I have little political means or clout for that matter, so I choose to write as a therapeutic effort and in the hope that maybe I have picked out a detail that someone missed or that it helps someone to become more resilient in these interesting times. Maybe, just maybe, it is enough to cause worthwhile debate and progress somewhere even if I am wrong.
The government is refusing to say whether police are using an Israeli-American private surveillance firm to scan people's use of social media.
RNZ previously revealed immigration authorities had hired the controversial firm Cobwebs Technologies.
Documents suggest another unidentified agency began using Cobwebs in October 2019.
The police have previously confirmed they began using a new Internet search tool in November 2019 after the mosque attacks, but would not name it.
This article was removed / censored by RNZ itself and replaced with another article. See Archive link.
After a huge outcry from farmers the government has made some changes to its proposal to price agricultural carbon emissions.
It has released its response to the more than 23,000 submissions to its plan, though final decisions will not be made until next year.
"After listening to farmers and growers through our recent consultation, and engaging over recent months with industry leaders, today we have taken the next steps in establishing a proposed farm-level emissions reduction system as an alternative to the ETS backstop," Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.
Going green "uber alles", but we will concede as we do not want the peasants to revolt immediately due to lack of food.
A 97-year-old woman who worked as a Nazi concentration camp secretary has been convicted for her role in the murder of thousands of people, in what could be one of the country's last trials for World War II crimes.
The district court in the northern town of Itzehoe handed Irmgard Furchner a two-year suspended sentence for aiding and abetting the murder of 10,505 people and the attempted murder of five people, a court spokesperson said.
A statement from the court said the prisoners were "cruelly killed by gassings, by hostile conditions in the camp, by transports to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp and by being sent on so-called death marches".
Will we be holding Health officials to the same judiciary standard, given the willful ignorance of the available academic data concerning covid and the vaccines?
As we finish the second year of Jacinda Ardern’s premiership of the only majority Government to have been elected outright under our MMP voting system, two polls and a by-election spell bad news for Labour.
Taken chronologically, Monday’s 1News Kantar poll showed support for Labour continues to slide, down 1 to 33 percent – the lowest ranking since before the 2017 election. National increased 1 to 38, ACT rose 2 to 11, the Greens were steady on 9, and the Maori Party steady on 2.
On those results, National and ACT would have the numbers to govern with 64 MPs.
Jacinda Ardern is also on the slippery slope in the preferred Prime Minister stakes, falling from the heady heights of over 60 percent support to 29 – her lowest rating since becoming Prime Minister. Meanwhile National’s Chris Luxon is on the rise, now ranking at 23 percent.
Make Ardern Go Away
It was an astonishingly brutal tongue-lashing on air but it’s hard not to suspect there will be much more of it in election year as the mainstream media reflects the intense frustration the public has with a government perversely determined to give them more of what they don’t want.
Whether it is the widely despised Three / Five Waters project (supported by only 23 per cent in a poll); the merger of RNZ and TVNZ (22 per cent support); the compulsory unemployment insurance scheme (35 per cent support), or adding religion to existing hate-speech laws (after earlier proposals had been roundly rejected), the government’s policy prescriptions read like one of the longest and most bizarre suicide notes ever produced by a government hoping for re-election.
Alongside this, it has failed to give many voters what they actually want — not least a tougher stance on crime, and better health care and public infrastructure.
We used to say that socialism cannot work. What does that mean? It means that it will only make people poorer and more miserable. But what if you have an ideology that is actually intended to do that? Can Faucian economics work? Yes, if you mean to reduce the population, spread misery, end progress, abolish all comforts, empty the cities, cause people to freeze to death, and only allow what’s left of the population to live off bugs.
We need to get real. These people are truly up to no good. They have gotten their way. What’s more, the gang that did this is not subject to the voters, so elections might not make a bit of difference, even if they turn out well.
Here are some specs up front, if you’re satisfied with piecing the story together yourself:
- The code is on GitHub
- Emulated RISC-V rv32ima/su+Zifencei+Zicsr instruction set
- 64 MiB of RAM minus CPU state is stored in a 2048x2048 pixel Integer-Format texture (128 bpp)
- Unity Custom Render Texture with buffer-swapping allows encoding/decoding state between frames
- A pixel shader is used for emulation since compute shaders and UAV are not supported in VRChat
Around March 2021 I decided on writing an emulator capable of running a full Linux Kernel in VRChat. Due to the inherent limitations of that platform, the tool of choice had to be a shader. And after a few months of work, I’m now proud to present the worlds first (as far as I know) RISC-V CPU/SoC emulator in an HLSL pixel shader, capable of running up to 250 kHz (on a 2080 Ti) and booting Linux 5.13.5 with MMU support
Yes.
“This is our time,” said Redmond. “RISC-V is absolutely the definition of open computing. We have knocked down barriers and we have risen to opportunities. We have overcome challenges and reduced the barriers to entry.”
