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A new Windows update can accidentally delete Copilot assistant from a PC. As Microsoft works on a fix, some users wish the bug was an actual Windows feature. pcmag.com/news/oops-update-acc…


Irish-Americans Gear Up For ’The Reinforcin’ O’ The Stereotypes’

in reply to Frankie ✅

The image features a chandelier with six lava lamps as light sources. The chandelier is ornate, with a dark metal finish and intricate designs. Each lamp is filled with a different colored liquid, creating a vibrant display of blue, green, orange, pink, and yellow hues. The lamps are arranged symmetrically around the central fixture, with the blue lamp prominently positioned in the center. The background is a plain green wall, and the ceiling is painted a warm orange, enhancing the colorful glow of the lamps. The text overlay reads: "Wizard: Why don't you just cast a permanent spell on an object for light in your workshop? Artificer: You're so pedestrian."

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in reply to but you can call me the fediverse squick

apparently this pic is likely AI elimparcial.com/locurioso/2024…

anyway i think someone needs to shoot up a cybertruck, for uhhhhh safety research purposes



I grew up in Ohio, in school we learned next to nothing about the ancient people of the region and I know more about earthworks like this in the UK than I do about the one that was not that far from where I lived. That is to some degree by design. So, I'm delighted that Milo choose this topic.

Also, we were shown (fake) "shrunken heads" as part of our unit on the early americas on a *school* field trip (which makes it sound like I grew up in the 1880s not the 1980s)

youtube.com/watch?v=HaKrSgBkFH…

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in reply to myrmepropagandist

My mom was a teacher back when they had more leeway regarding their own curriculum, and was responsible for teaching about American Indians, so did teach about the Mound Builders and took me to see the earthworks, which was pretty cool.
in reply to myrmepropagandist

I grew up on the outskirts of the core area of the Hopewell culture (Cincinnati metro) and have been to Newark a few times.

I was fortunate to have a 6th grade teacher during the late 1980s who taught us about indigenous culture throughout the continent, took us to local indigenous sites, and corrected the received cultural and historical inaccuracies. She was easily the most kind and impactful teacher I've had and was a clear exception on this topic from that time period.

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Republikaner in Minnesota wollen "Trump Derangement Syndrome" offiziell als psychische Erkrankung einstufen lassen. Kritiker sehen darin den Versuch, politische Opposition zu diskreditieren. t-online.de/nachrichten/auslan…


Bald im Bundestag: Starbucks Lounge, Maggi-Ministeriumssuppen und KitKat-Pausenriegel für ermüdende Haushaltsdebatten. Wasser von Vittel – garantiert aus nachhaltig entleerten Quellen – wird dann auf Kosten der Steuerzahlenden direkt ins Plenum geliefert. Demokratie geht eben durch den Magen.

n-tv.de/politik/Unionsfraktion…



Drezner's World has never published anything not written by the hard-working staff. Until now. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/g…



This MAGA woman is running for Congress in Texas District 31. The #TrumpMusk regime & especially, Border Czar Homan, likely support Valentina Gomez, & the photo she's shared, which clearly indicates her death wish for undocumented immigrants.

I apologize for posting this disturbing photo from X (VG: 408K X followers), but I believe Americans need to understand the threat that Republican leaders pose.

#DeathThreats #GOPDeathCult #MAGA #Republicans #Coup #Deportations #Immigrants #Resist #USPol

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Newly announced Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney visiting Paris instead of Washington on his first state visit, is really symptomatic for the US decline on the world stage.


✅ 90 % der Besitzer sind mit ihrer #Wärmepumpe zufrieden, so eine Umfrage des Bundesverbands Wärmepumpe.

Mehr als die Hälfte der Haushalte musste beim Einbau kaum oder gar keine Änderungen vornehmen.

