Thursday, April 13, 2023

GO GET IT: The Geminos is the Dual Monitor Setup Re/Imagined [Bleeping Computer Deal]

Ergonomics experts have always sought a way to arrange two monitors without having a deleterious effect on health. 

With the Geminos stacked 24" monitor, which was successfully funded on Indiegogo and Kickstarter, we think they have it. And since you can get it on sale right now for $99 off the MSRP — only $699.99 for a limited time — there’s no time like the present to go get it.

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People who use a computer with two monitors often complain of an increase in neck, back, and shoulder pain. That’s because, despite the fact that it’s good for productivity, the all too common side-by-side screen configuration is less than ideal when it comes to ergonomics. And it is for this reason that the Geminos came into being.

The Geminos is the dual monitor setup reimagined. Instead of providing the extra wide surface area that you’d get with a traditional configuration, you instead get your two 24” screens stacked on top of each other so you don’t have to keep moving your head from side to side.

Instead, everything is visible front and center. And since it’s still dual screens, productivity isn’t sacrificed.

What’s even better is that you can adjust the screen up or down to your eye level so you won’t have to crane your neck either. The lower monitor can be pivoted outward which makes it possible for the upper monitor to stay at a perfect height.

It’s a pretty clever design — And it’s especially useful for folks who multitask on their computers all day long such as creative pros, programmers, and game designers too.

The Geminos can be used as one continuous 1080p screen for viewing large documents or you can set it up as if it were two separate screens to display different windows.

It features a built-in webcam and speakers for all your video conferencing needs, a USB hub so you can connect peripherals, and it also offers 100W USB-C pass-through charging for your laptop..."

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NEW NARRATIVE: "Teen-Age Gamers" were The Leakers of Intel Documents uploaded to Chat Server Discord [Updated Apr 13, 2023, 04:57am EDT]

Intel Documents Leaker Told Friends On Discord He Worked At A Military Base, Report Says

Siladitya Ray
Forbes Staff

"The unidentified individual who leaked a trove of classified U.S. government documents on the instant messaging platform Discord claimed they had a job at a military base, according to a Washington Post report examining the source of the leaks, which have become a diplomatic headache for the White House.

KEY FACTS

The alleged leaker was part of a Discord group named “Thug Shaker Central” made up of around “two dozen” men and boys who loved “guns, military gear and God,” the Washington Post reported, citing a teenage member of the invite-only chat server.

> The leaker, who identified themselves as “OG,” began sharing transcripts of classified intelligence documents that they claimed to have gained access to through their job at a military base, the location of which they refused to disclose.

> While OG’s initial posts on the server included text from the classified documents transcribed by hand, they later switched over to sharing photos of the documents.

> According to the Post, both the teenager and another member of the chat group, who corroborated the details, claim they know OG’s real name and the state he resides in but refused to divulge that information.

All the documents were shared in a special channel on the chat server called “bear-vs-pig” and could be accessed by users who were foreign nationals, including Russian and Ukrainian citizens.

> The members of the chat server had agreed to keep the leaked documents to themselves, and did so for several months before one of them shared it on another Discord server in February.

CRUCIAL QUOTE

Members of the server told Washington Post that OG did not plan on the documents being leaked so widely and only intended to share it with his friends in the chat server. “I would not call OG a whistleblower in the slightest…There was no heavy Snowden-like conspiracy here like some people may believe…Any claims that he is a Russian operative or pro-Russian is categorically false,” the teenage chat room user said.

KEY BACKGROUND

The federal government and intelligence officials have confirmed the authenticity of the leaked documents, but have warned some information may have been altered or even be outdated. These documents, some of which have “top secret” markings, began circulating on various social media platforms including Discord, Telegram, 4chan and Twitter. 

> After only being shared on the “Thug Shaker Central” server for several months, the documents were shared by one of the forum’s users on another server belonging to U.K.-based YouTuber “wow_mao” in February.

This would eventually spread to other Discord servers and finally other platforms like Telegram, which is frequented by both Russian and Ukrainian users. 

> The leaked documents included detailed assessments of the war in Ukraine, including concerns about the current state of the Ukrainian military and the massive casualties suffered by Russia. The leaks also include sensitive briefings about various foreign powers, including Canada, China, Israel, South Korea and others.

TANGENT

Discord is an instant messaging and voice chat platform that is popular with gamers. While initially used for voice chats during online multiplayer games, the platform saw a surge in use during the pandemic, as it allowed users from around the world to create and join chat servers based on specific interests. Amidst its growing popularity among younger users, the platform has seen its fair share of controversies, including its popularity among white supremacists and its use in sharing exploitative content. Unlike other popular online forums like Reddit, access to a Discord server requires an invite link and sometimes even approval from a server’s moderator. The platform, however, has recently cracked down on content deemed spam, hateful or illegal. In a statement to the press Wednesday, the company said it was “cooperating with law enforcement,” in the document leaks case.

