There was a brief power outage at my home a few days ago. Usually this would be a nuisance, but I'd been waiting months for this moment.

Here is a recording of the actual mains waveform during the outage, captured by a logging recorder I've been running.

(watch your volume!)

Was sent this excellent video about a two year journey to brin g a Commodore 64 dial-up BBS back. English and German. Snobsoft lives!

youtube.com/watch?v=oEv5_tC-vV…

Dear Government,

Since November 5th, all the way through December 16th, for more than a month, you told everyone you did NOT know what was going on. Now, you claim it was all harmless private drones this whole time.

I work for Meta, I see thousands upon thousands of posts every hour, and let tell you, no one believe you.

#Drones #Uap #UnidentifiedAnomalousPhenomena #Ufo #UnidentifiedFlyingObject

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Ted Galen Carpenter: Washington’s Long Flirtation with Syria’s Extreme Islamists original.antiwar.com/Ted_Galen…

J. #Branco

Nicolas #Sarkozy, avocat inscrit au barreau de Paris, définitivement condamné après avoir tenté de corrompre un magistrat.
Le bâtonnier Pierre Hoffman, si prompt à dégainer lorsque cela sert certains intérêts, demandera-t-il immédiatement sa #radiation, comme il n'a pas hésité à le faire contre certains confrères, coupables d'exister et d'exercer leur profession avec rigueur et dignité, mais rendus fautifs d'user d'enveloppes noires et autres billevesées ?
Comment l'ordre des avocats explique-t-il qu'au cours de ces très longues années, aucune procédure disciplinaire n'ait jamais été enclenchée contre un confrère contre lequel les condamnations se multipliaient, alors qu'il n'a pas hésité à en piétiner d'autres, dans les procédures que l'on sait ?


#JuanBranco #france #mafia #pipolitique #politique #macron #justice #corruption

Good afternoon everyone. There has been a lot of confusion about "subscriptions" to FA. I hope this doesn't add to the confusion, but I have to say that we are committed to being a not-for-profit, voluntarily funded site. We need about another $110 per month in pledges and then we can exist forever, but if we cannot reach this extremely modest goal by January 20th, then we have no choice but to close down the site. Subscriptions are gratefully accepted at givesendgo.com/FreeAtlantis. Thank You!

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A great conversation in the supporter Discord/Matrix reminded me that it's about time to share this fantastic item by @heydon.

Anyway, yes HTML is a programming language and folks who argue with this statement in my comments will be muted, blocked, defederated, or all three.

briefs.video/videos/is-html-a-…

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Fedi:
"I'll follow this biologist, that lawyer and the psychiatrist over there, to widen my perspective a bit"

biologist: *i wrote this plugin in python for my blogging engine*
lawyer: *look at this nifty shell script i wrote*
psychiatrist: *i use arch btw*

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Michael Klare and Tom Engelhardt: Can Trump Trump China (or Vice Versa)? original.antiwar.com/Michael_K…

WATCH: House Ethics Committee Chairman Michael Guest Refuses to Answer TGP’s Questions on Gaetz Report, Democrat Ethics Committee Leaker – Won’t Even Say What Ethics Means

thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/w…

Kyle Becker

Speaker Johnson's 1,547-page spending monstrosity has a little gift to Pelosi's Partisan J6 Committee.

Buried way down in section 605 is a passage that would shield House members from independent investigators.
"MOTIONS TO QUASH OR MODIFY—Upon a motion made promptly by a House office or provider for a House office, a court of competent jurisdiction shall quash or modify any legal process directed to the provider for a House office if compliance with the legal process would require the disclosure of House data of the House office."

What does this mean in plain English?

If someone (like a House office or a service provider working for a House office) believes a legal request for information (such as a subpoena) would force them to disclose sensitive House data, they can quickly file a motion with a court to stop or change the request.

The court must agree to block or change the request if it would result in the disclosure of the House’s sensitive data.

In essence, this ensures House offices' data remains protected, and provides a way to challenge legal requests for that data.

