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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 12:47:05 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.wired.com/story/malware-dna-hack/ [www wired com]

Not a practical attack, but interesting. Article is from 2017.
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  Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNA
  
  from Andy Greenberg
  
  Researchers planted a working hacker exploit in a physical strand of DNA.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 04:07:43 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@simsa03 Great to see you posting. I hope your recovery is going well.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 03:18:43 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://gnusocial.jp/url/4444472 [www fox8live com]

I haven't been in some places (such as Florida), but I have been in Louisiana. In Baton Rouge, for example, there's minor flooding after even 0.5 inches of rain. I can't imagine how many homes and other buildings would be flood damaged after a hurricane came through (and that's not even considering wind damage).

I visited the 9th Ward in New Orleans (I was a Thanksgiving guest of someone who lived there) and saw the massive concrete wall that holds back Lake Pontchartrain and the majority of homes that were not elevated above the likely flood level and thought "another Hurricane Katrina type event is inevitable here unless someone pays to elevate the homes or to buy everyone out and make this a wetland area".

So hearing about the grants, I'm glad someone was doing something (albeit it was just a trickle compared to the amount that is needed). And now? Some idiot just consigned hundreds or thousands of people to death and thousands more to life-changing devastation.
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  Louisiana officials lament Trump administration’s cuts to FEMA grant programs for storm impacts
  
  from @fox8nola
  
  Hundreds of millions in expected project grants evaporating
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 03:01:51 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.the-sun.com/news/13957239/spies-covid-lab-leak-wuhan-secret-probe/ [www the-sun com]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7vypq31z7o [www bbc com]

https://gnusocial.jp/url/4444359 [www reuters com]

I think the most likely scenario isn't "something we made escaped and caused a global outbreak", but "we collected samples from all over and one of those samples escaped and caused a global outbreak" ... despite not finding a natural origin after several years of searching.

The lack of a natural origin IS a strong pointer toward it being an experimental virus. But if you're experimenting with gain of function, you're probably going to look to make it more deadly also. And definitely so if you're making--as some have said--a biological warfare agent.

Even during the most deadly waves, something less than 3% of infectees required hospitalization and only a fraction of those died. And likewise, AFAIK, even China didn't have an effective preventative or cure at the time. IMO, a rapid spread, high death rate, and pre-existing vaccines / remedies (but not available to one's enemies) are prerequisites for a biowarfare agent.

Something that this article / batch of documents glosses over: The outbreak supposedly started in December of 2019, but in October or November of that year, Western intelligence sources were already reporting that an illness had hit WIV employees. This is according to articles I read around May / June of 2020.

To me, these circumstantial things work together to conclusively show that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from WIV. They had an outbreak on-site shortly before the virus was supposedly spread at the wet market. By most accounts, WIV has an atrocious record of lapses. And lots of previously available data was suddenly unavailable at just the wrong time.

It DOES NOT show that the virus was created there, nor does it foreclose the possibility that the COVID-19 virus will eventually be found in bat guano at the bottom of some cave somewhere.

I should note that I don't consider The Sun (neither US edition nor its UK parent) a reliable source. But BBC and Reuters are reliable.
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  Most detailed US spy docs on Covid EVER offer shock evidence of lab leak
  
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  US spies concluded that Covid could have leaked from a lab just three months into the pandemic, new documents reveal. The US Defense Department’s intelligence agency believed the virus could have b…
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  German spy agency 'believed Covid likely started in lab'
  
  China denies German media reports of an assessment carried out by spying agency BND in 2020 supporting the theory.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 00:39:24 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114233788700982882

Getting blocked by GitHub could be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on why it happened. Looking at the conversation over here, I don't see them saying anything about those reasons. Maybe MastoSoc shows a more complete conversation.

The claim is made that someone on the team visited Crimea since the Russian invasion of 2014, with the implication that someone on the Organic Maps team supports the invaders. Strangely, the person making the claim seems to say they don't care about the borders. That doesn't make sense.

Anyway, I don't know anything about OMaps, but I'm glad when any project moves its main development infrastructure off of centralized services. Normally, I'm in favor of leaving a residual mirror repo on GitHub / GitLab or similar hubs, but if they're unable to push commits there, that's useless.
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  Organic Maps (@organicmaps@mastodon.social)
  
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  GitHub has gone - long live Forgejo (@forgejo@floss.social). Fully migrated out of Microsoft’s walled garden after they blocked us: - 54k commits - 9.5k issues - 4.3k pull requests - 100k comments Everything moved. Nothing left behind. https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 22:36:31 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@sun One of my brothers is still connected with his friend groups from high school, college, and his first job. In fact, when we had a big get-together for my mom's 80th birthday, some of them were there (and again for her funeral last year).

