When I recontracted my primary Internet connection, I found out that for the same price I could now get a symmetric 3 Gbps connection. Great! Not to mention my secondary ISP would offer a 5 Gbps connection for not a lot more money as well. Even better!
Except for the fact that the ethenet connection to my router is a 1 Gbps connection and my router does not have a free 10 Gbps port.
I didn't really plan for this since I wasn't expecting >1Gbps internet connections to become a common thing.
So now I have to figure out how overhaul my entire network backbone to support these increased speeds with some future proofing.
#homelab
"When asked at an event at the New York Economic Club 'what specific piece of legislation will you advance' to make child care affordable, the 78-year-old Trump answered:
'Well I would do that. And we’re sitting down. You know I was somebody. We had Senator Marco Rubio, and my daughter Ivanka was so impactful on that issue. It’s a very important issue.'"
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media
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"But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, that because—look, child care is child care. It’s—couldn’t, you know, it’s something you have to have it—in this country you have to have it."
And on and on the verbal diarrhea flows, nonsense syllable following on nonsense syllable — with the same media who hounded Biden relentlessly re: age and mental fitness saying nary word about the man's total unsuitability to lead.
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media
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"At a meeting of the Economic Club of New York, Trump was asked a pre-cleared question about the specific legislation he would pass to address the cost of childcare. His unintelligible answer is a clear sign of mental deterioration. But the audience applauded his answer and the New York Times 'sane-washed' the answer to make it sound intelligible."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #NewYorkTimes #sanewashing
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"That would be the same New York Times that wrote dozens of articles criticizing Joe Biden’s mental state because he speaks with a stutter. ...
We are witnessing the moral collapse of the major media in the US. They seem incapable of rising to the challenge of writing truthfully about an aspiring dictator who has attempted to overthrow the Constitution and vows to do so again."
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #NewYorkTimes #sanewashing
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"He is a criminal, conman, coup-plotter, and insurrectionist who is in obvious mental decline. But the Times re-interprets his gibberish into intelligible soundbites and pretends that his statements have meaning when they are utterances designed only to forestall his sentencing to prison."
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #NewYorkTimes #sanewashing
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"Trump continued his reign of stupid at the Economic Club of New York. This rambling, incoherent mess of a speech is definitive proof that this man should never get near public office. It’s also proof that our corporate institutions, especially the media, has been utterly complicit in what Parker Molloy has astutely called 'sanewashing.'”
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #NewYorkTimes #sanewashing
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Jamison Foser looks at New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger's insistence that this outlet is driven by a commitment to "neutrality," and says,
"This is a familiar stance, and it is bullshit.
It is bullshit because critics of the Times do not ask the paper to 'cast aside neutrality and directly oppose [Trump’s] reelection.'”
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #NewYorkTimes #Sulzberger #sanewashing
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"That’s a straw man Sulzberger invents because he does not dare engage our actual argument, which is that the Times is not neutral, and does not even define the term correctly, and the paper often deploys double standards and false equivalencies that benefit Trump and the Republican Party."
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #NewYorkTimes #Sulzberger #sanewashing
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"The money went from RT, the Russian television network, through a Canadian front-company to a Czech shell company to an entirely fictional 'investor,' Eduard Grigoriann."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #Republicans #Russia #Putin
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"From there, the money went by wire transfer to three Turkish shell companies, three additional shells in the United Arab Emirates, and one phony company in Mauritius, an island nation in the Indian Ocean about 1,000 miles off the coast of East Africa. From there, the money made its way to a bank in New York controlled by Tenet Media founders Laren Chen and Liam Donovan."
#Trump #Republicans #Russia #Putin
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"Donald Trump’s media empire, Truth Social, is losing tens of millions of dollars and its stock has been dropping precipitously even though its founder is a candidate for President of the United States, which would seem to be a benefit to the company rather than a drag on its earnings.
But little Tenet Media down in Tennessee is healthy and profitable."
#Trump #Republicans #Russia #Putin
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"According to the indictment, $8.7 million was transferred to the accounts of right-wing commentators Pool and Johnson and Rubin. The remaining $1.3 million was presumably used to pay Chen and Donovan as founders and managers.
And whoop-dee-doo! They didn’t have to pay a cent to Eduard Grigoriann because he exists only as a figment of the imagination of the Russian handlers in Moscow who have been running Tenet Media all along."
#Trump #Republicans #Russia #Putin
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"The indictment underscores how stupid these MAGA media celebrities were, when they were approached with this super-cool opportunity to make a few videos per week in exchange for (in a couple cases) millions of dollars, to be paid by a completely fake man named EDUARDO GRIGORIANN!"
