CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress over the company's faulty update that caused a global IT outage, to largely sympathetic House lawmakers (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)
Roku unveils the $100 Roku Ultra, which is 30% faster than its other streaming players and has Wi-Fi 6, HDMI 2.1, Dolby Atmos, the Voice Remote Pro, and more (Chris Welch/The Verge)
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! The Marriage Equality Bill has received royal endorsement and was published in the Royal Gazette, officially making #Thailand the first country in Southeast Asia to officially recognize same-sex marriage! It takes 120 days for laws to process here. In case you didn't know, I live in Thailand, my wife is Thai, and in 120 days we will be able to legally marry in Thailand, along with millions of other queer people who have waited SO LONG for this day. Love wins!! #LGBTQ
@Tamasg Oh thanks, but I do not have the COVID. I grabbed one of the free tests because of a WG chair in another room tested positive and I want to be able to be certain I am not also infected.
Marcellus Williams was sent to Missouri’s death row in 2001 for a murder he swore he did not commit.
Forensic testing of the knife used to murder Felicia Anne Gayle Picus revealed male DNA that did not belong to Williams, but he is scheduled to be executed tonight at 6 PM CST.
On the eve of Williams’s scheduled execution in 2017, then-Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens intervened, issuing an executive order that triggered a rarely used provision of Missouri law, empaneling a board to review the evidence, including DNA, that jurors never heard about at trial.
Gov. Mike Parson dissolved the panel before it could report its findings. interc.pt/48XNNmb
The day after Gov. Parson dissolved the panel, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey asked the state's Supreme Court to set an execution date for Williams.
The Midwest Innocence Project sued to block the governor from disbanding the board, saying his order violated state statute. interc.pt/48XNNmb
While the MO Supreme Court considered the dispute between AG Bailey and the Midwest Innocence Project, St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell asked the Missouri Circuit Court to consider evidence of Williams’s innocence and vacate his conviction.
“This never-before-considered evidence, when paired with the relative paucity of other, credible evidence supporting guilt … casts inexorable doubt on Mr. Williams’s conviction and sentence,” the motion read. interc.pt/42g2izG
Before Williams' first trial in 2001, the handle of the butcher's knife used in the murder had been analyzed for fingerprints, but none had been found; blood on the blade matched Picus.
In August, St. Louis County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Keith Larner testified in court that back then, he had concluded that there was no additional forensic testing that needed to be done on the murder weapon, so he repeatedly handled the weapon without using gloves. interc.pt/4g7TWkf
A new round of analysis confirmed that Williams’s genetic material was not on the knife, but it could not exclude either Larner or his investigator as the source of the unknown DNA.
Whatever DNA might have existed connecting the perpetrator to Picus’s murder was irretrievably lost — thanks to the prosecution’s handling of the evidence. interc.pt/4g7TWkf
According to St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell, the state’s willful mishandling of the evidence before trial had violated Williams’s rights, meaning his conviction and death sentence must be overturned. interc.pt/4g7TWkf
Bell’s office struck a deal with Williams on August 21. The prosecutor would concede constitutional error and take the death penalty off the table if Williams agreed to enter a so-called Alford plea that let Williams acknowledge a strong case against him while maintaining his innocence; the plea would let him avoid the death penalty by accepting a life sentence. interc.pt/4g7TWkf
But AG Bailey’s office ran to the Missouri Supreme Court, arguing that the judge didn’t have the power to agree to such a deal and that Williams should face execution. The court sided with Bailey, ordering the judge to hold a hearing on Bell’s motion to vacate the conviction as originally planned. interc.pt/4g7TWkf
Since being appointed to his post in 2023, Bailey has spent a considerable amount of time attempting to thwart state courts from exonerating the wrongly convicted — or even from considering their claims. interc.pt/4e0GPzY
On Sept. 12, the St. Louis County Circuit Court judge upheld Williams's murder conviction, ruling that the prosecutor who contaminated the evidence by handling it without wearing gloves had not acted in “bad faith,” but instead was merely following his normal procedure.
The ruling dismantled Williams’s latest attempt to prove his innocence and paved the way for his execution tonight. interc.pt/3ZkM3lt
Both the Missouri Supreme Court and Gov. Parson have refused to grant a stay of the execution, and now it's up to the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether to allow Williams's execution by lethal injection tonight to proceed or not.
Make sure to follow Jordan Smith as she covers the latest developments as they happen tonight.
Someone shared a comic I liked, but I noticed that somewhere in the chain, the artists name had been removed, so that stopped me. Reverse image searching proved surprisingly frustrating and involved diving into the cesspit of LinkedIn, but I eventually identified the artist as Irina Blok, but I can't link to the original image because its in Instagram jail, so here's her site.
