Monday, April 20
Daily News Stuff 20 April 2020
Half Baked Edition
Half Baked Edition
Tech News
- OrbitDB is a distributed database for the peer-to-peer web or something like that. (GitHub)
It's written in Node.js and uses IPFS for storage, which makes it the stupidest idea since they built the original Hoover Dam out of candy floss.
- We're living through Connie Willis's Remake. (The Verge)
And also Doomsday Book.
- Australia has come down with a severe case of France. (New Zealand Herald)
This will be amusing.
- Online services are struggling to find a way to filter content after sending their staff home. (AP News)
They're not very bright, are they.
- Spider goat, spider goat, whatever happened to spider goat? (AG Funder News)
Well, the company went broke and the goats are probably dead, so not a lot.
- 700 malicious Ruby gems have been found and removed from rubygems.org. (The Hacker News which is not the same as Hacker News, which is not at all ironic)
These days I twitch every time I install a new Python package.
- A zero-day exploit for Zoom is being sold for $500,000. (Bleeping Computer)
That's what they're asking for anyway. Top bid is currently fourteen zlotys. Not the current ones, either, the pre-1990 communist-era ones.
Disclaimer: Which are worth about $0.000024 each.
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"An Arizona man also died after taking chloroquine phosphate — a product that some mistake for the anti-malaria drug chloroquine, which President Donald Trump and conservative pundits have touted as a treatment for COVID-19.
Health officials have warned the drug hasn’t been proven safe or
effective as a virus therapy. "
Can we get someone to fact-check everything wrong with this sentence?
Personally, I think unnamed lying-by-omission "health officials" and "journalists" should be forced to quarantine--silently--until there IS a clinically-proven 100% safe and effective cure.
Can we get someone to fact-check everything wrong with this sentence?
Personally, I think unnamed lying-by-omission "health officials" and "journalists" should be forced to quarantine--silently--until there IS a clinically-proven 100% safe and effective cure.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, April 21 2020 12:12 AM (Iwkd4)
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" the Canada Agriculture Museum in Ottawa, which in 2013 removed its genetically-engineered goats from display amid public pressure."
LOL. Was the museum-going public afraid of turning into Spiderman?
LOL. Was the museum-going public afraid of turning into Spiderman?
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, April 21 2020 12:13 AM (Iwkd4)
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Aside: I wish Firefox had Word's "paste text only" capability (or that, if it does, I knew about it.)
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, April 21 2020 12:14 AM (Iwkd4)
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Rick, for that, I just paste text into a dumb text editor and then copy it from there. Strips off the formatting well enough...
Posted by: Avatar at Tuesday, April 21 2020 04:14 AM (v29Tn)
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Avatar, yeah, I do that too. Like an animal.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, April 21 2020 05:39 AM (Iwkd4)
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