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nuvi — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:09:49 +0800

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Why did our friends stop posting

nuvi — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:54:47 +0800

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Is social media dying? Feels like been seeing lesser user own experience/thought contents but increasing of paid contents, advertising disguising as experience, influencers content. Myself also more often choose to create distance instead of engaging in socmed. Feels like socmed now full of bots trying to influence instead of genuine engagement of people.

Louis Rossmann talk about Malaysia tries to ban

nuvi — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 08:46:24 +0800

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PSA: Scam sms 03-29350068

nuvi — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 15:59:18 +0800

Received scam sms, say a bank name card transaction at online shopping platform is successful and ask to call 03-29350068 for enquiry. I checked and the bank doesn't use this number.

I searched LYN, this number never appear before. New number registered by scammer.

Kherson now

nuvi — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 20:18:13 +0800

[twt]https://twitter.com/MarkRid89403375/status/1564222179000074241[/twt]

[twt]https://twitter.com/MarkRid89403375/status/1564223164489646083[/twt]

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has been

nuvi — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 07:27:37 +0800

[twt]https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1554223009111719937[/twt]

[twt]https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1554235848027144194[/twt]

[twt]https://twitter.com/Troy_IRL/status/1289612374479998977[/twt]

Predictive Policing

nuvi — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 19:40:53 +0800

This is something straight like out of movie plot. Many countries already using it, no matter west or east or democracy or communist. And countries that are more authoritarian likely are abusing it for some groups or political interests. When combined with camera and facial recognition, everyone is almost always under surveillance and being predicted what you will do next.

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‘An Invisible Cage’: How China Is Policing the Future

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The more than 1.4 billion people living in China are constantly watched. They are recorded by police cameras that are everywhere, on street corners and subway ceilings, in hotel lobbies and apartment buildings. Their phones are tracked, their purchases are monitored, and their online chats are censored.

Now, even their future is under surveillance.

The latest generation of technology digs through the vast amounts of data collected on their daily activities to find patterns and aberrations, promising to predict crimes or protests before they happen. They target potential troublemakers in the eyes of the Chinese government — not only those with a criminal past but also vulnerable groups, including ethnic minorities, migrant workers and those with a history of mental illness.

In many cases the software goes further than simply targeting a population, allowing the authorities to set up digital tripwires that indicate a possible threat. In one Megvii presentation detailing a rival product by Yitu, the system’s interface allowed the police to devise their own early warnings.

With a simple fill-in-the-blank menu, the police can base alarms on specific parameters, including where a blacklisted person appears, when the person moves around, whether he or she meets with other blacklisted people and the frequency of certain activities. The police could set the system to send a warning each time two people with a history of drug use check into the same hotel or when four people with a history of protest enter the same park.

Facial Recognition Is Out of Control in India

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The country’s use of biometric data against activists and “hooligans” paints a grim picture of how the technology is threatening human rights.

While driving through the busy lanes of Shahran, a Muslim-dominated neighborhood, they were pulled over by two police officers.

Masood wasn’t concerned at first because he assumed that he would be asked to show his driver’s license or the vehicle registration card. But instead, they were asked to remove their masks so the police constables could take mugshots of their faces on a handheld tablet.

Privacy advocates have sounded the alarm about police use of facial recognition (FRT) in Telangana, with Amnesty International warning that the capital city of Hyderabad is “on the brink of becoming a total surveillance city.”

The Hyderabad city police department is known for employing facial recognition for a variety of objectives, including questionable cordon and search operations, profiling people for narcotics, and unlawful phone-searching activities. They claim that facial recognition technology has worked as a "deterrent" and helped them apprehend criminals.

In Telangana, there are numerous facial recognition datasets that are being integrated into a “smart governance program,” called Samagram, which gives the state government a full picture of every resident's life, including their employment status and other personal information. The goal isn't only to track down criminals, but to build up a ‘360 degree view’ of every single person.

