Users are unimpressed, eager to toss devices if test sticks.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
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Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the lowest on record (JAXA data)
• about 480,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 870,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,290,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,810,000 km² below the 1980s mean
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My visualizations: Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness Arctic Temperatures Antarctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentrat…Zachary Labe
Museums have tons of data, and AI could make it more accessible − but standardizing and organizing it across fields won’t be easy
Every field has its own standard for what data gets recorded for specimens archived in a museum collection, which can make research difficult.The Conversation
Congress shall make a law that no malignant psychopath shall be eligible to hold any public office under the United States.
It would be the appropriate vaccine against rampant assholism. 😎✌
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#RuleOfLaw #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheUnion #ImpeachTrump #ImpeachJDVance #ImpeachTrumpAppointees #BanHeritageFoundation #ExpelMusk #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #Insurrection #ObstructionOfUSGovernment #ObstructionOfJustice #NationalSecurityThreat #AmericaDeservesBetter #AmericaHasBetter #HarrisWalz #Law #Justice #Democracy #Freedom #USPol #USPolitics
Sir, how long after 1945 did it take America to rebuild your trust?
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I keep seeing pearl clutching posts about this cloud flare blog, and I'm not sure I really get it, tbh?
blog.cloudflare.com/password-r…
Are people just realizing the scale of access that a reverse proxy has to traffick it handles? Because, um, this doesn't seem notable to me. Like, sure, absolutely stop using cloud flare. It's run by absolutely garbage human beings. But if you've already decided to let a third party terminate your TLS connections, then this is the kind of thing they can and will do. If fastly or bunny or whoever doesn't do this kind of inspection and analysis, it's only because they don't think they can productize it, not because they're unable or unwilling to do so.
Password reuse is rampant: nearly half of observed user logins are compromised
Nearly half of observed login attempts across websites protected by Cloudflare involved leaked credentials. The pervasive issue of password reuse is enabling automated bot attacks and account takeovers on a massive scale.The Cloudflare Blog
That is rich.
If there is a CDN, then the CDN can collect the creds and leak them later.
It is Security Theatre.
Die Lehren aus Corona
Die Coronakrise hat Stärken, aber auch Schwächen des Sozialstaats aufgezeigt. Welche Lehren daraus zu ziehen sind, zeigt eine aktuelle Analyse.www.boeckler.de
“Guardrails” Won’t Protect Nashville Residents From AI-Enabled Camera Networks
Nashville’s Metropolitan Council is one vote away from passing an ordinance that’s being branded as “guardrails” against the privacy problems that come with giving the police a connected camera system like Axon’s Fusus.Electronic Frontier Foundation
What happened?
More than a quarter of computer-programming jobs just vanished.
Learning to code was supposedly the salvation of millions of liberal art majors.
But now programming jobs are plummeting.
washingtonpost.com/business/20…
“What if we put solar panels on every roof in the world?”
Johanna Wagstaffe, Meteorologist and Seismologist for the CBC, is truly a woman after my own heart because this is exactly the dorky kind of back-of-the-napkin exercise I stay up into the wee hours of the morning figuring out. And she found a study were scientists actually did the calculations for real and turns out, it would make a real measurable impact.
We need to do this maybe not on every roof, but certainly on every roof that makes sense in every town, city and village in the world.
#ClimateAction #ClimateChange #EndFossilFuels
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The Anti-DEI Agenda Is Reprogramming America
President Trump’s anti-DEI playbook doesn’t just affect the makeup of America’s workplaces. It also impacts cultural production. Just ask Netflix’s former head of diversity.
wired.com/story/anti-dei-agend…
#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #trump #corruption #dei #diversity
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“Over 90% of the Great White North flatly refuses the notion that we’d be better off part of America’s Kakistocracy. 92% would take up arms and a staggering 80% categorically hate America’s rapist in Chief.“
#MarkCarney #Canada #ElbowsUp #Never51
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Mark Carney's Bold EU Pivot: Building Canada into a Superpower Without the U.S.
Carney has refused any communication with Trump or the Trump admin 3 days into being Canada’s Prime Ministeropen.substack.com
I rarely tell people to throw their devices into the sea, but you should throw your Amazon Echo into the sea.
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I had thought they were doing this already..............for years.
Sadly it won't stop the majority still buying into these trash devices. But hopefully something good will come from more people not using them.
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I have a pneumatic rivet gun. It goes BADUM-TSCH when operated, so I need to tell a bad joke before every rivet. The fun is totally off the scale when I'm riveting!
