Notices by Tony Arcieri 🌹🦀 (bascule@mas.to)

It's the first day of Fall here in Colorado, and the snow has already arrived, at least in the higher elevations

The Navajo Nation uses the least water per capita in the US but has the country’s most expensive water. They’re right next to St. George, Utah, which uses some of the most water per capita.

Supreme Court battles (and the most corrupt SCOTUS in US history), onerous “use it or lose it” requirements for water rights, and broken promises hold back running, piped water for the reservation.

The water they do drink is often contaminated with uranium, causing cancer.

https://time.com/7019660/colorado-river-water-drought-navajo-nation/

The rise of solar power and China's staggering EV growth may push global emissions into decline

Two major international climate agencies predict global emissions have reached a critical inflection point and 2024 could be the beginning of the decline.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-21/major-climate-agencies-call-global-emissions-peak/104016030

It’s been a long time, old friend.

First issue of the print edition of the newly relaunched The Onion has arrived!

Oh YAML https://tmendez.dev/posts/rng-git-hash-bug/

Rust 1.81, to be released later today, features new sorting algorithm implementations which are both faster and don't use algorithms from the dude who just got suspended from the Python project for violating its CoC. Win win!

Correction: Tuesday was Earth's second-hottest day, beating out the previous record of Sunday, with Monday remaining the hottest day on record

https://www.wwnytv.com/2024/07/25/slight-temperature-drop-makes-tuesday-worlds-second-hottest-day/

Correction: Monday was Earth's hottest day in all recorded history, beating out the previous record of Sunday

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/world-breaks-hottest-day-record-second-day-row-2024-07-24/

Sunday was Earth’s hottest day in all recorded history, climate agency says

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/24/sunday-earth-hottest-day-history-climate-00170814

Dear Democratic Party: I will donate $1000 if you unsubscribe me from all of your SMS and email lists

Credit goes to my wife for this discovery.

H/T https://reddit.com/r/CyberStuck

To fix the bungled CrowdStrike update, apparently you need to boot the system into safe mode and remove a file.

If the system was encrypted with Bitlocker, you need to enter the system's Bitlocker recovery key.

Apparently, many people are discovering they didn't have key management in place to store Bitlocker recovery keys, making it akin to a self-inflicted ransomware attack.

Raccoons are trying to break into Cybertrucks, and there's some speculation that this is happening because the raccoons are literally confusing them with dumpsters

Grid scale sodium ion batteries have arrived!

The first phase of Datang Group’s 100 MW/200 MWh sodium-ion energy storage project in Qianjiang, Hubei Province, was connected to the grid.

The technology has less energy density than lithium ion (which matters little for stationary grid-scale applications) and avoids the use of critical minerals.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/07/02/worlds-largest-sodium-ion-battery-goes-into-operation/

Reminder Julian Assange is an asshole.

In 2009, Wikileaks published a deceptively curated collection of emails obtained from a Russian server and belonging to the Climactic Research Unit.

The goal of this operation was a disinformation campaign designed to instill fear, uncertainty, and doubt about climate science during the Copenhagen Climate Summit of 2009 (COP15).

Subsequent investigations revealed no wrongdoing on the part of the scientists.

https://www.newsweek.com/climate-gate-fake-news-climate-denialism-1471826

Problem: allowing a non-root Linux user/group to access a specific USB device

Solution: udev rules

Problem: udev rules only apply retroactively even when using udevadm

Solution: remove and reinsert the USB device!

Problem: it's in a remote server

Solution: reboot the host each time you attempt a nearly otherwise undebuggable udev rules change

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Musk claimed that Signal has unpatched security vulnerabilities. As a cryptography expert I’m not aware of any: instead Signal has top-notch state-of-the-art encryption which has been adopted by its competitors it’s so good.

Telegram isn’t end-to-end encrypted by default. It has no group chat encryption whatsoever. It uses a bizarre, badly designed “MTProto” protocol about which dozens of cryptography papers have documented myriad unfixed flaws.

Quoting @matthew_d_green from the hellsite:

“Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk. The goal seems to be to get activists to switch away from encrypted Signal to mostly-unencrypted Telegram”

Would-be Tesla buyers snub company as Musk’s reputation dips.

A survey by market intelligence firm Caliber attributed the drop in part to CEO Elon Musk’s polarizing persona.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/01/would-be-tesla-buyers-snub-company-as-musks-reputation-dips.html

Asking ChatGTP or Gemini for a 10 letter word that doesn't contain "a" or "e" is a hilarious experience