Liveblog: ++ Dröge wirft Merz Unehrlichkeit vor ++
"Wir können uns nicht auf Ihr Wort verlassen", warf Grünen-Fraktionschefin Dröge CDU-Chef Merz im Bundestag vor. Zuvor hatten Merz und SPD-Chef Klingbeil um die Zustimmung der Grünen zum Finanzpaket geworben. Die Entwicklungen im Liveblog.
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Liveblog zur Regierungsbildung: ++ Bürgermeister fordern Klimaschutz ++
Kurz vor der Sondersitzung des Bundestags kommen Forderungen und Appelle aus verschiedenen Richtungen. Bürgermeister fordern mehr Klimaschutz, ein CDU-Ministerpräsident kritisiert die CSU. Die Entwicklungen im Liveblog.tagesschau.de
Trapping AI
A methodically structured poisoning mechanism designed to feed nonsensical data to persistent bots and aggressive “#AI” #scrapers that circumvent robots.txt directives.
By the Algorithmic Sabotage Research Group | @asrg
algorithmic-sabotage.github.io…
Trapping AI
This is a methodically structured poisoning mechanism designed to feed nonsensical data to persistent bots and aggressive “AI” scrapers that circumvent robots.txt directives.ASRG
"Meanwhile, generative search tools’ tendency to fabricate URLs can also affect users’ ability to verify information sources. #Grok2, for instance, was prone to linking to the homepage of the publishing outlet rather than specific articles.
More than half of responses from #Gemini and #Grok3 cited fabricated or broken URLs that led to error pages. Out of the 200 prompts we tested for Grok 3, 154 citations led to error pages"
cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared…
AI Search Has A Citation Problem
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.Columbia Journalism Review
The latest example of a potential new variant evolving in a long-term chronic infection has been detected by the diligent work of those collecting and sequencing samples in South Africa.
As Ryan H describes on this thread, it is descended from the BA.3 lineage, which last in circulation about 3 years ago. So presumably it has been evolving in a chronic case since then, and recently managed to transmit to other people. The latest sample is from a different province and with one added Spike mutation (K356T).
threadreaderapp.com/thread/189…
#COVID19 #BA_3
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Thread by @LongDesertTrain on Thread Reader App
@LongDesertTrain: Do you remember BA.3—the weakling cousin of BA.1 & BA.2 that seemed to take the worst from each & had weaker ACE2 binding than even the ancestral Wuhan Virus? After 3 years, BA.3 is back....…threadreaderapp.com
Das unaufgearbeitete NS-Erbe von Kühne + Nagel
Klaus-Michael Kühne gehört zu den reichsten Deutschen. Seine Firma transportierte nach 1933 für das NS-Regime Möbel und Hausrat verfolgter und ermordeter Juden. Eine öffentliche Aufarbeitung verweigert Kühne seit Jahren. Von Teresia Minjoli.
➡️ tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unter…
#Kühne+Nagel #NSVergangenheit #Aufarbeitung
Check out my #travel blog for the best things to see and do in #loscabos .
What are your favorite places? backpackandsnorkel.com/Los-Cab…
The best beaches and the best snorkeling spots in Los Cabos | Backpack and Snorkel Purple Travel Guides
Explore the best beaches and snorkeling beaches in Los Cabos: Lovers Beach & Divorce Beach & Medano Beach & Chileno Beach & Santa Maria Beach.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
Which OS Is Best: Windows, macOS, Linux, or ChromeOS?
Not sure which desktop operating system is best for you? We help you choose by comparing the top options based on app compatibility, ease of use, hardware availability, interface design, gaming support, and more.Michael Muchmore (PCMag)
Westinghouse And Data4 Sign MOU To Explore AP300 Reactor Deployment For European Data Centres
Agreement comes amid significant interest in nuclear plants for powering big techThe Independent Global Nuclear News Agency
Washington Blues: A Government Town Faces a Gloomy Future
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For years, Washington, D.C., was insulated from many of the economic forces that decimated many older U.S. cities. Now, as Elon Musk’s mass layoffs shake everything from employment to real estate, the region faces the prospect of decline.
propublica.org/article/washing…
#News #DOGE #WashingtonDC #Economy #Government #Labor
Sobre mim e meu trabalho: acesse o link da Bio - linktr.ee/angelanatel
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Doutora em Teologia, exegeta, linguista, professora, escritora autista.Linktree
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USANazi regime:
We are gonna annex Canada! We are going to threaten & fire our most competent, most skilled professionals! We are going to do whatever we want because we are number one.
