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Vamos, ya que estamos viviendo en una distopia continua y parece que los gobiernos y poderosos han decidido imitar todas las obras de la literatura como "1984" " Un mundo feliz" etc.... a ver si los bomberos se animan e imitan "Farenheit452" solo que en vez de quemar libros, se van a quemar sedes de partidos condenados por pertenecer a Grupos Criminales.
Por pedir y...soñar.

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Twink Link is being freed: #Nintendo apparently backtracks, says you are allowed to call yourself Twink Link as it works to unban a #Switch2 it "flagged by accident"


source: gamesradar.com/games/the-legen…

Or at least, so it is claimed. In case you somehow missed the initial kerfuffle – and what a delight for you, as you now get to catch up – #Reddit user and Nintendo Switch 2 owner Funaoe24 previously shared on Reddit that they'd earned a #console ban preventing them "from accessing any Nintendo services at all on the system." The apparent reason? Their sister recently changed her #username to Twink Link.

Then, in what was previously a final edit, the unlucky owner shared that, "Permanent system bans cannot be revoked by Nintendo at all," at least according to the support agents they were in contact with. Twink Link was seemingly jailed for good with no possible recourse.


To put it clearly and unambiguously, Nintendo can randomly #block the console and #support plays dumb. Nintendo then claims it was all just an #accident but without the huge outcry on the internet they would have done a fart for their customers.

#censorship #ban #game #gamer #fail #customer #nickname #problem #rights #news #software #hardware #capitalism #economy


Twink Link is being freed: Nintendo apparently backtracks, says you are allowed to call yourself Twink Link as it works to unban a Switch 2 it "flagged by accident"

Finally some good news
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nottltd.com/lightning.html

it used to be called the Stati-Cat, but it's the GS-3 on this page. There's nothing there for scale but it's like 14 inches long and the spikes are wonderful, terrifying, oh, 8 gauge razor sharp steel pins.

The thing does actually work. Where we installed a tower with some on it, well grounded, it completely stopped the building it was on from being repeatedly smacked by lightning during the summer months.

Lightning Protection Systems by Nott Ltd

Save money and improve effectiveness with our lightning dissipation systems that actually repel lightning rather than attract it. Proven technology that really works!
www.nottltd.com

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“The Israeli–US plan for Gaza is even darker than the #BCG [Boston Consulting Group] exposé revealed”

by Palestine Will Be Free on Substack

@palestine
@israel

“What is unfolding in Gaza is not merely a military occupation or humanitarian crisis — it is a testing‑ground for techno‑authoritarian fantasies masquerading as policy innovation”

open.substack.com/pub/palestin…

#Press #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Resistance #Israel #Genocide #WarCrimes #SettlerColonialism #Zionism #Barbarity #BloodLust


The Israeli–US plan for Gaza is even darker than the BCG exposé revealed

This article exposes BCG’s involvement in Israeli plans to ethnically cleanse Palestinians and "tokenise" Gaza's land, revealing a troubling blend of forced displacement and techno-capitalism.
Palestine Will Be Free

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FIFTEEN Democrats Including Several Democrat Officials Indicted in Frio County Texas Vote Harvesting Scandal Including a Local Judge, Former Rep. Candidate, and Two Former Mayors | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

            Nine more officials were arrested in connection with a voter harvesting scandal in Frio County Texas bringing the total number of indicted officials to 15.
Jim Hoft (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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Catweazle

@randomwizard, too much people you can fool all the time.
This is why the first thing where totalitarian governments cut is in education, because their system based on ignorant and obedient people, a totalitarian system cannot work with cultured and informed people.

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So, if non-violent #PalestineAction protest group is now classed as a 'terrorist group' by Starmer...

What the fuck does that make israel's #IDF ?

