XScreenSaver 5.44 Hacks the Planet jwz

Mar 212020
 

Greets to Crash Override, The Phantom Freak, and also Joey. XScreenSaver 5.44 is out now, including iOS and Android. New hacks, New hacks, Gibson, EtruscanVenus and Scooter. BSOD supports Tivo and Nintendo. New color options in RomanBoy, ProjectivePlane, Hypertorus and Klein. “Use random screen saver” works again on macOS 10.15. iOS supports dark mode. Image loading works again on iOS 13. Fixed rotation on iOS 13 (Apple incompatibly breaks rotation every two years as a…

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DNA Lounge: Wherein you can now have DNA Brand Liquor delivered to you! jwz

Mar 212020
 

In a truly shocking development, the ABC has temporarily loosened their rules on liquor delivery, so now we can deliver life-giving, sanity-preserving liquor to you at home! Not only can you order beer with your pizza delivery, but that means you can also order full bottles of our house brand DNA Lounge Vodka, DNA Lounge Gin and DNA Lounge Rum!They are available right now on GrubHub, Doordash, and Postmates. And because I know this is…

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Georgia Secretary of State Extends Petitioning Deadline for Minor Party and Independent Candidates Ballot Access News

Mar 212020
 

On March 20, the Georgia Secretary of State extended the petitioning deadline for minor party and independent candidates from July 14 to August 14.

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Forget toilet roll, bandwidth is the new ration: Amazon, YouTube also degrade video in Europe to keep ‘net running amid coronavirus crunch The Register

Mar 212020
 

Pair join Netflix to turn it down for what? Connectivity stability Amazon Prime Video and Google’s YouTube have joined Netflix in dialing down their video stream quality in the European Union, Switzerland, and the UK for 30 days to preserve internet stability during the COVID-19 pandemic.…

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Experts Warn Americans Could Still Be Dealing With Coronavirus As Late As Tomorrow Afternoon The Onion

Mar 212020
 

WASHINGTON—Warning that the deadly COVID-19 virus could continue to plague the United States for far longer than previously expected, experts from the CDC announced Friday that Americans could still be dealing with coronavirus as late as tomorrow afternoon. “According to our most recent projections, residents in all…Read more…

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Richard Burr Wondering When Profiting Off Mass Suffering Suddenly Became A Crime In This Country The Onion

Mar 212020
 

WASHINGTON—Admitting he was blindsided by the hysterical reaction to a pretty normal transaction, North Carolina Senator Richard Burr wondered Friday when profiting off mass suffering had suddenly become a crime in this country. “Jesus Christ, when did everyone get so uptight about this? I remember when we used to…Read more…

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Pandemic sourdough: Friday Fry Bread Boing Boing

Mar 212020
 

A reader suggested I not discard any excess sourdough starter I didn’t have plans to bake and make fry bread instead. So I did. You are looking at ½ cup of sourdough starter fried in 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil. I started this starter on Monday. I am pretty sure after today’s feeding it’ll be ready to bake a loaf of bread. Previously: Pandemic Starter Day 1 Pandemic Starter Day 2 Pandemic Starter Day 3…

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What Evangelical Leaders Told Their Congregations About Coronavirus The Intercept

Mar 212020
 

The following are excerpts from the sermons of evangelical leaders in the weeks leading up to an outbreak of Covid-19 in the U.S. The post What Evangelical Leaders Told Their Congregations About Coronavirus appeared first on The Intercept.

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Surprise: Judge Throws Out Jury’s Awful Copyright Infringement Decision Over Katy Perry Song Techdirt.

Mar 202020
 

Last summer, we wrote about yet another post-Blurred Lines decision, showing that any two random songs that sounded kinda a little similar, might be ripe for a court to find infringing. In this case, it was a Katy Perry song, Dark Horse, that was found to infringe on a little known artist named “Flame,” who had a song called “Joyful Noise.” As we noted at the time, the similarities between the song were simply basic…

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Banks Pressure Health Care Firms to Raise Prices on Critical Drugs, Medical Supplies for Coronavirus The Intercept

