Comment no (Score 1) 71
No, it won't be anything of the sort. Because bureaucracy never dies and that goes for all of Europe, too.
Comment Re: Wi-Fi (Score 1) 21
^ That is a major "no shit" statement right there. It really took me a while to learn this.
I don't think Wi-Fi drivers for RPi 4 or RPi 5 will ever be supported by AARCH64 FreeBSD. Every time I look into this I get a NIMBY vibe from the FreeBSD devs. They just don't care about something that small.
What's astonishing to me is that FreeBSD, after all of this time, still does not have an additional part included in their installer to install and test Xorg and say, XFCE or GNOME desktop environments. That right there just seems to be "in error" and does not sit well with me. Sure, I could use Ghost BSD or something else. It does beg the question: why does FreeBSD do this to their whole base? Do they enjoy making the non-server crowds who run FreeBSD on their PC's and laptops miserable?
Comment Re:Wi-Fi (Score 2) 21
A few years ago I tried to use an older version of FreeBSD on a RPi 4 but the OS didn't have Wi-Fi support for Pi boards. Has the status for this changed with AArch64/ARM64?
In other words, would you know if they got it working and this page is now out of date, or is Wi-Fi still unsupported?
Comment Re:reasoning? (Score 1) 43
ok thanks for clarifying that. That makes more sense now.
Comment reasoning? (Score 0) 43
This is dumb. Where are our clean, safe cores? Why are there always compromises with chip and software security? Why can't Intel stay ahead of the curve?
Comment Re:To the surprise of no one (Score 1) 25
He was also working with 98 year old Henry Kissinger on that AI book. Schmidt learned a few tricks from the conniving Kissinger.
Submission + - Study solves long-standing mystery of what may have triggered ice age (phys.org)
nickwinlund77 writes: [I'd like to know what kind of modeling software they use for determining this?]
A new study led by University of Arizona researchers may have solved two mysteries that have long puzzled paleo-climate experts: Where did the ice sheets that rang in the last ice age more than 100,000 years ago come from, and how could they grow so quickly?
Understanding what drives Earth's glacial–interglacial cycles—the periodic advance and retreat of ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere—is no easy feat, and researchers have devoted substantial effort to explaining the expansion and shrinking of large ice masses over thousands of years. The new study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, proposes an explanation for the rapid expansion of the ice sheets that covered much of the Northern Hemisphere during the most recent ice age, and the findings could also apply to other glacial periods throughout Earth's history.
About 100,000 years ago, when mammoths roamed the Earth, the Northern Hemisphere climate plummeted into a deep freeze that allowed massive ice sheets to form. Over a period of about 10,000 years, local mountain glaciers grew and formed large ice sheets covering much of today's Canada, Siberia and northern Europe.
While it has been widely accepted that periodic "wobbling" in the Earth's orbit around the sun triggered cooling in the Northern Hemisphere summer that caused the onset of widespread glaciation, scientists have struggled to explain the extensive ice sheets covering much of Scandinavia and northern Europe, where temperatures are much more mild. ...
"Using both climate model simulations and marine sediment analysis, we show that ice forming in northern Canada can obstruct ocean gateways and divert water transport from the Arctic into the North Atlantic," Lofverstrom said, "and that in turn leads to a weakened ocean circulation and cold conditions off the coast of Scandinavia, which is sufficient to start growing ice in that region."
A new study led by University of Arizona researchers may have solved two mysteries that have long puzzled paleo-climate experts: Where did the ice sheets that rang in the last ice age more than 100,000 years ago come from, and how could they grow so quickly?
Understanding what drives Earth's glacial–interglacial cycles—the periodic advance and retreat of ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere—is no easy feat, and researchers have devoted substantial effort to explaining the expansion and shrinking of large ice masses over thousands of years. The new study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, proposes an explanation for the rapid expansion of the ice sheets that covered much of the Northern Hemisphere during the most recent ice age, and the findings could also apply to other glacial periods throughout Earth's history.
About 100,000 years ago, when mammoths roamed the Earth, the Northern Hemisphere climate plummeted into a deep freeze that allowed massive ice sheets to form. Over a period of about 10,000 years, local mountain glaciers grew and formed large ice sheets covering much of today's Canada, Siberia and northern Europe.
While it has been widely accepted that periodic "wobbling" in the Earth's orbit around the sun triggered cooling in the Northern Hemisphere summer that caused the onset of widespread glaciation, scientists have struggled to explain the extensive ice sheets covering much of Scandinavia and northern Europe, where temperatures are much more mild.
"Using both climate model simulations and marine sediment analysis, we show that ice forming in northern Canada can obstruct ocean gateways and divert water transport from the Arctic into the North Atlantic," Lofverstrom said, "and that in turn leads to a weakened ocean circulation and cold conditions off the coast of Scandinavia, which is sufficient to start growing ice in that region."