U.S. Doctors Report IDF Snipers Intentionally Targeting Children In Gaza
‘No toddler gets shot twice by mistake by the “world's best sniper.” And they're dead-center shots.’
scnr.com/article/u-s-doctors-r…

#Gaza #Gazagenocide #Palestine #westbank #middleeast
#israelterroriststate #Israelwarcrimes


U.S. Doctors Report IDF Snipers Intentionally Targeting Children In Gaza

Adrian Norman (SCNR)

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« … ELNET, Europe’s largest Israel lobby group, wields significant influence over the EU’s Parliament… »⁣⁣⁣

🔗 · youtube.com/watch?v=LWeJRCtlEm…

#Palestine #ceasefire #FreePalestine @palestine⁣⁣

🕊️ 🇵🇸 🍉 🙏🏻 ✌️ ☮️


The powerful pro-Israel lobby pulling the EU’s strings

The influence of pro-Israel lobby groups in the US is well-documented, but their counterparts quietly shaping European policy remain largely under the radar....
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« … they are naming more than 57,000 Palestinian men, women, children and their ages at the time they were killed… »⁣⁣⁣

🔗 · youtube.com/watch?v=P6QEwsSIVD…

#Palestine #ceasefire #FreePalestine @palestine⁣⁣

🕊️ 🇵🇸 🍉 🙏🏻 ✌️ ☮️


Remembering dead in Gaza: Nijmegen residents commemorate with name readings

For the past few days, residents of a Dutch city have been reading the names of victims of Israel's genocide in Gaza. They are naming more than 57,000 Palest...
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Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is nothing short of a starvation budget.

Proposed are $300 billion in cuts from SNAP food assistance–which will affect 11 million people, including 4 million children.

In the five states with the highest rates of hunger alone–Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas–the bill would cut food stamp benefits for over 1.1 million people.

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He's not wrong, but he leaves one very important detail out. Europeans are being targeted by ICE just as much as Latinos. ICE might not be raiding European "neighborhoods" but they are being kidnapped and deported when they show up to Court or to their Immigration hearings.

Catherine Schmidt

2025-07-05 21:06:49

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#Politics #Racism #Deportations #fascism #alt #illegal
THE MASS DEPORTATION OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IS A RACIST PURGE OF THE LATINO AND BLACK & COMMUNITIES. l NOTICE, NO RAIDS - OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNITY IN BRIGHTON BEACH OR THE IRISH COMMUNITY OF BOSTON, WHERE KNOWN UNDOCUMENTED AT IMMIGRANTS REGULARLY LIVE. IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES RAIDED. WENDELL PIERCE RESISTANCE

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It’s not an energy production problem we have. It’s an energy consumption problem. We consume too much. We need to let Nature go dark, let Nature recover. Instead, we’re being sold more tech scams. All over the world, solar panels have somehow become the best friend of biodiversity, according to countless breathless reports.

The solution to biodiversity collapse is to cover the earth with solar panels? Is that it?

gerrymcgovern.com/you-cant-get…

You can’t get to clean energy through dirty mining.

Gerry McGovern

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Ich erinnere mich noch an die vollmundigen Beteuerungen von #Kanzler #Fritz zum Thema Völkerrecht bezogen auf den Angriff auf den #Iran.
Abgehakt mit: Er kenne andere Experten, die das für OK hielten.

... und tagtäglich tritt #Israel die #Menschenrechte der Bewohner von #Gaza mit Füßen. Das Ermorden von Zivilisten durch die sogenannten #idf nimmt kein Ende. 😶

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Gutachten - Wissenschaftliche Dienste des Bundestages: "Erhebliche Zweifel" an Rechtmäßigkeit der #israelischen #Angriffe auf den #Iran

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Gutachten - Wissenschaftliche Dienste des Bundestages: "Erhebliche Zweifel" an Rechtmäßigkeit der israelischen Angriffe auf den Iran

Die Wissenschaftlichen Dienste des Bundestages machen erhebliche Zweifel an der Rechtmäßigkeit der israelischen und US-amerikanischen Angriffe auf den Iran geltend.
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"26 times was the number of times little 6 years old Wadea was stabbed by a Zionist monster in Chicago. Just because the kid was a muslim"
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THIS IS THE VIDEO THAT META COULD NOT HANDLE AND WOULD NOT ALLOW TO BE SEEN. THIS IS A MUST WATCH AND THANKS TO @UpScrolled, ALL OF YOU HAVE ACCESS TO IT N
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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱

@cejjacobs

...It "criminalizes" an entire class of people who are *right now* doing nothing but working Aisle 13 of Home Depot (or picking strawberries in the field), but now we're going to drag you out of Home Depot (or the field or your home), put you into prison and then... monetize "loaning you out" to Home Depot.

