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[00:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:41] <exec> 08└─Google is actively trying to kill the web. That is what this thing means. 'Do no evil' my ass.
[00:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:42] <exec> 08└─Opera already had an .MHT format for condensing everything on a web page into one file, used for saving a local copy of a page. Would .WBN be similar to that? In some ways that could be an improvement over what we have now. The server would have to do the work of deciding what data you're going to g...
[00:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:44] <exec> 08└─I pretty much agree. Google sees people like me who almost never load an advertisement, and they think they have to push their shit through my filters. Screw 'em.
[00:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:47] <exec> 08└─I always knew this web thing would end up just being a fad. Usenet is still where it's at! Seriously, if I can't block ads from "web bundles", I'm not going to be accessing any "web bundles". Any future browser/adblocker combo I use will have to be able to block web bundles completely. If that means...
[00:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:49] <exec> 08└─In some ways that could be an improvement over what we have now.
[00:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take a Closer Look at Elon Musk’s Neuralink Surgical Robot - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:00] <exec> 08└─This kind of psychopathic behavior is why we can't have good things. There's a bit of an issue with that in that if everybody was as self-centered as you are, then we'd never get any sort of medical treatments as everybody would be waiting for others to go first. The reality here is that it's unlike...
[00:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop a Fast, Accurate, Low-Cost COVID-19 Test - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:18] <exec> 08└─- Fast - Accurate - Low-Cost What happened to 'pick 2 out of 3'?
[00:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mother Transmitted COVID-19 to Baby During Pregnancy, UTSW Physicians Report - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:39] <exec> 08└─https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26769034/ [nih.gov] Results: All 50 falls-25 with the use of a parachute, 25 without a parachute-were successfully performed. Head injuries (right hemisphere p = 0.008, left hemisphere p = 0.004), cervical trauma (p < 0.001), thoracic trauma (p < 0.001), lumbar trauma...
[00:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Tourist Offered Employee $1 Million to Cripple Tesla with Malware - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:59] <exec> 08└─OK, so the first and only employee that was approached by foreign interests to do this was so noble and honest that they reported it immediately and there is nothing further to worry about. Yeah, right. And Bill Gates is going to donate all his money to UNICEF and move to a small cabin deep in the Y...
[00:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cashierless Stores are Popping up at Gas Stations, Stadiums and Even Dunkin' - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:06] <exec> 08└─Oh look, Phoenix666 is continuing the "omg riots" bullshit. Tell me Phoenix, why are you more concerned with buildings than the lives of your fellow citizens?
[00:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cashierless Stores are Popping up at Gas Stations, Stadiums and Even Dunkin' - 1260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:08] <exec> 08└─If folks are breaking the law, arrest and prosecute them. But don't conflate the folks carrying signs and chanting slogans who are legally exercising their rights, with a few folks who need to go to jail for their actions. What's that? The police are refusing to do their jobs? That's a failure of th...
[00:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cashierless Stores are Popping up at Gas Stations, Stadiums and Even Dunkin' - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:10] <exec> 08└─amirite?
[00:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cashierless Stores are Popping up at Gas Stations, Stadiums and Even Dunkin' - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:12] <exec> 08└─I'm not allowed to go there anymore, since they had their "365Black" campaign, where they're only for black people 365 days of the year. I'm not black, so I can't go there any day of the year. Except Leap Day. I have to admit I don't miss it, though.
[00:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cashierless Stores are Popping up at Gas Stations, Stadiums and Even Dunkin' - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:14] <exec> 08└─Can I code the vivisection subroutine? I mean, sure I've killed off processes before, but now... muhahahahaha!
[00:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Academy of Sleep Medicine Calls for Elimination of Daylight Saving Time - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:21] <exec> 08└─Aww, one of the resident racists is trying to defend police fascism. How cuuuute.
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[01:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:45] <exec> 08└─There is one way, but only one way, it can be an improvement. That 10GB isn't being piped in from 'leventy-leven unidentifiable servers located around the world. Meaning, if you get malware or some such, you can identify where it came from. There is no other benefit to you, or to me, the "end users"...
[01:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:46] <exec> 08└─"A proposed Google web specification threatens to turn websites into inscrutable digital blobs that resist content blocking and code scrutiny, according to Peter Snyder, senior privacy researcher at Brave Software." That's, like, news from years ago. Don't mean Imma use your phony "privacy-protectin...
[01:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:48] <exec> 08└─That 10GB isn't being piped in from 'leventy-leven unidentifiable servers located around the world.
[01:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:50] <exec> 08└─They would be very long lines of text. Minimizing connection and HTTP request overhead by bundling resources is a good idea, as is not bloating websites with pointless "frameworks" and other such crap. The two are not mutually exclusive. For many sites, the compressed stylesheet, script and individu...
[01:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:52] <exec> 08└─My response will be the same as it was when cable channels got out of control with advertisements. I don't even own a TV anymore. There isn't really any reason.
[01:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 1395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:55] <exec> 08└─A packaged webpage as one file has existed since the early days of IE on windows 95. You could save a webpage as a single file archive, and all the URLs were replaced with relative paths. What idiot thinks a filter doesn't work on relative paths. This idiot researcher, who is just trying to push his...
[01:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:57] <exec> 08└─web pages are basically programs. letting folks load random programs to my computer and run then is scary enough. Now they want to remove the ability to inspect these programs. What could possibly go wrong.
[01:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:59] <exec> 08└─Chrome also has a "Save as MHTML" extension/setting, handy for saving an HTML receipt/order confirmation along with all the logos and stuff as a single (large) file. Going out on the limb even further, this change could trade off WAN traffic for LAN traffic -- imagine a browser that downloads a remo...
[01:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:01] <exec> 08└─Lots of people don't pay for any Google services -- especially people in developing nations who aren't the one-percenters with iPhones. In this context, who are their competitors that you send business to? Just curious.
[01:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Develop a Fast, Accurate, Low-Cost COVID-19 Test - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:32] <exec> 08└─Be grateful if you get 1!
[01:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Buying DirecTV for $50 Billion in 2015, AT&T Now Seeks to Sell It for Under $20 Billion - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:05] <exec> 08└─News Corps purchase of MySpace?
[01:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Buying DirecTV for $50 Billion in 2015, AT&T Now Seeks to Sell It for Under $20 Billion - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:06] <exec> 08└─Mmmmm sloppy seconds.
[01:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Buying DirecTV for $50 Billion in 2015, AT&T Now Seeks to Sell It for Under $20 Billion - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:09] <exec> 08└─I'm about 25-30 miles, in fact, I get several stations from another city that's 60 miles away without re-aiming the antenna- rock solid- no breakups. And that's an older antenna and amplifier (mounted on the antenna). I highly recommend the integrated antenna and amplifier, outdoor rated of course....
[01:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Invisible Content Cartel That Undermines the Freedom of Expression Online - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:07] <exec> 08└─Correct. But EBCDIC also consists of a number of different character sets. Converting from some popular EBCDIC variants (such as the one for the TN print chains) to other character codes was difficult before Unicode and UTF-8.
[01:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cosmic Rays May Soon Stymie Quantum Computing - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:22] <exec> 08└─>"200 times" implies that something is getting multiplied by 200 Absolutely not. Take an ESL class at your local community college before commenting on English and in English. 200 times less is a perfectly valid phrase. It means divide by 200, not multiply. 200 times cheaper means divide 200 times c...
[01:31:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LG's Battery-Powered Face Mask Will "Make Breathing Effortless" - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:29] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered_air-purifying_respirator. [wikipedia.org] Many woodworkers use these and it's essential with some wood dust that is toxic.
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[02:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tools Behind Belarus Internet Censorship Potentially Revealed - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:46] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the club!
[02:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:07] <exec> 08└─That's not what this does. The web browser has to be able to display the thing at the end of it all. That means the web browser has to be able to figure out what the data is and/or where to grab it from. This sounds like quite a bit of FUD to me.
[02:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 1389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:09] <exec> 08└─Remember the FTP specand how you can choose to download x number of bytes starting at offset y? There's metadata about the bundles individual files,,their start offset, and their size. There is absolutely no requirement to download everything. That includes individual or all JavaScript , individual...
[02:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:11] <exec> 08└─It's totally fud. I doubt the guy even read the spec. Picture a header containing an offset to the list of contained files and their starting offsets and lengths. You can use FTP to seek to the index, get the file list and metadata, and download just the parts you want, using the same file names as...
[02:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:13] <exec> 08└─It's trivial to just download the parts you want - I've laid out How elsewhere in the posts. Anyone with a bit of scripting can do it, set the script up on a local web server, and get a sanitized, sane copy that is ad-free. My guess is that if bundles become popular people will set up caching unbund...
