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*Silk Typhoon indicted by the US, and, probably enjoying a good laugh at the state of Trumpistan cybersecurity

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Justice Department Charges 12 Chinese Contract Hackers and Law Enforcement Officers in Global Computer Intrusion Campaigns

The Justice Department, FBI, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and Departments of State and the Treasury announced today their coordinated efforts to disrupt and deter the malicious cyber activities of 12 Chinese nationals, including two officers…
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"The new record to beat? Well, that was just taken on 10 January by American gamer and speedrunner Niftski, who zipped through the game in a shocking 4 min and 54.565 sec and collected the title for fastest completion of Super Mario Bros."
#weirdnews #weird #offbeat #odd #news guinnessworldrecords.com/news/…

American gamer beats Super Mario Bros in just 4 min 54 sec during spectacular speedrun

Niftski, a speedrun gamer from the US, shares with Guinness World Records how he was able to beat the iconic game in under 5 minutes!
Katherine Gross (Guinness World Records)
#news #weird #weirdnews #offbeat #odd
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Come work with me!

#Monterey #MontereyBayAquarium #Security #GetFediHired #Jobs #Hiring

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#security #getfedihired #hiring #jobs #monterey #montereybayaquarium

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Reminder that you’re allowed to still have fun even when things are bad. Doing so doesn’t mean you’re ignoring reality.

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We're going to be talking to OpenMV (openmv.io/) on the show. They have small cameras for $80-150 US. They are programmed in MicroPython and have enough processing power to to do some AI and drive motors (or lights).

What would you use such a camera for?

Extremely silly answers only.


Small - Affordable - Expandable

The OpenMV project is about creating low-cost, extensible, Python powered, machine vision modules and aims at becoming the “Arduino of Machine Vision“.
OpenMV

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This is actually a serious answer, sorry. In animal rescue, semi-feral kittens are hard to live-trap. So I want a live trap with a camera and image processing to detect kittens, then activate the livetrap with a motor or solenoid when a maximum number of kittens is inside.
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If it can capture into a buffer and dump on a trigger I’d love it to catch our cavies when they get the zoomies. Easier job: letting us know when lizards are warming up on the driveway.

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Some horses are willing to take you wherever you want to go - but at the price of your soul!

#Austria #folktale #folklore #horse @austria @folklore
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German folk tale "The Pale Horse from the Grundlos Lake". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!
#folklore #austria #horse #folktale @folklore group @austria group

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14 March 1927 | A Czech Jew. Hanuš Brod. was born.

On 27 July 1942 he and his mother Olga were imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto, and on 15 December 1943 they were deported to #Auschwitz. They did not survive.

Vintage portrait of a young boy with a serious expression, featuring a signature at the bottom.
Black and white portrait of a woman with hair styled in waves, wearing a high-collared blouse and a detailed top, looking directly at the camera.
#auschwitz

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Elon Musk sets world record with worst loss of fortune in history - CBS News

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Elon Musk sets world record with worst loss of fortune in history

Musk has lost about $182 billion of his net worth since November 2021, according to Forbes – but that number may be greater.
Caitlin O'Kane (CBS News)

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'Doesn't make any sense': Mahmoud Khalil's lawyer on govt. efforts to deport him
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5327110/mahmoud-khalil-attorney?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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“Every American should be chilled to the core by the overwhelming display of constitutionally protected speech we found on this deviant’s computer and phone,” Kash Patel said as he stood before a table covered in countless hard drives, folders, and documents that he described as “disturbing evidence” of America’s most inalienable and foundational right being put into practice.
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Feds Uncover Terabytes Of Free Speech During Raid Of Protestor’s Residence

WASHINGTON—Following a daring operation that saw authorities seize the man’s property and detain him in an undisclosed location, FBI director Kash Patel announced Thursday that federal agents had uncovered 43 terabytes of free speech from local prote…
The Onion Staff (The Onion)

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Went to the community garden with the kids to do some annual maintenance and help install some accessible raised gardens.

These are high enough that you can plant without stooping so low to the ground. It also allows wheelchair users to roll up to them and plant without having to get out of their chair.

#solarPunk #mutualAid #communityGarden #gardening

One kid is inside the accessible raised bed while another is outside it. they work together to tighten bolts.
Two kids and one adult work together to paint a work shed.
A whole group of folks work together to build multiple accessible raised beds for the community garden.
#solarpunk #CommunityGarden #gardening #mutualaid
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En Q Flac
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gotta say, i love your use of emojis in pictures both to censor people's faces but also to convey emotion.

Good work!

