#DigitalSovereignty my ass
"Germany plans to use #surveillance software from #Palantir countrywide."
derstandard.at/consent/tcf/sto…
Deutschland will Spitzel-Software von Palantir flächendeckend einsetzen
Die Polizei soll bundesweit mit den US-Spionageprogrammen ausgestattet werden. Hinter der Firma steckt mit Peter Thiel ein erklärter Gegner der DemokratieDER STANDARD
bbc.com/news/articles/cg7299re…
UK would not hesitate to retaliate against US tariffs - No 10 sources
The UK is in last-minute negotiations with the White House ahead of US tariffs being implemented.Harry Farley (BBC News)
X wants him to sign a confidentiality agreement. Medic refuses, X sues, X loses in court.
Next: X appeals against original demand.
nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/03/27/x-wei…
X weigert Nederlander inzage in zijn persoonsgegevens en verliest kort geding
X, voorheen Twitter, heeft een kort geding verloren tegen Nederlander Danny Mekic. Mekic eiste inzage in de persoonsgegevens die het bedrijf over hem heeft. Consumenten hebben daar recht op volgens de Europese privacywet AVG.Marloes de Koning (NRC)
bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9x0kd…
Israel-Gaza conflict: Ceasefire plan back on table
Hamas reportedly agrees to proposals sent by mediators, while Israel offers its counter-proposal.Sebastian Usher (BBC News)
🔵 NEW: Court documents seen by The Ferret link a Scottish Limited Partnership, registered to a flat in Edinburgh, to a large-scale international ad fraud scheme.
We visited the address and investigated how these partnerships continue to raise concerns over transparency 🧵
What Will You Do? | The Nation
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What Will You Do? | The Nation
What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?The Nation
Die Fragen im Interview wirken
ernüchternd?
naiv?
verharmlosend?
von Unverständnis geprägt?
Die Antworten sind lesenswert.
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Jason Stanley: "Was wir jetzt sehen – das ist Faschismus"
Der Philosophiestar Jason Stanley verlässt die USA, zusammen mit den Historikern Timothy Snyder und Marci Shore. Er sagt: Alle Universitäten haben Angst vor Trump.Dr. Peter Neumann (ZEIT ONLINE)
Chip Glitching 101 with
[Hash]hackaday.com/2025/03/30/chip-g…
Chip Glitching 101 With [Hash]
Ever want to get into reverse engineering but don’t know where to start? You’re in luck — [Hash] just dropped a case study in chip glitching that should get you off on the right f…Hackaday
Let's take a moment to remember the guy who made sure we don't have to change Every Goddamn Clock today, David L. Mills, creator of Network Time Protocol (NTP) who passed last year.
My wristwatch is synced to my phone, which is synced to the internet, which knows that time it is right now thanks to David Mills. Cheers to his memory 🥃
cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/re…
Remembering alum David Mills, who brought the internet into perfect time
Mills created the Network Time Protocol, which enables any device online to know precisely what time it is.Computer Science and Engineering
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Do not build new facilities on the ruins of an old, haunted monastery - unless you are okay with inheriting their ghosts.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @germany @folklore
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Canada Posts Giant Billboards in 10 Red States
The signs read:
“Tariffs Are A Tax On Your Grocery Bill.”
"I drove 300 miles in rural Virginia, then asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car. Here’s what I learned":
cardinalnews.org/2025/03/28/i-…
I drove 300 miles in rural Virginia, then asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car. Here’s what I learned.
Anyone might wonder how often they are caught on police cameras that operate 24/7. I spent a day driving, and over a month trying to get the answer.Jeff Schwaner (Cardinal News)
Please forward to any Maga folk in Texas you know.
Ok, they do not have to live in Texas.
youtube.com/watch?v=VA3NijIUxB…
Trump finally DROPS THE ACT...THREATENS KEY Programs
Texas Paul reacts to the Trump administration's latest threats against Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security as Congress seeks to cut funding for nearly al...YouTube
Mobilidade 🚲
Con una extensión de 3,3 kilómetros y una inversión de 2,4 millones de euros, Santiago estrenó este sábado el nuevo tramo de la senda peatonal y ciclista que discurre entre la Estación Intermodal y el complejo administrativo de San Caetano
aquí a nova completa, para evitar publicade e valados de pago
mapa da ruta
e xa está tamén en @openstreetmap a ruta completa (un dos tramos engadidos onte openstreetmap.org/changeset/16…)
baixades do #tren 🚅 (se puidestes meter a bici) e nun plisplás vas en #bicicleta 🚲 botar a instancia que-hai-de-lo-mio
#Compostela #Ciclovía #Mobilidade #openstreetmap #ciclismo
Changeset: 164227221
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.OpenStreetMap
Gambling with Memes : Up First from NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/30/1241844392/gambling-with-memes-in-the-crypto-market?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Technology @technology-npr
Ne ganze Staffel, wenn es sein müsste, aber ich muss noch ein bisschen vorbereiten. Ist ein ehrgeiziges Programm in Graz 😎
Shoes that belonged to victims of Auschwitz.
