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The Bulwark and New York Times stand accused here of journalistic cowardice in the extreme, and if I was on the jury I'd vote guilty: https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-bulwark-killed-an-investigation
@dangillmor great time to leave substack and stop posting links to the nazi site.
@ipsquiggle @beka_valentine I think you wrote it, do you remember?
@futurebird
@alter_kaker i have no idea if it was me or not, maybe so! ive mentioned it at least
but one thing I will say is that the Pythagorean Theorem is not older than Pythagoras
the only thing that's older is a handful of known triples, and a conjecture that maybe it's true more generally, but a conjecture is not a theorem, and the reason is called the Pythagorean Theorem is that he's the one that finally settled the matter in the general case
where is the best place to see cockatoo in Melbourne? In Sydney there are parks you can go and see them near city(especially in North Sydney) and it was beautiful!
@anaismiysk I don't know if it's the best place, but I used to live near this park in Heidelberg and there were always many cockatoos hanging out together in the trees there https://maps.app.goo.gl/6WQrDRiEp25CBGbJA
@julian Hmm, I think I must…
@julian Hmm, I think I must be failing your 9421 request. I think I will have to add logging back.
RFC 9421 Testing endpoints?
@mradcliffe@nokoto.org if your software is open, I (or rather, my local AI 
) can do a deep dive.
@silverpill@mitra.social my laptop says the timeout is due to Mitra's 10s timeout (this may be incorrect), and to try again 
activitypub.space is slow, it's hit by many scrapers and a 10+s response is not out of the ordinary.
Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August
Cancellations have accelerated.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/cities-terminate-flock-contracts-at-record-pace-in-august/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arstechnica
Flock is the new cable TV.
The Cat Motherships Arrive
@catsalad Don't stand underneath when they fly by.
we need Lee Felsenstein's Tom Swift Terminal now more than ever
I wonder should I read Cofessions by Kanae Minato.. #books
Why AI Companies Are Buying—And Then Destroying—Old Books
https://www.openculture.com/2026/08/why-ai-companies-are-buying-and-then-destroying-old-books.html
That does not seem paranoid to me?
I have had two simultaneous disks fail in a RAID-DP (NetApp's old terminology for something similar to a RAID6 or an [Open}ZFS RAIDz2). RAIDz3 seems extremely understandable to me given BER (Bit Error Rates) tend to go up the denser drives get, and drives are very dense these days.
(Open)ZFS also has some extremely helpful things such as resilvering, and in general, seems as if it is one of the best examples of keeping data integrity in realms where there are many things working against that in my experience.
Admittedly, I haven't really explored (Open)ZFS on Linux much, though I guess support has improved drastically in recent years? To the point where I think I read that TrueNAS (where I previously consulted back when they were known as iXSystems, though I was not there so long ago when they were still known as BSDi) tends to prefer Linux (TrueNAS "Core" I think is what they called it for a while?)? Kinda sad for me, since I dug working at iXSystems because of all the BSD folks.
Back when I was running larger storage systems on Linux, XFS seemed preferable (ZFS was not an option back then though) and my (mostly FreeBSD and TrueNAS) (Open)ZFS experiences are probably a bit out of date (2013ish was when I was deepest in such realms).
Btrfs seemed, to me at least: kinda sketchy? I dunno. ext4 seemed OK for Android and less critical systems for single users; yet for servers with lots of users and diskIO? XFS and I guess now (Open)ZFS would probably be my preferences.
The resource utilization of (Open)ZFS is nontrivial; also see: why DragonFlyBSD has gone into the realms of HAMMER(2) though I don't think DragonFlyBSD has nearly the number of users kicking the tires as FreeBSD or Linux have for fixing the sorts of bugs that (Open)ZFS has had fixed with Solaris and Illumos having done a lot of due diligence even earlier.
The expense and resource trade offs though? Not everyone can justify the expense of (Open)ZFS and RAIDz3 and ZILs and all that jazz. Even for those with a home NAS? Many humbler options are probably more than sufficient.
In contrast? I had an employer circa 2014ish which had an HA (High Availability) CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) pair of TrueNAS systems each with 384TB of raw disks (though due to reasons beyond my control, configured in RAIDz2 rather than my preference of a RAIDz3) and it wasn't even that expensive (like, really; these days it would probably be much more affordable to have even denser storage in that much rack space, RAMpocalypse and all). Yet, when others' are footing the bill, it's "easy" to administer such things without having to worry about it so much. (And contrasted with Isilon [now EMC I think? Yuck], or NetApp, way cheaper though maybe without some of the perks of those more seasoned big NAS vendors [having a spare drive show up to my desk within a 4 hour window when I worked as an admin at a place that coughed up the $$,$$$.$$ for NetApps for example, that was glorious).