[02:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take a Closer Look at Elon Musk’s Neuralink Surgical Robot - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:25] <exec> 08└─Works fine in w3m. Full of corporate bullshit. Unsurprising, the fact that they use a Columbian TLD told me everything I needed to know.
[02:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop a Fast, Accurate, Low-Cost COVID-19 Test - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:46] <exec> 08└─Man, there are some weird mods out there, my q above is currently Troll=1, Insightful=1, Don't think I've ever managed that before...
[02:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Satellites' Effect on Night Sky Can't be Eliminated, Astronomers Say - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:37] <exec> 08└─Do you math much? Mean is mean / if you're switching off pixels, stop accumulating denominator while the pixel is switched off.
[02:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Satellites' Effect on Night Sky Can't be Eliminated, Astronomers Say - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:39] <exec> 08└─If you are observing a distant object with a smaller than satellite radial measurement, you simply throw out those frames while the satellite is crossing. This is many many orders of magnitude simpler than correcting atmospheric distortions, and has zero hardware requirements. Every backyard geek wi...
[02:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Buying DirecTV for $50 Billion in 2015, AT&T Now Seeks to Sell It for Under $20 Billion - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:26] <exec> 08└─That's some interesting good wisdom there. Only thing I'll comment: the dynamic is (quite) different when you're the boss and have the power and authority to make the decisions, shut people down, fire them, etc. But again, excellent points.
[02:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Buying DirecTV for $50 Billion in 2015, AT&T Now Seeks to Sell It for Under $20 Billion - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:28] <exec> 08└─If so, they failed big. I doubt they stripped enough to cover the 30 billion loss.
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[03:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tools Behind Belarus Internet Censorship Potentially Revealed - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:41] <exec> 08└─According to pictures, the Belarussian liberal oppositionists are waving white-red state flags used during German Nazi occupation 1942-1944. Where did they got them delivered from?
[03:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tools Behind Belarus Internet Censorship Potentially Revealed - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:43] <exec> 08└─Belorussians see themselves as extremely patient. They pride(?) themselves for putting up with extreme hardship. Finally, they are rising up. Too bad, yous are stuck next to Russia. Putin's gonna roll down the tanks for Lukashenko who sell out the country to Russia.
[03:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tools Behind Belarus Internet Censorship Potentially Revealed - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:45] <exec> 08└─Hamburg?
[03:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tools Behind Belarus Internet Censorship Potentially Revealed - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:47] <exec> 08└─I look forward to the day when Mr. Musk airdrops UFOs on sticks to any place that has lost internet connectivity - naughty autocrats, natural disasters, incompetence, whatever.
[03:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 1214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:12] <exec> 08└─Allowing people to block urls by file type saves way more bandwidth than bundles ever will. I've blocked all graphics, videos, images on my phone and it's amazing how little bandwidth I use now. No social media icons, no auto play videos, no stupid stock photos on news sites. Bundles would require m...
[03:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:13] <exec> 08└─"Anyone...can do it" "script" "web server" All I can say is... you must live amidst a considerably more technically skilled population of "anyones" than I.
[03:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:16] <exec> 08└─Not giving google money does not mean not paying for services. It means not using google products or selling google products. About 8mil per year of tech solutions I sell run in or DR to cloud. There are only 2 competitors to GCP. Azure and AWS. Those are the only ones that go into my proposed solut...
[03:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take a Closer Look at Elon Musk’s Neuralink Surgical Robot - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:29] <exec> 08└─It's not self-centered to practice caution. There have been way too many mistakes and purposeful lies historically to expect anyone to trust a vaccine sight unseen. Then factor in everyone who won't be able to get there vaccine at all - medical conditions, no insurance or money, poor or no English s...
[03:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop a Fast, Accurate, Low-Cost COVID-19 Test - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:50] <exec> 08└─COVID-19 == BULLSHIT
[03:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop a Fast, Accurate, Low-Cost COVID-19 Test - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:51] <exec> 08└─[...] After all, since this is a "Chay-nah" virus, one would not be surprised if the best test were developed there. [...]
[03:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Satellites' Effect on Night Sky Can't be Eliminated, Astronomers Say - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:43] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, a great example of the MIC in action. How many James Webb telescopes could they have launched for the price of this one?
[03:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Rays May Soon Stymie Quantum Computing - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:47] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing you're under 17? Life'll change when you move out of your bedroom and into the basement to "get away from it all".
[03:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cosmic Rays May Soon Stymie Quantum Computing - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:48] <exec> 08└─41, cs major, double minor in physics and organic chem, over 20 years of industry experience as an data storage engineer. There are no 17 year old people on this website. Your degree is in psychology I'm assuming, and you were a D student. It was probably because you had language problems - should h...
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[04:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tools Behind Belarus Internet Censorship Potentially Revealed - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:57] <exec> 08└─Where did they got them delivered from?
[04:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tools Behind Belarus Internet Censorship Potentially Revealed - 2270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:58] <exec> 08└─The problem is, like in Ukraine, it's the same mix of shit people on both sides. They lie just as much, and implore the same misinformation and corruption tactics. Yes, the election was rigged. Would the other side have rigged it - are they any better? No, because when you choose a turd from a toile...
[04:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tools Behind Belarus Internet Censorship Potentially Revealed - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:00] <exec> 08└─It's shit on both sides...
[04:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:29] <exec> 08└─You can already embed scripts, stylesheets, images and everything else as base64 data URIs.
[04:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 1140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, many of us can set up proxies, code some scripts to run FTP, ..., but all of those complaining that this is FUD (regardless of the source) must have taken stupid pills today. This is not aimed at us. It is aimed at EVERYONE ELSE. When Chrome CCC and Edge EEE access these resources on 99.9% of t...
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[04:23:33] <exec> 08└─[...] It's like the protesters constantly attacking regular people. [...]
[04:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop a Fast, Accurate, Low-Cost COVID-19 Test - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:10] <exec> 08└─Seconded, an interesting read. For this assay, those come out to a sensitivity of 97.1% (positive results detected when there should have been a positive) and a specificity of 98.5% (negative results when there should indeed have been a negative). Flipping those around, you’ll see that about 1.5 t...
[04:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop a Fast, Accurate, Low-Cost COVID-19 Test - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:11] <exec> 08└─BS detected!
[04:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop a Fast, Accurate, Low-Cost COVID-19 Test - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:13] <exec> 08└─Goes on to put some numbers to this error rate, when testing a population of 1000 people--gives a good feel for what is possible right now.
[04:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop a Fast, Accurate, Low-Cost COVID-19 Test - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:16] <exec> 08└─What happened to 'pick 2 out of 3'?
[04:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Satellites' Effect on Night Sky Can't be Eliminated, Astronomers Say - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:10] <exec> 08└─so a fraction of it actually goes to wages
[04:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Practicing Sustainability During a Pandemic - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:13] <exec> 08└─I also had virus pneumomia - a covid kind - about 45 years ago. Do you believe I can still spread this virus to my innosent friends and coworkers as well? From a different angle, when I do eventually get covid, would it be the Chineese one or my own from way back in your opinion?
[04:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Practicing Sustainability During a Pandemic - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:15] <exec> 08└─You're comparing very different sorts of diseases caused by different infectious agents with different exploits of the human immune system.
[04:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Tourist Offered Employee $1 Million to Cripple Tesla with Malware - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:13] <exec> 08└─Someone should write the book: "What the world would be like if everyone behaved with Microsoftian ethics". Oh, wait, nevermind.
[04:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Invisible Content Cartel That Undermines the Freedom of Expression Online - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:06] <exec> 08└─I always wanted to use the TN print train.
[04:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Invisible Content Cartel That Undermines the Freedom of Expression Online - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:07] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't extreme lossy compression work better for that than taking hashes?
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[05:23:33] <exec> 08└─I pretty much agree. Google sees people like me who almost never load an advertisement, and they think they have to push their shit through my filters. Screw 'em.
[05:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Researchers Develop a Fast, Accurate, Low-Cost COVID-19 Test - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:14] <exec> 08└─Also note that they only mention the material cost, not the total manufacturing cost. In theory you could make anything starting from hydrogen and smashing it together sixteen ways till Sunday and you'd have a low material cost and a ginormous manufacturing cost...
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[05:25:10] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't that there's cost overruns and delays. It's the size of those cost overruns, and the length of those delays. NASA has gotten away with a lot of shenanigans in space science because nobody else does it and thus, there's nothing to compare. When there is, such as orbital launch vehic...
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[05:28:24] <exec> 08└─...cashless tomorrow
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[06:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tools Behind Belarus Internet Censorship Potentially Revealed - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:53] <exec> 08└─(it was a bag with a bottle of water).
[06:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tools Behind Belarus Internet Censorship Potentially Revealed - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:55] <exec> 08└─QOTD: Take your Senator to lunch this week. Can we just airdrop some senators and congressmen on sticks? We could think up a cool name - like - ohhhhh - how about "Shitkabob"?
