New Privacy Guides article ๐โจ
by me:
If you want to keep your password manager local-only, KeePassXC is a great solution!
It's free,
Open-source,
Easy to install and use,
Doesn't require an account,
Works on Linux, macOS, and Windows,
And the team is here! ๐@keepassxc
Here's how to set it up with a YubiKey: privacyguides.org/articles/202โฆ
#PrivacyGuides #KeePassXC #Privacy #Security #PasswordManager #Passwords #FOSS
KeePassXC + YubiKey: How to set up a local-only password manager
This tutorial demonstrates how to install the local-only password manager KeePassXC and secure a password database with YubiKey.Privacy Guides
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Does the U.S. deserve the Statue of Liberty? Not anymore, one French politician says
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5332084/statue-of-liberty-france-return?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trumpโs Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.
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Federal immigration authorities have a history of wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens. Advocates warn that the Trump administrationโs immigration policies mean that more citizens will get caught up in raids and sweeps.
propublica.org/article/more-amโฆ
#News #Trump #Immigration #ICE #Migrants #Immigrants #Detention #History
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Stone House (with Couch), Harvard, CA, 2010.
All the pixels, cozy and perfect for weekend getaways, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/46โฆ
Stone House (Harvard, California)
15 May 2010. Near Harvard, CA (Mojave Desert). Nikkor 24mm/3.5 PC-E lens (@ f/9), Nikon D3x camera (@ ISO 100). No emulsions were harmed in the making of this image. 1574Flickr
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I drove through that area last week and I remembered your photo, I thought I spotted the building about 200 yards off to the side of I-15 not far from the Harvard Road exit.
His stick is better than bacon! This Star Wars action figure model was crafted by @Playactiontoys, and I was 3D printing it live on twitch.tv/MakerDeck yesterday.
#starwars #3dprinting #moss #mosstodon #pnw #nature #naturephotography #seattle #tree #toys #photo #photography
Another quotable snippet of clarity from @pluralistic :
ใ The role of this "human in the loop" isn't to prevent errors. That human's is there to be blamed for errors.
In re the "reverse centaur" AI sales pitch:
"The role of this 'human in the loop' isn't to prevent errors. That [human] is there to be blamed for errors โฆ The human is there to be a 'moral crumple zone' โฆ The human is there to be an 'accountability sink'" . โ @pluralistic
Ho shit, illegal abduction, detention, interogation, are coming in the US, way less fun than bread DRM @pluralistic
chicago.suntimes.com/immigratiโฆ
Suburban Chicago family pleads for ICE to release dad, a local business owner
Abel Orozco Ortega was among 22 people from the Chicago area whose arrests by federal immigration agents violate a federal settlement, according to attorneys with the National Immigrant Justice Center and ACLU of Illinois.Elvia Malagรณn (Chicago Sun-Times)
The role of this "human in the loop" isn't to prevent errors. That human's is there to be *blamed* for errors
The human is there to be a "moral crumple zone"
The human is there to be an "accountability sink"
- @pluralistic
#Enshitification #AISlop #USPolitics
pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/asbโฆ
This is good. Very good. Worth reading.
thecrimson.com/article/2025/3/โฆ
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First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.www.thecrimson.com
Iโm not a fan of Harvard as an institution. Certain โขpeopleโข at Harvard, yes, for sure. The institution, as a public institution, serving the systemic purpose it serves in practice? Eh.
BUTโฆif thereโs any good at all in having a school position itself as a luxury brand that kisses the feet of the ultra-ultra-wealthy so that it may itself may accumulate the wealth and power of a small nation-state, itโs in having a school so self-sufficient and so independent that it can, in times of crisis, take a stand for whatโs right and absorb the damage of being a leader.
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Or, as The Crimson puts it:
โHarvardโs failure to speak out discourages other, more vulnerable universities from taking action, which undermines our collective defenses. If Columbia or another university confronts the administration on its own, it will lose. If Americaโs nearly 6,000 universities and colleges launch a campaign in defense of higher education, odds are that Trump will lose.
