Xinjiang’s Organ Transplant Expansion Sparks Alarm Over Uyghur Forced Organ Harvesting
Xinjiang’s official organ donation rate is shockingly low. So why is China planning to open six new organ transplant facilities in the region
"The expansion suggests that the Chinese authorities are expecting to increase the numbers of transplants performed in Xinjiang. However, this is puzzling as there is no reason why the demand for transplants should suddenly go up in Xinjiang,” Rogers explained. “From what we know about alleged voluntary donations, the rates are quite low in Xinjiang. So the question is, why are these facilities planned?”
Rogers noted one chilling possibility: that “murdered prisoners of conscience (i.e., Uyghurs held in detention camps)” could be a source of transplanted organs.
This suggestion becomes even more concerning when considering the extensive surveillance and repression that Uyghurs face in the region. Detainees in the many internment camps in Xinjiang have reported being subjected to forced blood tests, ultrasounds, and organ-focused medical scans. These procedures align with organ compatibility testing, raising fears that Uyghurs are being prepped for organ harvesting while in detention.
David Matas, an international human rights lawyer who has investigated forced organ harvesting in China, questioned the very possibility of voluntary organ donation in Xinjiang. “The concept of informed, voluntary consent is meaningless in Xinjiang’s carceral environment,” Matas said. “Given the systemic repression, any claim that donations are voluntary should be treated with the utmost skepticism.”
The new transplant facilities will be distributed across Urumqi and other regions of northern, southern, and eastern Xinjiang. Experts argue that the sheer scale of this expansion is disproportionate to Xinjiang’s voluntary donation rate and overall capacity, suggesting that the Chinese authorities may be relying on unethical methods to source organs.
Xinjiang’s Organ Transplant Expansion Sparks Alarm Over Uyghur Forced Organ Harvesting
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/42460866
Xinjiang’s official organ donation rate is shockingly low. So why is China planning to open six new organ transplant facilities in the region"The expansion suggests that the Chinese authorities are expecting to increase the numbers of transplants performed in Xinjiang. However, this is puzzling as there is no reason why the demand for transplants should suddenly go up in Xinjiang,” Rogers explained. “From what we know about alleged voluntary donations, the rates are quite low in Xinjiang. So the question is, why are these facilities planned?”
Rogers noted one chilling possibility: that “murdered prisoners of conscience (i.e., Uyghurs held in detention camps)” could be a source of transplanted organs.
This suggestion becomes even more concerning when considering the extensive surveillance and repression that Uyghurs face in the region. Detainees in the many internment camps in Xinjiang have reported being subjected to forced blood tests, ultrasounds, and organ-focused medical scans. These procedures align with organ compatibility testing, raising fears that Uyghurs are being prepped for organ harvesting while in detention.
David Matas, an international human rights lawyer who has investigated forced organ harvesting in China, questioned the very possibility of voluntary organ donation in Xinjiang. “The concept of informed, voluntary consent is meaningless in Xinjiang’s carceral environment,” Matas said. “Given the systemic repression, any claim that donations are voluntary should be treated with the utmost skepticism.”
The new transplant facilities will be distributed across Urumqi and other regions of northern, southern, and eastern Xinjiang. Experts argue that the sheer scale of this expansion is disproportionate to Xinjiang’s voluntary donation rate and overall capacity, suggesting that the Chinese authorities may be relying on unethical methods to source organs.
Xinjiang’s Organ Transplant Expansion Sparks Alarm Over Uyghur Forced Organ Harvesting
Xinjiang’s official organ donation rate is shockingly low. So why is China planning to open six new organ transplant facilities in the region"The expansion suggests that the Chinese authorities are expecting to increase the numbers of transplants performed in Xinjiang. However, this is puzzling as there is no reason why the demand for transplants should suddenly go up in Xinjiang,” Rogers explained. “From what we know about alleged voluntary donations, the rates are quite low in Xinjiang. So the question is, why are these facilities planned?”
Rogers noted one chilling possibility: that “murdered prisoners of conscience (i.e., Uyghurs held in detention camps)” could be a source of transplanted organs.
This suggestion becomes even more concerning when considering the extensive surveillance and repression that Uyghurs face in the region. Detainees in the many internment camps in Xinjiang have reported being subjected to forced blood tests, ultrasounds, and organ-focused medical scans. These procedures align with organ compatibility testing, raising fears that Uyghurs are being prepped for organ harvesting while in detention.
