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Is Racial Profiling the Reason for Non-Whites' Higher Arrest Rate?

This old canard claims that "racial profiling" is the reason that non-Whites are overwhelmingly over-represented as the perpetrators of crimes in the FBI's Uniform Crime Report and National Crime Victimization Survey. (To learn more, see my previous entry, The Truth about Interracial Violence and 'Hate Crime': An Analysis of The Color of Crime.) Profiling is a useful law enforcement tool that accounts for no . . . stormfront.org/forum/blogs/u15โ€ฆ

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Prophet Muhammad in the Bible

#Prophet #Muhammad #Bible #Quotes
Old Testament:
In the Song of Solomon, chapter 5 verse 16, we read in Hebrew: โ€œHikko Mamittakim we kullo Muhammadim Zehdoodeh wa Zehraee Bayna Jerusalem.โ€ It means โ€œHis mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.โ€

The Lineage:
Prophet Muhammadisfromthe Lineageof ProphetIbrahim(Abraham)
andhisgift Slave Girl(Hagar- Hajrah)-whilemostofJewish Prophetsare fromthe Lineageof ProphetIbrahimandhis Wife Sarah;

โ€ข A NeW prophet lIke Moses:
15 โ€œThe Lord your God WIll raIse up for you a prophet lIke me from among you, from your brothersโ€”it is to him you shall listenโ€” 16just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, โ€˜Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire anymore, lest I die.โ€™ 17 And the Lord said tome, โ€˜They
are right in what they have spoken. 1ๅ• l WIll raIse up for them a prophet lIke you from among theIr brothers. And l WIll put my Words In hIs mouth, and he shall speak to them all that l
Command hIm. 19 And Whoever WIll not lIsten to my Words that he shall speak In my name, l myself WIll requIre It of hIm.

โ€ข prophet lIke unto Moses: Deuteronomy 1ๅ•:1ๅ•
20 But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or[f] who speaks in the name of other gods, that same
prophetshall die.โ€™ 21 And if you say in your heart, โ€˜How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?โ€™โ€” 22 when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken;the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.

Prophet Jesus was Not like Prophet Moses - because he did not marry, he was only given the Gospel and guiding Principles - but he did not rule politically in this world; till when he will return and slay the Antichrist;

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
15 โ€œIf you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you foreverโ€” 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be[c] in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.

bismillahschool.net/2025/06/28โ€ฆ

youtu.be/YRUWR1emwf4?si=q039eqโ€ฆ

youtu.be/3zDmTYjE_iw?si=TcAGU4โ€ฆ

Prophet Muhammad in the Bible โ€“ Quotes

Prophet Muhammad(peace be upon him) int he Bible; with Bible Quotes / Proofs from the Old and new Testament;n the Song of Solomon, chapter 5 verse 16, we read in Hebrew: โ€œHikko Mamittakim we โ€ฆ
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Sneaky sneaky hit piece on carnivore diet??

Or not

You decide!

phys.org/news/2025-07-evidenceโ€ฆ


New evidence suggests Neanderthals were rendering fat nearly 100,000 years before other early humans

The hunting and gathering activities of early humans required a high-calorie diet consisting of a variety of macronutrientsโ€”protein, carbohydrates, and fat.
Krystal Kasal (Phys.org)

  • Hit piece (0 votes)
  • Not hit piece (0 votes)
  • Potato (0 votes)
Poll end: 1 week ago

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archive.ph/2mBpT

Young people typically start out on the political left but become more conservative as they get older. Baby boomers who once marched against the Vietnam war got jobs, got married and had children. Now their grandchildren see them as tethered to Fox News.

Todayโ€™s young Americans are following the first part of that pattern. Ask a group of them to choose between capitalism and socialism and they will split right down the middle.