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 12:57:40 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqnw5IfbZOU

I've been singing this song for a couple of days now, so I showed the grandsons what they were hearing. They weren't as enthusiastic as I am (nor for Men Without Hats' "Safety Dance", Flock of Seagulls' "I Ran", or other 1980s songs). But at least they're getting some acquaintance with the music that *still* gets me going.

I also turned on the radio again. This time, I was looking for "today's hit music" ... but what I found was usually some form of oldies or country.
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1. The Romantics - What I Like About You (Video)
  
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  The Romantics' official music video for 'What I Like About You'. Click to listen to The Romantics on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/TheRomsSpotify?IQid=Romantic...
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 09:32:44 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

My glasses were old already, but then the frame broke. So Son_2 and his wife got an appointment for an eye exam and two pairs of glasses.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 06-Apr-2025 08:23:33 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@morph Also, I think some species of euphorbia have sap that can irritate skin. So don't get the sap on your skin.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 02:38:59 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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I remember that. I witnessed it. I complained to Gargron (even sent him a screenshot of the conversation) but he ignored it.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 00:50:03 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@sun Someone is *offering* one of those t-shirts for $700. They may have to cut the price in order to sell it.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 03:44:59 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://apnews.com/article/val-kilmer-actor-dead-pneumonia-7e8f27b1ec80f2940f7a7776f5f92804 [apnews com]

Val Kilmer, age 65, RIP
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  Val Kilmer, 'Top Gun' and Batman star with an intense approach, dies at 65
  
  from https://apnews.com/author/andrew-dalton
  
  Kilmer, the youngest actor ever accepted to the prestigious Juilliard School at the time he attended, experienced the ups and downs of fame more dramatically than most.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 06:31:49 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.fox4news.com/news/patrick-crusius-texas-walmart-racist-attack-plea-deal [www fox4news com]

I just saw this week-old story.
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  El Paso Walmart gunman who killed 23 offered plea deal to avoid death penalty
  
  from @FOX4
  
  The El Paso County DA said he supports the death penalty and believes he deserves it. But he said he met with the families of the victims, and there was an overriding desire to conclude the process.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 11:31:15 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Oh, look. Maybe I should take this one. https://gnusocial.jp/url/4401578
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 31-Mar-2025 00:55:42 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

In 2015, these were the top five most impoverished counties in the US. I'd guess these will be among the most devastated by the cuts President Trump and Elon Musk are making.

state county population poverty
1 Mississippi Jefferson 7586 48.7
2 Louisiana East Carroll 7501 48
3 South Dakota Todd 9942 46.4
4 South Dakota Corson 4149 45.6
5 South Dakota Mellette 2086 45.3

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 14:12:51 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

So ... #DataCamp ... The most recent course was the most understandable course I've ever taken from them. This is #rlang + #tidyverse + #dplyr + #ggplot2 ... the guy didn't assume I knew anything, so he explained everything from the beginning. Also, the exercises expected one to put in everything. Exercises began with:

library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)

and so on, so it wasn't mystery functions that just appear in the environment.

And that convinces me that the issues I'm having with their courses are mostly sourced in their educational methodologies.

Now, I don't want to scare anyone off from trying DC. But at this stage of my life, their methods don't work so well with my brain.

On the other hand, the #Google + #Coursera Cybersecurity program and the #IBM + Coursera Backend Development program seem to do the opposite. Because of their target markets, they assume students don't have much relevant background and they give lots of effort covering the most basic things in great detail.

Which is good, but in some cases, it is hard to pay attention to things I've known for over twenty years.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 11:49:41 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

THE HUM -- a sound that only 2% of people can hear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy_ctHNLan8
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  Since the early 1960's, an increasing number of people have been hearing (and feeling) a sound causing everything from annoyance to psychosis to death. We ha...
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 23:15:34 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://mastodon.au/@Linux/114224400106926264

is a good idea, but not everyone has the funds to do so.
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  Linux Is Best (@Linux@mastodon.au)
  
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  A reminder, the Fediverse cost money. Yes, it is free for YOU to use, but your local administrator pays for domain registration, web hosting, storage space, CDN, and of course, bandwidth. The busier and more active your Fedi site, the most it cost. If you are able, consider reaching out to your admin, and asking how you can help. Even small contributions add up and make a difference. #Fediverse #Fedi #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Misskey
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 10:29:21 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

LOL. Picked up two more followers on Bluesky now that I'm no longer lurking. Over a dozen now. (Most of them seem to be bots. I remember that before I made following approve-only on Twitter, these weird bot accounts were swarming around despite my already limited posting. The Bluesky followers are different, but still seem more like the Twitter bot-followers than like real people.)

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 07:46:58 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Oh, no. I just replied to someone on Bluesky. My first ever post is "Agreed." After months of lurking, I'm now an active user.

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