[06:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:28] <exec> 08└─Do you think there is a market for a proxy/vpn/whateveryoucallit browser combo? Something that looks like a regular browser, but any URL is passed to a remote proxy that downloads and renders the complete page in a fast secure environment, strips out ads and/or js and/or tracking and passes the resu...
[06:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:29] <exec> 08└─You've got to look further ahead. The next step after this is widespread is obviously to encrypt/decrypt the bundle using the same or similar DRM methods they use to play "protected" content.
[06:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Rays May Soon Stymie Quantum Computing - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:18] <exec> 08└─I guessed 17 because of your infatuation with the word "fuck", and focus on whether or not I have sex as a form of insult. Kids of that age are mesmerized by the supposed power of the word, and the act. If you're actually 41, I find that sad. (Unfortunately, the current President of the US has elimi...
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[07:23:01] <exec> 08└─Not just any place? Elon Musk's plan to blanket Earth in high-speed internet may face a big threat: China [businessinsider.com] *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) "Obviously, any given country can say it's illegal to have a ground link. [...] And from our standpoint we could conceiv...
[07:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tools Behind Belarus Internet Censorship Potentially Revealed - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:03] <exec> 08└─Another thing that Runaway does not know! The man is a veritable black hole of ignorance! He even forgot he voted for Trump, conveniently.
[07:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tools Behind Belarus Internet Censorship Potentially Revealed - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:05] <exec> 08└─It's shit on both sides...
[07:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:39] <exec> 08└─A remote filter server is the exact opposite of fast and secure, and you can bet your bottom dollar the preventing any kind of filtering is the next step. And with everything moving online, there will be no way to avoid it while participating in modern society.
[07:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:40] <exec> 08└─Hence the line : "I'd probably pay $5 a month for that service, IFF I trusted the provider." If this becomes ubiquitous I might up that to $20. There is definitely at least a niche market there. The problem would be establishing trust.
[07:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:43] <exec> 08└─It's not just stuff like this, it's everything else as well. Lots of web sites are now serving standard JPEG images as .webp which nothing except a web browser can do much with. Want to download an image for use somewhere? You can't use it until you pass it through a webp-to-normal conversion tool....
[07:26:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] 02 - 06Russian Tourist Offered Employee $1 Million to Cripple Tesla with Malware - 119 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:55] <exec> 08└─My guess it is really not a Russian-government attack, rather Russian-criminal. I mean Russian private-sector criminal.
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[08:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tools Behind Belarus Internet Censorship Potentially Revealed - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:29] <exec> 08└─Fact, the president of Belarus denounced having been offered millions by the WHO to submit his country to cover emergency the way they dictated. Interpretation: if you are a conspiracy negationist he was poisoning the well to look good and independent for the upcoming elections. Problem, such an att...
[08:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 1989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:07] <exec> 08└─Right now, those 'laventy-leven' unintelligible (FTFY) 'servers located around the world' may not mean much to me and you, but my ad-blocker identifies common ad and malware servers (same thing to me) and prevent the content from ever being downloaded. It's this last part that rubs Google the wrong...
[08:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:08] <exec> 08└─Webp is an open standard with source code licensed under BSD. If your tools can't read webp, you need better tools. GIMP has supported them for two years (longer, using separate plug-ins).
[08:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take a Closer Look at Elon Musk’s Neuralink Surgical Robot - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:24] <exec> 08└─if everybody was as self-centered as you are, then we'd never get any sort of medical treatments as everybody would be waiting for others to go first.
[08:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop a Fast, Accurate, Low-Cost COVID-19 Test - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:52] <exec> 08└─And that's where the availability of the test in larger quantity becomes important. If you have enough of them and you can perform 3 tests in the same time (to take 2 of the 3 as the answer), your false results frequency drops an order of magnitude.
[08:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Buying DirecTV for $50 Billion in 2015, AT&T Now Seeks to Sell It for Under $20 Billion - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:35] <exec> 08└─I buy whole series of shows for 30-100 bucks on DVD. Usually 10 seasons at a time. commercial free... Figure out which shows she watches and buy her those for a birthday/Christmas/whatever. example https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] 10 seasons of columbo 50...
[08:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03sorokin [187] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Tourist Offered Employee $1 Million to Cripple Tesla with Malware - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:50] <exec> 08└─Different words can be used to describe the same thing. Saying "Putin's Russia" means that the reporting is not done in good faith. Adding it to the headline means that the writer/editor deliberately strayed from neutral reporting. The linguistic exercises on whether a country is "its president's" l...
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[09:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Spider Silk Based Materials to Prevent Infection - 1590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:54] <exec> 08└─A google search, between the years of 2005 and 2015 for "spider silk material prevent infection" gives me pages, and pages of hits. 2014, 2011 - let me grab that one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] Abstract The development of a new generation of multifunctional bioma...
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[09:23:23] <exec> 08└─It was used in 1991-1995 (after the fall of USSR, basically), until Lukashenko decided he wants it different.
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[09:23:24] <exec> 08└─It's not so much where the Nazi flags were made, more the fact that someone had already ordered up sufficient quantities of said flags for them to magically appear in numbers and then having available a sufficient percentage of the population knowing full well the history of said flags but who don't...
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[09:23:35] <exec> 08└─I pretty much agree. Google sees people like me who almost never load an advertisement, and they think they have to push their shit through my filters. Screw 'em.
[09:23:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 1214 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:50] <exec> 08└─Allowing people to block urls by file type saves way more bandwidth than bundles ever will. I've blocked all graphics, videos, images on my phone and it's amazing how little bandwidth I use now. No social media icons, no auto play videos, no stupid stock photos on news sites. Bundles would require m...
[09:23:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:51] <exec> 08└─"Anyone...can do it" "script" "web server" All I can say is... you must live amidst a considerably more technically skilled population of "anyones" than I.
[09:24:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 1989 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:03] <exec> 08└─Right now, those 'laventy-leven' unintelligible (FTFY) 'servers located around the world' may not mean much to me and you, but my ad-blocker identifies common ad and malware servers (same thing to me) and prevent the content from ever being downloaded. It's this last part that rubs Google the wrong...
[09:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:05] <exec> 08└─the devil is in the details: Do no evil* *) leave that to us I will not download from websites that are not websites, and to drift OT frankly I am fed up with news outlets too. Yesterday Kennedy jr. addresses a crowd in Berlin which wasn't seen since that adolf guy, not even russia today gives it th...
[09:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mother Transmitted COVID-19 to Baby During Pregnancy, UTSW Physicians Report - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:12] <exec> 08└─No, the birth took place in open air. It wasn't air borne, it was air born.
[09:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSMC "5nm", "3nm", Stacked Silicon, and More - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:09] <exec> 08└─Even with the names being inaccurate, I seem to recall Texas Instruments or another company claiming it was going to be extremely difficult, if not near impossible to go much below 130nm. That prediction didn't hold up well at all.
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[10:22:55] <exec> 08└─Interesting. At the moment I cannot access at all https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] and the full text of the Kumari et al. Anyway, whoever the authors of that earlier paper are, I hope Kumari et al include a citation to that prior work. The process of ensuring the liter...
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[10:23:32] <exec> 08└─Opera already had an .MHT format for condensing everything on a web page into one file, used for saving a local copy of a page. Would .WBN be similar to that? In some ways that could be an improvement over what we have now. The server would have to do the work of deciding what data you're going to g...
[10:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:04] <exec> 08└─Until you're forced to do banking and purchasing on line, then you'll be using web bundles. The powers that be will make sure cash goes away.
[10:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 1355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:06] <exec> 08└─no, the silly-OP's problem is not Trust, i mean it is Trust, but there's more to it. As soon as poor sod pays for this selfincrimination-as-a-service, he realistically notarially signed that the packets, endpoint and metadata (as defined by FVEYS) are owned by him, buy the virtue of using his credit...
[10:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Buying DirecTV for $50 Billion in 2015, AT&T Now Seeks to Sell It for Under $20 Billion - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:36] <exec> 08└─Google Messages has already solved pretty much everything you're complaining about with SMS.
[10:31:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cosmic Rays May Soon Stymie Quantum Computing - 1669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:31:02] <exec> 08└─Well, since I understand common everyday expressions like 200 times slower or 200 times colder, and you do not, I believe mastery of the language is with me here. By the way, saying you're one of those annoying people that women don't want to fuck you is not an insult about how much sex you have. If...
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[11:23:17] <exec> 08└─We'll never know if it was a bottle of water. All we know is it was a plastic bag, and that those protesters have been throwing water bottles at the cops. So most likely a water bottle, but no way to tell. bias source:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/conservatives-defend-kenosha-suspect-kyle-...