It's doing away with the legal system entirely. And it could be anyone they choose.

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The ranked-choice-voting results are in from the 2025 NYC Mayoral Democratic Primary.

Here's a Sankey diagram detailing how the rounds went. Zohran Mamdani won in the 3rd round, with 56% to Andrew Cuomo's 44%.

See an interactive version (and make your own custom variation) at sankeymatic.com/data/newyorkci…

#NYCMayor
#NYCMayor2025
#dataviz
#RCV
#SankeyDiagram

A Sankey diagram of the 2025 New York City Democratic Mayoral primary election, which used ranked choice voting. In the first round, the top 3 vote recipients were Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, and Brad Lander. By round 3, all candidates were eliminated except Mamdani and Cuomo. In the end, Mamdani won with 56% of the vote to Cuomo's 44%. There were approximately 1,027,000 votes cast in all. The number of Inactive Ballots at the end was 52,919 - about 5% of the total votes cast.

SankeyMATIC: Data > New York City Mayoral Primary

New York City Mayoral Primary
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Zennblack

@ins0mniak
He will get over it. Tantrums and being impulsive are his thing. I do not agree that the tantrum is about EV mandates being killed or being kicked out of the Whitehouse. This is about DOGE cuts 100%. Elon feels ripped off. His fantasy of changing the political grift has been smashed. He should realize that it was worthwhile and will have huge impact regardless. The Dem slush fund is damaged. We won't see the real impact for years! 👍
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FF777

@Zennagain @ins0mniak

this is my opinion on it (sorry i'm verbose):
he knew that the national debt is getting ridiculous and that if we keep kicking the can down the road in paying it, it edges us closer to things like hyperinflation, and reduces the legitimacy of US dollar to the world.. It also sucks that so much of tax-payer money (about $1.2 trillion in 2025) is being wasted on just paying down the interest.. That's a bunch of money that hard-working people are having to pay and it could be going towards things that improve life for americans but instead goes to pay interest..

He thought that trump cared immensely about doing things to radically curtail the national debt and wasted spending because trump was touting and praising DOGE and elon so much, and elon was doing a wicked cool job at finding fraud and bloat and taking down USAID which was just a huge slush fund for evil fraud shit..

but then it seems to him like trump kind of just dropped every thing and stopped caring because he is putting up like the hugest spending bill in history i think, and it does some good things, but it isn't good for the long-term because it isn't being fiscally responsible, and it is going to end up leading to even bigger percentages of people's tax-payer money being wasted just going in to the void of paying stupid interest.. He also didn't like that hardly any of the DOGE stuff was codified to make the things permanent..

so i think the BBB is really what (to elon any way) looked like trump putting the nail in the coffin to say "i really don't actually care about inflating our national debt even further".. Because i think i remember elon posting recently saying that if the BBB passed then he would start a new party.. Well, it passed, and as soon as it did, bam, he registered the new party..

i think it's ridiculous people purporting that elon is just being greedy and all he cares about is EV credits for his businesses or what ever.. he usually has his eye on bigger pictures than that.. he wouldn't be trying to create a whole new party and all the red-tape that comes with it just to try to get back some subsidies.. he is disillusioned that no one seems to care about the debt..

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In my lifetime, adjusted for inflation, the average individual income has fallen by 30%. The average house (adjusted for size, since they've gotten much bigger) has gone from 4x the average income to 6x. The average car has gone from 30% of the average income to 70%
The population has doubled. Meanwhile the federal budget, also adjusted for inflation, has increased by 300%.
Our government is a complete failure and is devouring our prosperity.

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Inside ‘Elio’s’ “Catastrophic” Path: America Ferrera’s Exit, Director Change and Erasure of Queer Themes


source: hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m…

The changes to Elio were clear to one former Pixar artist who worked on the film and asked to remain anonymous: “It was pretty clear through the production of the first version of the film that [studio leaders] were constantly sanding down these moments in the film that alluded to Elio’s sexuality of being queer.”


