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Happy first day of northern hemisphere spring / nowruz mobarak 💐
hello, Fediverse! I am officially moving my presence here from this account to 
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see you on my new account!
A few weeks ago I published a story about one of the then-DOGE lieutenants who has since gone back to his full time job of IT director at X -- Branden Spikes.
The story mentioned Spikes had set up a website for the California Russian Foundation, an entity that his Russian (now ex) wife was the CEO of. The CRF also went by other names, like the Russian Heritage Foundation. Both of these organizations ran fundraisers tied to the Russian Orthodox Church, which has broken with the rest of the Eastern Orthodox churches for its strong support of the Kremlin in its war against Ukraine.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/who-is-the-doge-and-x-technician-branden-spikes/
I bring this up again because I just finished reading this informative post about the alignment between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Kremlin, and how the latter uses the former as a form of soft power:
"While officially a religious organization, under President Vladimir Putin’s regime, the ROC has increasingly acted as a soft power tool for advancing Russian geopolitical interests. Its collaboration with the state extends beyond traditional religious functions, encompassing strategic information campaigns, cultural diplomacy, and efforts to influence foreign religious communities in line with Moscow's broader foreign policy objectives. This alignment has allowed the ROC to serve as a key instrument in Russia's hybrid warfare strategy, utilizing faith-based narratives to legitimize political and military actions, both domestically and internationally."
Aktueller Stand zum #BudapestKomplex in Ungarn, Deutschland, Frankreich, Italien:
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1189830.ungarn-budapest-komplex-grenzueberschreitende-repression.html
Want to strip UTF-8 BOM(Byte Order Mark) from given files?
sed -e '1s/^\xef\xbb\xbf//' < bomfile > newfile
Frohes neues Jahr 1404.
이제 단문에 포함된 대표 링크에 대해 Open Graph 메타데이터를 추출하여 표시하게 되었습니다. 또한, 링크에 fediverse:creator 메타데이터가 있을 경우, 저자의 연합우주 프로필까지 하단에 표시하게 됩니다.
(I am being *very* handwavy and vulgar-marx-101 here myself, of course) in the computer context, like, the GPL attempted to use property law to abolish the idea of property. didn't work out well for them. strengthening ip as a way to fight capital here is just a mistake imho
it's sort of like a critique against fully automated gay space luxury communism, but turned against capital: there will always be *some* labor. we use tools to make labor easier, and yes, some dream that it will eliminate labor entirely, but that's not actually possible
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Someone reached out to buy my blog so they could add it to their referral traffic network. Obviously, no.
Unless ...
What would be *your* number that you would sell your personal website at?
on your overall question... that's like, what technology does. so yes, it's a problem, but i think that for llms to be *uniquely* a problem here, they have to be able to do more than i think they can actually do
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We've been shortchanging people with low incomes for years. We need to raise taxes on the rich so that they pay their fair share and then pay people a #BasicIncome, implement #MedicareForAll, raise the federal minimum wage to $15/hour, pass a #GreenNewDeal, and work our way towards a #Solarpunk future. https://www.clasp.org/press-room/press-releases/continuing-resolution-shortchanges-people-with-low-incomes/?utm_campaign=rfc&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ea&emci=a05896ed-9f05-f011-90cd-0022482a9fb7&emdi=a5646595-b705-f011-90cd-0022482a9fb7&ceid=27860625
🎭 To block or not to block, that is the question.
Let’s suppose we have a stream of events and a pull consumer. The consumer has two methods to fetch: the first is gonna block until it receives something, and the second has a timeout to unblock. My personal rule of thumb is:
- if you need to synchronously consume a single event then process it: use the blocking one, as you’re using the stream like a FIFO queue.
- if you need to fetch ‘n’ events: use the non-blocking one, you might have no warranty that the stream contains (or is able to send) the expected amount of events.
Atproto devs! Check this one out. This will drive how permissions work, so it's definitely important to get your thoughts in!
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yk4dd2qkboz2yv6tpubpc6co/post/3lktazctdc22z
picked up a copy of abundance. my expectation going in is that i'll both be nodding along and kinda mad, for different reasons. we'll see.
이제 단문에 포함된 대표 링크에 대해 Open Graph 메타데이터를 추출하여 표시하게 되었습니다. 또한, 링크에 fediverse:creator 메타데이터가 있을 경우, 저자의 연합우주 프로필까지 하단에 표시하게 됩니다.
Another thing nobody is really talking about but which would have been a scandal in the last administration is the degree to which almost all of the people in Trump cabinet or DOGE are still working at their private sector jobs. There is zero expectation by this White House that people should not compromise the integrity of the office by creating a conflict of interest. Somehow this has already become normalized.
Even if we ignore all the illegal and unconstitutional actions by the president so far, this cabinet and administration is by far and away the most corrupt and compromised because of it.
A reminder of the Chicago Boys experimenting with economic policy in Latin America to see if they can pull one over on the US populace: consumers have been able to buy fast food in Chile on a payment plan similar to this for at least half a decade, it's called "pago con cuotas" and it's exactly this
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a4wzpl7hpxvvntj6hatvuhlw/post/3lksyj24luc22
Atproto devs! Check this one out. This will drive how permissions work, so it's definitely important to get your thoughts in!
