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abbracadabbra··on Obscura: The first VPN that can't log your activity
Great signup flow, except there’s an error when it comes to installing the app at the end. Worked around by installing manually via app store
abbracadabbra··on I've sold out
Well written. OpenClaw appears to be a fad but this writeup suggests pi is worth understanding & using for the long term
abbracadabbra··on Super-Emitter of the Most Damaging Greenhouse Gas Found in Germany
Interesting to read that there is little to no legal action that can be taken to halt operations at the plant, which means that unfortunately it may take a long time for this to be resolved.
abbracadabbra··on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day
This is in Austin
abbracadabbra··on Trump’s Major Announcement Is $99 Digital Trading Cards
> NFT INT LLC is not owned, managed or controlled by Donald J. Trump, The Trump Organization, CIC Digital LLC or any of their respective principals or affiliates. NFT INT LLC uses Donald J. Trump's name, likeness and image under paid license from CIC Digital LLC, which license may be terminated or revoked according to its terms.
abbracadabbra··on Revealed: FTX’s emergency fundraising term sheet
https://archive.ph/3QMNp
abbracadabbra··on Supermicro Hack: China Exploited a US Tech Supplier over Years [2021 follow-up]
It’s interesting that in 2018 we didn’t see any anonymous posts confirming the story. This recent article suggests that knowledge was fairly well spread amongst government agencies and their suppliers. Impressive that the culture of secrecy remains so strong.
abbracadabbra··on I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps
Primary sources have been lacking in coverage of this story; is the Communist party that powerful in controlling first hand accounts?
abbracadabbra··on Tell HN: YouTube fixed the dot after domain ad bypass
NextDNS

https://nextdns.io/

abbracadabbra··on Six eBay executives and employees charged over alleged cyberstalking campaign
A choice quote from the wickedlocal coverage:

> Those involved became so concerned that they developed a list of people in California they could frame if authorities tracked the harassment there, Lelling said

abbracadabbra··on Dark Basin: Uncovering a Hack-for-Hire Operation
It would be interesting to know the middleman involved in hiring BellTroX; surely Exxon didn’t hire them directly but were working with a “public relations” company that took initiative to hire this shady firm. Knowing the middleman might help connect the loose threads
abbracadabbra··on Three authors retract study on hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine
Since this is being repeated multiple times, quoting benmaraschino:

One of these "studies" is a 2-page Google Doc with no real data. Another is the discredited Raoult study, which is under investigation by the journal [1]. Another study cited is also by Raoult's team. The Brazil study (ref. 29) doesn't seem to have passed peer review (yet?) and has severe methodological flaws. Like the Raoult studies, the Brazil study was not randomized, but makes no attempt to control for confounding by indication or self-selection, such as with propensity score matching or similar methods commonly used in observational studies. The last study cited isn't a study, but an article from a local news station.

abbracadabbra··on Three authors retract study on hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine
Since this is being repeated multiple times, quoting benmaraschino:

One of these "studies" is a 2-page Google Doc with no real data. Another is the discredited Raoult study, which is under investigation by the journal [1]. Another study cited is also by Raoult's team. The Brazil study (ref. 29) doesn't seem to have passed peer review (yet?) and has severe methodological flaws. Like the Raoult studies, the Brazil study was not randomized, but makes no attempt to control for confounding by indication or self-selection, such as with propensity score matching or similar methods commonly used in observational studies. The last study cited isn't a study, but an article from a local news station.

abbracadabbra··on Three authors retract study on hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine
Since this is being repeated multiple times, quoting benmaraschino:

One of these "studies" is a 2-page Google Doc with no real data. Another is the discredited Raoult study, which is under investigation by the journal [1]. Another study cited is also by Raoult's team. The Brazil study (ref. 29) doesn't seem to have passed peer review (yet?) and has severe methodological flaws. Like the Raoult studies, the Brazil study was not randomized, but makes no attempt to control for confounding by indication or self-selection, such as with propensity score matching or similar methods commonly used in observational studies. The last study cited isn't a study, but an article from a local news station.

abbracadabbra··on Three authors retract study on hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine
Since this is being repeated multiple times, quoting benmaraschino:

One of these "studies" is a 2-page Google Doc with no real data. Another is the discredited Raoult study, which is under investigation by the journal [1]. Another study cited is also by Raoult's team. The Brazil study (ref. 29) doesn't seem to have passed peer review (yet?) and has severe methodological flaws. Like the Raoult studies, the Brazil study was not randomized, but makes no attempt to control for confounding by indication or self-selection, such as with propensity score matching or similar methods commonly used in observational studies. The last study cited isn't a study, but an article from a local news station.

abbracadabbra··on Widely disseminated hydroxychlroquine study retracted by authors
Since this is being repeated multiple times, quoting benmaraschino:

One of these "studies" is a 2-page Google Doc with no real data. Another is the discredited Raoult study, which is under investigation by the journal [1]. Another study cited is also by Raoult's team. The Brazil study (ref. 29) doesn't seem to have passed peer review (yet?) and has severe methodological flaws. Like the Raoult studies, the Brazil study was not randomized, but makes no attempt to control for confounding by indication or self-selection, such as with propensity score matching or similar methods commonly used in observational studies. The last study cited isn't a study, but an article from a local news station.

abbracadabbra··on Widely disseminated hydroxychlroquine study retracted by authors
Since this is being repeated multiple times, quoting benmaraschino:

One of these "studies" is a 2-page Google Doc with no real data. Another is the discredited Raoult study, which is under investigation by the journal [1]. Another study cited is also by Raoult's team. The Brazil study (ref. 29) doesn't seem to have passed peer review (yet?) and has severe methodological flaws. Like the Raoult studies, the Brazil study was not randomized, but makes no attempt to control for confounding by indication or self-selection, such as with propensity score matching or similar methods commonly used in observational studies. The last study cited isn't a study, but an article from a local news station.

abbracadabbra··on E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall
Do other newspapers publish scans of their print editions? From the article, nytimes:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/04/10/nytfrontpage/scan...

abbracadabbra··on Venezuelan naval boat rams passenger cruise liner, damages itself, sinks
Tonnage has the right of way
abbracadabbra··on Chrome deploys deep-linking in latest build despite privacy concerns
Microsoft Edge, which is built on Chromium, would fit this parallel nicely.
abbracadabbra··on Institutional investors have subscribed for 6.3B shares for Aramco IPO
Interesting how little coverage the largest IPO ever has been getting.
abbracadabbra··on Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims
The documents released here describe high level directives from Xi Jingping, and some quotes on how family members should be told of detained relatives. Presumably there must be many other documents detailing design and construction of the large scale facilities that would be needed for the number people being detained; these might shed more light on the actual scale of what is happening. The documents so far could be describing programs that target 100’s of people, not the millions claimed elsewhere.
abbracadabbra··on Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia
It would be interesting to know what Saudi Arabia asked Abouammo to do at Amazon as well.
abbracadabbra··on Ask HN: Why don't homeless people from SF move to another city?
It would be helpful to share evidence on assertion #4, it is a claim that often appears but usually without proof.
abbracadabbra··on An electric crate motor you can drop into your car
Price will be the deciding factor, but none disclosed in the article.
abbracadabbra··on The average conspiracy theory is half-true
One interpretation of the title could be that half of conspiracy theories are true.
abbracadabbra··on The Essential Tool for Hong Kong Protesters? An Umbrella
> Chinese e-commerce sites like Taobao and AliExpress no longer sell them to customers in Hong Kong

Impressive coordination of public & private bureaucracies

abbracadabbra··on [dead]
Full title: 3D-printer gun activist Cody Wilson pleads guilty in child sex case, avoids prison
abbracadabbra··on The Forbidden iFixit Samsung Galaxy Fold Teardown
This is an archived copy of a teardown that Samsung asked iFixit to remove. The teardown suggests that the tradeoffs necessary to support the range of motion across the hinge led to increased ingress points for particulates along the edge of the screen and the spine.
abbracadabbra··on Supermicro hardware weaknesses let researchers backdoor an IBM cloud server
Another (perhaps more) common use of the term Maginot Line is as a metaphor for expensive efforts that offer a false sense of security.
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