David Matas, an international human rights lawyer who has investigated forced organ harvesting in China, questioned the very possibility of voluntary organ donation in Xinjiang. “The concept of informed, voluntary consent is meaningless in Xinjiang’s carceral environment,” Matas said. “Given the systemic repression, any claim that donations are voluntary should be treated with the utmost skepticism.”
The new transplant facilities will be distributed across Urumqi and other regions of northern, southern, and eastern Xinjiang. Experts argue that the sheer scale of this expansion is disproportionate to Xinjiang’s voluntary donation rate and overall capacity, suggesting that the Chinese authorities may be relying on unethical methods to source organs.
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Disposable E-Cigarettes More Toxic Than Traditional Cigarettes: High Levels of Lead, Other Hazardous Metals Found in E-Cigarettes Popular with Teens
They may look like travel shampoo bottles and smell like bubblegum, but after a few hundred puffs, some disposable, electronic cigarettes and vape pods release higher amounts of toxic metals than older e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes, according to a study from the University of California, Davis. For example, one of the disposable e-cigarettes studied released more lead during a day’s use than nearly 20 packs of traditional cigarettes.
Disposable E-Cigarettes More Toxic Than Traditional Cigarettes
They may look like travel shampoo bottles and smell like bubblegum, but after a few hundred puffs, some disposable, electronic cigarettes and vape pods release higher amounts of toxic metals than older e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes, accordi…UC Davis
It's not like the batteries come out all covered in vape juice. And I have zero intent to pick up the habit.
To be fair, they should treat them like milk jugs back in the day and require a deposit on disposable vapes.
You have to sort of, I don't know, come into contact with the stupid device that has been in people's mouths first.
Are you people being intentionally dense like neutronium this Sunday morning?
Are you being obtuse on purpose? Picking up disgusting items that have been in intimate contact with human bodily fluids to harvest dollar store items is pretty fucking weird.
JFC, was it that hard to parse?
Holy raging badgerfuck, you’re comparing an object deliberately designed to contain sperm with lithium fucking batteries contained in vapes. Not dildos, fucking vapes. You could’ve compared batteries to used fucking drinking straws, but decided to zero in on used condoms, instead. That’s stupefyingly fucking weird.
Do you actually fucking believe their hands are drenched with body fluids after harvesting the batteries? Do you think all vapes are just completely covered with spit and semen?
Jesus fucking christ, is there any part of your fucking brain that has any connection to sense, any at all?
You. Have. To. Touch. Them. To. Open. Them. To. Get. To. The. Dollar. Store. Battery.
What is the difficulty here?
I don't see plastic straws on the ground anymore since they've been banned, paper straws on the ground are not a problem.
I think I see why you're grasping at straws, however.
Picking up disgusting items that have been in people's mouths to harvest cheap batteries is fucking weird.
The concept of people working in recycling plants must cause you no end of existential horror. They touch all manner of things that have had contact with all manner of nasty shit, and those people do just fine.
Know how? Gloves. PPE. I’m pretty fucking sure the person recycling vape batteries, at the very least, considered this, and is even likely using PPE. How this simple and obvious concept has seemingly avoided your thought processes entirely is baffling, but not my problem.
Your apparent mysophobia does not make the modest recycling efforts of others fucking weird just because you’re disgusted by it. Stop assuming the very worst of a situation and stop being fucking weird.
The dude is right.
Cigarettes are pure cancer, we all know that.
But replacing them with disposable chinese manufactured cancer plastics and batteries that also give you cancer and additional forms of cancer and are a thousand times heavier on the environment to produce is just peak late stage capitalism in a fucking nutshell.
Like I said, the three companies named there are not the same companies, but you claim they are, and are sourcing it from the same Chinese sweatshop, even tho they don't even seem Chinese.
So, again, can I get a source for your claim that all these are the same company sourcing their stuff from Chinese sweatshop?
Esco Bars | Esco Bar | Esco Bar flavors | Escobar Vape
Esco Bars, your one-stop destination for the finest vaping products and premium Esco Bar flavors. If you're on the hunt for an unparalleled.Esco Bars
Since nobody else will provide the actual clarity
EscobarVape and Elfbar are created by two separate Chinese companies, Shenzhen Innokin Technology Co. Ltd and Shenzhen iMiracle Technology respectively. Mi-Bar is created by an American company but has partnered with Elfbar to distribute Elfbar products in the US
Really wish more people would just provide the facts that speak for themselves, rather than point fingers about who is and isn't doing their research
Hey GPT! List a bunch of chemicals they put in our air, water, and food that we breathe, drink, and eat every day!
