Life’s failures come at you when it’s quiet.

She wakes at 6:30 a.m. to leave for work by 7:30. Forty-five minutes later she’s parking in the basement garage then taking the elevator up to the 24th floor. Ten steps through the glass doors then make a right. Go down past the first door and make another right into the kitchen to put her brown bag lunch in the fridge and grab a coffee. She walks to her office, turns on the lights, and closes the door. Six months at a new job in a new city. It felt like 60 years.

Sit on a vinyl chair made to look like leather at a fake desk made to look like wood. She wishes her desk were wood. There is a warmth to wood. The desk - laminate covering particle board - feels cold and unnatural. Her skin wasn’t formed to touch these things. The fluorescent lights cast shadows over her face, magnifying every crease and aging her 10 years compared to the glow of daylight. The tiny lines in her forehead look like canyons at sunset. Her eyes look defeated. Bags that could carry the world. She appears pale despite the mid-summer tan. //

For her, the unsaid is quite simple: kill your ambition before it kills you. We hope she realizes this before it’s too late. There are so many like her.

Curtis Houck
@CurtisHouck
·
Mar 26, 2021
BOOM: Fox's Peter Doocy just read to Jen Psaki the 2005 comments from Joe Biden in support of the filibuster and then asked if that meant Biden was supporting "the legacy of the Jim Crow era." //

Psaki’s rebuttal was that the filibuster has somehow been abused only in the last few years, with there being 5 times as many filibusters on average now than during the 1970s. //

Even more laughably, Psaki tried to claim that the last year’s frequent use of the filibuster is proof that it needs to go. Yet, she failed to mention that it was the Democrats who carried out every single one of those filibusters. //

Robal
10 hours ago edited
It was brought to everyone's attention that last year(2020)democrats used the filibuster 327 times, while Republicans used it only once. Doocey missed a great opportunity to make a fool out of Psaki. //

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Nothing is like it was in 1970. Remeber all those 5000 page 2 trillion dollar legislative initiatives passed then? Me neither.

Laws today are made more or less like this: Lobbyists and donors meet with a few congress critters on key committees in private meetings, where agreements are made and said lobbyists and donors write the bills. Every Dem sees this window of opportunity to get all they can and so they overeach, as they always do. All across the party, pols facing re-election are in a hurry to pay back their constituency groups and donors while they can and cement a permanent majority based on dependent citizens and government provider. They submit as many non-related items they can shove into a "relief" bill. This is why they don't bother with budgets and operate on emergency spending bills, sequesters, XOs, and any other way they can wait until something is so chaotic the public demands relief.

Lobbyists write the 5000 page monstrosities with 9% of it going to its stated purpose, Congress votes on them without reading what's in them, and the moment it becomes law they gets busy building an entire new impenetrable bureaucracy built to service whatever unsolvable social condition they deem to be a sin. Lobbyists and donors get theirs, the p0licitans get their donations, and the party rewards them with reelection support. And now add in governing by XO and SCOTUS rulings as a replacement for legislating and here we are.

So, we have politicians who lie to get elected, who don't write laws, who don't read the ones they vote for, who place as much of their responsibility off onto the executive as they can, and all of it being run by Party apparatchiks and the elites in the donor and lobbying class, many of whom are former senatiors and congressmen who know how to skirt the rules.

Ted Cruz
@tedcruz
These are the pictures the Biden administration doesn’t want the American people to see. This is why they won’t allow the press.

This is the CBP facility in Donna, Texas.

This is a humanitarian and a public health crisis. //

Senator Thom Tillis
@SenThomTillis
Replying to @SenThomTillis
Here are babies handed over by smugglers. Babies. //

Sen. James Lankford
@SenatorLankford
Day two from the border—this is a pod that’s designed to hold 80 people that’s currently holding 709.

We should prepare ourselves for an announcement that VP Harris will be attending in person for the United States, standing in for Biden, due to some compelling reason that will only be disclosed at the 11th hour. Biden will participate via videoconference, which will allow his involvement to be managed. It has already been acknowledged that Biden has allowed Harris to conduct solo conversations with world leaders on behalf of the Administration. Having her attend the G7 will be another data point — another marker along the pathway to installing her as president.