#pixar #movie #elio #cinema #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #politics #capitalism #toxic #fans #woke #problem #future #news #entertainment #story #sexuality #character #film


Elio: Inside Pixar's Box Office Flop, America Ferrara, Director Change

Creatives at Pixar who saw the original director's previous cut of 'Elio' tell THR about the movie's challenging production process: "'Elio' just [became] about totally nothing."
Ryan Gajewski (The Hollywood Reporter)

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Pro-choice scientist confirms unborn children feel pain during abortions as early as twelve weeks:

lifenews.com/2020/01/20/scient…

Scientists Confirm Unborn Children Feel Pain During Abortions, as Early as 12 Weeks - LifeNews.com

A “pro-choice” scientist is urging the medical community to put politics aside and consider growing evidence that unborn babies may feel pain as early as 12 weeks of pregnancy.
sitemap (LifeNews.com)
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June 30 to July 2nd, 1936

"A very heavy rain fell over the upper Guadalupe River Basin, west of Korrville, from June 30 to July 2. This rein amounted to over 36 inches 1in about 36 hours at the State Pish Hatchery above Ingram. Record-break- ing stages were experienced on all streams above Kerrville, and on the Guadalupe River to a point below Spring Branch. Along the streams in the hills above Kerrville are many sumer homes, resorts, and camps for boys and girls. Most of these places were damaged by the floods, many of them being almost completely destroyed. There was much apprehension for the safety of the people in these camps, especially for the younger boys and girls, but fortunately all were safe. The fact that the flood occurred in the day rather than at night no doubt accounts for no loss of 1ife in the camps. "

(Major Texas Floods of 1936, US Department of the Interior, Geological Survey Water -Supply Paper 816)

#history #disasters #TXwx #Kerrville

120 MAJOR TEXAS FLOODS OF 1936 rivers the rainfall was from 20 to 35 inches from June 30 to July 3. Floods of unusual magnitude occurred in each of these river basins. A very heavy rain foll over the upper Guadalupe River Basin, west of Korrville, from June 30 to July 2. This rein amounted to over 36 inches 1in about 36 hours at the State Pish Hatchery above Ingram. Record-break- ing stages were experienced on all streams above Kerrville, and on the Guadalupe River to a point below Spring Branch. Along the streams in the hills above Kerrville are many sumer homes, resorts, and cemps for boys and girls. Most of thess places were damaged by the floods, many of them being almost completely destroyed. There was much apprehension for the safety of the people in these camps, especlally for the younger boys and girls, but fortunately all were safe. The fact that the flood occurred in the day rather than at night no doubt accounts for no loss of 1ife in the camps. Plate 12, A,shows & view of the Guadalupe River at Kerrville at about the peak of the flood and plate 12, B,a view at about the same locality after the flood had receded. In the Wedina River above Medina Lake a flood occurred greater than had been known before. The area drained by this stream is not thickly inhabditated, and the peak discharges per square mile of drainage ares were much lower than in the Guadalupe River Basin. No great amount of damage was done along this stream.
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Extreme #Übersterblichkeit – und Schäden durch Covid-Spritze!

700 Studien belegen #Impfschäden – doch niemand soll es wissen!


Eine nie dagewesene Übersterblichkeit gibt es in Deutschland – bereits zum dritten Mal in Folge. Weiter zeigen nun 700 Studien die Schäden der Covid-Injektionen!

▶️ Der Beitrag erschien in den „NACHRICHTEN AUF1“ vom 4. Juli 2025
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#Corona #Covid #Impfzwang #Diktatur #Impfung #Übersterblichkeit
#DIVI #mRNA #Impfung #Gentherapie #Corona #Covid #GG #Grundrechte #Intensivbetten
#IntensivbettenBetrug #BundesRechnungshof #FakeNews #Neusprech #Orwell #1984
#Corona #Covid #GG #Grundrechte #Impfung #Impfzwang #vollständigeImpfung #Impfung #Sterbewahrscheinlichkeit #Impfquote #Übersterblichkeit #UteBergner #DrUteBergner #Todesfälle #mRNA #Rechnungshof


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Sebastian Kurz als neuer Partner des WEF – Kommt jetzt das europäische Palantir? + 700 Studien belegen Impfschäden – doch niemand soll es wissen! + Und: Freibad-Horror: Bürger sprechen Klartext zu Gewalt und sexuellen Übergriffen
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Ärzte und Pandemiebeauftragte Federle: Politik will Impfrisiken nicht aufklären


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Vor vier Jahren befand sich #Deutschland im ersten #Corona-Lockdown. Seitdem ist viel passiert – doch es sind Fragen offen. Etwa die nach #Impfschäden und #Übersterblichkeit.

