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.Air Force Veteran Transforms World War II Aircraft
Into ‘Fabulous Flamingo’ Motor HomeA former U.S. Air Force master sergeant has put his life’s work to use in a very unique renovation. Wanting to build himself a motor home, he repurposed an old World War II airplane into a functional, mobile living space, naming the 300-square-foot RV the “Fabulous Flamingo.”
“It took about 40 years for that dream to become a reality,”
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#dTech #DotardTech #dNews #ChevyBolt.#Bolt #EV #Tesla
.Bolt EV Owners: "NO PARKING WITHIN 50 FEET Of Another Car!"
After a series of recalls, General Motors looks to be taking its precautions with the Chevy Bolt one step further:
The automaker is asking Bolt owners to PARK "AT LEAST 50 FEET" FROM OTHER VEHICLES if you're going to leave your car in a parking deck.
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The All-Seeing "i": Apple Just Declared War on Your PrivacyApple plans to push a new and uniquely intrusive surveillance system out to many of the more than one billion iPhones it has sold
Apple’s new system, regardless of how anyone tries to justify it, will permanently redefine what belongs to you, and what belongs to them.
Once the precedent has been set ... Apple itself will lose all control over how that precedent is applied.
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Government Accidentally Releases Documents on "Psycho-Electric" Weapons
The government has all kinds of secrets, but only a true conspiracy theorist might suspect that "psycho-electric weapons" are one of them. So it's odd that MuckRock... received mysterious documents about mind control, seemingly by accident.
The federal government has experimented with mind control in a variety of methods, but the documents are not marked as official.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a19855256/muckrock-foia-psycho-electric-weapons
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Elon Musk Reportedly Lives in a $50,000 Prefab Tiny Home
* The Las Vegas company Boxabl is creating the $49,500 Casita, a 375-square-foot prefab tiny home.
* Elon Musk is believed to live in a Casita, which already has a 47,000-person waitlist.
"There's a number of reasons why housing hasn't really worked in the factory yet, so we've gone through it and solved all those problems..."
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Psychotic Disorders Come with a Progressive Decline in IQ.
Researchers have discovered that prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in late childhood can reduce the deterioration of intellectual abilities and have a neuroprotective effect on some of the brain regions affected by the psychotic illness.
This is the first indication of a neuroprotective preventive treatment for the development and preservation of IQ.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/06/210601121747.htm
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Cloudflare Stops Offering to Block LGBTQ Webpages
Cloudflare's internet filter service Gateway will no longer offer to block LGBTQ content, saying it was all an accident...
An analyst complained that he could block LGBTQ websites by content type, under the "Society & Lifestyle" category.
"Swap LGBTQ for Black or any other protected characteristic, and you can see that this really doesn't look great on you," he wrote.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/21/cloudflare_lgbtq_filteringMORE: #DotardTech #DotardNews
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Now Your Car is a Cybersecurity Risk
The automotive industry started taking cybersecurity seriously about six years ago and started investing in designing and deploying cybersecurity solutions.
The auto industry is now deploying cybersecurity hardware and software, but there is a long road ahead to get every ECU in the car protected against increasingly cyberattacks.
https://www.eetimes.com/now-your-car-is-a-cybersecurity-risk-tooMORE: #DotardTech #DotardNews
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I KNEW THOSE FRISKY GUYS WERE UP TO NO GOOD!
"This research is the first to show that the female immune response is persuaded by signals in sperm to allow the male partner to fertilise her eggs and conceive a pregnancy.
"This overturns our current understanding of what sperm are capable of -- they are not just carriers of genetic material, but also agents for convincing the female to invest reproductive resources with that male."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/05/210517102645.htm
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Oh great, something else for your butt:
ANAL OXYGEN administration may save lives:
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Dude, that SUCKS!
QNAP posted a firmware fix on 4/22: "A SQL injection vulnerability has been reported to affect QNAP NAS running Multimedia Console or the Media Streaming add-on."
