Kwanzaa Facts
1. Kwanzaa is a made up holiday.
2. So is every other holiday.
3. Anyone can celebrate Kwanzaa.
4. It was created by Black, (mostly American and Christian*) people in the 1970s to celebrate Black history and the influence of African culture in the African diaspora and to assert the presence of Black people in US culture.
5. Most Black Americans don't celebrate Kwanzaa.
6. It is not a holiday tied to any particular religion.
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Tuta #Wrapped2025: How we fought #ChatControl ⚔️
✅ Published an open letter
✅ Made noise on social media
✅ Wrote directly to politicians
✅ Gave interviews
And finally convinced politicians that #encryption must not be broken. 🔐🎉
Check out what happened in 2025, and stay tuned for the 2026 fight against #AgeVerification ✊
Just read from a #ccc toot that German Bundestag is ... Aagaaaiin ... Trying to bring IP collection / storing into discussion... While all the previous attempts have been ruled illegal by highest German court
Raging headache, left ear is just about completely blocked.
Hey, I know. Let's get on an airplane during one of the busiest travel days of the year!
Yes, what a fantastic idea!
Today is going to be so much fun, I can tell.
It's definitely been an interesting time here at LGA.
TSA was being extra slow and TSA-ish today. I had a Ubiquiti U6 Mesh access point in my suitcase, which looks suspiciously like an aerosol can, so they had pointed questions about that.
Then, the gate for my flight changed five times. First, it was gate 30, then 31, back to 30, then 18, then 29.
So I'm sitting here at gate 29 hoping for the best.
I should be boarding in a few minutes, so there is still time for a couple more gate changes just for fun.
Adventní countdown dnes doběhl, Stromečkovice jsou za rohem, takže nám nezbývá, než vám popřát pěkné Vánoce, pod jedli hodně investičních paměťových modulů a do nového roku rychlé internetové připojení.
Slibujeme, že i příští rok budeme u nás na OSCLOUD makat na lepším a svobodnějším pracovním i zábavním prostředí na internetu!
@archos @cynik_obecny
@schmaker
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China cracked the US ‘super code’ that controls most power grids in the world. Breakthrough could shake-up global tech markets with nations able to run their own grids and break away from US dominance. 🎉
In addition to achieving an average computational efficiency that surpasses leading American solvers by 14 per cent, Tianquan’s computational error is also 23 per cent lower than that of US solvers and the computational stability is 21 per cent superior.
Trump lifts more sanctions on Putin:
This time companies delivering equipment to Putin’s war machine get taken of the US sanctions list.
You read that right: In the oval office sits a president who wants to help companies delivering equipment to the Russian military.
I truly hope the American people stop the Russian collaborator at the midterm elections in 2026.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/19…
Treasury dropped sanctions on Cyprus, Dubai, Turkish, and Finnish firms tied to Russian military supplies - without explanation.Benjamin Murdoch (Euromaidan Press)
OSCloud je komunitní, open-source a bez reklam.
Běží díky lidem, kteří chtějí svobodné a soukromí respektující služby.
🎄 Vánoce jsou dobrá chvíle zastavit se a podpořit projekty, které dávají smysl.
👉 Pokud vám OSCloud dává smysl, zvažte finanční podporu.
Pomůžete udržet infrastrukturu a rozvoj služeb pro všechny.
oscloud.cz/co-to-bude-stat/
#oscloud #opensource
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@pluralistic Every business is a bank now
Sorry your Iphone is bricked until you pay up
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Apple says it can now collect any money a developer owes the tech giant at any time.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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Does anyone have a copy of “Porting Xenix to the Unmapped 8086” by Hare and Thomas? Proceedings of the Winter USENIX Conference 1984.
C’mon. I know one of you has to have a copy.
In the first draft of the Black Mirror episode for this scenario, a Waymo exec has a medical crisis and the ambulance can't get there on time because the streets are choked with Waymos.
In the final script, Waymo invites PG&E employees to their blowout holiday party, with free Waymo pickups. Most of the staff is in those Waymos when the power goes out; they're stuck all over the city, unable to solve the problem.
