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Tesla Dealerships Attacked With Molotov Cocktails
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A true story: at one point Microsoft was selling four entirely unrelated products all pronounced "link". Microsoft Link, Linq, Lynq and Lync.

You'd think whoever let that happen would have lost their job, but years later as we were struggling to fix a Teams interop problem in Firefox, we discovered that the real problem was that MS had _two unrelated products called Microsoft Teams_ who never talked to each other.

Well good news everyone, that guy got promoted:

theverge.com/news/627483/micro…

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in reply to mhoye

Two Teams teams, not acting as a single team. Of course.
in reply to Dan Scott

@dbs Like so much these days, if I wrote it as satirical fiction people would agree that no, that's a little much.
in reply to mhoye

Not to take away from the amusement but LINQ wasn't "sold" nor was it a product, it was a technology included in .NET.

Microsoft really do have a naming problem though. I used to work at Xbox and I couldn't tell you how all the Xbox console names relate to each other. Unlike PlayStation where any Joe can understand that.



Axon’s Draft One, which produces AI-generated police reports, purports to cut in half the amount of time officers spend writing police reports. But a recent police agency’s decision to discontinue use of the software and a new scientific study cast doubt on those assertions. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/anch…
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation

I mean, police reports are between 40 and 100% Lies By Volume; show me a police officer who files a proper, truthful, and complete report, and I’ll show you a police officer who’s unemployed.


Protect Net Plurality! 🦾

Broad brush duties under the UK Online Safety Act threaten any website with possible penalties.

Small, safe sites can't shoulder this burden. We'll see the lights going out on blogs, Fedi instances and forums from 17 March with a devastating impact for online communities.

The Fediverse is under attack!

We must #SaveOurSites 🌐

openrightsgroup.org/blog/save-…

#netplurality #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #ukpolitics #ukpol #mastodon #fediverse #activitypub

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in reply to Open Rights Group

I live in the UK and I'm in the process of building a website about vintage buses, a harmless subject, you'd think. But what if my opinions, or comments made by my readers fall foul of these unclear rules? The UK's freedom of speech is being quickly (not slowly) eroded.

I think I'll just build my website offline for now and just post on Mastodon, until Mastodon faces the same issues as been suggested regarding content by UK users.

Let's hope that it never comes to that.

in reply to Vintage Buses 🚌 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@vintagebuses
Online speech went the moment the law was passed. Mastodon is the least safe from the law too, as there's no big lobbyist to help us. I'm starting to think if they're going to make us criminals just for talking to each other (the law talks about groupchats and email too), we might be better off just accepting it and talking via Tor anyway, sadly...
@openrightsgroup


Here's the second installment of my Paramilitary Leaks series. How you can set up your computer to read through the leaked militia chats yourself micahflee.com/step-by-step-gui…


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Trump has been asking #Ukraine for mineral rights in exchange for aid, but extracting those minerals will require new infrastructure, new roads, more processing technology, investment, technical expertise, and, above all, an end to Russia’s invasion.
buff.ly/5IQacBx


[ It's decided, OPNsense is currently installing over pfSense! ]

So my Intel N100 quad core with 16Gb ram and a 256GB NVME drive and 4 x 2.5Gb ethernet ports has arrived with pfSense preinstalled but I'm thinking I'd be better off with #OPNsense installed instead?
Am I right as this is going to be my main router / firewall ? Feel free to comment and thank you.
No I'm not using #OpenWRT anymore sorry.
#FreeBSD #IntelNUC #RunBSD

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in reply to Justine Smithies

"No I'm not using #OpenWRT anymore sorry." Did you write anywhere something about why? Because I am just starting with OpenWRT on Banana Pi R-4.
in reply to samurro

No I haven't written anything. Basically just wanted to be more FreeBSD friendly.



imagine being able to afford a huge homestead

in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

Stock market over bloated... (checks notes) and you're saying this after Trump just created a "Strategic Bitcoin Reserve"? Uh huh.
in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

If the republicans had anything significant to say about the decline of the stock market, they surely wouldn't use "tubby's" voice. I doubt the man can even spell stock market.