Es ist frustrierend für den #Kardiologen Christian #Eick aus Rottenburg und für eine Gruppe kritischer Ärzte und Wissenschaftler aus Tübingen: Seit drei Jahren werde gegen #Corona geimpft – gleichzeitig sei über #Impfnebenwirkungen und #Impfschäden weiter viel zu wenig bekannt. Eick und auch die Tübinger Pandemiebeauftragte Lisa Federle erheben einen alarmierenden Vorwurf: Die #Politik habe offenbar kein Interesse daran, die #Impfrisiken transparent zu machen. Sie weigere sich, entsprechende #Daten zu erheben – obwohl das möglich wäre. Ein Vorwurf, mit dem sie nicht allein sind.

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DNS Esoterica - Why you can't dig Switzerland


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As part of my new job, I'm learning a lot more about the mysteries of the Domain Name System than any mortal should know I thought possible.

The humble unix dig command allows you to query all sort of DNS information. For example, to see name server records for the BBC website, you can run:

dig bbc.co.uk NS

Which will get you:
;; Got answer:;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 35614;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 8, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 17;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232; COOKIE: 097db2ee4c92b84982083ecf62b5b5f2007906e616035113 (good);; QUESTION SECTION:;bbc.co.uk. IN NS;; ANSWER SECTION:bbc.co.uk. 900 IN NS ddns1.bbc.com.bbc.co.uk. 900 IN NS dns0.bbc.co.uk.bbc.co.uk. 900 IN NS ddns1.bbc.co.uk....
And a whole lot more. But you can go further down the DNS tree. What are the nameservers for .co.uk?

dig co.uk NS

And you'll get your answer. You can go one further and see the nameservers for the Top Level Domain:

dig uk NS

Which replies with:
;; Got answer:;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 54061;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 8, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 17;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232; COOKIE: 880427eda8ff71de2ab4f43862b5b65f95e317d29cc10a8e (good);; QUESTION SECTION:;uk. IN NS;; ANSWER SECTION:uk. 159692 IN NS nsc.nic.uk.uk. 159692 IN NS dns1.nic.uk.uk. 159692 IN NS nsd.nic.uk....
And that works with every TLD. Countries like de, generic names like museum, and internationalised domains like 在线. All of them work!

Except Switzerland.

Switzerland's country code is ch - after the name Confoederatio Helvetica. Let's run the dig on it: dig ch NS
YAML;; Got answer:;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: REFUSED, id: 31910;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
We have been refused and warned. But why does this only happen with Switzerland?

The blame - as with most modern ills - lies in the mid-1970s. The Bee Gees were storming the charts with "Jive Talkin'", the Rocky Horror Picture Show was gathering a cult following, and MIT scientists were causing chaos. Literally.

Chaosnet was an early network protocol designed for local networks. It was technically very clever but, sadly, never really took off.

However, it found its way into DNS records. Let's go back to the answer to dig bbc.co.uk NS:
YAML;; ANSWER SECTION:bbc.co.uk. 900 IN NS ddns1.bbc.com.
OK, the first part is the domain name. The number is the TTL. The IN is the class. The NS says this is a nameserver record. And, finally, we get the domain of the nameserver.

But, in the class, what does IN stand for?

"Internet", obviously. Wait... Isn't the DNS on the Internet? Why do we need to specify that these DNS records are for Internet?

Well, isn't it obvious? Because you might want records of a different network. Like, for example, Chaosnet.

And if Internet is abbreviated to IN, what is Chaosnet shortened to? That's right! CH.

So, dig sees you enter ch for Switzerland, but thinks you're asking about CH for Chaosnet. And so it fails.

