Nobody Cares: PRS

[WolfEyes]

Mark Twain said he had once met an older woman who complained that she had taken ill.

"Ma'am, I told her, you must give up drinking, and smoking, and eating all manner of foods that don't agree with each other's company, and carrying on at all hours."

"But, Mr. Twain, she said, I have never done any of those things!"

"Well, there it was. The poor woman. She was a sinking ship with no freight to throw overboard."

I don't think I want to stop drinking (water) and I'm too friggin old for the rest of it.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

With your upcoming FDA deregulations you may never know until you try.

With the upcoming FDA deregulation we may never know if the McRib is real meat or from which animal.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

With the upcoming FDA deregulation we may never know if the McRib is real meat or from which animal.

Might be soylent. And green.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Isabeau]

I don’t understand that there aren’t any charges against him. Maybe after they find him?

Ryan Borgwardt: Kayaker who faked death sends video to police

Police say Ryan Borgwardt is believed to be in Eastern Europe, and has sent a video to prove he is safe.

www.bbc.com

He left behind three children and his wife. In the days before his departure, authorities found he had taken out a $375,000 (£297,875) life insurance policy, had transferred funds to a foreign bank account, photographed his new passport, and altered his email address.

Podoll said that there are currently no criminal charges pending against Mr Borgwardt, but that police say he owes them $40,000 (£32,000) for the cost of their search.

 

[Erich Templar]

I don’t understand that there aren’t any charges against him. Maybe after they find him?

Ryan Borgwardt: Kayaker who faked death sends video to police

Police say Ryan Borgwardt is believed to be in Eastern Europe, and has sent a video to prove he is safe.

www.bbc.com

I don't think he would face criminal charges, but the insurance company will want to come after him with a big stick.

 

[Lexxi]

With the upcoming FDA deregulation we may never know if the McRib is real meat or from which animal.

 

[Casey Pelous]

With the upcoming FDA deregulation we may never know if the McRib is real meat or from which animal.

Even now I'm not clear what body part that thing is supposed to represent. It is decidedly not a rib. Ribs contain -- well -- ribs!

 

[Free]

 

[Free]

 

[Free]

I'm not sure if this is supposed to be hilarious or not.

Microsoft asks Trump for help with Russian hacks

Brad Smith wants US to take a tougher approach to state-sponsored cyberattacks.

arstechnica.com

Microsoft’s president has called on Donald Trump to “push harder” against cyber attacks from Russia, China, and Iran amid a wave of state-sponsored hacks targeting US government officials and election campaigns.

Brad Smith, who is also the Big Tech company’s vice chair and top legal officer, told the Financial Times that cyber security “deserves to be a more prominent issue of international relations” and appealed to the US president-elect to send a “strong message.”

“I hope that the Trump administration will push harder against nation-state cyber attacks, especially from Russia and China and Iran,” Smith said. “We should not tolerate the level of attacks that we are seeing today.”

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Janel Comeau (@verybadllama.bsky.social)

2014: the movie Idiocracy is basically a documentary 2024: the movie Idiocracy is a beautiful and aspirational look at a future brighter than our own. a tantalizing glimpse into a better world that has already slipped from our fingertips.

bsky.app

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Beebo Brink]

That "share of workforce" doesn't tell the full picture. For instance, in Agriculture, I'll bet that 12.7% is located almost entirely in picking the fields, rather than spread throughout the various jobs counted in that industry. For Hospitality, they are in housecleaning, not front desk clerks and general managers.

It's not that the overall industry force will be reduced, it's that very specific, key tasks will be completely gutted by the loss of undocumented immigrants.

 

[Free]

Might be time to look into if BlueSky Cable News is a thing.

Musk Teases Buying MSNBC: 'How Much Does It Cost?'

As Comcast readies a sale of its legacy media outlet, the rightwing billionaire has mused about an acquisition.

gizmodo.com

This week, telecom giant Comcast announced plans to divest itself from some of its most well-known media properties. CNBC and MSNBC, as well as other popular cable assets, will be spun off from the conglomerate into a new company tentatively called SpinCo. The move will decisively severe those assets from their longtime home, Comcast’s NBC broadcast network.

