Charter tells court that its no-refund policy helps prevent price increases Ars Technica

May 152020
 

Enlarge / A Charter Spectrum vehicle. (credit: Charter) Charter is suing Maine to block a new state law that requires prorated refunds when cable customers cancel service mid-month, claiming that the requirement is a form of rate regulation and is preempted by federal law. The preemption question will be at the heart of the case, but Charter also told the court that its no-refund policy prevents its prices from rising even more than they usually do. “Charter’s…

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Second Circuit Judges Appear Inclined to Let New York Presidential Primary Proceed Ballot Access News

May 152020
 

On May 15, the Second Circuit heard Yang v Kellner, 20-1494. This article describes the 90-minute hearing. The article makes it sound as though all three judges will agree with the U.S. District Court that New York can’t cancel its … Continue reading →

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North Carolina Supreme Court Overturns Awful Decision By Appeals Court, Says Giving The Finger To Cops Isn’t A Crime Techdirt.

May 142020
 

Last August, the North Carolina Court of Appeals decided it was OK for police officers to use protected speech as the basis for retaliatory stops. The stop — and the criminal charges that followed — originated from this interaction: While assisting the stranded motorist, Trooper Stevens turned his attention to another car traveling on the roadway. Defendant, a passenger in a small white SUV, had his arm outside of the window and was making a…

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Now there’s nothing stopping the PATRIOT Act allowing the FBI to slurp web-browsing histories without a warrant The Register

May 142020
 

Thanks for nothing, Bernie Sanders An amendment that would require the FBI get a warrant before they access Americans’ web-browsing history failed to pass by a single vote in the US Senate on Wednesday.…

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Don’t Pretend Joe Biden Is Actually Moving Left Jacobin

May 142020
 

Joe Biden has named several progressives, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sara Nelson, to newly announced policy “task forces.” This beats him just sneering at leftists — but it’s no great progressive victory that a few good people are on a random list of names for toothless task forces. Phil Roeder / Flickr I’ve had this sensation of late that when it comes to politics, we are now all trapped inside of a really dark,…

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Waterworld world map Boing Boing

May 142020
 

The premise of 1995’s Waterworld [Amazon] was flawed in that there isn’t enough water in the ice caps to raise sea levels 7500m, as is established in Waterworld canon. But I wanted to see what that would look like, so here is a map of planet earth with the sea level raised 7500m, based on topographical data published by NASA. As you can readily see, only parts of the Tibetan plateau remain above the waves.…

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Twitter says staff can continue working from home permanently TechCrunch

May 122020
 

Earlier today, Jack Dorsey sent an email to Twitter staff, notifying employees that they will be ale to  continue working from home as long as they see fit. The CEO notes that Twitter was an earlier adopter of a work-from-home model, though — like much the rest of the world — that push has been accelerated by COVID-19 stay at home orders. Twitter confirmed the decision in an email to TechCrunch, noting, We were uniquely…

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Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth Internet Archive Blogs

May 122020
 

Last week the Internet Archive upped our bandwidth capacity 30%, based on increased usage and increased financial support.  Thank you. This is our outbound bandwidth graph that has several stories to tell… A year ago, usage was 30Gbits/sec. At the beginning of this year, we were at 40Gbits/sec, and we were handling it.  That is 13 Petabytes of downloads per month.  This has served millions of users to materials in the wayback machine, those listening…

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Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a covid app—and it hasn’t helped much New on MIT Technology Review

May 122020
 

When Iceland got its first case of covid-19 on February 28, an entire apparatus sprang into action.  The country had already been testing some people at high risk of catching the virus, thanks to DeCode genetics, a local biotech company. Once the arrival of the disease was confirmed, it began rapidly rolling out public testing on a much wider scale. The government, meanwhile, quickly built a team of contact tracers to interview those with a…

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Open Source Pick and Place Has a $450 BOM Cost Hackaday

