Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/quarantine-officer-sex-assault-extortion-1.5926118

"Quarantine officer charged with extortion, sexual assault after demanding cash fine from Ont. resident"

Note that quarantine officers are _not_ a police officers and have _no_ authority to issue fines in the first place. That's why he is being charged with extortion.

I wonder how many private security guards they've hired for this? Probably not that many, which tells you right away that awful people are attracted to that job.

@lupyuen Swapfiles are always going to be less likely to work than swap partitions because there's so much more code involved due to the filesystem being in between the vm subsystem and the storage device.

Personally, I run my systems with no swap at all. But almost every computer I own has the maximum amount of ram possible installed.

@jb55 Depends on the philosophy of the API. Requiring the user to hash first can be a big footgun, as many signature schemes are only secure with hash digests due to edge cases. But for flexibility, allowing the user to choose is better.

@jb55 You pretty much always hash first, at least under the hood.

Think of it this way: the signature math operates on numbers. Your message is also a number. Hashing it makes your message into a number of manageable size, and randomly distributed so you don't have to deal with any special cases.

@timp @pamaca @waxwing Decent chance this leads to the United States breaking up. Especially due to the financial costs: lots of people who want to take $ from red states to pay off blue states.

@nvk This but chambered in .22 Long Rifle: https://youtube.com/shorts/ZsOYJxbtbeA

@jb55 No, it takes the message.... and you thought Twitter's 280 characters was limiting...

@pamaca @waxwing Unfortunately the longer this goes on the easier it is for it to go on indefinitely: the people most affected by lockdown are being forced into bankruptcy. While those who benefit are very literally making trillions of dollars off of it. Masks alone have become a ~$200 billion/year or so industry, a ~100x increase.

https://thecritic.co.uk/mutant-variations-and-the-danger-of-lockdowns/

Good writeup on how universal lockdown is probably breeding resistance to lockdown in the same way that antibiotic overuse breeds antibiotic resistant diseases.

@drgo Multicast is how the cool kids network.

"If I stand down from my position ... because of an allegation about something that simply did not happen, then any person in Australia can lose their career, their job, their life's work, based on nothing more than an accusation"

"Attorney General Christian Porter has outed himself as the Australian cabinet minister at the center of a historical rape allegation that has caused a storm of speculation in the nation's Parliament."

Brave to come forward.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/02/australia/christian-porter-australia-rape-allegation-intl-hnk/index.html

@alex There's entire TV channels that meet your requirement: https://www.ytv.com/

At least, I'm pretty sure they do...

@lupyuen What if the fact the Law of Triviality is a full-on law proves itself? 😂

https://web.archive.org/web/20210302011452/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/nyregion/cuomo-harassment-anna-ruch.html

"Isn't he intentionally bleeding this out to distract from the nursing home deaths?"

@lupyuen Arguably a good thing for Bitcoin, as it pushes mining in China underground, making the remaining mining less subject to government control because it's being done secretly.

@JuergenStrobel @lukedashjr I do use sparse files with btrfs regularly because I use it for Qubes: the VM's disk images are stored as sparse files. But my overall usage patterns are probably relatively benign as other than write once media all my data easily fits into cache (my desktop has 64GiB, and my laptop, 32GiB).

That actually helps with fragmentation these days due to delayed allocation: where data is written to disk is chosen just prior to flushing.

@JuergenStrobel @lukedashjr IIUC btrfs uses less memory than zfs because of those design differences... Which in turn would mean that some usage patterns could probably defeat those optimizations.

The slowest thing I do on a regular basis with btrfs is send/recv snapshots of my Monero node. Monero seems to make it's block database very fragmented due to heavy use of sparseness.