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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 22:43:58 EST lnxw48a1
- SoCal: Southern California
Tom Scott covers the sterile #Medfly release program in !SoCal https://youtu.be/Zl_5LT2fzak https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=Zl_5LT2fzak

I remember walking home from work with one of my brothers in the 1980s as helicopters 🚁 sprayed malathion laced bait overhead because of an infestation of Mediterranean fruit flies 🪰.
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1. Why the government drops flies on California
  
  from YouTube
  
  There's a good reason for it. ■ More about the program: https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/PDEP/prpinfo/Edited by Michelle Martin https://twitter.com/mrsmmartin🟥...
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  Why the government drops flies on California
  
  from Tom Scott | Invidious
  
  There's a good reason for it. ■ More about the program: https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/PDEP/prpinfo/ Edited by Michelle Martin https://twitter.com/mrsmmartin 🟥 MORE FROM TOM: https://www.tomscott.com/ (you can find contact details and social links there too) 📰 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER with good stuff from the rest of the internet: https://www.tomscott.com/newsletter/ ❓ LATERAL, free weekly podcast: https://lateralcast.com/ https://youtube.com/lateralcast/ ➕ TOM SCOTT PLUS: https://youtube.com/tomscottplus 👥 THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES: https://youtube.com/techdif
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 21:53:14 EST lnxw48a1

I'm tempted to report a privacy leak. The #TechTeam group within $EMPLOYER is trying to motivate people to get their annual mandatory training completed early, so they sent out a spreadsheet with everyone's name and which trainings have been completed and which trainings remain uncompleted.

One of the annual mandatory trainings covers exactly such things.

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 21:26:06 EST lnxw48a1

I missed today's time window for #videochat with #GD2 and also the one for videochat with #GS3, #GS4, #GS5.

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Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 00:26:03 EST Ji Fu

DeSantis Repeats Lie That Booster Shots Make You More Likely To Get COVID

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 21:43:28 EST lnxw48a1

Happy Saturday & Sunday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g00viskJPVM
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1. Teletubbies theme song
  
  from YouTube
  
  The teletubies theme tune. Hit the like button if you enjoyed it and if you really like it add to your favourite/share.Dont forget to SUBSCRIBE!
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 20:35:22 EST lnxw48a1

#Russia and #OPEC oil revenues slipping as #USA, #Canada, #Guyana, and #Brazil surge production and push market prices lower.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/putin-petrodollars-dry-arab-russian-060000683.html [finance yahoo com]
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1. Putin’s petrodollars dry up as Arab-Russian cartel loses its grip
  
  from Yahoo Finance
  
  With Russian forces stuck in a stalemate on the frontlines in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is facing a drain on the Kremlin coffers that threaten to sink his war machine.
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 20:21:15 EST lnxw48a1

If you've been wondering why you cannot find talc-based baby powder, here's why. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/j-j-pay-700-million-150121692.html [finance yahoo com]
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1. J&J to pay $700 million to settle states' talc-marketing probe - Bloomberg News
  
  from Yahoo Finance
  
  The settlement would avert potential lawsuits alleging J&J hid any links between the talc in its powder and various cancers, the report said citing people familiar with the deal. J&J and representatives for state attorneys general are still working out the specific terms of the deal but have agreed on the total amount, Bloomberg News reported. J&J did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 20:16:35 EST lnxw48a1

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/california-sues-kroger-unit-rejecting-184624298.html [finance yahoo com]

California sues Ralphs Grocery chain ( Kroger ) over hiring practices.
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1. California sues Kroger unit for rejecting job seekers with criminal records
  
  from Yahoo Finance
  
  California filed a lawsuit against Kroger Co subsidiary Ralph's Grocery Co on Thursday, accusing it of violating state law by screening out hundreds of job applicants based on their criminal history. The lawsuit, filed in state court by the California Civil Rights Department (CRD), accuses Ralph's of flouting a 2018 law that bars most employers from asking applicants about their criminal record prior to offering them a job. Ralph's, which operates more than 180 grocery stores in California, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 04:27:59 EST lnxw48a1