The episode is called "Vendor Lock-In"
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SF’s is having a massive power outage. We ended up having to drive across SF to find a laundromat to dry our soaking wet laundry. Here’s my two observations: every third block is a traffic jam caused by a confused Waymo that doesn’t know how to handle these intersections with no power. Why are the Waymo’s even allowed to drive right now?Also, considering how much of our city’s budget goes to the cops, why aren’t any of them directing traffic? I mean, it’s not like SFPD is busy solving crime…
#SanFrancisco #Waymo #AI #Doom edit: I’m adding #WayMogeddon
SF’s is having a massive power outage. We ended up having to drive across SF to find a laundromat to dry our soaking wet laundry. Here’s my two observations: every third block is a traffic jam caused by a confused Waymo that doesn’t know how to handle these intersections with no power. Why are the Waymo’s even allowed to drive right now?
Also, considering how much of our city’s budget goes to the cops, why aren’t any of them directing traffic? I mean, it’s not like SFPD is busy solving crime…
#SanFrancisco #Waymo #AI #Doom edit: I’m adding #WayMogeddon
A fabulously gay blind author.sightlessscribbles.com
When the lights go out in San Francisco
Where do the Waymos go
To continue their incessant beeping and honking
Circling aimlessly to and fro
How do the tech bros survive their life
With no ChatGPT to consult
How do they even feed themselves
Without delivery drivers to insult?
What happens to all the data centers
When the generators run out of fuel
Does the Internet just shut down
Who will the oligarchs rule?
Maybe we should just keep the lights out
And all go early to bed
Since if we keep the powering the AI machines
We may all end up, dead.
Long discussion on the orange website about the NIST's Boulder NTP site being down. Not a lot of people with practical experience in the topic.
NTP is designed to function as a tree model, rooted in "stratum 0" NTP servers with direct time references. Actual clients are expected to interact with lower-stratum servers that themselves synchronize to higher-stratum servers. Generally any NTP server with a GPS time reference is considered suitable for stratum 0, and the vast, vast majority of real-world NTP/PTP deployments are ultimately working off of one or more GPS references. GPS operates from the Naval Observatory clock via a few different layers of indirection, each of which has its own high-precision oscillators to allow plenty of holdover. Purpose-built stratum 0 servers, used e.g. in data centers, have their own precision reference oscillators for holdover should the GPS lock be lost. Basically any real problem in this space would probably evolve pretty slowly.
The NIST NTP servers have always suffered from high load, to the extent that they've sometimes been unresponsive in the past. Synchronizing devices directly to these NTP servers is a bad practice, discouraged by the NIST and now mostly gone from default configs. That limits the impact of an outage a lot. The authenticated service is intended to help with the load-related reliability issues but presumably its users are sophisticated enough that their stratum-1 will be fine. Most clients are interacting with lower-stratum NTP servers operated by, for example, ntppool.org. These track multiple stratum-0 references and will be fine with the loss of one of the NIST sites.
There are probably still a bunch of stupid clients that try NIST Boulder NTP servers exclusively (I know some old network appliances shipped like this by default), and they might be a little driftier than usual for a while, but I wouldn't expect any of these to be important as they were pretty much already misconfigured.
Big picture, the NTP system is very big and very distributed and the NIST Boulder site has no real significance beyond name recognition---the same name recognition that made it a poor choice for most purposes.
This is how I feel about Firefox too. There's no alternative. No, really, Librewolf is Firefox, who exactly do you think you're sticking it to? And Vivaldi is a proprietary browser built on Google's engine, you're sticking it to nobody but yourself. Oh, you're switching to Servo? Not this decade you're not.
Mozilla CEOs have always been incompetent, but there's no other alternative outside of the direct control of people who are many orders of magnitude worse. We support Firefox or we lose the web.
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I don't think I'll stop using Firefox anytime soon.
Yes, their management are fucking idiots and it's annoying that I'll have to disable new AI features whenever they release them..But the alternative is to use something Chromium-based, which would make Google's domination of web technology absolute - and Google is 100x more evil than Mozilla ever could be.
I hope this fucking bubble pops before Mozilla fucks up Firefox so badly that it becomes completely unusable
Hey #Mastodon people, the #blogging hashtag is pretty cool because I get to see blog posts from folks I would otherwise not meet. Can you recommend any other hashtags where people share their essays or fiction?
PS: I don't really want a hashtag where people share their thoughts about writing and such. I am inundated with those lol. I want actual pieces so I can find new folks to read ✌️
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