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

UPDATE: Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Near-term Colorado River Operations

 


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Colorado River Basin | Bureau of Reclamation

Bureau of Reclamation
8 - 9 minutes

Purpose and Need

The purpose of the SEIS is to supplement the 2007 Interim Guidelines to modify guidelines for operation of Glen Canyon Dam and Hoover Dam to address historic drought, historically low reservoirs, and low runoff conditions in the Colorado River Basin. aww

The need for the modified operating guidelines is based on the potential that continued low runoff conditions in the Colorado River Basin could lead Lake Powell and Lake Mead to decline to critically low elevations, impacting operations through the remainder of the interim period (prior to January 1, 2027).

Alternatives

The draft SEIS considers three alternatives:

  • The No Action Alternative, required by the National Environmental Policy Act, describes the continued implementation of existing agreements that control operations of Glen Canyon and Hoover Dams.
  • Action Alternative 1 models operational changes to both Glen Canyon Dam and Hoover Dam. Action Alternative 1 includes assumptions for reduced releases from Glen Canyon Dam as well as assumptions for additional Lower Colorado River Basin shortages based on the concept of priority. Action Alternative 1 models progressively larger additional shortages as Lake Mead's elevation declines and models larger additional shortages in 2025-2026 as compared with 2024. The total shortages and Drought Contingency Plan contributions in 2024, as modeled, are limited to 2.083 million-acre-feet because this is the maximum volume analyzed in the 2007 Interim Guidelines final environmental impact statement.
  • Action Alternative 2 is similar to Action Alternative 1, in how it models operational changes to both Glen Canyon Dam and Hoover Dam. Action Alternative 2 includes assumptions for reduced releases from Glen Canyon Dam as well as assumptions for additional Lower Colorado River Basin reductions that are distributed in the same percentage across all Lower Basin water users. 
  • While both the 2007 Interim Guidelines and the 2019 Drought Contingency Plan encompass shortages and contributions that reflect the priority system, the additional shortages identified in Action Alternative 2 for the remainder of the interim period would be distributed in the same percentage across all Lower Basin water users. 
  • Action Alternative 2 models progressively larger additional shortages as Lake Mead's elevation declines and models larger Lower Basin shortages in 2025-2026 as compared with 2024. The total shortages and Drought Contingency Plan contributions in 2024, as modeled, are limited to 2.083 million-acre-feet because this is the maximum volume analyzed in the 2007 Interim Guidelines FEIS.

Public Involvement

The draft SEIS will be published in the Federal Register on April 14, 2023, starting the 45-day public comment period.

Paper copies are available for public review at the Lower Colorado Basin Regional Office, 500 Fir Street, Boulder City, Nevada 89005, and at the Upper Colorado Basin Regional Office, 125 South State Street, Room 8100, Salt Lake City, Utah 84138, as well as area offices within the Colorado River Basin. Those offices and their locations can be found on Reclamation's website.

Written comments on the SEIS should be submitted by May 30, 2023. Reclamation is particularly interested in receiving specific recommendations related to the analyses or alternatives that can be considered and potentially integrated into the SEIS.

For information in Spanish on how to attend the public meetings or provide comments, please download the instructions here. Para obtener información en español sobre cómo asistir a las reuniones públicas o presentar observaciones, descargue las instrucciones aquí.

✓ Comments may be submitted via the following methods:

  • Mail to:
    Reclamation
    2007 Interim Guidelines SEIS Project Manager
    Upper Colorado Basin Region
    125 South State Street, Suite 8100
    Salt Lake City, Utah 84138

Reclamation will hold four virtual public meetings to provide information on the draft SEIS, answer questions, and take verbal comment. To attend a virtual public meeting, click the link below that corresponds to the meeting date you would like to attend and fill out the registration form. You will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom webinar connection information once you register.

✓ An interactive webpage with information on the project background and summaries of the draft SEIS alternatives and analyses will be posted on the project website prior to the virtual public meetings. Each virtual public meeting will begin with 30 minutes for participants to explore the background information on the webpage at their own pace. The formal meeting presentation will begin 30 minutes after the scheduled meeting start time. Reclamation will take questions and public comments following the presentation. The interactive webpage materials and the virtual public meetings will be available in Spanish.

Before including your address, phone number, email address or other personal identifying information in any correspondence, you should be aware that your entire correspondence—including your personal identifying information—may be made publicly available at any time. While you may ask us in your correspondence to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.

