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Digitale Mappenführung - eine Sackgasse digitaler Schulentwicklung?

riecken.de/2025/03/digitale-ma…

#FediLZ



Webb telescope just snapped direct image of worlds many light-years away - mashable.com/article/james-web… amazing; we are getting closer to viewing details of distant planets...


"In the summer of 1959, [American NASA astronaut and physicist Ronald Erwin McNair, 8 years old at the time,] refused to leave the segregated Lake City Public Library without being allowed to check out his books. After the police and his mother were called, McNair was allowed to borrow books from the library; the building that housed the library at the time is now named after him."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_M…

#BlackHistory #racism

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CATO’s Missing #DOGE Model: DOGE Is a Pro-Russian Intelligence Operation - emptywheel.net/2025/03/18/cato… " six possible models to explain what DOGE is doing."
#Doge




More amazing images from space, this time featuring the god of dread.

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/her…



#Google war mal wieder einkaufen und hat sich für 32 Milliarden den Cloud Security Anbieter Wiz einverleibt.
wiz.io/blog/wiz-joining-google


I've told every student I've taught in the last decade that you should read the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, not just so that you are able to commit these small acts of sabotage, but more importantly so you can recognize these things as deliberate sabotage, when they're being done to you.

cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e09…

in reply to mhoye (temporarily spooky)

i really *really* wish there was a link outside of cia.gov to access this file
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in reply to Frankie ✅

The image shows the interior of a refrigerator with multiple shelves filled with eggs. The eggs are predominantly white, arranged neatly in rows. On the bottom shelf, there is a noticeable mix of white and brown eggs, with the brown eggs interspersed among the white ones. The eggs are uniform in size and shape, with a smooth, glossy surface. The refrigerator's interior is white, and the shelves are also white, providing a clean and organized appearance. The text at the top of the image reads: "A good DM will mix up a treasure horde to make it value appropriate for the current campaign setting..."

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in reply to Frankie ✅

treasure horde


Tsk tsk to whoever made the original image macro.



"You don’t fight fascism because you are going to win, you fight fascism because it is fascism."

Jean-Paul Sartre

fightfascism.glitch.me/
@stefan

#Fascism #Quote #Sartre

in reply to Stefan Bohacek

Oh my god, they removed the Simple Sabotage Field Manual from hsdl.org/?abstract&did=750070!

"Content on this platform is being reviewed and removed to align with the President’s executive orders and DoD/DHS priorities.
Until that review is complete, site content is not available."



Farewell Photoshop? Google’s new AI lets you edit images by asking. - arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/far… " New experimental AI allows no-skill photo editing, including removing watermarks. But it's not perfect. " it's coming...


Das Auswärtige Amt ist gerade noch mit einer dreihunderttägigen Prüfung beschäftigt. Daher übernehme ich bis dahin den Job, und spreche eine generelle Reisewarnung für die USA aus.
tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/…



New: internal memos we obtained under FOIA reveal how agencies complied with Trump's anti-trans order. The documents explain exactly how different agencies are seeking to purge the notion that trans people exist. Also, shows FOIA is still working, somewhat

404media.co/public-records-rev…

in reply to Joseph Cox

As this piece says, we don't put our FOIA reporting behind a paywall. We've done this since launch. FOIA reporting can be expensive (just today talking about a request that will cost thousands) but you can't charge for FOIA reporting freedom.press/issues/wired-is-…


Former Boss Of $42.5B Broadband Subsidy Program Warns It’s Being Ruined To Benefit Elon #Musk - techdirt.com/2025/03/18/former… surely not...
#musk


How a European #media platform could protect #democracy - netzpolitik.org/2025/whatever-… "We cannot counter propaganda on social media with laws. What is needed is a platform for European news – in all European languages. This is technically possible. We just need the political will"


Italian newspaper says it has published world’s first #AI-generated edition - theguardian.com/technology/202… "Il Foglio says artificial intelligence used ‘for everything – the writing, the headlines, the quotes … even the irony’" this may not be the flex it thinks it is... #italy #journalism


Peru declares state of emergency amid crime wave

Peru's president has ordered the deployment of soldiers to help address a surge in violence a day after the killing of popular singer Paul Flores

independent.co.uk/news/world/a…

#news #politics #peru #violence #stateofemergency



DOGE cuts to USDA may open door to invasive species, higher food prices
Food inspectors and disease-sniffing dog handlers remain out of work as food spoils.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
in reply to Ars Technica

it’s win-win because once our previously functioning government services start performing poorly the same people who vandalized them will be the first to tell us it’s proof government doesn’t work and more cuts are in order! Don’t be fooled.


New EV battery boasts 5-min charge time, adding 250 miles of range
The new batteries can charge at 10C, with fast chargers peaking at 1,000 kW.
arstechnica.com/cars/2025/03/n…
in reply to Ars Technica

I keep seeing BYD in news, and I keep thinking how they are already better than Tesla (low bar), and improving faster.


UPDATE: The number is now 761. As they say, "A bigger number a day keeps the doctor away". That is an actual thing people say. I've heard it said, both on television and inside an Applebee's.
gofund.me/711f1548


The debugging lights look pretty, but they shouldn’t be doing this. I think the bodge on the 555 timing circuit isn’t working as expected. Time to look at this again.


I think the part of this that I don't understand is that... I'd thought that if you can get deterministic results about password compromise by comparing only hashes then those hashes are either unsalted or otherwise being mishandled at some step in the process.

