Sailors hid an unauthorized Starlink on the deck of a US warship—and lied about it
To be fair, it's hard to live without Wi-Fi.
arstechnica.com/security/2024/…
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STINKY wifi is the least of the problems with these ships.
"Rep. Adam Smith, chair of the House Armed Services Committee, said, “We can’t use them, number one because they’re not ready to do anything. Number two, when they are, they still break down.”"
Not that it makes it any more secure but the fact that they didn't even hide the SSID (which would've probably lead to the same result as it wasn't even found before the tech) is kinda insane.
The whole affair puts in question their whole netsec... like how did they not manage to locate a wifi hotspot?!? You can do that with any phone... I bet there's plenty of ships and bases out there with non-authorized networks (malicious or not) right now if that's how they deal with it.
#Gaza #Palestine
#IsraelWarCrimes
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday dismissed reports that a cease-fire and hostage swap deal was nearing completion, calling the claims "exactly inaccurate," contradicting statements by US officials.
"There's a story, a narrative out there that there's a deal out there … that’s just a false narrative," Netanyahu said in an interview with US-based Fox News.
"There’s not a deal in the making," he said.
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Goldman Sachs Says Harris, Democrats Better For Economy Than Trump (Dave Goldiner/CPA Practice Advisor)
cpapracticeadvisor.com/2024/09…
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I like the Open Source Pledge.
osspledge.com/
If your institution uses #OpenSource software, it should chip in to pay for it.
We can extend the idea to the #OpenInfrastructure supporting #OpenAccess to research. First, institutions should use open rather than proprietary #infrastructure (see e.g. the #BOAI20, Recommendation 1). Second, when they use it, they should chip in to pay for it.
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#Gaza #Palestine
#IsraelWarCrimes
At a UN Security Council session, Palestinian envoy to the UN Riyad Mansour accuses Israel of employing "genocide" and "apartheid" tactics to achieve colonial aims, saying that Palestinians are suffering "disposition, displacement, devastation, destruction and death.
“Instead of ending the Nakba, Israeli fascist extremist leaders have decided to try to bring it to its ultimate conclusion: Palestine with no Palestinians,” Mansour said.
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Lovely obituary for Steve Silberman...
He wrote about the developmental condition in “NeuroTribes,” a 2015 bestseller that promoted understanding and acceptance of people who think differently. washingtonpost.com/obituaries/…
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Today I’m toying with the DJI Neo.
There’s never been a cheaper, easier-to-use DJI drone than the $200 Neo for self-flying selfies.
But I’m so torn. The foldable $350 HoverAir X1 seems better for my social video needs. It filmed my opening shot below! But I love soaring with FPV goggles, which Hover can’t do. Maybe I’ll wait and see if DJI sells a budget FPV bundle.
Book 34: Gevangenis met een open deur, by Jan Terlouw.
Very good YA book about a cult, and how easily some people are sucked into it. Written in 1986, but still quite relevant when you think how disinformation influences people's views.
#2024reads
#Bookstodon
#Books
#Reading
#JanTerlouw
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In the next version of #Fedify, it will allow you to decouple actor URIs from WebFinger usernames with the mapHandle() method. For example, you can use UUIDs for actor URIs but let users use their own username of choice for their fediverse handle.
Baldur's Gate 3 patch 1.7 is out now with a mod manager, modding toolkit and lots more gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/bald…
Tomorrow we will have our first meeting since the summer holidays.
We are excited to make new plans to push for FOSS in the digital worlds we inhabit.
Because while the need to take back control over our digital lives increases every year, many of our fellow colleagues and fellow students are still (kept) unaware of the urgency.
Hello #fedifriends, I've just realized that #asciidoc & #asciidoctor aren't the same thing, so I was using the documentation of asciidoctor and processing the my document with asciidoc… 🤦♂️
I don't know who came late, but the choice of the name is very confused, so now I'd like to know what the #fediversians like to use if asciidoc or asciidoctor, or at least you recommend.
The point is some stuff aren't working because perhaps aren't for ascidoc on the other end asciidoctor is very aggressive on the web search, so unless you don't exclude it from the search it completely eclipses the other one.
Thanks! 🙏
Wiley Miller
in reply to Aaron Rupar • • •Nobody has any idea WTF Trump talking about, which includes him...as it always does. That's "The Weave".
Laffy
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in reply to Ivey Janette McClelland • • •Rufus J. Cooter
in reply to M.S. Bellows, Jr. • • •To be fair, lots of schools that are considered quite prestigious have graduated some monumental dumbasses
[cough] yale [cough] [cough] and their school of law, especially [cough] [hocks up a loogie, spits]
Ivey Janette McClelland
in reply to Rufus J. Cooter • • •M.S. Bellows, Jr.
in reply to Ivey Janette McClelland • • •Wiley Miller
in reply to M.S. Bellows, Jr. • • •It's been widely known in Southern California as University of Spoiled Children.
@IveyJanette @RufusJCooter @aaron.rupar @GottaLaff
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in reply to Laffy • • •Some say, that was one of USC's proudest achievements.
@IveyJanette @msbellows @RufusJCooter @aaron.rupar
Laffy
in reply to Wiley Miller • • •Wiley Miller
in reply to Laffy • • •Oh, sorry. I thought your reply was about USC, which all the others are talking about.
#BrainFart
@IveyJanette @msbellows @RufusJCooter @aaron.rupar
Laffy
in reply to Wiley Miller • • •No, that's okay. I was replying to this part: "My mom,brother and cousins all worked at UCLA. Go Bruins." mastodon.social/@IveyJanette/1…
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Ivey Janette McClelland
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in reply to Laffy • • •So...you come from a mixed marriage, eh?
@IveyJanette @msbellows @RufusJCooter @aaron.rupar
Laffy
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in reply to Laffy • • •casetext.com/case/maurey-v-uni…
Laffy
in reply to M.S. Bellows, Jr. • • •M.S. Bellows, Jr.
in reply to Laffy • • •It was a "reverse discrimination" case, but a righteous one. My client (white) was a project manager for a federal program housed at USC. He wasn't getting sufficient support from his dean, so he approached a different department's dean (Black) about moving the program there. The new Dean made it happen, and then started making racial jokes about my client. The new Dean and his (Black) friend once asked my client to drive them to a meeting in his own car. They both climbed in his back seat, and the dean said, "It's nice to have a white chauffeur." Then the Dean fired my client and hired his friend.
Most reverse discrimination cases are bullshit. This one wasn't. And this one absolutely should not have been dismissed on summary judgment. I'm still furious.
Laffy
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in reply to Laffy • • •Wiley Miller
in reply to Laffy • • •Yes, I see that now. I get confused by what replies are to whom on here sometimes.
@IveyJanette @msbellows @RufusJCooter @aaron.rupar
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