James Lovell has died at the age of 97, announces NASA. The US Navy captain was the Apollo 8 command module pilot and the Apollo 13 commander. https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/acting-nasa-administrator-reflects-on-legacy-of-astronaut-jim-lovell/

In May, I published a deep dive on a Pakistani firm that had just been charged w/ shipping fentanyl analogs to the US and was behind a sprawling empire of scam ghostwriting, app and logo design companies that were spending millions on Google ads to promote their scam businesses.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/pakistani-firm-shipped-fentanyl-analogs-scams-to-us/

The story received a decent amount of attention, but it almost immediately dropped off Google search entirely. Searching for the headline brought only links to other sites covering my report. This persisted for almost two weeks and I never got a satisfactory answer from Google about why the story dropped from search.

Just read a story at Ars Technica about how a tech CEO who was trying to quash reporting about his alleged misdeeds used a feature in Google known as Refresh Outdated Content to trick Google into deindexing the unflattering stories about him. The method he reportedly used was working until last month. Makes me wonder how widely known this bug was.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/07/google-tool-misused-to-scrub-tech-ceos-shady-past-from-search

https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/114512527951494345

Edit: Holy cow smokes this did way more numbers then I expected haha. Thanks for everyone who boosted.
A friend of mine knew someone and for now I have a room and now there a very friendly person that helps me and he is asking around for a room in a squat or something similar. So it is not super urgend anymore, but we are still om the lookout since I can only stay here for a couple of days.
Also we went to the doctors and it isnt that bad, just need to rest for a week and it should be okay and I think I can continue my trip within like 2 weeks maybe!

Okay longshot but here we go, Fedi please boost this through the roof:

Anyone on here living in lisbon amd willing to help me out for a couple of days?

I am on a hitchhiking trip, rolled my ankle and need a place to stay for a couple of days to see if it gets better because currently I definitily shouldn't walk. Even less so with 14Kg on my back haha.
So if you live here or know a person or something like that who would offer me shelter for a coupke of days that would be amazing!

Recomendations for cheap camping grounds or squats in or direclty around the area are welcome aswell <3

Thanks!

#lisboa #lisbon #help #mutualaid #squat

where i am? :)

#apartment with kitchen, #lastminute #accomodation in #paradise (otok #Rab , #Croatia , #Hrvatska) for 120€/night, from terrace direct access to the sea, ideal for families with children (sand beach)
6 free nights starting from 13 July
#boost it if you like it
https://mapy.com/s/lumojeguve

Are you a top US-based scientist looking to relocate to #Australia?

The Australian Academy of #Science is now offering generous relocation packages and guaranteed #research funding.

https://www.science.org.au/news-and-events/news-and-media-releases/are-you-a-top-us-based-scientist-wanting-to-relocate-to-australia

#FediScience

If Trump succeeds in torpedoing the economy and causing a recession, decimating tourism and air travel to the US, and weakening industrial production, he may cause a substantial drop in US emissions of climate-destroying gases and help us meet our Paris Agreement commitment.
#climate

Ferrous Systems (I work there!) have agreed to contribute the Ferrocene Language Specification to the Rust Project and allow the Rust Project to take over its development and management

https://rustfoundation.org/media/ferrous-systems-donates-ferrocene-language-specification-to-rust-project/

📣Kdo znectil Oválnou pracovnu? Vance, a to i čistě protokolárně!📢
📌Bývalý velvyslanec ve Spojených státech Michael Žantovský je přesvědčený, že páteční roztržka mezi prezidenty 🇺🇸USA a 🇺🇦Ukrajiny Donaldem Trumpem a Volodymyrem Zelenským v Bílém domě nenastala náhodou. Zelenského podle něj vlákali do pasti.
📌Upozornil na roli viceprezidenta J. D. Vance: „NENÍ VŮBEC PROTOKOLÁRNĚ MYSLITELNÉ, ABY VICEPREZIDENT OSLOVOVAL, TÍM MÉNĚ NAPADAL, PŘI TAKOVÉ PŘÍLEŽITOSTI HLAVU STÁTU JINÉ ZEMĚ, ANIŽ BY SE SVÉHO PREZIDENTA ZEPTAL, JESTLI MŮŽE MLUVIT. Tohle bylo z diplomatického hlediska něco naprosto neuvěřitelného."👉 https://www.ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/zantovsky-zelenskeho-vlakali-do-pasti-roztrzka-nebyla-nahoda/2641074

A - DNS record
AA - battery
AAA - battery
AAAA - DNS record

#DNS #Battery #Confusion

Wikipedia is a problem for Musk/Trump. Not, as Musk says, because it's "woke." Because it's one of our last reliable tethers to a consensus reality. Therefore, an antidote to disinformation.

It's not making anyone money. It's not enshittified. Of course it's not perfect—it's an endeavor of imperfect cooperating humans. But it needs protection and support.

https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-takes-aim-wikipedia-fund-raising-editing-political-woke-2005742

#wikipedia

For all you cis folks. Feel free to boost.