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*French university offering asylum to persecuted American scientists

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Safe Place For Science : Aix Marseille Université prête à accueillir les scientifiques américains | Aix Marseille Université

Dans un contexte où certains scientifiques aux États-Unis peuvent se sentir menacés ou entravés dans leurs recherches, notre université annonce mettre en place le programme Safe Place For Science dédié à l’accueil des scientifiques souhaitant poursui…
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EWAN
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And the casual citizen gets ... what? Nothing good. Let's band together to survive and rebuild.

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Dana Scully from the X-Files saying "That's impossible, Mulder" second panel is the grandfather from the Princess Bride telling the kid "What Mulder didn't realize was that every time Scully said "that's impossible, Mulder" what she meant was "that's fucking impossible Mulder""

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2nd Gen Chromecast Suddenly Expire! Expect more of this in the future.. youtube.com/watch?v=UdrOjseNgW…

2nd Gen Chromecast Suddenly Expire! Expect more of this in the future..

See retro reviews of Chromecasts here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCZHp4d1HnIuWRJI1kkEC8dPlRzQfaD7K - 2nd generation Chromecasts all stopped work...
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Suggestion: Test Android competitors to ipad mini (8" or so) -- there has to be something out there that's acceptable and much cheaper, no?

Google's abandonment of the Nexus 7 -- best small tablet ever -- continues to amaze me...

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Looks like my Chromecast Audio got an OTA update or something today while I was at work - it's working like it used to.

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We know the news cycle is nonstop and confusing.

Conversation makes things easier to navigate by bringing you expert knowledge to help you distinguish fact from fiction.

Right now, with any donation, you’ll receive a free e-book featuring articles on #AI to help you do just that. buff.ly/TjqPizR

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An independent source of news, views and ideas, sourced from the academic and research community and delivered direct to readers. Our work is fueled by the generous contributions of people like you.
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Anti Tesla protest at the Lyndhurst Ohio Tesla dealership on Saturday, March 15th from 12:30pm-2pm! 5180 Mayfield Rd, Lyndhurst OH 44124
#protest #ohio #cleveland #akron #50501movement #activism #tesla #teslatakedown #resist
A poster with the details above
#resist #Tesla #protest #cleveland #activism #50501movement #teslatakedown #ohio #akron

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now that kiki - my super lo-fi wiki/blog/website software - is running pretty darn smoothly, i'd like to think about adding support for weird protocols

telnettable bbs with menuing? gopherspace? gemini?

#smallWeb #smolWeb #php #bbs #gopher #gemini

The interface for Globaltalk.network, which looks and acts like a wiki in macintosh system 6 styling.
#gemini #SmallWeb #BBS #php #smolweb #gopher
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Illegal mining reaches Venezuela's famed Angel Falls, threatens treasured national park

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#news #Venezuela #mining #angelfalls


Illegal mining reaches Venezuela's famed Angel Falls, threatens treasured national park

Deep in the Amazon, Canaima National Park in Venezuela is a green wonderland. Home to Angel Falls, the tallest uninterrupted waterfall in the world at more than 3,200 feet, it serves as a source of national pride, a showcase of the country's uniquene…
Antonio Maria Delgado (Phys.org)
#news #venezuela #mining #angelfalls

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Wonder how easy it would be to add Gaussian Splat 3D models to @openstreetmap ?

I couldn't see an obvious option in @MapComplete 😄

@OpenStreetMap @MapComplete
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There's a TSA agent somewhere selling the body scans of minor celebrities going through TSA millimeter wave machines.
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@mhoye as long as they release them under an open licence 😆
@mhoye

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BritCSS: Write CSS With British English Spellings

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BritCSS: Write CSS With British English Spellings

Everyone knows that there is only one proper English, with the rest being mere derivatives that bastardize the spelling and grammar. Despite this, the hoodlums who staged a violent uprising against…
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#images #diy #woodworking
#diy #images #woodworking

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I feel betrayed.
Although advertised as a real game show, Jeopardy is actually scripted.

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They even use the same one script for every show. You'd think people would have noticed.

