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moremetadataon Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermined encryption

>Make no mistake: the Online Safety Bill has absolutely nothing to do with protecting children

Exactly, they could start teaching law in a concept understandable manner from primary school age, concentrating on what can cause the damage mentally and physically, like the spread of germs from a young age. But they dont, so kids cant even protect themselves in an offline world and the state gets to maintain its air of pseudo respectability whilst most people dont understand how the state is causing lifelong trouble.

moremetadataon North Korean hackers stole a record $1.7B of crypto last year

Not bad for a supposedly backwards repressed regime, unless thats the least stolen compared to 1st world countries?

It also exposes a wider problem the crypto community are not addressing.

moremetadataon Omniscient Debugging (2007)

If an app is set up to output all variables, doesn't debugview or debugview++ effectively give you the same ability to step back in time?

Of course, it means adding code to the app to output everything to debugview where as the debugger can use the debug symbols and then log everything which is alot less work, but some languages dont come with a debugger.

Stepping back in time is useful though!

moremetadataon Police in England and Wales dealing with more mental health crises than ever

Exactly, the hourly suicide watch, keeps you awake, makes you sleep deprived, creating a situation where you are going to descend into hell, get even more cranky, get drugged even more, throwing up because the drugs make you do this, and the military can slip actors into the mental health ward to further complete their psychological torture, and thats very important because most people dont realise how the military can do things like this. The public buy the lies because there is no transparency of their methods, even GDPR documents are fabricated in some cases, which gives more credibility to people like Virginia Giuffre!

Ironically what Sarah Connor goes through in Terminator 2, isnt that far from the truth, plus we shouldnt forget Religion is a legal form of insanity!

Where there is secrecy, state criminality can exist.

moremetadataon Ask HN: Code Signing or No Installer?

> What documents were you referring to regarding identity verification?

Digicert has a different process where you get put through to someone in India if you are in the US. Drivers licences things like that, but the Indian's cant really tell if the documents supplied are genuine or not.

If you go on the dark web, some marketplaces have identification documents for sale, and I was shocked to learn that the Vatican city is an excellent source for fake identification for any country!!!

moremetadataon You’re Not a Girlboss – You’re Just Trapped in an MLM Scheme (2020)

>Maybe they’re all exploiting the women in their down lines. Fair. But why are people reluctant to tell their stories?

Fair? You have just explained that its fair for the workers at the lowest and lower tiers of any company to be exploited.

MLM is just a type of business, Ann Summers in the UK and Ann Summers parties is another example besides the US Mary Kay, how ever unlike Mary Kay, Ann Summer parties were exposing kids to sex toys and lingerie, especially as some of the poorest lived in small homes with no where to hide the "sales catalogues" and the toys, or the disruptions to kids that ensued when you got a group of sex starved women together round a house.

Remember the world hysteria comes from the Greek word hystera which means uterus as in hysterectomy.

In general the MLM's that tend to work is because they rely on the sales persons buying into said products. Female MLM selling female jewellery, I think there was a jewellery company called Pandora that did this, female MLM selling cosmetics eg Avon, Vorwerk vacuum cleaners being another.

Thing with MLM is its just a particular way of selling products, some are like franchises like McDonalds in that you have to hand over money before accessing the brand's products to sell on. Some are door to door, others are established in their own bricks and mortar retail outlet of sorts, other online only, or sometimes both.

MLM is just one way of getting staff lock in and selling to the public. IS it any more exploitative than other methods? Thats a legislation issue, just like uber and the london black cab drivers have found out.

Politicians can screw over groups of people with the ballot box.

moremetadataon There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research

> In any other market, if the product doesn't work or harms someone the company goes out of business or the maker is sued.

Not strictly true, here in the UK you wont get refunds for drug treatments that dont work if seeing a private gp (or vet), thats why the NHS exists, its harder to sue the NHS in those conditions.

NICE who decide what drugs to use, is veiled in secrecy unless you can attend one of their public meetings, just like its impossible to attend every court case, its a form of resource burning which only the rich entities can afford.

IF you do challenge any drugs, you'll get passed from pillar to post until you under up in the govt's lap and they make the rules up as they go along, but its very hard to get any recourse unless you can afford expensive lawyers who know the technicalities to use as an approach vector.

moremetadataon Salmonella-in-eggs controversy

Thats interesting because the egg white is rich in avidin which binds biotin which inhibits many bacterial pathogens, but not viruses because flu vaccines are grown in sterile eggs. The BBC broadcasted this with cross rail plague pits when they got a bod from porton down in to explain some of this stuff.

