Rivalarrival
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- Comment on Europol chief says Big Tech has ‘responsibility’ to unlock encrypted messages 23 minutes ago:
Catherine De Bolle has “responsibility” to eat several bags of dicks.
- Comment on Bloodletting recommended for Jersey residents after PFAS contamination 3 days ago:
Plasma donation works much better.
Whole blood donation typically takes 500ml of blood every 12 weeks. Plasma donation takes 1000ml of plasma every 2 weeks (in the UK) or twice a week (in the US).
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Americans Need to Party More 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 2 weeks ago:
ACKSUALLY, I did accept it, just as soon as someone posted a screenshot of the alert in question. Which I promptly posted in several other comments.
Given the abhorrent state of modern journalism, the lack of a simple screenshot that would have conclusively demonstrated the problem, “skepticism” was justified.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 2 weeks ago:
Yep! I finally got confirmation of that when someone posted a screenshot of the alert.
What a bunch of chucklefucks.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 2 weeks ago:
You would have gotten this one, because it was a Wireless Emergency Alert, not a Xhitter notification.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 2 weeks ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Experts say high food prices are here to stay. Here's why 2 weeks ago:
And yet, I’ve been smiling for a month straight.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 2 weeks ago:
Can you share a screenshot of the alert? If it’s an android phone, you can find historical alerts under “Settings”.
- Comment on Experts say high food prices are here to stay. Here's why 2 weeks ago:
St. Luigi is more of an idea than a person.
- Comment on Elon Musk uses cybertruck explosion to show Tesla can remotely unlock and monitor vehicles 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but the crucial bit of difference was, if you thought OnStar was too invasive, you could turn it off
You can disable your own access to the service. Short of ripping out the cellular module, you can’t disable OnStar’s access.
- Comment on Experts say high food prices are here to stay. Here's why 2 weeks ago:
Food prices are currently high because St. Luigi is currently focused on healthcare.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 2 weeks ago:
Yes, that is the claim I’m looking to verify. Is that claim accurate?
You can view past alerts you have received. On android phones, Settings > Notifications > Wireless Emergency Alerts > Emergency alert history. (or just search for “Amber”). One screenshot can easily prove or disprove the article’s claim.
Again, if this is actually what happened, it indicates a problem not just with CHP, but also with EAS and WEA for not ensuring the requested alert message included the emergency content.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 2 weeks ago:
On an android phone, under Settings, you can view past emergency alerts, including AMBER alerts. I’d like to see a screenshot of this particular alert.
If that alert does not include the actual information, I’ll be happy to pick up my pitchfork. Hell, I’ll even start boiling some tar, but I don’t have a good supplier for feathers…
Until then, what the author is describing does not correspond to my own experiences receiving AMBER alerts, and seems to contradict WEA and EAS policies. I’m open to being proven wrong, I’m just skeptical.
If CHP is only sending Xhitter links, there are problems with CHP, EAS, and WEA, as none of them are supposed to be using the systems that way.
If, instead, they are providing the data and the Xhitter link, the problem is with user expectations.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 2 weeks ago:
The government uses EAS and WEA to disseminate alerts. Both are government-operated systems that are not controlled, manipulated, lost, or disconnected by third parties. The AMBER alert in question was delivered via both EAS and WEA.
The Xhitter avenue (along with every other major social media platform) is what they refer to as a “secondary distributor”.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 2 weeks ago:
Ah. I see. The alerts were conveyed directly to phones via the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) and Emergency Alert System (EAS), which included a link to their Xhitter account.
Every Amber alert I’ve seen has included location, name of the adult, license plate, vehicle description, a description of the child, etc. Most include come kind of link that (in my experience) doesn’t actually provide any further detail.
Have we confirmed that this alert included only the link to Xhitter, without the other data? If that is actually the case, it’s not just the CHP’s failure, but also the managers of the WEA and EAS systems: They aren’t supposed to activate those systems without the actual message.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 2 weeks ago:
this is really just a problem with government agencies/departments using social media websites as primary avenues of delivering information.
I guarantee that this was not a “primary avenue” for delivering this information.
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 2 weeks ago:
Brb, buying cases of Guy Fawkes masks…
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 2 weeks ago:
Right, because billionaires will just fall over and concede
Zombies aren’t real.
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 2 weeks ago:
5th of December?
I’m aware of the 5th of November and the 4th of December…
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 2 weeks ago:
Take an ice cube out of the freezer. Drop it in a glass of water. Take the temperature of the water immediately after you drop the ice in. Take it again after 5 minutes. Which measurement is going to be colder?
Drop a red-hot nickel ball into a glass of water. Measure the temperature immediately, and then again after 5 minutes. Which measurement is going to be hotter?
Basically, the surface of the earth holds heat, which causes the atmospheric temperature to lag behind the heat input from solar insolation. The cold surface is still warming long after the summer solstice; the hot surface is still cooling long after the winter solstice. The temperature extremes are closer to the equinoxes than the solstices.
- Comment on Copyright Industry Wants To Apply Automated Blocking To The Internet’s Core Routers 3 weeks ago:
It wouldn’t even work. End-to-end encryption keeps intermediate routers blind to the content being transferred.
- Comment on 41% of young voters say UnitedHealthcare CEO killing "acceptable": Poll 3 weeks ago:
Bullshit.
There is no way the numbers are that low.
- Comment on Two 26-Year-Olds: One Killed a Homeless Man, Another is Suspected of Killing a Healthcare CEO 5 weeks ago:
Matt Stone killed a homeless man?
- Comment on the mad hatter 1 month ago:
They wear their old heads, because they don’t have access to dead salmon.
- Comment on We should rename them 1 month ago:
Colepiocephale.
Colepio = “Knuckle” Cephale = “Head”
(To be fair, “Knucklehead” is a fairly apt description…)
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week 1 month ago:
Regulation? I think you mean “guillotines”…
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week 1 month ago:
Bingo.
Either support the device until the heat death of the universe, or provide consumers with the access to maintain it themselves.
- Comment on turned them into their final form! 1 month ago:
Should add some corn to the burger mix.
