This game is great

"The billionaire who helped broker the Trump administration’s sweeping long-term oil deal with Venezuela was until recently a target of U.S. money-laundering investigations involving funds embezzled from the state-owned oil company PDVSA. ​

Now, after assisting U.S. authorities ahead of the capture of authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro, Alejandro Betancourt is Washington’s key partner in an unusual oil agreement with Caracas."

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/venezuelan-billionaire-us-investigated-money-laundering-now-has-pentagon-oil-2026-09-05/
#Venezuela #USA #oil #EatTheRich #corruption

Be gentle with yourself today.

I remember that episode, it was wild.

Fornito da @altbot, generato localmente e privatamente utilizzando Gemma4:26b

@gubi Un'immagine composta da due riquadri verticali che mostrano una persona con gli occhiali che parla dietro un podio con due microfoni. La persona indossa un abito scuro e una cravatta azzurra. In alto a destra è presente un piccolo logo nero a forma di foglia stilizzata. Il primo riquadro contiene il testo: "In Europa sta arrivando un clima caraibico, ma nei Caraibi sopravvivono e ci convivono da un sacco di tempo". Il secondo riquadro contiene il testo: "Vuol dire che anche noi ci abitueremo...".

🌱 Energia utilizzata: 0.180 Wh

Morirai tu e moriremo tutti, caro Ignazio. L’importante è arrivare a quel momento a testa alta, senza aver fatto la figura dei cretini, senza aver abbandonato alle chiacchiere da bar e a rischi evitabili milioni di italiani che rischiano la vita per eventi estremi, senza essersi coperti di infamia in gioventù e di ridicolo in vecchiaia. E da questo punto di vista, anche se morirai al Quirinale tu morirai da fallito, da incapace e da traditore del popolo, come tanti altri fascisti prima di te.

I am so glad I made this quilt. Everything about it pleases me - the theme, the design, the colors and the quilting. It's as close to hitting on all creative cylinders as I will probably ever get

I am also glad I found someone who will give it a good home

ACTIVISM ABECEDARY
2026
Pattern: Crazy Old Ladies Quilts Counting on Christmas (modified)
Quilting: E2E Chevron
64” x 77.5”

#Quilt #InarticulateAbecedary

@sl007 @BlumeEvolution

Die Ergebnisse der Studie von Elsässer wurden ja 2017 aus dem 5. Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht
von der REGIERUNG
herausgekürzt.
Es geht um die ungleiche Responsivität unseres politischen Systems.

Natürlich unterstreicht Dein Hinweis auf den überhöhten Einfluss der Medien, dass unsere politischen Prozesse derzeit nicht Stabil sind und ein Update brauchen.

Wir sollten aber nicht so tun, als wären es die Medien, die hier den Hut aufhaben.

Google has become an enemy of the open web, and it's increasingly locking down Android to dominate (with Apple) mobile computing. https://keepandroidopen.org/ A once-principled company gets more and more control-freakish, for money and power.

Nothing Google does now is surprising, just predictable.

@giacomo @alcinnz Yeah, I'm definitely wondering about things along those lines. For a while I used pass (which gpg-encrypts each password in a separate file) plus SyncThing for synchronized password management between my laptop and phone. (There's an Android app that supports pass files too.) Usability was kinda awful and the privacy properties weren't ideal but as long as it was only for me I didn't care too much. In principle you could share different directory trees with different people and give some people read-only access, so technically this meets all my core requirements.

I think bundling everything into an archive file makes dealing with edit conflicts harder on file-level sync tools like NextCloud or SyncThing, so I'm not sure I'd do that, but I might take inspiration from https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSync/blob/master/spec-general.md instead. Compression also requires some thought since in some contexts compression has caused information to leak from encrypted communications; and while AES256 is fine you need to be careful about choice of block cipher mode, IV generation, and so on. So I'd want a more comprehensive cryptographic specification, preferably vetted by others. But your core idea, that the data should be encrypted at rest and never needs to be decrypted by servers that store backups, is definitely good.

Elsewhere in this thread I've just learned about Ouisync, which does things I like with having separate keys for read and write access, as well as "blind" access where you can verify that you have a correct copy of the data but you can't read or modify it. So now I'm really curious if a password manager with good usability can be built on top of that.

@timbray Or skirt and jacket?

@steeps I'm still proud of the time I realized that a linear-time counting sort was the right answer for an algorithm I was looking at (https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/pull/8503). begone O(n log n)!

The Sloppening...

If anyone else want to confess, now's a good time as any... -_-

via @internetarchive
https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/117219501245722161

via @eff
https://mastodon.social/@eff/117215319335459732

Debian
https://ioc.exchange/@Radio_Azureus/117206011645732732

#FuckAI #neverslop

When the path ahead is unclear, keep walking until something becomes clear. If nothing does, you may have entered a busy supermarket the day before Christmas. This is still progress. #gooderliving

#Harvard published a paper with a devastating title: “Large-Language Models as a #CognitiveVirus”

"Think about how a #virus operates:

It cannot replicate on its own. It requires a host cellular machinery to copy itself.

An #LLM cannot execute, compute, or spread on its own. It requires human cognition, human servers, and human networks to propagate.

The virus infects the host's internal processes to rewrite behavior in its own favor.

And #LLMs do precisely the same thing to #humanthinking."

https://arxiv.org/html/2609.03344v1

@willhbr
re: does that mean I should re-enable the whole process again?

I don't think it's worthy, Racknerd plans are generous but continuing the experiment may put your account on notice. They don't mean to have their plan used out of to the last bit - that's bad for their business. My 2¢

:3
#medieval #MedievalArt