It’s not exactly clear what comes next. Comcast has claimed that MSNBC and other spun-off media properties are not up for sale, though that hasn’t stopped rampant speculation about that being the case. In general, it doesn’t seem like a particularly hopeful sign for the brands that are being unloaded. Matt Egan, at CNN, notes that “the spinoff cable channels will have less financial protection from the volatility of the TV industry” now that they have been cut off “from the Comcast mothership and its stable cash flows.”

Never missing an opportunity to insert himself where he’s not welcome, tech billionaire Elon Musk decided to joke about purchasing the liberal news channel on Friday. This started when Donald Trump Jr., tagged Musk in a post about MSNBC’s transition away from Comcast, writing: “Hey @elonmusk I have the funniest idea ever!!!”

Musk replied: “How much does it cost?”

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I don't think he would face criminal charges, but the insurance company will want to come after him with a big stick.

If the insurance company has a case against him, then presumably the facts they allege would justify a criminal charge for fraud or attempted fraud. That would be the case in the UK, anyway, and I find it difficult to believe that US criminal law doesn't have similar provisions.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

The Chinese solar inverter company Deye remotely bricked without warning upfront inverters at 15/11/2024 installed in UK, USA and Pakistan remotely with a message to contact the domestic dealer and return the devices.

Deye is the contract manufacturer for Sol-Ark hybrid inverters.

What's going on is unclear; Sol-Ark itself has no idea, but it is a big issue in terms of security. Deye itself has not given a public statement yet.

Sol-Ark is also telling they are unable to resolve that block. Their idea of resolving the issue is to offer new inverters to affected customers at a discount price.

From the report it looks like grey market imports are affected only.

"Deye is the contract manufacturer of the Sol-Ark hybrid inverters, and Sol-Ark have the exclusive right to sell the inverters in the US since 2018, as shown in several lawsuits over the years ⤤. Deye-branded inverters have been sold for installation by several companies (seemingly in breach of Sol-Ark’s exclusivity agreement with Deye), and Sol-Ark has exercised its right to exclusivity through the court system.

It’s unclear what the impetus is for this reported shutdown, why it’s happening now, and why it didn’t happen sooner. As many people in the DIY Solar Power Forum have noted, it seems unfair to bring innocent consumers into the fight, who probably have no idea what their inverter brand even is.
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This situation is not only concerning because people may be without their solar production and backup power right now, but also because it seemed incredibly easy for a company in China to flip this switch on their inverters that brought power production to a halt. It brings to mind the mind-boggling amount of solar installed in the US that’s producing power using Chinese-manufactured inverters. As tensions and trade wars escalate with China, it’s an uncomfortable level of leverage that China may hold over our country.

Plus, country-level politics aside, the internet-connectedness of all solar installed over the last 5-10 years is a huge potential problem, illustrated by this exact situation. By default, most inverter manufacturers have ways to remotely configure inverters, and those internal systems pose large targets for cyber attackers. If any of the big manufacturer’s systems are breached, that’s gonna be a real bad time.

It’s easy to start running down the cliff of assumptions, but our takeaway here as installers is to be very careful what inverters we install (making sure there is official and direct support in the US), and even start thinking about more secure networking structures for the systems we install, especially if they’re used for backup power in the case of an outage, or used as off-grid inverters entirely.

It’s unknown what the resolution for this will be for the affected customers. It truly is shitty that Deye didn’t run this geographical check at the initial installation of these inverters. This will likely penalize the wrong people as a result."

Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverters in the US

Seemingly, at the drop of a hat the morning of Friday, Nov 15th, Deye-branded inverters across the US were intentionally bricked.

solarboi.com

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Never run internet connected hardware unless absolutely necessary. This is the main reason I would never consider a Tesla even before Musk bought Twitter. They have a history of rolling back features or making unwelcome changes.

If it MUST be online to operate, you never really own it.