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July 30, 2022

Twenty-eight incarcerated women in Indiana have alleged in two separate federal lawsuits that they were ​threatened or sexually assaulted, including two who said they were raped, last year by ​men incarcerated at the same facility who, according to one of the lawsuits, bribed a corrections officer with $1,000 to obtain the keys to their jail cells.

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July 30, 2022

Hi HN!

With the CZ5N re-entry happening I figured you could point me in the right direction to solve this mystery:

On the evening of july 14, around 20:15 UTC we saw something pass over our heads fairly slowly (apparently stationary), leaving a greenish, sparkly line over the course of several minutes. It also left a long trail that apparently was still illuminated by the sun, originating at an azimuth of ~210° (SSW).

Our observation position was ~48.08° N, 11.28° E (southern Germany, near Munich).

About 20 minutes later I tried digging into it a little on James Darpinian's See A Satellite Tonight and found a rocket/booster stage that could have had a matching trajectory (CZ-4B R/B).

I'd love to dig deeper into this, so:

1. Are there any websites where I can revisit that time/location? I'm aware of TLEs but would appreciate a "time-travel" view for the location in question

2. The CZ-4B R/B still seems to be „around“. Is it likely that we saw re-entry of only smaller parts of it that were just low enough to "hit" a substantial amount of atmosphere?

3. Are there other explanations for a slow-moving object leaving a trail creating greenish, sparkly lines?

4. What additional information would be needed to figure out what happened?

Any help is much appreciated!

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July 29, 2022

I was just poking around on a Shopify store on my Firefox browser and saw Apple Pay button showed up, first thought it's a front-end bug on the website but tapped on it and the widget slid up and you can legibly make the purchase!

Tried on Chrome too and it worked there too!

Tried a few other website and can confirm it works everywhere Apple Pay is offered. is it a feature? bug?

Wanna try it yourself? you can check this Stripe test page https://ift.tt/MdqB748

Haven't installed Beta 4 yet to see if it is still working.

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July 29, 2022

I built this tool that checks publicly available data against your phone number. I was surprised how one my numbers (which I text and sign up for services with) has a lot of information attached to it including my full name, all previous addresses, relatives, emails, and more.

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July 24, 2022

Former Vice President Al Gore on Sunday likened climate crisis deniers to the police officers in Uvalde who failed to take action as 21 schoolchildren and teachers were gunned down in their classrooms, saying, "They heard the screams, they heard the gunshots, and nobody stepped forward."

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July 23, 2022

The recent allegations of harassment against Ricky Martin, leveled by his 21-year-old nephew and then withdrawn, feel eerie and unfortunate alongside the debut of "Menudo: Forever Young" -- a stunning, hard-to-watch cautionary tale that seems stuck in time but still resonates today, writes Ed Morales.

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July 21, 2022

Read CNN's Fast Facts about Elon Musk and learn about the entrepreneur behind Tesla and SpaceX.

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July 21, 2022

The chief of Britain's foreign intelligence service believes that Russia is losing steam in its invasion of Ukraine, and has lost its ability to spy in Europe "by half" following the expulsion of more than 400 Russian intelligence officers from cities across Europe and the arrest of several deep-cover spies posing as civilians.

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July 18, 2022

Thanks for checking out Babble! You might wonder why this app is even useful and why not just use Signal/PGP. This app's target audience is actually ordinary people in China or similar countries who are under severe government surveillance and censorship, where access to Signal and similar E2EE messaging software is blocked by nationwide firewalls, such as the Great Firewall of China (GFW).

Chinese people have been deprived of freedom of speech even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Li Wenliang, who was among the first to notice the spread of the virus and warned his colleagues about it in a private WeChat group, was admonished by the police for "spreading rumors"; his punishment was then aired on the national TV channel. After Wenliang passed away due to getting COVID-19 himself, discussions about it on China's public Internet were highly restricted; most discussions will be deleted upon being posted, which was done by some automatic keyword detection mechanism.

Things got even worse over the years and especially during the Shanghai lockdown in early 2022. Everything related to questioning the public health policy is banned. Many people posted articles about how bad Shanghai's economic and social situation is on their WeChat public accounts. None of these articles, not even their accounts, can survive for longer than a few hours. Even articles crying for help, because people were starving, got deleted.

A video called Voice from Shanghai Lockdown (https://youtu.be/38_thLXNHY8), which contains audio recordings of desperate Shanghai people during the lockdown, went viral on Chinese social media at the end of this April. Unsurprisingly, this video was immediately censored. People got angry and tried to spread this video as much as possible by re-posting it again and again, racing against the detection algorithm. But it was futile.

It's just like 1984, where the number of words available to say "legally" is decreasing. There are no tools available for people to speak out. Public social media and private messaging apps are all monitored by the government. Foreign tools such as Telegram, Signal, or anything similar are blocked by the GFW. PGP is too technical for normal people. The goal of Babble is to provide those people with a cryptographic and steganographic tool that's easy enough to use but secure enough against a censorship system. It's not perfect as of now, but we are making an effort to make it better.

Yes, Babble might get removed from the App Store in China if the Chinese government asks, but it's fundamentally different from Signal being blocked - there are a considerable number of people in China who has an overseas Apple ID so that they can download apps not on Chinese App Store, but to use Signal, you have to bypass GFW, which fewer people know how to. One of the real challenges for this project though, is how to get people aware of the situation, because our education is brainwashing and people are starting to take surveillance and censorship for granted. And it's very hard for the app to reach its intended audience because the surveillance system is designed to prevent them from accessing this kind of tool.

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July 11, 2022

I am in my mid-thirties, working four days a week, and making over 100k. I have a house, a good relationship with my wife, and young and healthy kids.

I work from home. My job is technically interesting, and I still learn/improve. I do not have meetings. One or sometimes two 30 min calls a week with my boss. Most days, I do not have to interact with anyone from work, not even customer contact.

If I knew I could have a job like this ten years ago, I would have thought that's it, the dream.

But somehow, it isn't. It's never enough.

I dream about doing my own thing or retiring early to do other projects. It is probably human to always want more.

So HN, how did you settle and slow down and become happy with the way it is without always wanting more?

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July 10, 2022

Read CNN's Fast Facts on Wimbledon, the Grand Slam tennis tournament that is played on grass courts.


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