Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators (CSS) around the world.Electronic Frontier Foundation
#CoSocialCa is looking for a System Administrator to work with our TechOps working group to maintaining our open social media services.
For more details on this small contract: blog.cosocial.ca/blog/wanted-s…
Please reach out if you are interested!
Wanted: System Administrator - CoSocial Community Cooperative
CoSocial is looking for a System Administrator to work on maintaining our open social media services. This is a small contract with an initial 3 month term.CoSocial Community Cooperative (Cosocial.ca Canadian Mastodon Cooperative)
Hollywood filmmaker charged with defrauding Netflix of $11 million
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5334497/carl-erik-rinsch-netflix-fraud-fbi?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Arts & Life @arts-life-npr
A more elegant weapon etc
*** if a bunch of nerds line up to correct my paraphrase, I will block them all ***
Whenever there's a bicycle part that i really need for a project, it will be nowhere to be found down by the river or on Craigslist. Right now I'm looking for 20" wheels with aluminum rims for the folding bike. I struck out again tonight.
But i did find this chain guard that fits the folding bike almost perfectly. With some small modifications, it will work.
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Musk Set to Get Access to Top-Secret U.S. Plan for Potential War With China nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/poli…
Musk Set to Get Access to Top-Secret U.S. Plan for Potential War With China
Giving Elon Musk access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded military secrets is a major expansion of his role as an adviser to President Trump and highlights his conflicts of interest.Eric Schmitt (The New York Times)
We ran the wrong headline about Trump firing the FTC commissioners
We hedged on whether or not the firings of Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter were illegal. Under existing Supreme Court precedent, they are.Sarah Jeong (The Verge)
True #MafiaState:
#Trump rescinds #ExecutiveOrder targeting Paul, Weiss citing *commitments* from #law firm
After a meeting w/ Brad Karp, the firm’s chairman, in which Karp “acknowledged the wrongdoing” of fmr partner #MarkPomerantz, & agreed to some #QuidProQuo — or at least some #QuidProBono 😉 — was agreed to, Trump withdrew the EO.
“L’état, c’est moi.” – DJT
From @Nonilex: masto.ai/@Nonilex/114197693985…
Nonilex (@Nonilex@masto.ai)
Attached: 1 image NEW The #DOJ is moving to substitute itself for #Trump in the #Jan6 civil litigation against him, swearing in a new court filing that Trump was acting in his official capacity as POTUS [which also would make it subject to his #SCO…Mastodon
WHO WOULD'VE THOUGHT It will come to 👇🏼
🇨🇦Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I am here today to urge Canadians to avoid travel to the United States if at all possible and to call on our government to stand up for our citizens who are being denied their rights through arbitrary detention in the USA 🇺🇸
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Watch All of the Commercials That David Lynch Has Directed: A Big 30-Minute Compilation
openculture.com/2018/07/watch-…
Watch All of the Commercials That David Lynch Has Directed: A Big 30-Minute Compilation
Some filmmakers start in commercials, honing their chops in anticipation of making personal projects later.Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
Why is that? YouTube video is normally available to me.
MAGA Influencer And Fox News Guest Indicted On Child Sex Abuse Charges
huffpost.com/entry/maga-raw-ri…
MAGA Influencer And Fox News Guest Indicted On Child Sex Abuse Charges
The right-wing personality known as Raw Ricci built his following by filming homeless people in San Francisco.Pocharapon Neammanee (HuffPost)
I have pico-mac playing the system beep on an i2s dac (though when @adafruit @ladyada made a build locally, it didn't work for her, hmmmm, I'll get that sorted tomorrow)
in the process, I discovered an interesting problem that might be randomly corrputing a certain 740 bytes of RAM when pico-mac or umac is configured for a non-power-of-two memory size! github.com/evansm7/umac/issues…
the fix seems to be another rom patch:
/* Fix up the sound buffer as used by BootBeep */<br> ROM_WR32(0x292, RAM_SIZE - 768);<br>and is also included in github.com/evansm7/umac/pull/1…
you also avoid the problem if you configure pico-mac for 256kB, 512kB, 1024kB, etc.
