Pardon the header bloat -- we've added ARC signing to all our mailing list messages in order to appease Gmail's new requirements.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126#zippy=%2Crequirements-for-sending-or-more-messages-per-day

Day four of no power and no Internet. This big tree is the reason. One among hundreds in the area, but this is the one that took out *our* power and Internet.

PGE (Portland General Electric) claims we should get power back by 10pm today, but the ice storm arrives today, so we'll see.

Edit: well, it looks like PGE fixed the outage by just removing me from the outage database, not by actually reconnecting power. That was the second time that happened, so I re-re-reported the outage. Not that I was hugely optimistic about the 10pm timeframe, but it looks even less likely now.

I love this soundtrack -- it's been my work music for the past few weeks.

Try the game, too, it's great. Super relaxing (if you don't have a thing against great heights).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuug4RUjfBY

The U.S. is a “fat buffalo trying to take a nap” as hungry wolves approach, the European ambassador mused.

“I can hear those Champagne bottle corks popping in Moscow — like it’s Christmas every fucking day.”

As voters cast ballots in the Iowa caucuses Monday, many in the United States see this year’s presidential election as a test of American democracy.
But, in a series of conversations with a dozen current and former diplomats, I sensed that to many of our friends abroad, the U.S. is already failing that test.

The diplomats are aghast that so many U.S. leaders let their zeal for partisan politics prevent the basic functions of government.
It’s a major topic of conversations at their private dinners and gatherings.
Many of those I talked to were granted anonymity to be as candid with me as they are with each other.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/15/what-foreign-diplomats-say-about-u-s-politics-behind-closed-doors-00135326

inb4 the phoronix article...

Linus having power cut merge window paused

https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjMWpmXtKeiN__vnNO4TcttZR-8dVvd_oBq+hjeSsWUwg@mail.gmail.com/

Parker Molloy on #Threads screen recorded a Twitter search that appears to show dozens of bots responding to tweets with a boilerplate #OpenAI message.

One user commented:

"The bot activity is coming from inside the house (…) it appears these are stale accounts that were taken back over by XTwitter, turned into Blue Checkmarks and use AI to keep DAU/MAU and other activity metrics higher than they actually are."

None of these ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/01/09/parker-molloy-on.html

Report: Pastor testifies on the reason evangelicals support Republicans: We “made a deal with the devil”
"That deal was, we would support everything on the conservative agenda," says Robert Schenck and they would give us Roe. Taking rights away from half the population.

In that meeting that I participated in, the conversation went something like this: 'You guys want Roe v. Wade overturned, we can do that for you, but you take the whole enchilada, you take the whole thing,"' he said. "You take everything else that comes with it. Because if you want Roe gone, you have to work with us."

"From that point on that community that I had served, and still do, made a deal with the devil," he said. "That deal was, we would support everything on the conservative agenda, whether or not we had conscientious conflict with them.

The definition of evil, immoral and unethical.

boost, please.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/12/opinion/maga-evangelicals-iowa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NE0.479g.UcwQCQYr2BKn&smid=url-share

https://www.salon.com/2022/12/09/pastor-testifies-on-the-reason-evangelicals-support-we-made-a-deal-with-the-devil_partner/

Would be nice if all package managers understood/aliased all common English verbs meaning "remove this package", because I can never remember if it's "remove", "erase", or "uninstall".

Just to prove that not all mail we get is odd or threatening.

♥️

How to find all neomutt 2023-12-21 users of LKML: https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=s%3A%22Re%3A+Re%3A+Re%3A%22+d%3A20231221..

(This is already fixed upstream, but there's no new release yet: https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues/4156)

Them: "To make this quick, just give me a call".
Also them: (calls go straight to voicemail)

« #AaronSwartz planned to publish millions of scientific articles, financed by public money and on which the authors received nothing. Prosecuted before he had published anything, he risked 35 years in prison. Facing this prospect, he died by suicide on 11 January 2013. 11 years ago.

In 2024, #OpenAI will apply its algorithms to any document, online or offline, without the consent of the authors. No one is likely to be prosecuted.

#IntellectualProperty is just a tool of oppression. » @ploum

if AI companies get access to all copyrighted works for free because "it isn't possible to train an AI without it", should we not give free access to all copyrighted works to children because it is not possible to train one without it?

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LWN claims that we'll be switching away from mailing lists for kernel development. I guess that would save us quite a bit on ink and goose feathers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfvRHrOkO5Q

This is the end, so long my friend!

(you have been warned)

https://lore.kernel.org/all/a0511a72-711b-4c8f-b9d7-da95681000c1@suse.cz/

Today, 15 years ago #OTD the person or group with the fictive name of “Satoshi Nakamoto” created the first cryptocurrency named Bitcoin with the thought of it becoming a secure and fast alternative to fiat currency.

Now it's known as the most wasteful use of electricity, inefficient and limiting capability/functionality, as well as being among the most insecure and de-anonymizing ways to transfer money.

However, what Satoshi Nakamoto probably hasn't expected is how many scam-currencies would come after theirs, and how their invention would create a new breed of the most annoying people known to our species: crypto-bros.

Is there an "AI" for soundscapes the same there is for images? For example, I want to be able to give a prompt "middle of the ocean in a small raft with the wind starting to pick up as a faraway thunderstorm approaches" and get a looping sample. It would be awesome for reading books.

When #Russia attacks dozens of cities they think it's "okay" but when #Ukraine strikes back they want an international investigation?

Don't make me laugh.. from sadness

Sorry but what a crap country has Russia become, and with that I mean it's whole "government" or maffia as one can call it

Russia is nothing more then an aggressor that takes whatever it wants and it should be stopped at all costs!

Putler's reign of destruction should be over rather sooner than later