Mar 202020
 

In recent weeks, investment bankers have pressed health care companies on the front lines of fighting the novel coronavirus, including drug firms developing experimental treatments and medical supply firms, to consider ways that they can profit from the crisis. The media has mostly focused on individuals who have taken advantage of the market for now-scarce medical and hygiene supplies to hoard masks and hand sanitizer and resell them at higher prices. But the largest voices…

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Hacking the planet with Notcurses LWN.net

Mar 202020
 

Author Nick Black has written an extensive book on the creation of textual user interfaces using the notcurses library; it’s available under the Apache license [PDF]. “Many people asked how such a thing was useful. My usual response was that numerous devices don’t present a bitmap interface, that X11 GUIs run remotely over SSH are effectively unusable, that plenty of machines don’t have a GUI environment installed, that there are obvious applications for large outdoor…

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Dealing With Coronavirus Requires Bold Action. The Democratic Leadership Won’t Take It. Jacobin

Mar 202020
 

The Democrats have an opportunity to push for desperately needed, sweeping economic change in response to coronavirus. Instead, they’re letting themselves be outflanked by Republicans. US Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks to members of the media as Rep. Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX), Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) and Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV) listen at the US Capitol March 13, 2020 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong / Getty There’s nothing better to shift our…

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Charter Countersues Music Companies for Sending Inaccurate DMCA Notices TorrentFreak

Mar 202020
 

Last year, several major music companies sued Charter Communications, one of the largest Internet providers in the US with 22 million subscribers. Helped by the RIAA, Capitol Records, Warner Bros, Sony Music, and others accused Charter of deliberately turning a blind eye to its pirating subscribers. Under US law, providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances” and Charter failed to do so, according to the music labels. Specifically, the ISP is…

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ASCII art + permadeath: The history of roguelike games Ars Technica

Mar 202020
 

Appreciate the game that inspired the genre and its name: Rogue. Roguelike games have grown in popularity over the 40 years the genre has existed, even though they implement ideas that might seem anathema to popular gaming: extreme randomness, ASCII graphics, permadeath, enormous complexity, and more. Yet these days, you can just about sneeze and hit something that has at least been influenced by roguelikes. And so, in the spirit of game genre histories past—we’ve…

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Pervasive digital surveillance of citizens deployed in COVID-19 fight, with rules that send genie back to bottle The Register

Mar 202020
 

Israel is up for it. America, Iran, Thailand may be, too. China is there already, natch Pervasive surveillance through digital technologies is the business model of Facebook and Google. And now governments are considering the web giants’ tools to track COVID-19 carriers for the public good.…

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Bernie Sanders Is Trying to Rescue America’s Frail Democracy Jacobin

Mar 202020
 

The Democratic Party elite insists nothing can be done to mobilize working-class nonvoters. By challenging their cynicism, Bernie Sanders is rendering a profound service to American democracy. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders participates in a coronavirus public health roundtable with healthcare professionals on March 09, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan. Scott Olson / Getty Let it be said at once: the treatment received by Bernie Sanders in the leading media in the United States and…

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Baking through the pandemic: Sourdough soft pretzels Boing Boing

Mar 202020
 

A few days ago I started a sourdough starter because baking chills me out and provides stuff to eat. I took a look at the old French Press carafe I am using as a container a few hours after the 3rd time I fed said starter. The starter looked like it was READY TO GO but I figured I should probably feed it a few more times just to be sure. I did not, however,…

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Hong Kong makes wearable trackers mandatory for new arrivals, checks in with ‘surprise calls’ too The Register

Mar 192020
 

Government CIO promises they don’t record location, just change of location Hong Kong has made it mandatory for all new arrivals to wear an “electronic wristband” that links to a smartphone to provide location-tracking services, so that authorities can be sure they’re observing COVID-19 quarantine requirements. And the city-state insists its privacy commissioner has signed off on the idea because it “does not pose privacy concerns.”…

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Unchecked Smart Cities are Surveillance Cities. What We Need are Smart Enough Cities. Deeplinks

Mar 192020
 

We can have beautiful cities without turning our cities into surveillance cities. Cities across the U.S. are forcing operators of shared bikes and scooters to use dangerous and privacy invasive APIs developed by the Los Angeles Department of Transportation. These APIs—collectively called the “mobility data specification,” or MDS—require that operators share granular location data on every trip taken. The location data that cities are demanding is incredibly sensitive and relates to the movements of real…

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