New boss eyes my golf shorts, #hawaiianshirt with a cat, #sandals, and jokes "say, do we _have_ a dress code?"

"Eh. Think we do - employee manual hasn't been updated in at least a decade though, and noone has ever given me any grief, and I dance all over it in the summer. In any case, not only do I know that there ARE bodies, I know where they're buried and in most case I buried them to begin with. So if quibbling over dress code is a priority for this company we have way bigger problems."

Oklahoma's Dept of Ed will use right-wing propaganda outlet PragerU to create a test for determining eligibility to teach, measuring applicants' belief in "American exceptionalism" & acceptance of transphobic gender ideology: foxnews.com/politics/exclusive…
Surely other GOP states & Trump's DOE (using funding as leverage) will follow, making acceptance of far-right beliefs a requirement for teaching, just as it's become for hiring federal workers & allowing people from other countries to visit the US.

NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey have been mapping the planets since Apollo. One team is searching closer to home for minerals critical to national security and the economy. If not for the Joshua trees, the tan hills of Cuprite, Nevada, would resemble Mars. Scalded and chemically altered by water from deep underground, the rocks […]

Steam sales are now over but i managed to snag a couple more games before the end of the sale.

Painkiller Black was awesome I heard the other games were ehh.. Doom Eternal I heard great things but you gotta block the the game from connecting to the internet because it forces you to setup a stupid bethesda account otherwise. I Remember chips challenge from the 1995 pack sold with Jezzball, pipe dream so I figured why not I'll get chips challenge 2 while it's cheap.

in reply to MightBeFluffy

I think a lot of peope understandably misunderstand this post because it doesn't really explain the situation. After reading OP's comments I gather that OP put a new server online (not on AWS) and was immediately port scanned by a host that is on AWS. Since OP did not consent to being port scanned, they filled out an abuse complaint with AWS, the hoster the scan came from, out of principle, knowing that it probably won't do much. Which is totally fine if that is how you want to spend your time.

I think what most commenters thought is that OP was hosting with AWS and complained to them that someone else scanned their server. This does not seem to be the case.

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Absolutely not — the issue here is OP knowingly submitting false abuse reports.

Port scans of public hosts are not considered abuse per the CFAA or Amazon’s AUP without other accompanying signs of malicious intent.

aws.amazon.com/aup/

Amazon may take action against egregious mass-scanning offenders per the “…to violate the security, integrity, or availability of any user, network…” verbiage of the AUP, especially if they’re fingerprinting services or engaging in more sophisticated recon, but OP’s complaints are nowhere near meeting that threshold.

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Why recycling solar panels is harder than you might think − an electrical engineer explains

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From Guatemala to Gaza, genocide denial thwarts justice

Israel’s role in Guatemala’s civil war is well understood and informs both pro-Israel and pro-Palestine activism in the country.

electronicintifada.net/content…

#Gazagenocide #Guatemala #Israelweaponindustries #Indigenousrights #Guatemalacivilwar #Guatemalagenocide #Internationalsolidarity #LatinAmerica #PalestiniansinLatinAmerica

20 anys de BDS.

20 anys de lluita anticolonial palestina.

20 anys resumits en 20 punts de lluita.

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#Palestina #BDS #Palestine #Gaza #genocide

I have close family members who have been diagnosed with autism, and my full-time job is being a support worker for adults who have learning disabilities and autism.
This is beyond disgusting.

Gregg Wallace is attempting to downplay his behaviour as being the fault of the BBC and MasterChef production team failing to notice that he has autism.
His friends are backing up the autism claim by saying that it prevents him from wearing underwear.

That doesn't justify sexual assault.

This is why these things can't just be outlawed. Even going about it the scientific way is difficult.
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#Copyright not for #AI 🤔


Source: nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/fed…

#Training #book #justice #technology #court #usa #law #news


Linux users can install Mozilla VPN client from Flathub. The open source app was previously only available to install on Ubuntu-based distributions via the Mozilla APT repo.

omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/mozill…

#Mozilla #flathub #linux

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Mozilla is cancelling projects and initiatives left and right. Mullvad might be a much better choice at this point.


Linux users can install Mozilla VPN client from Flathub. The open source app was previously only available to install on Ubuntu-based distributions via the Mozilla APT repo.

omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/mozill…

#Mozilla #flathub #linux


Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Fish-Fox and the Fish Hound.

Both are of the "fearsome critters" from lumberjack legends, and both are domesticated critters that can help you to catch ludicrous amounts of fish!

The Fish-Fox is, as the name would imply, a combination of fox and fish. It could imitate "the sound of an angleworm" and thus lure vast quantities of fish ashore for its master.

The Fish Hound, by contrast, was neither fish or hound, but rather was a crossbreed between a mink and a helldiver grebe, and this bird-mustelid hybrid just happened to resemble a doggo by shear coincidence (but with mink fur on half its body, and helldiver feathers on the other). The Fish Hound was an expert fisher, and was extremely intelligent. You could tell it the amount of fish you wanted, the type of fish, and even the size, and within moments it would retrieve exactly what you had asked for.

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#misere #des #riches #fonctionnaire #quebec #etatisme

Pour donner une idée du salaire annuel de base d’Anne Lafond, on s’est référé aux données les plus récentes de la SAAQ, publiées en mai dernier.

À ce moment-là, le poste de PDG de la société d’État venait avec une rémunération annuelle de 310 063 $, à laquelle peuvent s’ajouter des bonis, des primes, des frais de fonction ainsi qu’une indemnité mensuelle pour une voiture.

C’est près de cinq fois le salaire moyen au Québec, établi à 65 214 $ selon Statistique Canada.

À titre de vice-présidente aux services aux assurés et assurées, Mme Lafond touchait 242 500 $. Sa nouvelle rémunération représente donc une augmentation de quelque 67 563 $.

Anne Lafond rejoint maintenant le cercle des PDG les mieux payés à la tête d’une société d’État québécoise.

Ο Βραζιλιάνος ακτιβιστής Τιάγκο Άβιλα στο πλευρό των Παλαιστινίων στο Σύνταγμα thepressproject.gr/o-vrazilian…

I spent too much time thinking being a #kernel #dev for a #bsd project was like paramount or opus for coding in the *nix world.

Glad to be free of that idea in my brain only I planted there as a teen. Sure, I *could* move forward with being a kernel programmer if I pushed for it, but just a source of #joy

I do appreciate the OpenBSD, NetBSD, and even FreeBSD (I say even because I never really used FreeBSD in a serious context like OpenBSD and NetBSD), but I can do that without having an active part in it and still be happy letting that unhealthy bucket-list item expire.

I don't need to prove myself to anyone, I've done enough in my life so far.

At this point in life, I've definitely honed in on what brings me joy and what doesn't with technology. My career is stable and in-demand, I don't need to always be improving it.

#Retrocomputing is where it is at for me now. It's still flexing the same muscles but with greater challenges for near zero functional purpose.

Why would anyone purposefully code 8-bit computers with 64-bit ones exist now with more capabilities with hardware found everywhere for next to nothing?! 😀