Canadians:
Number one most hated nation.
That is never going to happen.
We will fast track your medical professionals & look at fast tracking other skilled professionals who want to live/work in Canada instead of being under threats by their own government. Thanks, for for brain draining your best & brightest.
‘People Are Scared’: Inside CISA as It Reels From Trump’s Purge
“You've got a lot of people who are looking over their shoulder as opposed to looking at the enemy right now,”
“Most people are … doing the work of 2+ full-time [staffers].”
America is going *great*.
I hope the recipients are happy...
Happy Pie Day in the Cloudflare Lisbon Office.
And … we’re hiring: cloudflare.com/careers/jobs/?l…
Open Positions at Cloudflare
See our list of open positions at Cloudflare, we have opportunities in offices and remote locations around the world!www.cloudflare.com
Canadian woman put in chains, detained by ICE after entering San Diego border
A Canadian entrepreneur detained by ICE is speaking out after she got arrested while trying to enter the San Diego border to obtain a visa last Monday.Austin Grabish (ABC 10 News San Diego KGTV)
Give me web directories back.
Leitura da semana: trecho de "Ela disse: Os bastidores da reportagem que impulsionou o #MeToo"
KANTOR, Jodi. Ela disse: Os bastidores da reportagem que impulsionou o #MeToo. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2019, pp. 71-78. Como duas jornalistas conqui...YouTube
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Do you really want this? I don't. I'd rather see laws passed that make obeying robots.txt et al mandatory.
Even more than ten years ago when I worked in tech support for a webhost, googlebot and baidubot (CN) barely if at all respected robots.txt.
robots.txt was a standard introduced by Google!!! And they barely respected their own standard by the early 2010s. No, they wanted you to sign up for a new Google Webmasters account and use their fancy new proprietary dashboard to direct their spiders. >:E
Yahoo and hilariously yandex (RU) were the best behaved spiders of the time.
"robots.txt was a standard introduced by Google"
Doubtful. Wikipedia puts robots.txt in 1994 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.t… and Google as founded in 1998 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
Not the case. It is possible to block by user agent, and for the ones who spoof that (hello Bytedance) by IP address.
Attacks on known vulnerabilities are so widespread that a large proportion of sites already have some sort of captcha on the front end, and a law, in particular an unenforceable one, won't change that either.
Another night, another SniffiVerse™ walkies selfie 🐾 💜
📸 13/03/2025
#Labrador #DogsOfMastodon #Dog #DogsOfPixelfed #Labradorable #Dogs #PixelfedDogs #Selfie #EyeContact
#ScribesAndMakers March 13 Self Promo
Like others I wanted to share a link to a creator I really enjoy but more and more it's impossible to find their music online: pandora.app.link/qR9n9HWoHRb
Someone else has grabbed their music on YouTube and is putting it uo as their own.
You could still get a used cd maybe.
I wrote the review that was quoted at times alongside the album: ko-fi.com/post/Big-Milk-Album-…
This is also just a PSA, shit disappears or gets co-opted on the internet. Be a curator.
I think I and a few folks who knew the band are the last remaining curators/collectors.
At some point I'll upload my written interview with the band again. I should try to digitize the interview itself. I haven't decided if I'll ever reupload the photos I have. They dropped offline before AI came along so it's hard to say if anyone else re-uploaded the lower quality versions.
I still want people to hear the music but...the corporate internet is gross.
“The target is not Christians, it’s Christian nationalism. The target is not men, it’s patriarchy. The target is not white people, it’s white supremacy. The target is not heterosexuals, it’s homophobia. Don’t take it personally; join the work and dismantle the oppressive systems.”
- Sylvia McAdam
A Canadian citizen has been detained by the USA’s ICE for trying renew her TN visa.
Note: I couldn’t find an accessible Canadian source.
10news.com/news/local-news/nev…
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Une citoyenne canadienne a été détenue par l’ICE des États-Unis d’Amérique pour avoir essayé de renouveler son visa TN.