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In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gรคste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gรคsten an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem #Islamisten #Migration
#Sharia #Islam #Islamismus #GG #Grundgesetzt

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Reiche zockt mit der Versorgungssicherheit fรผr den Winter. Wenn es schief geht darf der Steuerzahler dafรผr gerade stehen.

rnd.de/wirtschaft/gasspeicher-โ€ฆ


Gasspeicher: Was die niedrigen Fรผllstรคnde fรผr die Preise bedeuten

In den unterirdischen Reservoiren befindet sich extrem wenig Erdgas fรผr den nรคchsten Winter. Das hat auch mit laxeren Vorgaben der neuen Bundesregierung zu tun. Speicherbetreiber warnen vor Engpรคssen bei richtig kalten Temperaturen.
Frank-Thomas Wenzel (RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland)

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Dark energy 'doesn't exist' so can't be pushing 'lumpy' universe apart, physicists say


#science #physics #relativity #astrophysics

phys.org/news/2024-12-dark-eneโ€ฆ


Dark energy 'doesn't exist' so can't be pushing 'lumpy' universe apart, physicists say

One of the biggest mysteries in scienceโ€”dark energyโ€”doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the universe is expanding.
Royal Astronomical Society (Phys.org)

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_Democrats told to "get shot" for the anti-Trump resistance_

How evil do you have to be, to try to seduce people who trust you to become martyrs in order to protect your power?

emilytvproducer.substack.com/pโ€ฆ


Democrats told to "get shot" for the anti-Trump resistance

Many lawmakers said these voters tend to be white, well-educated and live in upscale suburban or urban neighborhoods.
EmilyTVProducer (@EmilyTVProducer)

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General Mike Flynn
@GenFlynn
ยท
17h
ATTENTION!

EPSTEIN FILES SITREP

What everyone is missing are the CHILDREN who were abused by EPSTEIN and OTHERS. I donโ€™t care whether he killed himself or not.

For me, I want to believe
@FBIDirectorKash
&
@FBIDDBongino
but with the FBIโ€™s track record with laptops (Hunter Biden, Anthony Weiner, Seth Rich, now Epstein), never mind the FBIโ€™s previous track record for telling the truth, it is really hard to fathom that something else isnโ€™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.

Cโ€™mon guys, the American people are not stupid or afraid to know the truth.

@AGPamBondi

@realDonaldTrump

@SusieWiles

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_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.

I queried Grok about the Epstein Client List => grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_aefe60โ€ฆ

I'm leaning towards two possibilities:

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.

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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 Trumpโ€™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.

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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.

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Trump Administration Announces Crackdown on Chinese Communist Party Ownership of US Farmland

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/tโ€ฆ


Trump Administration Announces Crackdown on Chinese Communist Party Ownership of US Farmland | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

ย  ย  ย  ย  ย ย US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced on Tuesday the Trump Administrationโ€™s plan to secure US farmland from adversaries like China.
Jim Hoft (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)

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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 โ€œnarrativesโ€.

In other words: USA will provide money and misinformation to support right wing parties in Europe in order to achieve the Trump โ€œdemocracyโ€ in Europe.

#USpol #dkmedier #democracy

substack.com/@statedept/p-1645โ€ฆ


The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe

Author: Samuel Samson
StateDept (substack.com)
in reply to The Spectre of Communism ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡พ๐Ÿ‡ช

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vic-tor-menta

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
in reply to N. E. Felibata ๐Ÿ‘ฝ

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N. E. Felibata ๐Ÿ‘ฝ

Merkwรผrdig, habe diesen Link hier eingebunden:
borbeck.de/nachrichten-detailsโ€ฆ

Udo Lindenberg: Die Kunst des Eierlikรถrs und andere. Kometenhaft panisch in Oberhausen. - Borbeck

Oberhausen. Der Blick รผber den Borbecker Tellerrand lohnt sich 'mal wieder. An diesem Wochenende รถffnet die Ludwiggalerie Oberhausen Tรผr und Tor des Schlosses Oberhausen fรผr eine megapanische Ausstellung.
www.borbeck.de

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can an email go 500 miles in 2025?

Once upon a time, there was a university president who couldnโ€™t send an email more than 500 miles, and the wise sysadmin said thatโ€™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?

