What happened?
Twelve years!
You hit me with a cricket bat!
Ha! Twelve years!
Twelve years!
You hit me with a cricket bat!
Ha! Twelve years!
Thursday, March 28
Daily News Stuff 28 March 2018
Fuck Skype And Fuck Google Hangouts Too Edition
Fuck Skype And Fuck Google Hangouts Too Edition
Tech News
- Cisco: We fixeded it!
Testers were using Curl to exploit an open vulnerability in Cisco routers, so Cisco "fixed" it by blocking web requests that identified themselves as coming from Curl. This is about as effective as trying to stop a pyroclastic flow with a paper sign saying "Volcanoes Keep Out".
- PyCharm 2019.1 is out.
New features include.... Nothing much, really. But the previous version was already very good.
- Samsung's Galaxy A70 is a mid-range phone with a microSD slot. (AnandTech)
Huge 6.7" 2400x1080 OLED display, unspecified mid-range CPU, 6GB or 8GB RAM and 128GB flash.
Social Media News
- US Rep. Eric "nuke the peasants" Swalwell resubmitted his stupid bill making it a crime to assault journalists. (TechDirt)
Which is, of course, already a crime, and the bill is blatantly unconstitutional.
- Netflix submits that ChooseCo are idiots. (TechDirt)
If you agree, go to page 11.
If you disagree, go to page 94. Yes, that's the page were you got eaten by a bear the last three times you chose it.
- Just in case anyone needed a database of 5 million lesbians. (Tech Crunch)
Actually this is kind of serious, since China's government is entirely capable of rounding people up and shipping them off for re-education, for any reason or none at all.
My rule is this: Don't post anything online. Just don't.
Disclaimer: This post is a volcano free zone.
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Boneless Chicken Ranch 28 March 2019
Live From Waukegan, Illinois Edition
Live From Waukegan, Illinois Edition
I think I know how that can be arranged.
Freedom wing of the freedom party.
This explains everything.
This also explains everything.
I'm sure he'll tell the truth this time.
From your lips to Vint Cerf's ears, Paul.
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Wednesday, March 27
Daily News Stuff 27 March 2019
Hinamatsuri. I completely missed it when it aired last year, and it's really good. One of those shows that you watch in one go and then Google the name plus "season 2".
Apparently there's plenty of manga remaining for another season, but Blu-Ray sales have been disappointing.
Hinamatsuri Edition
Tech News
- Try our new twitter and bitchute tags, fresh caught every day.
- Yes, I'm still banned on Twitter. No response to my appeal.
- Huawei launched their P30 and P30 Pro phones. (AnandTech)
These are focused heavily on photography, with a 40MP main camera in both models, an ultrawide camera at 16MP and 20MP on the standard and pro models respectively, and an 8MP telephoto camera with 3x or 5x zoom.
The telephoto camera is the interesting one: It uses a prism to refract light through 90 degrees to give the lens elements enough room.
CPU is a Kirin 980 - Arm A76 - coupled with 6GB or 8GB of RAM. The base model has a headphone jack and 128GB of storage. The one real flaw is that it uses Huawei's proprietary nano-flash cards for expansion. Oh, and their user interface, but you can just install Nova Launcher to fix that.
- Asus says what, we got hacked, and a million of our laptops too? (Tom's Hardware)
Rare triple facepalm.
- Fire the whole goddamn lot of them. MEPs who just voted to destroy the internet say oops, we pushed the wrong button. (TechDirt)
- Google just made email radically more annoying and probably less secure. (Tech Crunch)
With any luck they'll kill it in six months.
- 42 is the new 33. (Quanta)
Now that a solution has been found for 33, 42 is the only number less than 100 that has not either been shown to be the sum of three cubes or proven not to be.
Numberphile did a video just over three years ago discussing the problem.
And now has a video where they talk to the discoverer of the answer for 33.
- UC Browser, which I have never heard of but apparently has 500 million users is dangerously insecure and should be shot on sight (Bleeping Computer)
- Everything you didn't want to know about Apples new content platform and couldn't be bothered to ask. (Six Colors)
- Discord employs crazy people to censor your speech. (One Angry Gamer)
Anime Opening of the Day
Hinamatsuri. I completely missed it when it aired last year, and it's really good. One of those shows that you watch in one go and then Google the name plus "season 2".
Apparently there's plenty of manga remaining for another season, but Blu-Ray sales have been disappointing.
Re: Zero is getting a second season though, as is Re: Slime, and of course Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid.
Disclaimer: Snow sushi contains zero calories.
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The New Bitchute Tag
This is a test post, please ignore the fireworks.
