[15:01] DPP directs no charges over murders of two innocent people in botched Dublin gangland hit
The DPP has directed that no prosecution should arise over the murder of two innocent people in a botched gangland shooting in north Dublin eight years ago.
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Las Vegas Strip (Night), Paradise, NV, 2023.
An all-you-can-eat* buffet of pixels at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53…
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Las Vegas Strip (Night), Paradise, NV 2023
6 July 2023 Paradise, NV Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/8.0), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 100). Cambo WRS-1600 camera. Stitched composite of two shifted images. Notes: This was a technically challenging photo to make.Flickr
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[15:03] Verklaringen over geweldincident Oudeschoot leugenachtig en onbetrouwbaar: verdachten uit Balk en Heerenveen vrijgesproken
Een inwoner van Balk (20) en een 35-jarige Heerenvener zouden in juli vorig jaar een inwoner van Oudeschoot bij diens woning hebben belaagd. Het tweetal werd vrijgesproken door de politierechter.
Okay, so this one from @soatok really hits home.
soatok.blog/2025/03/12/on-the-…
An interest in security is why I got into doing tech professionally, and "I care about the things that currently work continuing to work" is why I'm still here. It was talks by folks like Ollam, Hadnagy, et al. at DEFCON conferences that I snuck into my viewing rota while working split-shift clopens at a dead-end restaurant job that got me thinking about this shit.
And it was never because I cared about your buttcoin wallet getting leaked. It was the important shit. Telecom. Power. Sanitation systems.
He's an asshole for other reasons, but when Thunderf00t said that cholera was going to kill more people than rads after WW3, he wasn't wrong in principle. He was only wrong because it's not going to take WW3. It's going to take some skid from Belgovodkagrad with nothing better to use his state-of-the-art 14.4kbits dial-up connection throwing a bunch of "A"s at the right switch somewhere.
And nobody seems to give a shit.
On The Insecurity of Telecom Stacks in the Wake of Salt Typhoon - Dhole Moments
Towards the end of last year, we learned that a group (allegedly affiliated with the Chinese government, referred to as “Salt Typhoon”) breached T-Mobile and other telecommunications co…Dhole Moments
If we wanted it turned on, we’d turn it on. It provides absolutely no benefit to us.
[15:14] Theatervoorstelling over oorlogsslachtoffers Easterein: ‘Had het anders gekund? Zeker, maar zo is het niet gegaan’
Had het anders gekund? Die vraag stellen Jan Arendz, Marijke Geertsma en Thijs Meester zichzelf in de theatervoorstelling It Spoar Werom. Behalve het verhaal van Sally de Jong, spelen ook de verhalen van de drie omgekomen mannen uit Easterein een rol.
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#JanArendz #MarijkeGeertsma #ThijsMeester #SpoarWerom #SallydeJong #drie #Easterein
meanwhile, i recently set up my grandmother with apple music and was surprised to see there was already music there…
it was the u2 album that was automatically added to everyone’s accounts 11 years ago
Vermont Cop Was Allegedly Watching Matt Walsh Video When He Hit and Killed Cyclist
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Vermont Cop Was Allegedly Watching Matt Walsh Video When He Hit and Killed Cyclist
Whether there was any "interaction" with the video appears to be important in the case.Matt Novak (Gizmodo)
Starting to think I should grow a few more edible plants this summer - I always grow tomatoes and loads of herbs, and will probably do more radishes. Will do a patio aubergine too.
What will do well within a flowerbed? Rainbow chard? Maybe long beans up a support? #gardening
Massive Layoffs at the Department of Education Erode Its Civil Rights Division
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Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve discrimination complaints.
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#News #Education #CivilRights #Trump #Discrimination #Students
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[03:20 PM] Agreement reached on new coalition in Groningen; VVD and GroenLinks join BBB and PvdA
Four parties have reached an agreement about a new coalition in the province of Groningen. BBB, VVD, GroenLinks, and PvdA have agreed on a new governing program.
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#Four #Groningen #BBB #VVD #GroenLinks
Agreement reached on new coalition in Groningen; VVD and GroenLinks join BBB and PvdA
Four parties have reached an agreement about a new coalition in the province of Groningen. BBB, VVD, GroenLinks, and PvdA have agreed on a new governing program. This comes five months after the previous coalition fell.NL Times
“The President Wanted It and I Did It”: Recording Reveals Head of Social Security’s Thoughts on DOGE and Trump
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In a recording obtained by ProPublica, acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek portrayed his agency as facing peril, while also encouraging patience with “the DOGE kids.”