Thereโ€™s a lot to the story thatโ€™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 thatโ€™s the time you get backing a lightspeed delay out of 500 miles. Weโ€™ll see if it matters.

code

<span class=bi>#include <sys/types.h></span>
<span class=bi>#include <sys/socket.h></span>
<span class=bi>#include <sys/select.h></span>
<span class=bi>#include <poll.h></span>
<span class=bi>#include <netdb.h></span>
<span class=bi>#include <err.h></span>
<span class=bi>#include <unistd.h></span>
<span class=bi>#include <string.h></span>
<span class=bi>#include <errno.h></span>
<span class=bi>#include <stdio.h></span>

<span class=tp>int</span>
connect_wait<span class=st>(</span><span class=tp>int</span> s<span class=st>)</span>
<span class=st>{</span>
    <span class=tp>struct</span> pollfd pfd<span class=kw>[</span><span class=nm>1</span><span class=kw>]</span>;
    <span class=tp>int</span> error <span class=op>=</span> <span class=nm>0</span>;
    socklen_t len <span class=op>=</span> sizeof<span class=kw>(</span>error<span class=kw>)</span>;

    pfd<span class=kw>[</span><span class=nm>0</span><span class=kw>]</span><span class=op>.</span>fd <span class=op>=</span> s;
    pfd<span class=kw>[</span><span class=nm>0</span><span class=kw>]</span><span class=op>.</span>events <span class=op>=</span> POLLOUT;

    error <span class=op>=</span> poll<span class=kw>(</span>pfd<span class=op>,</span> <span class=nm>1</span><span class=op>,</span> <span class=nm>3</span><span class=kw>)</span>;
    <span class=kw>if</span> <span class=kw>(</span>error <span class=op>==</span> <span class=op>-</span><span class=nm>1</span><span class=kw>)</span>
        <span class=kw>return</span> <span class=op>-</span><span class=nm>1</span>;
    <span class=kw>if</span> <span class=kw>(</span>error <span class=op>==</span> <span class=nm>0</span><span class=kw>)</span> <span class=kw>{</span>
        errno <span class=op>=</span> ETIMEDOUT;
        <span class=kw>return</span> <span class=op>-</span><span class=nm>1</span>;
    <span class=kw>}</span>
    <span class=kw>if</span> <span class=kw>(</span>getsockopt<span class=cm>(</span>s<span class=op>,</span> SOL_SOCKET<span class=op>,</span> SO_ERROR<span class=op>,</span> &error<span class=op>,</span> &len<span class=cm>)</span> <span class=op>==</span> <span class=op>-</span><span class=nm>1</span><span class=kw>)</span>
        <span class=kw>return</span> <span class=op>-</span><span class=nm>1</span>;
    <span class=kw>if</span> <span class=kw>(</span>error <span class=op>!=</span> <span class=nm>0</span><span class=kw>)</span> <span class=kw>{</span>
        errno <span class=op>=</span> error;
        <span class=kw>return</span> <span class=op>-</span><span class=nm>1</span>;
    <span class=kw>}</span>
    <span class=kw>return</span> <span class=nm>0</span>;
<span class=st>}</span>
<span class=tp>int</span>
main<span class=st>(</span><span class=tp>int</span> argc<span class=op>,</span> <span class=tp>char</span> <span class=op>**</span>argv<span class=st>)</span>
<span class=st>{</span>
    <span class=tp>struct</span> addrinfo hints<span class=op>,</span> <span class=op>*</span>res<span class=op>,</span> <span class=op>*</span>res0;
    <span class=tp>int</span> error;
    <span class=tp>int</span> save_errno;
    <span class=tp>int</span> s;