#marchintosh #picoMac #umac #rp2 #rp2350
SystemBeep splats memory on memory sizes like 208k · Issue #15 · evansm7/umac
The ROM disassembly I'm following shows that the Mac Plus ROM is just always using the highest possible address for the audio buffer: P_mBootBeep: ; return address in A6 28A 4BF9 00EF E1FE Lea.L (V...GitHub
what a #Marchintosh contribution, nice!
Do you have a guide up for the beep hardware setup? Would like to replicate it as well
GitHub - jepler/pico-mac at rp2350-fruitjam
Run the popular umac emulator right on your Pi Pico! - GitHub - jepler/pico-mac at rp2350-fruitjamGitHub
Here are the standout video games at the Independent Games Festival awards
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5334560/here-are-the-standout-video-games-at-the-independent-games-festival-awards?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Trump administration seeks to starve libraries and museums of funding by shuttering this little-known agency
The consequences of shutting down the Institute of Museum and Library Services would be particularly dire for smaller museums and rural museums.The Conversation
Just one example: bbc.com/news/articles/cly67j35…
Welsh tourist in US chained 'like Hannibal Lecter'
Becky Burke's parents say her legs, waist and hands were secured by US immigration officers.Nelli Bird (BBC News)
"I’ve terminated 11 major contracts in less than three years."
arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/…
The ax has become an important part of the Space Force’s arsenal
“I’ve terminated 11 major contracts in less than three years.”…Stephen Clark (Ars Technica)
Space programs don’t have the same safety requirements that all other programs do since humans are indirectly involved in the use/operation of the resulting products, so claiming they are finding “new” ways to save costs is a fabrication to make them look like they’re saving money that was always being saved.
Would you really want safety requirements loosened for the vehicle you or your family is driven in everyday?
#Blind users, users that rely heavily on #keyboardNavigation or anyone else with a preference on that matter (please indicate what applies in the comments):
Do you have a preference for or comments on the format of URLs? During user research, we have learned that URLs that are easy to handle are a good thing.
We are currently considering to introduce URLs that do not need more reserved usernames in #Forgejo, such as codeberg.org/-/something/ or codeberg.org/_something/.
Writing Fri 21 Mar Nahvalur Schuylkill and Diamine Walnut
Todays tools
Nahvalur Schuylkill <Medium> + Diamine Walnut
#edc #fountainpen #fountainpens #penoftheday #dailypen #NahvalurSchuylkill #Nahvalur #Diamine #DiamineWalnut
21 March 1923 | A Polish Jew, Chaim Perelsztajn, was born in Warsaw. A shoemaker's helper.
In #Auschwitz from 21 April 1942.
No. 31914
He perished in the camp on 4 June 1942.
UK court finds men who stole $6 million gold toilet guilty
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/g-s1-54909/golden-toilet-stolen-cattelan-6-million-convicted?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Over the past couple of years, I've really fallen in love with #tikz and all of its quirks.
TikZ is a plotting/graphics package for LaTeX that is especially useful for creating mathematical diagrams.
The support for mathematical notation is unbeatable and the flexibility of the language is extremely high. Also, graphics rendered to pdf/svg in this way are extremely lightweight and reproducible.
I do find it very challenging syntax to remember though, so I put together this GitHub repository to keep track of tikz code I've written.
github.com/ctesta01/tikz-examp…
Each graphic shown in the README is linked to its underlying .tex code.
Also the README has several links to documentation / tutorials that I've found helpful along with some tips I've learned from experience.
#mathematics #statistics #probability #geometry #graphics #TeXLaTeX
GitHub - ctesta01/tikz-examples: Examples of tikz figures
Examples of tikz figures. Contribute to ctesta01/tikz-examples development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
On March 24, Ukraine will meet with the U.S. in Saudi Arabia, followed by U.S.-Russia talks, Zelensky said. He emphasized that the ceasefire would cover energy and civilian infrastructure, with specific object lists still being prepared.
