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“The goal is to cast vaccines into the shadows. That has deadly consequences.”

Legislators are bent on dismantling our vaccine safety net even as this deadly disease sees a frightening resurgence in our state. texasobserver.org/measles-outb…

#politics #USpol #Texas #measles #antivax #vaccines #health #healthcare #news #TXlege #Republicans



A bug in a recent Windows 11 update is causing some USB printers to produce random, programming-related text. pcmag.com/news/is-your-printer…


I’ve not made a new #HomeAssistant custom component in about a year, it’s good starting something fresh and learning from all your past mistakes.
in reply to Mauricio Teixeira 🇺🇸🇧🇷

@badnetmask A little helper that scratches an itch rather than writing tedious yaml. Waiting for my branding icons to get merged before announcing but it’s all developed in public if you know where to look.


How one’s hand configuration affects the sound of clapping
Faster clapping yields lower-frequency sounds, as does cupping one's hands while clapping.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…
in reply to Ars Technica

Right at the end is the scary part:

"It might even be possible one day to identify someone based on their distinctive claps and use it as a kind of acoustic login for electronic devices."

More surveillance - AI to be used to review footage of every concert, theatrical performance etc. ever, and produce a massive database linking you to the sounds of your hand claps.
Then you can be tracked by the sound you make whenever your flat hand contacts something 🤯😱




Well electric cars, hell, cars in general these days come with proprietary software that totally screws over the buyer's ability to fix their own damn car. It's bullshit, plain and simple.

Right to repair isn't just some fancy slogan, it's a fucking right. Period. I'm all in on open source software and the freedom to dig into the code, learn from it, and yeah, fix it if I need to. That's how it should be, not this locked-down crap they're pushing on us.

Sadly, this is the world most people are forced into with big tech companies owning and operating most of the software we and many companies use today.

I would recommend anyone reading this to give #Linux a try if you haven't already used it. It's open-source, customizable, and gives you the freedom to really make your system your own.

❤ In short: I love the right to repair my own stuff!

#RightToRepair #Repair #Fix #iFixit #EletricCars #Cars #Swasticars #Linux

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in reply to Chris White

@cdwilson
All my shack/office photos are carefully angled and tightly cropped.

I just backed up & shot a pano, as it's presently (just pre-spring) in the worst condition it's been in months.

Toying with posting for comedy.



ACH has confirmed reports that DOGE is at the NEH. Chair Shelly C. Lowe has been replaced by Acting Chair Michael McDonald. ACH remains committed to a diverse, inclusive, and supportive DH. To engage in advocacy efforts: secretary@ach.org. Read our statement of support for NEH: buff.ly/bQeRaGw


“Keep them on the ropes for multiple days”

“Protesters targeting #Tesla over their opposition to #Musk have a new strategy: faking interest in buying a Tesla to waste the company's time & resources.

50501 movement, which aims to org protests in all 50 states, have proposed that wasting the time of Tesla dealerships could be a safer alternative to illegal vandalism”
newsweek.com/tesla-musk-trump-…

in reply to Laffy

why are any of you worried about what's legal? These problems exist because law and order has failed us from the top down. #PerformanceArt isn't going to save us. The time for milquetoast NIMBY liberal praxis is over, it didn't work, it made things worse. Get your hands dirty or get used to fascism. #TeslaTakedown #Debillionarizasation
in reply to Bebadefabo

@bebadefabo Oh I dunno, because .... rule of law matters and those protesting could be imprisoned bc of Trump's army of assholes?

And yes, protests help "save us." No one thing does that. WE do that. The courts help, protests help, calling helps, pressure helps, running for office helps, town halls help, showing up in every way helps.

ALL of that IS getting "their hands dirty."



PS5: Don't unplug me while I'm switched on or I might break

Me: Bitch you froze; the fuck else am I supposed to do?

in reply to Bard

"You are already broken, pray I do not break you further."


Handelsstreit: Wie wirken sich Trumps Zölle auf Europa aus?

Die von US-Präsident Trump angekündigten Strafzölle auf Stahl- und Aluminium sind in Kraft getreten. Wie groß ist die Gefahr für Europas Wirtschaft? Sind Jobs gefährdet? Welche Produkte könnten teuer werden? Fragen und Antworten.

