These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
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Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.
propublica.org/article/educati…
#News #Education #Public #Schools #Teaching #Family #Children
For various reasons, finding gainful employment as a disabled person tends to be difficult for most people, so I wanted to write down my experiences.Mike Gorse (Chronicles from an unstable era)
Debian will likely ship a GRUB with proper SBAT lines — maybe in the next point release or Debian 14.
Until then, every new laptop with the updated dbx revocations and stricter SBAT enforcement will reject Debian’s signed GRUB unless you set previous policy. This is making me very sad. Linux gets me, yet again.
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You can get the old (Windows 7-era) Task Manager back, which has the advantage of not being hideously slow:
winaero.com/how-to-get-the-cla…
I also found a couple of articles about alternative programs it might be worth exploring (note these are mainstream articles so don't necessarily consider accessibility):
xda-developers.com/alternative…
digitalcitizen.life/best-free-…
windowsforum.com/threads/top-4…
techviral.net/alternatives-to-…
tweaklibrary.com/windows-task-…
Hopefully there is something in all of those!
You should be using one of these alternatives to the Windows Task Manager.Anurag Singh (XDA)
xAI to Raise $20 Billion After Nvidia and Others Boost Round
> Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is raising more financing than initially planned, tapping backers including Nvidia Corp. to lift its ongoing funding round to $20 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
archive.is/2025.10.08-081137/b…
raymondpert.wordpress.com/2025…
#ElonMusk #NVDA #sticks #Nvidia #xAI #finance
This asset-backed financing model could serve as a template for other tech firms looking to manage high debt exposure while building expensive AI infrastructure. Published: October 8, 2025 Elo…raymondpert
In many countries there are laws against dumping. So why do we allow all this AI crap to be sold under cost? Why are Governments complicit of this ecocide?
(rhetorical questions)
If every country starts requiring that people provide official ID in order to "verify their age" to use social media, there will be no way to use any social media without associating the account with a legal identity.
This is horrible for democracy,
and should terrify everyone.
It doesn't matter if platforms use third-parties or not. It doesn't matter if they use some special encrypted code, the result is the same. This gatekeeps open discussions and government criticisms free from reprisals.
This is bad.
This is China "free-speech" bad.
This is not true, there are cryptographic protocols that let you verify some assertion about your identity without revealing anything else about yourself.
The simplest, low-tech solution would be to require a single-use scratch card to sign up for any website. Stores could then be required to verify ID before such a scratchcard could be sold, just like they do now for alcohol and cigarettes.
I submitted my #kqueue support for sound(4) on #FreeBSD. I hope we will polish it soon enough. reviews.freebsd.org/D53029
cc @JdeBP
@feld
Back when OSS was designed, keeping an output buffer filled to avoid stuttering or reading from a microscope input source before the ring buffer looped and you lost samples was hard. You basically wanted to read or write whenever you had cycles because otherwise you couldn’t keep up.
Since then, computers have become a lot faster and now sound is a very low data rate device. Rather than hammering the sound device as often as you can, you want to be told the microphone buffer has passed some watermark level (so you can process a reasonable number of samples at once) or the sound output buffer is below a watermark level (so you can give it a few ms more samples to write for interactive things, or a few seconds for things like music playback).
Things like music are great for this because you can decode a few tens of second and then sleep in a kevent loop just passing a new chunk to the device whenever it has a decent amount of space.
@feld @david_chisnall
More generally: #kqueue still has several ragged edges, compared to poll/select.
tty0.social/@JdeBP/11457405478…
tty0.social/@JdeBP/11457514245…
Every little helps in order to fill in all of these gaps.
@meka@bsd.network It is always welcome to see more kevent(), if only because it lets other people share my pain, in the hope that that increases the push for kevent() to be fully completed and as good as select().tty0.social
🇩🇪#Chatkontrolle jetzt offiziell von der Tagesordnung für den 14.10. gestrichen🥳: data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/d…
⚠️Bundesregierung arbeitet aber weiter an eigenem Vorschlag.
🗓️Nächstes EU-Innenministertreffen ist am 6./7.12.
🚫📡🔐Mission: Keine Massenscans, keine Hintertüren!
🇪🇺#ChatControl now officially removed from the agenda for Oct. 14th🥳: data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/d…
⚠️However, EU governments continue to work on the proposal.
