities has only ever been restricted by their a...
[15:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:37] <exec> 08└─Do you want to stop police investigations altogether?
[15:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:39] <exec> 08└─Uh huh, the TLAs took pix that Weiner just happened to have laying around and sent them via SMS. They faked the entire conversation too.
[15:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Payments Firm Wirecard: $2.1 Billion in Missing Cash Balances "Likely Doesn't Exist" - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:56] <exec> 08└─How long can American scandals grow? After eight years, another party is in power that will take a close look at what the other party did.
[15:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PaperNoodle [10908] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Thinks It's Time to Return to Neptune with its Trident Mission - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:14] <exec> 08└─All of these missions [nasa.gov] sound amazing and saddening we can't do all of them. But the Venusian missions sound particularly interesting as they are orbiters and with DAVINCI+ a decent craft. Would love to see a mission inject some kind of weather balloons and floating craft in the dense atmos...
[15:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Thinks It's Time to Return to Neptune with its Trident Mission - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:15] <exec> 08└─Neptune has an apparent time limit to get the best results. Io is relatively easy to get to and should be spewing lava for a long time to come.
[15:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:11] <exec> 08└─Yes. Please do forget Gen-X as we take control from the Boomers and don't let the Millenials have any.
[15:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:12] <exec> 08└─Yep. And banning it says fuck you right back, along with a huge helping of I don't give a shit what it means to you. It was the battle flag of insurgents who thought slavery was just fine. So yeah, fuck you right back, racist.
[15:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:14] <exec> 08└─There is absolutely no moral difference. The difference is entirely legal.
[15:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:17] <exec> 08└─I dunno, man. Shouldn't it be the duty of any person who wants the rebel flag to mean Southern Pride to punch racists and attempt to improve the image of their own symbol? I'm sure Antifa would love the backup.
[15:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:19] <exec> 08└─That is exactly the difference he is talking about. When a citizen kills someone it is murder, manslaugher, or at least criminal negligence. When a cop does it, it is an accident, or completely justified. The law enforcers should be held to a higher standard, not a lower one, they are the ones with...
[15:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Logic, Before ICs - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah, boolean logic does simplify most things considerably, enough so that the loss of clever leveraging of the underlying electronics is very rarely an issue. I still remember designing and building a simple calculator as part of an engineering class - I forget if it was one or two digit, but it su...
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[16:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:58] <exec> 08└─https://www.fujitsu.com/global/Images/supercomputer-fugaku.pdf [fujitsu.com]
[16:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06When Planting Trees Threatens the Forest - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:08] <exec> 08└─Generally, the benefits of having the ground covered year-round by vegetation would offset any loss due to plant use. Trees are known to seed clouds with their respiration, and decreased loss of soil moisture and better absorption of rainwater mean they will help the water levels. There are tons of...
[16:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Beekeepers Reported Lower Winter Losses but Abnormally High Summer Losses - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:20] <exec> 08└─Scary fucking shit. I am constantly shocked at how insect populations have declined. I hardly even see butterflies these days, honybees are quite rare and I used to see them all the time in a dense urban area with no nature for miles and miles. That area hasn't changed, but fewer insects and birds n...
[16:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Beekeepers Reported Lower Winter Losses but Abnormally High Summer Losses - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:21] <exec> 08└─Eyepocalypse: Your vision gets worse as you age.
[16:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:35] <exec> 08└─What I would like to see Example: Image of Winne the Pooh Caution: Image may be deceptive, not actually Chairman Xi despite the similarity. What I expect Example: Image of Tienanmen Square Caution: This image is western propaganda meant to undermined the glorious state Given how much Google has help...
[16:22:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 1837 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:59] <exec> 08└─I think this is going to finally kill Apple Mac. Apple does not understand the power of legacy application. There is a real need to write things once and let them go forever. This is why Windows 10-32 bit still exists. This is why Microsoft Internet Explorer is still unremovably mixed in to Windows...
[16:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:14] <exec> 08└─While that is technically correct, it ignores the company doing it. Apple has always striven to control the end user with incompatible formats
[16:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:16] <exec> 08└─...the single stupidest keyboard to have graced the world in decades.
[16:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because before the creepy Intel / x86 monopoly there weren't general purpose computers. Monopolies are bad. That stands for CPU architectures as well. Won't be missed.
