@AnarchoNinaWrites an eBook collection with an https server on the LAN and a printer is the resistance

Friends, have you seen the investigation on UK students, including those at Oxford and Cambridge, hiring Kenyans to write their papers and dissertations?

I assume it wasn't cross Atlantic news as the media only seems to be interested in laundering eugenics into the mainstream.

Think about the audacity of them telling Black people that we're subpar DEI hires and frauds such and these students hiring Black people to do their work for them and pass it off as their own.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/sep/14/kenya-shadow-scholars-paid-to-write-essays-for-uk-students

It's time for your Caturday Judgment from Waffles! Form an orderly queue!

#cat #CatsOfMastodon #cats #mastocats #tripawed #ThreeLeggedCat #catstodon #fedicats #Caturday

@fuzzyleapfrog whoa!

(Turns out I got a bit messed up by waking up late - when I hit the papers, most of the headlines were about Canada/Carney's response. If I had scrolled back four hours, I'd have found all the "are you fucking insane? This is bonkers" articles about Trump's trade war with Canada.)

"Wut?"

#caturday

here's a snapshot of the results of what people thought before this post was made.

@alcinnz Oh, Aotearoa! Your land brought us one of the most amazing blind influencers of modern times, Jonathan Mosen. But now he moved to the United States (he got a superb job there). Anyway, most exhibitions of the blind are in the States and in Europe.

AI companies see words as interchangeable and have zero clue how to judge the “quality” of writing.
https://www.404media.co/anthropics-text-watermarking-proves-ai-companies-do-not-care-at-all-about-writing/

from my experience, akkoma makes 5 attempts, with retry intervals of about 15 minutes, so you should wait at least 1 hour and possibly a bit more depending on processing time for other activities (in case the server is under any amount of load and isn't processing activities ~instantly).

servers making use of exponential backoff strategies might take even longer, although i haven't personally observed any.

Merz stiefelt durch den Hürtgenwald, @jych und ich haben am Rhein nach dem Rechten gesehen. Erschreckend wenig Wasser. Wir sind durchs Flussbett gelaufen und haben Muscheln gesammelt.

Rush Rescue Mission for NASA's $500M Space Telescope Fails https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/22/1844225/rush-rescue-mission-for-nasas-500m-space-telescope-fails?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

I have been informed that I have unfairly impugned our beloved 5th Estate and they have in fact been talking rather a lot about our insane trade war with Canada.

I will apologize for this one thing, and only this one thing because our media is in fact so far in on this nazi game that I could spend the rest of my life talking about nothing but that and I'd still never be able to show you all the evidence of their collaboration.

Three kits (Raccoons) been hanging around the house. One sneaks around and everytime its sees me hides. Well at least thinks its hiding.

#SilentSunday

Trump’s Top Trade Representative Details Offer That Canada Refused
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/business/economy/greer-us-canada-trade-deal.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business Day @business-day-newyorktimes

@whitequark everything can be thermal if you give it enough power, just sayin’

@hipsterelectron
You'll actually find soon that doing the symmetric part is easy. The hard part is key management including key rotation.

What do you do when the key to your data leaks? How do you rotate it? How do you make sure that data encrypted with the old key is deleted?

The recent ceph issue was partly they hadn't put together a plan on how to have users migrate to a new encryption scheme.

And having been around, encryption agility (switching ciphers) sounds great and is fine if your just interoperating with yourself, but throw in another implementation, and things get a lot more painful when you can't control which bad ciphers they choose to implement (see TLS cipher defaults in most web servers were [are?] terrible).

The hollow deck in Star Trek uses the same technology as floor 7½ in Being John Malkovich.

Here's Picard getting off the turbolift on the hollow deck.