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Someone must lead this collective effort. And if Harvard and other leading universities remain in their protective shells, there is a good chance that no one will.โ
They go on to make a strong argument about ceding the public battle via silence. (They say โdebateโ instead of โbattle,โ which puts them ~5 months behind events, but I imagine theyโre speaking the language they can stomach and that their audience can hear. We meet people where theyโre at.)
Worth a read.
/end
thecrimson.com/article/2025/3/โฆ
First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.www.thecrimson.com
Thatโs well said. And furthermore, unlike even most wealthy private colleges, they donโt actually strictly need tuition or donors โขat allโข. They could trim some of their expensive growth plays and basically exist forever on their endowment and nothing else until the collapse of civilization.
Putting it more succinctly:
What is Harvard โขforโข, if not total institutional independence?
What moment calls for exercising that independence, if not this one?
They also did this, recently;
theguardian.com/education/2025โฆ
Harvard offers free tuition to students from families earning under $200,000
Ivy League school is latest US university to make step with aim to make it affordable to โmore students than everโMarina Dunbar (The Guardian)
Fair fair, and sorry that you hit my little tripwire! And it really โขisโข a good thing that they provide financial aid to the people who get it, donโt get me wrong. Itโs just a thing that pushes one of my buttons, given the history and context.
Harvards is probably worried about the Trump regimeโs proposal to tax university endowments.
Someone said itโs an investment company with a university attached. Their endowment is mindblowing.
Iโm really proud of Berkeley for speaking up.
Researchers created sound that can bend itself through space, reaching only your ear in a crowd
By combining ultrasound with a concept called nonlinear acoustics, you can create sound that stays silent until it reaches a specific location.The Conversation
18 March 1898 | A German Jewish woman, Edith Mรผller, was born in Berlin. She lived in Paris.
She arrived at #Auschwitz on 30 October 1943 in a transport of 1000 Jews from Drancy. She did not survive.
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A police officer investigates her own sister's disappearance in 'Long Bright River'
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5331883/long-bright-river-review-liz-moore-amanda-seyfried?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Weird things you can find on Autoplius: A Bandvagn 202. For some reason there's two of them in Paneveลพys.
en.autoplius.lt/ads/kita-volvoโฆ
It's an amphibious, tracked transporter made by Volvo for the Swedish army.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandvagnโฆ
#WeirdCarMastodon #Autoplius #Amphibious
@Maker_of_Things I don't think he ever explained it.
It's because the tractors from that factory were nicknamed "Stalinets".
From Wikipedia: Stalinets translates literally to English as "Stalinist"; however, in Russian, the name is a play on words as stal means "steel".)
So it's a Stalin but on first name basis ๐
Ahhh, that makes sense.
Thank you.
I just found the video where he buys Joseph.
youtu.be/0u8v9Pnh2yQ
Buying a soviet bulldozer
Hey everyone, in this week's video we introduce a new member to the equipment family. A 1989 soviet bulldozer T-170 (joss). Will be checking it out, looking ...YouTube
Apple Loses Appeal Against German Regulatory Controls
Apple on Tuesday lost its appeal in Germany's Federal Court of Justice against a regulatory assessment that subjects the company to heightened...Tim Hardwick (MacRumors.com)
โI don't care what the judges think. I don't care what the Left thinks. We're comingโ
โ No, not some historic Nazi, just White House border czar Tom Homan
goodmorningamerica.com/Politicโฆ
Via @Bssr4
Trump administration live updates: Trump attacks judge amid court battle over deportation flights
President Donald Trump is ramping up criticism of U.S. District Judge Jeb Boasberg.Kevin Shalvey (Good Morning America)
โThe Musk approach is not something that government should want to go anywhere near associating with itself and I think whoever has been going around briefing about โ'project chainsawโ should be retired from the comms efforts.โ
theguardian.com/politics/2025/โฆ
Blockers, checkers, bats and chainsaws: donโt talk like Musk, Starmer is warned
PM has been urged to โget a gripโ on messaging after railing against the โflabbyโ state and the civil serviceโs โtepid bathโRowena Mason (The Guardian)
Water wizard in unknown lands by Artem Astaroth
#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #ttrpg #character #characterart #art #digitalart
The image depicts a fantasy scene featuring a character standing in the foreground, partially inside a stone archway. The character has pointed ears, suggesting they are an elf, and is dressed in a blue tunic with brown leather armor and a white scarf. They hold a staff with a glowing orb at the top, and their belt is adorned with pouches, one of which contains a purple potion. The character's boots are brown, and they stand on a rocky terrain with scattered stones.
