Nobody Cares: PRS

[Kokoro Fasching]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I think this is free to read

The Garden of Forking Paths | Brian Klaas | Substack

Wandering around an infinitely complex, ever-changing world. Click to read The Garden of Forking Paths, by Brian Klaas, a Substack publication.

www.forkingpaths.co

(if it's not, Evernote Link)

 

[Erich Templar]

They should probably just call it 'Joker Syndrome'.

 

[Soen Eber]

I think this is free to read

The Garden of Forking Paths | Brian Klaas | Substack

Wandering around an infinitely complex, ever-changing world. Click to read The Garden of Forking Paths, by Brian Klaas, a Substack publication.

www.forkingpaths.co

(if it's not, Evernote Link)

We've always suspected these type of people exist, that they're not just posing for the lulz. Now we have proof.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Good personnel is hard to find nowadays: on the USS Manchester Navy chiefs conspired to get illegal internet connection using Starlink. The SSID was named "Stinky" in order to obscure it as a 3D printer network, problem is that the ship has no 3D printer on board, the starlink antenna mounted flat upon a deck.

The Starlink dish was installed on the Manchester’s O-5 level weatherdeck during a “blanket” aloft period, which requires a sailor to hang high above or over the side of the ship.
During a “blanket” aloft, duties are not documented in the deck logs or the officer of the deck logs, according to the investigation.
It’s unclear who harnessed up and actually installed the system for Marrero due to redactions in the publicly released copy of the probe, but records show Marrero powered up the system the night before the ship got underway to the West Pacific waters of U.S. 7th Fleet.

This was all extremely risky, and the chiefs don't appear to have taken amazing security precautions once everything was installed. For one thing, they called the network "STINKY." For another, they were soon adding more gear around the ship, which was bound to raise further questions. The chiefs found that the Wi-Fi signal coming off the Starlink satellite transceiver couldn't cover the entire ship, so during a stop in Pearl Harbor, they bought "signal repeaters and cable" to extend coverage.

Sailors on the ship then began finding the STINKY network and asking questions about it. Some of these questions came to Marrero directly, but she denied knowing anything about the network... and then privately changed its Wi-Fi name to "another moniker that looked like a wireless printer—even though no such general-use wireless printers were present on the ship, the investigation found."

Marrero even went so far as to remove questions about the network from the commanding officer's "suggestion box" aboard ship to avoid detection.

Ship officers heard the scuttlebutt about STINKY, of course, and they began asking questions and doing inspections, but they never found the concealed device. On August 18, though, a civilian worker from the Naval Information Warfare Center was installing an authorized SpaceX "Starshield" device and came across the unauthorized SpaceX device hidden on the weatherdeck.

Marrero's attempt to create fake data showing that the system had only been used in port then failed spectacularly due to the "poorly doctored" statements she submitted. At that point, the game was up, and Navy investigators looked into the whole situation.

All of the chiefs who used, paid for, or even knew about the system without disclosing it were given "administrative nonjudicial punishment at commodore’s mast," said Navy Times.

Marrero herself was relieved of her post last year, and she pled guilty during a court-martial this spring.

After seeing Wi-Fi network named “STINKY,” Navy found hidden Starlink dish on US warship

To be fair, it's hard to live without Wi-Fi.

arstechnica.com

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

I think this is free to read

The Garden of Forking Paths | Brian Klaas | Substack

Wandering around an infinitely complex, ever-changing world. Click to read The Garden of Forking Paths, by Brian Klaas, a Substack publication.

www.forkingpaths.co

(if it's not, Evernote Link)

Yep, related to reflexive contrarians. Assholes.

 

[Soen Eber]

All of the chiefs who used, paid for, or even knew about the system without disclosing it were given "administrative nonjudicial punishment at commodore’s mast," said Navy Times.

I looked it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-judicial_punishment#:~:text=NJP permits commanders to administratively,imposing officer and receiving officer.

 

[WolfEyes]

There is something fishy going on.

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Maybe it's people from the SL forum checking VVO out since freedom of speech isn't a thing over there. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Govi]

There is something fishy going on.