[16:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:20] <exec> 08└─That would be pretty cool to be honest, and emulating a PowerPC using an ARM is much faster than trying with an x64.
[16:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:22] <exec> 08└─Apple has survived two other transitions so far, M68K to PPC, and PPC to Intel.
[16:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:45] <exec> 08└─If I would have something really serious to hide my funny cat video would probably be one side of a One Time Pad. I would probably create a side that combined with the first results in a few MP3s. And of course a side that would result in the actual secret. But when they ask me to give the other sid...
[16:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers" - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:50] <exec> 08└─Mafia stuff is an anachronism, at least in the US. Corporations are vastly more powerful now a days, hold just about the same ethical values, and they're not only legal but have the ability to ability to openly get laws passed requiring the government and police to work as their enforcers - which su...
[16:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:38] <exec> 08└─No, it's been tested and known for quite a long time. This research wasn't to see if the birds could see in UV, we already know they can. It was to see if they would distinguish non-spectral colors, some of which were composed of visible and UV components.
[16:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:43] <exec> 08└─Pure speculation, but I'm guessing Fauci said cloth masks wouldn't prevent infection very well and that was taken ad "madks don't work" with everyone ignoring the 2nd part of masks drastically reducing transmission. The CDC and WHO aren't perfect, but most of the whinging I've seen is due to bad sci...
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[16:29:45] <exec> 08└─LOL - sweet naivety.
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[17:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:08] <exec> 08└─https://apps.apple.com/us/app/linpack/id380883195 [apple.com]
[17:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:09] <exec> 08└─In 1993, #1 was 60 GFlop/s / 1024 cores = 0.06 GFlop/s per core In 2020, #1 is 148,600,000 GFlop/s / 2,414,592 cores = 60 GFlop/s per core. So, roughly 1000 times faster per core. A bit less improvement than I would have expected.
[17:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:12] <exec> 08└─2,414,592 seems to be counting CPU and GPU cores. A single GPU core will be much weaker.
[17:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Planting Trees Threatens the Forest - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:30] <exec> 08└─How about water consumption, or ground water levels for that matter? More trees sucking up more water means less water somewhere down the line
[17:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Planting Trees Threatens the Forest - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:31] <exec> 08└─Getting trees right takes more work than just shoving some seeds in the ground and hoping for the best. One type that I know of needs fire to actually grow correctly. Literally if you do not 'burn the tree a bit' the thing will die. Some trees actually 'attack' each other with the pollen they emit....
[17:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When Planting Trees Threatens the Forest - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:33] <exec> 08└─It does have some of the world's largest aquifers. In fact, big wars are being fought over it right now. It ain't the oil people are after.
[17:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06US Beekeepers Reported Lower Winter Losses but Abnormally High Summer Losses - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:46] <exec> 08└─This is a slide spam thread, it doesnt deserve to be posted at SN unless they are watering this place down on purpose. 6 months ago I couldnt get a hard tech story by the mods because they were so busy, now they approve everything, shows you what this place really is. smh that said the bees being fu...
[17:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:04] <exec> 08└─Let's start up an American Google
[17:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:06] <exec> 08└─They outsourced policy-setting to there already, and CPC will have no problem employing more censors.
[17:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:08] <exec> 08└─The worst thing about youtube are the assholes who can't hold the camera steady on the subject and don't finish the shot. Banning these people will bring huge improvements to overall content.
[17:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:10] <exec> 08└─Let's start up an American Google
[17:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:12] <exec> 08└─This is only for high profile photos that are within their political hunting ground.
[17:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:14] <exec> 08└─You can mislead people on the size of a crowd. If it is big and you want it small just take before and after pictures. Show those and ignore the during. If you want a crowd to look bigger get low and angle the picture upwards into a small crowd. Remember what is out of view can be implied. It is an...
[17:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:16] <exec> 08└─The submitted image of goatse has been fact checked as actually weinstein.
[17:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe now, we will find out how "tall" the president really is, and if he's a Christian or a Jew
[17:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:20] <exec> 08└─Which brings up a good point. What if fact check is wrong and damage results from it?
[17:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:06] <exec> 08└─Arm is a disgusting PITA with Linux. Fuck Arm and the vile whores at Apple.
[17:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:08] <exec> 08└─"And no, Linux doesn't count. It still falls down in too many ways to be a decent alternative desktop os" for you dumb fucking monkeys maybe.