Questions

For further information, contact the project team by email at CRinterimops@usbr.gov or call the project telephone line at (602) 609-6739.

Last Updated: 4/11/23 



The Biden administration on Tuesday moved closer to imposing unprecedented cuts in how much water Arizona, California and Nevada could pull from the Colorado River, while raising the possibility that these reductions could be distributed in ways that contradict long-standing water rights that favor powerful farming regions.

In releasing a new environmental review of how to operate the Colorado River’s major reservoirs, the Interior Department detailed the painful dilemma facing the American West after a two-decade drought and chronic overuse.

Interior officials also defended Secretary Deb Haaland’s right to make cuts in a proportional way in times of emergency even if that goes against water rights held by farming communities from more than a century ago.

Over the past year, the seven states of the Colorado River basin have been unable to reach an agreement among themselves to make major cuts to protect the reservoirs. The federal government expects to make a decision on how reductions could be distributed by August.

Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Near-term Colorado River Operations

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Cable News Ratings Monday April 10: Maddow Tops Hannity in the Demo and Overall

By Mediaite StaffApr 11th, 2023, 4:43 pm
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Rachel Maddow

Rachel Maddow led cable news in overall ratings and in the 25 to 54 age demographic at 9 p.m. for the second Monday in a row.

Maddow notched 2.43 million viewers on her weekly show, beating out Hannity on Fox News, which clocked in with 2.34 million. The longtime MSNBC fixture also eked out her Fox News counterpart in the demo, 277,000 viewers to 272,000. Hannity has long dominated the 9 p.m. hour.

Her program focused primarily on Monday’s deadly mass shooting in Louisville, a conservative judge’s decision to restrict access to an abortion drug, and the ongoing drama in the Tennessee House of Representatives.

Here is a full breakdown of Monday’s cable news ratings by show:

Total Viewers (thousands)

FNC CNN MSNBC NEWSMAX NEWSNATION
FOX AND FRIENDS:
783		 CNN THIS MORNING:
289		 MORNING JOE:
904		 WENDY BELL COMMON SENSE:
20		 EARLY MORNING:
10
FOX AND FRIENDS:
1144		 CNN THIS MORNING:
379		 — WAKE UP AMERICA:
84		 MORNING IN AMERICA:
36
FOX AND FRIENDS:
1403		 CNN THIS MORNING:
451		 — — —
AMERICAS NEWSROOM:
1497		 CNN NEWS CENTRAL:
550		 MORNING JOE:
905		 NATIONAL REPORT:
144		 —
AMERICAS NEWSROOM:
1558		 CNN NEWS CENTRAL:
710		 ANA CABRERA REPORTS:
872		 — NWSN LIVE W/ MARNI HUGHES:
53
FAULKNER FOCUS, THE:
1510		 CNN NEWS CENTRAL:
782		 JOSE DIAZ-BALART REPORTS:
855		 — —
OUTNUMBERED:
1694		 INSIDE POLITICS:
725		 ANDREA MITCHELL REPORTS:
831		 JOHN BACHMAN NOW:
120		 —
AMERICA REPORTS:
1493		 CNN NEWSROOM:
620		 CHRIS JANSING REPORTS:
810		 — BLUE BLOODS:
156
AMERICA REPORTS:
1410		 CNN NEWSROOM:
686		 — AMERICAN AGENDA:
126		 BLUE BLOODS:
217
STORY, THE:
1595		 CNN NEWSROOM:
789		 KATY TUR REPORTS:
1176 [3:37 PM-3:59 PM]		 — BLUE BLOODS:
259
YOUR WORLD W/NEIL CAVUTO:
1525		 LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER:
737		 DEADLINE:WHITE HOUSE:
1520		 CHRIS SALCEDO SHOW, THE:
209		 BLUE BLOODS:
284
FIVE, THE:
2992		 LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER:
791		 — SPICER & CO:
154		 NEWSNATION: RUSH HOUR:
144
SPECIAL RPT W/BRET BAIER:
2260		 SITUATION ROOM:
769		 BEAT W/ARI MELBER:
1410		 RECORD WITH GRETA VAN SUS:
193		 ELIZABETH VARGAS REPORTS:
52
JESSE WATTERS PRIMETIME:
2689		 ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT:
754		 REIDOUT:
1262		 ROB SCHMITT TONIGHT:
264		 ON BALANCE W/ VITTERT:
58
TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT:
3146		 ANDERSON COOPER 360:
736		 ALL IN W/ CHRIS HAYES:
1483		 ERIC BOLLING THE BALANCE:
209		 CUOMO:
158
HANNITY:
2335		 CNN PRIMETIME:
654		 RACHEL MADDOW SHOW:
2427		 PRIME NEWS:
134		 DAN ABRAMS LIVE:
126
INGRAHAM ANGLE, THE:
1973		 CNN TONIGHT:
622		 LAST WORD W/ L. ODONNELL:
1719		 GREG KELLY REPORTS:
164		 BANFIELD:
108
GUTFELD!:
1853		 CNN TONIGHT:
403		 11TH HOUR W/ S. RUHLE:
933		 ROB SCHMITT TONIGHT:
114		 CUOMO:
57