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yk4dd2qkboz2yv6tpubpc6co/post/3lktazctdc22z
A reminder of the Chicago Boys experimenting with economic policy in Latin America to see if they can pull one over on the US populace: consumers have been able to buy fast food in Chile on a payment plan similar to this for at least half a decade, it's called "pago con cuotas" and it's exactly this
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a4wzpl7hpxvvntj6hatvuhlw/post/3lksyj24luc22
Turns out the cat I brought home, isn't my cat. So I'm repinning my poster.
On the plus side, it looks like we've found the owner of the cat we found.
You can now follow my blog on Mastodon thanks to #Ghost and their new #ActivityPub feature!
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在FB被廣告推了一本書，讓我相當心動。FB的廣告是一間台北的書店下的，給的連結卻是從日本送書過來：
https://moom.cat/tw/item/tokyo-hotel-sketch
試著找看看台灣有沒有這本書的現貨，發現誠品線上書店有，但是售價高達千元，雖然考慮整本全彩的話，如果紙質、印刷精美，千元說不定也不算貴：
https://www.eslite.com/product/10012135052682430836008?srsltid=AfmBOoqUhmxZzD5yN45btBNr3-ylVE0NuLhneE94exqywHAXVQPh8qWV
但我隨即驚訝地發現，這本書會出中文版！目前各平台都只能預購，可是中文版的價格是一上市就79折（？），價格比起日文原版更是直接腰斬：
https://www.cite.com.tw/book?id=103047&srsltid=AfmBOorVSiHP-e14yYizl3rFvX5Lx9r0nXMaKvbFtlzX_LUe1ZNc6vH_
怎麼會差這麼多呢……我搞不懂……
Want to strip UTF-8 BOM(Byte Order Mark) from given files?
sed -e '1s/^\xef\xbb\xbf//' < bomfile > newfile
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@jalefkowitJason Lefkowitz this fills in a missing piece of Ira Glass's "taste-talent gap" concept https://yirenlu.com/inspiration-scrapbook/prose/from-ira-glass . I like his idea, and it definitely affects beginners with taste *more*, but he misses the part where, as you point out, as your talent develops your taste *continues to improve* so while the gap narrows, and the quality does improve, it's almost impossible to ever get to the point where you are fully happy with something.
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@jalefkowitJason Lefkowitz in hindsight you can definitely see Elon's hand poking through into the design and manufacturing processes in the earlier models, with the panel gaps and the big stupid iPad knockoff and the racist assembly lines and so on, but yeah, the Cybertruck is a dramatic gravitational collapse, a veritable black hole of his personal id
now you can run net/chrony in a FreeBSD service jail: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1619
unfortunately it doesn't work with ntpd[0], for non-trivial reasons that i'm not really inclined to investigate since i don't use ntpd... but it seems like rc.d/ntpd sets some environment variables in its precmd that it expects to be available later in ntpd_start, but when svcj is enabled, that assumption doesn't hold, so ntpd ends up running without any command-line arguments.
but service jails seem pretty neat in general. i like that every service now has its own 'console' (stdout) log file under /var/log/svcj_${svcname}_console.log. hopefully in the future we can get some more fine-grained restrictions on services, like removing read/write filesystem access.
next task: get BIRD running with svcj. i suspect this might require some changes to permit a jail to modify the routing table. or at least, net_all doesn't say that it permits that.
[0] tested using this non-functional patch: https://github.com/llfw/freebsd-src/commit/cde92beb2713c3f30a81b9c69bd2545d723f930d
Like Cybertrucks, I too am barely hanging together
Move over 6800, this bad boy's got like 2x as many rdnas
Last winter sunset over Firenze
#Photography #Photo #Firenze #Florence #Italy #Sunset #Italia #GoodbyeWinter
Thread of interesting summer 2025 concerts, in and around #boston #massachusetts 1/?
Well, it's decided. TU Delft is going on strike April 24. Stop the cuts. #woinactie
이제 단문에 포함된 대표 링크에 대해 Open Graph 메타데이터를 추출하여 표시하게 되었습니다. 또한, 링크에 fediverse:creator 메타데이터가 있을 경우, 저자의 연합우주 프로필까지 하단에 표시하게 됩니다.
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OpenAI just released a bunch of new audio features and the playground interface for trying out their latest text-to-speech models is a lot of fun https://www.openai.fm
📢 Do you remember the xz supply chain attack (or backdoor) that happened one year ago and nearly compromised half the world? (I think you do)
I claim that we could have automatically detected this backdoor in NixOS thanks to reproducible-builds!
-> Go read about it in my blog post: https://luj.fr/blog/how-nixos-could-have-detected-xz.html
🔁 Boosts would be much appreciated!
I AM PART OF THE REBEL ALLIANCE Sticker für Selbstabholer beim Chemnitzer Linux Tag 2025.
@andypiper@macaw.social hat diese Sticker zum Social Web Devroom zur FOSDEM 2025 nach Brüssel mitgebracht. Einen habe ich noch abzugeben - an Selbstabholer beim Chemnitzer Linux Tag.
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