The Sundance Film Festival announces its new home: Boulder, Colorado
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5342419/sundance-new-home-boulder-colorado?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Movies @movies-npr
There is a really good privacy feature on Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse:
When you post a link on Mastodon etc, it remains exactly as you posted it. There is no analytics or tracking going on, no one is monitoring clicks on links.
By contrast, on Twitter/X and Bluesky the links people post are redirected so clicks can be monitored. We don't know exactly what Musk or Bluesky do with this info, but they do it by redirecting all links to sites they control (t.co & go.bsky.app).
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Chrome Zero-Day Flaw Also Affects Firefox
The finding is surprising since Firefox uses a different browser engine. But it looks like the flaw relates more to how browsers communicate with the Windows OS.Michael Kan (PCMag)
Trump Announces 25 Percent Tariffs on Imported Cars and Parts
The measure is intended to bring car factories to the United States but could increase prices for consumers significantly. The president said the tariffs will start next week.Ana Swanson (The New York Times)
Signal is not the place for top secret communications, but it might be the right choice for you β a cybersecurity expert on what to look for in a secure messaging app
Keeping your chats secure is a good idea, but end-to-end encryption is just the beginning of the list of options to consider when picking a messaging app.The Conversation
27 March 1922 | A Pole, WΕadysΕaw WoΕΊniczka, was born in KlimontΓ³w.
In #Auschwitz from 28 January 1943.
No. 96599
He was transferred to KL Sachsenchausen, then to KL Dachau, where he was liberated on 29 April 1945.
Man Rayβs Surrealist Cinema: Watch Four Pioneering Films From the 1920s
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Man Rayβs Surrealist Cinema: Watch Four Pioneering Films From the 1920s
Man Ray was one of the leading artists of the avant-garde of 1920s and 1930s Paris. A key figure in the Dada and Surrealist movements, his works spanned various media, including film.OC (Openculture.com)
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Novelty Records, Parodies, Weird Covers, Outsider Music, Oddities, Mashups, Comedy, Nonsense & Cringe.FunHouse Radio
Extremely cool JWST image alert! A baby star is throwing a tantrum a light-year long, and the new image solves a galactic mystery about it.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/newβ¦
New JWST image shows a colossal tantrum from a young star. Bonus coincidental galaxy, too!
βCosmic Tornadoβ seen clearly in new images. Also: Light pollution in central VirginiaBad Astronomy Newsletter
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Pretty Pico GPIO Indicator
One of our favourite sellers, 8086 Consultancy, is back with another nifty gadget for your Pi Picos! This board attaches to the header pins on the bottom of your Pico and provides a visual indicatoβ¦Tindie Blog
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Signal Chat Leak Angers U.S. Military Pilots
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/pilots-signal-leak.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Signal Chat Leak Angers U.S. Military Pilots
Men and women who have taken to the air on behalf of the United States expressed bewilderment after the leak of attack plans. βYouβre going to kill somebody,β one pilot said.Helene Cooper (The New York Times)
Musk and DOGE don't have to comply with discovery order, appeals court rules.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20β¦
Elon Musk and Trump win fight to keep DOGEβs work secret
Musk and DOGE donβt have to comply with discovery order, appeals court rules.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
More accurately, they don't have to comply with discovery order YET.
But it's very telling that Musk is trying to do all his work in secret. Meanwhile government lawyers continue to tell judges that Musk is NOT even in charge of "DOGE".
What is Signal, the app at center of White House security breach?
Here's what to know about chat app Signal.NBC Bay Area staff (NBC Bay Area)
Ecological disruptions are a risk to national security
Overfishing, disease and environmental crimes cause social and political instability, economic strife and strained international relations.The Conversation
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A surprising addition in patch notes for a 10-year-old CRPG classic.
arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/03β¦
I despise American commentators like Scott Jennings who peddle the Trump lie that tariffs are helpful, because they force companies to move factories to the US to avoid tariffs, and then there will be no price increase.
When a factory is placed in Mexico instead of the US, that is because it is cheaper to make a car in Mexico. If the same factory is then moved to the US as Trump wants, the cars produced will become more expensive to make. This will obviously raise consumer prices.
Perhaps economists on the thread can chime in with their favourite #FreeTrade and specialisation arguments. For the rest of us, we have to dig out #AdamSmith et al.
The world tried for decades to agree on unrestricted, international trade #WTO and now it's like you have to debate the underlying principles again.
High Altitude, Low Opening:
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edit: you've probably seen this before, this is just me collecting/polishing some previous opinion.
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Alabama Beaches Being Invaded By Strange Things
Something bizarre is happening and something even more bizarre is living in the water!95.3 The Bear
Did some smol hiking today.
The manmade wall is a condensation tube for, probably, lead extraction.
Usa lead miners of old were called bromans. Trust me, I saw that on internet.
As for these, they would be from the early 1800 up to 1950 (yep, THAT late), abandoned later. The lead mining was kinda barbaric, you calcinate the mineral and make the vapors go through tunnels as long as possible (hundreds of meters) so the lead itself condenses on the walls. Then use kids to rip it from the walls.
This is NYT five years ago today.
If the function of a chart is to convey info as quickly and indelibly as possible, this deserves a prize
Get one and start practicing in case you're ever transported back in time and need to prove your worth on a viking warship. Trust me, you do not want to embarrass yourself in front of Ragnar.