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Sure, buddy!
Sodium nitrite – processed meats (bacon, ham, hot dogs) – forms nitrosamines → DNA damage, colon cancer
BHA – cereals, chips, preserved fats – endocrine disruption, liver and stomach tumors
BHT – gum, snacks, butter – weak estrogen mimic, promotes lung and bladder tumors
Propyl gallate – oils, meats, soup base – oxidative stress, endocrine disruption, tumor growth
Red 3 (Erythrosine) – candy, cherries, cake decor – thyroid tumors, DNA strand breaks
Potassium bromate – white bread, rolls – kidney tumors, oxidative DNA damage
Titanium dioxide – candy, gum, supplements – genotoxicity, gut inflammation, colon cancer
Aspartame – diet soda, sugar-free gum – linked to blood cancers in rodents, metabolic disruption
Carrageenan – non-dairy milk, ice cream, deli meat – chronic gut inflammation, promotes tumors
Polysorbate 80 – ice cream, dressings – gut permeability, inflammation, tumor promotion
Carboxymethylcellulose – frozen foods, sauces – microbiome disruption, chronic inflammation
TBHQ – chips, fast food, frozen meals – immune suppression, cell mutation, liver tumors
Bisphenol A (BPA) – canned food linings, water bottles – hormone mimic, breast/prostate cancer
Bisphenol S (BPS) – BPA-free plastics, receipts – endocrine disruptor, reproductive harm
Phthalates – food packaging, gloves – testosterone suppression, breast cancer, birth defects
PFOA – Teflon pans, food wrappers – thyroid disruption, kidney/testicular cancer
PFOS – stain-resistant wrappers – immune suppression, liver tumors
Trihalomethanes – chlorinated tap water – bladder cancer, reproductive toxicity
Haloacetic acids – tap water disinfection byproducts – DNA damage, liver tumors
Formaldehyde – air fresheners, glues – nasopharyngeal cancer, leukemia
Benzene – car exhaust, cleaning products – blood cancers, bone marrow suppression
Toluene – paints, nail polish – neurotoxin, possible liver cancer link
Xylene – solvents, adhesives – respiratory inflammation, CNS toxicity
Vinyl chloride – PVC plastics – liver cancer, angiosarcoma
1,3-butadiene – air pollution, rubber manufacturing – leukemia, lymphomas
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Oh shit! So, how many of the chemicals in our immediate environment haven't been tested for the effects they have on humans at all?
Over 350,000 chemicals are in global use. Fewer than 1% have been thoroughly safety tested. Most are unvetted, unregulated, or shielded by trade secrecy.
Holy shit! What can we do about that?
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OMG! What about compound effects, like what happens when you mix all of them randomly??
Chemicals are tested alone, but we’re exposed to hundreds at once. Combined, they can amplify toxicity, disrupt hormones, damage DNA, overwhelm detox systems, and trigger chronic disease. The mix is far deadlier than any single part.
Holy shit, no way!
**PROMOTED BY THE “MAD MEN” AT LUCKY STRIKE!
Just have a cocktail and smoke a cig, it’s better than weed and ecigs! How dare you switch because of rat poison found in our cigs and how the RICH banded hemp due to lobbying by the paper people… not due to anything else! Cool!
There needs to be a $20 deposit on them that you get back when you turn in the empty vape.
Or, hot take, make vapes you can refill.
If the coil is getting red hot it's not producing vapor anymore. Vapor is just boiled oil and the boiling happens at a lower temperature than red hot by a significant amount, and the whole system is configured that the incoming vape juice cools the coil in the process of becoming vapor. This study is about as significant as noticing that if you set the filter of a cigarette on fire it can produce extra-toxic chemicals. No shit, but that's not how they work.
More bullshit ads for plant based vaping alternatives; cigarettes.
I've wrapped enough coils to know they do in fact get red hot. Ask anybody who built coils how many times they've had to throw away a tank full because they ran it too fast and it burnt.
You trust the disposables to supply enough juice to keep the coil from every getting red hot? You trust the coil to be made of safer metals?
The ruined coil is if you run it too hot for too long... You're being naive if you think it never runs a little dry and the coils never get red hot.
If you have a tank that exposes the coil from the air hole, just look inside it and see how red it gets from a one second hit.
