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Exile this weedy man.

This lockdown is a complete sham. They know it, and we are idiots for lapping it up and blindly complying with their ridiculous "guidelines".

Witness surely thay mean informant, we have turned into a police state

"Do as I say, not as I do"

I won't lie, when this story broke on Friday I couldn't get mad because, in the same conditions, I would have done the same. If my wife is ill, if I am becoming symptomatic, and my best support network is 260 miles away with an empty guest house, it's a no brainer. I want to get there while I am well enough to transport my family there, so in case we are incapacitated my kid can be looked after by family. I despise the man, both due to his actions as a human and his ideas towards humanity, but on Friday night I couldn't call for him to go because deep down I know I would have done it.

But, now we know the truth. This was not a mercy dash. This was flaunting. This was a minor holiday. As people watched their beloved get burried on Zoom, or worse were there and unable to hold together people broken by the agony of death, he drove back and forth to look at bluebells.

I haven't seen my family since January. If he is still in a job on Monday night, I drive to them on Tuesday morning. Fuck lockdown, it's over.

Assholes who make laws about quarantine then break them because rules are for ~other people~ should be locked up. Can Boris live without him?

Wow can’t believe the witness has allowed their identity to be revealed. They’re well and truly involved with this now, probably have reporters camping outside their house. I’d have wanted to stay anonymous I think...

more....

https://twitter.com/iamsimonyoung/status/1259591486523486209

Does breach of lockdown rules count as an offence? Can it be prosecuted?

I know one thing. He's Joris Bohnson's "Spin doctor". Or to put it another way, a fucking liar.

Wakefield would later give an account of her husband’s Covid-19 experience in an article for the Spectator. “Dom couldn’t get out of bed. Day in, day out for 10 days he lay doggo with a high fever and spasms.” 

Suspect is pure fiction.

It will be very funny if the government do end up sacking him but he will worm his way back after a few months.

What an absolute cockwomble

you know, it says so much that literally every top tier tory is out defending this guy, an unelected advisor and they are risking it all for him and making a mockery of the rules. this guy is the king and boris just the puppet, no way they would do this normally.

He's not going anywhere. He runs the government.

Is it a criminal offence to deliberately spread COVID-19?

Can he be charged with an act of terrorism? Knowingly spreading the virus is terrorism.

Lol

https://twitter.com/richgoulding/status/1264265711490392064?s=20

Rules for thee, not for me.

Don't worry, I'm sure Laura Kuennsberg will be along soon with another anonymous source to explain it all away.

I do wonder is why these witnesses who saw him up north didn't go public with this sooner? We're now well over a month further down the line and this would've been so much more damning had it been 'caught in the act' it a couple of days later

It's despicable what he's done and he should be sacked for it but if you have info like that on someone it's on the publics interest to make that known and it would be easier to be investigated by journalists

Lovely bit of journalism here. Release the first bit of info, watch them all scurry to cover it up, change their stories (although I bet they never expected the cabinet members to defend him so strongly) then release a bit more to blow those excuses to bits. Absolute tekkers

What a frigging arrogant twat! Needs sacking

You know what I find most difficult to believe in all of this? Somebody married Dominic Cummings. He is physically and morally disgusting.

And this is after they were both diagnosed? They were busy going out and spreading thier germs everywhere? Absolute bloody cunt. Thousands are dead across the country due to this disease. Did he contribute?

so brave

What an incredibly profound statement /s

coool

Yeah wave that magic wand joe. How about you have a plan first instead of acting like you give a shit.

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When will this sub get off Joe Biden’s Patriot Act-loving, corporate-owned dick Sorry but he goes directly against everything Yang and Humanity Forward embody

It's almost parody how low the bar is now.

I am sure the payroll taxes of Amazon employees more than makes up for the lack of corporate tax. I suppose the could stop hiring so many people and instead direct the money to corporate tax, but why would that better?

That’s what trump said.

Amazon pays the taxes it owes.

Anyone who has been in Congress and hasn’t made an effort to change the tax code has no right to complain about Amazon obeying the laws that only Congress has the power to change.

So he wants to get rid of the loss carry forward (net operating loss) provision of the tax code, originally created in 1917? Because that’s all Amazon doing.

He says popular things after other people make them popular, but he does not commit to an implementation because that might be unpopular. I welcome a man with no ideas over a man with bad ideas, but was this the best we could do?

Please stop spamming r/politics articles here. This isn't the place.

You ain’t black if you don’t vote for joe Biden. His words not mine

Wow thanks Joe Biden

"The person who's going to win is either going to be me, or someone who sounds exactly like me."

