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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



Something is going on with my object storage at #OVH, my server is timing out connections to it so I checked the OVH website and apparently I "have not created an Object Storage service yet"
#ovh
in reply to Bird

Looks like I didn't break anything, there actually is an outage of some sort at OVH relating to authentication


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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.

in reply to Ethan J. A. Schoonover

Also consider license-free walkie-talkie style handheld radios. I'm not up to date on what's in the US but for example in the EU we have several options, including the EU-wide PMR446 and "hunting band" radios.

Just don't expect any *privacy*. Anyone in range who happens to be listening will be able to listen, and wide-band scanners are widely available. Some commercial digital radios can be programmed for actual encryption; of course using that on the amateur bands is illegal.



"Ontario aware bike lane removals may not reduce congestion, could make people less safe: Engineering report done for the province says collisions for all road users could increase by 54%" cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ont…


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



Need a search engine that only shows pages created before 2023 so I can avoid all the AI slop in search results now



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.



Oh god I love the Garak episodes of Deep Space 9


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...




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.



While I understand the impulse to tell fashy dipshits to buy Teslas and use self-driving mode to weed a few of them out, the driver of the Tesla has a substantial safety advantage of weight over occupants of other cars, to say nothing of pedestrians. Yes, Tesla crashes seem to be pretty dangerous for the driver, but I'd rather not encourage them to self-harm by risking others. #subtoot #killjoy


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 🤷🏻‍♂️

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This is unhinged. Wealth and income inequality is worse now than it was after the Great Depression, and the MAGA right all the way up to Trump is exerting all their power to save the company of the man who has hoarded more wealth than anyone else.
in reply to Qasim Rashid, Esq.

This the same crowd that was trying to kill electric cars 5 months ago and are now shilling for Tesla. There are also the crowd vehemently to government handouts and Tesla would not exist without major Federal and State incentives for EVs and subsidies to build their factories.

The GOP is just short for Grifting Old People.

in reply to Qasim Rashid, Esq.

What does this remind you of?

the German fascist regime promoting the "people's car" 80 years ago



Reflecting that one of the things that brought me most joy in my early professional career was finding out about the cage nut tool.


NetGalley Reorganizes Ahead of Product Launch publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbr…


What are good offline text translation tools as of 2025?


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.

in reply to Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons

And of course besides other signs, there is the classic scam tactic of making it seem urgent; in this case at threat of unspecified "legal action".

It's not going to be true in every case, of course; but far more often than not, the more urgent a message (or other communications) makes something seem, the more likely that message is to be a scam.



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

#dailyhaikuprompt (green) #haiku


in reply to Laffy

I'm with you.

I do not give a fuck if someone knew from the beginning that something was not going to work.

I do not give a fuck if you already know that some legal/political/social action will not work.

I do not give a fuck so please do not tell me.

If you know something that's *better*, please tell me. I'll help spread it.

If there's something that *you're* trying, please tell me, and I'll join you.

And if you're in despair, share that, and we can comfort each other.

in reply to jz.tusk

@jztusk My standard response to folks saying that a particular approach or tactic is useless (or harmful) is to tell them they are free to join some group using an approach or tactic that they prefer - or maybe organize such a group themselves.

It’s kind of a joke because I strongly suspect that those pearl-clutchers aren’t doing anything whatsoever.

in reply to Laffy

💜
#3GoodThings

1. Costco is raising its hourly wage for employees to $30.00.

2. One of my students wrote me a really nice email saying she loved the Poe course I taught this quarter.

3. Someone on mastodon didn't give me the benefit of the doubt and then did.



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?

in reply to Chris Petrilli

If I am the DBA, I can run any SQL I want.

What are they smoking?

If you can not trust your DBA, you have bigger problems.



#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.


in reply to BakersRelay

Good afternoon! Cooler today but still not bad in the mid 40s. Plenty of sun for Scout to lie in.


god i fucking love tree style tabs it has taken some getting used to but this is so nice.
in reply to φ

librewolf with a bunch of plugins and some chrome styling. this extension is tree style tabs


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/…



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




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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in reply to Ned Hamson

Economic self immolation caused by sociopathic delusions of all powerfulness. They need to hit us hard.



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



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