    memset<span class=kw>(</span>&hints<span class=op>,</span> <span class=nm>0</span><span class=op>,</span> sizeof<span class=cm>(</span>hints<span class=cm>)</span><span class=kw>)</span>;
    hints<span class=op>.</span>ai_family <span class=op>=</span> AF_UNSPEC;
    hints<span class=op>.</span>ai_socktype <span class=op>=</span> SOCK_STREAM;
    error <span class=op>=</span> getaddrinfo<span class=kw>(</span>argv<span class=cm>[</span><span class=nm>1</span><span class=cm>]</span> ?<span class=op>:</span> <span class=st>"www.openbsd.org"</span><span class=op>,</span> <span class=st>"www"</span><span class=op>,</span> &hints<span class=op>,</span> &res0<span class=kw>)</span>;
    <span class=kw>if</span> <span class=kw>(</span>error<span class=kw>)</span>
        errx<span class=kw>(</span><span class=nm>1</span><span class=op>,</span> <span class=st>"%s"</span><span class=op>,</span> gai_strerror<span class=cm>(</span>error<span class=cm>)</span><span class=kw>)</span>;
    s <span class=op>=</span> <span class=op>-</span><span class=nm>1</span>;
    <span class=kw>for</span> <span class=kw>(</span>res <span class=op>=</span> res0; res; res <span class=op>=</span> res<span class=op>-></span>ai_next<span class=kw>)</span> <span class=kw>{</span>
        s <span class=op>=</span> socket<span class=cm>(</span>res<span class=op>-></span>ai_family<span class=op>,</span> res<span class=op>-></span>ai_socktype | SOCK_NONBLOCK<span class=op>,</span>
            res<span class=op>-></span>ai_protocol<span class=cm>)</span>;
        <span class=kw>if</span> <span class=cm>(</span>s <span class=op>==</span> <span class=op>-</span><span class=nm>1</span><span class=cm>)</span>
            <span class=kw>continue</span>;

        error <span class=op>=</span> connect<span class=cm>(</span>s<span class=op>,</span> res<span class=op>-></span>ai_addr<span class=op>,</span> res<span class=op>-></span>ai_addrlen<span class=cm>)</span>;
        <span class=kw>if</span> <span class=cm>(</span>error <span class=op>==</span> <span class=op>-</span><span class=nm>1</span> && errno <span class=op>==</span> EINPROGRESS<span class=cm>)</span>
            error <span class=op>=</span> connect_wait<span class=cm>(</span>s<span class=cm>)</span>;
        <span class=kw>if</span> <span class=cm>(</span>error <span class=op>==</span> <span class=op>-</span><span class=nm>1</span><span class=cm>)</span> <span class=cm>{</span>
            warn<span class=bi>(</span><span class=st>"connect failure"</span><span class=bi>)</span>;
            close<span class=bi>(</span>s<span class=bi>)</span>;
            s <span class=op>=</span> <span class=op>-</span><span class=nm>1</span>;
            <span class=kw>continue</span>;
        <span class=cm>}</span>
        <span class=kw>break</span>;  <span class=cm>/* okay we got one */</span>
    <span class=kw>}</span>
    <span class=kw>if</span> <span class=kw>(</span>s <span class=op>==</span> <span class=op>-</span><span class=nm>1</span><span class=kw>)</span>
        <span class=kw>return</span> <span class=op>-</span><span class=nm>1</span>;
    printf<span class=kw>(</span><span class=st>"it's a live one!\n"</span><span class=kw>)</span>;
    freeaddrinfo<span class=kw>(</span>res0<span class=kw>)</span>;
<span class=st>}</span>

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.

Weโ€™re not going to try sending an email with sendmail because I donโ€™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 presidentโ€™s office while the demonstration was in progress.

success


Letโ€™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 Iโ€™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 havenโ€™t gone 500 miles. For all I know, we havenโ€™t gone 500 feet.

At this point I realized Iโ€™m also pinging web servers, not email servers, which weโ€™ll get back to. Thereโ€™s no reason the story canโ€™t be about a failure to load a web page farther than 500 miles. But the story is funnier if itโ€™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 weโ€™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

Thatโ€™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, letโ€™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. Thereโ€™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 canโ€™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.

connect(2) - OpenBSD manual pages

man.openbsd.org

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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.asโ€ฆ

The new EU Product Liability Directive: Implications for software, digital products, and cybersecurity

The EU has adopted Directive 2024/2853 (the โ€œProduct Liability Directiveโ€ or โ€œPLDโ€), which will take effect on December 9, 2026. This new Directiveโ€ฆ
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Weโ€™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.

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Mastodon 4.4

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.
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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
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Tim Krief

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=5โ€ฆ 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

506761 โ€“ Feature needed, Timeline stretching implementation of audio scrubbing

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