I also didn't think that "unrelated accounts used by unrelated people coincidentally have the same password" is the same as "this password is compromised".

What am I missing?

blog.cloudflare.com/password-r…

blog.cloudflare.com/helping-ke…

in reply to mhoye (temporarily spooky)

I haven’t used that service, but if it’s equivalent to AWS’s version, it only checks username-password combinations, not individual passwords. I imagine there’s a client-side component that hashes the credentials and submits them to an API, where they can be checked. I don’t know how they’d avoid a rainbow table attack though, unless the client is also generating a unique salt for each request, which would be computationally expensive at the point of comparison.
in reply to mhoye (temporarily spooky)

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You ever listen to the opening bars of a song and know for a fact that there's a chase scene involving a Chevy Nova in your immediate future?

esq.social/@D_J_Nathanson/1141…

duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=chevy…



The Linux-based Steam Deck and other Windows-powered gaming handhelds may have seized the spotlight in recent years. But Qualcomm still sees potential in Android handhelds, which the company is trying to bring back into the game. pcmag.com/news/hands-on-with-q…



fedoramagazine.org/announcing-…
in reply to Matthew Miller

Are the desktop spins also released in the beta? Can't find a link for the new Cosmic Spin for F42 beta.


Checking In On the ISA Wars and Its Impact on CPU Architectures

hackaday.com/2025/03/18/checki…



#Bundestag prepares to vote on historic borrowing package in key test for #Merz - theguardian.com/world/2025/mar… <fingers crossed/> #germany #ukraine


Well the display on my fridge is going well.

- Bin collection, polled from council's web site.
- Weather condition from an API
- Temp from my local weather station
- Grid power from Glow meter MQTT posts
- Solar from inverter by MODBUS/TCP
- Sunrise/set.
- DEFCON from FireBrick monitoring which kids are in house using DHCP.

epd.revk.uk/

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in reply to RevK

I have which folk are in our house using HomeAssistant but I have to say that I do love your DEFCON level. 😂


Linux User Space makes videos about the history of various Linux distributions and Linux-related software. You can follow at:

➡️ @linuxuserspace@tilvids.com

There are already 26 videos uploaded, if they haven've federated to your server yet you can browse them all at tilvids.com/a/linuxuserspace/v…

You can also follow their general social media account at @linuxuserspace@mastodon.social

#FeaturedPeerTube #Linux #ComputingHistory #Distros #GNULinux #RetroComputing #PeerTube #PeerTubers



Teens who supported Trump during his first term became less aware of systemic
#racism over time, while those who opposed him grew more conscious of racial inequalities. An adolescent development scholar explains: theconversation.com/trumps-fir… #politics


With GIMP 3 releasing of course the stupid name arguments start up again, if they want to change it they will, if they don't they won't. A name change won't make the application any more popular, it'll still be GIMP and it'll still be in the same state functionality wise. But it's so much easier to argue about a name than it is to address the hard stuff. Regarding the projects stance have a read of the FAQ gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#i-d…

This is the last I'm going to say on it, see you in a few years.



Am Freitag kam die Frage auf:
Wie finde ich weitere Accounts zum Folgen?

Die Standardantworten hatte ich gegeben.
Siehe fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accoun…

Weitere Möglichkeit ist, speziellen 'trending'-bots zu folgen. Ich folge z.B.:
@hypebot und @TrendingBoost

fedihum.org hat trending nicht aktiviert; das geht entweder automatisch oder mit menschliches Kuratieren.
Gegen ersteres hatten wir uns am Anfang entschieden, für letzteres haben wir nicht genug Kapazitäten.

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in reply to Henrik Schönemann

Hashtag-Raten bzw. -Suchen kann auch zu Leuten führen, die was interessantes zu sagen haben. Ich hab so #histodons (Geschichte) gefunden, und #FediLZ (Lehrpersonenzimmer im Fediverse). Und den Leuten, die dort posten, kannst du wiederum folgen.


Teens in Colorado face more #abortion barriers than adults. A nursing professor explains how parental consent laws continue to be a major hurdle for many young people seeking care buff.ly/qvXT3ZL



"One of the first types of cyberattacks anyone learns about is the brute force attack. This is a type of hack that relies on rapid trial-and-error to guess a password. ...

The best way to think of the slop and spam that generative AI enables is as a brute force attack on the algorithms that control the internet and which govern how a large segment of the public interprets the nature of reality."

~ Jason Koebler

#AI #SocialMedia #algorithms
/1

404media.co/ai-slop-is-a-brute…

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Well, as long as the GNU-slash-IMP folks are mad at me, I should go for broke and irritate everyone. Someone's got to be debbie downer and I guess today it's me.

Does @gnome support the use of a slur for a project they're hosting? Because from where I sit, they appear to, and I feel like hosting this project might be a violation of their CoC.

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp

in reply to Veronica Explains

why don't they just renamed it "Wilber" after the mascot tbh? It's easy to remember, it doesn't spit in the face of disabled people, they can keep all other branding the same, and it's a fairly unique name, which is a big advantage in a time where the biggest companies in the world are called "Meta" and "Alphabet".

(So long as they ditch the "Wilber is his own species, a gimp" shtick with it. That's a raccoon if ever I saw one.)

in reply to Veronica Explains

Hm. Gnome uses GitLab. So they're probably fine with it, as they also support apps, where the team behind it actively supports DOGE and therefore the Trump administration.

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