-Andrew Yang

Biden has been in government for 1,000 years, if he want Amazon to pay more tax he's had more than enough time to make it happen.

Better follow through on that Sleepy!

Joe will say anything to get elected at this point.

Trump will just say anything.

Why are we here?

Wow. How brave of him to take such a controversial stance.

I try to avoid amazon whenever possible. Sadly, that's been hard to do since I can't go many places during the pandemic.

Which one? There's 9.

Amazon has not met their financial commitments to the city of Seattle for a very long time. There have been small gestures relative to their size/impact over time, but the city will never recoup their losses and the outsized financial ratio of payment to benefit the city derives only serves the people who work at Amazon.

yes

lol as soon as that Bezos campaign contribution check clears, Joe will stop mentioning any of this. What a tool.

I wish they had also researched the mimblewimbe coins

Here are my takeaways, overall well worth the read but definitely take it with a grain of salt like Sarang said 🙂

https://twitter.com/sethisimmons/status/1264298054364119041?s=21

From PDF:

Abstract

Many alt-coins developed in recent years make strong privacy guarantees, claiming to be virtually untraceable. This paper explores the extent to which these claims are true after the first appraisals were made about these coins. In particular, we will investigate Monero (XMR) and Zcash (ZEC), competitors in the private cryptocurrency space. We will test how traceable these currencies are after the most recent security updates, and how they hold up against their claims. We run some traceability experiments based on previously published papers for each coin. Results show that, introducing strict security and anonymity requirements into the cryptocurrency ecosystem makes the coin effectively untraceable, as shown by Monero. On the other hand, Zcash still hesitates to introduce changes that alter user behavior. Despite its strong cryptographic features, transactions are overall more traceable.

Disclaimer: Preprints have not undergone any formal peer review. Anyone can post a preprint.

Here is the list of acceptance criteria for the IACR preprint archive, where this preprint appears.

TLDR;

5.1 Monero The anonymity of Monero has evolved to a large extent in the recent few years. With the introduction of RingCT and the increase of mandatory mixins to 10, it is much harder to trace the transactions. We investigated the effectiveness of three successful heuristics from the pre-RingCT era (i.e. before January 2017). The percentage of deducible transactions through zero chain analysis decreased to nearly 0% after the implementation of RingCT. The accuracy of the time heuristic has also reduced considerably to less than 40% with 10 mixins with a more realistic time distribution of mixins. The merging outputs heuristic still has good performance, but it can only be applied to 21 a small portion of all transactions. We thus came to the conclusion that compared to the version three years ago, current Monero transactions can be conducted with superior anonymity with the introduction of new techniques like RingCT.

From PDF:

Abstract

Many alt-coins developed in recent years make strong privacy guarantees, claiming to be virtually untraceable. This paper explores the extent to which these claims are true after the first appraisals were made about these coins. In particular, we will investigate Monero (XMR) and Zcash (ZEC), competitors in the private cryptocurrency space. We will test how traceable these currencies are after the most recent security updates, and how they hold up against their claims. We run some traceability experiments based on previously published papers for each coin. Results show that, introducing strict security and anonymity requirements into the cryptocurrency ecosystem makes the coin effectively untraceable, as shown by Monero. On the other hand, Zcash still hesitates to introduce changes that alter user behavior. Despite its strong cryptographic features, transactions are overall more traceable.

The usual disclaimer: preprints have not undergone any formal peer review. Anyone can post a preprint.

Here is the list of acceptance criteria for the IACR preprint archive, where this preprint appears.

This is the exact reason I do not use cloud services.

I gotta be honest, and maybe this is conspiratorial, but I feel like Plandemic is planned opposition. There are a lot of holes in it, her story is kind of strange, and the media started covering it immediately even though there's been all sorts of other scandalous stuff blowing the covid propaganda wide open.

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I could be wrong, and I haven't looked deep into it, but my understanding is that it doesn't really dwell on just how faulty and problematic the PCR testing has been, and based on what I've learned that should be the big focus of anybody skeptical of the covid propaganda - the PCR tests are not at all surefire proof of the presence of a viral contagion, and it would appear they have an enormous false positive rate. Somebody please correct me on this if I'm wrong, I'm mostly just taking Monica Perez's word for it, as Monica Perez (and her show The Propaganda Report with cohost Brad Binkley) has been right on the money when it comes to covid, and they were covering event 201 and suggesting that it was the precursor to a massive propaganda campaign before covid was even a topic in the media, and sure enough they turned out to be 100% correct on that one (and many other things, frankly - she is absolutely my favorite radical libertarian doing daily political news).