// Article en anglais //
#Canada #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #ÉtatsUnis #ÉUA
Canadian woman put in chains, detained by ICE after entering San Diego border
A Canadian entrepreneur detained by ICE is speaking out after she got arrested while trying to enter the San Diego border to obtain a visa last Monday.Austin Grabish (ABC 10 News San Diego KGTV)
Dear Fediverse, I am about to step up into my first role as a tech lead (*context in follow-up post) and would like to ask some questions to help me prepare & improve:
Groups:
- 🔵 Technical: Devs, DevOps, Infra
- 🟠 Product: Marketing, UX/Design, etc
- 🟣 Business: HR, management C-roles.
Questions:
- What are your initial thoughts when you hear you'll be getting a new tech lead?
- What are your hopes & expectations for them?
- What are your concerns when a new "tech lead" is hired?
- What changes do you hope for, or expect?
❗ Please add your colour to your reply & poll.
Lastly, if you have other advice for someone who wishes to be the best possible tech lead of their teams.
#programming #engineering #tech #techlead #management #leadership #python
- 🔵 Technical (88%, 15 votes)
- 🟠 Product (11%, 2 votes)
- 🟣 Business (0%, 0 votes)
Hello Sunshine has you walking in the shadow of a giant robot so you're not fried by the sun gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/hell…
#HelloSunshine #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming #LinuxGaming
Hello Sunshine has you walking in the shadow of a giant robot so you're not fried by the sun
Just announced from Red Thread Games (Dreamfall Chapters, Draugen, Dustborn) is Hello Sunshine, a mysterious survival game where you're following a truly massive robot and keeping to their shadow to not get fried by the sun.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Waiting for Pixelfed to get up and running with their encrypted messaging.
Seems single source platforms can be too easily compromised.
therecord.media/signal-no-long…
Signal no longer cooperating with Ukraine on Russian cyberthreats, official says
The encrypted messaging app Signal has stopped responding to requests from Ukrainian law enforcement regarding Russian cyberthreats, a Ukrainian official claimed, warning that the shift is aiding Moscow’s intelligence efforts.therecord.media
The mobile signal client is not free software - you cannot compile a working binary without authentication keys that the signal developers refuse to provide to f-droid for example.
It's only if you customize the server and client to no longer be signal, that you can actually compile it and it'll work, but you may as well use better chat software at that stage.
There is also a (somewhat broken) CLI library, but you can't use it without passing a "captcha" that requires a phone number and running proprietary JavaScript, so that's clearly not free either.
Thanks for the information. I suspected the fediverse is the best way to go. I anxiously await Pixilfed.
Good to know. I was under the assumption that Pixelfed was federated and operated on independent servers.
#anishnaabe #WhiteFeathers
I sent you a little white feather
I placed it right there in your way
I wrapped it in love with a message
to let you know you’ll be okay
I drew you a colourful rainbow
It followed your car for a while
I made a spectacular rainbow
I hoped it would show me your smile
I flew down a beautiful robin
It landed right there on your ledge
I prayed he would give you the strength
to push yourself back from the edge
#spirit #light
I lite a candle today.....
#ScribesAndMakers Mar 13: Shameless self-promotion day
Books! I've got lots of books. Kobo and Kindle should have all of my ebooks.
For paperback, pretty much any place that sells books should be able to get them for you.
There aren't a lot of people named Steve DeGroof in the world, so searching for my name at a book vendor should point you in the right direction.
Or, y'know, google "steve degroof books" if you want.
#BC woman is being detained by ICE in an Arizona detention centre.
#Canada #CdnPoli #BoycottAmerica #News
vancouversun.com/news/bc-woman…
B.C. woman detained at U.S. border, sent to Arizona detention facility in chains
Her mother says 35-year-old Jasmine Mooney has been detained in inhumane conditions since March 3, and is pleading for help. Read more.David Carrigg (Vancouver Sun)
Mike Honey
in reply to Mike Honey • • •Here’s the frequency of the BA.3 samples in the context of all the recent samples from South Africa. Optimistically, we can hope that it has already gone extinct, as there have been >35 samples collected since it was last detected.
In the context of global sampling, there are still thousands of samples reported each week, so it seems unlikely to be spreading widely, yet.
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Mike Honey
in reply to Mike Honey • • •Meanwhile, the wastewater surveillance from NICD in South Africa showed a wild, wild spike in recent months – on the scale of the original Omicron wave (just prior to the start of their data).
Hopefully that is just a coincidence, but it is quite puzzling what might’ve driven that.
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