I can find these studies suggesting salmonella inhibits biotin in the gut[1], and this link suggesting a biotin deficiency can increase susceptibility to salmonella [2].

However one thing that can not be disputed is the reduction in choline intake from the egg yolk would have dumbed down the nation much like covid has dumbed down the world aka brain fog.

Maybe we need a law to sue political parties out of existence if they screw the nation.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4504957 [2] https://academic.oup.com/nutritionreviews/article-abstract/4...

moremetadataon Ask HN: Code Signing or No Installer?

As to Code signing, if you have a Dunn and Bradstreet number for you business, its fairly straight forward getting a coding signing cert and there's different types which you can buy for your app, but it just means you have passed an identity check, the reports I've seen of the hurdles you have to go through are reduced the more you pay, ie Digicert is purportedly less time consuming than cheaper code signing CA's.

Considering things like GDPR and other data protection legislation around the world, I'm not aware how these CA's can verify identification documents because the companies or entities that make the documentation used for identification purposes cant give out your data, ergo they cant confirm or deny if the identification document is genuine or not.

And even if you did codesign your app, the end user company would probably hash your app and restrict its ability to use certain things on the computer in much the same way sandboxes do for web browsers.

Group Policy is one of the ways to lock an app's abilities down, but that's a job in itself if special GPO templates are not purchased to save on time.

eg https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/so...

If you want the appearance of being genuine, I'd probably get a code signing cert, at the very least your users wont get the orange UAC prompt, especially if your app uses certain api's which required UAC elevation and/or also depending on your manifest file.

moremetadataon Police in England and Wales dealing with more mental health crises than ever

You'd be surprised what goes on, but then most people still believe in religion which is a legal form of insanity.

moremetadataon Hackers could try to take over a military aircraft; can a cyber shuffle stop it?

Unless its wired and shielded, changing the ip addresses probably wouldn't help.

IF F35's at the end of the runway before take off are giving out RF signals which can be interpreted, it might pay to then drone in a device to silently capture more of the RF when inflight and then transmit the captured data for later analysis.

If the canopy is left open when in its bunker, there are a few holes inside the cockpit which might provide a place to hide such a device. A bit of a Mission Impossible type thing. https://youtu.be/JP0TDw0m7Nc?t=295

Would need a competent drone operator and someone competent at building such a device. There may well be jammers around a base, things that can knock out GPS.

Could go for the audacious approach and drop a smart phone in that doesnt move around when pulling G's, but that depends on the checks the pilots make and what could be hidden inside a cockpit. I would expect the checks to be strict because you dont want anything loose causing the joystick to get stuck!

Research from places like Youtube could help and google can help with images. https://www.google.com/search?q=f35+cockpit Maybe even getting to sit inside one at airshows could show something up.

If that approach doesnt show anything up, best bet is probably listening into the RF when jets are nearby.

Might also pay to fly some drones over radomes like RAF Feltwell and RAF Menwith Hill to establish what direction the satellites are pointing to and also try to intercept their RF for later disassembly. Its possible F35 communication is transmitted via satellite and these satellite dishes are the weak link, even if the data is shuffled between ground based satellite systems, like between Feltweel and Menwith Hill.

In fact covering all these radomes could make it easier to hack the networks.

Rupert Murdochs Sky already tells me these satellite communications work to high standards even with extreme weather events like cloud cover.

I also wonder if the perimeter fences around these satellite installations are big enough to avoid someone listening in outside the perimeter?

If we see some military compulsory purchases taking place quickly or Military Police with Malinois and German Shephards moving lurkers on, then that could be a clue and, like the public footpath at RAF Lakenheath being closed to the public, then you know the US & UK Mil have a weakness!

I've been told the US Mil (USAF) communication from Europe goes up via satellite at Mannheim Germany via satellite back to the US.

Dont know how true that is, not investigated.

moremetadataon Ask HN: Code Signing or No Installer?

> will they "install" it if there is no installer

Probably not. SysAdmins tend to use remote installation methods like this one to push a software installation to a workstation, so the installation software needs a command line with switches interface to setup for automated silent installs.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-serve...

It works well and saves a lot of time going around to individual workstations spread across multiple floors.

moremetadataon Police in England and Wales dealing with more mental health crises than ever

A mental health crisis is where the police cant charge you, so they take you to the mental hospital where you get banged up without trial, but not sectioned, drugs forcibly rammed down your throat otherwise you dont get let out any time soon for non-compliance.