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And Monica's sense is that Mikovits and her story and this whole Plandemic thing are a way for the real culprits behind much of this tyranny to have some manner of control over their opposition. That's not uncommon at all when it comes to propaganda, we've seen it many times in the past, and even in event 201 the "conspiracy theorists" and how to deal with them is a prominent part of their simulation.

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I tend to trust Monica Perez's instincts on stuff like this.

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That said obviously I think censorship is terrible and should be called out, but many many many other covid related things are being censored right now, including testimony and research from all sorts of relevant scientists, medical practitioners, researchers, etc. But Plandemic, how to "debunk" Plandemic, censorship of Plandemic - this is what's being talked about in the mainstream press. It's kind of like the Edward Snowden thing, or that Miami Herald writer that "broke" the Epstein story - limited and controlled release of information to manage that which the segment of the population that is always going to be skeptical of our rulers believes and spreads around.

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Anybody else getting this impression?

is there anywhere to watch online or is it completely gone

Do you think something like this could happen to people on Dropbox?

this is bullshit, it looks more like they were using drive to share the video then linking it from youtube videos to distribute it.

They didn't comb through private videos and delete it, they deleted the file because it was being publicly distributed via drive

In an article reporting on the takedown, The Washington Post’s Silicon Valley Correspondent Elizabeth Dwoskin complains that after the coronavirus documentary Plandemic was censored on social media, some YouTube clips were telling users how to access “banned footage” from the documentary via Google Drive.

She then notes that after The Washington Post contacted Google, Google Drive took down a file featuring the trailer for the Plandemic documentary.

Imagine if somebody had the capability to stream that video on television and even hack news station Facebook pages and post the video there too

They can't scan everytype of encrypted backup file.. so take your stuff to the cleaners they can't get everything

To be fair, in this instance Google Drive is used as a vehicle for spreading disinformation (by sharing access to a personal file). The article describes the conspiracist drivel of "Plandemic" repeatedly as a "documentary" (it is not, it's an assembly of lies and half-truths covered in conspiracist bullshit), which to me reeks of bias.

Also, while I agree that Google shouldn't remove a file from a user's personal drive except where such a file obviously breaks the law, in this case, there's at least probable cause that this is in fact the case.

Thirdly, don't use any online storage service as your sole repository for any file. Ever.

Fourthly, nobody should be using a free google service and expecting to have privacy within it. Well, nobody who has any connection with reality at least. But then, we are talking about conspiracy nuts here.

I’m not saying that this shouldn’t be deleted, but it sets a dangerous precedent for google to just go into your files and delete them.

Good

Also this report from 2 doctors was removed because someone at google decided they did not like what it concluded.

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-censors-google-doc-hydroxychloroquine/

I never thought this sub was full of conspiracy believers! I get the problem with Google, but if the information could harm people and violates terms and conditions, I can understand Google actions just like child pornography or revenge porn, etc.

I have not seen this video and do not use google drive because I knew this would happen eventually.

Just wait until they unleash their copyright ai on it. How many of you (that use it, hopefully nobody)will come out unscathed?

The key concept here is redundancy. As cliche as it sounds, never put all your eggs in one basket.

if you didnt have a reason to encrypt your data, well heres one for you now

This should be pinned to the top and you guys are downvoting it. Good luck with your data. Wait till Samsung decides to make their HDDs not save stuff China doesn't like. I mean if it saves lives why not?

Possibly the biggest threat to data backup on the cloud is happening and you guys downvote it. Oh well, I tried.

And next: my 40tb plex backup folder. 🤓

This is why 321 exists. I have local copies and an encrypted cloud copy of my important files. Can't take it down if you don't know what it is.

It was always gonna happen. Encrypt and abuse the fuck outta these asshats, but never have them be the sole backup.

And now the file storage and sharing service Google Drive has started to take down users’ files in response to media complaints about them containing coronavirus misinformation.

Fine with it. To hell with misinformation outlets, they're getting people killed.

The cloud is just someone elses computer and they might decide they don't like you. Keep it local.

That’s fucked up, it was also deleted from my email

Good, fuck her

Instead of proving information as false,it gets censored,anything proving the "truth" as faulty gets censored This is a dystopia An Orwellian work of art

If anyone’s got a copy I need one. I wanna translate into Japanese. HMU

Ouch, because it's true

My bet is that this is a mechanism used by apple to determine where exploit code/flaws are being created.

Misinformation.

People like to go "grr aple bad, spyware!!!" but this is just the expanded xProtect in the update, you can go see the changes in the source code.

The first time a new unsigned application/process is run, it's checksum is sent to apple to check if it matches any known malware. It's not always sending data, just the first time.

The reason it happens to this guy over and over is because each command in the Terminal creates a process. You can turn XProtect off for anything on the system if you want.