In order to query the records for ch we need to provide an absolutely fully-qualified domain name. It's as simple as sticking a dot at the end of the domain name:

dig ch. NS
;; Got answer:;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 64932;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 11;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232; COOKIE: e19b9c23cdfa0f7bcf82750462b5c16b47744386c7974ffb (good);; QUESTION SECTION:;ch. IN NS;; ANSWER SECTION:ch. 164894 IN NS e.nic.ch.ch. 164894 IN NS a.nic.ch.ch. 164894 IN NS f.nic.ch.
And there we go. A failed 1970s experiment like bell-bottoms and Betamax videos - but with much longer lasting consequences.

You can see some CH records by running like:

dig ch txt @f.root-servers.net version.bind

That will get you something like:
YAML;; ANSWER SECTION:version.bind. 86400 CH TXT "cloudflare-f-root-20190930"
Of course, DNS doesn't only have IN and CH class records.

There's also Hesiod - HS. But you already knew that, right...?

#dns #internet #trivia

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DNS Esoterica: BIMI - SVG in DNS TXT WTF?!


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You've been on the Internet a long time, right? Of course you know what BIMI is. All the cool kids do. But, for those of you who aren't hip to the jive of the Infobahn...

BIMI (Brand Indicators for Message Identification) is a new standard that can curb the issue of online impersonators. ... BIMI is a new standard that enables you to include your company’s logo alongside the emails you send. That way, your brand stands out among other emails, and your customers are sure that the emails are legitimate.How To Create a BIMI record


Wow! Much innovation! Such security! There's no way a fraudster could put a bank's logo on their dodgy spam, right?

*sigh*

OK, so in order for this not to be abused, most email providers require brands to pay for an expensive Verified Mark Certificate (VMC) - a digital certificate which says that you are the trademark owner of the logo.

How much does it cost?

US$1,499.00

Per year! No wonder no one is using BIMI.

Then it's just a case of sticking something like this in your DNS TXT records:
TXTv=BIMI1;l=https://example.com/logo.svg;a=https://example.com/certificate.pem
That's nice, and all, but I don't think I've ever seen one in the wild. Even the BIMI Group haven't bothered paying for the VMC!

One of the few organisations who have set this up correctly is DigiCert. Because they're one of the orgs you can buy this service from.

dig txt default._bimi.digicert.com will get you:
TXT;; ANSWER SECTION:default._bimi.digicert.com. 3600 IN TXT "v=BIMI1; l=https://www.digicert.com/resources/DigiCertLogo_WhiteOnBlue.svg; a=https://cacerts.digicert.com/digicert_com_vmc_WhiteOnBlue.pem"
You can read the PEM certificate using:openssl x509 -in digicert_com_vmc_WhiteOnBlue.pem -noout -text

Inside, you'll find this nugget:

data:image/svg+xml;base64,H4sIAAAAAAAACo1XXW/jRhJ8tn8FwzwF4NDzzaFhb3BRckmADRAgwL4eHFoxhePZhqiVN/…

Hmmm… H4sIAAA is the start of a base64 encoded zipped string.

Once decoded and unzipped, we find… the SVG logo!

It's fairly obvious that people want a nice logo next to their email in your inbox. If you're on GMail, you're probably used to seeing your friends faces smiling back at you. But that only works if everyone is on the same email system. So BIMI is a reasonable idea for a cross-provider standard.

Downsides


There are several problems with BIMI.

The first is cost. If it were free then AbsolutelyYourBank@trust_me.biz could use the HSBC logo with impunity. I'm sure an extremely dedicated fraudster could spend the $1.5k and fool DigiCert into certifying their illegitimate use of someone else's logo. But it's unlikely to happen.

There's also a privacy issue. Because the BIMI logos are stored on a website, the website owner could track when they were downloaded and use that to work out who was reading their emails. Thankfully, both GMail and Yahoo proxy the images - so the provider doesn't get any additional analytics benefit.

Support is poor in GMail. Here's an email from LinkedIn:Screenshot of an email.As you can see, the BIMI logo is displayed by the email address - but is absent in the contact view.

Finally, DNS TXT records are limited to 255 bytes of data. That's why logos are restricted to being (fairly short) links.

Is it worth it?


I think the marketplace of ideas has answered this with a fairly resounding "no".

