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freedude··on EV Battery Factory Will Require So Much Energy It Needs a Coal Plant to Power It
Yes, Small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear technology is the way to go in the future.
freedude··on EV Battery Factory Will Require So Much Energy It Needs a Coal Plant to Power It
Yes, so start now. Also, check out Small modular reactor (SMR) Nuclear Tech.
freedude··on EV Battery Factory Will Require So Much Energy It Needs a Coal Plant to Power It
Oh, the irony. For everyone wondering how to "fix" this dilemma please research fuel cells and SMR Nuclear Technology. It needs to be priority number one i.e. built out first.
freedude··on Dianne Feinstein has died
That is because Joe Manchin can still think independently and understands the value of the filibuster to the independent minority.
freedude··on How a four-day workweek works, from the companies pulling it off
The challenge comes with debt. If you are not servicing debt, then it becomes easier to be free to do the things you need to do when you want to do them.
freedude··on PennyLane v0.32 Released
"If this release was in Fahrenheit, it'd be cool enough to freeze water"
freedude··on Enabling the First GPU-Accel. 5G Open Ran for NTT Docomo with Nvidia Aerial
Full Title: "Enabling the World’s First GPU-Accelerated 5G Open RAN for NTT DOCOMO with NVIDIA Aerial"
freedude··on Working on a list of reasons you shouldn't use observability. #4
Full Title: "Working on a list of ten reasons you shouldn't use observability. #4: it's not wasting money on unused infra, it's a donation to AWS. "
freedude··on Worldwide mobile data pricing: The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 237 countries
Spoiler: the US rates horribly.
freedude··on Rezilion Uncovers New Details of Google Chrome 0-Day Vuln (CVE-2023-4863)
Full Title: "Rezilion Researchers Uncover New Details on Severity of Google Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability (CVE-2023-4863)"
freedude··on Just the Facts on 'Geofencing,' the Intrusive, App-Based 'Dragnet' That Sgt. Jo
Sounds like those interested in maintaining liberty and the freedom of travel should probably take note.

“There's no particular individual who the government is suspicious of,” Adam Schwartz of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told RealClearInvestigations. “It's a dragnet.”

freedude··on Network disruption paralyzes VW – several plants around the world at standstill
No IT related outage notice would be complete without a link to an XKCD comic. https://xkcd.com/2347
freedude··on Network disruption paralyzes VW – several plants around the world at standstill
link to google translate to English.

https://www-handelsblatt-com.translate.goog/unternehmen/indu...

freedude··on Understanding the Attack Vector for CVE-2023-28432 and CVE-2023-28434
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28434
freedude··on Understanding the Attack Vector for CVE-2023-28432 and CVE-2023-28434
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.

CVE-2023-28434 MinIO Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/09/19/cisa-adds...

freedude··on Honda Motocompacto
It looks incredibly uncomfortable. It could make a great movie prop for the next iteration of dumb and dumber.
freedude··on Trunk-based development vs. long-lived feature branches
Full Title: "Trunk-Based Development vs. Long-Lived Feature Branches: Which One is Right for Your Software Team?"
freedude··on Replanting logged forests with diverse seedlings accelerates restoration
The same problem exists at the seed level. Who is collecting the 2 trillion seeds (50% germination rate)?
freedude··on The Precision Battle: Demonstrating Decimals over Doubles in .NET
Full Title: "The Precision Battle: Demonstrating the Importance of Decimals over Doubles in .NET"
freedude··on Adverse Events Following the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine
Those questions are asked and answered. You just have to know where to look because of government censorship and media blackouts.

"According to pediatric cardiologist Dr. Kirk Milhoan, myocarditis caused by the COVID-19 vaccine differs from viral myocarditis because an infection of the heart isn't causing the damage. It's being damaged by the "spike protein that's cardiotoxic to the heart," which causes inflammation in the three main vessels of the heart by a different process."

"There’s a difference between the body encountering a virus naturally that causes myocarditis and actively giving the body something we know causes harm," Dr. Milhoan

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/statistically-significan...

freedude··on My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website
perl with the right plugins makes data janitor situations simplified.
freedude··on [dead]
Full Title:"Emerging scandal: Why are we giving $8 billion to Chinese company with CCP ties to build a $2 billion IL battery factory? Updated – Wirepoints"
freedude··on Orwell Meets Your Stuffy Nose
"Experts have long doubted the effectiveness of phenylephrine," "They are telling us this 16 years after the FDA forced the ingredient as the substitute for a product that actually works, which is pseudoephedrine."
freedude··on Guidance for Covid-19 Boosters [pdf]
"Based on the high rate of global immunity and currently available data, the State Surgeon General recommends against the COVID-19 booster for individuals under 65. Individuals 65 and older should discuss this information with their health care provider, including potential concerns outlined in this guidance."
freedude··on Google removes fake Signal and Telegram apps hosted on Play
"Signal Plus could monitor sent and received messages and contacts if people connected their infected device to their legitimate Signal number, as is normal when someone first installs Signal on their device. Doing so caused the malicious app to send a host of private information to the attacker, including the device IMEI number, phone number, MAC address, operator details, location data, Wi-Fi information, emails for Google accounts, contact list, and a PIN used to transfer texts in the event one was set up by the user."
freedude··on Man, 86, accused of assuming dead brother’s identity in 1965 is convicted
Maine has one of the most stringent bans on facial recognition. I am curious if this can still be a method for finding multiple credentials issued to the same person as this law was passed in 2021 after this investigation began.

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/maine-enacts-strongest-s...

freedude··on Man, 86, accused of assuming dead brother’s identity in 1965 is convicted
Full Title: "Man, 86, accused of assuming dead brother’s identity in 1965 is convicted of several charges"

Interesting thing to note:

"The facial recognition technology is used by the Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles to ensure no one obtains multiple credentials or credentials under someone else’s name"

freedude··on The Biden Administration Misleads Public on Expanses of Land Needed for Net Zero
Full Title:"The Biden Administration Misleads the Public on the Vast Expanses of Land Needed for 'Net Zero"

"This could ultimately require utility-scale solar projects that cover the size of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut combined, and wind farms that span an area equal to that of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee." -Jesse Jenkins, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Princeton University

freedude··on Apple finally put USB-C in new iPhone, but limited to 23-year-old USB 2.0 speeds
It is one of the signs of a cult
freedude··on Apple finally put USB-C in new iPhone, but limited to 23-year-old USB 2.0 speeds
I don't have to charge my wired headphones. They just work.
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