For the same reason we pay public servants to write Security Configuration Guidance documents, post YARA rulesets for malware campaigns, etc. It's a public service. I'd call it progress: in years past, data like this was frequently only circulated to select enterprise partners. This product will be directly accessible to the public.

While I'd like to think that the administration's threats to enforce section 230 spooked the tech oligopoly sufficiently, I'm not holding my breath. I imagine that any verification process will still have the standard escape hatches, so if any heretical opinions are ever expressed in the past or future then the verification is removed and the user banned.

Are you having a stroke?

Are you intentionally confusing prophylactic use and acute treatment? Or don't you realize that there's a difference between taking something to prevent an illness, and taking something to cure one after it's underway?

Very few of the studies on treatment of acute Wuhan Flu with HCQ have published their dosage. Two studies were doing 600mg on the first day and a lower 400mg maintenance dose after that, presumably as an acute treatment, not as prophylaxis. That's actually lower than the acute treatment for malaria, which starts at 800mg and goes to 400mg the next several days.

Right now, all the prophylactic studies for the Chinese virus are still in the preclinical stage, but given there's a very low risk to taking it at prophylactic doses, and the anecdotal evidence from actual doctors using it to save lives is very positive, it's entirely prudent to take it if you have the means.

Why wouldn't he take it?

31.7 million Americans traveled to Africa in the last 15 years.

91% of these travelers ingested Hydroxychloroquine prior to their flight, as advised by FDA.

Less than 1% had any adverse reaction to this.

It's not a meaningful risk. It's become politicized because Trump's enemies literally cannot let him be right about anything.

Even Fox News agrees that this drug is harmful, adds hcs_$reboot. "I cannot stress this enough, this will kill you," Fox News host Neil Cavuto said.

Oh please, people take this as long-term treatment for lupus and as prophylaxis for malaria for months on end with no ill effects. Chloroquine is a 70-year old drug that's one of the most prescribed drugs in human history. It's safety profile is very well understood, and it's not dangerous taken at correct dosages.

This is fear mongering of the dumbest kind.

You aren't kidding.

I have an old Gmail account loaded into my IMAP client. Haven't accessed the Gmail web interface in a few years, and even that was just long enough to enable logins with a third-party client. Today I had the misfortune of loading Gmail in a browser and couldn't believe it; it's like they're stuffing a whole operating system onto the page. There was a chat pane, something about phone calls, various widgets that apparently were assimilated from Hangouts, a drop-down menu to switch between standard and Dvorak keyboard layouts... I could barely see the email for all the other bullshit they've cluttered Gmail up with. Sliding or minimizing the various panes didn't put a dent in the CPU load or network traffic they were generating. I really can't see how people put up with that interface for using email every day.

You mean when there's no social pressure, acts which are only done because of social pressure happen relatively infrequently?

Yeah, that was the one that worked. Wasn't not lazy enough to google it.

According to systeminfo my box hasn't restarted since 2019-02-08, 8:59:56 PM, which was a power outage iirc.

There's some dark magic you can do to disable the automatic reboot. I did it months ago when I built my new workstation -- there's a folder buried deep under System32 that contains the 'Reboot' script. If you remove that and replace it with a folder named 'Reboot', then it will always fail to run the reboot-after-update phase of the update cycle.

Yep, 3.0.4 came out on August 31. I don't see anything on their website or FTP server about a newer release.

The dev changelog does refer to a version 3.0.5, but the changes listed there don't include fixing this vulnerability.

FlashSessions, now there's something I hadn't thought about in 20 years.

Well, yes, that's the point of Open Source. (Google did the same thing with Linux and Android).

However, it's worth noting that in both the cases of iOS and Android, the kernel talking to the hardware is all that it really is. Darwin uses a bit more of the BSD userspace, but it's still only half an OS without the actual OS/X layer ontop of it. The value that the systems bring to the table are from the layers in the middle. No one would use just Darwin, and no one would use an Android device without the touchscreen UI.

Is anyone really going to read it who cares? I imagine the biggest use of this will be trying to spoil this for others online.

Yes. They already know the email address is active by virtue of the fact that their messages aren't bouncing, and they're already sending me emails. The worst that can happen is they send me more emails. I'll live with the risk.