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  • English Wikipedia bans archive.today

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  • Has anyone forked archive.today? I used to use archive.is a lot to capture pages that might go away. But if it's just a domain alias for the same people then that won't be good.

    Getting the database of currently-archived sites out of it, and into a fork, might be difficult though...

  • I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer.

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  • Nah, once I moved jobs and started holding nontrivial amounts of retirement and TFSA stocks I opened accounts with a new broker.

  • I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer.

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  • I had a similar experience many, many years ago -- before the rules for vuln embargoes were formalized; and I wasn't even a security researcher. I was just a techie who discovered that the broker's staff were resetting anyone's forgotten password to the same temporary word. And like in this article, they had no mechanism to force users to reset the temp password on next login to something unique. I'd asked to have my password reset at some point, having forgotten it, and upon logging in with my user ID accidentally swapping two digits, found myself in someone else's brokerage account, with substantial funds staring me in the face! And, their email and personal details.

    I disclosed the issue to the broker, but out of paranoia, did it through a throwaway email account, from home, not work (I should've used a VPN, but back then I wasn't as aware of such things). From that throwaway email, I also notified the person whose account I'd accidentally logged into, urging them to check their account and contact the broker to ensure no one else might have gotten into their account.

    A day or so later, I got a call at my work phone from someone at said broker, asking if I had seen any unusual activity on my account, and that they had seen some suspicious activity from our company's network (remember, the accidental login to the other person's brokerage account occurred at my work PC)... I suspect they were fishing for info pointing to my being the one who accidentally accessed someone else's account. I played dumb, as the call did NOT have good vibes; I could sense they were looking for a 'hacker' to scapegoat, not calling just to inform people there was a problem.

    Thank heavens I didn't reveal that I knew anything about the vulnerability... I had just reset my password, nope nothing unusual here, nosirree... but within a day or two their password reset procedure had been changed for the better and emails were sent out stating that a 'security incident' had occurred.

    Lesson: Do NOT trust that your security report will be taken as being helpful. Most companies will try to throw you under the bus if they can, to save face.

  • Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

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  • Yup. This is by no means the first allegation they get paid bounties. It was being said everywhere just prior to the shootings of Mrs. Good and Mr. Pretti last month.

    Perverse incentives breed perverse behaviour.

  • The green lean mean killing machine

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  • For those who have experience, yes -- but to the inexperienced eye, there are some false morels that can definitely trick people.

    https://duckduckgo.com/?q=morel+lookalike+gyromytra&t=vivaldi&ia=web

    We have some Gyromitra that pop up every year in one area of our backyard. They produce a molecule, gyromitrin, which is metabolized in the body into monomethylhydrazine, which is used in rocket fuel(!)... So be careful.

    Apparently Gyromitra are consumed in Europe by some -- but only after careful preparation... I am not brave enough to try that :/

  • The green lean mean killing machine

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  • Good advice, but respectfully there are some trustworthy books. So long as the reader actually follows all of the verification steps in those books.

    And definitely not those fly-by-night, probably AI-generated 'slop' books online!.

    My wife & I only moved out to the west coast in our 40s, and in the decade since, we (slowly! carefully!) learned how to recognize the safe species. Just don't take any stupid risks -- be absolutely sure of an ID before eating. Show what you've collected first, if it's a new one, to someone local who knows and learn from their experience.

    One good book is All That The Rain Promises ...

  • Basket Weavers Are More Educated Than You Dougie.

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  • My year in junior high literally had to take basketweaving one semester, because the school's funding kept getting cut year after year, until the school board capitulated to bring in French Immersion (as I recall; this was a long time ago, and I'm old. It was in Alberta).

    Funding was being used to force the school board or parent-teacher committee or whatever...

    In 7th grade, there were like 3 options we could choose from each semester; then 8th grade, 2; then 9th grade, just one 'option'.

    It's pretty rich for politicians to accuse students of slacking, when the options are literally defunded in their schools.

  • The green lean mean killing machine

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  • Don't forage for mushrooms unless you identify them in multiple ways, from multiple guidebooks, and ask locals what's around, first.

    There are quite a few types of mushrooms that don't have any poisonous lookalikes, that is once you know what to look for.

    Oyster mushrooms, golden (and winter) chanterelles, puffballs (IFF you slice them and make sure there's no 'mushroom' outline within!!!), hedgehogs, boletes.

    My knowledge is restricted to the PNW (Pacific North-West) however, so also read on regional variations.

    https://northernbushcraft.com/mushrooms/britishcolumbia.php

  • Show HN: Clawntown – An Evolving Crustacean Island

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  • How many tonnes of coal does this project use? AI.

  • remember progress?

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  • I 'panic bought' (OK, not out of panic, but mild concern) a 22TB drive since the price seemed not too astronomical, and the local store had a few left. Just in case.

