Yours!

Elective surgery though...

Time colonists!

GNU Steve Irwin

Nvidia: I have altered the deal, pray I do not alter it further.

Trump Indicted in Georgia. Prosecutors Accuse Trump of ‘Criminal Enterprise’ to Overturn Election (gift article) (consider sharing other articles here).

It handles ambiguity too. Want to say something lasts for a period of 1 month without needing to bother checking how many days are in the current and next month? P1M. Done. Want to be more explicit and say 30 days? P30D. Want to say it in hours? Add the T separator: PT720H.

I used this kind of notation all the time when exporting logged historical data from SCADA systems into a file whose name I wanted to quickly communicate the start of a log and how long it ran:

20230701T0000-07--P30D..v101_pressure.csv

(“--” is the ISO-8601 (2004) recommended substitute for “/” in file names)

If anyone is interested, I made this Bash script to give me uptime but expressed as an ISO 8601 time period.

$ bkuptime
P2DT4H22M4S/2023-08-15T02:01:00+0000, 2 users,  load average: 1.71, 0.87, 0.68

Using T as a delimiter is mental

You get used to it.

Mixed Martial Arts tournaments are basically Pokémon tournaments?

Are Pokémon people too?

Mark Mazzetti, Ronen Bergman, and Adam Goldman. (2023-07-31). “Who Paid for a Mysterious Spy Tool? The F.B.I., an F.B.I. Inquiry Found.”. New York Times. Accessed 2023-08-02.

When The New York Times reported in April that a contractor had purchased and deployed a spying tool made by NSO, the contentious Israeli hacking firm, for use by the U.S. government, White House officials said they were unaware of the contract and put the F.B.I. in charge of figuring out who might have been using the technology.

After an investigation, the F.B.I. uncovered at least part of the answer: It was the F.B.I.

The deal for the surveillance tool between the contractor, Riva Networks, and NSO was completed in November 2021. Only days before, the Biden administration had put NSO on a Commerce Department blacklist, which effectively banned U.S. firms from doing business with the company. For years, NSO’s spyware had been abused by governments around the world.

This particular tool, known as Landmark, allowed government officials to track people in Mexico without their knowledge or consent.

Note: It is improbable that Pegasus is restricted by whether a target phone is in Mexico or not. Therefore, I find it highly probable the FBI contractor or the FBI itself used Pegasus to spy on US citizens.

I imagine more people would use Tor if they could get paid to provide bandwidth (like Orchid as described on FLOSS Weekly 633).