➡️ tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/weltw…

#FAQ #Zölle #Europa #Trump #Handel



To paraphrase Socrates, the only thing we do know is that we know nothing


One of these days, I’m going to remember that fixing bad policy documents is ten times more work than starting over and building from scratch.
in reply to Accidental CISO

maybe, but then how would sunk cost fallacy continue to thrive?



Can we truly call it conservation if it is at the cost of displacing those who have nurtured the land for centuries?

Forcefully evicting the Maasai from their their ancestral homelands and auctioning it to greedy corporations for trophy hunting and carbon credits trading is not a climate solution.

It is nothing more than land grabs and exploitation wrapped in greenwashing, continuing the exploitation of vulnerable communities.

Justice for the Maasai in Tanzania ⤵️ pages.greenpeaceafrica.org/tan…



This is the executive branch we in the U.S. are dealing with. Meanwhile Trump is blaming Canada for fentanyl.



Meeting Leah was a real highlight for me at WorkbenchCon a couple weeks ago. We carried those logs across the hotel singing the log song. I’m very grateful for such a fun shoutout and a great log reveal. #woodworking instagram.com/reel/DHGeul5gxY6…


This #WomensHistoryMonth we once again acknowledge and reckon with Anarcha, Lucy and Betsey, the Mothers of Gynaecology. These enslaved Black women, along with nine other women whose names have been erased, were subjected to human experimentation without anaesthesia. We say their names.


I have a very strange issue with my VPS.

I am setting up wazuh for my personal use, and while the software seems to run just great, I'm unable to connect agents to it.

1. Wazuh does bind the ports (1514, 1515) properly. At least, netstat tells me to.
2. I can tcpdump on these ports, and see activity on 1515 (agent registration port).
3. The SYN packets never get a response from my VPS. It's like Wazuh is binding the ports, but isn't getting the packets or responding to them.

I'm completely out of ideas. The Wazuh community Discord has been unhelpful, so far.

I suspect ghosts.

Any help?

#wazuh #sysadmin #linux #selfhosted

in reply to Phil

Triple-check your firewall rules if you haven't already. Consider adding a logging firewall rule for *outgoing* packets with that source port to see whether the software tries to send some kind of response.


12 March 1903 | A Slovenian, Josef Sitter, was born in Šentjakob. A car mechanic.

In #Auschwitz from 28 September 1941.
No. 21141
He perished in the camp on 24 February 1942.




So if it's cool to constantly send SSTV images of scantily clad women, I think I'm just going to start doing SSTV with pictures of the Chippendale dancers.


Parece que al menos en La Plata hay una nueva moda: la de circular en auto sin patente.

Hoy vi ya siete autos (tres de ellos camionetas de esas gigantescas típicas de hombres con micropene) que no tenían la chapa patente ni delantera ni trasera; ni siquiera la truchada del papel “provisorio”.

Ni hablar de las motos, que son más las que circulan sin ningún tipo de papeles que aquellas en regla.

in reply to Gabriel

Pero estos no eran todos cero km. Había una Berlingo de hace ya varios años por ejemplo. Un Gol de los viejos.


Slicing up kumquats for marmalade takes a lot longer than I expected
in reply to Emily Velasco

It took me 90 minutes to get them all cut up, but cut up they are, and now they are marmalizing
in reply to fredy cosmoline

I'll let you know. It depends on my what my work day is going to be like
in reply to fredy cosmoline

You better show up in period-correct italian mail carrier attire, with a letter for me on genuine vintage italian stationery, written in italian by the hand of a bona fide italian person
in reply to Emily Velasco

Everything in my kitchen is sticky now. Send prayers to me for me as I clean up. I may end up perishing while adhered to a surface like an unfortunate fly on flypaper
in reply to Emily Velasco

youtu.be/-SGhBvwLGIs
in reply to Come On Giant Asteroid!

I don't actually know your age-ish so this may not be appropriate for Younger Viewers .... because they are too young to have been there at the time.
in reply to Emily Velasco

As I suspected - not suitable for younger viewers! Which of course absolutely *kills* me ...
in reply to Emily Velasco

marmalade and jellies are the most diabolically difficult things to fully eradicate. You'll be finding sticky drawer pulls and stuff for months
in reply to Emily Velasco

Do you plan to create a custom... artistic... label for kumquat marmalade to go with your kumquat liquor labels?


Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Leather Hole Punch Tool. I carry mine everywhere. You never know when someone's leather jacket will get wrapped around their face, and they'll be in need of a hero to punch an air hole into it so they don't suffocate.
amazon.com/dp/B08VN7W1JR?ref=t…

in reply to Cory Doctorow

this is why the Rs are taking union-busting to the states with laws like Ohio SB1 aiming to kneecap (first) university collective bargaining units


@riley imagining once again a guy who keeps getting distracted reading those books thinking how this clone army of that dude from the william blake mythos are being made in an ancient mesopotamian city and anyway it's such a relief when i see newer fantasy stuff just flat-out use irl people and place names or transparently obvious and easily translated compound nouns
RE: toot.cat/@riley/11415016525359…
in reply to dirty badwrong person

@apophis Hey, imagine being named, say, Devin or Damon or Dexter, and then, when you're in middle school, somebody makes a famous movie where the Big Bad shares your name.
in reply to Riley S. Faelan

they other day on bsky there was a thread asking everyone "who's the worst person with your first name"

started by a guy named elon



Let me tell you how I became a proud science denier, and how it saved my life.

--

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2025/03/12/epi…

1/

in reply to Cory Doctorow

an older example of the same thing: to be gay in the 1970s, in many countries you had to think you knew better than the health authorities, who believed this was an illness you should try to cure.

and then, a couple of years later, the same health authorities ask you to believe that there's a dangerous illness going around that somehow mysteriously requires gay people to limit their sex lives.

knowing which scientific claims to trust is _very hard_.

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in reply to Cory Doctorow

I don't think this science denial. A big part of science is rigorous debate of the evidence. If you have evidence to the contrary, whether it's "anecdotal" lived experience or published data, then not blindly trusting established narrative *is* science. Dissenting views and contradictions are more valuable to the scientific process than confirmations* because it's evidence of some misunderstanding that can be used to push science as a whole forward.

*Of course you need some confirmations, and the replication crisis is a whole separate issue that leads to mistrust in science



By the way nobody asked but I think that both rewriting pip in Rust (uv) and rewriting TypeScript in Go are catastrophically bad decisions, with rewriting TypeScript in Go being a slightly worse decision. The self hosting nature of TypeScript was such a huge benefit
in reply to Lucas Treffenstädt

@lucas There's a project called AssemblyScript which is designed around writing a near variant of TypeScript that gets compiled to wasm. This provides tantalizing hints of things that were possible.

I think (I've heard various things today, some contradictory) that AssemblyScript might partially depend on calling into the self-hosted TS however so I'm not sure what happens to it in Go/TS world :/



Morgen ist Nationaler Warntag


Morgen, am 13. März 2025, findet in Deutschland der jährliche Warntag statt. An diesem Tag werden in verschiedenen Bundesländern die Warnsysteme getestet, um die Bevölkerung im Ernstfall effektiv über Gefahren informieren zu können. Die Uhrzeiten für die
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In case you weren’t paying attention, most of the people that understand economics told you that Trump was going to be a disaster. Only those that were part of the cult told you otherwise. So now you are going to act surprised because you voted for a felon, a bigot, a con man, and a dolt.

fastcompany.com/91294460/trump…

#Economics



WOW 😳 🤯

The Trump administration and GOP, they are admitting this!!!



Shorting stock is a risky and ill-advised move, only for experts, almost certainly a bad idea except for experts, yes, yes, I know.

still

With Tesla up a bit today, I wish I had a brokerage account already so I could short it for, say, one week out from now, just with a few symbolic bucks.

in reply to Paul Cantrell

OK, screw it, I want to do this. I want to put a little money in TSLQ and TSLZ (which is a way of betting that Tesla stock will drop). Clearly nonsense as a financial plan; I’ll only put in an amount I’m willing to lose. This is just for symbolic reasons. I’m willing pay a few bucks to raise this middle finger.

Recommendations: What's a less-terrible place to open an account where I can trade individual stocks? It needs to be low overhead and low nonsense; there will only ever be at •most• a few hundred dollars involved.

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in reply to Paul Cantrell

if you have a bank account somewhere that also owns a brokerage most have low cost/self managed trading options (for example if you bank with Bank of America you can open an account at Merrill Lynch pretty easily. May not be the most ideologically pure but may be easy if you already have the accounts.