Don't buy HP printers. https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/19/hps_ceo_spells_it_out/ [www theregister com]
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1. HP CEO: You're 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies
  
  Malware threat from third-party cartridges nothing compared to threat to HP's bottom line
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 23:34:30 EST lnxw48a1
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- clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
@clacke Also, the creator of #NTP died. https://nu.federati.net/url/293167 [arstechnica com]
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1. Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85
  
  from Ars Technica
  
  Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 15:53:49 EST lnxw48a1
- clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
Thanks to @clacke, I recently learned that #NTP's seconds counter rolls over in 2036 (two years before the Unix counter). https://www.ntp.org/documentation/4.2.8-series/warp/#ntp-timescale-and-data-formats

> The timestamp format spans 136 years, called an era. The current era began on 1 January 1900, while the next one begins in 2036. ... However, the NTP protocol will synchronize correctly, regardless of era, as long as the system clock is set initially within 68 years of the correct time.
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  How NTP Works
  
  from NTP: Network Time Protocol
  
  This page provides a technical description of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) architecture and operation.
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 15:41:10 EST lnxw48a1

I see lots of weird US right-wingers praising the German farmer protests ( https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/25371040/tractors-protest-farmers-germany-sick-man-europe/ ) ... but these are the very people who hate the idea of government subsidizing some favored group that isn't them, and the major point of anger appears to be loss of tax subsidies.

Not to mention that I saw something about there being a court case which said the government could not continue the subsidies for some reason.

Now having said all this, I'm very much aware that I don't know what is going on in Germany right now or understand the underlying social / political / economic dynamics that may be driving the protests. I just thought it was interesting that the US folks who seem to be most supportive of the protests would be protesting if some other (US domestic) group was given similar subsidies.
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1. Tractors protest & rise of Far Right have turned Germany into sick man of Europe
  
  from The Sun
  
  LIGHTS flashing and horns blaring, 3,000 tractors trundled through Hanover in Germany bringing its streets to a gridlocked standstill. Stepping down from his cab, arable farmer Axel Friehe told me …
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 15:17:37 EST lnxw48a1

Learning to use cut and thinking that it is so simple-minded that I wouldn't ever use it instead of awk.

Example:
ls -lF | cut -d " " -f 1,3,4,9 gives inconsistent results. I suspect ls is sometimes using multiple spaces between fields. ls -lF | cut -d \t -f 1,3,4,9 also fails to give useful results.

Compare that to ls -lF | awk '{ print $1, $3, $4, $9 }' which gives me exactly what I was looking for.

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 12:52:06 EST lnxw48a1

#GS4: I want to watch Octonauts.
#GS3: No! I want to watch Mr Weatherman.

( The original #Octonauts series is educational. Toward the end of each episode, they have a "creature report":{https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=-uLe2VcUCJw} where they summarize information about the aquatic / marine creature being featured. This happens with a bouncy tune, so two and three year olds are bouncing and marching along with it. It was GS3's favorite show until he discovered Paw Patrol at age three and then Bluey at age four. )

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 12:40:16 EST lnxw48a1

> Rich people are asking to be taxed for the publicity. Many countries, including the United States, have established methods for "donating" to the government.

True. But if Warren Buffett asks to be taxed more, that also affects Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, who likely aren't willingly giving anything extra to the government.

More importantly, the persistent federal deficit leads to huge interest payments. There's some point where it will not be possible to make the payments without intentionally inflating the currency, and likely instituting widespread tax increases coupled with austerity programs.

I'm likely not going to be around to see this happen, but with grandchildren between 1 year old and 27 years old, I expect some or all of them to be around for it.

We tried to corral spending and it hasn't happened. But if we at least work to bring in as much tax money as we spend, there'll be political pressure to curtail anything "unnecessary".

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