This project, formerly known as the Integrated People Information Hub, would use data from police records as well as "phone/water/electricity connections, tax payments, passports, voter IDs, RTA license and registration data, e-challans and even terrorist records," as stated by then Police Commissioner Mahendar Reddy in a now-deleted article in Telangana Today (regarded as a mouthpiece for the TRS government). A complete profile is created by combining this data with other identifying characteristics such as name, address, and phone number.

Telangana's IT Secretary stated this in 2019 on the usage of digital footprints: “We have created a best algorithm through which this machine learning capabilities has become so robust that today we have reached a level of almost 96-97 percent accuracy. So if you tell me one person's name I can give his entire digital footprint at about 96 percent accuracy to them... this tool throws up the results in a matter of seconds and the tool also is very useful in doing what is called family tree analysis or relationship analysis.”

Simulating An Epidemic

nuvi — Sat, 28 Mar 2020 16:31:54 +0800

This video show simulation of the epidemic if nothing being done, something being done, something being done but not fully, additional factors. Just watch the video to understand the tiny little dots representing human scrambling around.

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Covid-19: Different Stage of Severity

nuvi — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 17:52:31 +0800

Don't know if slowpoke or not

What Coronavirus symptoms looks like day after day
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Also, how easily germs spread from our hands
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Hate speech: Authorities slammed for sparing

nuvi — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:13:34 +0800

Mohamad Yazid Kong Abdullah, Chow Mun Fai and Wai Foo Sing, among those charged with provocative online postings. A critic says only ordinary Malaysians appear to be hauled into court over hate speech.

PETALING JAYA: Recent alleged threats to racial harmony have prompted a renewed call for tough laws against hate speech.

Akhbar Satar, a former president of Transparency International Malaysia, told FMT he would like to see laws so strict that even politicians and religious leaders would think twice before making racially charged statements.

He said there was no need to enact a new law against hate speech because relevant sections of the Penal Code, the Sedition Act and the Communications and Multimedia Act could be strengthened.

The enforcement of those laws must be equally strict, he said, noting that the authorities’ action against racist statements seemed lately to be directed only against ordinary members of the public.

A lorry driver was charged on Wednesday at the Port Dickson magistrate’s court with posting racially offensive remarks on social media. Several other nondescript social media users have been charged with similar offences this year.

“Most of the time the government’s action is not consistent and is likely seen as insincere or politically motivated,” Akhbar said.

He said the apparent reluctance to go after political and religious figures gave the impression that Pakatan Harapan was not keeping its election promise to respect the rule of law, that it was selective in investigating offences and taking court action.

He spoke of the coalition’s election victory last year as heralding a new Malaysia ruled with justice and transparency.

He said the public thought the country would be governed by statesmen who would have the interest of future generations in mind.

“But what we are getting are politicians concerned about their positions” he said, alleging that leaders in Putrajaya were not speaking up for fear of offending other politicians and some sections of the public.

Akhbar said he believed race relations in the country were “still under control” but added that he feared for the worst if no action was taken against rogue politicians.

Klang MP Charles Santiago also called for the just application of the law, saying this would go towards making people feel assured that no community has an advantage over another.

He urged the government to take the lead in changing the direction of current political discourse by focusing on creating jobs, raising wage levels and improving the quality of life and education.

He said there was a link between racial unease and wages. “When people feel they are not able to put food on the table, tension rises.”

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/...igious-leaders/

Honest Trailers | MCU

nuvi — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 22:07:13 +0800

MCU is about daddy issue!
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They spend a lot of time and research to do this trailer

Car DP Higher better? v2

nuvi — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 03:25:29 +0800

So I was interested with this thread whether should we pay high or low DP and use the remaining money to get interest from FD to offset the loan interest.
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=4761519&hl=

Unfortunately that ts go lock the thread so I open this thread to continue discussion on it. My excel skill a bit rusty so pls bear with me. Let me know if there's error in my calculation.

