Next time some politician tell they can't close tax loopholes that the rich exploit to pay less taxes than majority of Canadians, ask them why one can't save on PST anymore by ordering out of province?
For years, the payments industry was aggressive about cutting off access to websites accused of containing child sexual abuse material. Elon Musk changed that.
For those of you worried about the exposure of the UK state to the activities & money of Palantir, here's a diagram from The Nerve that is going to do nothing to reassure you at all....
For more details see the investigation published today by The Nerve.
EXCLUSIVE Nerve investigation finds Trump ally Peter Thiel's surveillance firm has won at least 34 contracts, including management services for Britain's nuclear deterrent, with MPs warning of 'gaping vulnerability' as US president threatens Nato all…
Every year, I share the memory book of the lost shtetl of Zaromb, near Treblinka. It is a haunting catalogue of horrors, compiled in 1946. One of the recurring themes of the accounts: Zarombers faced as much danger from Poles as they did from Germans.
“As we saw later, the Poles took an active part in the massacre of the Jews of Zaromb. Several days before, a number of Polish cart drivers had been given orders to be ready to transport the "Zshides" (derogatory term for Jews) of Zaromb. They kept that order secret.”
BTW, in Russian the word "zhid" (the first sound like S in meaSure), although coming from Yid (cf. Yiddish, the language of Yidn, i.e., Jews), is EXTREMELY rude. Just FYI, if you hear it (even if you don't understand Russian), 99% you're listening to an antisemite. 1% is for ironiccl use (as in "damned zionists still don't want to die and continue fighting hamas").
Die Kirchenzeitung hat mit mir einen Podcast gemacht. Es geht um: “Liebet eure Feinde”. Es geht auch ein bisschen um die #TZI und um die #Mediation (meine Lieblings-Arbeitsfelder neben dem Pfarramt).
Leider nur innerhalb des E-Papers (mit Anmeldung) und über Spotify zu hören. Bei Spotify könnt ihr ihn aber auch ohne Abo oder Anmeldung hören: open.spotify.com/episode/5qLpV…
Hm, keine Ahnung. Ich hab's probiert und es läuft entweder oder (bei Brave) er sagt mir, der Browser werde vom Player nicht unterstützt. Ich kenne mich halt mit Spotify null aus.
In the hours after a man was shot in Minneapolis, but before his name was released, @theverge's creative director Kristen Radtke was working on coverage of the aftermath. Then his name was announced, Alex Pretti, and she realized he was her childhood best friend. She writes about how they met, when he was three and she was four, the things they did together, and the person he was. "As social media does its work putting bits and pieces together about each day of unfolding tragedy, more and more of us will realize that those pieces belong to someone we know."
I have switched the repeater on my balcony in Munich from #meshtastic to #Meshcore and after 1 hour I already see nodes and repeaters in Zürich, Switzerland and many other places. Impressive. My repeater, a Heltec T114 with a decent antenna, named DE81827_01 is solar powered and has a 2200 mAh battery so it should JustWork™️ at all times :) Oh. And use the „EU/UK narrow“ radio settings as that is the popular default, but not the default after installing the firmware. Why? Dunno.
it's a pity that the Czech Meshcore community is using its own preset 'CZ narrow' making us effectively an island in 'EU narrow' networks. At least they are considering "bridges" in repeaters in bordering areas. But it's kinda amazing that I can communicate with someone 300 km away using just a community-built, resilient network.
yeah, it definitely defeats the united Europe spirit. I don't know the reasons behind it, it predates my involvement. I hope we will eventually make a switch to 'EU narrow' because it's better together.
@lyda it is LoRa only. There are some ideas how to combine it with networks based on other protocols such as Internet, but Meshcore stays LoRa only because routing traffic through Internet would not really make it resilient and independent. The network should withstand large blackouts because most repeaters run on solar energy. The Meshcore maximum throughput is something like 20 kbps, so really slow by today's standards, but enough for text.
@lyda true, but it's for integration on the end points. I haven't really seen something like bypassing traffic through a faster channel between two Meshcore nods. It's really all LoRa hops between repeaters. My maximum is 14 hops. I wonder what it's like in larger networks like in Germany. If the network really scales to dozens of hops (theoretical maximum is AFAIK 64).
An interview with Mozilla president Mark Surman about plans to deploy its ~$1.4B in reserves to fund an AI "rebel alliance" to challenge companies like OpenAI?
Mozilla is looking to deploy its roughly $1.4 billion in reserves to support "mission driven" companies and nonprofits, and is particularly focused on AI.
really? Huh. I know they changed some stuff about what constituted a presence in the province which triggered having to collect provincial tax. I used to order from a shoe store in Calgary (to ottawa) and they ended way back
Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar
As a proof of concept, we built a Matrix homeserver to Cloudflare Workers — delivering encrypted messaging at the edge with automatic post-quantum cryptography.
Tomorrow night join @Liz, for Full Circle from 7 P.M. eastern (US time). This week, the showcase returns for 2026, and in the third hour, Chickenman also returns. So tune in tomorrow night, and see who is hiding in the first showcase for 2026. HKCRadio.com
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