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Last Notes npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp When ICE is finally abolished, I think Quentin Tarantino should film the documentary. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp I don't understand why the Democrats don't just put an end to this madness and signal that they would give control over Greenland back to Denmark when they get the White House ... npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp People that complain about Europe not making enough of a fist towards the U.S. while not understanding that Europe needs a massive program, right now, to become U.S.-cloud-independent A.S.A.P. are dangerously stupid. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Iran has an actual real-world need for citizen-built wireless networks a-la Freifunk in Germany. I'm sure there's lots of experienced rooftop-yagi-people willing to consult setting that up. (Especially if they don't have to physically go there until after the revolution.) npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Eh, duh, no routes, no traffic. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Traffic is gone, but AS's stay visible. I'm not a routing guru, but to me this suggests they do not block BGP. Any routing experts want to weigh in? Does this mean Iranians could use lots of VPN endpoints and Tor bridges on TCP port 179? npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp ICE tweet and song it refers to: "We'll have our home again" npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp YOU KNOW IT'S WINTER WHEN THERE'S ICE HANGING FROM THE TREES. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Holy smokes. I posted something here. My messages get bridged to Mastodon, and one contained a link to my own server. And I just happened to be looking at my server logs. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Second time in a short period that there's sabotage to the power network here. The previous time, in September, was also quite a lucky hit: many homes dark, long time to repair. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp 45k households without power in Berlin: high-voltage cables firebombed where they crossed a canal. Will take almost a week to repair. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp I've barely posted. Was hoping to open a few more eyes, but it's all out in the open now. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Turns out he wasn't trying to escape, he was just curious how the tech worked. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp The Justice Department posted pardons online bearing identical copies of President Donald Trump’s signature before quietly correcting them this week after what the agency called a “technical error.” npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Worth a read. Or so I think, anyway. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp TIL: Mamdani's father was introduced to Marxism in America. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Dutch elections yesterday. Far-right got ~48 of 150 seats. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Funny how 10 dead white people in Kyiv are framed as proof of a brutal war of aggression, and 100 dead brown people in Gaza are merely an increasingly fragile ceasefire. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp I see no potential conflicts of interest here... npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp We all know where this ends. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp I'm not much of a gamer, but The Flood is a thing from Halo. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp New ICE recruiting ad npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Major surprise development! npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp I hope you believe Sam Altman means well. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Es geht los... npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Which does not make the demolition of the East Wing any less of a crime against history, mind you. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Decent Financial Times article on Trump's stranglehold on power through the threat of revenge. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp "If the West Wing is the mind of the nation, then the East Wing is the heart." npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp "The design is grotesque, but perfectly in keeping with the aesthetic Trump prefers — Liberace-meets-Albert Speer-meets-DJ Jazzy Jeff." npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp So the federal gov is closed and a suspected Russian asset is working a plan nobody knew in advance, using workers he controls, plus trucks and heavy machinery, right on top of the Presidential Emergency Operation Center? npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp So far, the bet is not doing all that well, the entry of the US in the fight has failed to impress traders and the peso continues sinking. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Interestingly, Soros' point man in 1992 was Scott Bessent, now the US Treasury Secretary that is buying these pesos on behalf of the US taxpayers. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp So the US is buying Argentinian pesos in an apparent effort to keep the currency from devaluing. They're betting against the world's FX traders in a situation that reminds many of the Bank of England's position trying to defend the Pound Sterling against George Soros in 1992. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Telegraphing that you'll cut your losses if your crackpot buddy's party loses the October 26 election may not be the message you want to send ... npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp ... especially if the odds of said buddy coming out on top are shaky at best. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp It's almost as if Bessent is not acting with the best interests of US taxpayers in mind. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Nope, he's not just taking out one side of the facade. Nobody seems to really know what the plan is: all we know is the sketches were a lie. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp "guided missile warheads and explosive components" npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp "Hi. This is the White House. We'd like to rent the largest non-interfering hydraulic excavator with hydraulic breaker you have on hand. Yes, non-interfering." npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Don't have time to convert playlists and find something else now, but if #Spotify is still taking thug-money for #ICE recruiting ads in a week, I'm cancelling my family plan. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Anyone else having intermittent trouble connecting to Signal? npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp After reclaiming frogs and the US flag, people are now apparently reclaiming the "USA! USA! USA!" chant. If this goes on much longer, all the GOP will have left is energetic nazi salutes and stale rhetoric about jews and brown people. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp At the chique doctor's office, the assistant used the tone of voice reserved for legal stuff they have to bore you with. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Those reading this in Berlin: No Kings rally at Pariser Platz this Saturday: 14:00-16:00. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Nothing to see here. Just kidding. Boys will be boys. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Sorry, the re-encoding to make it fit 3 minutes kind of stuttered, but you get the gist. The 3:18 original is here npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp POOF! $20B to bailout for Argentina became $40B. Payable only if Milei's LLA party keeps majority Oct 26. So the president uses US tax money to bribe voters in Argentina so his corrupt buddy there can stay in power. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Only the very best musicians rise to the level of felony aggravated clarinet. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp The resistance is much more well-organized than I thought. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Which Democrats are on the record saying that when they get elected, ICE will be immediately disbanded and a new and much smaller and more professional agency will be hired from scratch? npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp With some clever fashion sense, you don't need literal swastikas and SS-runes to signal you're with the team. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Looking at the responses, people find it easier to imagine a world where all of a sudden nothing exists anymore than a world that just degrades. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp This is your reminder that if you are making any preparations for a wilder post-whatever world, you need to ditch any and all modern vehicles. For the price of one of these, get yourself a small parking lot full of early-90s Toyota LandCruisers. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Dutch people abroad: if they sent you one if these, now is a good time to send it back. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp "Just like we did with cartels, we’re going to take the same approach…with Antifa." npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Norway appears genuinely worried how the authoritarian American President will take it if he doesn't get the Nobel Peace Prize. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Planning to leave the US, but are sort of waiting for things to get just a little worse? Here's your reminder that you can also be too late. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp For many people, dealing with the fascist takeover, so far, has just meant picking a day to switch from "Jesus you're all paranoid" to "Well, autocrats are gonna autocrat, what's the news?" npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Just go about your totally normal day. There is nothing to worry about. Your government is on it and the ANTIFA insurrection has been as good as neutralized. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp We can't fight for any ideal or against any aggressor if we are divided and openly for sale. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Just in the past day: npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp It's becoming an increasingly lonely feeling to live in a liberal democracy with more or less intact institutions. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp In France, yet another Prime Minister resigned, pointing to continuing and worrisome political instability. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp (No, your IT strategy cannot be to hope that Microsoft and Google end up on the good side once the US Civil War breaks out. No, today is not too early to stop depending on US Big Tech. Yes, migration will suck. You will either get over it quickly, or you will be replaced.) npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Or maybe we'll fight some remnant of America, shoulder-to-shoulder with some other remnant of it. Either way, fascism, once at this stage, does not let go of power by itself. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp We all knew this was coming. Next one needs to be a PWA with on-screen install help. ("Add to Home Screen") npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp If you needed more proof that the coup in the US has Russian fingerprints all over it: cybersecurity trainings are now officially too woke for real warriors. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp The Russians are conditioning us to either ignore drones or suffer economic damage and popular discontent. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Chicago. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp And this from April npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp See also this from last month npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Seriously, we should try harder to stick around a bit so we can meet the neighbors. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp No proof yet, but more and more subtle indications that life may not be so rare. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp The enemy from within. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp A secret report, previously unknown to historians, shows how British Intelligence was tracking Hitler’s growing preoccupation with “the enemy within” on the eve of the Final Solution. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Ever been in a meeting where you wondered if this works on people too? npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Looks like we may have Starlink for positioning at some point. Sucks for Ukraine, as they depend on it and therefore cannot jam it. (Jamming is probably also harder than GPS/GNSS because many more satellites, much closer to earth.) npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Thinking about what to get that friend that already has everything? npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp French government read the writing on the wall. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp This looks like it's going to be an interesting showdown. For one because I have a sense Chicago will win overwhelmingly, which would galvanize resistance elsewhere. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp LLMs pass the Turing test for so many people that it will matter less and less what we think of that. For the record, I think AI will do truly tremendous damage to society. Probably a good part of it in ways that we can't even imagine yet. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp If you've misplaced anything radioactive off the coast of Libya, call the US Air Force. Their sniffer plane may have found it. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp I'm no expert in the field, and I will gladly admit I have no clue what will happen from here on out. The 2025-2027 years in the piece ring at least plausible to me, even if things may take longer to play out. But then again, things have been moving faster and faster. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp I'm sure reality will be different, possibly even weirder in some ways. Nevertheless, this scenario won't leave my head. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp "To assess labor market impact, we simulate realistic hiring pipelines across 24 occupations. These simulations show that candidates using the same LLM as the evaluator are 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted than equally qualified applicants submitting human-written resumes, [...]" npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Now it would be impolite to thank the president for "cost-effective corruption", so they're calling it "leadership on innovation" instead. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp ... AND this doesn't seem to be costing anyone their medical license. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Florida is not only ending all vaccine mandates in schools ... npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp ... they're also leaving it up to parents whether or not to send exposed unvaccinated kids to school, ... npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp I'm finding it harder and harder to imagine US society healing from this in my lifetime. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp On the left is what is apparently the last photo of Queen Elizabeth II, taken two days before her death. Note the bruise on her hand. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp They're really stepping up the hunt for dissidents. And wow, I never thought I'd use that word to describe John Bolton. Pretty soon the newly made great again USA will feel like Russia under Stalin. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp In the same vein. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Don't think the UK is closer to the madness in the US because they speak English and they have terrible right-wing policies even when Labour governs. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp I'm a bit tired of the overly eager "He's going senile!" frame, but I have to say this is rather striking, esp. once you you learn how well the two have come to know each other. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Michael Seemann often writes truly insightful stuff that is well worth reading even if you don't speak German and would need the auto-translation. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Also, effective immediately, no government funding should go towards to training a single new IT person on Microsoft 365, Azure and AWS. We should already be seeing massive and well-managed programs to support, build where necessary, and roll out Open Source alternatives. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp New government contracts with Microsoft, Amazon et al. should require a permit from people that have nightmares about how utterly helpless we are now. Getting a permit should require explaining why it can't be done here, and they'll be progressively harder to get until going away completely in 2030. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp The Germans appear to be giving up on digital sovereignty. "The Americans are 10 years ahead", "Can't do without US cloud services". But fear not: "We must make sure that we have a degree of control", hence a new agreement with Google. npub16dy3fmzgvg80403p2ue6dpzayuywc3r3wqlap3hh5dddncmu388q765msz Rop Gonggrijp Which Charlie Stross rightfully calls out as BS.