News that mattered last week.
European values are non-negotiable- opinion piece(euobserver.com)
I'm against anything that is "non-negotiable" because only other alternative to negotiating is using force.
That is a really shitty situation. On one hand someone needs to stop this push for bureaucratic superstate that wants to regulate everything and is so removed from the voter that is in practice unaccountable.On the other side why it had to be 2 right wing religous zealots who want totall control over people in their coutries.
When Kaczynski(head of ruling party in Poland) was a major of my city the waiting time to do anything in the town hall rose from few days to few months, because he revoke permit for other employees to sign documents in his name - he wanted to see every document.
Want peace - prepare for war, I guess...
Review fast tracked for Nevada vanadium mine, 1st in the US(abcnews.go.com)
USA Scrambles to decouple itself from china, but I don't see that happening with rare metals. "Rare metals" have mostly the same concentration in dirt all around the world. The only reason mainly china produces them is lack of environment protection laws. The concentrations are minuscule and chemicals used to extract them make processed dirt contaminated and unusable for decades. China just does not care and they are processing most of the dirt from all mines in that way. Looks like US found one that they can produce - but this fast tracking makes me think that even that would not pass regulation when considered in normal way
4 Companies Move Forward in Skyborg Competition-AI wingman drones(airforcemag.com)
Cyber warfare getting more and more important.
US to buy eight of Turkey’s F-35s from Lockheed Martin(al-monitor.com)
Yup, you can't trust religious people and especially religious people with power. On the other hand I'm sure US could at any moment send few commands via satellite and brick (permanently turn off) any of them.
Switzerland begins militarization process(theduran.com)
Is funding wars and not fighting them no longer their thing?
OSCE Special Representative in TCG says what measures envisage agreement on ceasefire in Donbas(interfax.com)
Another ceasefire but I don't have my hopes up it will hold - see last week Links to know why.
UK and US say Russia fired a satellite weapon in space(bbc.com)
Not the first time russia interferes wit usa satellites. Few moths ago there were a story about russian spacecraft positioning itself between US ones - probably eavesdropping.
Logical, get rid of GPS and all those smart bombs and missiles get as dumb as any other.
Aliens spotting out new , soon uninhabited real estate.
No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public(nytimes.com)
Those statements make me wonder if:
- They try to divert attention from something? If yes, what?
- They are really considering that those are aliens and want to remove stigma to get as much information from public as possible?
- they are really scared that russia or china make some colossal breakthrough in propulsion an physics?
New Never Before Seen Pictures of Area 51 Revealed(disclose.tv)
So what you are saying is that they don't really use it anymore?
We need our slaves...
but not only china:
The Systematic Exploitation of Harvest Workers in Europe(spiegel.de)
That's a shit storm if I ever seen one.
Black Trump supporter, 60, is shot dead in Milwaukee: Detectives are investigating 'political' motive after beloved community activist was gunned down in a drive-by(dailymail.co.uk)
If someone still thinks that's about race in USA he's either stupid or lying. It's communism vs capitalism all over again.
Biosphere getting more and more out of whack
South Asia floods displace millions, kill 550(startribune.com)
...not only china
Environmentalists say the destruction of monkeys' natural habitats is the main reason the animals move into urban areas in search of food.
Sorry to break your "environmentalist bubble" but for generations now natural habitat for those monkeys meant streets full of people giving them food. If they would live in the wild there would be o lot less of them. But the population is huge and because of covid there is almost no food - stories like this(or worse) will keep happening until we get back to normal or monkey population get's back to normal.
Top Scientists Just Ruled Out Best-Case Global Warming Scenarios(dailymail.co.uk)
Our most likely value of climate sensitivity is what people have thought for a long time now, around 3°C. That's really scary. That's not great.
Why Arctic sea ice just crashed to an extreme, record low(mashable.com)
Recent decades of European floods are among the worst in 500 year(newscientist.com)
And what else did you expect?
Harvard Scientists Plan First-Ever Field Experiment Related To Solar Geoengineering(wbur.org
"Quick do something! ANYTHING!" - that's what I hear more and more from scientists.
Key articles about heat waves and how people are adapting(yaleclimateconnections.org)
Oh no, competition in link lists! Still a good list.
Thai rice exporters cut 2020 forecast to 6.5 million tonnes, lowest in 20 years(channelnewsasia.com)
When food stops growing people will start to notice.
How America’s hottest city will survive climate change(washingtonpost.com)
It won't.
Sorry that's getting redundant but I can't pass occasion for one line truth bomb.
Elites just doing their thing
Ghislaine Maxwell: Judge rules to unseal records from 2015 civil suit that could expose accused sex trafficker(independent.co.uk)
Don't believe that those records will go public- someone will die or something will burn, can't predict what exactly will happen but something will prevent this from getting unsealed.
Brexit trade deal 'unlikely', Michel Barnier warns Boris Johnson(independent.co.uk)
It was always doomed to fail. UE will not except anything that not makes UK humiliated wasal state and Boris will not agree to that. EU can't agree to honest just deal because if UK manages to maintain it's position after leaving few more coutries may star getting some "wrong" ideas.
Italian senator launches new party to exit EU(euobserver.com)
I just wrote about that above...
Messing with electronics
Neuralink Will Update on Getting to Human Trials on Brain Interfaces(nextbigfuture.com)
I don't care very much about music, but if it allows me to ingest books faster I will even allow some closed source hardware into my scull - my "Want to read" list is horribly long and only getting longer.
Could Your Router Be The Biggest Security Flaw in Your Linux System?(linuxsecurity.com)
You may care about security and privacy but your ISP only cares to buy cheapest hardware that still kinda works.
Reports: Windows 10X will remove Win32 support as focus shifts to a 'Cloud PC'(pcworld.com)
People are messing with local installs and we can't effortlessly spy on them - move EVERYTHING to our servers(and call it "cloud" so we don't scare people off)
3D hand-sensing wristband signals future of wearable tech(sciencedaily.com)
Sounds cool but I'm worried about accuracy in this approach.
A PORTABLE HOME AIR QUALITY METER WITH THE ESP32(hackaday.com)
Probably my next project - tips appreciated, little pricey for Arduino sensor.
Fabien Cousteau Is Raising $135 Million To Build The International Space Station Of The Deep Sea(forbes.com)
I bet it will be a lot harder to maintain than the real ISS.
LINUX FU: KEEP IN SYNC - Syncthing(hackaday.com)
Can't recommend syncthing enough. I use it for self hosted backup for years and it works like a charm. Clients for every platform and you cant combine it with "pCloud" to backup your most valued data also to Gdrive, box.com and few others - in case your server/home burns in fire.
I can write a tutorial on setting this up if you want - let me know in comments.
A newer, stronger version of Gorilla Glass is coming and Samsung will be the first company to use it(mashable.com)
Smartphones are not really getting any faster(nor they need to) so that's a strong argument for an upgrade.