Yeah no Chinese ever shoved cancer in the face of consumers for money! Let's trust capitalism on this one.
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Nicotine isn't really harmful, aside from the rediculously addictive nature it's what a vasoconstrictor?
Much like caffeine it has some decent properties for focus / cognitive abilities.
The main downfall is how it's consumed by the majority of the population. Durries are overall awful. The stench, accidental burns and all the inhaling burning plant matter leading to cancer thing.
superficial
You're right. Cancer is superficial damage. Speaking of which, enjoy your cancer.
Yeah, I know where my vape came from and it wasn't "big tabacco".
Saying vaping is worse than cigarettes is unbelievably fucking stupid.
I just said I used a vape for smoking cessation and so do countless others.
All they had to do was keep it quiet for 15 years until the new generation was addicted.
Remember when e-cigarettes looked like cigarettes, and were for a brief time allowed to be smoked indoors in public? That's how it started, we were told they were completely healthy, and a way to "kick the habit", because it's "just a habit", not one of the strongest addictions you'll ever encounter, according to the people who make millions off of it.
I swapped off vapes back to American Spirits after finding this study lol.
Marlboro reds are really tasty, but i know they're horrible for you as far as cigarettes go.
Allentown grandfather’s family was told he died in ICE custody. Then they learned he’s alive — in a hospital in Guatemala, they say
The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution states: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”
Unconstitutional actions ordered by the POTUS. Are we ready to impeach yet?
https://www.mcall.com/2025/07/18/luis-leon-allentown-grandfather-ice-guatemala/
The man was granted asylum! He’s 82 god damn years old!
I would love to see a popular uprising where we string up the thugs that are snatching people off the streets. They don’t need unnecessary things like “lawyers” or “trials”. A can of gas and a match are pretty cheap. So is rope.
I think it's more likely that California begins a secession movement that don dipshit to get impeached.
Edit: damn letters
Leon, according to his family, never had so much as a parking ticket — a contention borne out by court records.
Oh yeah, get that guy outta here. He’s a real threat. But all the rapists and child traffickers running our government are cool though 👍
I'm in favor of deporting traitors to Antarctica. You know, uphold the old British tradition of sending prisoners to Australia.
I've always been bummed about no one trying to seriously colonize Antarctica. With my proposal, Trump and his buddies can try colonizing it firsthand.
Anybody else not able to get on slrpnk.net?
Seems like slrpnk.net hasn't been working for most of the day today. Hasn't worked for me on mobile or desktop. Says 502 bad gateway when trying to access the website. Anybody else expierencing this issue?
Edit: it's back up. Thank you admins!
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thanks for passing that along. I could tell something was up by looking at this:
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In all seriousness, to the users and admins of slrpnk.net, you have my solidarity. Hope this all gets resolved soon.
Edit: oh shit welcome back!
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We are having stability issues with the server right now due to what looks like a new memory leak in Lemmy.
I am traveling this weekend, but I hope to find time to properly investigate it later this week.
Site pings fine on my end, but also receiving 502 bad gateway ☹️
Gulf Coast USA here if that matters.
'Universal cancer vaccine' trains the immune system to kill any tumor
'Universal cancer vaccine' trains the immune system to kill any tumor
Following on from a breakthrough human trial that reprogrammed the immune system to overpower an aggressive brain tumor, scientists have now used the same mRNA tech to attack any cancer. It could make chemotherapy, surgery and radiation redundant.Bronwyn Thompson (New Atlas)
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There's a "breakthrough" in cancer research every few months and it leads to nothing. And this study was done in mice which are a bit different to humans (citation needed)
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LOL. ITER is not and has never been meant to be a fusion power plant. That would be DEMO.
Don't hold your breath.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMOnstr…
Fusion power will never, ever happen. Ever.
Oil/LNG not likely to be exhausted in our lifetime,
Indeed not, but that EROEI is going towards 1, and maybe even <1. That's not the same type of civilization any more. One sends people to play golf on the Moon to impress the neighbors.
The other densifies its cities in desperation hoping the food doesn't run out.
