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#GD2's bedroom is downstairs, so she doesn't receive my text messages juntil she heads upstairs, and only if she brings her phone. Tough, because I'm used to sending and receiving multiple messages per day. Now, it is more like once per week I get a batch of responses.
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At least one #Dentmaster ( #GSAdmin ) is reporting an uptick in spammer registrations. For the near future, I think we'll remain invite-only.
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@dawsports RE: https://loadaverage.org/notice/19327468
While #Drupal is not hard to set up, it is a complex process to get it set up for any specific task. Select the add-ons / plug-ins / extensions needed. Oops, cannot install because you need these prerequisites. Oops, one of these is outdated, please download the newest version, then upload it to the server.
Add to that, update schedules are unsynchronized, so you'll update it tomorrow, and by Tuesday, you'll be getting alerts about outdated plug-ins.
Having said that, I do not know of anyone using it as a document store. I'm sure there are add-ons that make that possible, but I do not know the ecosystem well enough to point to any.
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@geniusmusing ... will become the latest private equity firm to own ...
Even worse than learning that a PE firm bought Ancestry is learning that other PE firms have previously owned it.
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US Government Contractor Embedded Software in Apps To Track Phones Slashdot
https://nu.federati.net/url/273731
>A small U.S. company with ties to the U.S. defense and intelligence communities has embedded its software in numerous mobile apps, allowing it to track the movements of hundreds of millions of mobile phones world-wide, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter and documents it reviewed. From the report:
>Anomaly Six, a Virginia-based company founded by two U.S. military veterans with a background in intelligence, said in marketing material it is able to draw location data from more than 500 mobile applications, in part through its own software development kit, or SDK, that is embedded directly in some of the apps. An SDK allows the company to obtain the phone's location if consumers have allowed the app containing the software to access the phone's GPS coordinates. App publishers often allow third-party companies, for a fee, to insert SDKs into their apps. The SDK maker then sells the consumer data harvested from the app, and the app publisher gets a chunk of revenue. But consumers have no way to know whether SDKs are embedded in apps; most privacy policies don't disclose that information.
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>Anomaly Six says it embeds its own SDK in some apps, and in other cases gets location data from other partners. Anomaly Six is a federal contractor that provides global-location-data products to branches of the U.S. government and private-sector clients. The company told The Wall Street Journal it restricts the sale of U.S. mobile phone movement data only to nongovernmental, private-sector clients. Numerous agencies of the U.S. government have concluded that mobile data acquired by federal agencies from advertising is lawful. Several law-enforcement agencies are using such data for criminal-law enforcement, the Journal has reported, while numerous U.S. military and intelligence agencies also acquire this kind of data.
paywall link
https://nu.federati.net/url/273732
Non-paywall link with more details
https://nu.federati.net/url/273733
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20GB of #Intel source code and proprietary data released online. https://nu.federati.net/url/273730
#leaks #breach #ars_technica #archive_dot_org
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@lnxw48a1 I noticed that n0 fand nu are running the same version of GNU Social, but n0 seems to have better threading (at least visually). Is that to be expected?
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@musicman I can check which threading plugins are enabled. The two instances' settings should be pretty similar, but not necessarily identical. Did you also compare n5?
You might also try toggling your 'old school threads' settings.
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@guizzy Now you're going to need an e-begging account.
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#sonTwo and his wife recently had a situation where his job wasn't able to do electronic payroll, so they had to wait for a check to be mailed from HQ. Meanwhile, her $EMPLOYER was taken over by another company, so their payroll was late. I decided to send some money, but I had to wait for unemployment insurance to send it to me first.
It just happened that her parents were visiting for most of this time, so they stocked the house with food.
By the time my money arrived, the in-laws were gone and the paychecks had started arriving.
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You don't know what you're missing 'cause you don't know what you've got. -- Adam Ant, Vive le rock
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Results of #USDA tests on the seeds from #China that people found in their mailboxes recently: Just regular seeds. https://nu.federati.net/url/273720 [www sun-sentinel com]
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Remember when computers got too fast and programs written in #TurboPascal which used the CRT unit started crashing? (At least #TP7 had that issue; I presume that TP5.5 and other versions prior to v7 had the same issue.)
Also: I do not believe #FreePascal had the same issue, even though it tried (tries?) to stay pretty close to TurboPascal.
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This should be the day of Ubuntu family's 20.04.1 release. I have a couple of systems which I want to upgrade, but I'll probably do that tomorrow evening.
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#sonTwo reports that his wife likes the new rice cooker because this one has a tray which enables her to steam vegetables while cooking rice.
I think this one also doubles as a pressure cooker. Probably not on the same level as Insta-Pot or similar devices, but whatever.
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#Los_Angeles County and other parts of #SoCal now seeing most #COVID-19 cases in overcrowded areas where Latino laborers live. https://nu.federati.net/url/273719 [www latimes com]
SGV (San Gabriel Valley), Pomona Valley, Southeast Los Angeles County are among those areas.
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https://nu.federati.net/url/273718 [ktla com]
The Apple fire in #Riverside and #San_Bernardino counties has expanded to 44 square miles, evacuations now extended to Moreno Valley.
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That’s Morongo Valley, not Moreno Valley.
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You know what's missing from "the three monkeys"? There should be a fourth monkey with its arms folded across its chest and the caption "DO NO EVIL" underneath it.
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"Two new studies, though from different parts of the world, have arrived at the same conclusion: that young children not only transmit SARS-CoV-2 efficiently, but may be major drivers of the pandemic as well." -- https://nu.federati.net/url/273716 [www forbes com]
Two studies: Young children possibly key to spreading #SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes #COVID-19. Most of those kids will have few symptoms if any, but besides spreading from child to child in the classroom, each child comes home to a family and may spread the disease to people who are more likely to exhibit a more severe form of the illness.
Maybe reopening the overcrowded germ factories known as schools is premature after all.
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Source: seen in the Forest.
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Waiting to hear back from S about the conditions in the US state of #Georgia. If you have not been paying attention, the governor of #GA sued the mayor of #Atlanta over an order requiring masks.
Some schools in GA reopened this week, and at least one classroom's students and teacher are now on self-isolation after a 2nd grader was discovered to be infected with #COVID-19.
A high school student was suspended after posting a photo of a crowded hallway (no distancing!) full of students without masks, and the principal used the public address system to threaten the other students with the same.
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“In my state there are more than 100 cases per day, it seems that it has decreased a little. At the national level, we have already exceeded 450,000 infections and 50,000 deaths. The situation is quite tense.”
— Translated version of someone’s report from #Mexico RE #COVID-19
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