Did I mention that a deliberate policy has been implemented — for the first time ever — to have all federal agencies identify the current Administration on their websites as the “Biden-Harris Administration”. //

Joe Biden’s name might be on the door, but Joe Biden isn’t running the United States government in the sense that has always been assumed to be the case about the person elected to the office — since President Wilson, at least.

We are a nation now governed by a political party apparatus — a collection of apparatchiks and commissars.

Just like China and the CCP.

But now the pictures are out and you can decide. Let’s first look at the pictures that show he had the faces and description of each reporter, what outlet they were with, with some circled with the numbers on them (order in which they were supposed to be called on?).

Brick Suit
@Brick_Suit
·
Mar 25, 2021
Joe Biden had a cheat sheet of all the reporters with numbered circles by the ones he was supposed to call on.
#Scripted

Early today, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reversed a detention order entered by a district court judge and remanded the case for a further detention hearing for Eric Munchel and Lisa Eisenhart. Munchel has been identified as a member of the Oath Keepers, and Eisenhart is his mother and a vocal proponent of the January 6 protests.

The decision was 2-1, and the panel of appeals court judges included a Clinton appointee, an Obama appointee, and a Trump appointee. The Trump appointee, Judge Katsas, dissented, but only on the basis that he would have remanded the case back to the district court judge with an order that the defendants be released on bond, whereas the two-judge majority was sending the case back for further proceedings consistent with the Appeals Court’s order.

So it was really a 3-0 loss by the government on the lower court decision to hold the defendants without bail pending trial — something the government has asked for in a number of Jan. 6 protest cases.

Successful libel actions are good for the press. They help keep it free of censorship, by enabling the public to trust that the press has respect for the truth and does not knowingly or negligently spread lies. Allowing blatant falsehoods to circulate unchecked turns the public against the press.

Accordingly, trust in the media has been declining steadily since the Sullivan decision and is now at an all-time low. The latest Gallup survey found 60 percent of the U.S. public has little or no trust in the media, with self-identified Republicans’ trust dropping from 32 percent in 2015 to 10 percent in December 2020.

To help restore at least some of that lost credibility, the Supreme Court should heed Thomas and Silberman and revisit the arrogant, unjustified, and immensely destructive Sullivan decision.

Sometimes, I find it really time-consuming when I wanted to learn a practical example of a given Unix command using man pages. So, I started to look for some good alternatives to man pages which are focused on mostly examples, skipping all other comprehensive text parts. Thankfully, there are some really good alternatives out there. In this tutorial, we will be discussing some alternatives to man pages for Unix-like operating systems.

Find files Based On their Permissions

The typical syntax to find files based on their permissions is:

$ find -perm mode

The MODE can be either with numeric or octal permission (like 777, 666.. etc) or symbolic permission (like u=x, a=r+x).

We can specify the MODE in three different ways as listed below.

• If we specify the mode without any prefixes, it will find files of exact permissions.
• If we use "-" prefix with mode, at least the files should have the given permission, not the exact permission.

• If we use "/" prefix, either the owner, the group, or other should have permission to the file. ///

  find . -not -perm -g=r

Public key authentication is a way of logging into an SSH/SFTP account using a cryptographic key rather than a password.

If you use very strong SSH/SFTP passwords, your accounts are already safe from brute force attacks. However, using public key authentication provides many benefits when working with multiple developers. For example, with SSH keys you can

• allow multiple developers to log in as the same system user without having to share a single password between them;
• revoke a single developer's access without revoking access by other developers; and
• make it easier for a single developer to log in to many accounts without needing to manage many different passwords. //

Method 1: Using ssh-copy-id

To copy your public key to your server, run the following command. Be sure to replace "x.x.x.x" with your server's IP address and SYSUSER with the name of the the system user your app belongs to.

ssh-copy-id SYSUSER@x.x.x.x

Method 2: Manual Configuration

If you don't have the ssh-copy-id command (for example, if you are using Windows), you can instead SSH in to your server and manually create the .ssh/authorized_keys file so it contains your public key.