Update: Well, that was easy.
This is a test post, please ignore the fireworks.
Update: Well, that was easy.
[bitchute=https://www.bitchute.com/video/RBnjHfyejg0/]
[bitchute=RBnjHfyejg0]
[bitchute=RBnjHfyejg0 size=640x360]
[bitchute=RBnjHfyejg0 size=720x]
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Extra Boneless Chickens
The new [twitter] tag is great. You can just sit there all day mocking Politico and it doesn't matter if Twitter has banned you.
The new [twitter] tag is great. You can just sit there all day mocking Politico and it doesn't matter if Twitter has banned you.
Democrats Find Out Santa Isn't Real
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The New Twitter Tag
It's lazy and doesn't attempt to preserve the tweet details (which I can't do without the Twitter API, and my account is disabled) so if the tweet gets deleted it just ends up blank. But it's very easy to use: Just paste in the link.
One other note: Firefox's tracker blocker feature breaks this, and there's no easy way around it that I can see.
[twitter=link media=yes|no parent=no|yes]
[twitter=https://twitter.com/bitchute/status/1110089991298809856]
[twitter=https://twitter.com/bitchute/status/1110089991298809856 media=no]
[twitter=https://twitter.com/ModsReloaded/status/1110098911086170112 parent=yes]
[twitter=https://twitter.com/ModsReloaded/status/1110098911086170112 parent=no]
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Boneless Chicken Ranch 27 March 2019
Only the second worthwhile appearance of Aquaman ever.
Internal DNS Failure Edition
A Daily Roundup of Exceptionally Interesting Tweets for Some Value of Interesting
That's sure to help the next time a hate crime is reported.
We are not investigators. We are journalists, and our role is to echo whatever we hear, which is exactly what we did.
We are not investigators. We are journalists, and our role is to echo whatever we hear, which is exactly what we did.
Ha. That worked. I can create an "embed tweet" tag now.
Update: This post has been converted to use the new [twitter] tag.
Fuck the EU of the Day
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Tuesday, March 26
Daily News Stuff 26 March 2019
Still Banned Like It Was Yesterday Edition
Tech News
- You probably can't scroll to the bottom of this page right now. I know why and will have it fixed tomorrow.
Update: Hmm. No, seems to just be Firefox. Will fix anyway.
- Swift 5.0 is out, available right away on MacOS and Ubuntu and approximately never on every other platform.
I need to choose a language that can compile to a standalone binary for a small side project. Go would certainly work. Since I've never used it before I spent an hour yesterday learning it.
Go sucks. The implementation may be fine, but the language design is 50 years of congealed bad ideas.
Swift is a much better language - not great, but not something that would cause constant severe abdominal pain - but can't, so far as I know, produce standalone binaries.
C and C++ are out because are you freaking kidding me.
Julia is probably out, because while it's actually a fine language, the static compilation story is meh at best.
Crystal might work, but it hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Same with Nim.
Nuitka might actually work. The project is active, and since it compiles Python to standalone binaries I don't need to fuss about with a new language and new libraries.
I shall try Nuitka.
- CLion now supports remote toolchains over SSH so you can now sit at your Windows PC and build Linux apps. But the CLion Python plugin doesn't. PyCharm does, of course, but then it doesn't support all the other languages CLion adds (C, C++, Objective-C, Rust, Swift, and, for some reason, Fortran).
- Uber decides it isn't losing money fast enough, steps on the gas. (Tech Crunch)
- I've switched from Chrome to Firefox for these posts. It works much better. I originally switched from Firefox to Chrome because Chrome coped better when I had many tabs open; now the situation has reversed. Also the latest versions of Chrome act weird with this editor which I have a replacement for but have yet to actually replace.
- About a million Asus laptops have been compromised after Asus Live Updater got hacked. (Bleeping Computer)
The nasty files fed to users by this channel were thus signed and supposedly verified by Asus.
It looks like this was a targeted attack, and the malware was dormant for most users. Not clear yet who was behind it, or why, but for select users it would download a second set of malware and send data off to a remote server.
- Final Fantasy apparently includes a species of rabbit that reproduces via parthenogenesis and this has made some people very angry (One Angry Gamer)
[Imagine a picture of said rabbits here only the forced redirect to HTTPS that I'm testing here has broken uploading which is exactly why I'm testing it here before rolling it out to everyone.]
Social Media News
- The European Union has passed its terrible horrible no good very bad copyright legislation into law. (CNet)
Any company offering internet services of any kind in any EU country is out of its mind.