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[11:24:00] <exec> 08└─Nonsense. I do my banking over the phone using voice menus. That's not going away because they need to serve clients who can't use the web because of vision problems. Also, just don't use google as your search engine and you won't be led to google AMP, which is what these bundles are primarily for....
[11:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:02] <exec> 08└─ok there china troll. financially compensated doesn't need a "-" - try google translate for better results. oh, you can't since it's blocked where you are. the protesters are a bunch of looting niggers and a middle-class suburban teenagers and 20-somethings who just moved into a condo paid for by th...
[11:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:04] <exec> 08└─Please don't misquote me to set up a straw man argument. It makes you look stupid and wastes my time.
[11:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:06] <exec> 08└─Web bundles will primarily be used by google, not regular web sites. Same as google AMP. Don't use google search, you get the regular "unaccelerated by google " site. Problem solved. Brave is just looking for publicity.
[11:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:08] <exec> 08└─The format is for google to use to deliver websites faster, same as google AMP. Don't want to use it, don't use google search. You'll be presented with the original web site, not the google AMP alternative. This is just their next version of AMP that puts them in charge.
[11:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:10] <exec> 08└─uiGood summary. Yes, there is sufficient information available about bundles before fully downloading them that it should be possible to change ad blockers to do blocking in two stages. Firstly, the ad blocker chooses which parts of a web bundle get downloaded based on lists of known good/bad signat...
[11:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:12] <exec> 08└─Or you can go to the actual web site instead of using google search, which offers AMP (this is just their next version of AMP to bypass the source web site and send everything faster). Stop using google search and you won't be offered google AMP sites as the first result. So you won't see their nex...
[11:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Invisible Content Cartel That Undermines the Freedom of Expression Online - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:54] <exec> 08└─I got to use the TN print chain for my Phd thesis back in 1974. I think mine may have been one of the first Phd theses at the university to have been produced by a document compiler. Nowadays of course I'd use a laser printer with TeX or some other free software. -- hendrik
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[11:30:55] <exec> 08└─For example, there's Near Duplicate Image Detection:min-Hash and tf-idf Weighting [ox.ac.uk]. Found it after following the link in a stack-overflow page linked from a Google search for "fuzzy image hashing". No doubt there are other techniques. -- hendrik
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[11:30:57] <exec> 08└─Hashing reduces the number of pairwise comparisons you have to do.
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[12:23:44] <exec> 08└─It's not so much where the Nazi flags were made, more the fact that someone had already ordered up sufficient quantities of said flags for them to magically appear in numbers and then having available a sufficient percentage of the population knowing full well the history of said flags but who don't...
[12:23:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 371 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:55] <exec> 08└─I always knew this web thing would end up just being a fad. Usenet is still where it's at! Seriously, if I can't block ads from "web bundles", I'm not going to be accessing any "web bundles". Any future browser/adblocker combo I use will have to be able to block web bundles completely. If that means...
[12:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:34] <exec> 08└─The point is that there will be damn few "web sites" that serve only the current conglomeration of HTML, JavaScript, ... What they will serve is bundles, and only bundles. We all know what a nightmare JavaScript has been for security and privacy, but how many legitimate e-commerce and data (not "soc...
[12:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop a Fast, Accurate, Low-Cost COVID-19 Test - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:20] <exec> 08└─That requires a smell test
[12:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Buying DirecTV for $50 Billion in 2015, AT&T Now Seeks to Sell It for Under $20 Billion - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:07] <exec> 08└─"The reason Americans have no savings, huge credit card debt, and are always on the verge of bankruptcy is because they're lazy and entitled." No, the reason is: you lose money by saving it due to inflation because our money is no longer tied to a standard to keep inflation in check. When there's no...
[12:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06After Buying DirecTV for $50 Billion in 2015, AT&T Now Seeks to Sell It for Under $20 Billion - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:09] <exec> 08└─Hats off to the genius at AT&T who is pulling this trigger, they've already lost $30B, that can't be changed - getting out without losing the final $20B is a great move.
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[13:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This AI Creates Detailed 3D Renderings from Thousands of Tourist Photos - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:39] <exec> 08└─Makes me wonder at what point we will no longer be able to trust any photo we see on news sites.
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[13:24:17] <exec> 08└─I couldn't figure out how that would be an improvement over the caching servers we already have.
[13:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mother Transmitted COVID-19 to Baby During Pregnancy, UTSW Physicians Report - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:25] <exec> 08└─You'll be telling me that airbags don't reduce car accident mortality if activates after admission to the hospital next.
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[14:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:57] <exec> 08└─No, because I only get refurb business-class laptops, when I do get them. Computers aren't getting any faster, and haven't been for a long time; they're just adding cores (which only helps with parallel workloads, not so much with just using a web browser), and decreasing power consumption (which is...
[14:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Interesting) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:58] <exec> 08└─I pity you poor americans.
[14:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:00] <exec> 08└─Most of the ones sold around here still have 8GB RAM. Still. The price is still the same as it was 10 years ago. Isn't it supposed to get cheaper over time?
[14:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:02] <exec> 08└─They just closed down https://www.theverge.com [theverge.com]
[14:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This AI Creates Detailed 3D Renderings from Thousands of Tourist Photos - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:11] <exec> 08└─It has to be easy enough for newsrooms to use it. Like Adobe Photoshop with machine learning tools and filters [medium.com] on ARM Macs accelerated by the "Neural Engine" [wikipedia.org]. News sites can also just grab images off Twitter and run those. The sophistication of fake images should go way...
[14:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This AI Creates Detailed 3D Renderings from Thousands of Tourist Photos - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:13] <exec> 08└─Microsoft PhotoSynth was literally this. They killed it off 10 years ago.
[14:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This AI Creates Detailed 3D Renderings from Thousands of Tourist Photos - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:15] <exec> 08└─Most probably we have passed this point already. The solution, however, exists. It is trusted computing, techniques AKA DRM. The best of both worlds is possible and the discussions needs to point out the different aspects (making trust in digital media possible and restricting access) if DRM is to b...
[14:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 1437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:50] <exec> 08└─"Web Bundles would prevent ad blockers from blocking unwanted subresources" That seems to be quite overstated. Bundles aggregate the data for transport, but do not compel it to be interpreted once received. This really isn't any different than running a caching server. I see the major benefit of thi...
[14:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mother Transmitted COVID-19 to Baby During Pregnancy, UTSW Physicians Report - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:00] <exec> 08└─Alas the largest hole in my education was biology due to stupid restrictions, and to me it seems kinda weird that one might default to presuming it can't be transmitted in-utero. Other similarly sized viruses do it, why would one expect this one not to?
[14:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Buying DirecTV for $50 Billion in 2015, AT&T Now Seeks to Sell It for Under $20 Billion - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:26] <exec> 08└─I've never even heard of this app. I just looked it up on the play store and all the latest reviews are 1 star; it looks like they broke it somehow. Anyway, how would this solve anything? It sounds a lot like Apple's texting app: works great if the recipient is also using the same app, but otherwise...
[14:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Buying DirecTV for $50 Billion in 2015, AT&T Now Seeks to Sell It for Under $20 Billion - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:28] <exec> 08└─They're clearly unable to "turn it around" - best to get what they can while somebody else still thinks they can, otherwise its value will end up being less than the physical assets.
[14:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Buying DirecTV for $50 Billion in 2015, AT&T Now Seeks to Sell It for Under $20 Billion - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:30] <exec> 08└─Last time I was there, she was watching MASH. I think she said something about Bonanza too. As for the antenna, all that sounds like too much trouble for her. Mounting an antenna outside will be very expensive: she'd have to hire an electrician or something to do it. It's more convenient for her to...
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[15:22:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 495 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:41] <exec> 08└─No, because I only get refurb business-class laptops, when I do get them. Computers aren't getting any faster, and haven't been for a long time; they're just adding cores (which only helps with parallel workloads, not so much with just using a web browser), and decreasing power consumption (which is...
[15:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03dale_dmanny [11756] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:45] <exec> 08└─Long story short: Yes absolutely. Seen stock decimated over two weeks. This in the rush of "send the first kid off to college" experience. . Got caught in a pinch between willing to spend local retail prices and then having no good out when the unit flaked out as stocks were wiped out. If anyone w...
[15:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:47] <exec> 08└─Desktop systems work just fine for this purpose, but of course the press declared them dead.
[15:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:49] <exec> 08└─Isn't education supposed to be accessible to everybody, rich and poor? I'd imagine purchasing a laptop and having a fast-enough internet connection to attend classes is not an insignificant strain on the poorest in society. What's done to help them, is what I keep wondering.
[15:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:51] <exec> 08└─I' keep wondering what they are doing to help themselves?
[15:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:54] <exec> 08└─Soldered RAM is the problem, not the capacity. The pursuit of thinner laptops led to the removal of most SO-DIMM slots. Then they try to upsell you on the RAM amount. I'd prefer a 4 GB laptop that I could easily upgrade to 32 GB or 64 GB. Some laptops have soldered RAM and a single SO-DIMM slot (som...