[17:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:10] <exec> 08└─The transition to ARM would be an excellent opportunity to setup [sting] the nosy cunts with NAWBO...
[17:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:34] <exec> 08└─It's because they've obviously been taken over by Bolsheviks if you've been paying attention over the last couple of decades. Shooting Vickie Weaver in the head while she held her baby on her own porch. Some cowardly piece of shit shooting the family dog in front of the 10 yr old son then spraying h...
[17:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:36] <exec> 08└─Only cowards, idiots, sell outs, or a combination of all three, pay the federal income tax. What's your excuse?
[17:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:38] <exec> 08└─Sorry bro. If cops can't make quick decisions in the street and act on them, you will have a lot more theft and deaths. We have seen this happen in the experiment of CHAZ/CHOP and other cities when you remove the police. You need police presence to provide security.
[17:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:40] <exec> 08└─I'll worry about that when the laws are not obviously illegal (unconstitutional) and the enforcers not seditious scum. Until then fire them all for all i care. I don't need government to "protect" me or mine.
[17:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 2542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:42] <exec> 08└─The fbi was using okcupic to go on dates with me as early as 2011, and I suspect some of the bullshit on myspace I experienced was them too. This stuff is so far beyond out of control, there is a secret law to criminize everyone now. It is about predictability and always has been about predictabilit...
[17:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers" - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:48] <exec> 08└─Yes, corporations are just mafias with a charter, or license to kill. They are very well organized criminals with judges and politicians in their pockets. It really is just age old high seas piracy, where before they were "hunter/gatherers". Now they have settled into modern "agriculture".
[17:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, same problem I've got with most of the things I decide to boycott. It's more a continuation of status quo than an actual thing :-p
[17:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:24] <exec> 08└─social media platform's handling of misinformation and hate speech
[17:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:50] <exec> 08└─Pembrokeshire is 150 miles away. If they only sent them 18 miles probably need to complain to paypal.
[17:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:43] <exec> 08└─What we see shapes what colors we name (can you name even one color in the UV spectrum?), but the colors we name also shape how we see the world.
[17:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:44] <exec> 08└─That makes sense. I didn't know whether the birds could see in IR, or whether the answer to that was even yet known. It makes sense that we would probably already know if birds can see IR -- and that the answer, from this series of messages, seems to be that they cannot.
[17:30:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:51] <exec> 08└─Sin tacks?
[17:32:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 1103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:27] <exec> 08└─They tried that bollocks here and it backfired badly and quite predictably: If you're $ethnic you need a B- to get into med school, if you're not you need an A+. So a pile of people who could never make it through med school were admitted based solely on their race and promptly failed the course, le...
[17:32:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 850 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:35] <exec> 08└─What good are humanities graduates who can't relate to society's moral/ethics/culture? None of them today have delved at all into the Western canon, or any canon. They have never read Marx, or Adam Smith, or Kant, or Weber, or any of the great books. For them it's all cliff's notes with brownie poin...
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[18:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:05] <exec> 08└─Hmm, their report says 152,064 nodes in their system, with each node having 48 ARM V8 compute cores + 4 "assistant" cores for the OS. That's a total of 7,299,072 compute cores, which would seem to be only CPU cores - there don't appear to be any "GPU" cores in the system at all. They seem to have in...
[18:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:07] <exec> 08└─Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
[18:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:09] <exec> 08└─I wish the top 500 list showed which OS was in use on each supercomputer. I tried to download an Excel spreadsheet of the top 500, but they wanted me to create a login.
[18:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:11] <exec> 08└─Ooops, just realized that I used the number of cores from the #2 machine. For today, 415,500,000 GFlops/sec / 7,299,072 cores = 57 GFlops/sec per core. So, no significant change to the conclusion. Whew.
[18:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:13] <exec> 08└─You picked out the core count for Summit, which uses POWER9 CPUs and Nvidia GPUs. The previous top system is now in 2nd place. The Summit is located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and was built by IBM. Each node has two 22-core 3.07 GHz Power9 CPUs and six NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs. With a total...
[18:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:15] <exec> 08└─Click the individual supercomputer name. https://www.top500.org [top500.org] https://www.top500.org [top500.org] Red Hat Enterprise Linux FUJITSU Software Technical Computing Suite V4.0
[18:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:18] <exec> 08└─Well, you could click the "Fujitsu Fugaku report by Jack Dongarra" link provided in the summary, and read that: "The operating system is RedHat Enterprise Linux 8 and McKernel (light-weight multi kernel operating system)." I'm guessing that they're running Linux on the 4 "assistant" cores on each ch...