Look at CFS SPARC, not ITER
They will have an actual functioning fusion machine with Q>10 by end of this year thanks to high temperature superconductors that were not available when ITER started
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Your instincts are correct. The approach in the paper is more complicated than this. Here is the abstract:
Abstract
The success of cancer immunotherapies is predicated on the targeting of highly expressed neoepitopes, which preferentially favours malignancies with high mutational burden. Here we show that early responses by type-I interferons mediate the success of immune checkpoint inhibitors as well as epitope spreading in poorly immunogenic tumours and that these interferon responses can be enhanced via systemic administration of lipid particles loaded with RNA coding for tumour-unspecific antigens. In mice, the immune responses of tumours sensitive to checkpoint inhibitors were transferable to resistant tumours and resulted in heightened immunity with antigenic spreading that protected the animals from tumour rechallenge. Our findings show that the resistance of tumours to immunotherapy is dictated by the absence of a damage response, which can be restored by boosting early type-I interferon responses to enable epitope spreading and self-amplifying responses in treatment-refractory tumours.
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Maybe overly negative by saying they come to "nothing", but if you trace those advances back to their initial press release stage, they generally way ovehype it.
Here we have what is being heralded as maybe a universal response to any and all cancer. That would be a shockingly amazing deviation from basically all the cancer research to date. It's possible and wonderful if true, but generally the research falls short of the initial press coverage, even if it amounts to something.
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In this study on mice...
Took them 7 paragraphs to get around to mentioning that.
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Previous research has focused more on homing in on a target or tailoring a vaccine specific to a patient's own cancer profile.
"This study suggests a third emerging paradigm," said study co-author Duane Mitchell, MD. "What we found is by using a vaccine designed not to target cancer specifically but rather to stimulate a strong immunologic response, we could elicit a very strong anticancer reaction. And so this has significant potential to be broadly used across cancer patients – even possibly leading us to an off-the-shelf cancer vaccine."
So... Kinda triggering your own auto-inmune response. But I'd be wary of trouble with overtly aggressive auto-inmune responses, as we already have quite a few diseases coming from these, as well.
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As someone with an autoimmune disorder, I'm honestly not all that sold on whether that's a good tradeoff.
Yay, you're not acutely dying of cancer, but now your body is attacking your internal organs and depending on how shitty your luck is, you can eg. look forward to liver and/or kidney transplants (possibly more than once, too)
Because Hollywood is so insanely bad at portraying science even remotely accurately, literally everything sounds like the plot to a zombie movie.
I'm not even kidding, I'm not in the biotech field and even I feel my eye twitch every time I see a movie with zombified lab animals smacking into the bars of their cages as the plucky heroes try to unravel what vile sins against nature those evil researchers uncovered in their hubris.
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Why search for universal cancer vaccine insted for AI
The sign over 7329 Silicon Valley startups hoping to get get bought out by OpenAI or Elon Musk right now.
He has a point though. In medicine AI actually has its uses, like spotting cancers better than humans can, decoding proteins, and solving protein folding problems.
We're of course talking about AI in the same way any scientist uses a computer, not replacing humans with a glorified text processor.
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I'm gonna be watching with popcorn when anti-vaxxers get cancer and definitely 100% will take this vaccine.
I mean, if it's true and not just shit science reporting that I assume it is.
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Those in power will live longer and you're an idiot if you think that they will not be the first if not the only to receive the treatment.
Are you prepared to see Trump's fifth turn?
It has the potential to do away with chemotherapy, surgery and radiation treatment.
I read that as: Will never reach the market because it threatens a multibillion dollar industry.
But srsly, glioblastoma is a really nasty motherfucker with a very low patient survival rate, so if they've really managed to cure it that's a huge milestone.
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Tulsi Gabbard: Obama Could Be Charged Over Anti-Trump 'Coup'
Tulsi Gabbard Says Obama Could Face Criminal Charges as She Alleges ‘Treasonous Conspiracy’ Ag ...
Tulsi Gabbard did not close the door on the possibility of Barack Obama facing criminal charges over what she called a "treasonous conspiracy" against Trump.Zachary Leeman (Mediaite)
Lol the argument is literally that Russia did not have the "tools and resources" to influence the US election?
Fuck right off, Tulsi, you Kremlin shill. Who the fuck is actually going to believe that?
Russia did not have the "tools and resources" to influence the US election?
I think this statement is true. Facebook ads and DNC malware didn’t shift the dial. Paid Russian protesters are about as effective as any other political protester.
Gabbard in my opinion is not a stable person. A co-worker once tried to convince me that she should have been elected. I know this person was crazy because they watched RT.
Sure… you keep telling yourself that.
"A Russian agent protects Russia and other Russian agents. "
That's all this really is.
