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#tesla board members and executive sell more than $100 million in stock.

Like rats on a sinking ship.

abcnews.go.com/Business/tesla-…




We just added more than 200 new items to the Atlas of Surveillance, with technologies like gunshot detection and camera registries in Pennsylvania, Texas, and Georgia. atlasofsurveillance.org/


-- Lanzamiento de Protege mi DNI --

Tras varias semanas desde el primer prototipo, creo que ya ha llegado la hora de decir públicamente que protegemidni.es/ está listo para usarse.

La idea es que si os piden en algún sitio el DNI, aquí podéis ocultar en un momento los datos privados y añadir un texto indicando porqué lo compartís.

Tus datos están seguros ya que solo se procesan en tu navegador, y si es preciso te puedes descargar el código desde GitHub.

#ProteccionDNI



What happens if you put your Echo in a soundproof box along with a couple of Furbies? Prime them by saying "Alexa …" then close the lid and walk away.
hachyderm.io/@evacide/11417934…


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…


in reply to Charlie Stross

I wonder what happens if you play Disney movies at it in a sound proof box. Any one listening to the recordings wouldn't have a license...
in reply to Emily_S

I am phreaking in a room different from the one you are in now.


in reply to Kristin Scearce

ancient Egyptian is a lot like Japanese, where it has different alphabets/character uses for foreign words. It’s also like Arabic where some vowels are implied when written.


Google didn't put a Linux terminal app in Android to let you run a full-blown Linux desktop. But it won't stop you from installing one. Instead the idea is to allow more Linux apps, utilities, and games to run on Android. #Linux #Android androidauthority.com/android-l…


It's not Dungeon Crawl wages but still worth rolling initiative for...

#DnD #Dndmemes #funny #TTRPG #TTRPGMemes #DungeonsandDragons

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The image features a meme with a text-based joke. At the top, there is a caption that reads: "DM: The landlord refuses to pay you for your day labor side work. Barbarian with a construction workers background rolling a Nat 20 on intimidation." Below this, there is a yellow background with black text that reads: "Whats red and bad for your teeth? A brick. Now, shut the fuck up and pay me my 2 silver pieces." The bottom part of the image shows a cartoon illustration of a person wearing a construction helmet with horns, pointing with their right hand. The person is dressed in a white shirt and black tie, and the background is a solid yellow color. The overall style of the image is simple and humorous, with a focus on the text and the character's expression.

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Despite controlling the White House and Congress, Republicans' slim majority made passing a 6-month spending bill tough. A political scientist explains why unified government doesn’t ensure easy wins: theconversation.com/why-was-it… #politics




Sometimes, Ofcom bewilders me:

Ofcom has said that for small sites, the costs of complying [with the Online Safety Act] “are likely to be negligible or in the small thousands at most”.


Small sites, especially volunteer-run community sites, generally don't have "small thousands" to spend on legal advice. And even if they did, that's far from "negligible".

archive.ph/eRu0m

#OnlineSafetyAct

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Como di a Ministra de Sanidade, Mónica García:

"Que empresas pressionem aos oncólogos privados para não prescreverem determinados tratamentos não é assistência médica, é negócio.
É por isso que defendemos um sistema de saúde pública em que os médicos tomam decisões com base em evidências científicas, não em benefícios económicos. A saúde não se negocia."

eldiario.es/sociedad/oncologos…



I'm celebrating my 50th year of using UNIX!

Sometime in spring of '75, my friend Peter (sysadmin for the PDP-11/45) came around shouting "UNIX is Here! UNIX is Here!"

I asked "What's a UNIX?" and he showed me the 1974 CACM article about UNIX.

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Alright... let's test out this Food Rescue coordination software....

Rootable: rootable.org/
Source Code: gitlab.com/food-rescue-allianc…
FRA: boulderfoodrescue.org/food-res…

I reached out to FRA and spoke with them about joining their alliance. They send me creds and a test server to check out their web app for coordinating food rescue. They have a second meeting with my entire group at our next in-person meeting.

So far, I love their ethos and their approach.

I'm going to go test the software and reply to this post on my thoughts.

Thread: 1/2

#foodRescue #FRA #mutualAid #solarPunk

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I love the licence. Anticapitalist, antigovt or antiprofit copyleft !
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mastodon - Link to source
Tinker ☀️

@leo - Calm your toes... I'm not lying about it and they havent claimed it. And they have like no marketing at all and dont bring in hardly any money either. Its just a mutual aid org that gives free access to their app.

I should have said "source available." Cause it is. You can look at the source. Damn. Apologies.

Who pissed in your cornflakes this morning?

@Leo


Turkish university annuls Erdogan rival's degree, preventing run for president

reuters.com/world/asia-pacific…

This is what democracy looks like when there’s no democracy.

#turkey #erdogan #imamoglu #democracy #fascism

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I am loving that things are finally moving to make European countries less dependent on US software (especially cloud providers), but I am disappointed that there isn't more of a focus on open source software.