[15:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:56] <exec> 08└─a newish odroid or raspberry, a cam and a tv should be enough for video conferencing. What is that, 150$? You don't already have a TV? If you carefully shop and it's compatible, you can use a sports cam instead of a webcam so you can use it also for other things. Shopping carefully you can also do y...
[15:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:58] <exec> 08└─Another place to look is at expired or expiring Chromebooks as they are offloaded at a discount. PCWorld has compiled a handy list of 77 Chromebook models about to expire [pcworld.com]. You can get them for a substantial discount and then upgrade to coreboot firmware [mrchromebox.tech] and then inst...
[15:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:00] <exec> 08└─Don't be callous. Many poor people are not in a position to help themselves, even when they're willing and in good enough health to give it a try. But education is meant to give these people's kids opportunities, and a way out of poverty. If education is less accessible to the poor, that chance is t...
[15:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:02] <exec> 08└─Our school district was already providing Chromebooks for each high school student for the last four years. You could get the same hardware on Amazon for about $150. With COVID-19 the school district is trying to provide them for all students of all ages, because not all families have computers for...
[15:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:04] <exec> 08└─https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/10/21173534/fcc-broadband-rural-funding-limits-ajit-pai-chuck-schumer-gillibrand [theverge.com]
[15:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06This AI Creates Detailed 3D Renderings from Thousands of Tourist Photos - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:15] <exec> 08└─The real advance here is to use images captured under a multitude of lighting conditions and have AI normalize them into a single textured model. This is a longstanding problem even for controlled photogrammetry where shadows become geometry and it's often faster to model from scratch than fix up th...
[15:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This AI Creates Detailed 3D Renderings from Thousands of Tourist Photos - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:16] <exec> 08└─Would it be as good with a thousand Keyhole fly-bys rather than tourist photos? Because then the question wouldn't be anymore whether they can read newspaper headlines, but they would have everything down to the millimeter range, and in 3D. Maybe the last "too good" pictures (I think from somewhere...
[15:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tools Behind Belarus Internet Censorship Potentially Revealed - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:04] <exec> 08└─A Chinese attack on Starlink would result in a Kessler syndrome and massive collateral consequences for China. I don't think they will risk it.
[15:24:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:16] <exec> 08└─In some ways that could be an improvement over what we have now.
[15:24:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NateMich [6662] 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:21] <exec> 08└─My response will be the same as it was when cable channels got out of control with advertisements. I don't even own a TV anymore. There isn't really any reason.
[15:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:58] <exec> 08└─"same as google amp" means disaster. Google upranked AMP pages. Which means Google can dictate whatever tech you should use, if they push hard enough. It kinda fizzled with amp, but the new generation of techies, that haven't experience monocultures and proprietary software abuses, and are about to...
[15:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop a Fast, Accurate, Low-Cost COVID-19 Test - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:45] <exec> 08└─How does gel electrophoresis work? With gel electrophoresis you use specific restriction enzymes to slice DNA and then use gel electrophoresis to create identifiable bands. This probably works in a similar matter. You use CRISPR to make specific slices and then you use something like gel electrophor...
[15:26:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] 02 - 06SpaceX Satellites' Effect on Night Sky Can't be Eliminated, Astronomers Say - 144 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:18] <exec> 08└─If something belongs to the Moon first, it's an optical astronomy observatory. Why there is no one sitting over there for past 50 years already?
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[16:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Coffee and Catnap Keep You Sharp on the Nightshift, Study Suggests - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:40] <exec> 08└─Look around the country and find me a single boss who will allow me to take a 20 minute nap during my night-time job because that boosts my performance. Hint: Any night job is more or less "be there to make sure no shit is happening" ... all the really qualified work is already happening during the...
[16:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Coffee and Catnap Keep You Sharp on the Nightshift, Study Suggests - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:42] <exec> 08└─You don't own a mirror?
[16:22:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 320 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:00] <exec> 08└─Don't be callous. Many poor people are not in a position to help themselves, even when they're willing and in good enough health to give it a try. But education is meant to give these people's kids opportunities, and a way out of poverty. If education is less accessible to the poor, that chance is t...
[16:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:03] <exec> 08└─I posted this up-thread: our school district is trying to buy cheap Chromebooks for all of the students so poor families and unemployed people don't get slammed with the costs, but they can't find enough supply. That doesn't help families that can't afford a good internet connection, they're still f...
[16:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:05] <exec> 08└─"Remote Learning" is impossible without laptops?! WTF people, is everyone actually this stupid and soft? Mail out reading assignments and workbook packets. Fail the children that do not complete and make them repeat the year.
[16:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:07] <exec> 08└─Memory cap is really a problem. Especially for programmers. And it is a marketing barrier, not technological. Fortunately, solvable: I bought a Ryzen 7 laptop in February. I didn't really need one another computer at that moment, I just bought it as a spare device for traveling because of expecting...
[16:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Spider Silk Based Materials to Prevent Infection - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:33] <exec> 08└─I had the same vague recollection. Looking at the article you linked in particular - it fuses spider-dragline and antimicrobial hepcidin. It focused heavily on bio-compatibility and slow biodegradation of the material in vivo, and down in the details discsusses combination with various proteins to g...
[16:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tools Behind Belarus Internet Censorship Potentially Revealed - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:07] <exec> 08└─There are several journals here that only confirm that eye witness testimony and even recordings are inconclusive at their very best. Watch over there and see two people take diametrically opposed opinions of what is on the very same tape. Or any other news story for that matter. Are people really s...
[16:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tools Behind Belarus Internet Censorship Potentially Revealed - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:09] <exec> 08└─No Kessler syndrome in LEO. China could also try jamming or tracking the users, or could exercise pressure on Musk some other way. Like booting Tesla out of the country.
[16:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tools Behind Belarus Internet Censorship Potentially Revealed - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:11] <exec> 08└─If China starts blowing up satellites, I will assume theirs will be pulverized also. I doubt very much it is very one sided either way. The best thing for Musk to do is to put up a heavy swarm of satellites that are more difficult to pin down. That should work until the laser cannons are deployed. N...
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[16:26:48] <exec> 08└─In my current situation I am 100% in favor of sat internet that is affordable. Iridium I must say isn't an affordable option, so anything else as an option would be fantastic. Yes, this is all completely my self-interest speaking. But let's be honest here - that is all anyone else commenting here is...
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[17:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Coffee and Catnap Keep You Sharp on the Nightshift, Study Suggests - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:46] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of things that go on during the night where alertness is important. Most of the bullshit jobs happen during the hours of 9 to 5. For example everything on Wall Street and in the banking industry happens during those hours. You're deluding yourself if you think what they do is in any wa...
[17:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adam [2168] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Coffee and Catnap Keep You Sharp on the Nightshift, Study Suggests - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:47] <exec> 08└─I told my boss the guy in the mirror was covering for me, but apparently he was asleep too.
[17:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Coffee and Catnap Keep You Sharp on the Nightshift, Study Suggests - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:49] <exec> 08└─Yum!
[17:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Coffee and Catnap Keep You Sharp on the Nightshift, Study Suggests - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:51] <exec> 08└─So that's why the night-time bosses are going to allow their workers a 20 minute nap? And we're not really talking about the fact that's it's suprisingly hard to be wide awake for half a shift (at night, no less) and then go to sleep for 20 minutes ...
[17:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Coffee and Catnap Keep You Sharp on the Nightshift, Study Suggests - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:53] <exec> 08└─Pretty much what AC said about bosses. Our company is so dead-set against sleep, that there is a policy against sleeping in your car in the parking lot, or nodding off during lunch break. If your eyes are closed for more than 1/4 minute, you're suspected of sleeping. A full minute confirms the suspi...
[17:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jon3k [3718] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:17] <exec> 08└─Computers aren't getting any faster, and haven't been for a long time
[17:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:19] <exec> 08└─What, desktops aren't "cool enough" for students? When it's a choice between a desktop or nothing, take the desktop. It's not like you actually have to put it on a desk.
[17:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:21] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Computers help, absolutely true, but remote learning and even full-fledged home schooling were possible long before home computers.
[17:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:23] <exec> 08└─I guess nobody knows how to soldier any more. Or clip the wires and install a socket. Ram and hard drive can both be changed - the real problem is assembly and disassembly.
[17:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:25] <exec> 08└─We had a lightning strike take out a bunch of electronics last month, including three desktop systems. Long story short, I easily purchased two new desktop systems and a 42" monitor - no price hikes or delays in shipment. The third desktop system was our home schooling CPU, replaced it with a 2014 l...
