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Alarm overload is undermining safety at sea as crews face thousands of alerts
Link: https://www.lr.org/en/knowledge/press-room/press-listing/press-release/2026/alarm-overload-is-undermining-safety-at-sea-as-new-research-shows-crews-face-tens-of-thousands-of-daily-alerts/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46753611
The order appears to attempt to criminalize the use of drones to film Immigration and Customs Enforcement and DHS employees who are detaining people all over the country. https://www.404media.co/feds-create-drone-no-fly-zone-that-would-stop-people-filming-ice/
PSA: Ikea is now selling excellent USB-C chargers.
£10 gets you a dual port 45W model: https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/sjoess-45w-2-port-usb-charger-fast-charging-80574457/
A measly £6 for a single port 30W one: https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/sjoess-30w-1-port-usb-charger-fast-charging-00574456/
Both come with STICKERS!!
원래 여자 피겨에서 악셀(점프해서 공중돌기) 아무리 잘해봤자 두바퀴 반 겨우 돌았는데 김연아가 나타나서는 걍 세바퀴를 슉슉슉 돌아버렸다고 그래서 김연아가 트리플악셀로 유명했다고 함
consider: a CAPTCHA which asks you to prove you're human by clicking on all the examples of human-rights abuses
We started having wifi issues at home started last week after a power outage.
I called the internet provider for support. They said our modem is too old, so they sent us a new one.
Got the new modem. But wifi is still bad.
Not only that, this new modem is too new that even their own network management app couldn't recognize the model.
💀
Today I got on the call with them for 1h38m. Their "fix" is to upsell and make me subscribe for more services for better wifi range. 😡
#Enshittification
Ripley catching some breakfast table rays. #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy #JustRipley #EggCarton
Oy has found a dog that will reliably let him snuggle.
Pax says a good wash up before breakfast helps keep a girl beautiful. And daily routine sometimes helps, a little, to make us feel a bit better.😊
Good morning, afternoon or evening to you. May your Sunday be better than you expect. May kindness touch your life and enable you to find peace. Please stay safe.💖
#Pax #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #Cats #Cat #Catstodon #MastoCats #FediCats #Pets #Animals #Cute #Tabby #Kitty #Katzen #Katze #Chat #Gatos #AdoptDontShop
Surprised Pikachu face
Microsoft Productivity Pack for Windows (1992)
Tonight, the moon is carried from hand to hand. 🌛
Prêt‧e à plonger dans votre lit ?
#illustration #mastoart #art #comic #comics
A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch.
i miss when restaurants had websites instead of just having an instagram profile with no hours, no menu, no link at all except an article about them that was written 2-3 years ago
Something that court me out last time I went live on @stream.place@bsky.brid.gy was that the stream metadata didn't reset, it just continued my previous stream from the day before and used that as the announcement post, which was a bit confusing
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When the government does exactly the same thing seventeen days later despite the global outcry
When they immediately label the victim an assassin
When they laud the actual killers as courageous victims
When they make claims that are obviously, clearly, and undisputably contradicted by video evidence
When they obstruct anybody but themselves from investigating the killing
When they have already stated their conclusions about the event without investigation
They're endorsing state murder.
who's this cat and why are they eating salad
@MigueldeicazaMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 trying out your _La Terminal_ for iPad hacking and it's real good. thank you! just missing a full nerd font and my life would be complete
FreeBSD folks ... I'm trying to run two Gemini capsules on the same IP address, for two different domains, on two different ports.
My understanding is that I need to route traffic to the correct capsule using SNI routing.
Any recommendations for a simple SNI router I could install on FreeBSD to achieve this?
FEDIVERSE DECISION TIME
If you know the type of stuff that I post to BSD Cafe – my "first home" – that doesn't really belong in the Cafe:
― please help me to find a second home
https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/363b63f24e5ae9e65c1c0b7247702e72
Peter Oborne, _Complicit: Britain's Role in the Destruction of Gaza_ (OR Books, 2025)
https://orbooks.com/catalog/complicit/
• 360 pages
• Paperback ISBN 9781682194263
• E-book ISBN 9781682194522
>> In a gripping narrative informed by original reporting, Peter Oborne tells how Britain’s Conservative and Labour parties converged to back Israel’s criminal assault—in the process occupying disturbing common ground with the far right.
>> Rather than challenge this political cartel, British media colluded in its misrepresentations… as British authorities helped Israel set #Gaza as well as international law aflame, almost everything the public was told about this momentous conflagration was untrue…
#PeterOborne #UKPol #ComplicityInGenocide 
@bookstodonBookstodon Group 
@palestinePalestine_Group
Thanks 
@wearenew_publicNew_ Public for the shout-out about our upcoming FediForum un-workshop on Growing the Open Social Web in their newsletter.
Are you interested in growing the Open Social Web? Then join up with like-minded people from around the world and us, on March 2, online.
