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Recent Chris Hayes interview on Marc Maron podcast namechecks RSS, “Really Simple Syndication,” web pages, and open protocols. My girlfriend: “how’s it feel to hear your arguments parroted back to you?” Roughly 50 minutes in. #IndieWeb #RSS wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-162…


US-Ukraine deal highlights Ukraine’s wealth of critical minerals, but extracting them isn’t so simple buff.ly/Fs1s15w


Why extracting data from PDFs is still a nightmare for data experts
Countless digital documents hold valuable info, and the AI industry is attempting to set it free.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/why…
in reply to Ars Technica

my IT department keeps attempting to disable the “FU Assistant” from our internal PDFs.
We can analyse our own reports and without context, an LLM can’t.
Fake Understanding is fake.

Our reports also contain sensitive commercial data that cannot go outside the company due to Compliance.



Added another little section to plasmatrap.net/
It also shows off some of my commissions if you're on a large enough screen ​:ablobcatbongo:


Brexit betrayal laid bare as #supertrawlers hammer UK waters for 7,380 hours a year
- express.co.uk/news/politics/20… (sorry, Express) why is this allowed? #overfishing


Hawaii’s HCR 144/HR 138 resolution cites EFF’s call for state Attorneys General to investigate crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) for privacy violations. It’s time to ensure medical data is protected, not exploited. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/hawa…


"This is nothing new. Operating on Tor for over 12 years, we knew going in that we would have infrastructure in xx-eyes countries and be subject to potential sniffing.

I'll let you in on a little secret. The time people spend obsessing about hiding from the government puts you in a de facto state of servitude to them. They do not require any form of operation psychological or physical space. Most people have created their own psyop.

If all of this bothers you, cut your fibre line and live in a cave."

—Some Redditor who is almost certainly unknown to me, who has either chosen or been chosen to delete their account since; posted on September 11th the same year Biden was elected, at just after 1 AM UTC, of all the days and of all the times it could've been…

I needed to read that, especially now and especially in light of recent events, and I cannot possibly be alone in that regard.

old.reddittorjg6rue252oqsxryox…

#infosec #privacy #privacyMatters #USpol #Freedom #Tor #FourteenEyes

in reply to SpaceLifeForm

@SpaceLifeForm @Day Use X Mockin' Uh

Airplane mode will turn off networking which will kill Tor. Though you could turn off WiFi and use Tor on your mobile data. The reason why no Mobile device is safe for anonymity becomes apparent when you start looking at the Android Development Environment. A significant part of the processing requires a round trip to Google's Servers for lots of tasks. So any app could jeopardize your anonymity. The same with IOS this is why mobile devices are not recommended for anonymity.

For most of us this is a non-issue and will not effect us at all. Because we are just trying to avoid being tracked and all of the telemetry. We are not concerned with being truly anonymous or as anonymous as one can be on an international network.

in reply to Unus Nemo

@unusnemo
It may depend upon Android version or the OEM hacks.

I turn on Airplane Mode but still use WiFi.

Does not mean that this usage pattern will not be leaked to the mothership later though.



The dreaded R word didn’t take long to make a resurgence. Less than two months into Trump 2.0, the economy is careening, consumers are wary, and companies are hesitant to make plans. I take us on a wild ride over this new economic landscape in today’s write up: open.substack.com/pub/statusku…


Ukraine launches ‘massive’ drone attack on Moscow

today.com/video/ukraine-hits-m…

#Russia #Ukraine #news #war #Putin #Ukrainewar #UkraineRussiawar #SlavaUkraini #uspol

in reply to Frankie ✅

in the video you posted they didn't tell you Musk was lying about the cyber attack coming from Ukrainian IP addresses.

#ProPalestinian hacker group #DarkStormTeam claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack on #X, according to a public Telegram post. The group is known for primarily targeting countries and entities that support #Israel's attack on #Gaza following #Hamas' surprise attack on October 7, 2023.
newsweek.com/x-twitter-outage-…



Ryzen 9 9950X3D review: Seriously fast, if a step backward in efficiency
Not a lot of people actually need this thing, but if you do, it's very good.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
in reply to Ars Technica

why do all these reviews assume the only use for a CPU is gaming?