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β2 FTC members fired by #Trump sued him, setting up another major test of his administrationβs expansionist view of presidential authority over independent agencies.
Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoyaβs lawsuit seeks backpay & reinstatement under SCOTUS 90-year-old precedent that has enabled for-cause removal protections for independent agency leaders. β
REPORTER: The Signal chat controversy -- is DOJ involved? If so, why? If not, why not?
AG PAM BONDI: It was sensitive info, not classified. What we should be talking about is it was a very successful mission ... if you want to talk about classified information, talk about what was at Hillary Clinton's home
These grand Chinese plans come as NASA faces budget cuts.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/β¦
comments like this by non maga normies on this article pretty much explains why US is where it is and likes of UK and Europe will be heading the same way. These people will buy any bull crap from their politicians and media as long as it doesn't hurt their wealth, previledges and snowflakey feelings. They are just upset that a felon and his MAGA cult did that to them.
"They are definitely putting a ton of money into getting ready to kill a lot of people."
- Democracy Docket democracydocket.com/opinion/veβ¦
Vet Trumpβs Judicial Picks for Their Views on Presidential Power - Democracy Docket
We canβt afford to give the judicial branch any more opportunity to advance the unitary executive theory.Democracy Docket
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Stand Up for the Legal Profession - Democracy Forward
Stand Up for the Legal Profession β and the Rule of Law Lawyers, judges, and legal advocates share a commitment to the United States Constitution, the rule of law, and the role of the legal system in protecting the rights of all people and ensuring aβ¦Democracy Forward
Food is running out in Gaza nearly a month into Israeli blockade
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5342467/gaza-aid-israel-blockade?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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2xfo
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to 2xfo • • •The problem is Bluesky hides this redirect domain. The links you click on look like normal links, you can't see the redirect domain in any way, not even by hovering the mouse over it. Most people probably don't realise they are being redirected.
The only way you know about it is because the redirect URL very briefly flashes on the screen after clicking, and because Bluesky itself said they had introduced this.
Louis Ingenthron
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •@RnDanger Wow, yeah, that's a new one for me too... They're using plain <a href> tags. Must be hooking into the onclick event at a global level or something.
But, since it only applies to the mouse click events, you can right-click there and choose "open in new tab" and that bypasses their tracker.
2xfo
in reply to Louis Ingenthron • • •Does this tracking only function on bluesky pages then? That doesn't seem like something that would carry over with the original link
(I'm assuming plain text, maybe that's wrong of me)
Fedi.Tips
in reply to 2xfo • • •@RnDanger @louis
Yeah, it's just on the pages and embeds etc. If you copy-paste the link it works okay.
But most people won't bother doing that, they won't even see why they should do that because there's no direct clue about the redirect. π¦
Ruud Steltenpool
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •TheHCJ
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •The angry scav
in reply to TheHCJ • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to The angry scav • • •@khaleer @TheHCJ
I think HCJ means the redirect on Twitter/Bluesky is not great for privacy?
Alan
in reply to TheHCJ • • •@TheHCJ
There's nothing to stop Bluesky giving publishers a useful Referer [sic] and legally binding themselves from using that information for marketing.
They just don't.
(They also don't strictly need to use a redirect to track links themselves. But maybe the other way is not as good, idk).
TheHCJ
in reply to Alan • • •Alan
in reply to TheHCJ • • •@TheHCJ
I didn't remember that. For privacy-trap purposes, I think it's fair to be cynical. It'd be great to see a non-ad funded model, but it's fairly novel (ignoring user donations).
I was reading the privacy policy. They do allow themselves to use "personal information" for marketing.
Though, it doesn't explicitly say they can share it for marketing purposes. AFAIK, "partners with whom we jointly offer products or services" is not an accepted euphemism for 3rd party ads.
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Alan • • •SpaceLifeForm
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Does this still work?
It is all about Elmo after all.
t.co/elon
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in reply to SpaceLifeForm • • •@SpaceLifeForm
Pretty good π
Dsens
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •@PolGM
pour Bluesky on peut y Γ©chapper en faisant un glisser-dΓ©poser du lien vers un nouvel onglet, au lieu de cliquer dessus
(par sur Twitter, le lien est raccourci et passe forcΓ©ment par leur serveur)
stony kark
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Cecelia
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Iβd always assumed it protected the user from having their profile or group leaked to websites they visit (which is good IMO for privacy if thereβs not another way to achieve that). Hadnβt considered Facebook using it for tracking and did not look into getting more website-related metrics from them.
The most blatant tracking, of course, is when social media sites try to map your network of contacts with share IDs tacked onto URLs (or just unique URLs) you share.
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Cecelia • • •@helianthropy
Clicking on a direct link doesn't show your profile to websites? I've not heard that before?
Whatever info leaks to a website, it's the same whether you click directly or via a redirect. The redirect just leaks additional info to whoever controls the redirect site.
Cecelia
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •I didnβt mean that direct links donβt show your profile to websites, of course that would happen if following a link from someoneβs profile (at least on the web).
Looking at Google analytics for Facebook referrals in the past, I only saw a redirect URL as the referrer, not the URL of anyoneβs profile (same with Twitter). Facebook offered a more private experience by default, so it seemed to make sense to me that way. But itβs quite obvious now that they have nefarious uses for that data with tendrils that spread across the web to collect an entire profile about you.
Fedi.Tips
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