Donald Trump already has a plan in place to "rig" the next election, according to a former associate who says he did the president's "dirty work.David McAfee (Raw Story)
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Ship on fire off Yemen after being attacked with 'unknown projectiles' in the Red Sea
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if the President has the ability to nullify laws, then the US is in theory and practice, a dictatorship.
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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 collapseMoustafa Bayoumi (The Guardian)
"Are you sure you want to log out?'
well, I thought I was but on second thought...
Dels testimoniatges esquinçadorament bells del Dr. Ezzideen de Gaza.
No hi ha internet.
No hi ha senyal. No hi ha so. No hi ha món més enllà d'aquesta gàbia.
Vaig caminar trenta minuts entre ruïnes i pols. No buscant escapar, sinó un fragment de senyal, just prou per a murmurar: «Continuem vius».
No perquè algú estiga escoltant,
si no perquè morir sense ser escoltat és la mort definitiva.
Jabàlia és un barri de la ciutat de Gaza. Un camp de refugiats, doncs la Franja és un gueto creat pels ocupants, on van obligar a viure a centenars de milers de palestins expulsats de Palestina en 1948 i 1967.
Tinc un amic d'allà, un artista. He tardat any i mig en poder parlar amb ell. Ho ha perdut tot. I li han assassinat al fill. Però encara li queda vida i estima. Potser.
Jabàlia vol dir muntanyenca. D'allà ve el nostre terme Javalí, muntanyenc.
De la mateixa Mediterrània.
Javalí és un terme anterior a senglar. Un terme utilitzat des de fa 1.300 anys. Arabisme incorporat al valencià-català. I usat tradicionalment al País Valencià i la Catalunya Nova. Senglar, de reminiscències afrancesades-occitanes, es popularitza al nostre país fa unes dècades.
També és un cognom comú a Palestina, clar.
The refugees of Jabalia are descendants of 38,000 Palestinians who were ethnically cleansed from Ashdod, Yaffa, Ramleh, Lydd, and Beer Sabe during the Nakba of 1948.
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Same. Horrible.
And yes, it seems to me other people make actual threats, and worse, with unchecked freedom.
I'm beginning to think Musk is as much a basket case as he is a genius.
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Agreed. It would never occur to me to speak to others as they speak to people with whom they disagree.
And it seems as if it's gotten much worse.
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The Freedom Flotilla Coalition announces The Handala will set sail to break the siege in Gaza next week (July 13th)!UpScrolled
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chicken Big Mac?
also I know it over now but what else are you supposed to eat on the 4th of July if its not a Mc Rib
Over 100,000 children in the Gaza Strip are suffering from severe levels of malnutrition, according to the head of the Network of NGOs in the region.
#Starvation #FoodAsWeapon
#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS
#palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel @palestine@lemmy.ml
Excelente y extenso texto sobre la colaboración y la resistencia académica frente al Genocidio de Gaza.
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#Palestina #Gaza #Universidad #Academia #Palestine
Five people were killed and one person was injured on July 6 due to Russian attacks on the towns of Kostiantynivka and Druzhkivka in the Donetsk region. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
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Tom Reeves - Primitive Love. ( 50s )
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Romania excludes sending troops to Ukraine
(MENAFN) Romanian Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan has firmly stated that Bucharest will not send troops to Ukraine under…
#Romania #RO #Europe #Europa #EU #excludes #facebook #instagram #Meta #romania #sending #stiri #TikTok #troops #twitter #Ukraine
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While some European NATO countries have discussed forming a “coalition of the willing” to deploy forces to Ukraine, potentially for post-conflictEUROPE SAYS
“the numbers from the #guadalupe #flooding are insane. 11.4” of rain on #july4th, an estimated 100 billion gallons of #rain fell in #kerrcounty. which is about what goes over niagara falls in a day.
43 confirmed dead with 27 still missing.”
#weather #extremeweather #wx
‼️🤬 Russians have released footage showing their drones targeting Ukrainian rescue workers. ——— ‼️🤬 Росіяни опублікували відео, на якому видно, як їхні дрони атакують українських рятувальників.Telegram
Nicknamed after a #cloud, ' #nimbus' becomes the nation's dominant COVID strain
July 5, 2025
In weather, "nimbus" is a type of cloud associated with heavy precipitation.
In health, it's the nickname for a new strain of COVID-19 that recently became the disease's dominant variant in the U.S.