He reaffirmed that all nuclear power plants belong to Ukraine, stating that while the U.S. can assist with modernization, ownership is not up for discussion.
The EU decides not to confiscate over €200B of frozen Russian assets. Instead, the interest will be used to support Ukraine. Some EU countries argue it's a strategic lever for peace talks and a necessary measure for financial competitiveness.
dw.com/ru/es-ne-budet-konfisko…
ЕС не будет конфисковывать замороженные российские активы
Лидеры стран ЕС решили не конфисковывать активы РФ, замороженные в Евросоюзе. Проценты от этих средств должны идти на поддержку Украины.Ксения Польская (Deutsche Welle)
Not being a lawyer, this appears to be catastrophic for any queer folks living in the 9th Circuit's jurisdiction. I would love to be wrong on that, but this seems to establish several precedents outside the immediate ruling (e.g. that trans students are, in law, the "opposite sex", or that "biological sex" is a thing and a thing that can be identified unambiguously at birth).
If I am wrong in my lay understanding, please let me know in replies, and I'll edit or delete.
erininthemorning.com/p/9th-cir…
9th Circuit Upholds Bathroom Ban, Says Trans Students Violate Cis People's Privacy
The ruling, the first of its kind, asserts that the rights of cisgender people to not have a transgender person in the same bathroom are more important than the equal protection of trans students.Erin Reed (Erin In The Morning)
> Issued by a majority Democratic-appointed panel in the 9th Circuit, it marks the first significant decision in which Democratic-appointed judges have ruled against transgender protections.
Fuck.
"Over Mastodon, one GNOME sysadmin, Bart Piotrowski, kindly shared some numbers to let people fully understand the scope of the problem. According to him, in around two hours and a half they received 81k total requests, and out of those only 3% passed Anubi's proof of work, hinting at 97% of the traffic being bots – an insane number!”
thelibre.news/foss-infrastruct…
FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.Niccolò Venerandi (LibreNews)
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🇳🇴 Norway triples military aid to Ukraine, raising it to $8B.
“This unanimous decision by Parliament will fund artillery, ammunition, drones, and investments in Ukraine’s defense industry,” said PM Jonas Gahr Støre.
He added that Ukraine fights for values that matter to all.
❗️ France & Italy block EU’s €5B ammo aid for Ukraine – Bloomberg. Despite broad support among EU leaders in Brussels, Paris & Rome delay committing funds.
Zelensky urged immediate action, warning Ukraine needs shells “as soon as possible.”
'The Mines' by Tyler Walpole
#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #ttrpg #character #characterart #art #digitalart #dndart
The image depicts a fantasy scene featuring a figure seated on a rocky outcrop, surrounded by a glowing, fiery archway. The figure is dressed in dark, ornate armor with a fur-lined cloak, holding a large sword in their right hand and a smaller sword in their left. The armor is detailed with spikes and straps, and the figure has long, white hair and a stern expression. The background is dominated by a bright, orange glow emanating from the archway, with runes or symbols glowing in orange along the edges. The surrounding environment is dark and rocky, with blue and orange hues suggesting a mystical or otherworldly setting. The figure's posture and the dramatic lighting create a sense of power and authority.
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Excellent Josh Marshall analysis of how the tech oligarch push for unregulated "freedom cities" ties together some of what Trump -- and the DOGE wilding -- are doing
there's long been a push in antigovernment tech circles to have a realm where they can experiment with small nuclear power, anti-aging tech, space launches, etc., without having to worry about externalities of *any* sort
read the whole analysis, it's good: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/t…
The Brave New World of Oligarch Lordships—Apparently They’re AWESOME!
A couple weeks ago, the clarion of digital wrongdoing in the second Trump administration, Wired, published an article entitled ‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
![Photo of a section of a march madness bracket. In pencil: “Joey [heart] AI.”](https://friendica.rogueproject.org/photo/preview/640/301953 "Photo of a section of a march madness bracket. In pencil: “Joey [heart] AI.”")
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