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https://www.qnap.com/en-us/security-news/2021/response-to-qlocker-ransomware-attacks-take-actions-to-secure-qnap-nas -
Musk Takes Swipe at Bezos over NASA Moon Project
Musk won, Bezos was not happy!
Bezos’s Blue Origin on Monday filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO), accusing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of moving the goalposts at the last minute for contract bidders.
Musk, who also leads SpaceX, fired back with a tweet that said:
“Can’t get it up (to orbit) lol.”
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https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/4/27/billionaire-row-musk-takes-swipe-at-bezos-over-nasa-moon-project -
Apple iOS 14.5 TRACKING:
You don’t have to wait for developers to put up a prompt. You can proactively turn off app tracking right now!
Here’s how to opt out of Apple App tracking:
Settings > Privacy > Tracking > Turn off “Allow apps to request to track”Here’s how to opt out of Apple Ad tracking:
Settings > Privacy > Apple Advertising (scroll all the way down to the bottom) > Turn off “Personalized Ads”Click: #DotardTech #DotardNews
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Russia Plans to Launch Own Space Station After Quitting ISS
If President Vladimir Putin gives the go-ahead, Russia is ready to start building its own space station with the aim of launching it into orbit by 2030.
The project would mark a new chapter for Russian space exploration and an end to more than two decades of close cooperation with the United States aboard the aging International Space Station (ISS).
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Tesla Cars Can be Tricked Into Driverless Driving
Engineers were able to trick a Tesla into driving in the car's Autopilot mode — with no one at the wheel.
They were able to operate the vehicle with the car's inbuilt system failing to realize the driver's seat was empty.
The experiment comes after a Tesla crashed in Texas, killing the two men in the car. Neither of the victims were in the driver's seat when the car hit a tree.
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https://www.dw.com/en/tesla-cars-can-be-tricked-into-driverless-driving-report/a-57306077?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf -
Army Research Lab Gives a Glimpse:
Early Work with BIOHYBRID ROBOTICSScientists are embarking on fresh, high-risk studies in biohybrid robotics that could eventually fuse organic tissue with machines.
“The field itself is still relatively young. The first idea of successfully integrating muscle tissue or cells into some larger architecture didn't really start until after 2000 — and spooled up in the early 2010s. So it's very young..."
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https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2021/04/army-explores-equipping-robots-living-muscle-tissue/173489 -
“Someone has to pay to keep the lights on...”
Data-viz outfit Grafana switches licence to AGPLv3The company is balancing the "value creation" of its open-source community and the "value capture" of monetization.
Grafana has been cautious and steered away from a non-OSI-approved source-available licence in favour of AGPLv3, The change will not afford the same "protection" as that given by the SSPL but users must share modified source code.
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FACEBOOK: So Cool if Everyone Normalized These Pesky Leaks?
"Longer-term, though, we expect more scraping incidents and think it’s important to both frame this as a broad industry issue and normalize the fact this activity happens regularly. To do this, the team is proposing a follow-up post in the next several weeks that talks more broadly about our anti-scraping work and provides more transparency around the amount of work we’re doing..."
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Everybody Hates “FLoC,” Google’s Tracking Plan for Chrome Ads
The EFF, Mozilla, Brave, Vivaldi, and DuckDuckGo, say "no way" to FLoC.
The EFF wrote a blog post called, "Google's FLoC is a Terrible Idea."
The EFF seems to be against user tracking for ads entirely, saying Google's framing of the issue "is based on a false premise that we have to choose between "old tracking" and "new tracking."
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/everybody-hates-floc-googles-tracking-plan-for-chrome-ads -
Man Sues Apple for Terminating Apple ID with $24K Worth of Content
A lawsuit alleging that Apple media services terms and conditions, which permit the company to terminate an Apple ID, are "unlawful" and "unconscionable."
A user with a terminated Apple ID cannot access media content that they've purchased.
The plaintiff, Matthew Price, reportedly spent nearly $25,000 on content attached to an Apple ID.
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https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/04/20/man-sues-apple-for-terminating-apple-id-with-24k-worth-of-content