All of the 128 new moons are “irregular moons”, potato-shaped objects that are just a few kilometres across.

theguardian.com/science/2025/m…




Egypt condemns Israel over cutting Gaza electricity

rte.ie/news/2025/0311/1501499-…




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Martinique is a French island in the #Caribbean. It has beaches and lots of history. Read what we did on this island. What did you do in Martinique? backpackandsnorkel.com/Martini…



Trump just slashed funding for fair housing groups—widespread discrimination is likely to follow

The termination of grants to dozens of fair housing organizations threatens enforcement of the Fair Housing Act.

fastcompany.com/91294511/trump…

#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption




in reply to Ars Technica

can you run whatever software you want on it? Or does it have to be downloaded from the app store


US agrees to immediately resume intelligence sharing and military assistance to Ukraine.


Tried building a shelf. Not sure I did it right.
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To be clear, I’m not a nihilist. I have plenty of optimism for the future.

But it does not include saving a country that has dedicated its entire existence to the de-evolution of mankind so a handful of entitled pricks can control systems they have no idea even how to manage or use.

I’m off that train. I want to live, not conform to some bullshit set by people who hate themselves.

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The “risk factors” section in the CoreWeave S1 is truly epic. More broadly, just interesting to see another example of a crypto hedge fund pivoting to AI and finding an even bigger gold rush to sell shovels into. DeepSeek, CoreWeave, I wonder how many more?

sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/17…




Trump's #DOGE initiative accelerates a 50-year trend of government privatization. Government contracting reached $1.98 trillion in 2023, 7% of the total economy.
#economics #ElonMusk
buff.ly/Tnna2OI


Little Marco is apparently not the sharpest tool in the shed.


“Federal employees have been lazy and unmotivated for years, so to ensure productivity going forward, all government workers must email me private nudes they would never want leaked,” said Elon Musk
theonion.com/elon-musk-creates…



The truth is, not everybody is suited for liberty or democracy. Some people were born with a silver boot in their mouths. Some people have the souls of subjects.

in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

remember when all those republican senators were in Russia over 4th of July a few years back?
These people need to be launched into the sun.
in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

Hey George,

It would be great if you stopped the folks at comicsands from linking to twitter in the articles, as they show up as blank for everyone who has done the proper thing and blocked it on a DNS level.

screengrabs are fine if you need to show us a picture, but text copypasta works well.




Trump cuts NASA top science, technology, and diversity roles

dw.com/en/trump-cuts-nasa-top-…

#news #science #NASA #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption




Leaked GeForce RTX 5060 and 5050 specs suggest Nvidia will keep playing it safe
Nvidia's 50-series refresh has been pretty conservative so far.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
in reply to Ars Technica

I legitimately could not care less about nvidia's crap anymore. I have a 3090 FE and I'm probably going to be sticking with that for the foreseeable future. As AMD has apparently totally abandoned the top end of the GPU market. Yeah there's some GPUs that are in AMD's camp that can reach the 3090 performance level, but then you look at their VRAM, and It's a joke.


Michelle May (aka The Giddy Stitcher) makes videos about lots of different crafts including cross-stitch, sewing, crochet, knitting and many others. You can follow at:

➡️ @michellemay

There are already 70 videos uploaded. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at makertube.net/a/michellemay/vi…

You can also follow her general social media account at @thegiddystitcher

#FeaturedPeerTube #Crafting #Crafts #CrossStitch #Sewing #Crochet #Knitting #PeerTube #PeerTubers



Thanks to some good old-fashioned grassroots advocacy, the right to repair movement is thriving: eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/righ…
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation

The right to repair is crucial for digital sovereignty and security. Without it, we remain dependent on closed ecosystems that limit our ability to protect and maintain our own devices. Transparency and accessibility must be at the core of every security-driven system. Open security frameworks can help bridge this gap, ensuring that both individuals and organizations retain control over their own hardware and data


“We did not just shove mammoth genes into a mouse." But, well, that's more or less a research-target murine mastodon anyhow.

wired.com/story/scientists-jus…

in reply to Bruce Sterling @bruces

I don't care about ethics questions or myriads of potential unintended consequences, the 11 year old inside of me is just all in for bringing back mastodons and dodos into every backyard.