[18:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:20] <exec> 08└─I would not (yet) have expected ARM CPUs in the top 500 list. So ARM on supercomputer is reality and no longer imagination. There are no GPUs or accelerators used in the the Fugaku supercomputer.
[18:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:22] <exec> 08└─Useful, but too bad I can't easily see how many of these monsters are running the wonderful Windows operating system.
[18:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:24] <exec> 08└─U can. https://www.top500.org [top500.org] "Others" listed at 23/500 (4.6%). Operating system family... Linux = 100%. 514 of 514 systems for some reason. Sublist Generator [top500.org] has an option for checking for Windows, but it gives a 500 Error. If it did work, you could go bac...
[18:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:26] <exec> 08└─ARM has ramped up its presence quickly: https://www.arm.com [arm.com] Go to "Processor Generation": https://www.top500.org [top500.org] Only a handful of ARM supercomputers: Fujitsu A64FX in 3 systems, Marvell ThunderX2 in 1, a...
[18:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Planting Trees Threatens the Forest - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:40] <exec> 08└─But they are acquifers that haven't seen significant new water in thousands of years. You start draining that at scale, and you are just "using it up." I've heard it called "fossil water."
[18:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Planting Trees Threatens the Forest - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:41] <exec> 08└─Modern irrigation: bring in many truckloads of bottled water to be poured around the trees for growth. The water comes from somewhere else. So it's not a concern of anyone. The trees won't drain the aquifers. Dispose of bottles wherever convenient. * Drop anywhere convenient? * Grind up into small p...
[18:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Planting Trees Threatens the Forest - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:44] <exec> 08└─Population increase is what kills forests, more people need more land and more resources , simple as that.
[18:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Planting Trees Threatens the Forest - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:46] <exec> 08└─Forestry is a well studied science. There are tons we do not know, but we do understand that typical plantation forests provide minimal benefit and can potentially hurt ecosystems. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org
[18:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Beekeepers Reported Lower Winter Losses but Abnormally High Summer Losses - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:59] <exec> 08└─ba dum tisss
[18:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Beekeepers Reported Lower Winter Losses but Abnormally High Summer Losses - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:00] <exec> 08└─Here is a way to be less upset about the SN mods picks. Look at the subject line: "US Beekeepers Reported Lower Winter Losses but Abnormally High Summer Losses" Now imagine that the second word was Bookkeepers.
[18:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:24] <exec> 08└─mamma mia!
[18:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:25] <exec> 08└─That's a big hunting ground, and people will tweak their text memes to keep ahead of the check/suppression.
[18:23:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Subsentient [1111] 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 165 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:51] <exec> 08└─Apple has survived two other transitions so far, M68K to PPC, and PPC to Intel. Now that Apple is worth 1.5Tn, there's no reason to think the Mac won't survive this.
[18:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:12] <exec> 08└─They also work hand and and with ARM on updates to the spec. Apple had a lot of influence during the transition to 64 bit. The summary discusses the upcoming v9ISA, and I am willing to bet Apple will be implementing it on day one, most likely providing a lot of engineering resources on the actual im...
[18:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:42] <exec> 08└─And for encrypted communications? They can still tap the endpoints.
[18:26:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 133 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:15] <exec> 08└─What I see is that people get along just fine, and then the media (in general) throw an incendiary article/story and ignite division.
[18:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:22] <exec> 08└─There is no duty to commit crimes against alleged racists.
[18:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:23] <exec> 08└─Dick’s Sporting Goods shares skyrocket on earnings beat, raised outlook [cnbc.com] Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. [marketwatch.com] Fiscal year is February-January. All values USD millions. Sales/Revenue 2016: 7.27B 2017: 7.92B 2018: 8.59B 2019: 8.44B 2020: 8.75B
[18:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but if we don't post them where will all the conservatives go to talk about how they're the REAL victims in this country?
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[19:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:01] <exec> 08└─64 cores should be enough for everyone. Fucking millenials.
[19:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:02] <exec> 08└─I remember Intel announcing 80 core chips ~14 years ago... seems that they haven't sold very many of them yet.
