The Wisconsin Supreme Court wants the State Election Commission to file a response by 4 p.m., Tuesday, September 8, in the ballot access lawsuit filed by the Green Party and Howie Hawkins.
It is with a sad heart that I report the sudden and unexpected death of Kevin Zeese early Sunday morning. Kevin was working up until the end and died in his sleep of a possible heart attack. Kevin was going to write a newsletter this weekend about the extradition trial of Julian Assange, which begins today. Kevin understood the great importance of the prosecution of Julian Assange as a battle that will define journalism in…
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On Saturday, September 5, the Texas Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in In re Texas House Republican Caucus PAC, 20-0663. The Court has seven members, but two of them are running for re-election (with Libertarian Party opponents) so they recused themselves. The five justices who participated ruled that the Republican Party effort to keep Libertarian candidates off the ballot for congress and state office was filed too late. Texas elects its state judges in…
(satire) *… streaming service Spotify reportedly celebrated Thursday the platform’s 100th dollar given to artists.*
Popular CDN and DDoS protection service Cloudflare has come under a lot of pressure from copyright holders in recent years. The company offers its services to millions of sites. This includes multinationals, governments, but also some of the world’s leading pirate sites. Many rightsholders are not happy with the latter. They repeatedly accuse Cloudflare of facilitating copyright infringement by continuing to provide access to these platforms. At the same time, they call out the CDN…
Non-planar 3D printing is perhaps a term you’re not familiar with, but if Gabriel Boutin has his way, you will in the future. The post It Really Is Possible To 3D Print Non-Planar appeared on Fabbaloo.
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On September 3, Howie Hawkins asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to put him on the ballot. He had enough signatures, but the Wisconsin Elections Commission on a 3-3 tie vote removed him, because some of the petitions had been collected before his vice-presidential running mate had moved her residence (so those petitions showed her old address); and later petitions showed her newer, more current address. Hawkins v Wisconsin Elections Commission. Here is the filing.
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The astronomy community is on edge. The growing number of satellites streaming through low Earth orbit is making it almost impossible to get a clear view of the sky. The true threat these mega-constellations pose to the astronomy community is only just beginning to be understood. A report released last week by the American Astronomical Society concluded that they will “fundamentally change astronomical observing” for optical and near-infrared investigations moving forward. “Nighttime images without the passage…
On September 1, U.S. District Court Judge John G. Koeltl, a Clinton appointee, refused to enjoin the new, more severe definition of a qualified party that was created in New York in April 2020. The old vote test was that a group had to poll 50,000 vote for Governor. The new test, effective in November 2020, is that it must poll the greater of 2% or 130,000 votes for the office at the top of…
Vacuum is one of the most important features for reclaiming deleted tuples in tables and indexes. Without vacuum, tables and indexes would continue to grow in size without bounds. This blog post describes the PARALLEL option for VACUUM command, which is newly introduced to PostgreSQL13. Vacuum Processing Phases Before discussing the new option in depth […]
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Enlarge (credit: Page Light Studios) Federal courts in the Chicago area have three times rejected government applications for warrants to force Google to produce a list of smartphones near two particular commercial establishments during one of three 45-minute intervals. The most recent ruling was handed down last week and was recently made public. The decisions are significant because Google has reported massive growth in law enforcement use of such “geofence” searches. Google says there was…
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Enlarge / An Amazon Flex driver delivers an armload of packages in Cambridge, Mass., on Dec. 18, 2018. (credit: Pat Greenhouse | The Boston Globe | Getty Images) Amazon is working extremely hard to counter both internal unionization efforts and external bad press even as working conditions for its Flex drivers seem to get ever more desperate amid the persistent pandemic, a set of new reports reveals. The Internet’s biggest everything store has been busy…
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Cloudflare fingers intertwined BGP and Flowspec SNAFUs Internet backbone operator CenturyLink has experienced an outage that degraded performance of major web companies around the world.…
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Cloudflare fingers intertwined BGP and Flowspec SNAFUs Internet backbone operator CenturyLink has experienced an outage that degraded performance of major web companies around the world.…
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Enlarge / Lick Observatory (credit: Bill Dally | Getty Images) On the morning of Sunday, August 16, freak summer thunderstorms rolled into the Bay Area, peppering the ultra-dry landscape with lightning, setting nearly 400 fires across Northern California. Ten miles to the north of the historic Lick Observatory, atop Mount Hamilton near San Jose, one such blaze was closing in, and fast: By Tuesday morning, the flames were 6 miles away. That night, the California…
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At the GNU Tools Track during this week’s Linux Plumbers Conference was an interesting talk by Red Hat’s Ben Woodard. He shares his perspective on how the GNU dynamic linker (ld.so) could be ripe for an overhaul in the 2020’s…
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So far, no independent candidate or minor political party has managed to overcome any petition requirement greater than 5,000 signatures, during the period starting in March 2020. This statement might cease to be true if Kanye West is able to … Continue reading →
Microsoft’s ‘open source wonk’ Sarah Novotny wants to see easier ways for people to get involved Interview Linux kernel development – which is driven by plain-text email discussion – needs better or alternative collaborative tooling “to bring in new contributors and maintain and sustain Linux in the future,” says Sarah Novotny, Microsoft’s representative on the Linux Foundation board.…
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It was supposed to be magazines.Elaine Wooton contacted me as many people do – in the middle of a shutdown and discard project, asking if the Internet Archive might want some of what is destined for deep storage or the trash compactor. In this case, she said, there might be some old journals and magazines I’d want. They were centered around the culture and innovations of the modern office, “modern” being the 1970s and 1980s.…
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Microsoft’s ‘open source wonk’ Sarah Novotny wants to see easier ways for people to get involved Interview Linux kernel development – which is driven by plain-text email discussion – needs better or alternative collaborative tooling “to bring in new contributors and maintain and sustain Linux in the future,” says Sarah Novotny, Microsoft’s representative on the Linux Foundation board.…
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