Maybe it's people from the SL forum checking VVO out since freedom of speech isn't a thing over there. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

At this moment, "Users Who Are Viewing This Thread (Total: 1, Members: 1, Guests: 0)"

 

[WolfEyes]

At this moment, "Users Who Are Viewing This Thread (Total: 1, Members: 1, Guests: 0)"

lol
Just now:
Users Who Are Viewing This Thread (Total: 9, Members: 1, Guests: 8)

 

[Sheera Khan]

One of those guests will be me at times since at my work computer I occasionally read the forums but I'm not logged in.

 

[Isabeau]

One of those guests will be me at times since at my work computer I occasionally read the forums but I'm not logged in.

No worries.

I hope “real” guests aren’t feeling singled out. A few here and there are completely normal. It’s only when it gets to higher double digits that we may find it a tad strange.

 

[Free]

Russia has "depleted" Soviet-era energy reserves, Putin ally admits

"The main reason is a lack of funding for the modernization and maintenance of equipment," said Russian Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilev.

www.newsweek.com

Russia has exhausted its Soviet-era energy reserves and the country's electric power industry is in need of funding, Russian Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilev said.

Speaking at an economic forum in Russia's Vladivostok, Tsivilev said that the electric power reserves that were created during the Soviet era "have been depleted."

 

[Soen Eber]

Russia has "depleted" Soviet-era energy reserves, Putin ally admits

"The main reason is a lack of funding for the modernization and maintenance of equipment," said Russian Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilev.

www.newsweek.com

War production plants take a lot of energy, along with the extraction systems to produce the raw materials. I wonder if this will result in increased production of steel and other basic materials in fellow Bricks countries, which are bound to be more efficient that Russia's fading processes and lead to a long term decline in Russia.

 

[Myradyl Muse]

Perhaps Putin and his mega-rich oligarchs can dig deep into their rip off your own people and your own country pockets to fund critical infrastructure.
Wait, what was I thinking? Back to reality channel.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Garden of Forking Paths | Brian Klaas | Substack

Wandering around an infinitely complex, ever-changing world. Click to read The Garden of Forking Paths, by Brian Klaas, a Substack publication.

www.forkingpaths.co

Very interesting (at least I find it so) free-to-read article by Brian Klaas, a political scientist whose very readable Substack I recommend to anyone interested such things.

End of History? Clash of Civilizations? Arc of History? It's all rather more complicated....

 

[Soen Eber]

The Garden of Forking Paths | Brian Klaas | Substack

Wandering around an infinitely complex, ever-changing world. Click to read The Garden of Forking Paths, by Brian Klaas, a Substack publication.

www.forkingpaths.co

Very interesting (at least I find it so) free-to-read article by Brian Klaas, a political scientist whose very readable Substack I recommend to anyone interested such things.

End of History? Clash of Civilizations? Arc of History? It's all rather more complicated....

Thanks. Already subscribed after the Chaos Voter article. It's refreshing to see content taking things in a slightly different direction from the main pathing of conventional media, that digs a little deeper under the surface into our core assumptions on these matters.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Thanks. Already subscribed after the Chaos Voter article. It's refreshing to see content taking things in a slightly different direction from the main pathing of conventional media, that digs a little deeper under the surface into our core assumptions on these matters.

His recent book "Fluke" is absolutely fascinating -- I strongly recommend it

Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human…

www.goodreads.com

 

[Free]

Yowsa.

Apple must pay Ireland €14bn in unpaid taxes, court rules

Apple has lost its fight against the European Commission's ruling that it underpaid €14.1 billion in tax due to Ireland.

www.rte.ie

Apple has lost its fight against the European Commission's ruling that it underpaid €13 billion in tax due to Ireland.

The European Court of Justice has set aside the judgment of the lower General Court, which previously overturned the Commission’s decision.

That lower court's ruling overturned the commission’s 2016 original finding that Apple had underpaid taxes totalling €13.1bn due to Ireland between 2003 and 2014.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Trump tried to get DOJ to go after Saturday Night Live for mocking him

In a lengthy report on Trump's second-term ambitions, sources told the publication that Trump believed that comedians who mocked him on television were guilty of giving what amounted to illegal campaign contributions to Democrats.

"As president, Trump briefly attempted to get Justice officials to twist campaign finance laws and the federal equal-time rule to declare that anti-Trump material broadcast by Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and others was somehow illegal," the publication writes.