[19:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:04] <exec> 08└─You are thinking of the discontinued Xeon Phi, based on the 80-core Teraflops Research Chip, which was not a product. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:26] <exec> 08└─Blame martyb.
[19:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:27] <exec> 08└─systemd keeps the everything load balanced. amirite amirite?
[19:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:24] <exec> 08└─Unpossible, that would be racist! Anything that can trigger Chinese communists is doubleplusungood, haven't you got the memo?!
[19:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:41] <exec> 08└─Then how do you explain the looting happening everywhere else? There's plenty of police there. They're armed to the gills. They're out in force. We're still seeing broken windows. We don't have security. We don't have law and order. What we have is a big gang that's good at threatening poor people a...
[19:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:42] <exec> 08└─Mayors of leftist dumps instructed the police to not aggressively engage and disperse the protest-rioters. Do you read the news? Police chiefs say the mayors tied their hands. Those mayors refused to call in the National Guard. As for black people being hurt by cops: far, far more black people are k...
[19:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:27] <exec> 08└─And you are free to fly the flag of whatever loser armies you want to on your own private property. Putting that flag on someone else's property, such as NASCAR's, is not your right.
[19:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Logic, Before ICs - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:21] <exec> 08└─If you're interested in how to build from logic gates up to a functioning computer there is a great course for that. It's called "From NAND to Tetris". Part 1 goes from NAND gates to a functioning computer. Part 2 goes from assembler on that computer to a high level language with virtualization. Cou...
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[20:22:01] <exec> 08└─Yep - they announced that in 2006/7 timeframe - I remember as a "coming to market soon" thing, but maybe that was the usual tech-press hype. Took until 2012 to ship the first product, still haven't quite reached 80 cores in the 2017 release but they do claim 4x hyperthreading.... thanks for the link...
[20:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:03] <exec> 08└─It's sad to realize that in a couple of years you'll need a Fujitsu ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer made with these chips to boot systemd.
[20:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:05] <exec> 08└─Java 15 (September 2020) will increase maximum heap from 4 TB to 16 TB. (remember, this is Java, so more memory always welcome.) The most cores I've ever heard of a single Java instance running on was 768 cores. So 64 cores is definitely not enough. (I say that tongue in cheek, but I've never used a...
[20:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:07] <exec> 08└─Don't blame systemd for bogging down such powerful systems. Blame Java! Blame Red Hat, IBM, Amazon, and others for thinking it in their best economic interest to put the 10,000 ton Java footprint onto these machines.
[20:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:09] <exec> 08└─I still want my dream of enough CPU cores, on a desktop, so that GPUs simply become unnecessary. Imagine the software simplicity of so many general purpose processing elements -- supported by languages and frameworks that make it eas{y|ier} to exploit these cores. And I want a pony too!
[20:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:11] <exec> 08└─The funny thing is that Intel is creeping right back up there with Xeon core counts. According to this leak video [youtube.com], there will be 56 and possibly up to 72 cores (on a single die) for Sapphire Rapids Xeon by 2021-2022. Right now they are combining two 28-core dies to get to 56. For AMD,...
[20:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:13] <exec> 08└─video/audio processing is a different beast to general purpose tasks. Dedicated GPU will always outperform array of general purpose cores.
[20:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:37] <exec> 08└─With such gigantic clusters of processors, just imagine the amazing wonderfulness of a gigantic fuster cluck of systemd! It would be mined boggling to blow one's mined.
[20:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:39] <exec> 08└─ARM has ramped up its presence quickly
[20:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PaperNoodle [10908] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Beekeepers Reported Lower Winter Losses but Abnormally High Summer Losses - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:13] <exec> 08└─>bees being fucked are due to EMF and pesticides and stupidity Largest contributor is habitat loss and then a far distant second is residual pesticides in the environment.
[20:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:39] <exec> 08└─Just wait for the porn clips fact-checking ... that is going to be hilarious.
[20:24:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:18] <exec> 08└─While that is technically correct, it ignores the company doing it. Apple has always striven to control the end user with incompatible formats
[20:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03everdred [110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:28] <exec> 08└─I had a similar experience when shopping for my first smartphone shortly before the release of the original iPhone. No third-party app development was the big issue for me (but the keyboard, battery and AT&T situation didn't help either). I bought a Palm Treo.