First, run the following commands to make create the file with the correct permissions.

(umask 077 && test -d ~/.ssh || mkdir ~/.ssh)
(umask 077 && touch ~/.ssh/authorized_keys)

Next, edit the file .ssh/authorized_keys using your preferred editor. Copy and paste your id_rsa.pub file into the file. //

Correcting Permissions on the .ssh Directory

The instructions in this article will create your server's .ssh directory and .ssh/authorized_keys file with the correct permissions. However, if you've created them yourself and need to fix permissions, you can run the following commands on your server while SSH'd in as your app's system user.

chmod 700 ~/.ssh
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

The “electrosensitive” are moving to a cellphone-free town. But is their disease real?

You can turn your phone on in Green Bank, W.Va., but you won’t get a trace of a signal. If you hit scan on your car’s radio, it’ll cycle through the dial endlessly, never pausing on a station. This remote mountainous town is inside the U.S. National Radio Quiet Zone, a 13,000–square-mile area where most types of electromagnetic radiation on the radio spectrum (which includes radio and TV broadcasts, Wi-Fi networks, cell signals, Bluetooth, and the signals used by virtually every other wireless device) are banned to minimize disturbance around the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, home to the world’s largest steerable radio telescope. //

As The New Yorker recently pointed out in a blog post, EHS, along with these types of episodes, hint at the bizarre power of the nocebo effect: the flip-side of the placebo effect, in which inert substances or the suggestion of harm brings about real physical symptoms. In many studies of the nocebo effect, simply explaining to patients that a pill might trigger side effects has been enough to cause everything from back pain to erectile dysfunction. “If you believe that a substance, compound, or phenomena harms you, and you start experiencing symptoms, there’s confirmation for your belief right there, and then it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy,” Brian Dunning, a prominent skeptic who hosts the Skeptoid podcast and frequently takes on pseudoscientific claims, told me. “You see that your phone has a signal or that there’s a Wi-Fi router in the room, it further increases your stress level, and you have very real and very distressing physical symptoms. Once you have this confirming experience, it becomes really difficult to sit there and be told otherwise.”

Our brains’ expectations, it turns out, have a surprisingly potent effect on the functioning of our bodies. If the people who moved to Green Bank truly suffer from piercing headaches, nausea, and dizziness when they are around wireless signals, the nocebo effect (and previous instances of mass psychogenic diseases) is as good an explanation of anything we have so far.

Before Microsoft and Intel dominated the PC market with a common platform, the CP/M operating system did something similar for small business machines in the late 1970s and early 1980s—until MS-DOS pulled the rug out from under it. Here’s more about CP/M, and why it lost out to MS-DOS.

Changing the group a user is associated to is a fairly easy task, but not everybody knows the commands, especially to add a user to a secondary group. We’ll walk through all the scenarios for you.

If you want to create a new group on your system, use the groupadd command following command, replacing new_group with the name of the group you want to create. You’ll need to use sudo with this command as well (or, on Linux distributions that don’t use sudo, you’ll need to run the su command on its own to gain elevated permissions before running the command).

sudo groupadd mynewgroup

To add an existing user account to a group on your system, use the usermod command, replacing examplegroup with the name of the group you want to add the user to andexampleusername with the name of the user you want to add.

usermod -a -G examplegroup exampleusername

For example, to add the user geek to the group sudo , use the following command:

usermod -a -G sudo geek

Researchers imagine it might be possible to transform the world’s largest desert, the Sahara, into a giant solar farm, capable of meeting four times the world’s current energy demand. Blueprints have been drawn up for projects in Tunisia and Morocco that would supply electricity for millions of households in Europe.

While the black surfaces of solar panels absorb most of the sunlight that reaches them, only a fraction (around 15 percent) of that incoming energy gets converted to electricity. The rest is returned to the environment as heat. The panels are usually much darker than the ground they cover, so a vast expanse of solar cells will absorb a lot of additional energy and emit it as heat, affecting the climate.

