As young male voters shift Right, can the Left compete in the 'battle for the bros'?
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5333321/as-young-male-voters-shift-right-can-the-left-compete-in-the-battle-for-the-bros?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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EU Orders Apple to Open iOS Features Like Notifications to Third Parties
As part of the DMA, the EU wants Apple to let rival headphones connect to iPhones like AirPods and allow developers to build alternatives to AirDrop and AirPlay.Jibin Joseph (PCMag)
20 March 1943 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Bernhard Sanders, was born in Schalkwijk.
He arrived at #Auschwitz on 27 January 1944 in a transport of 948 Jews deported from Westerbork with his mother Johanna and father Willem. All three were probably murdered in a gas chamber.
How is it possible that many automatically (exactly every 3 hours) spammed "victims" of the holocaust (pre-camp photos in particular) are NOT FOUND in the victims database maintained by IDF soldiers who colonized former concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau?
Thoughts about why in infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStrat….
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@n9uxc@mastodon.hams.social : Apparently there are two databases, and obviously there are reasons (for the maintainers) not to merge them.Infosec Exchange
New songs by Teddy Swims, Benjamin Booker and Neil Young let loose with big emotions
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5333327/new-songs-by-teddy-swims-benjamin-booker-and-neil-young-let-loose-with-big-emotions?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Finland ranked happiest country in the world as US falls to its lowest-ever position
A new global report says that people in Finland are the happiest in the world. The northern European country is leading the world in happiness for the eighth year in a row.Kirsten Grieshaber (AP News)
I am always a little wary of these ‘happiness’ indexes. I think it should be called a contentment index.
I’ve noticed, throughout my life, that
a) real happiness happens in very short bursts.
b) it’s not something done to you, but something you decide to be in the moment. (And often requires us giving ourselves permission to be happy).
c) it has very little to do with your economic circumstances and more to do with relationships with self and other.
I’ve often wondered if consumerism isn’t the single most significant enemy of happiness.
When we get brainwashed into ‘aspirational’ acquisition or identification, the thing you bought that promised to make you happy always fails you. It’s never the right one, the perfect one, enough.
If I have to identify true happiness in my life, it happens with a cup of coffee, a friend, and a little sunlight. I’m here, with you, and for now, this is perfectly enough.
French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found
France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searchedRobert Mackey (The Guardian)
How a Case From 1803 Explains John Roberts’s Approach to Donald Trump | The Nation
Roberts wasn’t “rebuking” Trump when he issued his statement against impeaching judges, he was bending the knee.The Nation
FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies thelibre.news/foss-infrastruct… Please boost for awareness, reach and to public shame Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Perplexity and other such AI companies.
#opensource #programming #Developers
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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Block AI scrapers with Anubis
I got tired with all the AI scrapers that were bullying my git server, so I made a tool to stop them for good.xeiaso.net
Yup. I spent the better part of a month building a web app firewall to keep these buggers away from my internet backwater blogs and stuff.
(For example, if your ASN is even remotely associated with Bytedance, go fish).
Then Facebook hammered my robots.txt for a while, unhappy with being given a 500 in response, somehow it thought 2000+ subsequent requests would give a different answer?
If they escalate, I swear I'm going to give them the pages they want... after using a Markov chain to mix it up with excerpts from something like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, just to pollute their index!
Use the works of authors, that are dead at least 100 years. Otherwise you might infringe copyright yourself.
Milton's "Paradise Lost" should be a good start. Mix it with Dante's "Inferno" at random should give a nice poisening.¹ Add other works at your descretion. 😀
¹ Of cours all works in the original language.
I looked at that but the use if archaic words and sentence structures might be too easy to detect. Vaguely related Wikipedia articles seem like the best option.
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Yes, that might be the case.
On the other hand it would be a piece of art itself. Each verse from a different author. Bonus points if it conforms to a classic form of poetry.
Unfortunately I don't have the time to program it myself.
@PiiiepsBrummm I've written the code to generate the text, but it's sufficiently compute-intensive that I'd kill my little VPS. I figure the best approach would be to pre-compute the "alternative" articles, cache them, and then send those when the AI scapers come calling.
It's on my "when I'm bored and/or devious and/or really pissed off" list, but at the moment other things have my attention.
Amazon founder has executed a sharp public reversal in his relationship with Trump.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/…
update: solved by setting up solr for dovecot fulltext search on the server.
i guess this is not the ideal email setup yet. i have some questions:
- why would searching through email bodies in evolution block the UI thread? (at first, for like half a minute. then it becomes an actual background task)
- why does fulltext search take so long? when i had notmuch, this was instant. i wonder if i can have the best of both worlds somehow. searching plaintext should not be a hard problem in 2025
do you connect via IMAP and control the server? if you use server side search and it is slow, dovecot can use a solr backend that makes it fast.
Evolution will use IMAP SEARCH datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/… if the server advertises it. By inspecting the connection string (after CAPABILITY) or just looking at debug output as you invoke a search with `CAMEL_DEBUG=imapx:io evolution` you can confirm it is slow server side search
RFC 3501: INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1
The Internet Message Access Protocol, Version 4rev1 (IMAP4rev1) allows a client to access and manipulate electronic mail messages on a server.IETF Datatracker
docs are at doc.dovecot.org/main/core/plug… - there's a dovecot-solr debian package providing some of the config.
There's also fts-flatcurve based on xapian (what notmuch uses). I haven't tried, but I think it's simpler to setup
so you went with solr, glad it works! Has all the features. Can't remember if it binds by default to loopback interface. Here's a recent example that spends some afterthoughts on this and basic auth to cover all bases - notes.sagredo.eu/en/qmail-note…
I admittedly moved to the xapian implementation (on dovecot 2.3) to skip running a tomcat and it works equally well, substrings too it seems
e-mail indexing with Solr FTS Engine
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There Are Two Kinds of Credit Cards
Yet another way the poor are subsidizing the rich
Israel expands its ground offensive in Gaza as Hamas fires rockets back
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5334420/israel-gaza-hamas-rockets?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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"something, something... a well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny."
