Planet Debian – Steinar H. Gunderson: Ultimate rules as a service

Nov 032024
 

Since WFDF changed their ultimate rules web site
to be less-than-ideal (in the name of putting everything into WordPress…),
I made my own, at urules.org. It was a fun
journey; I’ve never fiddled with PWAs
before, and I was a bit surprised how low-level it all was. I assumed that
since my page is just a bunch of HTML files and ~100 lines of JS, I could
just bundle that up—but no, that is something they expect a framework to do
for you. The only primitive you get is seemingly that you can fire up your own
background service worker (JS running in its own, locked-down context)
and that gets to peek at every HTTP request done and possibly intercept it.
So you can use…

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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024)

Nov 022024
 

Today’s links

Bluesky and enshittification: No one is the enshittifier of their own story.

Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.

Hoisted from the comments: Smart stuff from readers.

This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014

Upcoming appearances: Where to find me.

Recent appearances: Where I’ve been.

Latest books: You keep readin’ em, I’ll keep writin’ ’em.

Upcoming books: Like I said, I’ll keep writin’ ’em.

Colophon: All the rest.

Bluesky and enshittification (permalink)
I would like to use Bluesky. They’ve done a bunch of seriously interesting technical work on moderation and ranking that I truly admire, and I’ve got lots of friends there who really enjoy it.
But I’m not on Bluesky and I don’t have any plans to join it anytime soon. I wrote about this…

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blarg? – Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag

Nov 022024
 

Back in the mists of prehistory, by which I mean 2014, I bought a Timbuk2 messenger bag and spent the next six or seven years loving it into the ground. When it finally fell part Timbuk2 had lost their way as a company, turning into a lifestyle brand at the expense of their product quality, and they didn’t have a meaningful replacement to offer me so it was time to look around.
To review, my requirements were, and are:

Waterproof for real.
Holds a large laptop plus the usual extra nerd shit and two days’ clothing.
Replaceable straps. The straps can’t be sewn in to the bag.
Quick-adjust straps, to cinch it down and step out of it easily.
Side pockets I…

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Techdirt. – Norfolk, Virginia Residents Sue City Over Its Network Of 172 Flock Cameras

Nov 012024
 

This lawsuit could not be more impeccably timed. Whether or not this timing is more fortuitous than impeccable remains to be seen, but there’s no denying the bang-bang-bang effect on display here, even if it may just be coincidental.
Last week, a Virginia federal court ruled three hits from Flock ALPR cameras wasn’t enough to trigger a Fourth Amendment violation. It reasoned this was not the same sort of post facto long-term tracking addressed by the Supreme Court’s Carpenter decision, which mainly dealt with law enforcement’s obtaining massive amounts of cell site location data from service providers without a warrant.
That decision erected a warrant requirement for obtaining this data from service providers. The limited holding said important…

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Labor Notes – Consolidation Threatens to Rip ‘Service’ Out of Postal Service

Oct 312024
 

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Letter carrier Greg Andregic loaded his truck for the day in downtown Pottsville, Pennsylvania, last year. Under postal consolidation, many letter carriers will face drastically longer commutes. Photo: Jacqueline Dormer/Republican-Herald via AP.
Workers are battling an overhaul of the U.S. Postal Service that would cost thousands of jobs and slow the mail for half the country.
In the name of efficiency, a letter mailed within Cheyenne, Wyoming, would travel to Denver and back. And if you miss a package, your local post office would no longer have it. It might be 45 minutes away.
In March, Buffalo became the…

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Ars Technica – Pizza place accidentally spiked dough with THC, sickening dozens

Oct 292024
 

Dozens of people in Wisconsin have been sickened and at least five needed emergency medical services after inadvertently eating pizza tainted with Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the principal psychoactive compound in cannabis, officials of Public Health Madison & Dane County reported late Friday.
The contamination, which health officials called “unintentional,” occurred at Famous Yeti’s Pizza in Stoughton between October 22 and October 24. In a news release, the local health department advised customers to throw away any pizza they had from the restaurant during that time period.
“We want to be sure anyone who has this pizza on hand throws it away so they don’t get sick,” Bonnie Armstrong, director of Environmental Health at Public Health Madison & Dane County,…

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Ballot Access News – Sixth Circuit Expedites Ohio Jill Stein Vote Counting Lawsuit

Oct 292024
 

The Sixth Circuit has requested that the Ohio Secretary of State file a response by 5 p.m., Tuesday, October 29, in Stein v LaRose, 24-3923. This is the lawsuit over whether votes for Jill Stein (who is on the ballot) … Continue reading →

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Deeplinks – The Real Monsters of Street Level Surveillance

Oct 272024
 

Safe trick-or-treating this Halloween means being aware of the real monsters of street-level surveillance. You might not always see these menaces, but they are watching you. The real-world harms of these terrors wreak havoc on our communities. Here, we highlight just a few of the beasts. To learn more about all of the street-level surveillance creeps in your community, check out our even-spookier resource, sls.eff.org. 
If your blood runs too cold, take a break with our favorite digital rights legends— the Encryptids.
The Face Stealer