The Memorial preserves some 110,000 shoes.
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Auschwitz I. Block 5.
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I distinctly remember seeing this... And the suitcases... And the glasses... And the horrible room with household items/furniture of human skin etc. Good that you show these.
Gebloggt:
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In Tokio wird es alles geben - Buddenbohm & Söhne
Vor der Haustür klebt neue Werbung an einem Stromkasten. Das ist nicht ungewöhnlich, aber auf dem Plakat wird geworben für ein Volksbegehren „Werbefreies Hamburg“.Maximilian Buddenbohm (Buddenbohm & Söhne)
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Twitter (X) Hit by 2.8 Billion Profile Data Leak in Alleged Insider Job
A data breach involving a whopping 2.87 billion Twitter (X) users has surfaced on the infamous hacker and cyber crime platform Breach Forums.Waqas (Hack Read)
"Wisconsin appeals court won’t stop Musk’s $1 million payments to voters after attorney general sues":
apnews.com/article/wisconsin-s…
As I pointed out at the time, Musk certainly can afford enough lawyers who would make sure that his action does not violate at least the letter of the law, no matter how much people dislike it.
Wisconsin judge won't stop Musk's $1 million payments to voters
A Wisconsin appellate court has denied the state Democratic attorney general’s request to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters at a rally planned for Sunday, just two days before a closely contested Supreme Cou…Thomas Beaumont (AP News)
that uses the Pi's #wifi #accesspoint #ap to allow the GUI of #MeshChat to be used on a #smartphone to access the #mesh and #message and send & receive #images #photos on the move using #Reticulum
loramesh.org/subpages/piboxnod…
( loramesh.org )
#rnode #reticulum #meshchat #reticulummeshchat
loramesh.org/subpages/piboxnod…
Battery USB-A socket -to- USB-A male plug of USB-A to USB-C male cable --to -- USB-C female of right-angle USB-C female to USB-A micro male adapter --to-- USB-A micro Pi power input socket.
International academics using burner phones and laptops that are basically just browsers when entering the US…EU countries setting up fellowships to help US academics escape.
When the most intelligent folk on the planet start acting like this…you know it’s not a practice drill.
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…
When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed
US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees. Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuaryJohn Naughton (The Guardian)
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Segera baca di e-komik.org/komik/443822
#EKomik #Komik #Comic #Manga #Fantasy #Isekai #SliceOfLife
Manga Nekomimi Shoujo wa Mori de Slow Life wo Okuritai: Mofumofu wa Shomou Shimashita ga, Seijo to ka Ouji-sama to ka wa Chuumongai desu - E-Komik Gallery
Manga Nekomimi Shoujo wa Mori de Slow Life wo Okuritai: Mofumofu wa Shomou Shimashita ga, Seijo to ka Ouji-sama to ka wa Chuumongai desu (The Cat-Eared Girl Wants to Live a Slow Life in the Forest: I Wanted Something Fluffy, but I Didn't Ask for a Sa…E-Komik (E-Komik Gallery)
Trump is now directly firing career federal prosecutors who are investigating people who have donated money to his campaign. This is the most corrupt, dangerous, and venal act he has ever done. He only wants prosecutors who are directly loyal to him.
latimes.com/california/story/2…
Non-paywall link: archive.ph/qI4vk
Saturday Mar 29 Trump fired Adam Schleifer, a long-time financial fraud prosecutor in the Los Angeles U.S. attorney’s office.
1/11
Sources: White House ordered firing of L.A. federal prosecutor
Adam Schleifer, a longtime financial fraud prosecutor, was dismissed from the U.S. Attorney's office in L.A. on Friday. He was pursuing charges against the former CEO of Fatburger, a Trump supporter, for alleged financial fraud.Brittny Mejia (Los Angeles Times)
From LA Times article:
Another source, a former prosecutor who handled fraud cases in the U.S. attorney’s office and sought anonymity over concerns about facing professional backlash, said he believes Schleifer’s firing is “going to have an incredible chilling effect on any line federal prosecutor who is thinking about criminally investigating or prosecuting an executive of any company of any significance.”