We're so screwed.
Via Elie Mystal:
"It may sound like #JohnRoberts was saying that #Trump should litigate his disagreements with Judge #Boasberg in the normal way, but what he’s really saying is that Trump should feel free to ignore lower court orders until #SCOTUS has a chance to weigh in. ...
Roberts is trying to maintain the appearance of power in the face of a president who has shown no inclination to respect it"
thenation.com/article/politics…
How a Case From 1803 Explains John Roberts’s Approach to Donald Trump | The Nation
Roberts wasn’t “rebuking” Trump when he issued his statement against impeaching judges, he was bending the knee.The Nation
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Today we’re launching a new sub-site for our Justice and Accountability work! You can learn about how, with Global Legal Action Network, we've built mechanisms for open source research to enhance legal accountability processes, particularly in cases of atrocity crimes.
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We work with affected communities to pursue innovative legal actions across borders to challenge states and other powerful actors involved in human rights violations and systemic injustice.Justice and Accountability Unit
If you're using eBay, they updated their Terms of Services, and you're now auto-opted-in to have your data used to train AI. To opt out, use this link: accountsettings.ebay.com/ai-pr…
Dark pattern: if you're already logged in, you can navigate to the AI preferences page, and it shows you the toggle to opt out. If you click it, you're challenged to log in (okay, changing major account settings is a good excuse for this).
However ... after logging in, your setting hasn't changed - it hasn't actually reacted to your action to opt out. You have to toggle it again.
"AI" is a scam.
Do you feel you can exercise your right to free speech? NPR wants to hear from you
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/g-s1-54640/trump-free-speech-democracy?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Santa Fe clinic says Gene Hackman’s wife called them the day after police say she died
The county sheriff’s office have confirmed that Betsy Arakawa made the phone call on 12 February disproving their initial belief that she had died a day earlier
theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/…
#news #celebrity #genehackman #death #mystery
I just fell into an Etsy keycap rabbit hole and there's some wild stuff in there. What do we think is going on here?
it is not, but it’s apparently complicated. Dentists sell them!
cdhp.org/are-human-teeth-valua…
Are Human Teeth Valuable? Exploring the Worth of Your Pearly Whites
Are human teeth valuable? This is a question that may come to mind when considering the importance of dental health. Teeth play a crucial role in our daily lives, from allowing us to speak andCDHP Dental Health Project
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The candies eaten by #BonkWavers are, of course, Vimto Bonk Bons.
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Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guide for a Self-Guided Walking Tour of Galway and Trip to Inis Mór in the Aran Islands - Ireland Purple Travel Guide
Today we will do a Self-Guided Walking Tour of Galway and see the sunset on Inis Mór in the Aran Islands. We provide detailed information and the best things to see and we show lots of photos so you know what you can expect.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
Linux Fu: A Warp Speed Prompt
hackaday.com/2025/03/20/linux-…
Linux Fu: A Warp Speed Prompt
If you spend a lot of time at the command line, you probably have either a very basic prompt or a complex, information-dense prompt. If you are in the former camp, or you just want to improve your …Hackaday
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Apple TV+ Faces $1 Billion Annual Loss Despite Subscriber Growth According to New Report | Cord Cutters News
Apple TV+, the tech giant’s ambitious foray into streaming, is hemorrhaging more than $1 billion annually despite boasting a subscriber base that swelled to approximately 45 million in 2024, according to sources familiar with the matter per a report …Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)
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@ska
Not sure what you mean by “architectured the same way as system is”. Sd_notify is a protocol; the server could be anything, even a multiplexer that translates to s6 readiness and sends the status updates to a remote logging server. There is very little about it that's systemd-specific other than who invented it first.
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so Dan McCrum from the FT, who noticed Wirecard frantically scraping for pennies while allegedly having billions in cash on hand, has noticed Tesla frantically scraping for pennies while allegedly having billions in cash on hand
ft.com/content/62df8d8d-31f2-4…
archive: archive.is/uLXoy
$1.4bn is a lot to fall through the cracks, even for Tesla
When money spent on assets doesn’t result in assetsDan McCrum (Financial Times)
Fujifilm Debuts GFX100RF, World's First Fixed Lens Medium Format Digital Camera
The GFX100RF has 102 megapixels and is smaller and lighter than any other camera with interchangeable lenses.Jim Fisher (PCMag)
"...if you don't maximize public access to your archive, then there will come a day when they take away your funding and the public won't care because you locked them out of their own collection"
Pluralistic: You can’t save an institution by betraying its mission (19 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net/2025/03/19/sel…
"Supporters will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no supporters."
How's that for a bottom line?
Interesting observation and an important one when maintaining their social contract. The internet needs a major forklift upgrade in public service participation to balance out fake news and other disinformation sources. Some may provide the data but in an awkward form others not at all. It's a mess.
We must grow past the Wild West vision of the net to something the public can respect, provided by the institutions that should be serving us.
Saw something new at work today. Today's job was a migration from one data center to another and the client has these REALLY tall 52U racks.
Our job was to move these 8 foot racks through normal-sized doors. Which is impossible; these racks weigh over 2000 pounds, and humans aren't tipping that by hand unless you want one less human than you started with.
Our welder made a server tilt machine for the job, and it was really cool to see it in action.
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Fred Rogers was born 97 years ago today, March 20, 1928. Happy Birthday, Mister Rogers.
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