That was a pain in the ass. Please don't trim credits. It's an asshole move.
"Why would corporations come to the Fediverse they couldn't possibly monetise it" they said.
And in a later breath they would also say the best way to deal with a scraper is to block it rather than fix the protocol.
These companies sell you as the product.
Fedi's model makes it extremely attractive to do so, and we all know laws are for the poor. So what if they get a fine? A fine is just a fee if there's no other penalty. It's a cost of doing business.
People are gonna be sitting there praying for GDPR to save them, praying for blocklists to save them, praying to false gods when the reality is everyone with a shred of fucking sense in this space has been screaming this is a major fucking problem and the Fediverse's model is very much one which is friendly to companies like Meta and Automatic.
Maybe they'll get a GDPR fine. But given the way Fedi works, they've got a strong defense.
Syndication of all posts to local servers? Like literally just copying them?
Brilliant fucking idea lads. Truly the work of geniuses. Truly a platform which will respect your privacy.
People will get upset for me saying this part but the only way, the ONLY way, to ensure privacy on Fedi, is to put an end to syndication of post content. It should be a URI with access control. It should not ever be fucking content. Content should just not be fucking syndicated EVER.
"But the load on servers"
You know what? A fediverse database has unbounded growth due to its model, and will grow with the number of instances. The average growth is n * m, where m is the average number of messages per server over a chosen interval, and n is the number of instances. For 1000 instances with 100 messages a day average (this is averaging out huge instances like m.s), that's 100k of messages PER DAY.
It's utter madness!
For something like threads they can become too big to block and they can definitely use other methods at their disposal to get your data. Like literally buying instances quietly or just setting up ones and astroturfing.
I don't know why people thought Meta or Automattic WOULDN'T want to come to Fedi. Wishful thinking? Or maybe just... more people don't know how Fedi works.
Wait, isn't this conflating the instance admins with the people on that instance? If my instance admin shut down my instance, I'd be bummed that my old posts wouldn't be available any more. Ideally I'd be able to move my posts to another instance, but that's not really a part of fedi's features in general, even if some tools have workarounds for it. I should get to pick whether to keep my old posts, not my instance admin.
user-initiated post migration is something that certain instances support (some of the *keys), and I look forward to seeing it on more instances. data exports also exist but data imports don’t seem common.
to se dozvíme, já v tom vidím možnost pro #Piraty se oklepat a uvidíme jak to dopadne ve sněmovních volbách. Bohužel to vidím, tak že bude vláda #ANOZmaru 🫣
Monthly releases are coming, but right now, they're for testing only! Get the latest update on the Thunderbird Planning mailing list: thunderbird.topicbox.com/group…
I am always astonished that frequent updates are supposed to describe a good software product. For ME, good software should be SO good and hardened that I do NOT need frequent updates, but only in extremely exceptional cases! Further developments, on the other hand, do not need to be handed over to ME on a monthly basis. 🧐 And yes I know there are LTS versions. In my eyes this should be the normal update cycle and there could even be a "VeryLTS" additionally. 😎
@CafeJunkie We think having the monthly and LTS versions are a good balance for all the kinds of users we have, from ones want the newest features right away to ones who want something stable and long term. This approach also works with the size of our team, since those very LTS versions need more people to maintain them!
Lors de ma dernière insomnie, hier donc, j’ai découvert « Everything Everywhere All at Once » et j’ai réalisé que si j’avais des amis, on m’aurait déjà parlé de ce film tellement c’est le meilleur film d’action + science-fiction + comédie + familial qui soit. (Un créneau jusque-là réservé à Dead Pool, donc.)
Il est dispo en replay sur FranceTV, VO et VF. Je recommande vivement.
@Bubu ich meine mich dunkel daran zu erinnern dass das Schild schon vor ca 10 Jahren da war, als ich zum letzten Mal hier in der Ecke war. Und es könnte sein dass es damals auch kaputt war und ich auch damals ein Bild davon gemacht habe. Müsste mal im Archiv gucken ...
It's the ten year anniversary of XKCD 1425, one of the all-time greats and one that resonates slightly differently today. Wrote up some notes on that here: simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/24/…
To be honest, the fact that we now have this power is extremely scary, and I don't think we're seeing the ramifications just yet.
Tech companies will soon have the ability to scan every picture we send, every article we write and every conversation we have, in a way that can't easily be beaten by euphemisms or thinly-veiled references.
The obvious use cases are fighting CSAM, fighting spam, child safety, censoring all evidence of protests and finding everybody who expresses anti-government sentiments. The non-obvious use cases, which are, in many ways, even scarrier, are ensuring that people don't break platform rules.
Think "dating app where you can chat for free, but the app will ban you if you try to meet up IRL without paying a fee first."