10/11
From LA Times article:
“The message from Adam’s case is that if you’re going to indict some run-of-the-mill CEO of a company, you need to check if he’s a Trump supporter first,” the former prosecutor said. “It’s going to cause line prosecutors to be considerably more careful about pursuing anyone who has even tenuous connections to the president, which is not good for the DOJ.”
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‘The physics community has never split like this’: row erupts over plans for new Large Hadron Collider | Large Hadron Collider | The Guardian
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‘The physics community has never split like this’: row erupts over plans for new Large Hadron Collider
Ambitious project could soak up funding for subatomic physics for decades, say opponentsRobin McKie (The Guardian)
Demand Democrats Take Immediate Action Against Trump’s Education Cuts
Trump’s attack on education is the biggest in U.S. history. Email your Democratic Representative now and demand they take urgent action to block his order and defend public schools.Indivisible Guide
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I miss weird Nokia.
buymobiles.net/blog/nokia-mobi…
10 Nokia mobile phones you can't believe existed
We decided to take a trip down memory lane with Nokia and explore 10 of their weirdest and most wonderful mobile phones. From leaf-shaped designs to innovative engineering, we can't believe these phones ever existed.Annalise Armstrong-Bednall (Your Mobile.)
Right?! I had an N90 back around 2007.
That phone was so much fun, and had an incredible camera for the time.
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Yaydio, a Music Player For Kids
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Yaydio, A Music Player For Kids
Music consumption has followed a trend over the last decade or more of abandoning physical media for online or streaming alternatives. This can present a problem for young children however, for who…Hackaday
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Experts baffled by mass bee deaths
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Experts baffled by mass bee deaths
The beekeeping industry is in crisis over the shocking and unexplained deaths of hundreds of millions of bees over the last eight months. Bees are responsibl...YouTube
30 March 1917 | Czech Jewish woman, Marta Kafková, was born in Suchodol.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 October 1944. She did not survive.
What these fools don't seem to understand is that these laws are there to give structure to labour relations, including strikes.
Now they can return to the violent strikes of the 1920s. Workers aren't going to sit back and take this. What the US needs is a good hard general strike to bring these idiots to their senses.
For now, the far side bounces the puck (makes it easier to test what exists)
The XY transformation was easier than I thought! (once I found the correct perspective factors to generate three tables using : github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/…)
#RetroComputing #GameDev #Apple2
Shufflepuck first commit · colinleroy/a2tools@59444b6
Stuff I write for my Apple //c. Contribute to colinleroy/a2tools development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Each sprite now saves its own background, and I'm doing clears and draws in order so that sprites can overlap. The clear/draw order changes depending on the puck's Y position. It makes the drawing much more satisfying. At the expense of more cycles, but that should fit.
Commit: github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/…
Rework draw functions for better results · colinleroy/a2tools@e6e7e8f
and less RAM usage. Go back to each sprite saving its background itself, get rid of the 8kB copy of the background, and order sprite clear/draw so that they don't keep parts of each other when ...GitHub
Commited my first opponent! (github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/…)
They're quite a good defender and not much of an attacker.
I have hopes of being able to implement multiple opponents' "personalities" by tweaking a few variables.
#RetroComputing #GameDev #Apple2
I added sound. It required adding a feature to the sound player to be able to arbitrarily slow the samples playback speed.
I'm not super happy with the samples, but they must be REAL short in order to avoid visibly hanging the game.
#RetroComputing #GameDev #Apple2
The crash effect is now complete, after laboriously pulling a recursive tree drawing in assembly. Commit: github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/…
Yes, I have to reload the background, this is not ideal. But I can't resolve myself to add a buffer to hold a full copy of the background, even compressed. I'll add that last if room allows.
#RetroComputing #Apple2 #GameDev
Add window crash effect · colinleroy/a2tools@c0f4c89
Stuff I write for my Apple //c. Contribute to colinleroy/a2tools development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Another insomnia put to good use this morning with the scoreboard ! (Commit: github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/…)
And with that, I played my first full #Shufflepuck game after lunch.
#RetroComputing #Apple2 #GameDev
Implement score · colinleroy/a2tools@f87b515
Stuff I write for my Apple //c. Contribute to colinleroy/a2tools development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Well hello, Lexan!