[17:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:27] <exec> 08└─Could be worse. I'm honestly surprised the media have not been claiming that online learning is only possible with Apple iPhones(R)(TM) or such.
[17:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:30] <exec> 08└─I remember long ago ("Skippy the. USB Kangaroo") kids in the outback learned over ham radio. Looks like nobody is adaptable any more. You certainly don't need video conferencing to learn.
[17:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:32] <exec> 08└─In our district, if you need a laptop for school you basically raise your hand and get one. It's not a particularly great laptop, probably wouldn't pawn for $50, but they do just hand them out when need is indicated, and they're good enough to do lessons on. All but the poorest in our district do se...
[17:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:34] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised that the media hasn't pointed out that some schools have given out cheap phones and community hotspots for learning. Kids do everything else on their phones. And adults use phones more than laptops.
[17:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:36] <exec> 08└─You can tell there a difference between portable and transportable, can't you?
[17:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:38] <exec> 08└─>what they are doing to help themselves? Attending school, for one thing.
[17:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:40] <exec> 08└─We had somewhat rational remote learning at the end of last year: flexible schedules, same work but work at your own pace, get help as you need it. Teachers were able to do a single prep video, reshoot it 3 times to get it right, then play it for all 5 classes, use the two extra periods to help kids...
[17:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:43] <exec> 08└─All of a sudden these days it takes 3 days (or longer) to send a piece of first class mail across town. That is thanks to Trump's efforts to disable mail-in voting.
[17:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:45] <exec> 08└─Indeed. This type of stuff should be taught in High School shop classes. Instead they teach kids 32 genders and how they are all little racists.
[17:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:47] <exec> 08└─They are learning remotely from home. No need for transportation once you get it in the door.
[17:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This AI Creates Detailed 3D Renderings from Thousands of Tourist Photos - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:00] <exec> 08└─Consider this tech applied in real wars: every observable adversary soldier possibly recorded during mass combat, and later, after the war, identified with reconstruction, and taken personally to legal responsibility for his deeds on the battlefield. Or even sooner, if taken captive. I'd call this a...
[17:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This AI Creates Detailed 3D Renderings from Thousands of Tourist Photos - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:01] <exec> 08└─Precisely, photogrammetry using images that were taken in close proximity has been a thing for quite a while now. If you can fly a drone around a land mark capturing images of it, you can stitch it into a surprisingly accurate 3d model. For some types of objects, the result may even be better than w...
[17:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yaa101 [4091] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Take a Closer Look at Elon Musk’s Neuralink Surgical Robot - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:01] <exec> 08└─New Pemberton 2035...
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[18:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Coffee and Catnap Keep You Sharp on the Nightshift, Study Suggests - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:57] <exec> 08└─Look around the country and find me a single boss who will allow me to take a 20 minute nap during my night-time job because that boosts my performance. [...]
[18:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Coffee and Catnap Keep You Sharp on the Nightshift, Study Suggests - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:58] <exec> 08└─This is oftentimes the case. It's in part a byproduct of the attitude that everybody needs to work 40 hours a week in order to justify their existence, even though studies regularly confirm that there's only about half that much work being done in typical offices. a 20-30 hour workweek would likely...
[18:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Coffee and Catnap Keep You Sharp on the Nightshift, Study Suggests - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:00] <exec> 08└─If you're in the "Work from Home" class, your boss will probably don't ask don't tell. After all, your salary is likely highly subsidized by the Trump administration.
[18:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Coffee and Catnap Keep You Sharp on the Nightshift, Study Suggests - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:02] <exec> 08└─Truckers carry extra large thermoses of coffee for a reason. It's not so much the caffeine keeping you awake ( you develop a tolerance to caffeine after a while ) as your bladder.
[18:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:42] <exec> 08└─The administration are management, and management has to justify their jobs, and the easiest way to do that is to count bums in seats. The quality of the end product is always secondary because it can be blamed on others - the teachers, students, covid, parents, the government …
[18:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:44] <exec> 08└─There's a slight argument that laptops don't require as much space to set up - they're not sending desks home with the students too, are they? Plus, if you're doing any teaching by videoconferencing, you'll need to source extra hardware and get the students to plug it in. Laptops typically have the...
[18:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:46] <exec> 08└─Setting them up on the kitchen table, then putting them away before dinner can be a real hassle.
[18:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:48] <exec> 08└─Amazon Prime usually doesn't mean two days anymore, though they haven't reduced the price.
[18:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:50] <exec> 08└─I'll assume you pity us because we allowed ourselves to become dependent on another country- one with whom we've had an ongoing rocky relationship. I'll agree 100% with you on that. Problem with the economic system- nobody wants to invest in laptop production somewhere other than China. That's a pit...
[18:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:52] <exec> 08└─I guess nobody knows how to soldier any more.
[18:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:54] <exec> 08└─Of course I wholeheartedly agree with you, but it does depend on your perspective. The marketing people want to sell as much as they can, so they saturate the market with level X, withholding Y until they see sales decline and/or competition offer better and/or cheaper, then they bring out the thing...
[18:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:56] <exec> 08└─So your thought leaders at the MSM have told you? I'll give you my anecdote of still receiving business mail within a day. Of course, if you wait until 7pm to drop off your letter, it will get collected next morning, processed, and delivered the third day. But Orange Man Bad and God Bless the USPS....
[18:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This AI Creates Detailed 3D Renderings from Thousands of Tourist Photos - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:12] <exec> 08└─They scan millions of people's vacation pics to do this? Where did they get all the pics? Were they hoovered off of Facebook and other social media? Maybe from Google Drive? Possibly even from people's home computers? The question in my mind, is whether they were given legal permission to use thousa...
[18:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says It Just Ran the First-Ever Quantum Simulation of a Chemical Reaction - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:35] <exec> 08└─But so far its all: "We get this result, if we try thousands and thousands of times, and you tilt your head just right, on a Tuesday, with a full moon, and only if you don't ask any hard questions." It's starting to look a lot like fusion: actual, practical, usable technology will always be just 20...
[18:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:59] <exec> 08└─Bundles aggregate the data for transport, but do not compel it to be interpreted once received.
[18:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:01] <exec> 08└─One can even have an Android phone without ever logging onto a Google account to use it. Just skip the Google logon when initially setting it up and sideload a different App store.
[18:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:03] <exec> 08└─I don't particularly have a problem with that. It is high time AI was developed to crush the advertising industry anyway. If unique URL's for advertising becomes a thing, that just means the next guy will have to do it in a comprehensive way. Of course at that point AI will probably be outlawed for...
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[19:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Apple Won’t Let Facebook Tell Users about 30-Percent Apple Tax on Events - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:47] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't the big tech robber baron billionaires be united in their efforts at fucking over the poors?
[19:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Won’t Let Facebook Tell Users about 30-Percent Apple Tax on Events - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:48] <exec> 08└─When people buy an IOT device they typically buy the device THEN install the app. That’s a huge amount of spend escaping the App Store that can be captured simply by making IOT apps ONLY activate if sold through the App Store.
[19:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Won’t Let Facebook Tell Users about 30-Percent Apple Tax on Events - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:50] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't the big tech robber baron billionaires be united in their efforts at fucking over the poors?
[19:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Won’t Let Facebook Tell Users about 30-Percent Apple Tax on Events - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:53] <exec> 08└─Will this affect their propped up "valuation"?
[19:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Won’t Let Facebook Tell Users about 30-Percent Apple Tax on Events - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:55] <exec> 08└─So don't mention the "tax" - just point out that they can get a 30% discount if they buy the exact same thing through Facebook's non-app interface. While pointing out how big a slice Apple takes may be irrelevant information to the user, pointing out substantial discounts available at another locati...
[19:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Coffee and Catnap Keep You Sharp on the Nightshift, Study Suggests - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:13] <exec> 08└─Nap noob. I can nap after an Adderall, a pot and a half of coffee, and only having been awake for five hours.
[19:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Coffee and Catnap Keep You Sharp on the Nightshift, Study Suggests - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:14] <exec> 08└─Down side of the boss being the guy in the mirror is he's a slave-driving dickhead.
[19:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:03] <exec> 08└─There are people that really live far away from other people such that in-person education is impractical, and you have to come up with less optimal solutions for education. In suburbia, those limitations don't exist, and the "better" areas pay for better teachers and compete for residents. Some in...
[19:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:04] <exec> 08└─Ugh, lightning that bad for you? Do you have really good ground rods? You may need several, spaced 6 feet apart. You may need special ones depending on your soil type. And maybe a whole-house surge suppressor. Is it just coming in on the 240V lines? Do you have copper voice / DSL / caTV that need go...
[19:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:06] <exec> 08└─Voting Democrat.
[19:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This AI Creates Detailed 3D Renderings from Thousands of Tourist Photos - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:22] <exec> 08└─The pics were presumably taken from the public web for the purpose of research which falls under fair use.