16 % nutzten die Gelegenheit, einzelne #Fenster zu tauschen, während jeder Vierte sein Haus umfassend sanierte.

n-tv.de/wirtschaft/90-Prozent-…

#Energieeffizienz #Heizung #Sanierung #Wärmewende #Gebäudetechnik



Und wieder reißt der Verkehr die Klimaziele. Das UBA hat mit dem Wirtschaftsministerium die aktuelle Klimabilanz veröffentlicht: die Treibhausgasemissionen sind um 3,4 Prozent gesunken, die Klimaziele werden eingehalten. Doch der Verkehrssektor hinkt weiter deutlich hinterher.

Wir brauchen endlich echte Veränderungen: Mehr Bus & Bahn, sichere Radwege und eine klare Strategie für nachhaltige Mobilität. 🌍🚲🚆
Als wirksame Sofortmaßnahme fordern wir ein Tempolimit!

#Tempolimit #Verkehrswende



Ever worried about other users on your Linux server seeing what processes are running? The `hidepid` kernel feature is your friend! It makes processes invisible to anyone but the owner and root user, even in system monitoring tools like ps, top, htop, and btop. This is a great way to prevent sensitive information (like API keys or passwords used in command-line arguments) from being exposed. See how to configure it cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-hide-p… for more info.

#linux #opensource #security

in reply to nixCraft 🐧

It is safer to never have them on the command line in the first place, but to put them a well secured file.



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


in reply to Jeff Geerling

@geerlingguy it started looking like the latter, but i think I’ve committed to try to make it the former (plus add a power supply adequate for the gpu, cooling for the gpu, and who knows what else). even though i haven’t been able to try to do anything with it yet, at least i know the gpu is recognized on the pi5!

in reply to Randahl Fink

Went "short" for a small amount at ~249 USD. Does this count as beating capitalism with its own weapons?


Lol, I replied to this with a link to the Scientific American "sex is a spectrum" chart and they deleted the toot.



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

Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-ex…



Museums have tons of data, and #AI could make it more accessible − but standardizing and organizing it across fields won’t be easy buff.ly/pjLPTnL
#ai


It will take everything we have to get him out of power and years to rebuild trust and the rule of law afterwards. This is what we mean when we say elections have consequences.
in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

Sir, how long after 1945 did it take America to rebuild your trust?

Asking for 40 million friends.



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.

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in reply to Jenniferplusplus

That is rich.

If there is a CDN, then the CDN can collect the creds and leak them later.

It is Security Theatre.




5 Jahre nach Corona: Die Pandemie hat 🇩🇪verändert. Sie beeinflusste die Arbeitswelt, veränderte die Verteilung von Sorgearbeit, verstärkte soziale Ungleichheit & prägte berufliche Perspektiven junger Menschen. Auch die politische Stimmung bleibt spürbar. boeckler.de/de/boeckler-impuls…



Officials in Nashville are a vote away from passing limited “guardrails” on police use of a system of connected cameras. But the only true protection from the improper use of the AI-enabled camera networks is to not use them at all. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/guar…


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…

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“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
cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.668…



Dejected Schumer Superfan Can’t Believe He Dropped $10,000 On VIP Party Package
theonion.com/dejected-schumer-…


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



Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney starts his term by ignoring the US, not giving any air to the fascist felon, and instead heading to Europe.

I love this so much.

Prime Minster Carney understand the assignment.

#Canada #TradeWar #Tariffs #ElbowsUp #Never51

open.substack.com/pub/deanblun…

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Important context -

“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

open.substack.com/pub/deanblun…



If you believe Donald Trump personally signed 1,500 pardons for J6 insurrectionists then I have an autopen to sell you.


I rarely tell people to throw their devices into the sea, but you should throw your Amazon Echo into the sea.

wired.com/story/everything-you…

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in reply to evacide

I routinely find my Alexa with the blue light on for an extended period of time. It's just piping my audio out to who knows where or for what reason. This is literally the nail in the coffin.
in reply to evacide

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.
😀




Progress on box lid, old hinges removed with an angle grinder. Lots of holes drilled and the metal "fine tuned" with a hammer to fit.
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in reply to Workshopshed

Once I'm happy with everything, will pop rivet it all in place.
in reply to Workshopshed

pop riveting is fun in a way that will make you even happier 👍

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!