Submission + - California Ran on Nearly 100% Clean Energy This Month (bloombergquint.com)
An anonymous reader writes: California, which aims to have a carbon-free power grid within 25 years, got a short glimpse of that possibility earlier this month. The state’s main grid ran on more than 97% renewable energy at 3:39 p.m. on Sunday April 3, breaking a previous record of 96.4% that was set just a week earlier, the California Independent System Operator said Thursday in a statement. While these all-time highs are for a brief time, they solidly demonstrate the advances being made to reliably achieve California’s clean energy goals,” said California ISO CEO Elliot Mainzer said in the statement.
Power production from the sun and wind typically peak in the spring, due to mild temperatures and the angle of the sun allowing for an extended period of strong solar production, the grid operator said. While hitting the new renewable record is remarkable, the state has found itself scrambling for power supplies during the past two summers as it has added more intermittent sources and retired natural-gas plants for environmental reasons. California has set a target to have a zero-carbon power system by 2045.
Power production from the sun and wind typically peak in the spring, due to mild temperatures and the angle of the sun allowing for an extended period of strong solar production, the grid operator said. While hitting the new renewable record is remarkable, the state has found itself scrambling for power supplies during the past two summers as it has added more intermittent sources and retired natural-gas plants for environmental reasons. California has set a target to have a zero-carbon power system by 2045.
Comment Re: Bad for the poor (Score 1) 193
I don't see a problem with it. All people who work need to be paid a living wage, like yesterday.
Comment Re:Legal in DC, Oregon, and Canada (Score 1) 97
I'm in Oregon. I used to toke (smoke weed) quite often back in the day before recreational marijuana became legal here. I see this not so much as a commercial control issue but more people putting on their blinders. There is still a stigma among the generations about habitual drug use. There are those who do it and those who don't partake. When you step over that line you essentially become a different person and different scenarios in perception and counter-cultural aspects when dealing with others frequently emerge.
I don't know if Big Pharma will ever get in the business of selling LSD or other narcotics. (Remember Marinol? I think that was a flop for Merck.) The pharmaceutical companies don't know what to do with the counter-cultural eccentricities of consumers in legal states who tend to be unpredictable at times in their buying habits. Sure those companies can make a buck selling a deliverable but consumers are always demanding something better. With weed, consumers in legal states want "high grade" or very potent marijuana to be sold in dispensaries. Anything that isn't truly "dank" is left by the wayside. How would Big Pharma manufacture unadulterated narcotics if they could?
Submission + - Meet the 1,300 librarians racing to back up Ukraine's digital archives (washingtonpost.com)
nickwinlund77 writes: Buildings, bridges, and monuments aren’t the only cultural landmarks vulnerable to war. With the violence well into its second month, Ukraine’s digital history — its poems, archives, and pictures — are at risk of being erased as cyberattacks and bombs erode the nation’s servers.
Over the past month, a motley group of more than 1,300 librarians, historians, teachers and young children have banded together to save Ukraine’s Internet archives, using technology to back up everything from census data to children’s poems and Ukrainian basket weaving techniques.
The efforts, dubbed Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online, have resulted in over 2,500 of the country’s museums, libraries, and archives being preserved on servers they’ve rented, eliminating the risk they’ll be lost forever. Now, an all-volunteer effort has become a lifeline for cultural officials in Ukraine, who are working with the group to digitize their collections in the event their facilities get destroyed in the war.
The endeavor, experts said, underscores how volunteers, armed with low-cost technology, training and organization can protect a country’s history from disasters such as war, hurricanes, earthquakes and fire.
Large parts of the Internet get periodically archived through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, which partners with the organization, but the organizers also needed something more advanced, Dombrowski said. In many cases, the Wayback Machine can dig into the first or second layer of a website, she added, but many documents, like pictures and uploaded files, on Ukraine’s cultural websites could be seven or eight layers deep, inaccessible to traditional Web crawlers.
To do that, they turned to a suite of open source digital archiving tools called Webrecorder, which have been around since the mid-2010s, and used by institutions including the United Kingdom’s National Archive and the National Library of Australia. They also started a global Slack channel to communicate with volunteers.
Over the past month, a motley group of more than 1,300 librarians, historians, teachers and young children have banded together to save Ukraine’s Internet archives, using technology to back up everything from census data to children’s poems and Ukrainian basket weaving techniques.
The efforts, dubbed Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online, have resulted in over 2,500 of the country’s museums, libraries, and archives being preserved on servers they’ve rented, eliminating the risk they’ll be lost forever. Now, an all-volunteer effort has become a lifeline for cultural officials in Ukraine, who are working with the group to digitize their collections in the event their facilities get destroyed in the war.