Next, she made the perhaps bold claim that RISC-V is inevitable. “It's here already,” she said. "It is going across all domains in computing. It is inevitable.” This intriguing notion of RISC-V being inevitable was later echoed and fleshed out in Krste Asanovic’s keynote, which we examine below.
Redmond then turned to discussing the global reach that RISC-V has achieved. “RISC-V is already seen in 10 billion cores globally,” she said. "Innovation is accelerating across all domains, from the lowest power to the highest performance. We’re seeing collective investment and understanding around the world. This ranges from companies investing and pivoting their strategies to RISC-V, to entire nations and regions investing in RISC-V.”
More please.
We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix version 1.4.0!
The release comes with ISO-9660 installation images, a virtual machine image, and with tarballs to install the package manager on top of your GNU/Linux distro, either from source or from binaries—check out the download page. Guix users can update by running guix pull.
It’s been 18 months since the previous release. That’s a lot of time, reflecting both the fact that, as a rolling release, users continuously get new features and update by running guix pull; but let’s face it, it also shows an area where we could and should collectively improve our processes. During that time, Guix received about 29,000 commits by 453 people, which includes important new features as we’ll see; the project also changed maintainers, structured cooperation as teams, and celebrated its ten-year anniversary!
This week's KDE update with notably =
Wayland Fractional Scaling
“What does this do?” you might ask. It allows the Qt toolkit to turn on its pre-existing fractional scaling support on Wayland that it always had on X11. No more rendering to an integer size and then scaling down! This should result in Qt apps that are scaled to anything other than 100%, 200%, or 300% scale having better performance, less visual blurriness, and lower power usage.
Nice Things.
Multi-Screen
That’s all changed. You can read the details here. In a nutshell, we now use an index-based system, with index numbers bound very tightly to Plasma containments, but index numbers themselves being able to move between screens based on how many screens there are. So for example, when screen 1 with your Plasma desktop and panel becomes unavailable, a new screen becomes screen 1, and the Plasma desktop and panel bound move over to it.
Worth reading in full.
The COVID-19 period highlights a huge problem that has been developing for decades, the control of science by industry. In the 1950s, the tobacco industry set the example, which the pharmaceutical industry followed. Since then, the latter has been regularly condemned for illegal marketing, misrepresentation of experimental results, dissimulation of information about the dangers of drugs, and considered as criminal. Therefore, this study was conducted to show that knowledge is powerfully manipulated by harmful corporations, whose goals are = 1/financial; 2/to suppress our ability to make choices to acquire global control of public health.
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
During the Weimar Republic in the mid-twentieth century, more than half of all German physicians became early joiners of the Nazi Party, surpassing the party enrollments of all other professions. From early on, the German Medical Society played the most instrumental role in the Nazi medical program, beginning with the marginalization of Jewish physicians, proceeding to coerced “experimentation,” “euthanization,” and sterilization, and culminating in genocide via the medicalization of mass murder of Jews and others caricatured and demonized by Nazi ideology.
Given the medical oath to “do no harm,” many postwar ethical analyses have strained to make sense of these seemingly paradoxical atrocities. Why did physicians act in such a manner?
Social Peer Pressure, one hell of a drug.
The evolution of the human diet over the past 10,000 years from a Paleolithic diet to our current modern pattern of intake has resulted in profound changes in feeding behavior. Shifts have occurred from diets high in fruits, vegetables, lean meats, and seafood to processed foods high in sodium and hydrogenated fats and low in fiber.
This is fine.
Effective diphtheria, tetanus toxoids, whole-cell pertussis (DTwP) vaccines became available in the 1930s, and they were put into routine use in the United States in the 1940s. Their use reduced the average rate of reported pertussis cases from 157 in 100 000 in the prevaccine era to <1 in 100 000 in the 1970s. Because of alleged reactions (encephalopathy and death), several countries discontinued (Sweden) or markedly decreased (United Kingdom, Germany, Japan) use of the vaccine.
Abstract Ending
Because of the small number of antigens (3–5 in DTaP vaccines vs >3000 in DTwP vaccines), linked-epitope suppression occurs. Because of linked-epitope suppression, all children who were primed by DTaP vaccines will be more susceptible to pertussis throughout their lifetimes, and there is no easy way to decrease this increased lifetime susceptibility.
Rapid recognition of SARS-CoV-2–infected cells by resident T cells in the upper airway might provide an important layer of protection against COVID-19. Whether parenteral SARS-CoV-2 vaccination or infection induces nasal-resident T cells specific for distinct SARS-CoV-2 proteins is unknown. We isolated T cells from the nasal mucosa of COVID-19 vaccinees who either experienced SARS-CoV-2 infection after vaccination (n = 34) or not (n = 16) and analyzed their phenotype, SARS-CoV-2 specificity, function, and persistence.
Natural immunity is best immunity.
He explains the innerman and shows you how essentially you are a spirit.
I am a being of love and light and knowledge, no weapon formed against me shall propsper, whatever it is, have your affirmation on your tongue.
Or... sorry... in your being.