More info and registration: https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/
This is my attempt at a XKCD style this year:
"TTL PART NUMBERS"
The study of PRISM continues, as I go back over some history of Masquerade (which the game was heavily inspired by) and try to get at the central question of: how do you specify the exact location of three different buried treasures with 1982 technology?
https://bluerenga.blog/2026/01/25/prism-how-to-hide-something-so-almost-nobody-finds-it/
who's this cat and why are they eating salad
Today I've played around with Bhyve and vm-bhyve for the first time and I like it very much.
I've used QEMU/KVM for everything until now, but I'm thinkering with switching completely to Bhyve.
The first VM is already up and will be the base for the Dark Blue Raven website.
#bhyve #vmbhyve #freebsd #darkblueraven #hypervisor #virtualization
You can adjust the volume of various parts of the sound system in your
computer by typing 'mixer <type> <volume>'. To get a list of what you can
adjust, just type 'mixer'.
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This afternoon, I took advantage of the rain to tidy up and clean my desk, as well as part of the cabinet to my right, which houses the switch and the Raspberry Pi 4 (powered by FreeBSD) that I use for various services.
I came across my old laptop again: a 2019 16" MacBook Pro, the last Intel model. I think it was one of the worst devices I’ve ever owned: sluggish, fans always loud, and the case 'polished' down quickly just from my hands. I used it for about a year, then passed it to my wife when I got the M1 Pro MBP - which I’m still using - in early 2022. By comparison, the Apple Silicon model feels brand new, even after four years of fairly intense use.
My wife had to stop using the 'old' one because the battery, despite having very few charge cycles, is practically dead. It doesn’t hold a charge, but that wouldn’t even be the biggest issue. The real trouble is that without a functional battery, it has become incredibly slow, with the fans constantly blasting, making it unusable. I tried turning it on again, but it even struggles to launch the macOS installer. I’m stuck: replacing the battery would cost 289 euros (from what I’ve read, the entire top case needs to be replaced), but I hate to leave it like this, as the hardware and screen still have a lot to offer.
I’ve thought about selling it as-is, but I think it would be difficult - an inexperienced buyer wouldn't understand that the slowness is caused specifically by the battery issue.
Any advice?
ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds on Medicaid Data
Link: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/report-ice-using-palantir-tool-feeds-medicaid-data
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46756117
A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch.
Scrolling up - this really takes me back
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I am both excited for and incredibly jealous of New Yorkers who showed the whole world that, yes, voting does matter and it does make a difference.
It is rare to find someone who is *this* dedicated to civic service and willing to enter politics.
Maybe that's you or someone you know?
#NYC #NYCMayor #zohran #ZohranKwame #CivicService #voting #GOTV #RunForSomething
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Pressure on Senators •is working•. Previously head-in-sand centrist Senators are actually coming out to vote against ICE funding. Their positions are still weak and insufficient, and more need to cave to pressure — but they are visibly buckling.
Again, we should not and must not wait on elected officials to save us — they will not — but we can and should deploy pressure on them as a strategic tool in moments when that can be useful.
Now is such a moment. KEEP IT UP.
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Logic of War @anders@www.logicofwar.com
In this video, I discuss the preliminary resolution of the Greenland crisis and why Trump decided to step back from his maximalist demands of owning Greenland. This crisis serves as a good example of how even small states can apply military force to deter great powers from aggression.
Watch the video here or read the transcript below.
Best,
Anders
Hi. It looks like the Greenland Crisis is over. I've been thinking about how I should cover it, because I made a YouTube video on the Greenland Crisis, and it got quite a lot of attention, and I think many people would be curious to hear my take on how we ended up where we did.
But I think my next video on YouTube is going to be about something else. So what I'm going to do that is I'm going to put this video out here on my website, and I'm going to do it without the paywall. That way people can watch it who don't usually subscribe, and maybe people can also get an idea about what it is I'm talking about, when I say that you can get access to bonus videos by subscribing here on logicofwar.com.
But I think what happened was quite clearly that Donald Trump gave up. In the case of Greenland, he climbed down the tree and he found a way out of this crisis. There is now a lot of talk about how there are negotiations and Donald Trump got some kind of diplomatic victory by getting some concessions from NATO and from Denmark. I don't really see that. I mean, there is no deal right now, and it's quite unclear exactly what the talks with Rutte actually meant, aside from them agreeing that there will be talks. So, the agreement is essentially that there will be talks about a potential future agreement.
What it looks like now is that the agreement between Denmark and the United States from 1951, which gave the United States very, very extensive access to Greenland, might be reopened and there might be room for some adjustments to it. But at the same time, it's also clear that we're not at all at the point where the United States is going to own Greenland or anything like it. And it's quite difficult to see actually how much more they could get than what is already in the existing agreement.
So, I think it looks like Donald Trump is doing his best to sell the status quo as a victory. The art of the deal!
