The third party version of Signal the White House has been using has been hacked, and Signal messages from devices stolen (as they were being sent to the supplier).
This includes group chat messages. The suppliers website has disappeared as of writing this toot.
https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/
xpath and dunstify off and on all day and have Alaska weather, Pacific Northwest tsunami, and some rando subset of national alerts now turning up on my craptop. CAP alert severity gets mapped to dunstify alert urgency. All seems wavy gravy so far.The biggest thing is that even with some mandatory fields their usage is all over the place. Some have useless headlines. Some skip the instructions and put them in the description. It's like no one is really thinking about how to maximize impact, clarity, and brevity. If alert managers assumed people are consuming alerts on mobile devices and work backwards, it would go a long way., and maintain compatibility with EBS, etc.
I played a bit this morning with xpath and the mandatory fields, and it looks like it might be pretty straightforward to cobble something together.
There are several commercial solutions for signage, but anyone know of an open source solution? I've found some libraries but no finished projects yet. Surely someone out there is getting their tornado warnings wrapped up in their regular notifications.
President Trump tells NBC’s Meet the Press that he’s unsure whether people in the US are entitled to due process rights guaranteed in the Constitution. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-asked-uphold-constitution-says-dont-know-rcna204580
In 1861 a guy named Semmelweis published the findings from a study he performed. He required medical students and doctors to wash their hands in chlorinated water before attending delivery of babies. The mortality rate of women cared for by these providers dropped from 18% to 2%.
His theory of transmissible disease carried on the hands of doctors was dismissed by colleagues. He was comitted to an asylum, beaten by the guards, and died of sepsis weeks later.
RFK is those fucking guys.
I think The Three-Body Problem is up next.
It's a novella, like 150 pages, and it took me maybe a minute per page, maybe a little more, but literally finished it in one sitting. Funny, fun, suspenseful, surprising. Good way to end this #Saturday.
I have a cheap little Retekess V115 that punches above its weight, and has a micro SD card slot for recording (or playback) locally. I really wanted to record some numbers stations before they're all gone but haven't had good luck the last few times I've tried.
Radio nerditry: every time I visit NYC and remember to turn on a radio, I marvel at the thriving and vibrant Brooklyn pirate radio broadcasting scene. My pal @pirateradiomap maintains an awesome archive of them at https://pirateradiomap.com .
Best part of the series is that he finally starts to figure that out.
