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Nov 042020
2020-11-04
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Nov 032020
Enlarge / Sixty Starlink Internet communication satellites from SpaceX are seen in the night sky over Vladivostok. (credit: Yuri SmityukTASS via Getty Images) NASA has formally commented (PDF) on a request by a US company to build a mega-constellation of satellites at an altitude of 720km above the Earth’s surface, citing concerns about collisions. This appears to be the first time that NASA has publicly commented on such an application for market access, which is pending…
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2020-11-03
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Nov 032020
So here’s an interesting thing. Certain commit hashes are rapidly heading toward being illegal on Github. So, if you clone a git repo from somewhere else, you had better be wary of pushing it to Github. Because if it happened to contain one of those hashes, that could get you banned from Github. Which, as we know, is your resume. Now here’s another interesting thing. It’s entirely possible for me to add one of those…
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2020-11-03
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Nov 032020
So here’s an interesting thing. Certain commit hashes are rapidly heading toward being illegal on Github. So, if you clone a git repo from somewhere else, you had better be wary of pushing it to Github. Because if it happened to contain one of those hashes, that could get you banned from Github. Which, as we know, is your resume. Now here’s another interesting thing. It’s entirely possible for me to add one of those…
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2020-11-03
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Nov 032020
Here is a Maine sample ballot for November 2020, showing the ranked choice voting system for both President and Congress. This is the first ballot in U.S. history to use RCV for president in a general election. … Continue reading →
2020-11-03
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Nov 032020
Alma Bowman, a 54-year-old woman in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, was scheduled for deportation on Monday. For over two years, Bowman has been held at Georgia’s Irwin County Detention Center, the site of growing concern about medical neglect and coerced gynecological procedures performed on nearly 60 women. She has been a key witness, for attorneys and journalists, of a doctor performing the allegedly unnecessary or overly aggressive procedures. She is also a U.S. citizen, according to…
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2020-11-03
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Nov 032020
Enlarge / Sixty Starlink Internet communication satellites from SpaceX are seen in the night sky over Vladivostok. (credit: Yuri SmityukTASS via Getty Images) NASA has formally commented (PDF) on a request by a US company to build a megaconstellation of satellites at an altitude of 720km above the Earth’s surface, citing concerns about collisions. This appears to be the first time that NASA has publicly commented on such an application for market access, which is pending…
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2020-11-03
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Nov 022020
Someone said to me earlier today, “You’re up early on a post-Halloween morning.”I replied, “It wasn’t Halloween, it was just March 245th. I do not acknowledge this illegitimate Halloween.”Previously, previously, previously, previously.
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2020-11-02
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Nov 022020
Enlarge (credit: Washington State Department of Agriculture) By now you’ve surely seen the pictures: A dozen humanoid forms encased in full-body, white nylon suits are working on scaffolding at the base of a saran-wrapped tree by the red glow of headlamps, one of them raising a plexiglass vacuum tube between its blue-gloved hands in triumph. Inside, 85 wasps, each the size of a human thumb, are piled against one another in cold-induced slumber. No, these…
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2020-11-02
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Nov 022020
Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
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2020-11-02
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Oct 312020
In the final days of the election, the Democratic Party and its affiliates are going all out to insist that workers and youth opposed to Trump must subordinate their struggles to electing Biden.
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2020-10-31
Comments Off on Pseudo-left apologists for Biden and the bankruptcy of “lesser-evil” politics World Socialist Web Site (en)
Oct 312020
It wouldn’t be October without Halloween, and it wouldn’t be Halloween without some spooky music. There’s no instrument spookier than a Theremin, which also happens to be one of the world’s first electronic instruments. Leon Theremin plays his namesake instrument. Image via Linda Hall Library You’ve no doubt heard the eerie, otherworldly tones of the Theremin in various 1950s sci-fi films, or heard the instrument’s one-of-a-kind cousin, the Electro-Theremin in “Good Vibrations” by the Beach…
2020-10-31
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Oct 312020
On Tuesday, voters in Massachusetts will have the chance to pass Question 2, which will produce Ranked Choice Voting for most state and federal offices. That reform will give voters the chance to rank their preferences when casting their ballot for candidates — an opportunity which is especially important when more than two candidates are running. In this year’s primary in the Fourth Congressional District, for example, there were nine candidates competing to become the Democratic nominee.…
2020-10-31
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Oct 292020
Enlarge (credit: Intel) Researchers have extracted the secret key that encrypts updates to an assortment of Intel CPUs, a feat that could have wide-ranging consequences for the way the chips are used and, possibly, the way they’re secured. The key makes it possible to decrypt the microcode updates Intel provides to fix security vulnerabilities and other types of bugs. Having a decrypted copy of an update may allow hackers to reverse engineer it and learn…
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2020-10-29
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Oct 292020
On October 26, both U.S. Senators from New York, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, asked voters to vote for Joe Biden on the Working Families line, not the Democratic line. See this story. In related news, on October 27, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders both criticized the New York Democratic Party for putting out a campaign brochure that shows pictures of them. The brochure asks voters to vote for Democrats on the Democratic…
2020-10-29
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Oct 272020
Citing concerns over election-related “chaos” and “violence,” Facebook is preparing—in collaboration with the US intelligence state—advanced software tools for implementing a censorship regime during November 3 and its aftermath.
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2020-10-27
Comments Off on Facebook deploying teams with advanced censorship tools in advance of the US election World Socialist Web Site (en)
Oct 272020
The campaign to recall Kshama Sawant is led by the Democratic Party with the active support of Republican and far-right elements.
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2020-10-27
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Oct 272020
Enlarge (credit: YouTube / Getty / Aurich Lawson) A popular tool used for archiving YouTube videos, YouTube-dl, is gone from GitHub after the Recording Industry Association of America filed a claim arguing that the code is inherently illegal under copyright law. GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft, removed 18 projects on Friday that previously hosted versions of YouTube-dl, a Python library that allows for the downloading of YouTube video and audio files. Those repositories now…
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2020-10-27
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Oct 272020
Eli Valley:Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
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2020-10-27
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Oct 232020
Liberal writers sympathetic to the corporate education reform movement are beating the drum about reopening schools, claiming to stand up for low-income students. But attacking teachers and their unions does nothing for poor and working-class students — it simply scapegoats the people who have dedicated their lives to actually helping those students. The neoliberal solution to poverty, embraced by centrist Democrats and Republicans alike, is “equality of opportunity, not equality of results.” (Daniel Pockett /…
2020-10-23
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