~ Evan Hurst
#Trump #Republicans #Russia #Putin
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"This has led to the delightful specter of high-profile rightwing commentators loudly insisting they were too stupid to know that Russian money was behind the wildly exorbitant sums they received for producing content. ...
From the details in the indictment, it’s impossible Chen and Donovan didn’t know their money was coming from Russia via shady means.
~ Lisa Needham
#Trump #Republicans #Russia #Putin
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"Unfortunately, the Russians have scads of money, and plenty of Americans are despicable enough to take their cash."
~ Tom Nichols
#Trump #Republicans #Russia #Putin
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Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷 reshared this.
"All this of course raises another serious question: Who else have the Russians bought? After all, $10 million is a small amount to a government like Russia (or Egypt for that matter). But to individuals like these far-right influencers, or to a certain ex-president nearing financial insolvency, $10 million could be life changing."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #Republicans #Russia #Putin
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"The Tenet Media guys are worse than useful idiots. They're collaborators. …
When someone is a victim of a scheme, he does not usually end up with a pile of money as a result of it. So if these gentlemen are victims then I expect they will either give the ill-gotten money back to the Russian government, or give it away to charity, yes?"
~ Jonathan V. Last
#Trump #Republicans #Russia #Putin
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At least we around here have still the concept of usury, if you offer/buy goods/services for more than 50% off their common prices, you better know what you do legally, as usury becomes a legal argument to void the contract.
So yes, random influencers get exorbitant sums for producing content, they better document how they checked these orders are legit and not used in a criminal enterprise.
Actually, if my “business law for computer scientists” classes in the 1990s were correct, it's here in Austria one of the possible legal reasons to for voiding a contract.
So if you have a deal too good to be true, you better document why you believe it to be a fair deal for both sides, *wink,wink*
"Earlier this week, I wrote an article for The New Republic (and expanded on it in a post here at TPA) about how the media 'sanewashes' Trump. If you missed that, I recommend checking it out.
And then yesterday, we were given a perfect example of this."
~ Parker Molloy
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #sanewashing
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"The Washington Post led with his incoherent comments about childcare in a Thursday speech. In the Times’ account? Barely a word. ...
He should be quoted verbatim, not in a partial way that sanitizes his words and cleans them up.
Why? Because his mental fitness at age 78 to be president for the next four years is a legitimate issue."
~ Michael Tomasky
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #WashingtonPost #NewYorkTimes #sanewashing
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"The biggest problem, the problem that all journalistic analysis of Trump’s response ought to lead with, is that his answer makes absolutely no sense. …
Reading through some media outlets’ attempts to report on Trump’s comments yesterday, one can witness in real time the process of trying to impose sense where there is none."
~ Isabel Fattal
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #sanewashing
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The problem is, you and I read this and think "WHAT THE HELL WAS HE THINKING? HAS HE NO RESPECT?" while his fans are LOVING it because i their minds he's speaking truth to power and "draining the swamp".
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Honestly I'm still reeling from Arlington National Cemetery and will NEVER forgive his stunt making a political speech at CIA headquarters in front of the wall of stars for fallen agents.
IMO you can have serious reservations about the intelligence industrial complex (and boy howdy do I!) but still pay the proper respect for people who DIED trying to help protect our freedom.
That is what old media should be reporting.
An English major should start a Trump speech analysis blog to aid the press in deconvolving the nonsense to show he is not answering the question.
A new media should be pointing out his lies upon lies.
I agree with the wag that said he has made 87000 lies since he started politics.
the really amazing thing about Trump's response was that even the "sanewashed" version is crazy. But the NYT won't mention that either.
If you take the NYT version, then Trump is proposing a global trade war as a solution to the need for child care.
Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen and Albertsons CEO Vivek Sankaran appeared in Oregon’s U.S. District Court to testify against the Federal Trade Commission's attempt to block the proposed merger of their companies
Never forget, we have them outnumbered.
It’s only a few thousand “elites” who are destroying everything we care about — but there are more than 7,000,000,000 of us.
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice
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Absolutely. Apologies if what I said came across as abrasive, I guess I'm just sick and tired of, amongst many other things, the use of language to further divide and elevate themselves.
Certainly it's not a moniker the rest of us came up with but media sure does like to run with it!
These MAGA pathological liars ran around spewing Russian propaganda, resulting in threats against me and countless other Americans. They’re accomplices—not victims. They may not have known drugs were in the box, but they delivered the package.
Story here:
dworkinsubstack.com/p/ending-t…
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#opensource
home-assistant.io/voice_contro…
Here is a link announcing a new report on open source in public services, by our colleagues at the Open Source Observatory:
fed.dyne.org/post/228037
How many more?