Based on his formula I feel there's some error on it, firstly I don't understand why he need to add back C, when total interest+cost is RM250K you couldn't be paying RM254,120. That's just not possible. Secondly FD also have 3 months period, which I think is better suited for such scenario as you need to constantly withdraw money from the saving.

So here I redo back the formula and see which is better with plenty of scenarios.

First if follow that thread value

Can see that actually the difference is very small no matter high or low DP. It's because the FD interest able to cover back the loan interest. There's actually one flaw with such scenario, later I'll explain. Now what if we loan for 9 years instead?

Lower DP actually pay less than higher DP

The flaw with such scenario is I don't think you can get 2.2 vs 2.5 interest rate, that seems too far fetched. If 2.45 vs 2.5 is more likely.

5 years

9 years

2k difference for 5 years and 3k difference for 9 years. It's not that big gap. Overall it doesn't matter if you do high DP or low DP as long as you have full amount for the car. But this scenario I don't think it's possible for most people so next is normal average people scenario when buying car.

So let's say you have 30k cash and want to buy god car, you wonder do you put all as DP so that you can save on interest or you put 10k as DP and rest put in FD? In these scenarios I put up I assume you can afford the high monthly repayment for low DP. For high DP, the monthly saving you got from lower repayment will be invested into FD every quarter so that it can help to reduce your loan interest. Due to bank usually don't give higher FD rate if you have less than 10K so I put that as 3%. The final amount is total you pay for the car minus FD. Let's see the result

Again, small difference. Putting more DP doesn't help to save interest when got FD to cover it. But what if loan 9 years?

Now we can see bigger difference between the 2. Longer tenure can feel the impact of low DP interest rate.

So is it better to put high DP or low DP? Personally I think putting low DP is better if you can afford the monthly repayment as the on hand money you just put in FD and be done with it whereas high DP you need to vigilantly save money every month to cover the loan interest rate.

5 years or 9 years? Now this is a bit tricky as seeing almost 4k increase is significant. But the counter is your monthly repayment dropped by 40%, that's RM600 monthly. If you were to save that RM600 every month for 9 years your FD will have over 70K! Even if you can only save half of the time the accumulated interest can easily offset the 4K increase. Do 9 years if you going to keep the car for that long (or act as deterrent from changing car)

Having your money in FD also help when you need emergency cash. if you have other saving, the 20K also might help to make your total saving higher thus get better FD rate. If you invest in trust/share/asb that can have higher interest then sure win.

So what do you think? high DP low tenure to save interest or low DP long tenure to keep money in FD?

Kleenex might want to rethink their box design

nuvi — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 12:48:36 +0800

African Swine Fever Virus

nuvi — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 09:20:03 +0800

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia is stepping up its enforcement to prevent the African swine fever (ASF) virus from spreading to the nation following its outbreak in other countries with the Year of the Pig approaching.

There will be a temporary ban expansion on pork products from six countries including China following the virus outbreak instead of only live pigs and frozen pork.

The Chinese community, however, do not have to worry about the shortage of pork delicacies as they usher in the Chinese New Year.

For starters, Malaysia does not import live pigs and frozen pork from China, where the major outbreak is.

There should also be no effect on the must-have lap mei fun (Cantonese for rice with preserved and waxed meat) as restaurants usually purchase lap cheong (Chinese sausage), yun cheong (liver sausage) and waxed pork from local producers and sources.

The Department of Veterinary Services (DVS) has widened the temporary ban on products such as canned pork, sausage casings, sliced pork, smoked ham and pork enzymes from China, Poland, Russia, Hungary, Moldova and Ukraine.

Deputy Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Minister Sim Tze Tzin said the expansion came after South Korea and another country discovered processed pork products that contained the ASF virus on Tuesday.

“With the new discovery and new development, the ministry will enlarge the ban on pork products. The DVS will be studying the risk and impact closely.

“This is to further protect our country from ASF and we are monitoring the situation very closely. Processed products are not supposed to have these viruses but somehow, they were detected, so we have to do more,” he said, adding that it was considered an immediate ban as the virus was only discovered by other countries on Christmas day.

