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In den unterirdischen Reservoiren befindet sich extrem wenig Erdgas für den nächsten Winter. Das hat auch mit laxeren Vorgaben der neuen Bundesregierung zu tun. Speicherbetreiber warnen vor Engpässen bei richtig kalten Temperaturen.
One of the biggest mysteries in science—dark energy—doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the universe is expanding.
Hin und wieder werde ich noch hier, auf dem "alten" Account erwähnt oder bekomme noch Folgeanfragen. Deshalb noch einmal der Hinweis, ich bin hier nicht mehr aktiv sondern nur noch auf meiner Mastodon-Instanz -> social.rausgerufen.de/@john
What everyone is missing are the CHILDREN who were abused by EPSTEIN and OTHERS. I don’t care whether he killed himself or not.
For me, I want to believe @FBIDirectorKash & @FBIDDBongino but with the FBI’s track record with laptops (Hunter Biden, Anthony Weiner, Seth Rich, now Epstein), never mind the FBI’s previous track record for telling the truth, it is really hard to fathom that something else isn’t going on here.
I think there now needs to be an incredibly transparent briefing to the American people immediately by the DOJ.
The lack of trust in the FBI and DOJ is so thick you can cut it with a knife.
C’mon guys, the American people are not stupid or afraid to know the truth.
_Epstein didn't sexually abuse children all by himself_
Others had to know, because they had to actualize the operation. The scale of what Epstein was doing is simply way too large to believe that he wasn't "sharing" his children with others.
There is no "Epstein Client List" simply because one was never maintained (by Epstein or Maxwell, regardless of who else might have done so,) or else because it was destroyed.
Prince Andrew was credibly accused by Virginia Giuffre as having been one of Epstein's clients for his child provisioning service.
re: The (possibly apocryphal) Assange quote:
The blackmail material created by Epstein would be FAR more valuable to a major intelligence agency, and one (or more) of them would be able to use it with FAR less risk to itself.
Israeli Prime Minister and architect of the genocide in Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu, will be meeting with Trump at the White House tomorrow. This is the third time since Trump’s inauguration that they have met to conspire in creating "a New Middle East."
Their vision is to eradicate the Palestinian people, land, and all those who stand with the Palestinian cause to create a region subservient to US-Israeli domination.
I am always on the lookout for new/better software, but it's going to take something special to beat the ease, efficacy and universality of #LocalSend. 💪🏼
Just got a pre-litigation notice phone call from Chase's legal department. They're preparing to sue me. I was waiting for the first call like this from the debtors before I finally filed for Bankruptcy. Today was the day! Will be filing Chapter 7 by end of August 2025. #BadApple
Note: Apple's threatening its own action on my Apple Card (like, idk, pay yourselves?) so they'll be a creditor in the suit too. So this will also be yet another lawsuit with Apple. Should be exciting, I'm sure.
> get an email from .gov.by > has my name and tax id in it > shit my pant > they are informing me that there is now an "internet publication" that i can subscribe to with financial analytics and news
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This is wild. The US department of state is deeply concerned about democracy in europe. And the solution is support to Orban, Wilders, Le Pen, AfD and the like with finance and “narratives”.
In other words: USA will provide money and misinformation to support right wing parties in Europe in order to achieve the Trump “democracy” in Europe.
The use of #AI to generate illustrations has very serious moral implications: inhumane working conditions in data centers in central Africa, theft of intellectual property for program training, support for a network of companies that promote racism and anti-LGBTQ+ policies in their corporate culture, the ecological disaster created by computer power usage and its cooling systems, and the loss of jobs for artists who need to charge for their art
Oberhausen. Der Blick über den Borbecker Tellerrand lohnt sich 'mal wieder. An diesem Wochenende öffnet die Ludwiggalerie Oberhausen Tür und Tor des Schlosses Oberhausen für eine megapanische Ausstellung.
Once upon a time, there was a university president who couldn’t send an email more than 500 miles, and the wise sysadmin said that’s not possible, so the president said come to my office, and lo and behold, the emails stopped before going 500 miles. Has technology improved? Can we send an email farther than 500 miles in 2025?
There’s a lot to the story that’s obviously made up, but if we fix the details so that it can happen, we can reproduce it.
connect
We need some code to do a nonblocking connect that will timeout quickly. This is mostly copied from the examples in getaddrinfo for lookups and connect, and connect for the nonblocking check, adapted slightly to have a very short timeout and report errors.