Migrants detained in Panama expressed fear of returning to their countries.

“They will execute me without hesitation,” one texted.

“I am LGBT. My country harass these people. I cannot live a normal life in my country,” said another.

propublica.org/article/trump-d…

#News #Panama #Trump #Immigration #Migrants #Asylum #Aid

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By now it should be clear to all refugees (for poverty or persecution) that the U.S. is no longer "the land of the free" but the "home of the Donald Trump ass lickers", who preach anyone who has no money is a criminal (most real criminals have lots of money).

Europe is no alternative: simply to many refugees coming, no place to stay, no jobs. Also Europe has a strict policy: any employer who hires illegal immigrants pays a large fine. Hospitals will not be payed for treating you.



You know, if Tesla fired him and brought back the guys he stole the company from, they might have a chance...

theverge.com/tesla/627894/tesl…

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‼️ Cause of post-#COVID inflammatory shock in children identified: Reactivation of the Epstein-Barr virus appears to cause the rare condition #MISC. The findings, uncovered by a team from #CharitéBerlin & the DRFZ, have now been published in #Nature.

💡 These insights open the door to new treatment methods, potentially not limited to MIS-C.

👉 charite.de/en/service/press_re…

#CharitéPaper #Science #Research #Medicine #EBV #PIMS #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #corona
@nature.portfolio



Mit einer schwarz-roten Koalition ist fast sicher, dass die Vorratsdatenspeicherung wieder kommt. Mit den SPD-Verhandler:innen für Innenpolitik ist es definintiv. spd.de/service/pressemitteilun…


Google’s new Gemma 3 AI model is optimized to run on a single GPU
Gemma 3 is optimized to run on powerful multi-GPU PCs or a single smartphone.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
in reply to Ars Technica

throwing your back out hauling all that water for Google's latest ai slop shit and they're not even paying you


Today is the anniversary of the invention of the World Wide Web in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee.

W3C has continued to expand on what the web does by our mission to make the web work, for everyone. We bring together global stakeholders to develop open standards that enable a World Wide Web that connects and empowers humanity.
w3.org/mission/



❝The Newsom podcasts gutted me. I’m not bothered that he’s talking to conservatives. I’m an organizer. I’m all about outreach. The idea that you should be willing to talk anybody about what you believe and why you believe it is embedded deep in my soul. But the whole reason you have conversations like that is so that you stand up for those who aren’t in the room.❞

Garrett Bucks via @beep:
follow.ethanmarcotte.com/@beep…

in reply to Luke

@Shivaekul
Whose failure? Failure can be defined only in relation to a goal. Certainly it's a terrible defeat for humanity, but from the perspective of the people we have in power, it's a success
@inthehands


news.mit.edu/2025/study-climat…

"In a study appearing today in Nature Sustainability, the researchers report that #CO2 and other greenhouse gases can cause the upper atmosphere to shrink. An atmospheric layer of special interest is the thermosphere, where the ISS and most satellites orbit today. When the thermosphere contracts, the decreasing density reduces atmospheric drag - a force that pulls old satellites and other debris down to altitudes where they will encounter air molecules and burn up."

1/2

#co2
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On April 1, #Wisconsin will elect a State Supreme Court Justice. Justices serve 10-year terms & make decisions that impact your rights, including abortion access and voting laws and will shape Wisconsin’s future for decades to come.