As I very much suck at pixel art, I searched for, and found, *perfect* sprites for my Shufflepuck : the ones made by Awot83 at github.com/Awot83/Gamebuino-Sh…
They're very well made *and* GPL3+!
I've contacted the author so I can credit them, and in the meantime, I overcame a little challenge of the opponent's sprite being bigger than 256 bytes, commited that (github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/…) and am now playing against an embodied opponent!
#RetroComputing #GameDev #Apple2
GitHub - Awot83/Gamebuino-Shufflepuck_cafe: Interactive animated pixelart tribute to the old Macintosh game Shufflepuck café.
Interactive animated pixelart tribute to the old Macintosh game Shufflepuck café. - Awot83/Gamebuino-Shufflepuck_cafeGitHub
Guess people will have to look at my mediocre pixel art then!
Joining Lexan tonight are Skip and Visine. I drew them myself, and I'm... OK with the result!
Of course the three of them all have their own style of play. I try to mimic the original game, but it is approximative, as I'm quite sure the original game had either 16 bit ints or floats.
#RetroComputing #GameDev #Apple2 #PixelArt
Technical commit: I've changed the puck's X,Y coordinates from 8-bit integers in the range of 0-255, to 16-bit in the range 0-511. Along with one less division in the delta X/Y, this allows for twice the precision of movement.
In simple terms, it allows for the equivalent of having deltas 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3 delta X/Y instead of only 0-1-2-3
Commit: github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/…
#RetroComputing #Apple2 #GameDev
Add a more precise Y coord (0-512) · colinleroy/a2tools@58a70c0
That will allow more precision on puck speed, as DY=1 was too fast in comparison to the original gameGitHub
"Gotcha!"
I added the required plumbing for the opponent to make a sound when they serve, lose a point, or win a point.
I probably won't be able to have any opponent with the three sounds, as they take a lot of room. But I *think* none of them have all three, so it should be good.
Commit: github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/…
#RetroComputing #Apple2 #GameDev
Add lose/win/serve sounds · colinleroy/a2tools@b5880c2
Stuff I write for my Apple //c. Contribute to colinleroy/a2tools development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Vinnie's done ! Sprite by @JauneBaguette (thanks!), win/lose animation, lose sound, and algorithm. (github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/…)
My #Shufflepuck now has its first four opponents, I've reworked the linking so that I have 11kB available per opponent, which should give me room for about 1 second of audio total per opponent. (github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/…)
Maybe I'll start implementing the bar so I can choose the opponent, before continuing coding them - their algorithms are HARD in assembly.
WIP - Add Vinnie · colinleroy/a2tools@637f34a
Stuff I write for my Apple //c. Contribute to colinleroy/a2tools development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
280x192 pixels is both not a lot of pixels when you want to add details and half shadowing, and also a lot of pixels when you redo all of them manually.
Eneg, Biff, Bejin and DC3 courtesy of @JauneBaguette !
#RetroComputing #GameDev #PixelArt #Apple2
I'm happy with the Cafe. Here's how it will feel starting #shufflepuck on the #Apple2.
Quickly added Eneg's basis (he's unbeatable for now), I think the commit shows how easy this is: Three sprites, three sounds, a single file with the opponent's logic (github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/…)
Sprite by @JauneBaguette again!
#RetroComputing #GameDev #Apple2 #PixelArt
Add Eneg (WIP, unbeatable for now) · colinleroy/a2tools@bfdd118
Stuff I write for my Apple //c. Contribute to colinleroy/a2tools development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Fell out of bed today and tried something I wanted to. I can draw the pushers using EOR (inverting the background pixels) instead of masking and saving background. This is less aesthetic, but
- it's faster enough that I can do 60 fps instead of 30
- it spares 3kB of RAM.
I'm not 100% sure yet but I think I'll go this route: Shufflepuck us a dynamic game, the smoother the better... What do you think ?
#RetroComputing #GameDev #Apple2
#RetroComputing #GameDev #apple2
- 30fps, Very clean pusher draw (33%, 8 votes)
- 60fps, -3kB RAM usage (66%, 16 votes)
I'm reverse-engineering Nerual. He (they?) have a very cool algorithm. First of all they 100% mimic your hits - speed and angle. They'll send you the puck back how it arrived. They'll serve exactly how you served first. And finally, they seem to have a "magic band" where they guess (or look into the matrix) the puck's arrival point. The only way to avoid this magic positioning is to send a huge hit, so fast the puck's Y coordinate goes from "too far" to "too close"... And hope their standard movement speed is too slow to reach it - otherwise, you're getting the same rocket right back at you.