You can track adoption at BIMIBRadar.

graph showing less that 0.001% of domains have adopted BIMI.

It would be great to stick your face, logo, or picture next to every email you send. But the risk from fraudsters is just too high.

The cost of certification is necessary to stop misuse - but that also means that smaller brands and individuals are locked out. Which isn't what we want from an open Internet.

There's no worldwide brand registry which can certify your use of an image. And, even if there were, it would be a huge single-point-of-failure.

The conversation about BIMI chugs on in IETF mailing lists. Do get involved if you think you have something of value to add.

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Get the location of the ISS using DNS


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I love DNS esoterica. Weird little things that you can shove in the global directory to be distributed around the world instantly(ish).

Domain names, like www.example.com usually resolve to servers. As much as we think of "the cloud" as being some intangible morass of ethereal Turing-machines floating in probability space, the more prosaic reality is that they're just boxen in data centres. They have a physical location.

Got a tricky machine which is playing silly-buggers? Wouldn't it be nice to know exactly where it is? That way you can visit and give it some percussive maintenance.

Enter the DNS LOC record!

The snappily titled RFC 1876 is an experimental standard. It allows you to create a DNS record which specifies the latitude and longitude of your server. Of course, some data-centres are very tall and some are underground. So it also contains an altitude parameter.

The standard allows for a minimum altitude of -100,000 metres - deep enough for any bunker! The maximum altitude is 42,849,672 metres which is high enough to allow it to be used on satellites in geostationary orbit.

So, as a bit of fun, I decided to create where-is-the-iss.dedyn.io

It isn't a website. You can't ping it. There's no way to interact with it except by using DNS. Yup! You can use a DNS query to get the (approximate) location of the International Space Station!

Linux and Mac users0 can run:

dig where-is-the-iss.dedyn.io LOC

And receive back the latest position of the ISS:
;; ANSWER SECTION:where-is-the-iss.dedyn.io. 1066 IN LOC 47 24 53.500 N 66 12 12.070 W 430520m 10000m 10000m 10000m
The DNS records are updated every 15 minutes on a best-effort basis1.

How


The lovely people at N2YO have a website which allows you to track loads of objects in orbit. They also have an easy to use API with a generous free tier.

Calling https://api.n2yo.com/rest/v1/satellite/positions/25544/0/0/0/1/&apiKey=_____ gets back the latest position:
JSON{ "info": { "satname": "SPACE STATION", "satid": 25544, "transactionscount": 7 }, "positions": [ { "satlatitude": -21.25409321, "satlongitude": 140.3335763, "sataltitude": 420.09, "azimuth": 292.92, "elevation": -70.95, "ra": 202.69300845, "dec": -32.16097472, "timestamp": 1751366048, "eclipsed": true } ]}
Note that the altitude is in Km, whereas the LOC format requires m.

The latitude and longitude are in decimal format - they need to be converted to Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds.

There were only a few free domain name providers who offer an API for updating LOC records. I went for deSEC a charity from Berlin. They have comprehensive API documentation.

Adding the initial LOC record is done with:
Bashcurl desec.io/api/v1/domains/where-… \ --header "Authorization: Token _______" \ --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data @- <<< \ '{"type": "LOC", "records": ["40 16 25.712 S 29 32 36.243 W 427550m 0.00m 10000m 10m"], "ttl": 900}'
However, updating the record is a little trickier. it needs to be sent as an HTTP PATCH to a subtly different URl. The PATCH only needs to send the data which have changed.
Bashcurl -X PATCH desec.io/api/v1/domains/where-… \ --header "Authorization: Token _______" \ --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data @- <<< \ '{"records": ["40 16 25.712 S 29 32 36.243 W 427550m 0.00m 10000m 10m"]}'
I set the Time To Live at 900 seconds. Every 15 minutes my code runs to update the record2. That keeps me well within the API limits for both services. I could add TXT records showing when it was last updated, or other sorts of unstructured data, but I think this is enough for a quick proof-of-concept.

There you have it! A complex and silly way to demonstrate how DNS can be used to hold the most unlikely of records3. Say, I wonder how you'd represent the co-ordinates of the Mars Rover…?

