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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 03:10:57 JST 
Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Dang, Evan is starting to look a little old. https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/114342941420046463 Since I'm older than him, I hope that doesn't mean I'm also looking old.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 22:49:21 JST
Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@morph Guten morgen und #tzag. 45F at 08:45 US-Central.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 04:58:39 JST
Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Son_2 just informed me that he may be getting fired. While I was already wanting to return to the workforce later this year, this is sooner than expected.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 23:08:07 JST
Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
https://gnusocial.jp/url/4459031 [pcoutlet com]
I had heard that Microsoft's Recall continuous screen capture feature was on hold, but according to PC Outlet (a site I'd never heard of before today), this is not the case. -
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 11:26:54 JST
Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
"The NATO alliance gobbled up almost all our former hostage states."
Yeah, well the perceptive among those former hostages realized you'd probably try to return. -
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 08:42:35 JST
Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
The eye doc said they'll just watch the cataract for a while. He also observed a different medical issue. -
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 03:59:18 JST
Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
https://solcyber.com/microsoft-patch-tuesday-whats-all-this-about-cinetpub/
Seeing a little talk about the IIS directory "C:\Inetpub" and here's why. -
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 23:10:59 JST
Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
As a late Baby Boomer, the social contract between corporations and employees had already fallen apart [1] before I joined the workforce. I always knew there would be no such thing as a comfortable life of relaxation with a sufficient pension to support myself. I don't consider this "grab all I can, even if you starve" attitude of corporate leadership to be a market economy [2] (which is what I think of when I say capitalism), but instead it is a regression to the days of feudal mercantilism. In those days as in these, the difference between near-poverty and excessive wealth is the favor of a ruler.
In one town where I lived, the local water company didn't do any maintenance on its pipes for over a decade, despite having the highest prices in the area. Probably two decades. Then the owners sold the company to a large corporation. The new owners promptly announced huge price increases to cover the emergency replacement of most water mains. Municipal ownership isn't always a magical cure, but it certainly couldn't be any worse than what we experienced.
[1] In the part of #SoCal where I lived, the factories and warehouses across the bridge in the next city over all closed. It was around a decade later before most of those buildings found new tenants ... and I had already moved out of the area by then.
[2] Markets requires certain things to work, including potential interventions to prevent one party from gaining "market power" (the ability to unilaterally set terms and prices). Once we consented to form long-lived corporations that are independent of the people who own, run, and work for them, the only possible remedies left are strong unions and strong regulation. Nor do markets necessarily cover everything we need. It is acceptable to have municipal entities providing utilities such as water, sewer, and the last mile of electricity and telecommunications services. -
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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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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}
@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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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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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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