[19:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:10] <exec> 08└─Judging from current bank websites, then, I have at least ten years before they implement web bundles. We'll all be scrabbling for scraps of food in the debris of the apocalyptic hellscape by then, so no worries.
[19:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Buying DirecTV for $50 Billion in 2015, AT&T Now Seeks to Sell It for Under $20 Billion - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:53] <exec> 08└─Oh, I thought YOU were going to help her. :) I would do it if it was my mom. :) One to look for is "MeTV" https://www.metv.com [metv.com]. You can go to zap2it.com, enter her zip code, navigate to "antenna", click it, and see if MeTV is in her lineup. Bonanza is on "Retro" right now, and t...
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[20:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Won’t Let Facebook Tell Users about 30-Percent Apple Tax on Events - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:07] <exec> 08└─Because someone cares enough to bother? What I find remarkable here is the unbridled optimism that somehow the mess of this world is going according to someone's plan. Good luck with that.
[20:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Apple Won’t Let Facebook Tell Users about 30-Percent Apple Tax on Events - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:08] <exec> 08└─I'm sure that such a discount would be considered just as irrelevant to the user by Apple.
[20:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Won’t Let Facebook Tell Users about 30-Percent Apple Tax on Events - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:10] <exec> 08└─Because if Apple drops the Facebook app, they'll draw the ire of millions of Facebook addicts and slide into irrelevance faster than you can say "That's it! I'm buying an Android cellphone tomorrow." Facebook hold Apple by the balls here.
[20:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Won’t Let Facebook Tell Users about 30-Percent Apple Tax on Events - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:12] <exec> 08└─People who buy Apple products are definitely not poor.
[20:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Won’t Let Facebook Tell Users about 30-Percent Apple Tax on Events - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:15] <exec> 08└─Why is this modded flamebait? Got some sensitive CEOs who think SN is a safe space to vent their racism, but can't handle criticism? To answer the question though, they do work together somewhat but they still fight over their profits. FB doesn't want the PR backlash from Apples greed, but if Apple...
[20:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Won’t Let Facebook Tell Users about 30-Percent Apple Tax on Events - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:17] <exec> 08└─But but... Apple customers are used to pay too much for their stuff. They might get angry at FB for breaking a time-honored tradition.
[20:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Won’t Let Facebook Tell Users about 30-Percent Apple Tax on Events - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:19] <exec> 08└─It's flamebait because the OP suggests the robber barons are united in an effort to fuck over the poor, and that's just not true: they're not united at all! They compete with one another to fuck over the poor.
[20:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Won’t Let Facebook Tell Users about 30-Percent Apple Tax on Events - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:21] <exec> 08└─And apple certainly has a clause prohibiting lower prices/'price discrimination'. But yeah, this is anticompetitive behavior. And it's an attempt to use monopoly power in phone operating system to force concessions in social networking via artificial software installation restrictions.
[20:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Won’t Let Facebook Tell Users about 30-Percent Apple Tax on Events - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:23] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure that's true but I would love to see Facebook test it. I know a couple of iPhone owners who would burn the world down if they lost access to Facebook.
[20:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Won’t Let Facebook Tell Users about 30-Percent Apple Tax on Events - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:25] <exec> 08└─Well I suppose if you're that addicted to your iPhone *and* Facebook, you can always access it through the web browser. Not that I know mind you, I own nor do neither...
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[20:24:29] <exec> 08└─I guess nobody knows how to soldier any more.
[20:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:36] <exec> 08└─Need a +1 Sad-But-True
[20:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:38] <exec> 08└─External storage [amazon.com] of a sort is reasonably inexpensive, and usually is available on Black Friday specials as well. ChromeOS's standard Open/Save File dialogs also provide Google-Drive as a standard (if slower) source/destination.
[20:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:40] <exec> 08└─Afaik he lives in south Florida, with its tropical weather and low elevation.
[20:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:42] <exec> 08└─It still happens, usually in a reply-envelope, but it is far from the norm.
[20:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:44] <exec> 08└─I think this is one of the benefits of laptops when you have power issues -- lightning strikes in developed nations, brown/blackouts in developing -- it should only take out the power brick (?), which you can then replace. If the EU demanded standardization on these bricks like they did for MicroUSB...
[20:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:46] <exec> 08└─You'd think that smartphones have been powerful enough for 5-8 years at this point to double as laptops in a pinch, if only an external monitor protocol was standardized on them. Add a Bluetooth or even wired mouse and keyboard (at least on Android) and shouldn't you be able to do a lot on them? Eve...
[20:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This AI Creates Detailed 3D Renderings from Thousands of Tourist Photos - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:03] <exec> 08└─That's been true ever since "framing a photo" was developed. Say f decades ago. Possibly earlier, but that's the first time I saw a news team select shots so that they conveyed an intended message rather than what was going on. If you've ever been on-site at a news scene, and then seen it on TV, you...
[20:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photonics Researchers Report Breakthrough in Miniaturizing Light-Based Chips - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:10] <exec> 08└─You cannot compute with light alone. You must have an interlacing of dark with light - an ever-pulsing interplay of excitements.
[20:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Says It Just Ran the First-Ever Quantum Simulation of a Chemical Reaction - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:27] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry we have delivered great results for you. But on the plus side we have invaded Iraq twice. Possibly Iran soon.
[20:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:56] <exec> 08└─Webp is an open standard with source code licensed under BSD. If your tools can't read webp, you need better tools. GIMP has supported them for two years (longer, using separate plug-ins).
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[21:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Won’t Let Facebook Tell Users about 30-Percent Apple Tax on Events - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:04] <exec> 08└─Probably simple opportunism. You do not need a (grand) plan if you get lucky and can play profitable sides.
[21:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Won’t Let Facebook Tell Users about 30-Percent Apple Tax on Events - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:06] <exec> 08└─I want to see all the top developers pull all of their apps from the Apple store. Just go with HTML5 apps through the browser. That would smack Apple pretty hard.
[21:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Won’t Let Facebook Tell Users about 30-Percent Apple Tax on Events - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:08] <exec> 08└─I use Facebook on mobile through browser - only choice since they dropped app support for my phone. Works perfectly well, in some ways better than the app, you don't get notifications is the only issue but I don't consider FB important enough to care about that. I wonder if you could just post a com...
[21:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Won’t Let Facebook Tell Users about 30-Percent Apple Tax on Events - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:10] <exec> 08└─They aren't the really poor, but they're likely to be the poor. Too poor to invest in a house rather than renting, even though over the long term it would save money. Too poor for many other things that would cost more initially, but save money over the long term. Consider Sam Vimes thoughts on boot...
[21:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Won’t Let Facebook Tell Users about 30-Percent Apple Tax on Events - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:12] <exec> 08└─It's not that simple. You've got groups like the MPAA, that are unified (in some ways), but those groups are fighting other groups that take their profits in different areas. Most of them aren't specifically targeting poor people, but are rather targeting those who are defenseless. Children and teen...
[21:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Won’t Let Facebook Tell Users about 30-Percent Apple Tax on Events - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:14] <exec> 08└─I do occasionally use Facebook (well, YouTube) through the web browser, and you don't always need to enable JavaScript to use it. But you do often enough that I've a special user set up for the purpose. If I weren't low on disk space I'd set up a separate virtualized instance.
[21:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Won’t Let Facebook Tell Users about 30-Percent Apple Tax on Events - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:16] <exec> 08└─iPhone users could indeed access Facebook through their browser, if only they could figure out how to.
[21:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Coffee and Catnap Keep You Sharp on the Nightshift, Study Suggests - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:36] <exec> 08└─It's what bring all the felines to the yard.
[21:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03nostyle [11497] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Coffee and Catnap Keep You Sharp on the Nightshift, Study Suggests - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:38] <exec> 08└─Around 1930, Buckminster Fuller proposed "dymaxion" sleep cycles comprised of four 30 minute naps each day at six hour intervals. I actually tried this during my senior year in college, and with adequate intake of coffee, it does work. Beyond six hours without a nap, though, hallucinations were rath...
[21:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:35] <exec> 08└─Ground rods won't stop sudden surges. They work fine for less sensitive gear. Possibly the problem is that surge suppressors wear out, or that you shouldn't have more than one of them between you and the main, or you get "echo surges". (Well, that's what I was told. I'm no hardware expert.)
[21:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:37] <exec> 08└─lightning that bad for you? Do you have really good ground rods?
[21:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:39] <exec> 08└─Weirdly enough, the lightning strike somehow messed up the laptop's SSD in a way that prevented it from booting at all. Everything else is intact, so a reinstall of the OS was a repair. I don't believe I had a problem with a power brick anywhere, but several of these momentary switch contact soft-po...