🗓️The next meeting of EU interior ministers is on Dec. 6/7.
🚫📡🔐Mission: No mass scanning, no backdoors!
Periodic self-repetition: As a data librarian I can say that "AI" is not a matter of personal preference -- whether you like it or not, or whether you have found some use that you think is useful. It actively destroys organized knowledge, and therefore it actively destroys civilization.
Whenever someone looks for a human written text and can't find it because statistical near variants have been created and indexed, whenever "AI" "hallucinates" a reference, knowledge has been destroyed.
I've been trying to love myself more.
Is two times a day too often?
I think background music in public places -- stores, hair salons, dentist's offices, etc. -- might be generally a bad idea. It's impossible to pick music that pleases everyone, we can listen to music as much as we want in private, and background music tends to just add to the noise (on that last point I'm reminded of this song: youtube.com/watch?v=yzEncLnmUe…).
Was thinking about this as my mother and I were at Great Clips waiting to get our hair cut. I'm guessing she didn't like the music.
Provided to YouTube by ColumbiaAdding to the Noise · SwitchfootThe Beautiful Letdown (Deluxe Version)℗ 2003 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENTReleased on: 2007-12-...YouTube
"Canada Post exists to serve people, not shareholders, just like other many essential services that 'cost' Canadians millions per day. Think about it: Long-term care and personal support workers cost Canadian taxpayers millions a day. Should we close the old folks’ homes and put our seniors on the street? Public transit costs millions a day. Should we fire the bus drivers and make everyone walk? Public school support staff — crossing guards, lunch monitors, custodians — cost us millions a day. Do we fire them all and make those lazy teachers do everything?"
Maybe we'd finally be 'productive,' or 'ambitious,' or 'competitive' enough, then.
I’m a letter carrier. Canada Post exists to serve people, not shareholders, just like other essential services
thestar.com/opinion/letters-to…
How the Liberals changed course on Canada Post, Oct. 6Unknown (Toronto Star)
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Bored this Sunday? Use your downtime to learn How to Synth! Dive into the wonderful world of making weird synthesizer noises with my simple, hands-on guide. Still a work in progress, but there's plenty there to get you started!
Паглядзіце дакументалку пра НРМ.
youtu.be/e49klkZZHXw?si=NE1GHO…
Гэта сапраўднае кіно пра культавы беларускі гурт NRM. Яны пачыналі на аскепках свабоды і Мроі, вялі партызаншчыну і запісвалі найвядомейшыя песні ў гісторыі ...YouTube
> we used to drink in the office and datacenter regularly
did you guys ever get too rekt and start pulling ethernet cables out for 1000ms at a time? that's the sort of thing i would possibly consider. "oops latency, burp"
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They killed Ian Watkins lol
Shiv vs Pedo Prisoner
for you hax0rs: Google "AI" is currently vulnerable to prompt injection by "ASCII smuggling"—this is when you convert ASCII to Unicode tag characters, rendering them invisible to the user but visible to the LLM. here's how it's done:
gist.github.com/Shadow0ps/a7dc…
here's someone using this to make Google Calendar display spoofed information about a meeting:
firetail.ai/blog/ghosts-in-the…
others say summarising functions were affected too, so I wonder if you can add tag texts to your website and poison the Google so-called "AI summary" anti-feature.
ChatGPT filters out tag character but, usefully, Google is refusing to, so unless they get a backlash this might be a fun exploit to explore: pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/11/goo…
Researcher Viktor Markopoulos discovers ASCII Smuggling bypasses human audit via Unicode, enabling enterprise identity spoofing and data poisoning on Gemini & Grok.Alan Fagan (FireTail)
Well, well, I guess this had to happen eventually. Got my first music offer rejected by a film studio working on a documentary because "we got this covered by AI, but thank you very much for your kind offer."
The rejection itself doesn't really make me sad, this is perfectly normal and especially now the competition is huge. What makes me sad though is that this is a pretty big name in the industry, so it'll only get worse from here on. I sincerely hope I'm wrong.
David Dunphy
in reply to Mike Gorse • • •Mike Gorse
in reply to David Dunphy • • •I'm sorry, David. That kind of thing is incredibly frustrating. I hope you are able to find something soon.
Mike Gorse
Unknown parent • • •I'm sorry that you all are stuck in the middle like this, with this disfunctional government that we have.
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