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Democratic Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva of Arizona dies at 77
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Help keep quality journalism limping along.
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The Onion Logo T-Shirt

This t-shirt is everything you've dreamed of and more. It feels soft and lightweight, with the right amount of stretch. It's comfortable and flattering for all.
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Unable to visit playgrounds during quarantine, a family found joy in trainspotting
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👾 Super (Chill) Mario Multi Part • 3D files
➡️ Download 3D print model: cults3d.com/:2811129
💡 Designed by PLA-N-PA

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Instead of F-35, Portugal turns to Europe in search of new fighter

The change in the United States government’s policy towards NATO has prompted the Portuguese Defense Minister to consider an agreement unlikely
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking

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Instead of F-35, Portugal turns to Europe in search of new fighter - Air Data News

The Portuguese Air Force is no longer expected to acquire the 5th generation F-35 fighter from Lockheed Martin, all due to the review of the US position
Ricardo Meier (Air Data News)
#news #uspolitics #uspol #politics #trump #press #aurefreepress #headline #gop #breakingnews #Breaking

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UMass disbands its entering biomed graduate class over Trump funding chaos
Schools across the country are cutting back as US research takes "severe blow."
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UMass disbands its entering biomed graduate class over Trump funding chaos

Schools across the country are cutting back as US research takes “severe blow.”…
Beth Mole (Ars Technica)

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In 'Long Bright River,' Amanda Seyfried achieves lifelong dream of playing a cop
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Can the Trump administration legally deport Palestinian rights advocate Mahmoud Khalil? Criminal law professor Gabriel J. Chi shares 3 things to know about green card holders’ rights: theconversation.com/can-the-tr… #immigration #deportation

Can the Trump administration legally deport Palestinian rights advocate Mahmoud Khalil? 3 things to know about green card holders’ rights

Lawful permanent residents hold many of the same rights that US citizens have, but the government can deport them on certain, often vague, security grounds.
The Conversation
#immigration #deportation

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Some congregations are giving up Target for Lent after it rolled back DEI commitments
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It’s Crocus Thursday, right? 🌷

#flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling #Colorado

A vibrant purple crocus flower with orange center blooming in a flower bed, with an unopened purple bud nearby, and a small cluster of cream-colored crocuses blooming in the background. The flower bed has a scattered mix of dried leaves and green shoots of other wildflowers, plus a piece of brown, dried wood behind the flowers adding a nice, decorative touch.
#bloomscrolling #colorado #Flowers #gardening

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Dug into Xata Agent, a new LLM-driven system to help monitor and optimize a PostgreSQL database. It's built around "playbooks", which are prompts that look like this. Building software with LLMs is so weird! simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/13/…
Here's the full text of INVESTIGATE_LOW_MEMORY_PLAYBOOK: Objective: To investigate and resolve low freeable memory in the PostgreSQL database. Step 1: Get the freeable memory metric using the tool getInstanceMetric. Step 3: Get the instance details and compare the freeable memory with the amount of memory available. Step 4: Check the logs for any indications of memory pressure or out of memory errors. If there are, make sure to report that to the user. Also this would mean that the situation is critical. Step 4: Check active queries. Use the tool getConnectionsGroups to get the currently active queries. If a user or application stands out for doing a lot of work, record that to indicate to the user. Step 5: Check the work_mem setting and shared_buffers setting. Think if it would make sense to reduce these in order to free up memory. Step 6: If there is no clear root cause for using memory, suggest to the user to scale up the Postgres instance. Recommend a particular instance class.

Xata Agent

Xata are a hosted PostgreSQL company who also develop the open source [pgroll](https://github.com/xataio/pgroll) and [pgstream](https://github.com/xataio/pgstream) schema migration tools.
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No step 2? Is the LLM supposed to figure out that step and insert it?
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It's interesting how the steps get more fuzzy later in the playbook; 1,3,4a are fairly defined things to do, 4b has things like 'stands out' which requires some 'thought' and 5 has the 'Think if it makes sense..'

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Fucking nightmare material.
Marco Rubio with a huge ash cross on his forehead, looking like some cultist from a dystopian post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie.
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Wasn't the terrible pilot of an American version of Red Dwarf in the 90s enough punishment already? Do we really deserve this as well?

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► FunHouseRadio.com
Like this #meme? Try the #stream!

FunHouse Radio

Novelty Records, Parodies, Weird Covers, Outsider Music, Oddities, Mashups, Comedy, Nonsense & Cringe.
FunHouse Radio
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Grabbed a free physical copy of this, both because it's rare to see physical copies mission concepts these days, and because of that title (I mean C'MON!).
KISS Study "The Mysterious Interior of Uranus"

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US pol, data/operational security recommendation

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Putin says he has questions about the ceasefire with Ukraine
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The singularity must be coming, AI is now able to reproduce elementary functionality from a 1990s PalmPilot.

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ChatGPT can now handle reminders and to-dos

OpenAI’s latest feature lets Plus users schedule reminders, daily updates, and recurring tasks.
Kylie Robison (The Verge)
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