And how did we end up there? The way I see it, Denmark and the European countries did a couple of things. First, all the time during this, they kept the diplomatic track open. We saw that first with the Danish and the Greenlandic foreign ministers going to Washington, D.C. for negotiations with Marco Rubio and J.D. Vance, and them agreeing to set down this high-level working group that would be working to see if they could find solutions to these things. That is actually the working group, which ended up being sort of the final agreement, namely that this working group will continue to work to figure out if there are ways out
And also by keeping Mark Rutte in the loop and giving him this position as a kind of broker between Denmark and the United States. It was quite clear that he was supposed to be in Davos and do the talks with Donald Trump on behalf of the Danish government. The Danish government deliberately chose not to be present in Davos in any way, shape, or form to give Rutte room for diplomatic maneuver. So, the diplomatic track was kept open.
But at the same time, we also saw the Danes and the European countries, broadly speaking, but especially, of course, Denmark, actually demonstrating how military deterrence works when you are a small state that wants to deter a bigger state from doing something.
The way you do that is that you make sure that to achieve the military goals, the great power would have to use more resources or political capital than they are willing to invest in the project. So it's going to be more complicated than the benefit of going through with this military intervention. Donald Trump was threatening military invasion. That was quite clear. He was talking about it, and said "we can't rule it out." It came in the context of what happened in Venezuela.
Denmark showed that they would be ready to fight this out. It's afterwards come out that the Danish soldiers in Greenland actually did have orders to use lethal force against an American invasion. That's the level we were at. They had the ammunition and were prepared for any such things. It was not considered likely that this would happen. But if it did, the orders were there about how they should behave.
What this did was that it propelled this discussion about a military invasion of Greenland to the top of the agenda in the United States. And since this was a very unpopular idea in the United States, what happened was that this created a political pressure on Donald Trump to take the idea of a military invasion off the table. It seems quite clear that different politicians in the United States, probably spearheaded by J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio, pushed on Donald Trump to take this off the table, to say, "we can't do this. The political consequences of going through with an invasion of Greenland will just be too massive."
One of the mistakes people often make when they consider powerful figures such as Donald Trump or Putin, for that matter, is they assume that these people are omnipotent. They can do whatever they want without any checks and balances. And that's just not true. It's not true for Donald Trump. It's also not true for Putin. There are many things Putin cannot do because he has to maintain political legitimacy. And if he does certain things that will undermine his legitimacy, and it will be politically dangerous for him.
They have a certain amount of political capital that they can invest in things that might be unpopular, and they can sway public opinion or do unpopular things. But they also rely on being seen as the force that actually has the political legitimacy to make decisions.
Especially Donald Trump is in a position right now where he is facing elections. There are the midterm elections coming up. He's facing increasing political opposition inside the United States, and he has to think carefully about how he uses the political capital he has to make sure that he can achieve the goals and not to spend that capital on unpopular things that don't really bring him closer to the bigger political goals he has for the United States.
It's clear that invading Greenland would just be stupid use of political capital. And that's why we saw him ultimately give up on this idea of a military invasion. I think that's when he came out with tariff threats. At least that's how I interpreted it when I saw him coming out on social media with these ideas about a big tariffs on those countries that had sent soldiers to Greenland. It seemed clear that, OK, we are at a point now where we are probably no longer talking about a military invasion, and that now we are talking about a trade war. Because this is this is a tool that probably still Donald Trump had at his disposal.
But the reaction from Europe, when especially the Germans and the French started talking about what they call the economic bazooka, which is basically the European Union's anti-coercion instrument, that opens a toolbox of all kinds of things that the European Union can do in response to economic coercion, and when it became clear that this would be the response, then that triggered a reaction on the stock markets. We saw red numbers everywhere on the stock market. And it just became clear to Donald Trump that also the economic consequences of doing this would be too big and that the European countries are not going to be bullied on this question.
And again, the issue of Greenland was just not worth the political and in this case also monetary capital that would have to be spent on a trade war with the entirety of the European Union.
So, we saw Trump stepping down, giving up on his threats, just as he has done in other cases with China, with Brazil, and other countries that actually stand up to him and don't submit to the threats, but actually say, okay, we're fine. Let's do a trade war, if that's what you want. In those cases he actually tends to stand down.
And that's what he did here as well. He found an off-ramp. That off-ramp was that he said, okay, let's go along with this negotiation where it's very unclear that the United States is going to get anything that they did not already have, but he can sell it to the media as saying that "it's the art of the deal. I'm a genius because now I got the Danes to finally look at these things" or what have you. He's clearly just trying to sell the status quo as a victory.
But I think the most interesting thing of all this is that it shows how small states can use military deterrence to deter great powers from military action. I think it's a textbook example of that: That those Danes sent to Greenland actually were enough to trigger the political reaction inside the United States that made it clear that the political consequences of this were just bigger than the advantage of going forward.
So those were my thoughts on Greenland. And I really hope that this is going to be the end of this because, as I said, it's a stupid crisis. Unfortunately, Donald Trump is famous for changing his mind sometimes. But I hope that this was it with Greenland and that now something will come out of this working group so we won't have to deal with this again for the rest of his presidency.
All right, enough for now. See you next time. Bye.
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