That’s weird; it’s been great on both my Macs, even a 1.4ghz i5 Mini.

I'm going to need to be able to reproduce this on my machine before I can trust this. This is a massive allegation.

Disable it via

System preferences > privacy and security > privacy tab >developer tools > terminal

If you don’t see that- install Xcode

If you block the domain it contacts does it still open programs?

My Mac doesn't do anything of the sort. Maybe it does that if you enable telemetry, but that is your own choice.

BTW, this article is full of bad advice. I have no idea what's causing the delays he's seeing (I see no such thing either), but disabling System Integrity Protection is a very bad idea if you value your security.

MacOS has XProtect built in, its a signature based anti-malware engine,

Its not uncommon for tools like this to send hash data and in some case applications or code back.

If they see the same SHA sum being executed on multiple machines and can't identify it, they may investigate it further to determine if its malicious or benign.

Is nothing sacred anymore!? All these people harvesting our privacy shit cmon now

I'm surprised that people are surprised about this...

Can't believe people really think Apple values users privacy. HA

In theory, if you are offline, does it still wait for a timed out or does it just skip the ping EDIT: yes it works

This is beyond horrible. Not only is the Apple I once knew dead, now the MacOS I once knew is dying, slowly being turned into iOS.

Very sad news. I've already made the switch to Linux everywhere (the decision accelerated by the fact that MacOS stopped supporting my iMac), but I do miss it sometimes. When I see screenshots and videos from MacOS, i Pine for the slickness, the speed (not so much anymore), and the beautiful font rendering.

But there's really no going back now.

Mac boots so slow. Previous version booted so quick.

This is so fucked.

But, I can't reproduce any of this on my (work-issued) macbook.

Thank you, now whenever people recommend Apple products for privacy I'll show this.

MacOS 10.15/Catalina. Could have put that in the title instead of this clickbait version

So the hash of the file, what other data is sent? It doesn’t mention it in the article

Dumb move. It they contine to lockdown the OS there will be no reason to use over iOS.

No network packet capture?

...so essentially, every time I open an app for the first time, Apple intervenes and collects data without asking for my express permission? And for what, some fringe 'security' benefits?

So much for the 'champions of privacy', I guess. Windows does this shit too, apparently, but I expected better from Apple.

Yes, I have noticed that macOS the last few major updates has gotten slower at everyday tasks.

But, if you, say, just leave Chrome open, and sleep the Mac, it will not incur the delay.

How many programs are we constantly opening and closing on the regular?

System security comes at a cost. The problem with this article’s criticism of Apple’s approach is that it rather overstates the issue while it also fails to provide any sort of alternative. It makes this out to be some terrible, oppressive issue that it’s really not. A relatively small user base would ever even notice while all users greatly benefit from the vastly increased security. Additionally, as Apple’s history shows, they tend to add features in one iteration that they further optimize by the next release. Leopard -> Snow Leopard, Lion -> Mountain Lion are two notable tick-tock releases.

This entire article is written as if none of these protocols can never be improved, and macOS is doomed just because of some inefficiencies in its security framework the author keeps encountering as a developer and power user. I think he’s being over dramatic and fatalist, especially for issues which don’t really affect the vast majority of users.

Apple are tightening their grip on MacOS and third party applications, so this wouldn't be surprising. At the same time, I don't see any conclusive evidence that specifically matches the title.

Perhaps MacOS sometimes contacts an Apple server, maybe its contacting something else, perhaps first time, perhaps every time. There's hardly any context given so its impossible to know exactly what is happening and when. Where's the information about SHA sum data? The linked podcast is not talking about this problem at all. If people call a function that checks signatures, its slow because of internet access? But surely that's exactly what you would expect, and Apple acknowledges it does that.

I'm not trying to say that Apple are blameless over respecting their users freedom, obviously that's not true. At the same time, they should be criticized where they are clearly wrong, or clearly trying to deceive people. They make no pretense of hiding their signing requirements. There's certainly an argument that the signing requirements are bad, but I haven't seen anything that shows Apple lying to users about them.

Windows does this with SmartScreen, yet nobody cares.

Why drama, the price is increasing thats more important for most people..

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An "aspirational" text to say that they will apply GDPR ?

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How are they going to do this? Peer 2 peer energy trading isn't legal on anything besides a micro grid that I'm aware of.

Its PowerLedger, the problem they are solving is centralized energy and the problems that come with that. Imagine powering your home with your neighbors solar array or getting paid by your neighbors for your windmill power while you are on vacation.

Just watched The Social Network last night. Only took me 10 years.

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Usually hate frat bros but I really liked watching Armie's performance of these guys.