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sonotmyname··on Twitter sued for allegedly refusing to remove child porn
My wife has done some work with child exploitation organizations around this exact problem. Sadly, this is not a surprise at all. I’d venture that maybe 5% of the posts they report are removed, and the offending accounts are essentially never punished.

To make matters worse, given that pedophilia and child porn is now tied up with QAnon, some of her peers have started to have their accounts banned when they report this stuff, as apparently they’re being caught up in an anti-conspiracy filter.

Sigh...

sonotmyname··on Magic Mushrooms Injected into Man's Veins Started to Grow in Blood
> The guy boiled it before injection

No, he poured boiling water over the mushrooms - big difference. Plenty of time for boiling water to cool before killing all of the spores.

sonotmyname··on WRT54G History: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source
You can buy a new WRT today that supports FOSS firmware out of the box - https://www.linksys.com/us/wireless-routers/c/wrt-wireless-r...

And yet Linksys (and others) still sell their closed routers as well. One can only concluded that the Open Source support, while important for a niche group, is not enough for market dominance...

sonotmyname··on WRT54G History: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source
They're $249 almost everywhere, and the WRT54G was $199. Taking inflation into account, the 3200 is likely cheaper than the 54g was...
sonotmyname··on Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app”
> Because as far as I know, Apple only allows NetworkExtension-based apps to be distributed via the App Store,

No, not so. Plenty of VPN apps based on network extensions are delivered outside the Mac App Store. In fact, most commercial VPNs are done this way. My company uses GlobalProtect for example, and I can install it any number of ways, and it’s been NE based for over a year now...

sonotmyname··on Tardigrades spilled all over the Moon in 2020
> It would change everything!

Really? How? What is one aspect of life that would change for anyone not in the space exploration industry?

sonotmyname··on U.S. to require negative Covid-19 tests for international air passengers
Your R0 number is waaaay off. Like 2-3x higher than generally observed.
sonotmyname··on U.S. to require negative Covid-19 tests for international air passengers
> just as hospitals test all admits (even those without symptoms).

Some may, but that's a county/state decision.

sonotmyname··on U.S. to require negative Covid-19 tests for international air passengers
You spend the 14 days in quarantine either way - land or air. And it's not 'government quarantine' for most people - it's just a hotel room, airbnb or wherever your approved plan says you're going to quarantine.
sonotmyname··on U.S. to require negative Covid-19 tests for international air passengers
> Canada also instituted the negative test on arrival rule in the last week or so. The caterwauling from our airlines was just ridiculous.

The negative test requirement is only for air travel, and in spite of your assertion, there is (limited) non-trade travel allowed across the border. I'm driving across the border in a few weeks, and for some reason don't need a test that I'd need if I flew.

sonotmyname··on Huawei ExaGear: x86_64 apps on Arm 64-bit Linux systems
> https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/07/05/huawei-staff-cvs...

> https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/07/06/huawei-em...

> https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-officials-say-huawei-can-co...

This is not news.

Aside from the spying, Huawei has zero regard for Intellectual Property law, as demonstrated by numerous cases of stolen code, designs, and even wholesale products.

sonotmyname··on 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers
darned auto-expansion. meant GP
sonotmyname··on My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions
Without timeouts, one of the endpoints would have to maintain dead sessions indefinitely. One cannot rely on protocols to close connections properly - stuff happens.
sonotmyname··on My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions
There is no such thing as a properly configured NAT implementation that does not have timeouts for idle sessions. Without those you’d run out of memory on your router and new sessions would be blocked.
sonotmyname··on Citing 'Censorship' Concerns, North Idaho ISP Blocks Facebook, Twitter
FTA - way down toward the bottom:

>In a phone call with KREM, the owner of the company, Brett Fink, again said the websites would only be blocked for customers who asked.

>"We've had customers asked to be blocked by it. That is what the email was about, so no we are not blocking anybody, only the ones that have asked for it," Fink said.

So the entire premise of the article up to that point, as well as the article's subtitle are based on a non-event.

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sonotmyname··on Steam's login method is kinda interesting
> If in the future there was some method to crack the TLS or the appropriate keys/certs were leaked, any recorded traffic could be retroactively cracked.