25-54 Demo (thousands)

FNC CNN MSNBC NEWSMAX NEWSNATION
FOX AND FRIENDS:
96		 CNN THIS MORNING:
80		 MORNING JOE:
110		 WENDY BELL COMMON SENSE:
0		 EARLY MORNING:
0
FOX AND FRIENDS:
165		 CNN THIS MORNING:
89		 — WAKE UP AMERICA:
10		 MORNING IN AMERICA:
5
FOX AND FRIENDS:
195		 CNN THIS MORNING:
98		 — — —
AMERICAS NEWSROOM:
169		 CNN NEWS CENTRAL:
116		 MORNING JOE:
115		 NATIONAL REPORT:
13		 —
AMERICAS NEWSROOM:
176		 CNN NEWS CENTRAL:
144		 ANA CABRERA REPORTS:
97		 — NWSN LIVE W/ MARNI HUGHES:
4
FAULKNER FOCUS, THE:
199		 CNN NEWS CENTRAL:
177		 JOSE DIAZ-BALART REPORTS:
107		 — —
OUTNUMBERED:
220		 INSIDE POLITICS:
155		 ANDREA MITCHELL REPORTS:
108		 JOHN BACHMAN NOW:
5		 —
AMERICA REPORTS:
223		 CNN NEWSROOM:
149		 CHRIS JANSING REPORTS:
105		 — BLUE BLOODS:
13
AMERICA REPORTS:
208		 CNN NEWSROOM:
139		 — AMERICAN AGENDA:
10		 BLUE BLOODS:
32
STORY, THE:
242		 CNN NEWSROOM:
145		 KATY TUR REPORTS:
132 [3:37 PM-3:59 PM]		 — BLUE BLOODS:
33
YOUR WORLD W/NEIL CAVUTO:
267		 LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER:
133		 DEADLINE:WHITE HOUSE:
159		 CHRIS SALCEDO SHOW, THE:
15		 BLUE BLOODS:
30
FIVE, THE:
376		 LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER:
166		 — SPICER & CO:
16		 NEWSNATION: RUSH HOUR:
14
SPECIAL RPT W/BRET BAIER:
266		 SITUATION ROOM:
161		 BEAT W/ARI MELBER:
142		 RECORD WITH GRETA VAN SUS:
5		 ELIZABETH VARGAS REPORTS:
6
JESSE WATTERS PRIMETIME:
328		 ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT:
167		 REIDOUT:
142		 ROB SCHMITT TONIGHT:
15		 ON BALANCE W/ VITTERT:
9
TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT:
438		 ANDERSON COOPER 360:
183		 ALL IN W/ CHRIS HAYES:
166		 ERIC BOLLING THE BALANCE:
24		 CUOMO:
26
HANNITY:
272		 CNN PRIMETIME:
200		 RACHEL MADDOW SHOW:
277		 PRIME NEWS:
14		 DAN ABRAMS LIVE:
29
INGRAHAM ANGLE, THE:
255		 CNN TONIGHT:
165		 LAST WORD W/ L. ODONNELL:
152		 GREG KELLY REPORTS:
13		 BANFIELD:
25
GUTFELD!:
307		 CNN TONIGHT:
147		 11TH HOUR W/ S. RUHLE:
123		 ROB SCHMITT TONIGHT:
13		 CUOMO:
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As for the three cable news networks overall, here are the total day averages in total viewers and the 25-54 demo.

Total viewers:

CNN: 576,000

Fox News: 1.66 million

MSNBC: 1.01 million

25-54 Demo:

CNN: 133,000

Fox News: 227,000

MSNBC: 127,000

Here are the prime time averages — encompassing shows which air from 8-11 p.m. — in total viewers and the 25-54 demo.

Total viewers:

CNN: 670,000

Fox News: 2.48 million

MSNBC: 1.88 million

25-54 Demo:

CNN: 182,000

Fox News: 322,000

MSNBC: 198,000

For more ratings information and analysis go to ShowBuzz Daily.

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