Usually, processed pork would have been sterilised after going through the processes of steaming, cooking, boiling or being smoked.

There should also be no shortage of roasted suckling pig – a popular dish among the Chinese during celebrations and festive seasons.

Suckling pigs are usually obtained from Vietnam, which borders China. Its capital, Hanoi, is about 1,000km away from Guangdong province where some 2,000 pigs have been culled.

Sim said Vietnam was not an infected area but DVS and the ministry are monitoring it closely.

The DVS will issue a statement about the ban expansion today. It issued a statement yesterday that Malaysia did not import pork blood protein flour from China that was used to process animal feed.

This was in response to a report claiming that authorities in China discovered ASF virus in the powder in Huizhou, Guangdong.

Sim had announced the ban on importation of live pigs and frozen pork from the six countries affected with the ASF virus on Sept 7 after a meeting with stakeholders and pig farmers following the virus outbreak in early August.

“While the virus does not affect humans, authorities here are taking proactive measures to prevent the risk of ASF, which could affect pig farms here,” said Sim, adding that there were no evidence of ASF in Malaysia yet.

He said in September that Malaysia was ASF-free.

Malaysians returning to the country after visiting China and other countries are also advised not to bring home any pork products.

“We are afraid the virus may infect the pigs here one way or another. Don’t bring pork products back to Malaysia,” he said.

Deputy Health Minister Dr Lee Boon Chye also gave the same warning, saying that air travellers should not bring in such products.

“We have to be extra vigilant. We will be monitoring. Airlines should also make sure that they have to sterilise their aircraft properly after each transit, which is the standard procedure anyway.

“The virus has spread in several parts of China and the risk is that it will somehow reach our soil so it is important that we guard against it,” Dr Lee said, adding that he had called for stricter measures by enforcement agencies at international airports and entry points to prevent pork products from the affected countries from being brought in.

He also said that the ASF virus could survive for up to three years.

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2018...ntaminating-lo/

Mahathir to launch human rights celebration

nuvi — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 13:31:50 +0800

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/...cerd-gathering/

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Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad is expected to launch the celebration organised by Suhakam in conjunction with International Human Rights Day.
PETALING JAYA: Suhakam is holding a pro-human rights celebration on the same day as the ICERD gathering in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.

Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad will be launching the human rights celebration, which will be held in Padang Timur, here. Also scheduled to speak is chief secretary to the government Ismail Bakar.

The Human Rights Commission event has the theme “Stand Up 4 Human Rights”, in conjunction with International Human Rights Day on Monday.

The celebration will be held from 9am to 3pm.

The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination gathering, meanwhile, is supposed to be from 2pm to 6pm, according to Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL).

Umno, PAS and Perkasa have given their support for the ICERD rally. News reports said 500,000 people are expected to gather to celebrate the government’s decision not to ratify the United Nations convention.

Old man got many tricks up his sleeve

[VPNfilter] UPDATE! Malware infecting 500,000

nuvi — Sat, 26 May 2018 09:22:44 +0800

TLDR:
1) All your info could have been stolen
2) Malware tied to Russia can attack connected computers and downgrade HTTPS

VPNFilter also targets a much larger number of devices than previously thought, including those made by ASUS, D-Link, Huawei, Ubiquiti, UPVEL, and ZTE. The malware also works on new models from manufacturers previously known to be targeted, including Linksys, MikroTik, Netgear, and TP-Link.

The most notable new capabilities found in VPNFilter, come in a newly discovered module that performs an active man-in-the-middle attack on incoming Web traffic. Attackers can use this ssler module to inject malicious payloads into traffic as it passes through an infected router. The payloads can be tailored to exploit specific devices connected to the infected network. Pronounced “essler,” the module can also be used to surreptitiously modify content delivered by websites. VPNFilter poses a more potent threat and targets more devices than was reported two weeks ago. But it appears [attackers] have completely evolved past that, and now not only does it allow them to do that, but they can manipulate everything going through the compromised device. They can modify your bank account balance so that it looks normal while at the same time they’re siphoning off money and potentially PGP keys and things like that. They can manipulate everything going in and out of the device.

