Vex: hey is there still a wot since trinque's thing went unmantainium?
Vex: i don't mean to sound clearance adjacent, i'm just retarded
mats: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/secure-boot-is-completely-compromised-on-200-models-from-5-big-device-makers
mats: https://archive.is/2024.07.12-080156/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/business/china-trade-surplus-record.html
mats: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/openai-training-and-inference-costs-could-reach-7bn-for-2024-ai-startup-set-to-lose-5bn-report
mats: http://archive.today/2024.07.23-011631/https://www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-alexa-devices-echo-losses-strategy-25f2581a
mats: https://www.unknowncheats.me/forum/anti-cheat-bypass/650057-zerohvci-defeating-hvci-admin-privileges-kernel-drivers.html
mats: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/11/china-building-twice-as-much-wind-and-solar-power-as-rest-of-world-report
mats: (more renewables installed in china in 2023 than rest of world combined)
Vex: that's a lot of reading. binarly is a cool name
mats: https://archive.ph/2024.06.04-191541/https://www.businessinsider.com/63-problem-banks-517-billion-unrealized-losses-fdic-interest-rates-2024-6
mats: (extremely stale) https://archive.ph/2023.05.23-074043/https://www.ft.com/content/dcfbb1ea-e219-3273-8992-9e7ac75ae290
Vex: how's it hanging mats?
mats: widely panned, usd dominance down, share of central bank reserves from 71% in y2000 to 56% in y2022
mats: https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2024/06/11/dollar-dominance-in-the-international-reserve-system-an-update
mats: what a long saga of malingerers and munchausen-ing
Vex: proof of life confirmed
mats: even today, there's a hilarious game of pumping oxygen into the saga https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68706317
mats: i guess there's a +ev result here somewhere possibly enabling state dept employees to scam usg out of disability payments
mats: http://archive.is/2023.06.16-211454/https://theintercept.com/2023/04/20/pentagon-budget-havana-syndrome
Vex: i think shins takes prophylactic dose of rhum when he goes to havana. ton of fuel and a heading
Vex: bitches be all like. can u hear that. nope
Vex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCjNJDNzw8Y hand. forced
Vex: meanwhile, in testnet, murdoch et al have decided in his infinite wisdom to cast a spotlight on the construction and manufacturer union
Vex: it's expensive to stay low on the corruption index
veks: 4 letters nao
veks: just for clarity. i deride corruption