This could be used to shield J6 committee members accused of deleting records and may be criminally prosecuted under the Trump administration. #cr @kylenabecker minds.com/newsfeed/17161974207…

screenshot of my latest midway tweaking my #kitty's colours, using #htop : ks392457.kimsufi.com/stuff/scr…
https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/1024/7027745
looked better on the monitor it was developed on, than the one i'm now posting this from.


ps, started using #redshift ... does that mean my efforts to develop a #blue-blocking #anti-glare #theme over all these years is redundant?


pps, dont let the stratum column confuse you. it's for bedrock, in a fork of htop. can yours do that?


#ricing #theming #warm #blueblockers

some reply-guys who want to prove you wrong will still reply without making an attempt. instead, they'll tell you to explain your reasoning in more detail, and that's it. they don't present any actual counterarguments, they just kind of demand that you explain yourself in greater depth.

and it's always for the same reason. they want to prove you wrong—but they can't. there's no angle, because you're actually making perfect sense. so they need you to talk a lot more, and then maybe you'll eventually give them something by accident that they can attack.

and if you do, then they'll argue against that thing and act like your whole point is false, even if that point is absolutely inconsequential in reality.

out of all the kinds of reply-guys, I think these ones are among the most embarrassing.

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It reminds me of the "Press" action in the Ace Attorney series. Which is to say "I have no actual idea of what you're wrong about but I've decided you're wrong so please keep talking until I can point something out"

It's weird to think of seeing interactions with others as being adversarial like that. Going into a conversation with the preconceived notion that there's a hidden flaw you should exploit.

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when I explain to SWEs various release engineering best practices, there are always one or two who interpret my statements, which are not hypotheses, as if I was presenting a challenge for them to come up with a solution that successfully violates best practices. Or, they react by questioning them and asking for proofs.

I am sure the same is true in the infosec space.

I am also sure that Mastodon has a higher proportion of these individuals than does most social media.

tl'dr, I agree

He wants to "streamline the state's response". Got to get a jump on the fascist lockdowns!
justthenews.com/nation/states/…
#LyingPoliticians #DestroyingAmerica

Ins Land eini schauen - Grunddorf und die Ausläufer des Waldviertels


Blick über das Donauschwemmgebiet in der Gegend von Grafenegg am 15.12.2024

Temperatur knapp über null

Original: VID_20241215_143432.mp4

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Tuba 0.9 has been released with a stack of new features, UI tweaks, and access to your personalised #FediUnwrapped for 2024!

omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/linux-…

#Fediverse #linux #opensource

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Oh FFS. You HAVE some choice and control to NOT fawn over another app pushed upon you by comfortable drop in brunch meeting tech "leaders" and their infinite vapid number goes up backslapping wankfest of tech at people.

Who is this built for? Was it co-dev'd with communities that need tools for organising and reach? Nope, it's just a massive junction of the rot and clout one-way firehose bullshit cannons framed as "for you" by narrative hijacking tastemaker curator oxygen and voice thieves.

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They're hellbent to make sure there are no organic corners of the verse safe from the one-way clout cannon, influencer, skimmer, corpo fois grois firehose. A megaphone for dominating actors scantily clad as an RSS reader.

Don't want to hear, but easier or benefit of doubt. Easier for whom?

When it's being pushed by the leopard adjacent fly in brunch crew and their corpo, network bullying, ads, safety last tech leopards, this will usually mean at the cost of *your* agency.

Protect ya faces.

Las lechuzas son blancas para que se las vea menos. Ha salido un artículo al que yo he contribuido, una colaboración entre especialistas en biología, radiometría y astronomía que propone que el blanco de las lechuzas sirve para que sus presas las vean peor.
El cielo nocturno iluminado por la Luna adquiere brillo. Una lechuza se vería como un perfil negro contra ese fondo. Pero el tono blanco refleja la cantidad de luz (procedente del paisaje) suficiente como para que la rapaz se confunda con el fondo. El blanco de la lechuza, por llamativo que parezca, es en realidad un medio de camuflaje que se une a su vuelo silencioso para que sus presas no las descubran hasta que ya sea demasiado tarde.
El artículo en PNAS:
pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas…
Información en Cordópolis:
cordopolis.eldiario.es/cordoba...
Comentario en Science:
science.org/content/article/wh...
Algo más de comentario en CNN:
edition.c
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If you’re looking for an alternative to GitHub, see @Codeberg

(And if you want to self host it, see @forgejo)

All my current projects are on Codeberg (e.g, see Kitten at codeberg.org/kitten/app) and have been since it came to light that Microsoft was training its shitty AI on our code, licenses and copyright be damned.