(fewer credit unions or b corp banks have brokerages)

I'm reasonably happy with Charles Schwab but not sure their minimums but generally decent (relatively for their industry)

in reply to Shannon Clark

I do have a Fidelity account through one old employer’s 401(k), and probably that’s the easiest. But I hate their web interface so much….
in reply to Paul Cantrell

huh, I tried out I think 6 different brokerages, and decided Fidelity was the best. There’s a few things Schwab does better, and it was a different one that allowed buying mutual funds by shares, but it was way better than most of the web interfaces
in reply to ShadSterling

right, I made my comparison public - mastodon.social/@ShadSterling/…

Didn’t actually compare on how much I like the web interface

in reply to Paul Cantrell

I'm in. I have some "unrealized gain" from buying stock in my brother's employer 15 years ago and just... sitting on it. I sold a little and rolled it into TSLQ. I didn't do anything to earn that money and I'm happy to put it to work like this.

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in reply to Paul Cantrell

Remember to short or buy puts. And buy a long enough term so you don't get caught in the Rancid Kumquat talking up the price.

I'm not sure why you'd want to just plain buy the stock. That thing is so overvalued it's floating purely on belief in Musk's genius. (Check out the P/E, over 100! _After_ it's down about 50%.) And that belief has nowhere to go but down at this point.

in reply to Paul Cantrell

I don't really understand these "stocks", but I'd be willing to spend $200 to try it out, willing to lose it all. And I have an account...
in reply to John Breen

@jab01701mid
My dim and highly dubious understanding is that people betting against like this do actually help drive down the price, so I say go for it!
in reply to Paul Cantrell

I imagine the fund is "managed" by some traders doing the actual short trades, and this fund gains any profits, suffers any losses, but you are limited to losing your investment, as opposed to the actual short-traders, who have much more downside exposure, and I assume more upside potential as a reward. I'll do it on a very small scale.
My account tools show the history of the fund, so I could look, but why...
in reply to John Breen

OK, here's my little $200 TSL playland. Maybe I publish a snapshot weekly. TeslaTuesday ?
in reply to John Breen

OK, my first #TeslaTuesday
My little portfolio has appreciated 20%, including about 10% today, though it's been quite volatile over the first week.
I'm not advising that anyone invest money they can't afford to lose in this way !
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in reply to John Breen

Finally managed to jump through all the hoops and get a danged brokerage account open, and my similar portfolio (basically yours plus a dash of TSLS) is up ten bucks the first day. Good times.

But of course making short-term money isn’t really the point; I’m not planning to sell unless / until the company is in the gutter. As an investment, it’s a little moonshot, and I kissed that money goodbye in my mind the moment I bought.

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in reply to John Breen

I'm also following a basket of the top EU and top US defense contractors, which is fascinating...


in reply to Linux Is Best

following your advice, the linux desktop is doing really well. Firefox, too. When you want something to change, just go and do it. That is the open source deal. Programming something I don't need isn't.
in reply to hunderteins

Linux is not doing well, as a desktop, and Firefox is almost dead. If Foss does not focus on keeping things simple, corporations and government oversight will always be the majority, and always the accepted norm.




Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ US-Unterhändler auf dem Weg nach Russland ++

Nach Angaben Trumps sind US-Unterhändler auf dem Weg nach Russland, um über den Vorschlag für eine Waffenruhe in der Ukraine zu sprechen. Polens Regierungschef Tusk plädiert für eine starke Rolle der Türkei im Friedensprozess.

➡️ tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveb…

#Liveblog #Ukraine



@sybren @blender regarding the weekly module meetings: is there a Google Calendar or something similar I can subscribe to? That way I can see it time-zone-adjusted on my calendar and see which ones I could potentially make.

The meeting notices on devtalk.blender.org have a Meet link but that doesn't share event details automatically in a calendar.

in reply to Sybren A. Stüvel

thank you, I appreciate that. Is there a way to find out for other modules (devtalk, someone to ask)?
in reply to Spencer Magnusson

If they don't link anything in the meeting notes, I doubt that they have a calendar set up.


Question for my friends on #Mastodon who have smart phones, do you choose to turn Wi-Fi calling on or off and why? Thanks in advance for indulging my curiosity once again.
in reply to Robin Frost

I turn it on.
Signal is better that way.
I'm also able to use my Mac, iPad and watch to make and receive calls with it on.