The Police dont even tell you where they are taking you, basically if you dont do as they say, they arrest you and you get banged up in the cells, if you do as they say, you get banged up in a mental health ward.

To make matters worse, if you are a smoker, you are not allowed to smoke on hospital premises and because you are often stripped of your possessions in the first few days and not allowed out, with the hyper addictive changes to the tobacco, you'll invariably get one of their drugs that can incapacitate in seconds for showing any signs of violence or aggression, all be cause you cant have a smoke.

I thought the Nazi's were bad, but employees of the state take things to a whole new level.

moremetadataon Tell HN: Do not store any funds in PayPal or use them for anything critical

> must be more to the story when someones account was permanently banned

UK banks do this as well, could be anything from having direct debits not sent despite plenty of funds in the account, so you lose things like domain names, websites, to being banned from accessing funds from your account and caught in a regulatory loophole with the banks refusing to talk to you. Their internet surveillance of customers is excellent!

I've been locked out of my bank account for 6 weeks with the banks refusing to talk to me, Cahoot (Satander), GiffGaff are the latest to mess me around, basically they can d546dcddb8d207a80fe40e762023fbee !

Because I remember what the employees of the state did to me as a kid. Scopolamine is used on infant age primary school kids right here in the UK.

moremetadataon LED lighting badly suppresses human melatonin production at night

What are you trying to achieve? Because I could also add, your omega 3 intake can also be a factor, Omega 3 reduces the number of osteoclasts for the flip side of the bone health and also increase the size of neutrophils which will engulf bacteria which invariable destroy bones and leads to arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Growth hormone, either 95% of tryptophan via the kynurenic pathway or nicotinic acid on an empty stomach will increase the number of neutrophils, although medical experts will normally give intravenous growth factor aka growth hormone. Stress hormones like adrenaline will reduce the effectiveness of neutrophils (Left shift iirc) as will a B12 deficiency (neutrophil hyper segmentation). Omega 3 will increase the neutrophil size by just under 40% so that they are large enough to consume yeast cells, which makes me wonder if brewers yeast is potentially harmful. Manganese Ascorbate is also useful because much of the vit C is stored inside the neutrophils, so larger neutrophils mean high levels of Vit C, and the manganese can contribute to MnSOD to neutralise ROS inside the mitochondria and help to repair cartilage in places like knee joints.

Omega 3 also help the serotonin and melatonin in the brain and spinal fluid which also helps with getting to sleep.

When the UK govt were giving cod liver oil and malt to kids in the 50's or 60's, under the pretence of preventing Ricketts, they knew what they were doing to control future GDP and aggression levels.

Considering the Japs are experts in Vit K studies, and prescribe K2-MK4 to post menopausal women who are naturally consuming an iodine and omega 3 rich diet seafood diet and also happen to have some of the longest living females in the world, and some of the highest IQ's in the world, I think looking to them will give you more info than a typical western diet.

Just 150micrograms of T3 (Triiodothyronine - one iodine atom removed by selenium, with 80% of this T4-T3 conversion taking place outside of the thyroid gland) will half the time spent in Intensive care in hospitals. Tyrosine is the main ingredient of T3 (hormone) & T4 )pro-hormone) so your metadata for getting more tyrosine in your diet is when you start to get grey hairs.

Many govts, like the UK Govt are deliberately harming the population with their treatments provided by the health care system and what is taught at med school, which clogs up beds and pushes up house prices with the elderly who dont want to go into nursing homes. A crude example of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, an agenda many govt's are now following around the world.

And choline can also reduce stress levels by reducing the CO2 build up in the body and lungs. Choline is used in the alveoli of the lungs to facilitate the gas exchange, its also used in the cell walls and the connection between neurons. The more choline you consume, the better your physical performance and mental ability. Personally I found L-Alpha glycerylphosphorylcholine to be best, but yet to try citicoline which is used in hospitals for brain injuries and costs about £3k a kilo.

Like I said, what you are trying to achieve?

moremetadataon The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Our Thoughts and Opinions

>How Can We Protect Ourselves From Artificial Intelligence Brainwashing?

This is no different to the legally insane religions, or state propaganda and ruling elite propaganda, parents, experts and those around us.

