‘Shame on you’: Protesters heckle White House correspondents’ dinner guests
Gaza only got one mention at an annual gathering of hundreds of reporters, after the deadliest year for journalists. #press
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So I've got a VCR that I can control over serial. If I got a second one, I could stick tapes into them and cross-wire them so that each plays into the other.
I could then set up a program to record from tape 1 onto tape 2, then back from tape 2 to tape 1.
Attach a capture device and I can get video files of each generation.
Then we just watch the generational loss compound.
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As you likely know, Brexit import checks start in earnest on Tuesday... but at facilities which are (mostly) inland; in the case of Dover 22 miles inland....
Now, of course most shippers can be trusted to drive those 22 miles for a check, and then either 'enter' the UK or drive 22 miles back with their refused shipment....
Hmmmm.... so that 44 miles of driving when, for the less scrupulous, a little bit of clandestine unloading could take place... this is a system built to be circumvented!
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The exception, and it's a major one, is Sevington, which is 22 miles inland from Dover, our busiest port.
FWIW it wouldn't need a roundtrip, as Sevington is near Ashford, Kent, just off the M20.
I suppose they could use ANR to track the lorries going to Sevington, and pick up any doing illicit diversions, but I don't think they are.
But as it is, no one, apart from our Govt, thinks this is a good idea.
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The placard of Trudi Warner
Why the government sought to criminalise someone for stating a feature of constitutional law—and how it failed
By me, at Prospect
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/65837/trudy-warner-placard-old-bailey-jury
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The Trudi Warner #contempt case brings to mind a significant so-called 'perverse' verdict from 1991.
Michael #Randle and Patrick #Pottle were charged with helping a spy escape from prison in 1963.
The judge told the jury the defendants had no defence. The jury knew they were guilty - the pair admitted it in a book - and yet the jury unanimously found them not guilty.
More in this short thread:
https://mastodon.green/@robf/112310283229900432
The Trudi Warner #contempt case brings to mind a significant so-called 'perverse' verdict from 1991.Michael #Randle and Patrick #Pottle were charged with helping a spy escape from prison in 1963.
The judge told the jury the defendants had no defence. The jury knew they were guilty - the pair admitted it in a book - and yet the jury unanimously found them not guilty.
#law #legal #trudiwarner #1991
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Fantasy problem questions...
Suppose you are the judge in the fictitious case of Djarin v Skywalker. The parties each seek a child arrangements "live with" order in respect of a child, G. How would you apply the welfare checklist in s1(3) of the Children Act 1989?
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"The hearing was entirely conducted remotely by Zoom" says this judgment*. I wonder in some future era this will make as much sense as discussion of stannary courts or writing things down on vellum.
* [2020] EWHC 1238 (Fam)
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It could just be that those people do not understand and could use some guidance instead of being categorized into a hateful group that are against trans.
I stopped asking questions about trans people after being totally put down, made fun of and categorized because I just didnt know something and evidently was stupid enough to ask.
Im an ally to humanity. I am good with ANYTHING you want to be. I do not care. But I do not publicly support or ask questions because every time I do Im treated like shit.
So there is that side of the coin too.
Now I fully expect everyone to come yelling at me for posting my cishet feelings, since my feelings no longer matter since I seem to be unfortunately average.
Publication on the wonderful EULawAnalysis blog, together with @Frederik_Borgesius: a short analysis of the Podchasov v. Russia case of the ECHR.
This is an important case for the role of encryption for the protection of privacy (Article 8).
For our analysis and some short comments, see the blog post: https://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2024/04/podchasov-v-russia-european-court-of.html
Thanks for publishing @StevePeers!
Podchasov v. Russia: the European Court of Human Rights emphasizes the importance of encryption
Mattis van ’t Schip & Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius * *Both authors work at the iHub and the Institute for Computing and Informa...eulawanalysis.blogspot.com
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🤢Oh geez. Sorry for TMI, but Meiselas is reporting this:
Meiselas: What I’m hearing from credible sources is that Donald #Trump is actually farting in the courtroom… I’m hearing it from actual credible people that as he’s kind of falling asleep, he’s actually passing gas and that his lawyers are really struggling with the smell. #TrumpTrial
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Incredible research at BlackHat Asia today by Tong Liu and team from the Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (在iie.ac.cn 的电子邮件经过验证)
A dozen+ RCEs on popular LLM framework libraries like LangChain and LlamaIndex - used in lots of chat-assisted apps including GitHub. These guys got a reverse shell in two prompts, and even managed to exploit SetUID for full root on the underlying VM!
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This is a good thing.
Perhaps some folks can rm -rf / with abandon and nip this BS in the bud.
*sigh* Alas, I doubt anyone is that forward thinking anymore.