Taiwanese chip giant's investments in US stir 'silicon shield' security worries
just a rant.
Not so friendly reminder.
"Well well well" [ ± 1min]
by ParkrosePermaculture [Mar 5, 2025]
Switching my pricing to Euro, but also making it tax-inclusive
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Icelandwww.baldurbjarnason.com
The buried lede here is the sale I'm running to ease over the transition, especially for those in countries with low to no sales tax or VAT on ebooks. A €5 EUR discount until the 19th of March using the discount code:
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Direct links with the discount included:
- The Intelligence Illusion: Second Edition. store.baldurbjarnason.com/buy/…
- Out of the Software Crisis. baldurbjarnason.lemonsqueezy.c…
- Every Ebook Bundle. store.baldurbjarnason.com/chec…
Out of the Software Crisis (Ebook)
How to keep your app off the garbage heap, for both coders and non-coders. (PDF and EPUB.)baldurbjarnason.lemonsqueezy.com
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I think this pattern might be kinda fun. But I might get bored with it after I do the caston.
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ISSUEss25 ** One-skein Wondrous : Knitty.com - Spring + Summer 2025
Knitty is the longest-running free knitting magazine on the web. Enjoy our huge selection of high-quality, tech-edited free knitting patterns and tutorials!knitty.com
@redbanjer It's not that I don't like them. I wore them when I worked in an office; now that I work at home I have no need to dress up or put effort into not freezing to death at my desk. 😀
And with my hair long as it is these days (it was very short, pre-WFH), wearing a shawl or scarf for any length of time causes a terrible snarl at the nape of my neck.
Oh, well I never wear shawls unless I'm out and about and want to look nice. If I'm home I just throw on a sweater. We just decide what works for us i guess. 😀
Was sorely tempted to buy a new graphics card just now. It would have stretched my finances for a while, but I'd been waiting for the new AMD Radeon 9000 series to come out and one turned up in stock that met my criteria.
Unfortunately (or fortunately), the internet made the decision for me, it was out of stock before I decided to push the button.
It's hard to say this, but science (& research more generally) is just being **stopped** in the US right now. This is just one university, losing nearly a billion dollars in project funding pretty much overnight. That's people's jobs, and the research that could save lives.
wsj.com/health/healthcare/john…
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I wasn't even aware this was a problem, but now I want to open every single toot and read all the replies!
Definitely should've been a v1.0 thing, but better late than never?
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OMG the Mastodon issue about fetching whole conversation threads finally got completed after 7 years!github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
Fetch whole conversation threads · Issue #9409 · mastodon/mastodon
I'm replying to a message on, say, Prismo, and I see this in Mastodon: Then, I go to Prismo page and see the whole thread: Turns out, there's a lot more messages in the conversation, and Mastodon s...GitHub
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Bathroom Break Considered Self Care
GILBERT, AZ—Noting that just spending a few minutes a day on a toilet had drastically improved her mental and physical health, local woman Jessica Emerson admitted to reporters Monday that she considered her bathroom break self-care.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
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[14:52] Oud-burgemeester Jan Rijpstra niet veroordeeld voor smaad en laster wegens ‘ondermijningsdocument’ uit Noordwijk
Jan Rijpstra, voormalig burgemeester van Smallingerland, hoeft geen schadevergoeding te betalen voor een gemeentelijk document dat hij liet opstellen in zijn tijd als burgemeester van Noordwijk over de inmenging van de vastgoedwereld in de Noordwijkse politiek. Het document rammelde weliswaar aan alle kanten, oordeelt de rechtbank in Den Haag, maar er is geen sprake van smaad en laster ten aanzien van de ondernemers Paul Brandjes en Victor Salman.
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#JanRijpstra #Smallingerland #Noordwijk #Noordwijkse #DenHaag #PaulBrandjes #VictorSalman
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •This is a composite of two captures with the Rodenstock 70mm HR-Digaron-W lens, each made with the back shifted up 15mm, and then with the individual captures shifted 18mm left and right, respectively. The result is two "side-by-side" 4x3 vertical images, with just enough overlap to allow them to be stitched together into a single 5x7 horizontal frame, yielding a total of about 270 megapixels.
The equivalent field of view on a "full frame" 35mm camera would be roughly that of a 26mm lens.
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