Steinar @Steinar@snabelen.no

DHL sent ALL PinePhones to New Zealand instead of their actual destinations. How this happened is beyond us. This is a massive blunder on their part, but ultimately we're the one that gets to apologize to you - very sorry about this. It will take a week to sort this situation out.

Niederländisches Gericht verurteilt Shell

"Zum ersten Mal überhaupt zieht ein Gericht einen Konzern für Treibhausgas­emissionen zur Verantwortung. Das Urteil in Sachen Klimaschutz ist aus mehreren Gründen spektakulär."

https://www.republik.ch/2021/07/28/denke-global-handle-lokal-niederlaendisches-gericht-verurteilt-shell

Outrage as Italy faces multimillion pound damages to UK oil firm - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jul/25/outrage-as-italy-faces-multimillion-pound-damages-to-uk-oil-firm well, we did warn them this would happen... #ISDS

TIL tang ping (lying flat) is a social protest in China where young people refuse the capitalist #overwork rat race, and instead scale down their income to meet only the essential needs.

I'm in full support with this protest against #overconsumption.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_ping

Rysiekúr Memesson wrote the following post Wed, 21 Jul 2021 15:31:52 +0200 A read-only CryptPad spreadsheet with a list of known apps being used by #Pegasus as infection vectors, along with sources:
https://cryptpad.fr/sheet/#/2/sheet/view/rXFBpy4ztOsdWxO7ESgs52PsCev6wdRyRh9KhATiFNA/

DM me if you'd like write access to add things.

#InfoSec

Timsort invented in 2002... implementation bug found in 2015 (by formal methods)

See also 20 year old bug in Java's mergesort discovered in 2006: "Nearly all Binary Search and Merge Sort implementations are broken"

http://envisage-project.eu/proving-android-java-and-python-sorting-algorithm-is-broken-and-how-to-fix-it/

https://ai.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.html

Fikk oldefars gamle kniv i helga.

My forth (well, mine in the sense that I've mostly ported Jones forth to the 68000) is now self-hosting and is complete enough that I can start using it to play around on this virtual machine I've started.

Quick demo showing stack operations and some text i/o. Address 16384 is the beginning of the 2000-byte text frame buffer, so the loop at the end just fills some video memory with font glyph 1, a smiley.

A long read where everyone comes out looking bad. (And those portrayed as the ”defenders of privacy” aren’t necessarily doing so out of the goodness of their hearts either!)

https://www.protocol.com/policy/w3c-privacy-war

Facebook acquired a company called Crowdtangle in 2016; it makes a social media analytics tool that the press has used to monitor subject-matter trends on Facebook, especially in the runup to the 2020 elections.

Facebook just gutted Crowtangle.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/technology/facebook-data.html

Crowdtangle had operated as a semiautonomous unit within Facebook, primarily used by media companies to track the social media performance of their stories.

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Stuchburry has been a stumbling block for private land developers. What next? Grabbing the land to construct expensive mansions...

Uhuru condemns killing of environmentalist Joanna Stuchburry | Nation https://nation.africa/kenya/news/uhuru-condemns-killing-of-environmentalist-joanna-stuchburry-3475076

Nobody Wants To Be a Serf Anymore

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/nobody-wants-to-be-a-serf-anymore

oh man i completely missed this https://non.tuxfamily.org/wiki/2021-02-07%20Linux%20Audio%20is%20Dead

git repo is offline, too

what the fuck is going on this year

My friend David Kinyua who is a teacher in Nooloroi Oldonyiro, Isiolo county just discovered landmine in school compound. They have contacted security personnels to detonate.

“How Intel Financialized and Lost Leadership in Semiconductor Fabrication - naked capitalism” https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/07/how-intel-financialized-and-lost-leadership-in-semiconductor-fabrication.html