CC: @bob_zim@infosec.exchange @kbm0@mastodon.social
71 years ago today white supremacists kidnapped, tortured, and murdered a 14-year-old Black child named Emmett Till.
Some still haven't heard his story. But in the wake of Nolan Wells and Tamir Rice, a reminder that these atrocities continue—and we must not become numb to them. Here's to remembering Emmett.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/today-is-the-anniversary-of-emmett
They build the panopticon one "safety" tool at a time. #Flock, then ALPRs, then facial recognition, then data brokers — each sold as a small necessity, each one a brick in the same wall. Soon the wall is everywhere, and no one remembers it was ever optional. But it was. This surveillance empire runs on our silence, and silence ends now. We decide what's ours.
#PrivacyIsntDead #NotJustFlock #PokeThePanopticon #DefendPrivacy #StopSurveillance #SurveillanceResistance #Privacy #USpolitics
RE: https://lawoffice.social/@barry/117174731424394701
The problem was never #Flock. It's that #ALPR, facial recognition, data brokers, and dragnet monitoring all feed one machine — a panopticon documenting your every move without consent: where you pray, who you associate with, whether you crossed state lines to protest. "Public safety" is the brand. Mass surveillance is the product. We deserve better than being watched.
Privacy isn't dead.
#ImperialDecline #Surveillance #SurveillanceResistance #SurveillanceCapitalism
Journalist Arrested While Documenting Legally Contested Enbridge Line 5 Construction
Canadian oil giant Enbridge has a secretive deal with Ashland County to reimburse the sheriff’s department to act as private security. Enbridge is paying police using the Wisconsin Counties Association, a lobbying group, as the pass through. The Association is not subject to state open records laws. The public won’t know how much Enbridge is paying police or how the money is being spent.
https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/journalist-arrested-while-documenting-legally-contested-enbridge-line-5-construction/
I think I'm going to start working on NekoDeck again soon. But less so the frontend first... the new plan is to use MQTT to tie all our streaming setup together.
Originally I was thinking of doing a Redis thing but then I realized... I already have MQTT for Home Assistant!
"Today, we notified SpaceX that we We are making this choice because we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service, based on our experience with Elon Musk's companies violating contracts."
https://openai.com/index/our-decision-on-cursor-following-its-acquisition-by-spacex/
MUTUAL AID - $0/50
Well fuck. Now I have to deal with bedbugs. Can anyone send me $50 so I can get stuff to get rid of these damn things? ( I have been through this before) It is thankfully not as bad as I expected and will be easy to fix since it is isolated but I need to buy the chemicals to kill these fuckers.
https://payPal.me/themastercircuit
@mutualaid@a.gup.pe @mutualaid@fedigroups.social @MutualAidNet @mutualaid@ovo.st @MutualAidVisibility @disability
#mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #transmutualaid #transcrowdfund #queermutualaid #queercrowdfund #disabilitymutualaid #disabilitycrowdfund
Japanese authorities spent a record ¥15.39 trillion in foreign exchange market interventions from July 30 to Wednesday, the Finance Ministry has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/08/29/markets/japan-record-forex-interventions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #yen #dollar #forex #satsukikatayama #financeministry #us #scottbessent #congress
*shrugs*
Your media is on pillaging. So is Canada's media. Go listen to Carney's speech again - the man did not choose his words without caution. He said it was an attack, he said it was a war, he said Canada's existence was under threat and he even told you it was intentional - when you "write an agreement in pencil" it's because you INTEND to change it later. This isn't him saying "Americans don't keep promises" - he told his country we're out to eat Canada directly.
Your media lying to you
You need to understand that Carney isn't one of our nutjobs. The man is a banker, a high prince of neoliberalism - he doesn't exaggerate, he doesn't use metaphor, he doesn't fudge the facts to tell a good story (which doesn't mean he doesn't lie, but when he lies it's intentional and calculated) - the man knows words, and he knows decorum. It's his lifeblood.
Now go read his statement to the Canadian people again and keep in your head this guy would call WWII a "diplomatic disagreement."
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