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Also his father was a teaching at Columbia, so it's not like they didn't know who he was when reviewing his application. Still got rejected tho so everyone can just relax
RT: ioc.exchange/users/jgreig/stat…

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Attached: 1 image we had an entire news cycle 12 months ago about how honorable it is that outlets didnt cover the Trump emails stolen by Iran now the NYT is using documents stolen during a criminal cyberattack on Columbia University to try and und…
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Residents evacuated as firefighters secure unstable building in Plateau

ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/re…

tl;dr owner is MIA, City won't do anything, but endanger peoples lives.

What useless City administration there is. If they wanted to build a pipeline they would have razed the block for sure.

My tax dollars at work.


Part of Parc Avenue blocked off, apartments evacuated after building threatens to collapse

The Montreal fire department (SIM) was dispatched to an apartment building at risk of collapsing Friday evening in the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough.
Erika Morris (CTVNews)

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I am back online! 🎉
On friday at cca 12:00 we had a partial electricity outage in half of the city of #Prague and several other areas in #Czechia
The electricity came back on friday at 16:00.
But internet? #Vodafone was fixing it in my area until now, Sunday 16:30.
For a #selfhoster like me is internet outage quite annoying, but now I am back online.
Screenshot from Home Assistant saying internet was disconnected for almost 49 hours.
#czechia #Prague #Vodafone #selfhoster
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Štěpán Škorpil

@psh the worst part was their support. You don't know anything. They have the web page to check outages on your address, but it showed all green up until saturday noon. Even though I called them several times to report the outage.
And their support line. Uff. Nightmare. First you need to talk to a robot to get to the waiting line. But not the old one "press 6 for internet services". They now have something that recognizes voice inputs. So sometimes I ended up in a loop of "sorry I didn't hear you properly". And after all that, it sometimes just hangs up on you. Terrible.
@psh
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Jens Finkhäuser

@isotopp I'm poking at a wasp nest here, but just for the fun of it, "if only you'd been using C++"...

🤷‍♂️

For context, @bagder and I had a quick exchange on C++ in the cURL code base some years ago, with the result it wasn't desired, and for understandable reasons (TL;DR).

Of course it means I didn't get to submit some patches, which makes a a tiny bit sad still. Hence the, uh, let's call it a tongue in cheek comment 😊

@daniel:// stenberg:// @Kris

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We were interviewed by @ El Pais 💪

Read how Tuta, the German project that guarantees confidentiality, stands up to Google.

When Edward Snowden alerted the world to the vulnerability of our digital lives, the company was already operating a secure email service from Hanover. Today, it has 10 million users and is offering an alternative model to the omnipresent Google environment.

And that's how it all started 11 years ago... 😍

👉 elpais.com/eps/2025-07-02/tuta…

Screenshot from the El Pais website of the interview with Tuta Co-founders Arne and Matthias.

Tuta, el proyecto alemán que garantiza confidencialidad digital y planta cara a Google

Cuando Edward Snowden puso al mundo en alerta ante lo vulnerable de nuestra vida digital, la compañía ya operaba desde Hannover un servicio de ‘e-mail’ seguro.
Almudena de Cabo (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)
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JADe (he, him)

Gracias. Dejo aqui la carnita del artículo, puesto que es de pago:

"En concreto, cuentan con un cifrado basado en algoritmos que son seguros contra ordenadores cuánticos. “Somos la única empresa en el mundo que usa estos algoritmos”, señalan. “En los últimos años hemos visto que se siguen haciendo avances en el desarrollo de los ordenadores cuánticos y, en algún momento, serán tan potentes y avanzados que el cifrado que se utiliza hoy en día en la mayoría de los productos será relativamente fácil de descifrar. No sabemos cuándo pasará, pero sucederá. Y nuestro producto ya es inmune a ello”, detallan.

Las grandes tecnológicas recopilan muchos más datos ahora que hace años. “Le estoy dando una imagen completa de mi personalidad. Hace 20 años eso no era así, porque no se recibían tantos correos privados”, recuerda Pfau. “Cuando empezamos, mucha gente decía: ‘Yo no tengo nada que ocultar’. Ahora, aunque sigue habiendo algunos que piensan así, es cierto que hay mucha más gente que se preocupa por este tema, no solo por las revelaciones de Snowden, sino también por el comportamiento de las grandes empresas que manejan los datos. Hay muchísimas filtraciones”, comenta.