What Russia and Ukraine want out of talks, as Trump speaks to Putin Tuesday
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/g-s1-54229/trump-putin-call-ukraine-russia?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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“Running down these definitions brings us to a particularly tempting peril for programmers: making sense of laws feels like diving into a codebase. We’re dereferencing terms to build up definitions and chaining the predicates into a state machine we can run in our heads against our situation.
But programmers are bad at playing lawyers because the law works very differently than code.”
"Collectively, the 39 panels have a capacity of over 20 kilowatts — enough to power just one large, energy-intensive American household but more than enough for the lightbulbs, cooker plates and fans in the 180 households in Mbiabet Esieyere and Mbiabet Udouba."
Nigeria's minigrids smell like the future.
New, by me: Marko Elez, the DOGE staffer who resigned after his racist posts resurfaced (and was rehired soon after), violated Treasury rules when he sent an unencrypted email containing personally identifiable information to two Trump administration officials.
techcrunch.com/2025/03/17/doge…
DOGE staffer violated Treasury rules by emailing unencrypted personal data | TechCrunch
Marko Elez emailed a spreadsheet containing personal information to two Trump administration officials.Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
Entgegen anderslautenden Gerüchten ist dies keine Bartmeise.
#Birds #Vögel #Naturfotografie #NaturePhotography #Schwanzmeise #LongTailedTit
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Trump blames Iran for Houthi attacks on shipping after U.S. strikes in Yemen
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/g-s1-54274/trump-blames-iran-for-houthi-attacks-on-shipping-after-u-s-strikes-in-yemen?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Wow. Diese Leser-Mail »made my day«:
»... ich habe mir vor 3 Wochen ihr Buch "Einstieg in HTML und CSS" gekauft und bin fleißig am lernen ... Sie erklären fantastisch und das mit einem Humor, der genau meinen trifft. Ich wollte einfach kurz Danke sagen!
… und nun bin ich so aufgeregt und voller Freude beim Lernen, dass ich ständig die Zeit vergesse und es kaum erwarten kann wieder aufzuwachen um weiterzumachen. Was haben Sie denn da angerichtet?«
Peter Müller: Buch und Videokurs zu HTML und CSS | html-und-css.de
Sie wollen HTML und CSS von Grund auf lernen? Oder vorhandene Kenntnisse auffrischen? Dann sind Sie hier richtig. Hereinspaziert.html-und-css.de
Four Texans North cover art by Walter Popp, 1955
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#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #ttrpg #character #characterart #art #digitalart
The image depicts a cowboy riding a horse in a snowy landscape. The cowboy is wearing a white cowboy hat with a fur trim, a tan coat with a fur collar, and white gloves. He is holding a revolver in his right hand, which is holstered on his right hip. The horse has a thick, white fur tail and is equipped with a saddle and reins. In the background, a herd of cattle, including a prominent bull with large horns, is visible, suggesting a cattle drive. The sky is overcast, and the ground is covered in snow, indicating a cold environment. The painting style is realistic, with attention to detail in the textures of the clothing, the horse, and the landscape. The artist's signature, "Walter Pott," is visible in the bottom left corner of the image.
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This is the new version of climate denial, ala the Trump Administration:
Oh, we admit that climate change IS real, but it's just an unavoidable consequences of modern society and tough luck, everyone, just suck it up because we're not going to do anything about it.
Mistral Small 3.1
Mistral Small 3 [came out in January](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/30/mistral-small-3/) and was a notable, genuinely excellent local model that used an Apache 2.0 license. Mistral Small 3.1 offers a significant improvement: it's multi-modal …Simon Willison’s Weblog
I appreciate C# for its unapologetic commitment to just keep adding shit
that doesn't necessarily make it a good idea, but it's just so unafraid to just do more shit all the time
Trump tries to void Biden's pardons, blaming autopen. Many presidents have used it
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330709/autopen-biden-pardon-void?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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in reply to Ars Technica • • •my wife was just asking yesterday about switching to Roku. Guess I have my answer now.
(Thanks for the boost, @KathyReid )
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in reply to Ars Technica • • •Enshittification Phase 2: Inactivate the mute button.
Enshittification Phase 3: Integrated camera to ensure that we are watching the ads.
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in reply to Ars Technica • • •Folks who want to hold off the escalating enshitification of Roku and keep their home screen working as originally intended, i.e. a place from which to launch apps to stream video, you should block
cloudservices.roku.com
in addition to using the Smart-TV Blocklist at
perflyst.github.io/PiHoleBlock…
for various "smart TV" platforms and streaming services (not specifically Roku).
#Roku #Enshitification #AdvertisingWithoutConsent #PiHole #Blocklist
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