500-year-old manuscript contains one of earliest known uses of the “F-word” Ars Technica

Apr 072020
 

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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U.S. Supreme Court Reverses Lower Court Order and Disallows Wisconsin Absentee Ballots that Aren’t Postmarked by April 7 Ballot Access News

Apr 072020
 

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 →

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GNU MediaGoblin: We’re still here! Planet GNU

Apr 072020
 

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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We’re still here! Planet GNU

Apr 072020
 

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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Two Florida Minor Parties File Request for Injunctive Relief in Ballot Access Case Ballot Access News

Apr 072020
 

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…

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U.S. Supreme Court Reverses Lower Court Order and Disallows Wisconsin Absentee Ballots that Don’t Arrive by April 7 Ballot Access News

Apr 072020
 

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 →

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500-year-old manuscript contains earliest known use of the “F-word” Ars Technica

Apr 072020
 

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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Amazon says it fired a guy for breaking pandemic rules. Same guy who organized a staff protest over a lack of coronavirus protection The Register

Apr 022020
 

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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Cloudflare family-friendly DNS service flubs first filtering foray: Vital LGBTQ, sex-ed sites blocked ‘by mistake’ The Register

Apr 022020
 

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.…

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Record week at the box office, and not in a good way Boing Boing

Apr 022020
 

$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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Australian state will install home surveillance hardware to make sure if you’re in virus isolation, you stay there The Register

Apr 012020
 

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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Jonathan Wiltshire: neuraldak Planet Debian

Apr 012020
 

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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Is Location Tracking Technology the Magic Pill to Stemming the Coronavirus? American Civil Liberties Union

Mar 302020
 

This piece first appeared on Just Security. If asked to give up their privacy in the interests of stemming the coronavirus, many Americans might be inclined to say yes. But the answer requires more nuance, both because there are serious tradeoffs to be made, and because sacrificing privacy may actually backfire.Consider, for example, serious discussions reportedly underway between the tech industry and the White House over how our cellphone location data might be used to help in…

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Permission Culture Gone Mad: Worries About Proper License For ‘Balcony Singing’ Lead Collection Society To Say It’s Okay, You Can Sing Techdirt.

Mar 302020
 

Yet another reminder that copyright is really, really broken. As you may have seen, there have been a few viral videos making the rounds of people locked down in apartment buildings deciding to hold impromptu music performances from balconies. When the first of these came out, I had joked that it would only be a matter of time until some music collection society called these an unlicensed public performance and demanded royalty payments. Thankfully, that…

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This Crisis Has Exposed the Absurdities of Neoliberalism. That Doesn’t Mean It’ll Destroy It Jacobin

Mar 292020
 

The coronavirus shock has shaken the world’s stock markets, imposing the need for massive state bailouts. But the measures to deal with the crisis risk spurring an authoritarian controlled capitalism — one that protects corporate interests while offloading the costs onto the rest of us. US president Donald Trump speaks as Vice President Mike Pence looks on during a briefing on the coronavirus pandemic in the press briefing room of the White House on March…

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Bob Dylan just released a 17 minute song about JFK’s assassination Boing Boing

Mar 292020
 

Bob Dylan just released his first new song in eight years. It’s a 17-minute murder ballad about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. From the lyrics to Murder Most Foul: “It was a dark day in Dallas, November ’63. The day that will live on in infamy. President Kennedy was a-riding high, good day to be living and good day to die.” Greetings to my fans and followers with gratitude for all your support and…

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Ohio Legislature Passes Bill Letting Any Voter Request a Postal Ballot Ballot Access News

Mar 292020
 

On March 25, the Ohio legislature passed HB 197, which lets any registered voter request an absentee postal ballot for the 2020 primary. However, the bill does not allow anyone who had not been registered already to register in time … Continue reading →

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GNU Guile 3.0.2 released What’s New at GNU

Mar 292020
 

We are pleased to announce GNU Guile 3.0.2, the second bug-fix release of the new 3.0 stable series! This release represents 22 commits by 8 people since version 3.0.1.Among other things, this release fixes a heap corruption bug that could lead to random crashes and a rare garbage collection issue in multi-threaded programs.It also adds a new module implementing SRFI-171 transducers.See the release announcement for details and the download page to give it a go!

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