This is incomplete. TLS does allow for ciphers that enable Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) to prevent this. Those ciphers are not the most commonly used ones, but to describe TLS the way you do implies it's a flaw in TLS.

sonotmyname··on 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers
Perhaps GlobalProtect was referring to HR 4192?

https://www.aclu.org/letter/aclu-statement-opposing-hr-4192-...

sonotmyname··on Pfizer vaccine appears effective against mutation in new coronavirus variants
Which scientific research? That which only takes the virus related deaths into account, or that which balances other factors such as depression, suicide, substance and spousal abuse, and long term economic factors?
sonotmyname··on WhatsApp Beaten by Apple’s New iMessage Privacy Update
> Apple is abusing their market position (100%) to further their own advertisement platform.

Err, what advertising platform? Apple doesn't have an ad platform. Apple doesn't sell data to ad platforms. Apple doesn't do any of the things you're regurgitating here...

sonotmyname··on WhatsApp Beaten by Apple’s New iMessage Privacy Update
> It's relevant when falling back to SMS would cost you $$$.

Then disable the fallback... It's a very obvious and simple setting.

sonotmyname··on Excess protein enabled dog domestication during severe Ice Age winters
> Cow meat is better when rare

A few pitmasters in Texas would like to have a word with you about over-generalizing....

Seriously though - a cow is a huge animal with many cuts. Some are better rare, some are sublime when cooked to a high enough heat to break down the collagen in it.

sonotmyname··on M1 Macs cannot support dual Extended displays through their Thunderbolt 3 ports
Re #5, pretty much every 2020 TVs from Sony, LG, Vizio, Samsung, et all support Airplay 2. This was largely a result of Apple's push with AppleTV+.
sonotmyname··on Trump bans Alipay and seven other Chinese apps
No, but as the past 4 years have proven, if the election results were reversed the Left would absolutely be doing so.
sonotmyname··on Covid: New lockdown for England as cases surge
Woohoo - more inconsistent and unscientific policies!

* Restaurants can continue to offer delivery for food, but takeaway alcohol will be banned

__ So alcohol spreads COVID? Good thing restaurants don't count on alcohol sales to stay afloat.

* Amateur team sports are not allowed, but elite sport such as Premier League football can continue

__ 'Elite' athletes, as is the case for the rest of the 'elites', should not have to follow the same rules as the plebs.

* Outdoor sports venues - such as golf courses, tennis courts and outside gyms - must close

__ Yeah - let's take a game (golf) that's done outdoors, in groups of 4 or less, and ban it. Don't worry - you're allowed to walk around the exact same golf course for excercise (as that's one of the only reasons you can leave your home), but if you have to swing a club you'll catch COVID.

sonotmyname··on After spending $57M on Facebook ads, I was kicked off
> Isn't this the explanation?

Err, how is that an explanation? If they don't run dating ads and Facebook says their dating ads are non-compliant, it's a non-answer. It'd be like me firing you for having blue hair when you don't have blue hair.

sonotmyname··on Pure Digital CSS, Swiss Made, Clock – No JavaScript, almost no HTML
Yes, a spring loaded dial that always went back to 0. No clocks.
sonotmyname··on The Safecracker of Last Resort (2018)
TFA mentions ‘ canisters of tear gas hidden behind a safe’s inner-door plate’. That definitely sounds like an anti-tampering device. If they were simply stored inside the safe, the article would have said that, and the cracker wouldn’t have nearly drilled into them.
sonotmyname··on The Safecracker of Last Resort (2018)
That’s not a ‘typical’ gun safe. It’s not uncommon, but it’s definitely it ‘typical’.
sonotmyname··on How Texas Can Become the Next Silicon Valley
I live in California, and when I got my first non-compete 25 years ago (out of state company, it was their standard hiring package), I asked my dads friend (a corporate council - aka an attorney who knows about this stuff) about signing it. His advice was to redline everything, sign it, and return it with the package. If the employer had balked he’d have written a letter in response, but that didn’t happen.

So that’s been my routine ever since - non-competes and any non-compete language get a red pen through them, signed, and returned.

I’ve never had a single company even mention it, let alone push back.

sonotmyname··on Firefox not planning on supporting PWA
> Chrome already supports it.

Chrome supports it on windows.

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