- New Zealand is still rounding up wrongthinkers and locking them up without bail because this is a democracy you see which means you have no right to either free speech or due process. (TechDirt)
Git pull request for Tom Wolfe: The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe and New Zealand.
Also, you may well ask what the hell is going on in the comments at TechDirt. I'm going to go with "performance art".
- Meanwhile, Australia's Parliament of Clowns wants to enact criminal penalties for video streaming services whose users stream videos of violent crimes. (ZDNet)
Leaving such streams up for minutes is simply not good enough."They can get an ad to you in half a second; they should be able to pull down this sort of terrorist material and other types of very dangerous material in the same sort of time frame."
I regret to report that Australia's Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, is retarded.
Elsewhere
- After spending three years screwing up the stories of Trump's political rise, Russia's political meddling, and the blatantly nonsensical allegations of collusion between the two, the American mainstream news media has learned... Precisely nothing.
CNN prez Jeff Zucker: "We are not investigators. We are journalists, and our role is to report the facts as we know them, which is exactly what we did." https://t.co/DiUjr7Nkbg
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 26, 2019
- They're just not very bright.
Mueller came forward right away when he felt he’d been misrepresented even indirectly by Buzzfeed. You think he’d allow Barr to misquote him? It’s amazing people won’t let this go. https://t.co/jZ3ABy0CQr
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 26, 2019I hope I'm not putting this too harshly, but you have to be the world's dumbest person to believe Mueller filled his report with incriminating collusion claims, but he - and his whole team - are sitting silently while his long-time friend Bob Barr lies about what's in his report.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 25, 2019
- Neither is this guy.
.@MichaelAvenatti tweeted Monday that he planned to hold a news conference about @Nike. Less than 45 minutes later, federal prosecutors charged him with trying to extort the company. https://t.co/noxBAOFXdQ
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 25, 2019
Don't Drop the Bunny of the Day
Disclaimer: Do not taunt happy fun bunny.
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Meanwhile, Back At The Boneless Chicken Ranch
The pudding cups are lit over at Ace's place right now.
- The SPLC is disintegrating due to internalised racism and misogyny.
- Trump has been exonerated.*
- Michael Avenatti has been arrested for extortion and as soon as he gets out on bail is facing separate charges on wire fraud.
* The entire MSM is now in "well, ackshually" mode.
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Monday, March 25
Daily News Stuff 25 March 2019
The internet is now drowning in a sea of schadenfreude, possibly even auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont.
Sing Along Edition
Tech News
- Well, that should free up some time.
I've appealed the suspension, but a platform that suspends users over such things is a platform that is rapidly dying, probably of sepsis. Now I just need to get back to work and push the little daisies and make them come up.*
Currently not suspended on Facebook, YouTube, Reddit. Actually I am still suspended on YouTube but because I'm a paying Google Music subscriber and have bought a couple of videos on Google Play they accidentally gave me a new premium account and linked it to my Gmail. Shrug.
Twitter could offer a new feature where for a monthly fee they have potential suspensions reviewed by a human being who is slightly smarter than paint before they take effect, but they seem to be doubling down on the social media equivalent of necrotising fasciitis.
* I don't think I ever really listened to that song before, just heard snippets of it on the radio back in the day. I just looked on YouTube (status: not banned). First, that was a guy? Second, fuck, that is terrible.
- Apple's future is cable TV only worse. (Tech Crunch)
It's a bright sunshiny day for Cupertino.
- PyPy 7.1 is out.
This is mainly an update to its Unicode string handling, with improvements to both performance and memory usage. Python 3.6 support is still beta, but if you try sometimes you might find you get what you need.
- Telegram now lets you delete any message you sent in the last 48 hours from both your device and the recipient's. (Bleeping Computer)
There's no possible way that will be immediately and massively abused baby one more time.
- New Zealand is... (One Angry Gamer)
Seriously, their Prime Minister is a day tripper, possibly a one-way ticket.
New Zealand isn't just BANNING the shooter's manifesto.
— Nick Monroe (@nickmon1112) March 25, 2019
They're SELLING it. https://t.co/987bzD6pfz
Click on "Exemption info form The Great Replacement"
A document will download.
It says "to proceed with a formal application, please note that this will incur a fee of $102.20. " pic.twitter.com/siQmtL6Lct
- A team of quantum mechanics working late at the local quantum garage has built a thing that does stuff. (Quanta)
But they don't have the wings and they wonder why.
Social Media News
- Discord also just banned oatmeal. These people are retarded.
And said "doctor, ain't there nothin' I can take?"
Video of the Day
The internet is now drowning in a sea of schadenfreude, possibly even auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont.
Disclaimer: You can't always get what you want.
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