Judge Crawford cares about voters abroad, so much so that she called #DemocratsAbroad to answer your questions! Watch the recording here to find out more, and remember to send your ballot back ASAP!

youtube.com/watch?v=-DtdhBlY_B…

#WisconsinitesAbroad #WISupremeCourt



Welp, Breakthrough Energy, a climate change organization funded by Bill Gates, is downsizing its operations, including its US policy team and European unit. This shift reflects Gates’s strategic decision to focus on building clean energy companies rather than influencing policy, particularly in the current political climate.

nytimes.com/2025/03/12/climate…

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Meta mocked for raising “Bob Dylan defense” of torrenting in AI copyright fight
Meta fights to keep leeching evidence out of AI copyright battle.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…


Three Hollywood movies were released in 1995 with internet themes: the Keanu Reeves cyberpunk film Johnny Mnemonic (with an accompanying website), The Net with Sandra Bullock, and Hackers. As well as these 3 films, I look back at William Gibson's now extinct mid-90s website, "William Gibson’s Yardshow", and the equally lost to time Johnny Mnemonic net.hunt, an online scavenger hunt. cybercultural.com/p/cyberspace… #InternetHistory #90smovies



Bob Dylan Explains Why Music Has Been Getting Worse

openculture.com/2025/03/bob-dy…



Keir Starmer’s government held a private meeting with Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons company, Declassified has found.

The meeting occurred in December 2024 and was attended by three representatives from Elbit Systems and three officials from Yvette Cooper’s Home Office.

It took place months after Israeli forces used an Elbit drone to kill three British military veterans in Gaza who were protecting a humanitarian aid convoy.

declassifieduk.org/labour-held…

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine




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This is such a self-inflicted injury by Trump.

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Make it rain 🌧️

The UK government’s demand for a spy hole makes your iCloud storage leaky.

All your pics, docs, finances and more are up for grabs. Hackers, blackmailers and predators will have a field day.

Sign our petition to save Apple encrypted services!

➡️ you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions…

#encryption #e2ee #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #apple

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in reply to Open Rights Group

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

The UK government took to revisionist tactics and wiped its advice for lawyers and barristers to use Apple encrypted services.

Putting victims of crime at a greater risk of harm so you don't contradict yourself isn't a good look 🤷‍♂️

techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/uk-q…

#encryption #e2ee #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #apple

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in reply to Open Rights Group

In response to the State's demand for insecurity, Apple withdrew its encrypted services from the UK and appealed.

A secret tribunal now decides 🤫

This hearing MUST happen in public.

It starts with Apple... the UK government will chomp away encryption to a rotten core.

digit.fyi/apple-to-battle-uk-g…

#encryption #e2ee #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #apple

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Trump increasing the wrong kind of consumption.

nytimes.com/2025/03/11/health/…



The largest camera ever built for astrophysics (3200-megapixels, >3000 kg) was installed this week at the Rubin Observatory at Cerro Pachón in Chile.

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera, the final major component of the Rubin Observatory's Simonyi Survey Telescope, was transported to the summit in May 2024.

After a few more months of testing, first light is expected around 4 Jul 2025.

noirlab.edu/public/news/noirla…
lsst.org/about/project-status
#Science #Astronomy #Space
1/n

in reply to AkaSci 🛰️

The Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time LSST Camera is the largest camera ever constructed for astronomy. It is a large-aperture, wide-field optical camera, capable of viewing light from the near UV to near infrared wavelengths.

Length: 3.73 m
Height: 1.65 m
Weight: 2,800 kg
Pixels: 3.2 billion
Wavelength: 0.32–1.06 μm
Filters: 6 (u-g-r-i-z-y)
Field of view = 3.5° (moon = 0.5°)
Operating temperature: -100°C

www6.slac.stanford.edu/lsst
lsst.org/about/camera/features
4/n

in reply to AkaSci 🛰️

The focal plane of the Vera C. Rubin telescope consists of 189 4kx4k charge-coupled device (CCD) sensors, arranged in a total of 21 3-by-3 square arrays. The system is cooled to about -100 °C to minimize noise.

The 3.5° field of view of the 64 cm wide array is 40 times the area of the full moon in the sky.

Camera Data Rates: ~3.2 GBytes/sec peak raw data 😲
1 pixel = 16 bits (raw)
Pixels: 3.2 billion
Detector read-out time: 2 sec

flickr.com/photos/slaclab/with…
www6.slac.stanford.edu/lsst
#Rubin
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