Dos parrafos claves más en mi siguiente comentario.

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this week’s @gnome foundation report is out:

blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/07…

there’s a small appeal at the end for some help for a hacker who is currently in an unsafe situation in the usa. if you can help, please contact me.

#gnome


2025-07-05 Foundation Update

## The Cat's Out Of The Bag Since some of you are bound to see this Reddit comment, and my reply, it's probably useful for me to address it in a more public forum, even if it violates my "No...
Steven Deobald (The Everyone Environment)
#gnome @GNOME

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אידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״איך װיל זײַן אַ צדיק״ אױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון מאיר גאָלדשטײַן

Yiddish Song of the Day: "I Want To Be A Righteous Jew" performed by Meir Goldstein #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay

youtube.com/watch?v=inPbtzNJAt…


איך וויל זיין א צדיק - מאיר גולדשטיין Meir Goldshtein I

ישראל הירשמן מגיש:׳השראות - מאיר גולדשטיין׳כשאתם צופים בקליפ שלפניכם ומקשיבים בלב פתוח - תוכלו לחוש את ההשראה אותה קיבל זמר החתונות הידוע מאיר גולדשטיין מהשי...
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#yiddish #yiddishsongoftheday

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Brits can sleep safely tonight, after the heroic work of the Metropolitan Police. The Reverend Sue Parfitt, 83, a retired priest, was arrested in Parliament Square for holding a sign which read:

“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”

Under British law, this now puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist. The courts may impose a prison sentence of up to 14 years, to protect the public against the existential threat posed by this very dangerous woman.

The picture shows a white-haired woman wearing a dark jacket over a priest's vestments (with color visible) and carrying a wooden cane. She is being escorted by a police officer, while other police officers are visible in the background.
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Check out exciting special offers for #NFB25 and #ACB2025 from Orbit Research. Details at orbitresearch.com/special-offe… #A11y #BrailleForAll #inclusion #OrbitReaderQ20 #OrbitReaderQ40 #OrbitSpeak #OrbitSpeakPlus #OrbitPlayer
Orbit Speak Plus image shows the front View where you can see perkin style keyboard and cursor navigation pads and rocker keys. The device has Orbit Speak logo. Also on the right you will see the USB C port and in the front there is SD card slot.
Premium Bundles: Include an extended warranty for an additional year and padded carrying case!
Premium Bundles: Include an extended warranty for an additional year and padded carrying case!
Image of a black orbit player control labeled "Orbit Player." The remote features a numeric keypad with buttons 0-9, an "OK" button in the center, directional arrows, and additional buttons for functions like home and settings. The design is modern and ergonomic, with white buttons standing out against the black background. On the right side you will find the volume up and down button and also you will find the power on/off button.

Special Offers

Special offers for the ACB & NFB 2025 convention (Valid from Jul 6th to July 13, 2025).  Available to customers in the US while supplies last! Bundles with Turtleback leather luxury carrying cases
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#a11y #inclusion #orbitspeak #brailleforall #orbitreaderq20 #orbitreaderq40 #orbitspeakplus #orbitplayer #nfb25 #acb2025

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Ah, the joys of someone new discovering Eloquence's nifty little feature of assuming everything is a state acronym. An Alaska-47 rifle, a South Dakota card... applevis.com/forum/macos-mac-a…

Eloquents voice reading US state | AppleVis

Hello community members I noticed an interesting behaviour of the eloquence voice introduced by Apple in iOS 16 no idea when did it become available for Mac. I am mainly using this voice on my Mac with VO.
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Just found out that George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, written around 1948, describes a "versificator" that composes the words for songs "entirely by mechanical means" simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/n…

A quote from Nineteen Eighty-Four

There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, …
Simon Willison’s Weblog
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miki

It's one of those rare pieces of SciFi that gets more and more believable as time passes instead of less and less.

The telescreen, the speakwrite, the versificator, invasive surveillance, editing npast newspaper issues to suppress inconvenient truths, we now have the tech to do it all.