Demo in the screencast of the Mac version:
Nerual is done! he was fun but hard to write. The fact he "cheats" exposed a few bugs in the engine. Nevertheless, I'm rather happy with how he performs.
I added an 8px random on his "magic line", otherwise serving at max delta-Y was always succeeding or always failing, which was frustrating.
#RetroComputing #Apple2 #GameDev
Oooooh, FUUUUCK. I had to test Biff on my Apple IIgs, which is a US Apple IIgs at 60Hz, to *finally* think of the fact that the puck and opponents are faster at 60Hz than at 50.
Either I patched EVERY delta to account for the 20% difference (and it fucked up A LOT of cases where rounding errors made an opponent too easy or too hard), or ....
I went the easy way, and I drop 1 frame out of 6 at 60Hz.
Commit: github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/…
#RetroComputing #Apple2 #GameDev
Drop 1 frame out of 6 at 60Hz · colinleroy/a2tools@1aa3aca
Otherwise the game would be too fast for US peopleGitHub
Biff is done. It's basically Eneg but harder. I've started on DC3, the robot bartender, and will finish tomorrow because he's supposed to be configurable and making text UIs in assembly is tedious!
I have searched for a way to have a splash screen instead of LOADING... text, but didn't find one yet. So instead I made a few cute animations !
#RetroComputing #GameDev #PixelArt #Apple2
Working on my data loader so I can add a splash screen. Shit's gonna be cleaner the second time!
#RetroComputing #Apple2 #GameDev
Luckily I added the tournament logic and screens already. I have to show it to you but I'd like to win a tournament first and I'm having hard time with Nerual.
#RetroComputing #GameDev
I don't have enough space to add a score-updating robot hand... coming from the left of the screen.
But do I have enough to add it if it comes from the top (which would make a smaller sprite) ?
Answer in a few hours but I have hopes.
The Hand is in!!
And I have a full 1024 bytes left in the CODE segment.
Big commit, I had to move lots of init code to the ONCE segment, but this had to be done at some point, and I *think* I have everything I want in ??
This week-end is probably be beta-release week-end!
#RetroComputing #Apple2 #GameDev
The first beta version of Shufflepuck Cafe for the Apple II is... published!
colino.net/wordpress/en/archiv…
#RetroComputing #GameDev #Apple2 #AppleII #RetroGaming
First beta release of Shufflepuck for Apple II
Dear lovers of old computers, it is with great pleasure that I feel I can push the first beta version of my Apple II port of the famous Shufflepuck Cafe.www.colino.net
I urge you to watch Steve Herman (re Voice of America) on 60 Minutes this Sunday. Steve and I are mutual followers here on Mastodon. He is one of the most important voices here, and in many other venues. He has been a VOA reporter for many, many years, and was one of the first attacked by the Trump administration.
open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/…
Why I decided to go on 60 Minutes
A compulsion to speak out on behalf of all our 1,350 colleagues of the Voice of America who have all been silencedSteve Herman (The Newsguy -- Steve Herman)
RevK
in reply to JJ Celery • • •jasonkarns
in reply to RevK • • •@revk I don’t think there op said anything about summertime.
The time changed, and every device synced to update thanks to NTP. fin
Is there more to the story? Sure. Things are complex. I don’t think your “yes but” was helpful, or necessary.
RevK
in reply to jasonkarns • • •@jasonkarns ok the relevance of “today” is surely summer time?
The time, UTC (or NTP) did *not* change from its normal sequence in any way today.
Devices did not sync to the summer time change due to NTP. They stayed right in UTC due to NTP. Very importance and worthy.
Summer time changes are not NTP related.
jasonkarns
in reply to RevK • • •RevK
in reply to jasonkarns • • •@jasonkarns the OP suggested a change of clocks “today” which is the day summer time happens for a lot of the non US northern hemisphere is down to NTP.
It is not. The need to “change clocks” is down to summer time, not NTP.
I am not trying to undermine the importance of NTP.
Paul Martin
in reply to RevK • • •The timezone database was originally also the work of one individual, Arthur David Olsen, hence it initially being called the Olsen database.
Also worthy of mention is its current maintainer, Paul Eggert, with the backing of ICANN, and contributions from many many others.
[Insert relevant Tom Scott Computerphile video here.]