The full list of targeted devices is:

Asus Devices:
RT-AC66U (new)
RT-N10 (new)
RT-N10E (new)
RT-N10U (new)
RT-N56U (new)
RT-N66U (new)

D-Link Devices:
DES-1210-08P (new)
DIR-300 (new)
DIR-300A (new)
DSR-250N (new)
DSR-500N (new)
DSR-1000 (new)
DSR-1000N (new)

Huawei Devices:
HG8245 (new)

Linksys Devices:
E1200
E2500
E3000 (new)
E3200 (new)
E4200 (new)
RV082 (new)
WRVS4400N

Mikrotik Devices:
CCR1009 (new)
CCR1016
CCR1036
CCR1072
CRS109 (new)
CRS112 (new)
CRS125 (new)
RB411 (new)
RB450 (new)
RB750 (new)
RB911 (new)
RB921 (new)
RB941 (new)
RB951 (new)
RB952 (new)
RB960 (new)
RB962 (new)
RB1100 (new)
RB1200 (new)
RB2011 (new)
RB3011 (new)
RB Groove (new)
RB Omnitik (new)
STX5 (new)

Netgear Devices:
DG834 (new)
DGN1000 (new)
DGN2200
DGN3500 (new)
FVS318N (new)
MBRN3000 (new)
R6400
R7000
R8000
WNR1000
WNR2000
WNR2200 (new)
WNR4000 (new)
WNDR3700 (new)
WNDR4000 (new)
WNDR4300 (new)
WNDR4300-TN (new)
UTM50 (new)

QNAP Devices:
TS251
TS439 Pro
Other QNAP NAS devices running QTS software

TP-Link Devices:
R600VPN
TL-WR741ND (new)
TL-WR841N (new)
Ubiquiti Devices:
NSM2 (new)
PBE M5 (new)

Upvel Devices:
Unknown Models* (new)

ZTE Devices:
ZXHN H108N (new)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technol...han-we-thought/

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Hackers have infected more than 500,000 home and small-office routers around the world with malware that can be used to collect communications, launch attacks on others, and permanently destroy the devices with a single command. VPNFilter—the malware—works on consumer-grade routers made by Linksys, MikroTik, Netgear, TP-Link, and on network-attached storage devices from QNAP. Both Cisco and Symantec are advising users of any of these devices to do a factory reset.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technol...d-with-malware/

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(VPNfilter) UPDATE! Malware infecting 500,000

nuvi — Sat, 26 May 2018 08:54:32 +0800

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Which ktard is this?

nuvi — Fri, 11 May 2018 12:22:28 +0800

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Dr M: We can get 1MDB money back

nuvi — Fri, 11 May 2018 11:00:22 +0800

KUALA LUMPUR, May 11 — The Pakatan Harapan government will be able to recover most of 1Malaysia Development Berhad money back to Malaysia, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday.

The Prime Minister said that this would be one of the means to repay the country’s existing debts which he said could easily reach RM1 trillion.
“Barisan Nasional said the total amount of debts is RM800 billion but this does not include the hidden figures. To say that we owe RM1 trillion is actually not an exaggeration.

“We believe we will get most of the 1MDB money back from Switzerland to repay this debt. We have a number of people whose expertise can be lent in order for us to reach that goal,” he said at Sheraton Hotel Petaling Jaya.

https://www.malaymail.com/s/1629535/dr-m-we...1mdb-money-back

Cupid Corner have new icon

nuvi — Sun, 15 Oct 2017 03:02:06 +0800

I saw the second sub-forum to have own icon is Cupid Corner, the first of course our mighty /k.

Who's the mod that doing the job to update all these icons?
Is he foreveralone alone like ktards??