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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 05-Sep-2022 11:53:01 EDT 
GeniusMusing
If you thought GDPR was bad.
If you thought COPPA was bad.
This is worse if it gets signed.
This is a must watch/read for anyone with a website on the internet. 36:15 long.
California Age-Appropriate Design Code Passed YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvpjSoFiu-g
>On This Week in Google, Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt talk with Mike Masnick from Techdirt who shares why three new bills passed in the California Senate are bad omens for the Internet at large.
Related Reading:
Ab 2273 stories at Techdirt.
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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 01-Sep-2022 10:07:58 EDT
GeniusMusing
Might be better than a hospital visit...
Russian oil executive dies in fall from Moscow hospital window Russia | The Guardian
https://nu.federati.net/url/287667
>A senior Russian oil executive has died after falling from the window of a Moscow hospital, months after his company criticised the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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>Ravil Maganov, the chair of the board of directors of Lukoil, Russia’s largest private oil company, “fell from a window at Central clinical hospital,” the Interfax news agency wrote on Thursday, citing a source. “He died from injuries sustained.”
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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 28-Aug-2022 17:26:36 EDT
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1
What I think it is actually doing is a preset static DNS entry pointing to itself because most non tech people can type an address that is words but numbers seem to confuse them. Also, most people only have a single router/internet connection. I checked the router. address and I got "Unable to connect" because I am using my two routers as AP's and have a non asus router. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 28-Aug-2022 14:25:13 EDT
GeniusMusing
This is something I have never encountered in all my years of using Asus routers. But then I also have all of my critical network items (router(s), switch's, WAP(s), servers, etc) assigned static IP Address and I use the address to connect to them. I think the only time I might have used the router. address is on a new/freshly reset router to connect to it the first time but then the IP Address is usually a 192.168.x.x address so it is not that hard to find. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 28-Aug-2022 08:55:08 EDT
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1
Is this from personal experience? -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 28-Aug-2022 08:54:16 EDT
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1
Related: Google Study Finds Psychological 'Inoculation' Can Improve Resistance to Misinformation Slashdot
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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 18-Aug-2022 08:53:05 EDT
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1
PINE64 response.
A response to Martijn’s blog PINE64
https://www.pine64.org/2022/08/18/a-response-to-martijns-blog/
>We rarely, if ever, make responses to blog posts or articles. In fact, there is only one instance that I can think of when we did so. So then, somewhat uncharacteristically, this is a response post to Martijn Braam’s blog in which he explains why he left the PINE64 community. Let’s get one thing out of the way first: Martijn has done a lot for mobile Linux and PINE64 – he is a valued contributor and a colleague with a good insight into how PINE64 and the Pine Store Ltd operate. I should add that his opinions are welcome just as they have always been. Finally, there is no denying that his leaving is a significant loss to the project and, on a private level, a sad state of affairs for us in the community. If it wasn’t clear, we really like Martijn. But this isn’t what this blog post is about. Instead, this is a response to the points and concerns Martijn raises.
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>A short summary first: Martijn’s blog entry alleges that following PinePhone community editions, and after settling on Manjaro with KDE’s plasma mobile as the default OS, PINE64 and the Pine Store Ltd have sidelined developers from other mobile Linux projects. The argument is made that this has hurt development. The example given in the blog post supposes that the community team and Pine Store employees were firmly intent on removing SPI on the PinePhone Pro and coerced not to ship Tow-Boot. He concludes by saying that we no longer listen to the development community.
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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Aug-2022 22:09:00 EDT
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1 Uh oh indeed. So much for my next phone. I have tried manjaro several times and at some point always found too many issues for me to use it. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Aug-2022 21:34:42 EDT
GeniusMusing
Amazon Echo SNL - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvT_gqs5ETk
>The Amazon Echo Silver is specifically designed for the greatest generation
SNL skit from 2017, almost seems too real... -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 13-Aug-2022 23:29:23 EDT
GeniusMusing
@simsa04 Kind of guessing here but if you download the book and then remove the DRM (instructions are on the 'net) you should be able to open it in something like Calibre and you can save it in many different formats including pdf. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 13-Aug-2022 09:28:29 EDT
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1 In this "perfect" dystopian world we live in, the next step is to make reading this crap mandatory... and then opening it up to groups other than "political" spam... for a fee, then try to charge you another fee to try and block it...
Somewhat related, for months I have been getting almost the same spam in one of my domain accounts, it would seem that I am not the only one.
The number of domains used for this is almost unbelievable and I have lost count of how many of them I have blocked.
Advids Spam Email and What to Do About It
https://herrbischoff.com/2019/11/advids-spam-email-and-what-to-do-about-it/ -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 12-Aug-2022 19:46:04 EDT
GeniusMusing
US Approves Google Plan To Let Political Emails Bypass Gmail Spam Filter Slashdot
https://nu.federati.net/url/287341
>The US Federal Election Commission approved a Google plan to let campaign emails bypass Gmail spam filters. From a report:
>The FEC's advisory opinion adopted in a 4-1 vote said Gmail's pilot program is permissible under the Federal Election Campaign Act and FEC regulations "and would not result in the making of a prohibited in-kind contribution." The FEC said Google's approved plan is for "a pilot program to test new Gmail design features at no cost on a nonpartisan basis to authorized candidate committees, political party committees, and leadership PACs."
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Well... crap.
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