The endeavor, experts said, underscores how volunteers, armed with low-cost technology, training and organization can protect a country’s history from disasters such as war, hurricanes, earthquakes and fire.
Large parts of the Internet get periodically archived through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, which partners with the organization, but the organizers also needed something more advanced, Dombrowski said. In many cases, the Wayback Machine can dig into the first or second layer of a website, she added, but many documents, like pictures and uploaded files, on Ukraine’s cultural websites could be seven or eight layers deep, inaccessible to traditional Web crawlers.
To do that, they turned to a suite of open source digital archiving tools called Webrecorder, which have been around since the mid-2010s, and used by institutions including the United Kingdom’s National Archive and the National Library of Australia. They also started a global Slack channel to communicate with volunteers.
Submission + - SPAM: Sunspot Activity on The Sun Is Seriously Exceeding Official Predictions
schwit1 writes: Weather predictions here on Earth are more accurate than they've ever been; trying to predict the behavior of our wild and wacky Sun is a little more tricky.
Case in point: according to official predictions, the current cycle of solar activity should be mild. But the gap between the prediction and what's actually happening is pretty significant – and it's getting wider. Sunspot counts, used as a measure for solar activity, are way higher than the predicted values calculated by the NOAA, NASA, and the International Space Environmental Service.
"Scientists have struggled to predict both the length and the strength of sunspot cycles because we lack a fundamental understanding of the mechanism that drives the cycle," McIntosh said at the time.
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Case in point: according to official predictions, the current cycle of solar activity should be mild. But the gap between the prediction and what's actually happening is pretty significant – and it's getting wider. Sunspot counts, used as a measure for solar activity, are way higher than the predicted values calculated by the NOAA, NASA, and the International Space Environmental Service.
"Scientists have struggled to predict both the length and the strength of sunspot cycles because we lack a fundamental understanding of the mechanism that drives the cycle," McIntosh said at the time.
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Submission + - DuckDuckGo moves against Russian state propaganda (rawstory.com)
nickwinlund77 writes: "..According to a New York Times report on Friday, many on the right are suddenly calling for a boycott of DuckDuckGo, because its CEO, Gabriel Weinberg, said the site would lower the search ranking of sources of disinformation — most chiefly Russian state propaganda about the invasion of Ukraine.
"DuckDuckGo has little control over its search results because they are provided by Microsoft’s Bing, which announced that it would follow the European Union’s order to restrict access to the Russian state news agencies RT and Sputnik," reported Stuart Thompson. "But the criticism from the far right was directed at DuckDuckGo. The conservative website Breitbart said DuckDuckGo was 'adopting the censorship policies' of Big Tech. In social media channels devoted to conspiracy theories, users vowed to switch to alternatives like the Russian search engine Yandex. The hashtag #DuckDuckGone trended across Twitter in the United States by Friday. And on YouTube, users criticized the company for silencing voices."
DuckDuckGo communications VP Kamyl Bazbaz emphasized that websites found to be engaged in an "active disinformation campaign" would not actually be banned: “This isn’t censorship, it’s just search rankings.”
"DuckDuckGo has little control over its search results because they are provided by Microsoft’s Bing, which announced that it would follow the European Union’s order to restrict access to the Russian state news agencies RT and Sputnik," reported Stuart Thompson. "But the criticism from the far right was directed at DuckDuckGo. The conservative website Breitbart said DuckDuckGo was 'adopting the censorship policies' of Big Tech. In social media channels devoted to conspiracy theories, users vowed to switch to alternatives like the Russian search engine Yandex. The hashtag #DuckDuckGone trended across Twitter in the United States by Friday. And on YouTube, users criticized the company for silencing voices."
DuckDuckGo communications VP Kamyl Bazbaz emphasized that websites found to be engaged in an "active disinformation campaign" would not actually be banned: “This isn’t censorship, it’s just search rankings.”
Submission + - SPAM: DuckDuckGo to Down-Rank Sites Associated With Russian Disinformation
An anonymous reader writes: DuckDuckGo is now down-ranking sites associated with Russian disinformation in response to the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, but some critics say the change amounts to censorship. DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg announced the down-ranking on Twitter. “Like so many others I am sickened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create,” he wrote in the tweet, which included the hashtag StandWithUkraine. “At DuckDuckGo, we've been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation,” he added. Weinberg didn’t elaborate on the decision, or how the down-ranking will work. [...] Weinberg was quick to defend the decision, saying it was necessary to provide relevant search results over disinformation.
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Comment who else (Score 2) 114
Could be SigInt or some other buffoonery? William Casey was Reagan's CIA director in 1981. That was after the Church committee intelligence reforms. Casey was a real ass. They're the whole reason the Iran-Contra scandal got underway.
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