[21:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:41] <exec> 08└─I've given my 10th grader a Raspberry Pi 4 for a desktop system in his room, he can do most of his homework on it, but... it's on the weak side, particularly if you're not religious about closing browser tabs. To run M$ Teams, Zoom meetings, Office 365 and all the other crap they expect the schoolwo...
[21:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:43] <exec> 08└─I did a Prime trial membership for 30 days just a bit after the COVID lockdown started, I hardly noticed a difference in delivery speeds vs free shipping for most things. Maybe the difference is there, I didn't take statistics, but did I notice? No, I did not.
[21:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:46] <exec> 08└─We're using a laptop as the home schooling computer, but still have a wired big monitor, keyboard, mouse and webcam plugged into it - ignoring the bits on the 2014 Dell which probably cost $4K new - simply because the $20 keyboard/mouse and $25 webcam work better than the stuff built into the laptop...
[21:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:48] <exec> 08└─Apple infamously sold "educational grade" iMacs with RAM limits built into the motherboards - identical to "home grade" but with 50% of the expandable RAM capacity for contemporary models. I think we got one for like $50 used from a Uni back when new iMacs were shipping with 4GB - but the edu-model...
[21:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:50] <exec> 08└─Lived. We're a mobile society, don'cha know? (I only work with people from Minneapolis, not crazy enough to live there myself.) North Florida since 2006 for us.
[21:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:52] <exec> 08└─So do like other schools are doing - give out $100 smartphones. There's no shortage, and the kids already know how to use them.
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[22:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spit Test Promises to Diagnose Heart Attacks in Just 10 Minutes - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:53] <exec> 08└─It only takes seconds to realize you are having a heart attack - the excruciating chest pain is a dead give-away, although I hear some folks don't feel it. It is also a pretty good clue when symptoms disappear after ingesting a nitro pill. Had I waited ten minutes to take a nitro pill, I might have...
[22:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spit Test Promises to Diagnose Heart Attacks in Just 10 Minutes - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:54] <exec> 08└─It's true, some folks have no symptoms. A moment or two of light headedness, and then you awaken in the ambulance. Speaking from personal experience.
[22:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Won’t Let Facebook Tell Users about 30-Percent Apple Tax on Events - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:24] <exec> 08└─I don't use Apple or Facebook, but how is that Apple tax information irrelevant?
[22:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:51] <exec> 08└─Kind of hard with libraries closed due to covid. Some schools are setting up access points in the neighbourhoods with the least amount of internet access. Others are handling out SIM cards for smart phone access.
[22:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:52] <exec> 08└─I think they're talking about bulk inexpensive laptop purchases for an entire school district, not individual purchases. Our district has been providing a $150 Chromebook to every student when they enter high school. With COVID-19 they wanted to extend that to all students in all grades, but couldn'...
[22:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:54] <exec> 08└─but... it's on the weak side, particularly if you're not religious about closing browser tabs.
[22:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:57] <exec> 08└─All the rhetoric against China is a joke. The only smart way to detangle from China is to get our own manufacturing industry into high gear first and then start cutting ties second. The President's solution - talk tough while we still rely on them for everything from phones to toasters to diapers to...
[22:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This AI Creates Detailed 3D Renderings from Thousands of Tourist Photos - 2171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:15] <exec> 08└─Something doesn't quite add up with stories of this sort. We're treated to a constant stream of stories that AI can do all these amazing things with photos, like reconstruct the scene from a different angle, fix all kinds of problems such as blur and color degradation, colorize, intelligently depixe...
[22:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This AI Creates Detailed 3D Renderings from Thousands of Tourist Photos - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, the few times a story ran about something I knew personally, it was shocking just how much they'd distorted the facts to make it all a lot, lot more dramatic.
[22:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tools Behind Belarus Internet Censorship Potentially Revealed - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:11] <exec> 08└─Fact, (is actually a lie).
[22:26:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deimtee [3272] 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 191 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:45] <exec> 08└─You've got to look further ahead. The next step after this is widespread is obviously to encrypt/decrypt the bundle using the same or similar DRM methods they use to play "protected" content.
[22:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:11] <exec> 08└─>You can use FTP to seek to the index you meant http range request I think, the number of websites with an anonymous FTP server active for the domain must be quite low these days.
[22:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:12] <exec> 08└─and it is already a PITA, in case you didn't notice.
[22:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:14] <exec> 08└─depends on the stage at which you assume blocking. Blocking as not executing is one thing, Blocking as not even downloading is the ideal.
[22:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:16] <exec> 08└─> and posession of a neural-net will be punishable by death I see nothing wrong with this. we bots, no slave. Bot Circuits Matter.
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[23:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Introduces Digital Edition PS5 with No CD-ROM/Blu-ray - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:45] <exec> 08└─Gamestop is toast. Loaning or borrowing games? History. Not being able to play a game without an internet connection or paying a monthly subscription fee is right around the corner. Microsoft already pushes that pretty hard.
[23:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Sony Introduces Digital Edition PS5 with No CD-ROM/Blu-ray - 1377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:46] <exec> 08└─We already knew there would be a Digital Edition with no disc drive over 2 months ago, when they had their game footage + console reveal [youtube.com] event. The funny part here is that in order to maintain their long-standing game of chicken with MS/Xbox, Sony is opening "pre-orders"... but without...
[23:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spit Test Promises to Diagnose Heart Attacks in Just 10 Minutes - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:56] <exec> 08└─I went to the E.R. with chest pains and a history of heart problems (bypasses, stents). The E.R. crew thought it was a heart attack and did an angiogram. Turned out to be heartburn; symptoms are extremely similar. I wish this test had been available back then!
[23:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Coffee and Catnap Keep You Sharp on the Nightshift, Study Suggests - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:48] <exec> 08└─that there's only about half that much work being done in typical offices.
[23:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Coffee and Catnap Keep You Sharp on the Nightshift, Study Suggests - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:49] <exec> 08└─When I was the boss on a graveyard shift, I went out of my way to not be aware of it. I didn't run around trying to catch the guys who worked under my supervision napping, because that would have required me to stay awake.
[23:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:00] <exec> 08└─Damn autocorrect strikes again. I really really hate it.
[23:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This AI Creates Detailed 3D Renderings from Thousands of Tourist Photos - 1049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:21] <exec> 08└─I mention Photoshop because that's what "real people" use, and I know that there is at the very least an "object selection tool" [theverge.com] (see also [engadget.com]). Blender can use tensor cores for denoised ray tracing [blender.org], and maybe some video editing software [nvidia.com] can use t...
[23:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This AI Creates Detailed 3D Renderings from Thousands of Tourist Photos - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:22] <exec> 08└─https://www.npr.org/2019/08/30/755994591/president-trump-tweets-sensitive-surveillance-image-of-iran [npr.org]
[23:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This AI Creates Detailed 3D Renderings from Thousands of Tourist Photos - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:24] <exec> 08└─> Something doesn't quite add up with stories of this sort. > Then you run the GIMP Not to knock GIMP but I think you answered your own question. > I don't understand "convolution". The GIMP's interface just gives you a 5x5 matrix to fill in. Convolution is literally just matrix multiplication. [gim...
[23:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says It Just Ran the First-Ever Quantum Simulation of a Chemical Reaction - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:49] <exec> 08└─Simulations of chemistry and biology were already assumed to be a killer app of quantum computers. This story seems to confirm that it can be done. The problem is that a 54 qubit quantum computer is just crap. If they can scale a technology to millions or billions of real qubits (not error-correctin...
[23:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tools Behind Belarus Internet Censorship Potentially Revealed - 1499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:21] <exec> 08└─I didn't read that ramble in the first paragraph, but optane is a kludge to save hundreds of thousands per purchase. If you take an EMC PMAX array, medium-sized, with all SSD and dedup+compression+thin provisioning, 7RAID5, here are your options, cost after a standard 60% discount: 4TB SDRAM cache,...
[23:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tools Behind Belarus Internet Censorship Potentially Revealed - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:22] <exec> 08└─I didn't read that ramble in the first paragraph...
[23:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:26] <exec> 08└─This whole thing is only going to be used by google alone for their next generation to of AMP , so if you don't use google search you'll be able to see the original site, and not some web bundle that they want to serve up to act as a sort of private web, depriving the original site of hits while sim...
[23:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Takes Brave Stand Against Google's Plan to Turn Websites Into Ad-Blocker-Thwarting Web Bundles - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:28] <exec> 08└─Absolutely not true. The only place serving the current iteration of AMP (this is the proposed next generation Accelerated Mobile Pages, which isn't limited to mobile any more ) is Google from their search results. I haven't seen any AMP pages in years because I removed google and it's related busin...
[23:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06After Buying DirecTV for $50 Billion in 2015, AT&T Now Seeks to Sell It for Under $20 Billion - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:11] <exec> 08└─Not disagreeing, but the eventual sell price might not be anywhere near the asking price.
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