If these effects were only local, they might not matter in a sparsely populated and barren desert. But the scale of the installations that would be needed to make a dent in the world’s fossil energy demand would be vast, covering thousands of square kilometers. Heat re-emitted from an area this size will be redistributed by the flow of air in the atmosphere, having regional and even global effects on the climate. //

The model revealed that when the size of the solar farm reaches 20 percent of the total area of the Sahara, it triggers a feedback loop. Heat emitted by the darker solar panels (compared to the highly reflective desert soil) creates a steep temperature difference between the land and the surrounding oceans that ultimately lowers surface air pressure and causes moist air to rise and condense into raindrops. With more monsoon rainfall, plants grow and the desert reflects less of the sun’s energy, because vegetation absorbs light better than sand and soil. With more plants present, more water is evaporated, creating a more humid environment that causes vegetation to spread. //

Covering 20 percent of the Sahara with solar farms raises local temperatures in the desert by 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to our model. At 50 percent coverage, the temperature increase is 2.5 degrees Celsius. This warming is eventually spread around the globe by atmosphere and ocean movement, raising the world’s average temperature by 0.16 degrees Celsius for 20 percent coverage, and 0.39 degrees Celsius for 50 percent coverage. The global temperature shift is not uniform, though — the polar regions would warm more than the tropics, increasing sea ice loss in the Arctic. This could further accelerate warming, as melting sea ice exposes dark water which absorbs much more solar energy.

This massive new heat source in the Sahara reorganizes global air and ocean circulation, affecting precipitation patterns around the world. The narrow band of heavy rainfall in the tropics, which accounts for more than 30 percent of global precipitation and supports the rainforests of the Amazon and Congo Basin, shifts northward in our simulations. For the Amazon region, this causes droughts as less moisture arrives from the ocean. Roughly the same amount of additional rainfall that falls over the Sahara due to the surface-darkening effects of solar panels is lost from the Amazon. The model also predicts more frequent tropical cyclones hitting North American and East Asian coasts. //

Some important processes are still missing from our model, such as dust blown from large deserts. Saharan dust, carried on the wind, is a vital source of nutrients for the Amazon and the Atlantic Ocean. So a greener Sahara could have an even bigger global effect than our simulations suggested.

In the race against climate change, scientists at Harvard University propose that dimming sunlight could cool down the planet.

But what does that mean? The ambitious project involves launching a huge balloon into the stratosphere, carrying 600kg of calcium carbonate - or chalk, which would be sprayed 12 miles above the Earth’s surface.

Scientists will then monitor how the dust particles interact with the atmosphere. It’s a process known as solar geoengineering.

The chalk would, in theory, reflect sunlight and in turn slow global warming. Some experts predict the sky would also shift from blue to white during daylight hours.

Switching a mail provider is often combined with one major thought holding one back: What will happen to all my e-mails? I don't want to lose my e-mails!

Sure, if you used POP3 to download the e-mails to your mail client, the e-mails are not stored on the server anymore. This worked fine in the 90s and 00s but since mobile Internet there are usually multiple devices connected to your mailbox: Notebook, Workstation, Smartphone or even a Tablet. In such a scenario, only IMAP (IMAPv4 to be precise) can do the job: All the e-mails remain on the server (in the mailbox) but are synced to the local mail client. Every change in the local mail client is synced back to the server. Hence all the devices see the same status.

For a customer of Infiniroot we recently needed to find a way to migrate all the existing e-mails (more than 28'000) from a long-existing mailbox to a new mailbox located on the dedicated server of this customer. This is where we came across imapsync.

Enjoy the security and benefits of a dedicated mailbox server in a highly available mail infrastructure.

The problems are well known when using free e-mail providers or shared hosting mail servers: My e-mail was sent but was it received on the other side? Why are my e-mails rejected by a blacklist? Are my e-mails secure when hundreds of other users are storing their mails on the same mailserver?