May 122020
 

Give your grizzled and cramped hands a break from stuffing boards with surface mount components. This is the job of pick and place machine, and over the years these tools of the trade for Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) have gotten closer to reality for the home shop; with some models diving below the $10,000 mark. But if you’re not doing it professionally, those are still unobtanium. The cost of this one, on the other…

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AGP Graphics Card Support Proposed For Removal From Linux Radeon/NVIDIA Drivers Phoronix

May 122020
 

Longtime AMD open-source driver developer Christian König is proposing the removal of AGP graphics card support from their Radeon kernel driver as well as the open-source NVIDIA “Nouveau” kernel driver and in turn removing the AGP related code from the TTM memory management code…

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New Teensy 4.1 Arrives with 100 Mbps Ethernet, High-Speed USB, 8 MB Flash Hackaday

May 122020
 

It was only last August that PJRC released Teensy 4.0. At that time, the 4.0 became the fastest microcontroller development board on the planet, a title it still holds as of this writing — or, well, not exactly. Today the Teensy 4.1 has been released, and using the same 600 MHz ARM Cortex M7 under the hood, is now also the fastest microcontroller board. What the 4.1 brings to the table is more peripherals, memory,…

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Article Says Both Candidates in Montana Green Party U.S. Senate Primary are Insincere Ballot Access News

May 122020
 

Montana requires all qualified parties to nominate by primary. According to this story, both candidates in the upcoming Green Party U.S. Senate primary are really acting on behalf of one of the two major parties. Dennis Daneke, one of the two candidates, says if he wins the primary, afterwards he will withdraw, because he supports the Democratic Party and doesn’t want a Green candidate on the general election ballot for U.S. Senate. The other Green…

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Jesse Ventura Says He Won’t Seek Green Party Nomination, But That He Will Vote Green in November Ballot Access News

May 122020
 

On May 8, former Reform Party Governor Jesse Ventura said he won’t seek the Green Party nomination, but that he will vote for whomever the party nominates.

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DNA Lounge: Wherein DNA Lounge brand Whiskey and Bourbon have arrived! jwz

May 122020
 

This took longer than we expected, but they have finally arrived! Available for pick-up or delivery from DNA Pizza! Speaking of delivery, a few weeks ago San Francisco ordered the various delivery services to reduce their fees from their criminally extortionate 30% to a still-extortionate 15%, and I predicted that they’d find some loophole or some other way of keeping those fees high. But, to their credit, they all seem to be complying with the…

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“Menno’s Musings”: Better Emacs Config: use-package Planet Python

May 112020
 

use-package is an Emacs package which allows packages to be loaded declaratively. It’s been around for ages and I’ve seen it used in other people’s configurations, but I’ve only recently paid some real attention to it. I wish I’d learned how to use it sooner – it’s really improved my Emacs config. Let’s look at an example: (use-package magit :bind ((“C-x g” . magit-status) (“C-x C-g” . magit-status))) Read more… (3 min remaining to read)

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Amit Kapila: Improved (auto)vacuum in PostgreSQL 13 Planet PostgreSQL

May 112020
 

Vacuum is one of the sub-systems in PostgreSQL which gets improved with each release.  I have checked past five releases and each has quite a few improvements for vacuum.  Following the trend, there are a number of improvements in vacuum in the upcoming PostgreSQL release (v13) which are covered in this blog.Improvement-1———————Vacuum will be allowed to process indexes in parallel. This means it can leverage multiple CPUs in order to perform index cleanup. This internally…

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Watch a slew of vintage MTV from the 1980s Boing Boing

May 022020
 

Archive.org contributor Windsinger is uploading their entire VHS collection of MTV recordings from the channel’s finest era, from its launch on August 1, 1981 until 1989 (with a few 1991 episodes of 120 Minutes thrown in for good measure). It’s remarkable how the channel has evolved (?) from its pioneering earliest days filled with new music, youth culture, and visual experimentalism to its current form. “I’ve been collecting recordings of full, unedited, WITH commercials &…

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