Dr. Dabbles

You can google for cloudflare issues ranging from providing hosting for actual nazi sites to extorting customers by threatening the exact scenario se saw in this blog post. Feel free to google “cloudflare account suspended” to see many posts about people having not just DDoS mitigation disabled, but everything related to an account deleted and disabled. Many of those people had the audacity to, get this, rely on DDoS protection! The nerve, right?

Not just “this case”, there’s been countless cases like this with CF.

Not a huge surprise, they’ve got a long history of doing all kinds of scumbag shit. Nobody should be surprised when the leopard eats their face.

They identify people in public that should probably be robbed. So they’re useful for that I suppose.

The missiles at night

Are big and bright

Launched at the heart of Texas

Anyway good luck being a large economy with no trade partners and ports blockaded.

ISO standards need to be purchased to be viewed, RFCs are freely available requests for comment. The RFC 3339 format is effectively the same is the ISO format, except RFC 3339 allows for a space between the date and time components whereas the ISO format uses a “T” character to separate date and time components.

If you want to get real weird, RFCs are not standards but rather a request for other participants to comment on the proposal. RFCs tend to be pointed towards as de facto standards though, even before they become a BCP or STD.

Now imagine paying for that crap…

It’s unclear if the issue is a glitch with X’s advertising platform or a deliberate change intended to deceive consumers into believing some ads are regular posts from accounts they follow.

Is it? Is it unclear? To whom is it unclear? They’ve lost almost all their ad revenue by reputable companies, leaving the worst of the worst paying Twitter’s bills. It seems highly likely they’d exert pressure for those few precious dollars, get ads to be more scammy, get fewer content checks on ads, maybe get some injectable JavaScript to exploit end devices. None of that would surprise me even a little given how many ad networks we see doing exactly that.

Only 293,333 days until the remaining 10% of Twitter’s value is spent on fines. Or, 1 year if they have 804 violations at once. We can do this! We can end the nightmare.

Don’t forget a mountain of benzos.

Shocking to who?

What use is the training when Youtube will randomly change the rules, make them effective retroactively, and give you two strikes at once?

This is a mistake, and these companies should have had to prove safe operation rather than allowing them to bumble through the streets.

I think there’ll be an interesting story in how this whole thing happened.

There likely won’t be, just like there’s never any follow-up on the solar roadways people getting millions in government funding (so it must be real), or the perpetual motion generator being outright fraud, or the firehose of utter BS battery “breakthrough” stories. Sensationalism gets headlines, boring retractions don’t.

And just to be very clear about my position and why I’m not overestimating anyone, breakthroughs like what was claimed with LK-99 rarely happen at all. Research is slow, arduous, filled with dead ends and side quests. Real development in the real world happens with incremental improvement almost all of the time rather than some “eureka!” moment. What I would expect from a group that has discovered a method to turn lead into gold is a pile of gold before they ever mention it. Similarly, if someone claims to have a room temperature, atmospheric pressure superconductor, they’ll have followed their own process more than once and taken more precise notes the second time around.

What, you don’t do RAID-6 and carry around 5 external USB drives to move your data between locations? It’s just so convenient. 🤣

Seriously, I don’t get the raid comments at all.

I’m a lay person, and I’ve been beating the skepticism drum on this since day 1. If someone had actually discovered a room temperature, ambient pressure superconductor, their notes would be meticulous and precise, they would have replicated their results multiple times before publishing anything at all, and they’d already be lining up untold scores of investors. In other words, anybody that discovers how to do this is going to be debilitatingly rich forever. And they’re going to treat it as such.

Instead, what we got was much more akin to the press coverage of this year’s latest perpetual motion machine. What I don’t know is whether the people that originally announced LK-99 knew it wasn’t what they claimed, or they were confused but hopeful. In other words, were they hucksters looking for attention, or innocently ignorant and hoping someone could clarify.

The case for skepticism is that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. And so far, there’s none. What we do see is evidence for perhaps a semiconductor rather than a superconductor. All the “verification” has been in simulations and models, not actual real world replication or production of a meaningful amount of superconductive material.