The poll timeout is 3ms, as specified by the lore. I think this is nonsense, why would an invalid or incomplete sendmail configuration default to three milliseconds? But that’s the time you get backing a lightspeed delay out of 500 miles. We’ll see if it matters.
The secret here is the kernel will always round 3ms up to at least one whole tick, 10ms. And maybe we get a bit extra from the current tick. So the actual timeout will be 10ms to 19ms. Enough time to make a quick roundtrip even at half c. poll or select with a zero timeout returns immediately, so not much chance of finishing the connection before that happens.
We’re not going to try sending an email with sendmail because I don’t want to wait three days while the message sits in the retry queue before failing. I hope they had some sandwiches delivered to the president’s office while the demonstration was in progress.
success
Let’s try connecting to a few schools, working our way across the country.
ix$ ./connect upenn.edu
it's a live one!
ix$ ./connect uchicago.edu
it's a live one!
ix$ ./connect ucla.edu
it's a live one!
Now I’m getting suspicious, we appear to be bending spacetime.
ix$ ping ucla.edu
ping: Warning: ucla.edu has multiple addresses; using 3.33.167.235
PING ucla.edu (3.33.167.235): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 3.33.167.235: icmp_seq=0 ttl=245 time=1.162 ms
64 bytes from 3.33.167.235: icmp_seq=1 ttl=245 time=1.189 ms
Okay, so we have a problem where indeed the schools are not located in spacetime the way we were expecting. Everybody is using cloud whatsit for hosting, and they may well be hosted in the same data center. We haven’t gone 500 miles. For all I know, we haven’t gone 500 feet.
At this point I realized I’m also pinging web servers, not email servers, which we’ll get back to. There’s no reason the story can’t be about a failure to load a web page farther than 500 miles. But the story is funnier if it’s an email, haha, he thought it was strapped to a pigeon leg and the bird got tired.
redo
In search of success (failure), I switch to running the experiment backwards, looking for schools with ping times that are more realistic. After a while, I found a few.
ix$ ping rutgers.edu
PING rutgers.edu (128.6.46.111): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 128.6.46.111: icmp_seq=0 ttl=241 time=8.896 ms
64 bytes from 128.6.46.111: icmp_seq=1 ttl=241 time=5.768 ms
ix$ ./connect rutgers.edu
it's a live one!
Rutgers is pretty close, and indeed I can connect. Stretching out a bit farther, we start having some trouble.
ix$ ping cmu.edu
PING cmu.edu (128.2.42.10): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 128.2.42.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=242 time=13.764 ms
64 bytes from 128.2.42.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=13.721 ms
ix$ ./connect cmu.edu
it's a live one!
ix$ ./connect cmu.edu
connect: connect failure: Operation timed out
ix$ ping www.maine.edu
PING lv-o-wpc-prod.its.maine.edu (130.111.28.163): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 130.111.28.163: icmp_seq=0 ttl=51 time=15.255 ms
64 bytes from 130.111.28.163: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=15.310 ms
ix$ ./connect maine.edu
it's a live one!
ix$ ./connect maine.edu
connect: connect failure: Operation timed out
Maine is about 500 miles from here, so it seems we’re right on the edge again.
Dayton is 500 miles in the other direction, but the tubes are just a bit fuller.
ix$ ping udayton.edu
PING udayton.edu (131.238.73.184): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 131.238.73.184: icmp_seq=0 ttl=235 time=25.429 ms
64 bytes from 131.238.73.184: icmp_seq=1 ttl=235 time=25.437 ms
ix$ ./connect udayton.edu
connect: connect failure: Operation timed out
ix$ ./connect udayton.edu
connect: connect failure: Operation timed out
That’ll never work. As we might have predicted, the speed of light is not significantly different in 2025.
mx
And now to make it biblically accurate, let’s consider some MX servers. This would require switching the lookup code to res_query, or we can just use some existing tools to make observations.
First, get some records for schools.
host -t mx upenn.edu
upenn.edu mail is handled by 10 mxa-00390e01.gslb.pphosted.com.
host -t mx stanford.edu
stanford.edu mail is handled by 10 mxa-00000d07.gslb.pphosted.com.