'We are so back': MAGA supporters rally around Trump following WSJ article
'We are so back': MAGA supporters rally around Trump following WSJ Epstein article
Some had been angered by the decision not to release any more Epstein files.Will Steakin (ABC News)
Published Oct 1, 1941
Did a Dr. Seuss WWII Political Cartoon Criticize America's Isolationism?
A 1940's Dr. Seuss political cartoon criticized Americans for not caring about the deaths of foreign children.Snopes Staff (Snopes.com)
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The Hype is the Product
The Hype is the Product
Large publicly traded tech companies seem to no longer consider their customers – that is, people and organizations who actually buy their products or pay for access to their services – their core focSongs on the Security of Networks
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OpenAI Is Giving Exactly the Same Copy-Pasted Response Every Time Time ChatGPT Is Linked to a Mental Health Crisis
OpenAI Is Giving Exactly the Same Copy-Pasted Response Every Time Time ChatGPT Is Linked to a Mental Health Crisis
As reports of ChatGPT sending its users down dangerous mental health spirals mount, OpenAI seemingly can only think of one thing to say.Frank Landymore (Futurism)
Nvidia plans to boost presence in Israel with multibillion-dollar tech campus in north
Nvidia is actively seeking land to build a massive multibillion-dollar tech campus in Israel’s north, which is expected to provide thousands of jobs in what promises to be a major expansion of the US chip giant’s operations in the country.
The computing juggernaut announced on Sunday that it had issued a so-called request for information (RFI) tender to locate a plot of land spanning 70 to 120 dunams (30 acres) with construction rights to build a campus of 80,000–180,000 square meters. Nvidia is interested in buying land with “high accessibility to main traffic arteries and public transportation” around Zichron Yaakov, Haifa, and the Jezreel Valley areas. The tech titan has hired real estate consulting firm Colliers for the search and has set July 23 as the deadline for submissions.
Updates for controlled mechanical ventilation system (double flux) without privileged admin
[Update in the comments]
Hello all!
I've got a controlled mechanical ventilation system (system D) at home from Zehnder (ComfoAir Q600). I've even got their controller box (the LAN-C) so I can use smart home stuff with it. It works perfect on home assistant, even when blocking the controller on the router level from the outside world. Maintenance wise, they try to force a contract on you, but it is easy peasy to maintain and repair so I'm not having no maintenance contract.
Comes the issue of software and updates. Some updates come with features. Sometimes, they are even mandatory so addons can work on them (ex: small heat pump for the intake needs a recent version for setup). For this, you have to use their app on your phone/tablet. The whole idea is that the install goes trough your phone (with checksum check through the app) to the EEROM on the local network to prevent bricking of the unit. Updates bring usually nice settings, and are sometimes mandatory for some add-ons (ex: heatpump for pre-heating or pre-cooling needs a recent update to be set up).
Here comes the really annoying part that makes me grump a lot: to update, of even for some diagnose option, you need to access a special level. Not the beginner mode. Not the expert mode. Not the installer mode that is unlocked with a simple pin code available in the owner's manual. No sweet child, you need to be a registered installer with Zehnder to access to get updates and real diagnostics. Officially, it is to prevent bricking the controller with an update by an user. But it is possible to give access to a licensed installer so they can update remotely and run diagnostics. So an issue with your internet, and there is no more safeguard to protect you from bricking stuff. Really, it is just to force a maintenance visit (200€ to exchange filters and clean a bit the exchanger and the inside with some soapy water). I don't like to bend over while I'm getting fucked without my consent, so you guess while this pisses me off. I called once to get an update (some companies ask you a hefty sum for that), but instead of getting an account they just updated it once exceptionally.
There is tho in the official documents for Germany, a test code publicly accessible, that allows you to access diagnostics and updates. But the updates there are only for German units. Pretty sure it is the same unit for the whole damn continent, but hey, let's pretend the units are different.
Comes my question: how do I trick the system into believing their update is not for the germans, but for somewhere else? Or even better, to give me access for updates for other areas? I know part is server side (account), but I'm willing to bet they don't really care about securing access to the updates once you have authenticated yourself (with the german test code). Tried lucky patcher, but didn't get lucky.
Any idea what I could try (even Lucky Patcher wise)?
