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Ironically, the OMI 'open source' package is Microsoft's.

The only recent commit was for "Enhanced security" a month ago:

https://github.com/microsoft/omi/commit/4ce2cf1cb0aa656b8eb9...

Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:51PM (#28529194)
> because it's easier to lie and say you already had COVID, and there's a bunch of people who'd probably do so.

It's not actually. They're equivalent. The vaccine proof is PAPER which can be forged. And while evidence of a COVID19 test can be paper too, mine was digital.

Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:49PM (#28529162)
We are well past that. It's not that hard to say:

1) If you have natural immunity already, great! Provide evidence of your positive test

2) If you don't have evidence that you've been SARS-COV-19 positive, go get a shot so you don't have a severe hospitalization.

3) No, we don't suggest getting infected on purpose over the shot. Go read #2

Instead, the US federal government is being purposefully ignorant of how effective natural immunity is.

That's fair. I am appreciative. I was just shocked by the timeline but glad this was resolved
Re:NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Captured in the Wild on Monday September 13, 2021 @04:43PM (#28516623)
This report says they discovered this in March.

The NY Times [1] just reported that "Apple’s security team has been working around the clock to develop a fix since Tuesday, after researchers at Citizen Lab, a cybersecurity watchdog organization at the University of Toronto, discovered that a Saudi activist’s iPhone had been infected with spyware from NSO Group."

What took so long? Did Apple not know about this in March or was someone sitting on it for 6 months?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/technology/apple-software...

Why did this take so long? The alternate thread pointing at the citizenlab report [1] says that "In March 2021, we examined... and determined that they had been hacked"

It's September. The NYTimes says: "Apple’s security team has been working around the clock to develop a fix since Tuesday, after researchers at Citizen Lab, a cybersecurity watchdog organization at the University of Toronto, discovered that a Saudi activist’s iPhone had been infected with spyware from NSO Group."

So has Apple been sitting on this since March, or has CitizenLab?

[1] https://citizenlab.ca/2021/09/forcedentry-nso-group-imessage...

I agree. One workaround though is clicking NYTimes links, then clicking Firefox Reader View, then clicking refresh.

But then you have to actually read NYTimes, which reading the agenda they push can be a different type of infuriating.

Re:Kite: An interactive visualization tool for graph theory on Monday September 13, 2021 @04:23PM (#28516370)
The editor is very slick. Where does the 'graph theory' part come into this though? As so far, all I've done is create some vertices and group them by 'bags'. Note that I'm a math theory novice
Re:Epiousios on Monday September 13, 2021 @09:36AM (#28511286)
I have heard this phrase (daily bread) compared to the story of God providing manna (something flaky, often compared to flour & bread) for food in Exodus 16. In that story, the Israelites were instructed to only collect the manna for each day. If they tried to keep some for the second day, it would become rotten. This meant they were reliant on God's provision each day.

In the same way, this prayer may be about provision of bread enough for today, of sufficient/satisfactory quantity, no more than we need (per Exodus), just what we need right now. You'd obviously then want to pray this each day, and rely on God's provision daily. So daily isn't a transliteral interpretation but more a descriptive one

I thought this was going to be the cost of producing/spending USD, not a historical tour of the petrodollar's economics. It was the latter
Re:9/11 Material Released in Response to Executive Order 14040 on Sunday September 12, 2021 @10:13PM (#28507167)
> I don't know a single engineer that has read the report that disagrees with its findings.

Just want to point out that the document that OP linked claims in the conclusion that the NIST report is invalid, but I have no ability to judge that claim. I have no structural engineering knowledge and have never heard of either of these reports until now.

This was published March 2020 though, and I'd be curious if the analysis was cogent enough to warrant NIST's response in a few years

Re:Decoding Voyager 1 on Sunday September 12, 2021 @10:23AM (#28501412)
Ya, but it's still an impressive description of working with the radio traffic.

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