Where most sci-fi from the 60s and 70s feels outdated now, 1984 (which was written much earlier) just feels... a little bit quaint in terms of the vocabulary used to describe modern technology, otherwise it's spot on.

As an aside, I wish we had a modern 1984 rewrite that took what we now know and have into account. Instead of telescreens and the thought police, mandatory wristbands with a speech recognition chip and an AI system that traces political dissidents via meeting location graphs. The original is out of the public domain in most places, so such a book could realistically and legally be written. There's one I know of from the 80s (which is just as spot on), but it was written by a Polish author, and, at least to my knowledge, sadly never translated to English.

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Watch this delightful talk on the importance of actually measuring the energy use of your code (and systems), recently held by @bert_hubert!

youtu.be/XntLynSlYjI?si=VzsDXa…


Bert Hubert - Save the world, write more efficient code

"Save the world, write more efficient code!" - as if we need an excuse! But seriously, we are surrounded by sluggish systems. And this is not just irritating...
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@bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦

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🎸 Šestasedmdesátiletý Ozzy s těžkou Parkinsonovou chorobou stále dokáže ovládnout pódium a uchvátit každého diváka. 🤘 Hudba, která bude žít navždy.
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#ozzy75 #BackToTheBeginning

Ozzy Osbourne & Black Sabbath full show - Back to the beginning 2025

I hope you enjoy this video, Support the channel with donations in https://vaki.co/es/vaki/Concierto-Herney00:00 Ozzy Entrance to Back to the beginning01:35 ...
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new FreeBSD bridge(4) review: “bridge: add defvlanfilter and defuntagged options" reviews.freebsd.org/D51176

this lets you do:

$ ifconfig bridge0 defvlanfilter defuntagged 1

... which causes all newly-added member interfaces to have VLAN filtering enabled and be in VLAN 1 (only).

then your VM/jail management tools (vm-bhyve, …) can continue using 'ifconfig addm' to add bridge members and don't need to know about VLAN configuration.

fun fact: this is how most people expect bridge(4) to work already, but it is not how bridge works already! in reality, all bridge members have access to all VLANs by default, and before VLAN filtering there was no way to restrict this at all.

i wonder how many systems accidentally allow jails/VMs to access their host management VLAN because of this?

for that reason (among others) i'd like to make this the default configuration of bridge(4) in a future version... 15.0 may be too early, though. but we should document this better.

#freebsd

⚙ D51176 bridge: add defvlanfilter and defuntagged options

reviews.freebsd.org
#freebsd

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I just heard about Archive Team Warrior, where you can donate some of your internet bandwidth to helping the Internet Archive do its work. In under half an hour, I had the container running on my home server. The documentation talks about VMs, but Docker is also an option.

Project site: warrior.archiveteam.org/

Link to a docker compose file (remember to add your environment variables or map config.json): github.com/ArchiveTeam/warrior…


warrior-dockerfile/docker-compose.yml at master · ArchiveTeam/warrior-dockerfile

A Dockerfile for the ArchiveTeam Warrior. Contribute to ArchiveTeam/warrior-dockerfile development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Tesla's so-called "autopilot" turns off automatically a fraction of a second before a crash, so the driver can be blamed even though the driver has no time to respond. (It's been that way for more than a year since originally publicly documented by the NHTSA, this is clearly a choice someone made.)

theguardian.com/technology/202…

And while Tesla management clearly just loves doing terrible things, an individual engineer implemented this.

You don't want to be that engineer:

1. It's immoral, and a dereliction of your professional duty.
2. If your action ever goes to court, there will be some very expensive lawyers trying their best to make you the scapegoat and claim you are either incompetent or malicious, but you very definitely did this on your own.

And most of the time the things you'll be asked to do aren't as bad. I know someone who was asked by their manager to put a CE mark on products that were from the non-CE factory. These devices weren't safety critical, this wasn't going to kill anyone. But it's still fraud, and the incentive was still there for the company to make this engineer the scapegoat.

The engineer said "no"... and that was the end of it. Sometimes that's all it takes to enforce standards.

If "no" isn't enough, asking for something in writing (signed and dated) is a good next step. Chances are that will be the end of it, and meanwhile you can start looking for a new job.


‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing

Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles.
Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 16 updated and 1 added apps:

* Cash On Track: a simple app to help plan and track your money 🛡️

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid
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