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Talking Points Memo on The Supreme Court Thinks...

The Supreme Court Thinks You Are Stupid “The President is only conceivably harmed by an injunction barring executive action if that court order is preventing him from doing something the law permits him to do ,” she wrote. Given that nothing in the Constitution empowers him to prescribe the form of mail-in ballots in California or anywhere, Jackson concluded, the holding in Trump v. California is tantamount to asserting that “the President must be injured whenever he is prevented from doing something as he wishes.” So grateful Justice Ketanji Brown is on the court and w

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alilleybrinker.com on 1Password Supports Garbage

1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe Apparently DHH’s support for ethnic cleansing is not disqualifying to 1Password. So tired of these rich fascist tech bros propping each other up. I cancelled my 1Password subscription. Lots of alternatives in the modern era.

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Wired on Wikipedia Workers Unionize

Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time More than 200 people in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications will now be represented by the Communications Workers of America. Great news, happy for them. Hopefully Wikipedia can continue to be a good example of something that works online.

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MIT Technology Review on Dont be fooled by AI hype

Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype Describing them as “superintelligence” or “rogue models” ascribes agency to products rather than to the companies building them. This framing markets these companies’ products as “superhuman” and, at the same time, helps the companies evade accountability for their actions. These companies have gone rogue and don’t feel a responsibility to follow laws. I wish we had a government willing to enforce the laws we already have.

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cjr.org on Nicole Noren leaving ESPN over gambling

Nicole Noren: I'm not going to have blood on my hands. What troubles me most is the disconnect at the ESPN executive level between making money and caring about the human impact of constantly bombarding fans with betting odds and talk. It’s become impossible to escape—during live games, studio shows, podcasts, etc. But just because there aren’t yet laws here banning some of this during live sports broadcasts—as there are in some other countries—doesn’t mean they should be doing it. I still find this jarring. Funneling everything into gambling just doesn't ma

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Ed Jefferson on Local Wikipedia: The

Local Wikipedia: The Encyclopedia For Local People Limit Wikipedia to your immediate area. Such a great idea and well executed here!

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404 Media on Reverse-Engineer Anything?

‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the New Wild West of AI It is the plagiarism machine being used for plagiarism, but also it is random people using AI to take control back over devices whose proprietary software was used to arbitrarily lock away basic functionality, to add advertisements, surveillance, and bloat to devices that probably shouldn’t have them, or whose functionality was bricked altogether. It makes me wonder how long this is going to be allowed. I would think that plagiarizing software was not in the plan and I would expect some decompiling controls to be added to

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News: Bot in the Family

Several people have mentioned Bot in the Family. It is not due to be released until next year, but it is being officially licensed by Capcom, so this may well land in the Comics section. From what I can see based on the previews, this will be a comic book in the classical definition of the term--as in, comic strips intended to be humorous. And as much as we all love Mega Man, there is plenty that one can poke fun at with these games!

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Getting Started with Gitness

An overview on configuring and getting started with the Gitness source control server

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Integrating Gitness with Jenkins

An overview on integrating the Gitness source control system with the Jenkins CI server

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The Need for Workload Identity in the Private Cloud

Workload identity is a solved problem in the public cloud but private cloud needs the same capability

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Building the Homelab Hypervisor Installer

Building out a virtual lab environment to mimic complex production networks

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Building a Homelab Hypervisor

Building out a virtual lab environment to mimic complex production networks

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Homelab Hypervisor Networking

Building out a virtual lab environment to mimic complex production networks

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Getting Started with the HPE VM Essentials Terraform Provider

An introduction to using the HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Terraform Provider to automate the configuration of VM Essentials

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Building an HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Cluster with Terraform

A walkthrough of using Terraform to provision an HVM cluster in HPE VME

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Microblogging on the fediverse

So today I read this post by icyphox titled Stop joining mastodon.social ( archived ) and I thought I’d put my thoughts in writing. And out came the following pointless mess. TL;DR: The fediverse doesn’t seem to work for me. I’ll take a step back first, and that sets me on twitter. So I don’t really do twitter. As in, I almost never tweet. I have followers but no mutual follows. I don’t feel like I know anybody I follow; or rather, nobody I follow knows me. I never get direct messages. I just open the website, and scroll through the Latest Tweets of people I follo

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Nix on ubuntu and webGL

So I switched jobs and got a laptop from the company, and it had ubuntu installed with FDE. Normally I would have done a clean install of arch on it, but I said hey, let’s just give ubuntu a chance. When it came to setting up the elm language server though, you need a specific version of node and the fight with npm got tiring enough that I decided to go the Nix On Non Nixos route. So I installed nix on ubuntu, ran nix-env -iA a bunch of times, and everything was good in the world. Then it turned out that most of the time, when something is outdated in the ubuntu repo, it is just easier t

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Making stupid bridged networking work on wifi (because usermode networking is not good enough)

This is how I setup the network when I run a VM on a laptop. Create a bridge on networkmanager: $ nmcli connection add type bridge ifname br0 stp no \ ipv4.addresses 10 .42.42.42/24 ipv4.method manual connection.id br0 (it will be DOWN but already be visible in ip link ) Set up a dhcp server for our vms using dnsmasq #/etc/dnsmasq.conf interface=br0 dhcp-range=10.42.42.50,10.42.42.150,12h # systemctl enable --now dnsmasq Enable forwarding In /etc/sysctl.conf or /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 # sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf Tell iptables to please forward iptables -A FORWARD

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Building dosemu2 to run WordPerfect for DOS on debian

We are going to run wordperfect for dos on dosemu on debian. Overcomplicated adventure building stuff as debs for no reason. Main source of inspiration is http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/ and the linux page there . Apparently there is a new way with dosbox-x which is better, but I don’t seriously intend to use WP, I’m just toying, so I won’t ask. I wrote down what I did as I went, but reordered sections to be in logical order instead of chronological. Let’s go with dosemu2 . I’m running bedrock linux on this laptop, with debian and void. But dosemu2 is not in

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Annoyance on low battery

Laptops should be a bit annoying when they are low on battery. Otherwise, I will not realise it until it’s too late, and my computer will turn off in the middle of whatever I was doing. Proper linux Desktop Environments already do this, but since I am running the Awesome window manager with a custom config, I only get what I add myself. My solution is as follows. First, the annoyance script: ~/.local/bin/checkbattery #!/usr/bin/env python3 import subprocess import math import sys with open ( '/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status' ) as f : status = f . read () if status in [ "Charging \n "

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Setting up guix, and locales

I wanted to try out Spritely Goblins to see what it is like, or to really understand what it is, since I’d been seeing it pop up on lobste.rs here and there. The guide suggests using the guix package, so I decided to install the guix package manager on top of my arch linux system. Installing asks to please run nscd, which is not even included in arch nowadays, so I did not, we’ll see what problems it causes. Then after it’s set up, runnig any guix command asked me to fix the locales: hint: Consider installing the `glibc-locales' package and defining `GUIX_LOCPATH', along thes

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Advent of Code Haskell

It is that time of the year again, Advent of Code time. I love the puzzles by themselves, especially as they become trickier and trickier, but I also take the opportunity to explore programming languages I don’t usually use that much. If I don’t have much time that day, or I’m feeling a bit frustrated, I might solve it in python only (the language that usually comes more naturally to me), but otherwise, I want to try other stuff. Today I did Haskell. It’s not the first time I try it, I had used it back in 2019 for a few of the puzzles, and then in 2022 I solved day 21 w

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Server on a phone

I went and set up a web server on my old android phone. The main explanation is there on the site itself http://phone.cosarara.me/ ( wayback machine link for when it inevitably stops working).

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