#GitHub #Microsoft #AI #CoPilot #codeberg #forgejo #alternatives #git

Swedish Energy Minister:

“We have an extremely weather dependent energy system now.

No will in the world can override the basic rules of physics, not even that of Robert Habeck.

It is not fair that Sweden has to pay for German decisions”

Todas gamers 🌿

Tú, yo, NOSOTRES - NO BINARISMO en videojuegos :nonbinary_flag:
youtube.com/watch?v=7cIeoLBLed…

justthenews.com/nation/states/…
Texas man sentenced to four years for ballot fraud
Mohamed was a candidate in the 2020 Carrollton mayoral election, and forged mail ballot applications under the names of Carrollton residents, which were sent to a mail store in Lewisville, where he leased a virtual mailbox.

(17) Tribune Populaire🌐 on X: "🚨ALERTE INFO « Qu’est ce que vous faites là monsieur Bayrou ? C’est une faute politique. Votre première mission, monsieur le Premier ministre, c’est de prendre l’avion et d’aller à Mayotte.. » lance un élu de Pau à François Bayrou https://t.co/jdc5LpJctv" / X


#politique #foutagedegueule #lacorde #guillotine2024
xcancel.com/TribunePop23/statu…

By the end of September I could probably provide consultancy on how to self-host alternatives to your entire Google (and others) infrastructure. 😅

It's frankly scary how much data I give them as a result of the sheer convenience of it. (I've always been aware of this, but never really thought about it too much.)

I find personal location tracking super useful for a lot of things - that's my current research area... traccar looking like a clear favourite.

Computer Weekly highlights the irony of UK OSA and EU Chat Control pushing for E2EE backdoors...

...while the US urges people into E2EE apps because #SaltTyphoon has exploited backdoors to compromise the US' entire public telephone network.

computerweekly.com/news/366616…

Banning the #unhoused from sleeping or living because they have nowhere else to go is not the solution. Shelter and housing should be provided to every soul that is told to move or told to leave. #USpol #ABQ

koat.com/article/city-of-albuq…

literally, all he has to do is say it. he says it, and it becomes an amendment.
thanks to all the libs who got a republican at the top of the "democractic" party ticket 4 years ago.

commondreams.org/news/equal-ri…

Syria mass graves: Grim task of searching for and naming the dead
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj90wz8weymo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Top Stories @top-stories-BBCNews

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/12/17/eco…

The terminology here is surely a warning that we can now no longer imagine a world where our lives and happiness don't depend on benevolent capitalism. The start of the article uses the term "engaging with", an understandable analysis, while the headline uses a term implying scarcity, supply, demand, economic ideology, "consuming", when, of all things, culture and the arts exist because we are human, not because it's dished out.
</GRUMP_AGAINST_MODERNITY>
theguardian.com/society/2024/d…

Nonprofit work is hard. It takes a lot of time, dedication and, more often than not, you see volunteers taking in multiple different tasks and responsibilities to keep everything running. Thankfully, we occasionally get external contributors that help us out!

For instance, I would post something serious so as to promote our nonprofit, but it seems like #GitHub decided to help us with the marketing for the day by sending a bunch of its users (multiple) emails about GitHub Copilot. 😅

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Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed and/or setup subscriptions recently - we are now at just over 40% of our subscription goal and we have received a few generous contributions that will help make up the gap in the short run. Again - let's give it until January 20th and then it will be decision time. If we do close the site then, of course, all subscriptions will be cancelled and we will end with a bank account balance of zero, but let's hope for a Christmas miracle :)

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I went to GDC for the first (and last) time this year. Microsoft put on a big seminar about how "AI" will help gamedevs. Call me innocent, but my heart sank a bit when I saw them doing this. Sure, start-ups, tech bros, hucksters, and MBAs are all selling "AI" now. And I know Microsoft is evil. I just didn't expect to see them blatantly taking part in this with the rest of those grifters.