March 12, 1930 - Gandhi's Salt March began from Ahmadabad, India, with 76 followers to protest the salt tax. Great Britain's Salt Acts prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, a staple of the Indian diet.

Citizens were forced to buy it from the British, who, in addition to exercising a monopoly over the manufacture and sale of salt, also exerted a heavy salt tax. Defying the Salt Acts, Gandhi reasoned, would be a simple way for many Indians to break an unjust law nonviolently (civil disobedience), increasing the pressure for independence from the British Empire.

By the time Gandhi had covered the 241 miles to the coastal city of Dandi on the Arabian Sea, the number of marchers had grown into the thousands.

#GandhiSaltMarch

Folks, unlike internet comms radios can't just be disconnected by a service provider. It's just you, another radio, and physics.

Now is a good time to get a #hamradio license in the US. The FCC could take away our spectrum rights but regardless you would still have radio gear and know-how.

Another one from two summers ago. Yes it’s almost that time of year and I am so ready for it. The picture is mine … not the bobber 🤣

#Fishing
#GetOutThere
#Nature
#Colorado
#TroutFishing

I aware of but not familiar with IPFS, so that's probably a good place to start research, but...

Does anyone know of any efforts to create a program like Seti@Home that would allocate blocks of storage to be used globally by the filesystem it is supporting?

I'm just imagining how interesting and possibly useful it would be to have a storage pool of millions, perhaps billions, of nodes connected sharing some amount of the replicated and encrypted data.

And if it were as easy to contribute to as running some simple program and saying "OK, here's 20gb for you to use." would get us closer to millions of nodes.

Just a thought.

I broke my book on sunday. I stepped to the curb, realized the epilogue belongs at the beginning of the story, not at the end, and realized I needed to rethink everything.

In the end, I settled for moving the central incident of the epilogue to the back half of the first act. It's going to minimize the amount of rework I need to do to existing scenes (though everything, EVERYTHING involving one character needs to be completely rewritten) and actually, longer-term, doesn't change the arc of the book much.

What it does do is immediately remove the sense the old plan had that this entire book is just the epilogue for something Bigger.

Nach Angaben der syrischen Beobachtungsstelle für Menschenrechte wurden in den letzten Tagen mehr als 1500 Menschen in #Syrien getötet, vor allem alawitische Zivilisten. Und Union und SPD einigen sich währenddessen darauf, künftig nach Syrien abzuschieben. www.deutschlandfunk.de/syrien-gewal...

Massaker an Zivilisten: Syrien...

Massaker an Zivilisten: Syriens fragile Hoffnung

Kämpfe und Massaker an Zivilisten aus der Volksgruppe der Alawiten sind ein Rückschlag für Syrien. Wie sicher sind ethnische Minderheiten im Land?

^{Deutschlandfunk}

Microsoft just admitted that the thing that gave me the most grief in Teams, the transferring of at least some Skype contacts to it (or creation of equivalent ones) simply doesn't work yet and is supposed to start working at some point of time in the future.

Thanks, Microsoft, for wasting 2 weeks of my life.

Ryleigh Cooper was fired by the US Forest Service.

Jennifer Piggott was fired by the Treasury Department.

They voted for Donald.

They deserve every second of this.

The takeaway here is that if you’re over the age of 30, you’re basically dumb as a lead pipe.

I don’t make the rules 🤷🏻‍♂️

Watch out for these toll scams - they're popular lately. Two things:

1) Look at the URL carefully - it's bogus

2) Look at the weird instructions. This is to get around Apple's protections. If you haven't interacted with someone ever before, links won't be clickable.

Quickening slowly
The winter turns brown to green
And green to blooming.

#dailyhaikuprompt (green) #haiku

Doomers, STFU.

I need a break.

I have just discovered that another team had decided our security architecture team needs to be a gatekeeper for any DB admin SQL executed.

Who are you people?