There are several government programs within EU counties to fund the development of open source software. We need WAY more of that, coordinated at the EU level.

The best way to avoid being beholden to big tech is to fund viable open source alternatives.

reuters.com/world/europe/dutch…

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OMG

Yesterday, a #Republican state lawmaker in #Minnesota named #JustinEichorn introduced a new bill he coauthored to legally define "Trump Derangement Syndrome" as a "mental illness" in the state.

Later in the day, he was arrested. For what, you ask?

via @bulwarkonline’s Adam Keiper

#criminal #law #MAGA #Republicans #Trump #pedophile #SexOffender #StatutoryRape
minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/…

in reply to Nonilex

“As a 40-year-old man, if you come … looking to have sex with someone’s child, you can expect that we are going to lock you up,” Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said in the release. “I have always advocated stiffer penalties for these types of offenses … We need our state Legislature to take this case & this type of conduct more seriously.”

#Minnesota #JustinEichorn #criminal #law #MAGA #Republicans #Trump #pedophile #SexOffender #StatutoryRape #SolicitingAMinor

in reply to Nonilex

…In 2021 #JustinEichorn objected to a bill requiring #Minnesota schools to teach about sexual #orientation & #gender #identity, saying “before you know it, they’ll be reading kids ‘50 Shades of Grey.’ This discussion is better had at a more mature age.”

…Eichorn also co-authored a bill to classify “Trump Derangement Syndrome” as a mental illness.

#criminal #law #MAGA #Republicans #Trump #pedophile #SexOffender #StatutoryRape #SolicitingAMinor


in reply to Frankie ✅

She probably had to endure some of the worst poetry in the universe on top of all of that.



Rather than lower rates, Arkansas jail simply cancels all inmate phone calls
One angry sheriff takes on the FCC.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

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A Foot Pedal To Supplement Your Keyboard

hackaday.com/2025/03/18/a-foot…



Putin needs Trump's help to stop Ukraine's strikes on Russian oil infrastructure because its interfering with raising money for the war, but in a way that allows Russian missiles to continue pouring onto Ukrainian families.

That's what this proposal is.





FDA staff return to crowded offices, broken equipment and missing chairs | AP News apnews.com/article/fda-return-…


94% Won't Buy A Tesla!

A survey of over 100,000 Germans revealed that 94% won’t buy a Tesla vehicle.

It doesn’t bode well for the automaker, whose sales had already been falling off a cliff in the important European market.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Musk #socialmedia #Tesla #SpaceX #DOGE #Germany

electrek.co/2025/03/14/tesla-i…



"The so-called truce was a political manoeuvre, a pause that allowed Israel to reset the clock on its war while maintaining the core elements of its siege and occupation. Israel continued its war on Gaza through an ongoing choking blockade, aerial attacks, and the killing and abuse of Palestinian prisoners. In the West Bank a parallel war rages on, with Israeli forces raiding Palestinian homes, carrying out assassinations and detaining people in the thousands."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza

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I figured out a minimal pattern for building a completely custom website using GitHub Actions and deploying the result to GitHub Pages, so I wrote it up as a TIL til.simonwillison.net/github-a…
in reply to Simon Willison

Puzzled by the deploy step. It looks like the environment setup needs output from deploy step, which hasn't happened yet. I'm not finding anything in the github docs that explains how that might work.
in reply to Dave W Smith

@dws yeah I don't fully understand that bit - the YAML od nested such that the step does at least run before that is executed but I don't know why it's needed

in reply to geekysteven

It's a little thing, but I always appreciate the reveal at the end of The Cage that the stationary emplacement-mounted laser cannon they tried to use not only worked, but took the top off the hill the elevator was mounted in.

(... also, there's a piece of Trek apocrypha I don't think anyone's ever brought back. Lower Decks never got a chance to show off the Big Dumb Laser Cannon, did they?)



#BBCNews - Poland and Baltics to quit landmine treaty over Russia fears
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjryp1…
#UkraineWar




The sicko leading the sick. 🤦🏻‍♀️

“ #RFKJr. has suggested allowing #BirdFlu to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Veterinary scientists said that would be inhumane, dangerous and have enormous economic consequences.”
nytimes.com/2025/03/18/health/…



#ETTD Republicans just keep doing this kind of thing.

Via Rupar:

"MN state Sen. Justin Eichorn allegedly arranged to meet someone he thought was a teenage girl for sex and instead was arrested by police ... One of Eichorn’s recent official acts was being among 5 Republicans who are seeking to dub 'Trump derangement syndrome' as an official mental illness" startribune.com/justin-eichorn…

#ETTD


This so funny on several levels: The #CJEU just used the #GDPR to protect the #gender identity of a #trans #refugee in #Hungary. tgeu.org/data-protection-is-hu… #EUdataP


At first glance, the specimens in Mandy Barker's images appear like a fragment of a leaf or a scatter of organic material, but upon closer inspection, they reveal details of unraveled polyester or scraps of nylon tights.

thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/man…

#art

#art