Further Reading


For more DNS weirdness, please see my other posts:

  1. I don't think there's a way for Windows users to look up LOC records using PowerShell or the Command Prompt. ↩︎
  2. Look, I'm not NASA, OK? If you're using this to help you dock then I cannot be held responsible. ↩︎
  3. I suppose you could build an API with unlimited request limits by distributing data via DNS TXT records. Would best suit static or infrequently updating data. Push it once to DNS and let everyone query it semi-locally. ↩︎
  4. See if you can find the other interesting record I've added to DNS! ↩︎


#dns #internet #trivia


Percussive Maintenance

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Seit an seit marschieren #Linke, #Grüne und# Terroristen. Die #Staatsmacht schaut weg.


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Göring-Eckardt und die Liebe der Grünen für den Terror gegen Andersdenkende

Grünes Haus, rote Nähe: Wie tief steckt Katrin Göring-Eckardt im linksextremen Milieu? Zwischen Wahlkreis-Büro, Café Grünowski und Roten Hilfe verschwimmen im Grünen Haus in Jena die Grenzen zwischen Demokratie und Dogma.
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"I think that centrist suppression of the left has pushed 90 percent of the energy for major change into right wing nihilist movements, but the anti-corporate, #antimonopolist energy has not dissipated. It's formed a kind of invisible political wind that has filled the sails of these #antimonopoly projects all over the world."
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In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gäste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gästen an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
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In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gäste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gästen an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem #Islamisten #Migration #Remigration #Bevölkerungsaustausch

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Die Anzahl der argentinischen #Monatsgehälter, die es braucht, um ein #Auto zu kaufen hat sich unter #Milei von über 31 auf 17 fast halbiert.
Das ist der niedrigste Stand seit Jahren und weiter fallend. So sieht #Wohlstandsgewinn ohne #Keynes eben aus. #Menger und #Hayek laßen grüßen.

#Steuern sind #Raub
#Sozialismus = #Kommunismus = #Faschismus
#Geld #Geldsystem #Geldsozialismus = #Neoliberalismus #EUDSSR #GreatReset #China #Rohstoffmangel #Armut
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I believe I read that the gas tax in Ca. went up 65 cents per gallon.

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California Gas Prices Spike Again Under Newsom’s Green Energy Agenda [WATCH]

Gasoline prices in California rose again on Tuesday following regulatory changes to the state's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program, raising renewed
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Wikipedia about the Washington Monument:

"In the lower third, marble from Baltimore County, Maryland, followed by a narrow zone of marble from Sheffield, Massachusetts, and, in the upper part, the so-called Cockeysville Marble."

What it doesn't say is that the MD Grand Lodge of Freemason's HQ, established in 1787, is in Cockeysville. None of this is proof, but connections are interesting, and I'm having a hard time believing it's a conspiracy theory.

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Certain symbols are used pretty much universally throughout the halls of power, e.g. the fasces, the eagle, and the laurel leaves.

It has been suggested that the ruling elites in every modern country consider themselves citizens of Rome, and they are governed by laws, courts, etc which are kept completely hidden from the layman. Countries as we know them are in essence "colonies" of this hidden empire.

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Western nations pretended to be shining cites on hills, beacons of freedom, but as the genocide against Palestinians has revealed, they are actually giant mounds of horseshit, nothing more than violent arbiters of a global racial caste system.

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The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world

The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse
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I just signed a Major Disaster Declaration for Kerr County, Texas, to ensure that our Brave First Responders immediately have the resources they need. These families are enduring an unimaginable tragedy, with many lives lost, and many still missing. The Trump Administration continues to work closely with State and Local Leaders. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was on the ground yesterday with Governor Greg Abbott, who is working hard to help the people of his Great State. Our incredible U.S. Coast Guard, together with State First Responders, have saved more than 850 lives. GOD BLESS THE FAMILIES, AND GOD BLESS TEXAS!

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This is a person who was deported at age 19, snuck back into the country and lived her for another 25 years then encouraged here U.S. citizen husband to vote for Trump and mass deportations. 🤦🏾‍♂️
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“I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party

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‘I want my vote back’: Trump-voting family stunned after Canadian mother detained over immigration status

Family of Cynthia Olivera reconsiders support for president after Ice detained her at green card interview
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