Big hugs and kisses
Ventilation systems are named a bit weird like that:
-System A is natural convection (like holes in the walls)
-system B is holes in the walls, and a motor brings fresh air in the building
-System C is only a centralised extraction (needs rosters in your windows so you have an air intake, so basically an energy-label-certified-hole in your brand new windows)
-System C+ is centralised extraction with a variable debit depending on CO2 and humidity detected (so it is less energy wasteful than the previous one)
-System D is a double flux system: one centralised unit with a heat exchanger built in. There are 2 circuits, one is fresh air and the other one is air extraction. the house is basically always a bit over-pressurised. It is possible to obtain also humidity regulation for the winter if needed (ex build-in humidifier or enthalpy exchange units). When testing for build quality in passive houses, they check that almost all air exchange goes only through the unit
-System E: System C+ with a heat exchanger connected to a centralised heat pump for the building. Never seen one outside of an expo room.
For example, I still don't know why it's such a hassle to have real HVAC in centralised ventilation systems in Europe. Or integrated solutions to move energy to other systems (like my water heat pump releases cold. Why am I out of warranty if I place a heat exchanger that cools my fridge heat exhaust on the air rejection?). Without floor heating air-water heat pumps aren't super efficient, and retrofitting baseboards with water-heated ones for baseboards in a bitch to do.
If there's a German code that would work as you intended (if I got you right) but it doesn't for you, since you don't live in Germany, would it work to make the machine believe it is located in Germany?
They might have hardcoded a location into it, then you are out of luck. But maybe they determine it via the internet connection you use to update? So you could potentially have it connected to a VPN through your router, which fakes a German location? Probably too simple a solution.
[Update]So used my old rooted tablet to tweak around a bit with the app. Through lucky patcher (when logged in with the test account) I noticed that the downloads are done trough the root user of android. After that I used MiXplorer to get the data files on my pc. Quickly found the structure of the files. Couldn't trick the system to access my local files, but I managed to trick the system into updating as if it were a german system.
So if someone else happens to look and stumble upon this, this is how I got it to work. It works only from a rooted android device for now:
- Login with the german test account to access server downloads
- Connect to the cloud delivery system and download the update that you want
- Close the app, with a root file explorer (like MiXplorer + Shizuku) go into the root folder (use their FTP server with a root allowed user or whatever to transfer it more easily to the PC).
- Go to /data/data/com.zehndergroup.comfocontrol/files/products/1/R1.12.0-DE
-Open the meta.json file and change the german id of your unit to your unit. Ex: 471502013 to 471502023 for the UK id. Save it and send it back to where it came from. You could just update your unit, and it would keep the same serial number, same everything but would be under german ID. Easy for new updates but annoying to explain if you need to have a technician over and he is wondering why your unit has that ID. But then again, that is a minor detail and I'm not even sure the technician will be paid enough to care. Reverting to your national number should be the same process but with the update for your country.
What didn't work:
*Open the config bin file of your unit (so again, for the Q600 : config_R1.12.0_471502013_v1.bin ) with a hex editor. Look for the unit number that needs to be replaced (so here 471502013 needs to become 471502023). I only needed to replace 1 number (a 1 into 2) , so 31 became 32 in the hex file. Replace the country code with your local one in hex (So DE into UK). Save it and send it back from where it came from. This provokes an error after the 3rd block. Probably a checksum that isn't cooperating in another file
*Seperate API connection: the naming pattern o their website is obvious, but connection without their app is something else
- Firmware updates for the ventilation units are in folder "1", maybe that will change in the future
- The downloaded firmware update will be there under it's own folder (like R1.12.0) and sometimes there will be it's own ZIP
- National ID for your unit is on Zehnder's website but also under "basic mode" > "unit status" > "Article unit"
- The installers pin code changes from your countries to the German one, so it becomes 4210
PS: there are ati-bricking measures in place in the system. If an update fails, you can Erase the firmware and reupload it but you'll have to redo the post-install setup
Your vacation plans might be ruined by bots triggering fake bookings and crashing travel sites during checkout
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Travel websites are under siege as bots flood systemsEfosa Udinmwen (TechRadar)
Hyphen Journal: Issue 3.2 – Hyphen Journal
The second part of our Ecologies issue sees the light of day at a time of ever-proliferating crises. In this context, this issue could be read, among other things, as a missive that puts forward ways of being in the world ecologically, that is, with …
The second part of our Ecologies issue sees the light of day at a time of ever-proliferating crises. In this context, this issue could be read, among other things, as a missive that puts forward ways of being in the world ecologically, that is, with care, joy, interdependence, more-than-human socialities, respect for past and future generations, as much as with indignation, defiance and demands for justice. Ecological being means, in the spirit of Félix Guattari, attending to the interconnectedness of mental, social and material realms of being, as well as acknowledging the ways in which politics are articulated on scales ranging from the molecular to the planetary.