#USBudget #USCongress #Resist #USSenate

This message should go to your Senators regarding the budget #ContinuingResolution. You will need to copy and paste it into the forms on their websites.

The House passed a stop-gap bill Tuesday to fund the government through September and the Senate must vote on it. The House has gone into recess to force the Senate to accept the bill with no changes.

Dear Senator --

For months Republicans have talked about how they were going to fund their legislative priorities, but here we are again, facing another Continuing Resolution.

In your negotiations in the Senate, constantly remind everyone that the Constitution Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7 gives the power of the purse to Congress, not the President. The President has no legitimate authority for meddling in the appropriations process.

The Continuing Resolution must include language forbidding the Executive Branch and DOGE from usurping budgetary power from Congress.

Stand firm in your efforts.

I've been rereading Becky Chambers' "Wayfarer" series this past week and the way humans are organized in that series is such a contrast to how they're organized currently in my country.

I wish I could go to there -- and take my friends and loved ones with me. ☹️

#AmReading

Don't worry, Trump & his team are ON IT!

"Scientists are sounding alarms about a genetic mutation that was recently ID'd in 4 dairy cow herds, nearly year after H5N1 #BirdFlu 1st reported in TX dairy cattle.

..researchers have dreaded finding bc it is assoc w increased mammal-to-mammal transmission & disease severity.

Mutation appeared in 1st human case. “Finding the same mutation in cows is significant,” an infectious disease expert said"
latimes.com/environment/story/…

Study shows widespread bird flu infection in cattle

New research shows the H5N1 bird flu virus is more widespread in cattle than had previously been reported.

^{Susanne Rust (Los Angeles Times)}

Today's example of overthinking occurred when a tradesperson who is working on the house next door was sat in his van outside my house. Illogically, his presence stopped me from charging my phone (the socket is near the window) and from bringing the bins back in. This was because I didn't want him to think that I was spying on him (I wasn't!).

I would say that this made me a prisoner in my own home, but it was more of a case of being imprisoned by my own mind...again 🧠

#neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #overthinking #anxiety

Fed up of adverts creeping into Windows 11? You won’t like Microsoft’s latest update, then, although it does provide some important bug fixes

techradar.com/computing/window…

#news #tech #technology #security #privacy #windows #microsoft

Fed up of adverts creeping into Windows 11? You won’t like Microsoft’s latest update, then, although it does provide some important bug fixes

Windows 11 officially gets Game Pass advert in new update

^{Darren Allan (TechRadar)}

EU says its countermeasures to Trump’s tariffs will go into effect on April 1 | AP News

Major trade partners swiftly hit back at President Donald Trump’s increased tariffs on aluminum and steel imports, imposing stiff new taxes on U.S products from textiles and water heaters to beef and bourbon. Canada, the largest steel supplier to the U.S., said Wednesday it will place 25% reciprocal tariffs on steel products and also raise taxes on a host of items: tools, computers…

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EU says its countermeasures to Trump’s tariffs will go into effect on April 1 | AP News

Major trade partners swiftly hit back at President Donald Trump’s increased tariffs on aluminum and steel imports, imposing stiff new taxes on U.S products from textiles and water heaters to beef a…

^{Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News}

Liveblog zur Regierungsbildung: ++ Steinbrück sieht "massiven Problemdruck" ++

Nach Ansicht von Ex-Minister Steinbrück steht Deutschland unter einem massiven Problemdruck. In Bayern lehnen die Freien Wähler in der Landesregierung das Finanzpaket bislang ab - damit steht Bayerns Zustimmung im Bundesrat auf der Kippe.

➡️ tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveb…

#Liveblog

Liveblog zur Regierungsbildung: ++ Koalitionsvertrag könnte bis Mitte April stehen ++

Die Union will laut Informationen der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters den Koalitionsvertrag mit der SPD am 14. April unterzeichnen. Führende Sozialdemokraten sind gegen eine einzelne Abstimmung über Sonderausgaben zur Verteidigung.

^{tagesschau.de}