Okay, so not really much different than www servers. There’s a ton of outsourcing. The ping times are interested however.
ix$ ping mxa-00390e01.gslb.pphosted.com
PING mxa-00390e01.gslb.pphosted.com (148.163.133.158): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 148.163.133.158: icmp_seq=0 ttl=242 time=62.538 ms
64 bytes from 148.163.133.158: icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=62.443 ms
ix$ ping mxa-00000d07.gslb.pphosted.com
PING mxa-00000d07.gslb.pphosted.com (67.231.157.125): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 67.231.157.125: icmp_seq=0 ttl=246 time=23.796 ms
64 bytes from 67.231.157.125: icmp_seq=1 ttl=246 time=23.564 ms
I can walk across town and hand deliver a postcard to Penn, but I can’t send them an email. Stanford, across the country, is almost but not quite within email range.
ix$ host -t mx ucla.edu
ucla.edu mail is handled by 1 smtp.google.com.
ix$ ping smtp.google.com
ping: Warning: smtp.google.com has multiple addresses; using 142.251.167.27
PING smtp.google.com (142.251.167.27): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 142.251.167.27: icmp_seq=0 ttl=109 time=6.533 ms
64 bytes from 142.251.167.27: icmp_seq=1 ttl=109 time=6.556 ms
Ha, there we go. I can send an email 3000 miles to UCLA without fear of timeout.
conclusion
The 500 mile limit for perfectly misconfigured servers is still in place, but good luck trying to determine which domains are accessible using a roadmap.
The EU Product Liability Directive will take effect Dec 2026. Software, firmware, applications, AI systems, and will now be subject to the same strict liability regime as traditional physical goods. Cybersecurity vulnerabilities will be considered product defects. Analysis by Reed Smith LLP: lexology.com/library/detail.as…
Ok it's time for Turtle's summer exercise plan. But just like every summer, it's too hot outside. So I guess I'll just be doing my best in my room. Jumping jacks?
We’re excited to announce that Mastodon 4.4 is now generally available as an upgrade for all Mastodon servers. The update brings improvements to profiles, navigation, list management, media controls, server moderation notes, and more.
Improved profile features, enhanced list management, refreshed navigation, and the initial part of our Quote Posts implementation. All of these and more, in our latest release.
Mastodon 4.4 also contains the first part of our Quote Post implementation - display of incoming Quote Posts. Full support (including creation) will be part of the next version: Mastodon 4.5, coming later this year. We’re already hard at work on the next set of updates for that release.
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I want to sincerely thank you and the whole team for making my life better through Mastodon. You all do so much good in the world. After X and the state of social media, this is very much still needed. Thank you for providing me my happy place.
Would be nice to get any explanations of the different post-install or depreciation messages of some update steps. I ignored all of them and it went well. However - in some cases additional steps might be required as per the hints after completion of a specific update step. Regardless of this, many thanks for the great work to the Mastodon team.
If you are a user of Kdenlive, did you ever try to use a playback speed different than 1? like 2 time speed for instance? In that case you may have heard glitchy audio. I think this is not a bug, but an implementation issue, I think Kdenlive should use timeline stretching audio scrubbing. It is a wide spread feature in modern video editors, a seemingly ubiquitous one. So much so that users can't spot that the feature is missing and just think that there is a bug. 1/2 #kdenlive #kde
It's a much needed feature for a modern video editor, and I think it should be considered as a priority since its addition could benefit Kdenlive and its user greatly. I opened a feature request here if you want more information: bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5… Maybe the feature already exist in MLT but I don't think so. Should we ask to implement it in MLT or could Kdenlive implement it on their side. If you know any app using MLT that has proper audio scrubbing, or have any info, let me know. 2/2
Hi, Right now, consumers like SDL2 or RtAudio support turning audio scrubbing on or off, but they don't offer a way to choose the type of audio scrubbing we want to use. From my experience, the typ...
that happens to me at regular speed I don’t need to change it to hear the audio glitches. Having that said, the final export does not reflect the glitches.
@Emmanuel Florac Trade deficits of several hundred billions of dollars, should be the least of the problems, of a nation that has forty one thousand, billion dollars of debt, don't you think so?
@Carter Braxton actually both are related. By having the dollar the world reserve currency, debt accumulation and trade deficit are unavoidable side effects. The world need dollars to trade, therefore they need extremely large amount of dollar-denominated assets in the form of US Treasury bills. There is no way around this.
@Emmanuel Florac You really do believe that, don't you? Trade deficits results in profits and loss, imports and exports between private entities. Government overspending causes national debts.
@Carter Braxton trade deficits mean that the US imports stuff and exports dollars. For people outside of US to accept these dollars, there must be something to buy back, denominated in dollars, or they wouldn't take them. The stuff they buy back is Treasury bills. Fractional reserve banking implies that in all exchanges, there's a bank as a third party (see the video). When the money used as vehicle is USD, that bank is, in last resort, the Fed.