In un mese sono morte più di 80 persone in montagna - Il Post
circa la metà delle persone recuperate si rifiuta di pagare «anche quando, di fatto, gli hai salvato la vita»
Che roba! Nemmeno se gli salvi la vita sono disposti a pagare i soccorsi
In un mese sono morte più di 80 persone in montagna
Lo ha detto il presidente del Soccorso alpino nazionale, segnalando situazioni al limite con chi viene salvato che si rifiuta di pagareIl Post
Många använder appar för att besöka olika sociala medier. En app för varje socialt medium. Alla sociala medier går dock att nå med hjölp av en webbläsare. Det finns flera fördelar med att använda en webbläsare istället för en massa appar.
Lemmy has a problem
With a 90% male demographic, Lemmy will face problems related to a homogeneous user population and all the issues that come with it. Right now, it's shaping up to be misogynistic, but it could also head into other bad places. Lemmy needs to attract a more diverse population of users or will end up as another echo chamber for the like minded.
similarweb.com/website/lemmy.m…
Noodles4dinner
in reply to Basic Glitch • • •Basic Glitch
in reply to Noodles4dinner • • •The author is a Muslim woman who has won awards for her work as a journalist and written for several other major news outlets...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasnim_N…
British journalist
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)like this
TVA likes this.
Noodles4dinner
in reply to Basic Glitch • • •The wikipedia article for the universal peace federation redirects to the unification church article.
Shinzo Abe found out how bad the moonies are.
Keep spreading that "new cold war" propaganda.
Basic Glitch
in reply to Noodles4dinner • • •Nobody is defending the Moonies, especially not this current affairs publication owned by a Japanese media corporation. Here's plenty of examples of them calling out the Unification Church:
thediplomat.com/tag/unificatio…
Anybody can be nominated to be an ambassador for peace, it's also associated with the UN.
upf.org/core-program/ambassado…
... show moreLiterally she has no other ties to the Moonies/unification church, and how about the human right lawyer she directly quotes.
Nobody is defending the Moonies, especially not this current affairs publication owned by a Japanese media corporation. Here's plenty of examples of them calling out the Unification Church:
thediplomat.com/tag/unificatio…
Anybody can be nominated to be an ambassador for peace, it's also associated with the UN.
upf.org/core-program/ambassado…
Literally she has no other ties to the Moonies/unification church, and how about the human right lawyer she directly quotes.
David Matas
Or the bioethicist and part of the coalition to End Transplant Abuses in China (ETAC)? All just cold war propaganda?
Wendy Rogers
Compliance with ethical standards in the reporting of donor sources and ethics review in peer-reviewed publications involving organ transplantation in China: a scoping review
Anyway, keep spreading that there is no genocide propaganda.
washingtonpost.com/politics/20…
Uncovering injustice: Key stories from RFA Uyghur
Uncovering injustice: Key stories from RFA Uyghur
RFA Uyghur (Radio Free Asia)porous_grey_matter
in reply to Basic Glitch • • •Just because that outlet publishes some articles critical of the moonies doesn't mean that the author of this piece is trustworthy.
The "Universal Peace Federation" literally is the Moonies. See the section on UN-related NGOs: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organi…
Anyone can get their NGO "in consultative status with the UN".
It's also funny that you mention Radio Free Asia since they're also deeply involved there.
overview of the groups relating to the Unification Church
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Basic Glitch
in reply to porous_grey_matter • • •Jax
in reply to Basic Glitch • • •ExFed
in reply to Noodles4dinner • • •It would appear you're trying to argue against the contents of the above article by referencing an attribute or quality of the author. I believe we call that a genetic fallacy.
Would you like to try again?
Genetic fallacy
RationalWikiAvid Amoeba
in reply to ExFed • • •No need. This isn't formal logic class. Knowing someone's position and track record on an issue is a useful fact in judging the hypothetical slop they have produced on a different day. It's not deductively valid, and therefore it's not infalliable, but it doesn't need to be.
To be clear I'm saying this in general. I'm not judging the information from the article.
Noodles4dinner
in reply to ExFed • • •ZombiFrancis
in reply to Basic Glitch • • •Basic Glitch
in reply to ZombiFrancis • • •Compliance with ethical standards in the reporting of donor sources and ethics review in peer-reviewed publications involving organ transplantation in China: a scoping review