In the background, a large, menacing creature with a skull-like face looms, its features partially obscured by mist. The creature appears to be made of stone or ice, with a gaping mouth and sharp teeth. The landscape is desolate, with mountains visible in the distance, and the sky is overcast, adding to the ominous atmosphere. The artwork is signed "artem_astaroth" in the bottom right corner.
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FACTCHECK: Why Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is wrong about UK's net-zero goal
In which I take a look at the evidence contradicting Badenoch's speech, from the science on the 2050 target to fact gas is causing high electricity prices + much much more
carbonbrief.org/factcheck-why-โฆ
Factcheck: Why Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is wrong about UKโs net-zero goal - Carbon Brief
The leader of the opposition Conservative party, Kemi Badenoch, has shattered the political consensus on climate change in a speech attacking the UKโs net-zero by 2050 target.Simon Evans (Carbon Brief)
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AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality
404media.co/ai-slop-is-a-bruteโฆ
AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality
Generative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
While using the Internet to determine whether lockmaster -- the person who controls a lock on a waterway -- is one word or two (it's one), I stumbled upon this great info piece about going through inland waterway locks (which happens to be what I'm writing about now):
Here's a lock full of kayakers at the Peterborough lift lock in Canada, where they do an annual paddle.
They usually don't put small boats in the locks with the very big ones or with barges. At least that was my observation.
Time to figure out this Mastodon thing. Hi Fediverse, I'm Jaap.
I enjoy connecting to like-minded individuals to discuss technology and any other interesting subject.
Since 2012, people have called me system administrator, network administrator, system engineer, network engineer, network designer and network architect.
Somehow, I've always drifted towards places that operate their own machines, including OT and critical infrastructure.
Tech is not just work but also hobby. Besides that I'm into more tech, audio, sports, books, meeting cool people and everything else.
Currently unable to work and function at all, due to long COVID. The prognosis seems impossible to determine.
Also, meet Kara:
Grickle (@grickle@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image It was a road none of them wanted to be on, but at least they would walk it together. #grickledoodle #lonely #hard #sad #cartoon #art #drawing #funnyMastodon ๐
Ten Years of Let's Encrypt: Announcing support from Jeff Atwood
As we touched on in our first blog post highlighting ten years of Letโs Encrypt: Just as remarkable to us as the technical innovations behind proliferating TLS at scale is, so too is the sustained generosity we have benefited from throughout our firsโฆletsencrypt.org
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Now that it's official, I can announce it - although I may have dropped a few hints earlier! ๐
My talk "Why (and how) weโre migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs" has been accepted, and Iโll be honored to present it in June at BSDCan in Ottawa.
The joy of meeting BSD friends in person again (and those I havenโt had the chance to meet live yet) will be immense, and the honor of sharing my story in Canada is truly beyond measure, especially considering the level of other talks and all the people attending.
Of course, Iโll be bringing various BSD Cafe gadgets with me!
For more information, hereโs @mwl 's post with further details: blog.bsdcan.org/2025/03/18/bsdโฆ
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The US military has cared about climate change since the dawn of the Cold War โ for good reason
During the Cold War, the US poured support into Arctic military outposts and climate research amid fears of a Russian invasion. Climate change is still on the militaryโs radar as a threat multiplier.The Conversation
Let us not forget Musk is a Nazi.
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