    Seems the supplies really are drying up. Fuck these AI companies. Doesn't matter if they actually intended to wage a war on personal computation; their hoarding of the supply chain for years to come really is an assault on our ability to afford local self-hosted computing. I hope the bubble bursts, soon and hard.

  • He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing

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  • Running a study that's unethical

    You're assuming the conclusion though -- that it's unethical. The argument here is that he tested it on himself specifically in order not to endanger others -- as that would be unethical.

    I'd respectfully disagree it is analagous to the "vaccines cause autism" situation. This is trying to claim a potential beneficial medical procedure, not to sow fear or distrust in a long-standing, proven medical practice. And there's nothing in the article that says he is resisting others attempting to confirm or refute his work.

    In the spirit of the scientific method, hopefully other scientists try to reproduce the results then it'll get corroboration, or be shot down.

    If the brews contain only safe test viruses, it should ethically be a safe experiment. Test for antibodies before and after ingestion to the innocuous viruses and the mechanism is proven or disproven.

    Again, he's doing exactly the same thing that scientist that experimented on himself to test if H. Pylori was responsible for peptic ulcers. If he Darwin-Awards himself, that's very unfortunate, but so long as mild, innocuous test viruses are being used, he's not endangering anyone else (I certainly hope he did this with 'safe' test virus varieties, for his own sake as well as others!).

  • He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing

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  • But he did it on personal time, with personal resources, under the purview of a non-profit totally unrelated to his employer. He didn't use their name/brand, so there's no defamation here either is there?

    I understand the fear of some rogue 'mad scientist' doing something stupid but this really doesn't seem to be that situation here.

  • New Mexico lawmakers launch sweeping investigation into Epstein ranch

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  • Meta patents AI that takes over a dead person’s account to keep posting and chatting - Dexerto

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  • Modern problems require modern solutions

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  • Bain Capital? The Bain Capital? Ugh.

    In his 2009 book The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Is Destroying Jobs and Killing the American Economy, Josh Kosman described Bain Capital as "notorious for its failure to plough profits back into its businesses," being the first large private-equity firm to derive a large fraction of its revenues from corporate dividends and other distributions.

  • Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money...

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  • Neat doc, thanks for linking. I find this part very sensible in light of what you brought up

    In most cases, the ultra wealthy don’t need to borrow, because their liquid, taxable income—salaries, business income, and capital gains—is significantly higher than their annual consumption.

    That makes sense.. I mean once you're somehow generating millions or more every year in income, no need to borrow at all really. It's making it to that upper tier of income vs. expenses that few reach.

    Tax the Rich, the Old Fashioned Way: Raise Rates

    That's the key thing.

  • Camera that captures photos to cassette tape

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  • I wanted a PXL-2000 so bad in junior-high school...

  • He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing

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  • I appreciate that there are ethics boards holding scientists to standards, but sometimes (not usually, I know -- only in very specific cases!) it takes someone with initiative to "just do it". And the guy isn't some crank, he's a virologist who's discovered multiple viruses. Good for him, I say.

    A research ethics committee at the National Institutes of Health told Buck he couldn’t experiment on himself by drinking the beer.

    Buck says the committee has the right to determine what he can and can’t do at work but can’t govern what he does in his private life. So today he is Chef Gusteau, the founder and sole employee of Gusteau Research Corporation, a nonprofit organization Buck established so he could make and drink his vaccine beer as a private citizen.

    This is no different IMO from the scientist who proved that H.Pylori causes a common form of stomache ulcer.

  • Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money...

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  • Yup, search for "Buy borrow die" and there are various articles about the technique.

  • Is Reddit banning posts with "join-lemmy.org"?

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  • It depends. I got perma-banned from one particular sub for scrubbing all my old posts with an info blurb about the fediverse back when reddit nuked all 3rd-party APIs. Mods accused me to trying to "steal users" -- as if people can't have logins to reddit and other websites... sheesh.

    None of the other subs I cleaned my post/comment history in this way banned me however. But I am certain Spez and his minions/investors (fuck /u/spez) doesn't want people to start using alternatives.

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Who is David Krayden? "MCGA" (Make Canada Great Again) channel on youtube

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    DHS sends deportation notice to a US-born Citizen, who happens to be an immigration lawyer - "Leave in 7 days, or else"

    bsky.app /profile/carlbergstrom.com/post/3lmleebe2r22b
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Elizabeth May suggests Cali, Oregon, Washington State join Canada or join British Columbia to form 'Cascadia'

    archive.is /xIjN0
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Canada is one of the world's top 3 producers of mustard

    www.foodrepublic.com /1493803/which-countries-produces-most-mustard-world/
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Zenbook Pro Duo 2024 (UX8406): How to configure dual screen switch on keyboard remove/replace, and pair keyboard in BT mode

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Help back up the Great 78 Collections before the Record Companies force The Internet Archive to take them down!

    yiffit.net /post/1088933