[20:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:30] <exec> 08└─It falls down because you either have to know too much about Linux to use it or treat it like an appliance. There's not enough 'it just works' when doing things like Outlook, Excel, Powerpoint, Finalcut Pro, and so forth. And when you finally do fix those things, you'll alienate the geeks and nerds...
[20:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:11] <exec> 08└─With a ship the size of Manhattan, one might need landing legs in a circle that large, and press that deeply into the surface . . . .
[20:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:04] <exec> 08└─Nope, not birds. You might be thinking of Predators.
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[21:22:13] <exec> 08└─It's a moving target if you consider gaming. New games push up polygon counts, rays traced, etc. and there is a general push for higher resolution and frame rates, 4K @ 60-120 Hz within the next couple years, ultimately stopping somewhere around 8K-16K @ 240-1000 Hz in my opinion. GPUs are hanging o...
[21:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:14] <exec> 08└─"a nice 1 liter cubic form factor ..." Shaped like a pony.
[21:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:17] <exec> 08└─Dead and cubic.
[21:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:19] <exec> 08└─Hey, my workstation has 24 threads and 128GB RAM and it's almost fast enough to run Eclipse!
[21:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:21] <exec> 08└─Masturbation is a political problem, not an economic (or cereal) one.
[21:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:23] <exec> 08└─The cloud should be well grounded, in case of lightning. Will all those penguins on my boot up screen shrink to fit?
[21:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:48] <exec> 08└─Didn't Stormy already "review" his performance as less then stellar? No horse-sized porn-cock there, or I guess it could be that she is used to something else so anything is, or feels, small in comparison. I don't really want to know.
[21:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:49] <exec> 08└─"Muh Goatse!"
[21:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:51] <exec> 08└─That's no penis it's a hemmorhoid!!
[21:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:57] <exec> 08└─We've got a crime problem, but as you otherwise point out the cause is likely poverty, not race.
[21:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:58] <exec> 08└─The rebel flag was used both by the KKK and the Dixiecrats, both of whom were quite racist. Given the history of the flag, how would it be irrational to view the rebel flag as a symbol of racism? Although it's true that a noose could be displayed in some settings as a joke, it's also true that noose...
[21:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:26] <exec> 08└─I only posted the quote because it's the quote that appears when you build Stonehenge in Civilization VI. It grants +2 Faith and a great prophet so that you can found a religion. You're welcome.
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[22:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:26] <exec> 08└─Your pitiful excuse of "workstation" cannot handle eclipse. Is eclipse a joke to you?
[22:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 4706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:28] <exec> 08└─I've been using and administering UNIX servers and desktops since the 1980s, along with all the software that runs on them. I've been administering UNIX computers with multiple CPUs for about as long. Sequent, up in Oregon, sold a server, in the early 1990s, that could run 68020s in parallel. Their...
[22:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:30] <exec> 08└─You know, I never did see that. Who got the girl?
[22:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:32] <exec> 08└─Eclipse is like emacs only without the OS or the editor.
[22:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:34] <exec> 08└─+1 core to handle the parentheses
[22:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:36] <exec> 08└─Heed my advice. Keep it short. Get to the point. Don't be a boomer.
[22:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:39] <exec> 08└─My workstation has 16 threads and 32 GB RAM and runs 2 instances of Eclipse (at once), and various other tools and corporate applications. I also have a couple of server boxes (not desktops) in my office for my own use. One of them is 64 GB RAM and 12 Xeon cores (2 sockets, 2 Xeons). Naturally these...
[22:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:41] <exec> 08└─While Emacs can be extended and customized in Lisp, Eclipse is customized and extended in Java or Kotlin or other JVM language.
[22:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:43] <exec> 08└─Fifteen years ago the thing was: what's a core, really? Does it count if it doesn't have 64bit multipliers? How far can your nerf a core and still call it a core? Lots of these Xeons are for "business" applications that don't need 64 bit anything, what they need is the ability to partition and run 1...
[22:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:45] <exec> 08└─And it still won't do anything useful.
[22:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:47] <exec> 08└─I've heard horror stories too, of numerical code being written in python and a $70k 64 core system specified to run it on because you know more cores and stuff.
[22:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:50] <exec> 08└─1 core for each browser, because I run multiple browsers - three or four at a time, sometimes - and I tend to load up my browsers with dozens of open tabs
[22:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:16] <exec> 08└─didn't like one of the first intel CPUs (8086?) have about "7,299,072" TRANSISTORS?