#trans #transgender #FirstTheyCame #MartinNiemoller #Allies

Kdo mě sledujete a čtete túty s hashtagem #vanlife a #campervan, tak znáte Spoďára. Mám k němu velmi silný citový vztah. Jednak je to moje opravdu úplně první auto, jednak jsem si ho postavil sám, jednak nemám nic jiného, kdyby mě milá pustila k vodě, je to moje jediné bydlení. Po rozvodu to bylo to jediné místo, kde jsem se vídal s dcerami, snímek u tohohle tútu je ze Štědrého dne, s milou jsme v něm jeden rok slavili Vánoce. Spoďár s námi byl v Dánsku, na Slovensku, v Chorvatsku, Rakousku, projeli jsme Lužické i Orlické hory, jihočeské rybníky.

A najednou není. Tedy je, ale jako by nebyl. Odešla mu automatická převodovka. To nejhorší, co se mohlo stát. Byla po kompletní renovaci, stála mě nemálo peněz a nemálo úsilí. Ale chybička se stala a převodovka je v pánu a už mi jí nikde nechtějí ani shánět, ani opravovat. A servis, co mi ji repasoval, už dva roky neexistuje.

Chvíli jsem myslel, že Spoďára prodám na součástky. Ale nakonec jsem se sebezapřel a svitla mi naděje. Můj servis sehnal komplet přestavbový kyt a z mého nefunkčního automatu udělají manuál. Mění se toho moc. Skoro celej spodek. A budu rád, když se vejdu pod 80.000. Trochu se bojím technické, ale v servisu říkali, že převod zařídí. Tak snad. Držte palce, letos byl rok umírání, Spoďára tahám už podruhé hrobníkovi z lopaty. Tedy vrakovišti z lisu.

Kdykoliv, když jsem v minulosti uvažoval, jak by Google mohlo nahradit decentralizované vyhledávání, tak jsem narazil na otázku seedování crawleru relevantními URL. Nikdy mi nenapadlo nic lepšího, než prostě začít na wikipedii.. a ano, ta jistě musí být součástí jakéhokoliv pokusu o vyhledávač, ale sama nestačí.

Kdybych ale prošel stovky Mastodon instancí, které mají alespoň stovky uživatelů a načetl si jejich místní timeline a načetl ze statusů odkazy (a ostatně i oindexoval ty odkazy samotné), tak mám poměrně slušnou aproximaci "žijícího webu".

Samozřejmě - před tím, než bychom se o něco podobného pokusili, tak by musel počet aktivních uživatelů výrazně stoupnout. Existuje nějaká "kritická masa" a podle mě ji zatím nebylo dosaženo.

Další krok je vymyslet, jak vyhledávání decentralizovat a současně se bránit před hráči, kteří by se chtěli pokoušet o SEO (tedy nějak ten index spamovat).

#mikroblog

Aaron Swartz was a digital rights champion who believed deeply in keeping the internet open. The organizers of Aaron Swartz Day will celebrate his life at 2 pm PT on Nov. 9. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/celebrating-life-aaron-swartz-aaron-swartz-day-2024

BTW obviously if you're American please for the sake of everyone else in the world VOTE a week next Tuesday.

Not going to dictate to you who to vote for but obviously I think there's only one sane choice and she's called Kamala Harris.

Even if you don't much like her, her party, or her policies, the alternative is so deeply shit and depressing just swallow your pride and do it.

If you do like her/her party/her policies then vote for her.

(yeah I lied I am dictating the choice sorry not sorry)

But either way GO AND VOTE!

Trump will concede the war in Ukraine to Russia, and if they win there, next he will attack a NATO country. Think about that. The people there fight for all of us.

The (alleged) greatest fraudster in modern history (+ alleged traitor to his own country and allegedly regularly in contact with Putin) Musk will be given a total reprieve and control of part of the US govt.

And this of course is far from the only issue that utter orange moron will wreak havoc upon.

GET UP.

GO VOTE.

In Japan even the cannibals are polite...I guess...?

Petition to start naming hurricanes after companies that contribute the most to climate change

Hello! I suddenly find myself needing a job... yesterday!

I'm an experienced software and research engineer with a load of data science skills; I've worked on profiling and tracing MPI/MPICH programs, supercomputer simulations, C++ debugging (including tracing MPI race conditions! fun!), statistical analysis of chemical simulations, web service API/work, some front end, etc. I've written/debugged/worked on projects in C, C++, TypeScript, C#, Python, shell, and dabbled in Rust. I'm able to jump on any project and learn quickly. I love working in supercomputing!

I'm putting together my resume but if you know if anyone looking for someone to hire, here I am! I'm open to contract and temporary positions, too, so long as they're remote. I'm in Portland, OR, in the US.

Boosts appreciated!

#GetFediHired #JobHunting #HPC #SoftwareEngineer #ResearchSoftwareEngineer

This "untrusted data" patch series from Benno Lossin is the result of conversations at last weekend's Rust Linux kernel conference in Copenhagen:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240913112643.542914-1-benno.lossin@proton.me/

It's not a "silver bullet" for why we should be using rust in the Linux kernel, but it is a "big giant sledgehammer" to help squash and prevent from happening MANY common types of kernel vulnerabilities and bugs (remember, "all input is evil!" and this change forces you to always be aware of that, which is something that C in the kernel does not.)

I had always felt that Rust was the future for what we need to do in Linux, but now I'm sure, because if we can do stuff like this, with no overhead involved (it's all checked at build time), then we would be foolish not to give it a real try.

And yes, I've asked for this for years from the C developers, and maybe we can also do it there, but it's not obvious how and no one has come up with a way to do so. Maybe now they will have some more incentive :)