She wasn't a fake story created by some nasty Jewish ISIS propagandist, she wasn't an AI, of one of those made up stories.
She died playing in the midst of the 11th month of the ongoing genocide.
She was out to play, but even that wasn't acceptable to the monsters of IDF.
She died with her scate shoes on.
Fuck Israel and anyone still supporting it.
#Gaza #Genocixe #NotATarget #Israel #Genocide #Politics #Inhumanity #StopIsrael
Revisiting 2 of the 5 docs from the Snowden leaks that mention 'cookies'.
GCHQ 2009 on 'target detection identifiers':
snowden.glendon.yorku.ca/items…
NSA 2011 on 'selector types':
snowden.glendon.yorku.ca/items…
...featuring cookie/browser IDs from Google/Doubleclick, Facebook, Microsoft and many more.
It's breathtaking how the surveillance marketing industry has still managed to claim for many years that unique personal identifiers processed in the web browser are 'anonymous', and sometimes still does.
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Browser-based personal identifiers aka 'target detection identifiers' are 'unique and persistent for a user/machine', and they are a 'SIGINT standardised code', according to GCHQ (2009).
Ryan Gallagher reported on Snowden docs that mention browser/cookie IDs aka 'target detection identifiers' in 2014 and 2015:
theintercept.com/2015/09/25/gc…
theintercept.com/2014/12/13/be…
This slide shows that the GCHQ stored 'all TDIs seen in last 6 months' in 'bulk' in their 'MUTANT BROTH' system.
'TDI <-> website correlations' were stored in the 'KARMA POLICE' system, which was reported on a lot and has an extra Wikipedia entry:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_Po…
They also stored 'TDI correlations' in another system they referred to as 'AUTO ASSOC'. I wonder has anyone ever reported on this? Was this about linking identifiers associated with the same person/entity to each other?
Not sure whether this report was referring to data on a single person?
In addition to Facebook's famous 'datr' identifier, it shows 'utma' and 'utmz' identifiers processed by Google Analytics on YouPorn.
It also shows non-persistent session IDs, which were possibly not very useful.
The GCHQ even specified in detail whether browser-based personal identifiers refer to a user account or device, and whether they are processed in a web request or in a browser cookie.
Ironically, I also spent quite some time doing the same work - categorizing browser and cookie identifiers - much later, starting in 2018/19. And I spent less than 250 hours per ID 🤖
In 2009, they 'discovered' only '70 distinct TDI types', though. Today, there are thousands of distinct browser/cookie IDs.
Another slide explains that they collected 18 billion 'target detection identifiers' in the period between 25 Dec 2007 and 20 Jun 2008.
This was certainly a large number in 2007/8. There's a much larger number of digital identifiers per person available today.
And yep, these revelations led to most of today's HTTP traffic being encrypted. Still, many entities have access to browser/cookie IDs, and some of them are now accessible via trillions of RTB bid requests in digital marketing, for many.
And then there's this perhaps better known 2011 NSA slide on 'selector types'.
A few major cookie IDs.
'Browser tags', was this related to malware/adware?
For mobile phones, they accessed only IMEIs and 'Apple UDID' in 2011.
Google AAID and Apple IDFA were introduced later (2014/16), and then became the most pervasive digital identifiers for digital tracking and profiling across a myriad of entities. Google/Apple have never been held accountable till today.
And there was Bluetooth, already.
There's another Snowden doc from 2011 that provides more information about the GCHQ's AUTO ASSOC system, which calculates correlations between 'target detection identifiers' (TDIs):
maths.ed.ac.uk/~tl/docs/Proble…
I think the doc was first published by
@pluralistic in 2016:
boingboing.net/2016/02/02/doxx…
Seems like the GCHQ operated a kind of probabilistic ID graph that aims to link cookie IDs, device IDs, email addresses and other TDI identifiers based on communication, timing and geolocation behavior.
In the doc, they think about how to improve the ID graph by adding further data sources ("SIGINT truthed datasets").
This includes potential internal collaborations that aim to "automatically determine the relationship between entities based on communication content" and even based on finding "triggers in audio content".
Btw. What inspired me to revisit these docs is @byrontau's excellent book Means of Control, which not only details how US defense, intelligence and law enforcement buy commercial data from digital marketing but also provides deep historical context, tracing back to early-2000s debates on Total Information Awareness (TIA).
While I was casually following debates on mass surveillance from Echelon and TIA to Snowden, I didn't seriously start to investigate commercial data practices until 2014/15.
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