This gives tech platforms weird powers and business models they never had before.
This won't affect Whats App (as long as end-to-end encryption holds), but it will definitely affect Tinder, Airbnb, Craigslist, Instagram, Uber, eBay etc.
And not just China, I like to watch people reading Reddit stories on YT when doing chores, and "redrum" (murder), "grape" (rape) and "spicy time" (sex) are words these people have to use to avoid drawing the ire of the allmighty algorithms.
For now that's just "simple" keyword and voice / face recognition. As tech progresses and models get smaller, it'll become a lot more pernicious.
I think a "no more discussions of copyright infringement and vaccine conspiracy theories on the internet" law (that actually works) is something we will get in the next 20-ish years in at least one major country.
🏠 Stěhování je vždy těžké a postihlo to také web infoek.cz.
🔄V současné době dochází k přesunu na nový server. Několik hodin nebudou publikovány nové příspěvky, web bude zcela nedostupný, bude docházet k problémům s načítáním obrázků a mohou nastat i další potíže....
🚀Brzy bude infoek.cz mít nový domov, aby mohl nadále růst.
A new service that helps web devs keep up to date on changes to support for web features; you can subscribe to RSS to get weekly reports on BCD changes. From your chums at @igaliameyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/202… (Vivaldi browser has a built-in feed reader, just sayin..)
I’ve been thinking about what a new protocol could be like, and I think there’s room for a suite of simple, strictly-defined protocols that collectively account for all requirements to federate. Something like that would be much easier to implement, and could therefore be bolted onto existing fedi backends.
diasporafoundation.org/ I heard diaspora is promising but I have never looked into it. I genuinely don't know what's "promising" about it but I do know that friendica supports diaspora (and some other protocols). I'm curious to how realistic it would be to make instance software that has dual support for diaspora & AP.
Out today: Sally Rooney’s new novel Intermezzo. I’m actually gonna grab this from the local bookstore today while I’m out and about. amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/03…
"We need #UBI not to protect us from some future prospect of zero employment but to cushion the blow from the constant disruption that automation has imposed on the labor market for hundreds of years."
In honor of Frazer Hines's birthday, Big Finish is having a limited time sale where many of his stories are available at discount prices. bigfinish.com/search_results?s… #DoctorWho
One of the upcoming features is the drawing tablet assistant. Install Plasma 6.2 Beta, try out the assistant with your own device. If you find a bug 🪲, report it!
#TrinidadYTobago🇹🇹 anuncia que retirará las tres carabelas de Colón (que “descubrió” las islas en su tercer viaje) de su escudo de armas y las reemplazará por el instrumento musical nacional, el ‘steelpan’.
El ‘steelpan’ es a su vez una apropiación de un símbolo imperialista: los trinidadeños descubrieron que si martilleabas un barril de petróleo (traído por las multinacionales estadounidenses para llevarse el oro negro del país) podías afinarlo
![Screenshot of a Node.js console session.
me: define an array called arr, [1,2,3]
node: ok. [ 1, 2, 3 ]
me: what's the type of arr
node: 'object'
me (thinking): whut
me: define an object called foo. foo = {"one": "I", "two": "II"}
node: ok. { one: 'I', two: 'II' }
me: what's the type of foo.
node: 'object'
me: what's the length of arr
node: 3
me: show me arr as a string
node: '1,2,3'
me: assign 'barney' to the "fred"th place in arr
node: ok. 'barney'
me: uhhhh. what's in arr now
node: [ 1, 2, 3, fred: 'barney' ]
me: and what's the length of arr now?
node: 3
me: and what's arr look like as a string now?
node: '1,2,3'
me: ok what's really in arr
node: [ [ '0', 1 ], [ '1', 2 ], [ '2', 3 ], [ 'fred', 'barney' ] ]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/593219 "Screenshot of a Node.js console session.
me: define an array called arr, [1,2,3]
node: ok. [ 1, 2, 3 ]
me: what's the type of arr
node: 'object'
me (thinking): whut
me: define an object called foo. foo = {\"one\": \"I\", \"two\": \"II\"}
node: ok. { one: 'I', two: 'II' }
me: what's the type of foo.
node: 'object'
me: what's the length of arr
node: 3
me: show me arr as a string
node: '1,2,3'
me: assign 'barney' to the \"fred\"th place in arr
node: ok. 'barney'
me: uhhhh. what's in arr now
node: [ 1, 2, 3, fred: 'barney' ]
me: and what's the length of arr now?
node: 3
me: and what's arr look like as a string now?
node: '1,2,3'
me: ok what's really in arr
node: [ [ '0', 1 ], [ '1', 2 ], [ '2', 3 ], [ 'fred', 'barney' ] ]")
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