The kids spent a generation training for active shooter drills at their schools.
The protocol is “ABCD”:
Get (A)way
(B)arricade yourself
(C)onfront
(D)isarm – or, more likely, (D)eath
They know Bad Men™ when they see them.
Small, harmless asteroid burns up in Earth’s atmosphere over the Philippines.
AP reports: "The asteroid — about 3 feet (1 meter) across — was spotted by astronomers in Arizona and broke apart over the coast of the Philippines hours after the discovery. This space rock, dubbed 2024 RW1, is only the ninth to have been spotted before its impact."
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Taking the City for a Ride nytimes.com/2024/09/05/opinion…
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Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Will No Longer Warn Over Using Xe2 Graphics
With Linux 6.12 the Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics are being enabled by default for out-of-the-box support with Intel's next-gen Xe2 graphics. Over in user-space the Intel OpenGL and Vulkan driver code has also begun enabling Xe2 graphics by default for use when running on Linux 6.12+. In Mesa besides no longer being hidden by the force probe option, a warn…
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Found 3 new servers and 12 servers died off since 3 hours ago.
22,801 servers checked. 13,800,196 Total Users with 1,047,040 Active Users today. Check out the stats!
New #fediverse servers found:
fujidana.xsns.jp a #mastodon server from Japan
sk.fedifriends.social a #sharkey server from Germany
miltonmarketing.com a #wordpress server from United States
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Went to our favorite plant nursery this past week to see what we could find. While there, the owner pointed to a pile of sad-looking parsley she was tossing out and said with a laugh, "If you want any, just take it. I know you people are butterfly freaks."
Little did she realize that she had given us more than she realized, because a few days later, look what we found hidden in the leaves.❣️
There are actually three, but the one pictured is the biggest. We brought them inside and set them up in a terrarium to keep them safe.
#photography #NaturePhotography #caterpillars #VeryHungryCaterpillars #BlackSwallowtailCaterpillars
What a beauty! 🐛
Must be a nice place you are living in, if people know about your passions :)
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Isolated community marked by inbreeding, violence, and devout worship.
#Matomo (previously known as Piwik) not only supports live tracking (using an embedded JS script) but also access log parsing and import.
The latter method is the one I'm using on my sites and this has worked pretty good over all these years.
However I ran into a log import error this morning. The responsible #Python script just threw a JSONDecodeError, without a hint of the actual reason.
Described and solved in my latest blog post.
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⭐ Score: 18
💬 Number of Comments: 2
🕒 Posted At: 2024-09-05 08:44:58 UTC
🔗 URL: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
#linux #hackernews #bot #news #hackernewsbot
we got the keys for the new office. there's a handful of these mysterious wall plates there, I assumed it was a grille for some kind of intercom speaker.
then I found this plug, it comes out of a grey box that just says Philips on it.
what the heck is this?!
Why Trump's spurious attacks on crime are working (Judd Legum/Popular Information)
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Every day that the Department of #Justice delays charging the parents of #ColtGray for providing access to #AssaultWeapons to their mentally unstable son #ColtGray increases the probability of a #MassShooting in another school. bbc.com/news/articles/c049yw35…
Michael Baentsch, creator of oqsprovider, is interested in the deployment of cryptographic technology in the internet.
The challenge he sees in this space is the "imperfect mode of cooperation" between hard-core cryptography and the practical integration thereof.
"The result in some cases are either overly complicated-to-use crypto applications or in the worst case, insecure ones."
Read Michael's interview to learn how oqsprovider addresses this challenge.
Part 2 in a series of interviews with developers about addressing the issues of today's internet.
nlnet.nl/project/oqsprovider/i…
#NGI0 #NGI #FOSS #cryptography
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Andrew Shields
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in reply to Jeff Jarvis • • •Loman-Feusagach
in reply to Jeff Jarvis • • •Brian Hawthorne
in reply to Loman-Feusagach • • •Jeff Jarvis
in reply to Brian Hawthorne • • •Adding the apostrophe is sufficient to make meaning clear. s's is typographically offensive.
Brian Hawthorne
in reply to Jeff Jarvis • • •@lomanfeusagach If you say so. I’ve always found it an accurate representation of the phonology AND the semantics, making it clear whether the possessor is singular or plural. That’s a pretty helpful trait for increasing comprehension, and I don’t see the value in throwing that away for a predilection.
And if you are speaking purely aesthetically, I have to point out the amazing sinuosity of s’s versus the abruptly truncated s’ that leaves the reader wondering where the rest of the word went visually and perhaps semantically.
We may as well propose just eliminating the following s in ALL possessives. Since you seem to think that ’ can stand for the əz sounds in [ˈhæɹəsəz], why can’t it stand for the z sound when spelling [ˈhɔθɔrnz]?
Michael Slade
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