DNS overseer accused of ignoring the very people it is supposed to represent ICANN has again delayed a decision on the sale of the .org registry, pushing the issue off for another month multiple sources with knowledge of Thursday’s meeting, have told The Register.…
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It looks like better support for Windows programs running under Wine interacting directly with USB devices could finally be on the horizon…
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Today I’m withdrawing my lawsuit against the Times, after they corrected their story online. What follows is the thinking behind that decision, and what comes next.Exactly three months ago today, I filed a lawsuit against the New York Times for defamation—I called it “clickbait defamation”—based on a story published in September 2019.The story was based on an interview. The interview was triggered by an essay. The headline of the print edition for the story was accurate,…
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Enlarge / “Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!” Monty Python and the Holy Grail’s family-friendly approach to swearing handily avoids the F-word. (credit: YouTube/Funny or Die/Monty Python) Scotland has much to recommend it: impressive architecture, gorgeous Highlands, and a long, distinguished intellectual tradition that has spawned some of the Western world’s greatest thinkers over several centuries. It’s also, apparently, home to a medieval manuscript that contains the earliest known usage…
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On the evening of April 6, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to overturn the Seventh Circuit decision that let Wisconsin absentee ballots arrive as late as April 13, for the April 7 election. See the order here. … Continue reading →
Hello Goblin-Lovers! [tap tap] Is this thing still on? … Great! Well, we’ve had a few polite questions as to what’s happening in MediaGoblin-land, given our last blog post was a few years back. Let’s talk about that. While development on MediaGoblin has slowed over the last few years, work has continued steadily, with significant improvements such as multi-resolution video (Vijeth Aradhya), video subtitles (Saksham) and a bunch of minor improvements and bug-fixes. Like most community-driven…
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Hello Goblin-Lovers! [tap tap] Is this thing still on? … Great! Well, we’ve had a few polite questions as to what’s happening in MediaGoblin-land, given our last blog post was a few years back. Let’s talk about that. While development on MediaGoblin has slowed over the last few years, work has continued steadily, with significant improvements such as multi-resolution video (Vijeth Aradhya), video subtitles (Saksham) and a bunch of minor improvements and bug-fixes. Like most community-driven…
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On April 6, the Independent Party of Florida, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, filed a request for injunctive relief in U.S. District Court, in their lawsuit to overturn the law that prevents them from putting a presidential nominee on the Florida ballot. Independent Party of Florida v Lee, n.d., 4:20cv-110. The two parties are both ballot-qualified in Florida, but in September 2016 the Secretary of State, for the first time, decided to enforce…
On the evening of April 6, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to overturn the Seventh Circuit decision that let Wisconsin absentee ballots arrive as late as April 13, for the April 7 election. See the order here. … Continue reading →
Enlarge / “Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!” Monty Python’ and the Holy Grail’s family-friendly approach to swearing handily avoids the F-word. (credit: YouTube/Funny or Die/Monty Python) Scotland has much to recommend it: impressive architecture, gorgeous Highlands, and a long, distinguished intellectual tradition that has spawned some of the Western world’s greatest thinkers over several centuries. It’s also, apparently, home to a medieval manuscript that contains the earliest known usage…
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Wow, how convenient On Monday, Amazon fired Chris Smalls, a worker at its Staten Island, New York, warehouse, who had organized a protest demanding more protection for workers amid the coronavirus outbreak.…
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For a biz that prides itself on not censoring the internet, it sure likes censoring the internet Updated Cloudflare, known for free speech advocacy, rolled out a self-styled family-friendly variation of its DNS service to block adult content – and ended up denying access to LGBTQ websites and sex education resources.…
$5,179 was earned last week at the United States box office. Not $5.179m, not $51.79k, but just over five thousand dollars. It’s the worst week in history for the American theater industry, due to coronavirus restrictions and company policies that all but ended public movie attendance. Okay, did some math. A movie ticket was ~35¢ in the 40s, which means collectively all theatres in America would only need to sell 14.5k tickets in a week…
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Could be a wearable, could be wired. Backed by big fines and jail The State of Western Australia has given itself the power to install surveillance devices in homes, or compel people to wear them, to ensure that those required to isolate during the coronavirus crisis don’t interact with the community.…
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We are proud to announce that dak, the Debian Archive Kit, has been replaced by a neural network for processing package uploads and other archive maintenance. All FTP masters and assistants have been re-deployed to concentrate on managing neuraldak. neuraldak is an advanced machine learning algorithm which has been taught about appropriate uploads, can write to maintainers about their bugs and can automatically make an evaluation about suitable licenses and code quality. Any uploads which…
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