Notices by GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net), page 36
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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jan-2022 07:42:57 EST 
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Shirley Chisholm: The first black woman to run for US president BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-60090476
>Shirley Chisholm announced her intention to run for the US presidency on 25 January 1972 . She became the first major-party black candidate to run for America's highest office.
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>Witness History spoke to Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who was inspired to enter politics after working on Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm's 1972 campaign.
The video at link above is pretty interesting.
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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Jan-2022 20:49:37 EST
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@lnxw48a1
@clacke
I'm actually working on my next post about recent changes in tax code that will not only affect people in the gig economy but also maybe anyone who gets money related to side work and gets paid in anything other than cash, that is not their "normal" job.
Slight spoiler: It just might be time to setup a legit company if you meet the above. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jan-2022 19:02:49 EST
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This 22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage Ars Technica
https://nu.federati.net/url/284759
>In August, chipmaker Intel revealed new details about its plan to build a “mega-fab” on US soil, a $100 billion factory where 10,000 workers will make a new generation of powerful processors studded with billions of transistors. The same month, 22-year-old Sam Zeloof announced his own semiconductor milestone. It was achieved alone in his family’s New Jersey garage, about 30 miles from where the first transistor was made at Bell Labs in 1947.
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>With a collection of salvaged and homemade equipment, Zeloof produced a chip with 1,200 transistors. He had sliced up wafers of silicon, patterned them with microscopic designs using ultraviolet light, and dunked them in acid by hand, documenting the process on YouTube and his blog. “Maybe it’s overconfidence, but I have a mentality that another human figured it out, so I can, too, even if maybe it takes me longer,” he says.
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Somehow I think this kid is going to go far. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jan-2022 12:26:43 EST
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New Covid variant spreading like wildfire across UK and Scandinavia: BA.2 ‘stealth’ mutation now half of all new coronavirus cases in Denmark and rapidly pushing Omicron aside
https://nu.federati.net/url/284757
>Various media across Scandinavia and the UK are reporting the emergence of a new Covid variant that is so infectious and spreading so fast that nearly half of all cases in Denmark are now the new mutation, named BA.2, with more than 400 confirmed infections across the UK.
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>The new mutation has reportedly also popped up in Norway, Sweden, Singapore and India.
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>Reuters reports that UK health authorities are investigating 426 confirmed cases of BA.2 in Britain, while officials in Denmark said that just over 45 per cent of all new infections in the country are now the new variant.
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>WHO representatives have rushed to Copenhagen to investigate BA.2, nicknamed ‘stealth Omicron’ in Danish media as the mutation seems to be pushing the Omicron variant aside fairly quickly.
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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jan-2022 10:55:38 EST
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03-52-2022-Moar Changes and a Move The Random Thoughts of GeniusMusing
https://geniusmusing.com/2022/01/03-52-2022-moar-changes-and-a-move
>Free Time Well Spent
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>I was finally able to have the time to hunt down an issue that I had been living with since this time last year, mainly, this blog. While I do enjoy writing software and it has almost become my full time (paying) job at this point, it does leave me not wanting to work on my own stuff in the evening.
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>I finally decided to spend some of my "free" time to figure out just why this blog software would not work on my hosting provider but a very close setup I have at home works just fine without anything special requirements.
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>It only took about 45 minutes in support chat to get it going the way it should. It seems that some of the standard modules that PHP uses were not installed or not installed correctly, mainly the JSON module that this software needs.
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>Over the next week I will be doing some testing and all the back entries and then the site will switch over.
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>The feed link will also be changing to the link below.
>https://geniusmusing.com/feed/rss/
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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jan-2022 13:38:18 EST
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Two men take corpse into Irish post office to claim dead man’s pension Ireland | The Guardian
https://nu.federati.net/url/284733
>Gardaí have launched an investigation after two men carried a dead body into an Irish post office in an apparent attempt to claim his pension.
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>The deceased pensioner was described in reports as being “propped up” by the men as they walked into the building in County Carlow on Friday morning.
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>The outlandish series of events began when one of the men entered the post office at about 11.30am on Friday, asking to collect a pension payment for an older man, the Irish Times reported. He was refused, with staff informing him that the pensioner would have to be present in order for the money to be handed over.
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>The man returned soon after with two other men, one of whom was in his 60s and appeared to be being supported by the two others. The younger men asked to be given his pension payment.
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Did someone just watch Weekend at Bernie's and think it was a good idea?
Weekend at Bernie's Wikipedia
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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jan-2022 19:32:11 EST
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Crypto.com CEO Confirms Hundreds of Accounts Were Hacked Slashdot
https://nu.federati.net/url/284708
>An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge:
>The CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com, Kris Marszalek, has finally confirmed that hundreds of user accounts were indeed compromised by hackers and had funds stolen as a result, though details of the exact method of breach remain unclear. Marszalek acknowledged the hack in an online interview with Bloomberg Wednesday, stating that around 400 customer accounts had been compromised. He also told Bloomberg that he had not received any outreach from regulators since the attack was first disclosed but would share information if official inquiries were made.
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>Previous statements from Marszalek and other communications from Crypto.com have been criticized for being vague and unclear. Official messaging from the company referred to a security "incident," and an early Twitter post mentioned only that a small number of users were "reporting suspicious activity on their accounts." Marszalek followed up by tweeting that "no customer funds were lost" -- a statement some commentators interpreted as meaning that the exchange would take the financial hit rather than passing it on to customers. Shortly afterward, security company PeckShield posted a tweet claiming that, in reality, Crypto.com's losses amounted to around $15 million in ETH and were being sent to Tornado Cash to be "washed." -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jan-2022 15:10:12 EST
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@lnxw48a1
Just for grins I went looking to see if they had any bug bounty programs running. Maybe they do but I found nothing.
Maybe they figured out how to make bug free soft..... HAHAHAHAHA... -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jan-2022 13:37:39 EST
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EU Wants To Build Its Own DNS Infrastructure With Built-in Filtering Capabilities Slashdot
https://nu.federati.net/url/284701
>The European Union is interested in building its own recursive DNS service that will be made available to EU institutions and the general public for free. From a report:
>The proposed service, named DNS4EU, is currently in a project planning phase, and the EU is looking for partners to help build a sprawling infrastructure to serve all its current 27 member states. EU officials said they started looking into an EU-based centrally-managed DNS service after observing consolidation in the DNS market around a small handful of non-EU operators. "The deployment of DNS4EU aims to address such consolidation of DNS resolution in the hands of few companies, which renders the resolution process itself vulnerable in case of significant events affecting one major provider," officials said in the DNS4EU infrastructure project revealed last week. But EU officials said that other factors also played a role in their decision to build DNS4EU, including cybersecurity and data privacy.
EU wants to build its own DNS infrastructure with built-in filtering capabilities The Record by Recorded Future
https://nu.federati.net/url/284702
And then when you get on the "bad" list, good luck getting it fixed... -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jan-2022 12:50:41 EST
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IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access – Krebs on Security
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/irs-will-soon-require-selfies-for-online-access/
>If you created an online account to manage your tax records with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), those login credentials will cease to work later this year. The agency says that by the summer of 2022, the only way to log in to irs.gov will be through ID.me, an online identity verification service that requires applicants to submit copies of bills and identity documents, as well as a live video feed of their faces via a mobile device.
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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jan-2022 10:28:59 EST
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@lnxw48a1
Better than this...
2018 Hawaii false missile alert Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_alert
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