[22:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:17] <exec> 08└─You better stay out of engineering!
[22:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Planting Trees Threatens the Forest - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:36] <exec> 08└─So, what do you propose we do about it? That's a very difficult question to answer. For many reasons...
[22:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Planting Trees Threatens the Forest - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:37] <exec> 08└─i saw that news somewhere else and got really upset and then i got it: people, via clubbermint, were financing "tree planting" but people just chopped down old forrest and planted monoculture crop trees ... so, in short "tree planting" = bad. "reforestation" = good?
[22:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Planting Trees Threatens the Forest - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:40] <exec> 08└─...simple as that.
[22:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Planting Trees Threatens the Forest - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:42] <exec> 08└─When they plant pine plantations near pecans, the pecans wither due to all the water sucked up by the pines.
[22:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:28] <exec> 08└─OT but on point: https://www.news.com.au [news.com.au] China gets a student expelled from an Australian university over a tiny prote...
[22:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:18] <exec> 08└─everything "apple", for me, is like news from a far away place or even another planet. also, ref. foundation tv series, if the portrait world has a "clean" and "tidy" and "adhd mediaction fueled" look then you know it's d00med. only a portrait world where there are extremes between high-tech and wea...
[22:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeVilla [5354] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:51] <exec> 08└─I call BS. What Snowden released exceeded what even the most paranoid people I knew expected.
[22:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:52] <exec> 08└─suddenly
[22:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:54] <exec> 08└─Snowden announced what the most paranoid of us had been claiming for a long time.
[22:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:57] <exec> 08└─i think a federal INVESTIGATION buro is a good INVESTIGATION buro if they use the same data sources everybody can use and see ...
[22:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:59] <exec> 08└─Oblig: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[22:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Payments Firm Wirecard: $2.1 Billion in Missing Cash Balances "Likely Doesn't Exist" - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:18] <exec> 08└─You're blaming this on Covid?
[22:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Payments Firm Wirecard: $2.1 Billion in Missing Cash Balances "Likely Doesn't Exist" - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:19] <exec> 08└─some auditor didn't want to sign off on the books .. thus: news at 10! also some trail went to the philippines? it smells like sankt pauli flavoured talcum powder :) "likely doesn't exist" is what springs to mind when the tummy is growling and trying to remember if there's some leftover pizza in the...
[22:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Thinks It's Time to Return to Neptune with its Trident Mission - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:39] <exec> 08└─oh? no orbit? sad. orbit around neptun-ish would be cool. maybe "halving" the probe to neptun would work? that is a 50-50 split of weight of the probe with two rockets firing against each other? there's "olbert"(*)-or-what maneuver where you fire the rocket (and expel fuel-mass) at lowest point of f...
[22:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:51] <exec> 08└─So now, it's just fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. That's all anyone's ever said to me, and now I'm throwing it right back in all your damn faces. Fuck you fuck you fuck you.
[22:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:13] <exec> 08└─Snakes are the ones that "see" in infrared (but it's not really seeing, they have a special non-optical organ for it).
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[23:22:35] <exec> 08└─Fifteen years ago the thing was: what's a core, really? Does it count if it doesn't have 64bit multipliers? How far can your nerf a core and still call it a core?
[23:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:04] <exec> 08└─I came her just to see this comment.
[23:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Beekeepers Reported Lower Winter Losses but Abnormally High Summer Losses - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:42] <exec> 08└─Are they losing bees? Or money? If it's bees, losing them in winter and summer means a general decline in bee population. Trouble. Are the bees just dying? Or are they being stolen and the hives vandalized? -- hendrik
[23:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:03] <exec> 08└─That is the thing in general tho, you don't have to have the best product -- it doesn't even have to be good. It just has to suck less then the competition. I guess that is their niche, or one of them: Apple -- sucking less!
[23:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 1085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:05] <exec> 08└─Back when they made the M68K to PPC, and when they made the PPC to Intel transition, Apple was a computer company. It was even in the name, Apple Computers, Inc. So they had a pretty big vested interest in the transition being successful. Today they are a phone company and an app store. It's obvious...
[23:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:43] <exec> 08└─To be really dark, you have to be more gray, or at least I imagine. To have zero footprint is to make yourself interesting, so I would guess those who really wish to be hidden, are innocuously visible in a carefully curated manner.
[23:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:04] <exec> 08└─Hey! Stop that. That's *my* fantasy!
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