Careful where you look. Around any corner may loom the Face Stealer, an arachnid mimic that captures your likeness with just a glance. Is that your mother in the woods? Your roommate down…

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Jacobin – There’s No Pride in a Dick Cheney Endorsement

Oct 272024
 

Kamala Harris and her surrogates keep bragging about Dick Cheney’s endorsement. It’s deeply obscene: Dick Cheney is a depraved war criminal whose image should not be rehabilitated.
Kamala Harris’s rehabilitation of Dick Cheney’s reputation is an obscenity. (Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images) During a recent appearance on The Daily Show, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz touted the broad coalition supporting him and his running mate, Kamala Harris. “Dick Cheney, Bernie Sanders, Taylor Swift . . .”
It’s the kind of reference to former Vice President Cheney that Harris, Walz, and their surrogates have made many times throughout their campaign. Stewart, to his credit, seemed to find it painful….

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The Intercept – Netflix Wiped Most of Its “Palestinian Stories” Collection — and Erased the Whole Thing in Israel

Oct 272024
 

In 2021, Netflix moved to create a new movie collection for its viewers. “Netflix will launch the Palestinian Stories collection, showcasing films from some of the Arab world’s finest filmmakers,” said an announcement of the new grouping. “[T]he collection is a tribute to the creativity and passion of the Arab film industry as Netflix continues to invest in stories from the Arab world.” Thirty-two films were slated for inclusion, with more additions planned. Now, however, following a purge of at least 24 films from Netflix’s library, the landing page for the collection contains just a single film for streamers in the United States: Lina Al Abed’s 2019 documentary “Ibrahim: A Fate to Define” — and that’s…

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Planet Debian – Russell Coker: The CUPS Vulnerability

Oct 262024
 

The Announcement
Late last month there was an announcement of a “severity 9.9 vulnerability” allowing remote code execution that affects “all GNU/Linux systems (plus others)” [1]. For something to affect all Linux systems that would have to be either a kernel issue or a sshd issue. The announcement included complaints about the lack of response of vendors and “And YES: I LOVE hyping the sh1t out of this stuff because apparently sensationalism is the only language that forces these people to fix”.
He seems to have a different experience to me of reporting bugs, I have had plenty of success getting bugs fixed without hyping them. I just report the bug, wait a while, and it gets fixed….

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jwz – Bluesky now owned by crypto-grifters

Oct 242024
 

My “we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience through tokens, crypto trading or NFTs” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt. No not that crypto-grifter. These are different crypto-grifters: We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $15 million Series A financing led by Blockchain Capital […] This does not change the fact that the Bluesky app and the AT Protocol do not use blockchains or cryptocurrency, and we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience (through tokens, crypto trading, NFTs, etc.). To ensure we and our users benefit fully from this expertise, partner Kinjal Shah will join our board. If you are hitching your wagon to Blew Sky, you are…

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The Onion – Shitty Beard Barely Has Any Frolicsome Woodland Creatures Living In It

Oct 242024
 

SPOKANE, WA—Stressing that the best move would be to just shave the whole thing off, sources confirmed Thursday that area man Stephen Blanchet’s shitty beard had barely any frolicsome woodland creatures living in it. “You can tell Stephen’s proud of his so-called beard, but there are hardly any chickadees popping out to chirp a happy tune or chipmunks scurrying through in a mirthful game of chase,” said coworker Sarah Tillotson, adding that while a cheeky screech owl would occasionally pop out when Blanchet was eating to playfully nab a bite for itself, one jovial bird of prey simply wasn’t enough to make the beard work. “Some days there’s a vole in there, but it’s depressing and…

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Jacobin – France Wants to Make Olympics-Style Surveillance Permanent

Oct 242024
 

This summer’s Paris Olympics saw an experiment in AI-assisted algorithmic video surveillance. Now French officials say they want to make it permanent, in what experts call a worrying use of invasive and even racially discriminatory technology.
A surveillance camera with a statue of the Grand Palais Olympic site in the background in Paris on July 22, 2024. (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP via Getty Images) This month, when Emmanuel Macron’s newly chosen prime minister, Michel Barnier, laid out his first government agenda to the National Assembly, much attention was naturally focused on the budget and immigration. But a seemingly throwaway line pointed to another aspect of security and policing. “We will generalize…

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World Socialist Web Site (en) – Blinken gives US stamp of approval for Netanyahu’s war of extermination in Gaza

Oct 242024
 

Blinken’s visit carries with it enormous political, legal and historical significance. A top representative of the American government was briefed on the plan of mass extermination and proceeded to give what amounted to an unconditional and blanket endorsement of Israeli policy.

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jwz – Hit a Y2038 bug and it’s not even Daylight Savings Day

Oct 232024
  

 function default_end_date() { 
- return (date ('Y') + 20) . date ('-m-d 00:00:00');
+ return ('2038-01-18 19:14:07'); // LOL we're all gonna die + // mysqli_sql_exception: Incorrect datetime value: '2044-10-22 00:00:00'
 }

Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.

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