So should the question be, how can we protect ourselves from brainwashing?

moremetadataon LED lighting badly suppresses human melatonin production at night

Vit K2-MK4 Osteoblasts better than Vit K1 in my experience, ie 50mg of K1 is nowhere near as good as 5mg K2-MK4. Calcium amplifies the effects of the catecholamines which probably explains why tea drinkers prefer hard water. Military also give out tea, during and after a exercise. High Vit A and Vit D can also lead to hypercalcemia which makes you feel good. https://scholar.google.com/

Remember Thomas Pynchon and be mindful of the fact that search engines wont always give you the studies you are looking for, so you have to go back and perform the same search's weeks and months later.

moremetadataon Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls

I've treated you in the way as a search engine giving you results would, but I'm aware you cant complain back at the search engine.

moremetadataon What's the worst codebase you've ever worked on?

Bad management who dont understand programming, which is sadly replicated across many companies, and then people wonder why its so easy to get hacked. eyesroll

moremetadataon LED lighting badly suppresses human melatonin production at night

>’m really turned off by how there’s zero critical consideration of their quoted research

I can take a variety of stimulants which would normally keep me up all night, but 5mg of Vit K2-MK4 removes enough of the calcium from my bloodstream so that it can't amplify the effects of the catecholamines and I'm asleep within 30mins, its actually better than taking melatonin or anti-histamines.

I've been more alert and observant as a car passenger whilst on 2 NHS prescribed benzodiazepines than the person driving the car! I think sometimes its a state of mind which makes its hard to sleep.

moremetadataon What's the worst codebase you've ever worked on?

Something that was managing the largest construction project in the world amongst other building projects. Had plenty of devs on it, not junior but highly expert. Gave them 12months of my time to achieve their objectives, but it became clear the code was a can of worms, fix one thing, something else broke because of too many different coding styles. Told them it needed a rewrite from the ground up, standards put in place that sort of thing. They agreed but wanted it done in 3months, told them impossible need more time than that, they wouldn't agree so I walked.

moremetadataon Show HN: AskHN

>the author found it too much work and/or too expensive.

Military budgets and manpower would make sock puppets interesting. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op...

Does anyone find it curious Edward Snowden is mute on the military's use of this technology?

How many people would be surprised to learn they are communicating with a program on websites like this?

moremetadataon Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls

Look social media is not a basic single digit mental arithmetic test, you have to view it in the context of Divergent Thinking.

The Brick Test is a simple example, how many uses can you come up with for a house brick?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilford%27s_Alternate_Uses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divergent_thinking

Anyway I could argue you are using rule 4 from the section Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation found on this webpage https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm

There are many tentacles to the state, which in itself can create cognitive dissonance, but the other problem you have is, you cant kill an idea. Take your anger out on a cop, the law prosecutes you for murder of a human, not a uniform, ergo you cant kill an idea, like law, religion & money.

moremetadataon Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls

I think its an extension of the divide and conquer mentality that has existed since Roman times.

Govts are always looking to control the population, especially the military, police and media but it starts in the classroom with not running in the corridors, being made to sit for extended periods of time which makes it a stress position in some military circles.

Just look at the rivalry or disputes between different geographic regions like Europe or the Balkans, some disputes have gone of for so many generations that nobody knows what the original dispute is for.

So when you say its a psyop, yes I would say social media is, but its been hijacked by everyone and anyone. Take the Angry Karen meme, https://www.reddit.com/r/AngryKaren/

I heard this was a business interests invention to reduce the number of items women return for exchange or refund as they are the traditional shopper who do the returns. Look at how that has morphed on social media, its also a way to highlight female abuse to challenge the normal or traditional view of women in society.

In my opinion, I think alot of women become psychotic once they have kids due to the demands on their body, as whilst there is some tacit recognition of post partum psychosis, I think alot of goes unrecognised by the medical experts, in much the same way the belief in religion is a lawful medically unrecognised form of delusional thinking.

moremetadataon Poste.io – Complete Mail Server

>getting over the spam filter hurdles of the email giants of the world

You mean global monopolies, for which there is no legislation for. Ergo the US Govt is holding the rest of the world hostage via its tech companies.

moremetadataon Mercedes-Benz previews its operating system MB.OS

I'll give Google their due, their satnav maps apps was accurate enough and fast enough to not need a co driver on unfamiliar roads with my Colin McRae head on. Thats more than can be said with MB's Becker Maps.

moremetadataon Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls

No, but a precis on it suggests its the algorithms at fault, much like this Ted talk I have seen. https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_b...