E-Mails are business critical and you should not be asking the questions above. The Private Mailbox Server offers a purely dedicated mailbox server in a highly available and redundant mail infrastructure. Your e-mails are stored securely on a private mailbox server; no other customers are using your mailbox server nor are able to access it. //

Data center location: Switzerland
100GB storage $86/mo, or 150/mo for high avail

Masterflex Differential Pressure Flowmeter, Mass, 100 L/min Gases

Masterflex – Item # EW-32908-75

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I think one of my favorite states of mind is something I call appreciative bafflement: A state of confusion so deep and profound that you’re genuinely impressed and appreciate the efforts taken to make such confusing, deeply fucked decisions. The Lancia Gamma, especially the fastback Berlina version, is a car full of this sort of bafflement. Let’s talk about this lovely weirdo. //

the engines themselves were pretty good, save for the one ridiculous Achilles’ heel that is the initial source of my gleeful bafflement: They decided to drive the power steering fluid pump off of one of the two camshafts — you know, the things that open and close the cylinder valves.

If you start up your cold engine with your steering wheel turned all the way to one side or the other, the load from the power steering pump could be enough to break the camshaft/timing belt, which would make the left bank of cylinders completely lunch the top end of the engine, leaving you stranded and soon to be broke. //

Normally, ancillaries like the alternator or A/C compressor or power steering pump are driven off the crankshaft pulley. I can’t think of any other car that drives a pump off the camshaft and has a cam belt setup like this, and here’s why, according to the Gamma mavens over at Lancia Gamma Consortium:

Gammas have an unenviable reputation when it comes to their toothed camshaft drive belt, and not without reason! The camshaft serving the nearside (left- hand) pair of cylinders also drives the power steering pump. A lack of development, in early cars in particular, showed itself when unsuspecting owners would start their Gammas on a cold morning with the steering on full lock. This would cause the cambelt to break / jump with the load from the steering pump, resulting in one pair of cylinders firing-up whilst the other pair tried to destroy themselves, at the least causing bent valves. Later models have revised belt tensioners, but are still known to suffer from this problem.

The first way:
1) Disconnect the Negative battery cable for two or three minutes then reconnect.
2) Start truck and let idle till it reaches operating temperature.
3) Turn truck off for 5-10 seconds.
4) Fire her up and drive her the way you want.

The second way:
1) With the key out of the ignition
2) Disconnect the Negative battery Cable.
3) Put the key in the ignition and turn it as if you where trying to the START it.
4) Release the key and leave it in the “ON” position and let it sit for 10- 15 min
5) Remove key from the ignition.
6) Re-attach the negative battery cable.
7) DO NOT TOUCH THE THROTTLE when starting the truck for the first TWO times!!!
8) Start truck and let idle till it reaches operating temperature.
9) Turn truck off for 5-10 seconds.
10) RE-START the truck but DO NOT TOUCH THE THROTTLE!
11) Let the truck return to normal idle (500-600 RPM’s)
12) Turn truck off, and then start her up and take her for a LIGHT test drive… NO WOT testing yet.
13) After driving around the block letting your computer LEARN the new air flow turn her off one last time…
14) Fire her up and drive her the way you want.

The third way:
1) Pull fuse #19 or #23 or #31 (vehicle year dependent)
2) Close door and buckle seatbelt (technically you don't have to buckle the seatbelt, but it helps to stop all unnecessary chimes)
3) Put key in ignition and turn to "on" and wait until all chimes stop (on...not start!)
4) Turn key to start and hold until you hear 2 chimes (I think it was about 15 seconds or so)
5) Turn key off
6) Re-install fuse
7) You're good to go

... and last. This is from a past DT thread:

You can do what is often called a "hard dump".

We (techs) often do this when we need to totally reset the ECU and either don't have the proper tool close by (too lazy to walk to toolbox and get it) or just are "in a hurry".

First, disconnect positive+ battery cable at the battery and ground it to the chassis. Yes, the POSITIVE CABLE.

Wait a few seconds, 30 won't kill ya.

Now reconnect the positive cable. Careful, no sparks now.

Get in the vehicle, turn ignition key to on (run) position, now depress fully and release the gas pedal 5 times to set the TPS to WOT. (Make sure the floor mats do not keep the pedal from going WFO)

Turn the key to off, wait a min, and you should have cleared everything in the ECU except for the factory programming.

The hard dump does not effect the (factory) alarm, the only thing I noticed is my radio presets, as this method came from a working Chrysler tech, I doubt if there are any negative effects