@Emmanuel Florac Yes, accumilated deficits will add to national debts but in the context of modern US debt, it is hardly fair to place the lion's share on trade imbalances, as some are wont to do, when anyone paying attention can clearly see, that US debt is the product of uncontrolled spending by the US Congress.
@Carter Braxton sure, but OTOH this uncontrolled spending is necessary for the Empire to function... Dog chasing its tail. If the Congress stopped spending, then the USD would collapse and cease to be the world's reserve currency, and suddenly the inhabitants should rely on their own work only, because the influx of Chinese-made stuff would stop.
@Emmanuel Florac Yes, some of that rings true. However, I don't think that losing the USD as a reserve currency would hinder the US. The USD has been the reserve currency for many decades now and the people in charge have managed to wreck that presumed opportunity still.
No, I propose that the pressure would be off the American people and indeed, the people of the world if the USD was no longer a reserve currency. The US has become fat and lazy, a big welfare state in her own right but she does not have to linger in such stagnation. If she would give up her delusions of empire, perhaps, she could compete again. Perhaps, she could make goods and services available that others would seek.
No my friend on closer observance, one could make arguments as to why the USD as the world's reserve currency, may indeed, be an albatross around the necks of mankind, including the Americans themselves and a yoke to be cast aside.
@Carter Braxton yep, Steve Keen's definitely of the opinion that USD has been a boon but is now a hindrance to US welfare. A more neutral system such as the Bancor would probably be better for everyone in the long run.
@Emmanuel Florac Indeed, Americans don't know what's really good for them, do they? Here we have a whole world trying to fix them and they're like the half dead patient that refuses to take his/her medication.
Americans don't realize that having the dollar overthrown and actually accommodating BRICS, would do us much more good than harm. Of course the delusions of empire would have to be lost.
CDU verhindert mit AFD ein schon bewilligtes Demokratieförderungsprojekt weil ihr der Verein zu links ist ...
1,2 Million Euro Förderung vom Bund abgelehnt weil die CDU nicht will. Da muss man sich gar nicht mehr wundern, dass es bei der Jugend zu Demokratieverdruss kommt.
Weitere Themen wie Intrigen auf dem SPD-Parteitag oder Spahns Bombenidee mit Atomwaffen in der ganzen Folge extra 3. Nur einen Klick entfernt, jetzt in der A...
HUR publishes Russian military order, claims proof of Moscow increasing military footprint in #Armenia
#HUR published what it claimed was a #Russian army order to increase its military presence at a base in Armenia, two days after HUR's warning of such a move was denied by Yerevan.
HUR first made the claim on July 5, saying #Russia was increasing its forces at the Gyumri base to exert greater influence in the South #Caucasus and "destabilize the global security situation."
HUR first made the claim on July 5, saying Russia was increasing its forces at the Gyumri base to exert greater influence in the South Caucasus and "destabilize the global security situation."
OK, if any one here ever saw the series, Outsource - with that call center in India, one of the character's name was Manmeet. I thought that was just a play on names.. but WHO KNEW.
@scottdhansen Just bought myself a Typhur Dome 2 airfryer and I can cook my 3.5lb tomahawk steak in the damn thing. I just need to starve myself for a few days.
The new Typhur Dome 2 air fryer comes with dual heating elements (top and bottom) to evenly cook both sides of your food with less shaking or flipping.
President Trump is ending the most ridiculous regulation in airport security history—that everyone has to take their shoes off every time they get on a plane because one time 24 years ago a Muslim terrorist hid a bomb in his sneakers.
#What Freedom of Speech? The United States was founded on the principle of freedom of speech. The Constitution, which called into existence a government of limited powers, did not delegate to the federal government the power to suppress criticism or to infringe on the natural, God-given right of freedom of speech. ----The regime simply starts having its military and paramilitary goons start arresting critics, disappearing them in terrorist confinement facilities, torturing them, and then killing them. Everyone else understands. No more criticism of the regime. Federal officials have long designed sophisticated ways to suppress speech in wide sectors of American society, such as the business, educational, banking, medical, and even the mainstream-media sectors. fff.org/2025/07/03/what-freedo…
Trump is threatening to employ the power of the federal government to destroy or severely harm an American citizen. And for what? For simply speaking out against Trump’s spending and debt bill. CEOs of universities, big corporations, banks, medical companies, and other establishments criticizing the policies of the federal government. The dole system and the regulated-economy system are very sophisticated devices that have succeeded in silencing them. They don’t dare to exercise freedom of speech, no matter what the First Amendment says.
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