Known officially as COVID variant NB.1.8.1, nimbus was first detected in March 2025 in Europe and Asia, said Matthew Lara, chief of staff for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
There is more about this at the link below:
cjonline.com/story/news/
Here are the symptoms:
What are the symptoms of nimbus?
In addition to a sore throat, other common symptoms of nimbus include the following:
Body aches.
Congestion.
Cough.
Fatigue.
Fever or chills,
Headache.
Loss of smell.
Loss of taste.
Runny nose.
Shortness of breath.
Nausea or vomiting.
Diarrhea.
How Trump’s shameless trickster act made him America’s 47th President — and why his monkey dance deflects mockery, shame, and collapse.Chris Abraham
In recent months European diplomats have intensified their complaints about Chinese industrial overcapacity, fearing that their markets will be flooded due toUnited Kingdom
Vegent lo de Texas i pensant en la DANA només me ve al cap pensar que ja has de ser pura basura per a fer-ho pitjor inclús que Trump
‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ bites off $318 million at the global box office
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El servicio meteorológico estatal avisa de nuevas lluvias torrenciales en las próximas horas con posibilidad...Europa Press Internacional
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How Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Will Make China Great Again
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Can you hear it — that loud roar coming from the East? It’s the sound of 1.4 billion Chinese laughing at [the USA]
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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
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This ancient computer didn't start a computer revolution 2000 years ago because there wasn't enough manufacturing for making cogged wheels etc
Similarly LLMs today could stagnate 2000 years because only one island makes GPUs
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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.
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
“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”
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#Press #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Resistance #Israel #Genocide #WarCrimes #SettlerColonialism #Zionism #Barbarity #BloodLust
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
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)
Texas has been experiencing a slow, deliberate, malevolent invasion for many years.
I think if Lincoln were around today, he would update his quote and add
"But you can fool enough of the people, most of the time"
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.’
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#Gaza #Gazagenocide #Palestine #westbank #middleeast
#israelterroriststate #Israelwarcrimes
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« … ELNET, Europe’s largest Israel lobby group, wields significant influence over the EU’s Parliament… »
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#Palestine #ceasefire #FreePalestine @palestine
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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....YouTube
« … they are naming more than 57,000 Palestinian men, women, children and their ages at the time they were killed… »
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#Palestine #ceasefire #FreePalestine @palestine
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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...YouTube
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.
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.
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?
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They weren't kidding with that "license to kill"
#acab #allcopsarebastards #uk #greatbritain #police #antifascism #antifa #israel #freepalestine #fromtherivertotheseapalestinewillbefree #palestine #gaza #freegaza #idf
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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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Die Wissenschaftlichen Dienste des Bundestages machen erhebliche Zweifel an der Rechtmäßigkeit der israelischen und US-amerikanischen Angriffe auf den Iran geltend.Die Nachrichten
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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 NUpScrolled
...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.
@cejjacobs yes, the 13th amendment allows slavery for criminals, that is not new and the for-profit prison system is a horror in the US.
The scary part is NOT that this is out in the open (it's never been secret) — the scary part is they have abandoned the rule of law entirely.
ANYONE can be a "criminal"...this does away with the pretense of crime....
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…
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#NYCMayor2025
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He certainly has, for years.
The fact is that now, a pro-choice scientist is admitting what Dr. Carson has always known.
Soon the TRUTH will be undeniable, regardless of what positions people take on the issue.
The pro-choice crowd will have to admit to pro-baby-murder.
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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..
Wimbledon call is wrong because the electronic system wasn't on during a Centre Court match
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Should I go with Debian or something brand new to me for my next Distro? I have been using Kubuntu but I feel the urge to change. I don’t really have a reason to though.
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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
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:
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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)
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
@LaNaehForaday @johntimaeus @michael_w_busch
Water is life, and the sun is real.
If only we held sacred the things we depend on for survival-- plus love, the whole REASON to live and survive in the first place-- everything would be fine.
All the golden calf shit's gotta go.
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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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 Übergriffenauf1.tv
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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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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...?
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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.
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:
Finally, DNS TXT records are limited to 255 bytes of data. That's why logos are restricted to being (fairly short) links.
I think the marketplace of ideas has answered this with a fairly resounding "no".
You can track adoption at BIMIBRadar.
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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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.
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…?
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