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@catsalad @bourgwick
💀 Deadheads jumped on these for portable audio recordings in the “tapers sections” 📼 at shows in the mid 1980s
https://heads.social/@bourgwick/112282298345332159
* mutters and grumbles about old server *
Anybody know what happened to witches.live?
Anyway, here now, hoping to refind everybody
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We've released #PuTTY version 0.81. This is a SECURITY UPDATE, fixing a #vulnerability in ECDSA signing for #SSH.
If you've used a 521-bit ECDSA key (ecdsa-sha2-nistp521) with any previous version of PuTTY, consider it compromised! Generate a new key pair, and remove the old public key from authorized_keys files.
Other key types are not affected, even other sizes of ECDSA. In particular, Ed25519 is fine.
This vulnerability has id CVE-2024-31497. Full information is at https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-p521-bias.html
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Given that that's 3 additional clicks in the PuTTYgen UI (ECDSA, Dropdown, nistp521) I can almost assure we won't have any in our enterprise.
Surprised to see that the default in PuTTYgen 0.81 is still RSA, and only 2048 bits. Ed25519 even works with RHEL 7 (EoL 2024-06-30).
@brnrd I must admit I've always been nervous about switching the recommendation over to any form of DSA. _Mostly_ because of exactly this fragile k business, but not only that. Though Ed25519 is IMO an improvement on integer DSA and NIST ECDSA – it's easier to see its security argument.
Plus I half expect any day now the post-quantum Next Big Thing will be standardised for SSH and then we'll all have to switch again.
Bumping the default RSA size, though, fair enough – patch welcome!
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WHERE THE WEB IS GOING: The convergence of LLMs and web advertising will lead to "ads" consisting of several hundred gigabytes of javascript containing a (weighted) neural network designed to generate unique per-user video advertisements—generated on your computer at your expense to ensure the imagery is unique and evades AI-based ad-blockers.
"AI spam" is an entire AI, squatting on your CPU and making it glow dull red as it works out how to capture your attention.
Welcome to the spamularity.
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<starts shopping the idea down Sand Hill Road>
<instantly receives a billion dollars funding>
- Google's new chat service Semaphore is replacing Google Pigeon (formerly Google Chat (for business (old version))). it will launch without encryption
- Gemini can now physically stare at you while you sleep
- Pixel Camera will automatically edit out people it doesn't like and replace them with your favorite Fortnite skins
- Settings is now a progressive web app
- Material4 is launching. the corners are now so round they bend the opposite direction
- the current Maps API has been deprecated and replaced with an unfinished newer version
- all the non-ads on the Play Store were ruining the experience so they removed them
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it was like poco or xiaomi or huawei, one of those
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Famous American murderer from the telly, O J Simpson, has been in the news recently for dying. Here are some lesser known facts about him:
O J was known by his fans as "The Juice". This is because his full name was Orangejuice Jorangejuice Simpson.
King Edward VIII of England was forced to resign because he wanted to marry him.
In addition to being good at rugby and murder, O J was also the first man on mars.
He was acquitted after his lawyer, who was one of the Cardasians from Star Trek, convinced the jury that there were five lights.
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He wasn't even called Simpson, I saw a documentary once and he was an accident-prone cop called Nordberg in real life
And he wasn't in the Simpsons
Answer me that
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"all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." should cover it all. In that use "men" is was meant to mean humanity. It should be updated.
So women should have a bloody right to live, not be livestock.
Also instructor: “I’ll be five minutes”
"If you're under 25 your brain isn't fully developed, so you can't be trusted to make informed decisions"
I'm seeing this a LOT lately, especially today with the Cass Review fallout. And it's utter guff, based on hearsay, misunderstandings of neuroscience, or wilful ignorance.
Why? I'll tell you why
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People seem to think that hormones fundamentally don’t really feel like anything, that they just change your body and nothing else. Nothing is further from the truth.
Getting on HRT when you’re trans feels like you’ve been wearing shoes two sizes too small for your entire life and you’ve just got a pair that fits. Getting on HRT when you’re not has the opposite effect: instead you’re taking a drug that will cause crushing depression. It’s even on the side effects list!
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I kind of forgot while saying this that in their mythology we’re embarked upon a sinister project to propel cis kids through transition.
Obviously fucking not, dickheads. We recoil at the idea of someone being pushed to transition as hard as we recoil at the idea of them being pushed not to. It’s always self-led. How dare you accuse us of the same monstrosity that you are so determinedly perpetrating yourselves.
Wouldn't it be easier to just refer to HRT as 'meds'? Like if you take epilepsy meds, you will have a bad time.
It seems easier to explain 'trans men do not produce the right hormones for men, so they need these meds'.
Dear UK residents. I’m sorry to be tedious, but I’m going to do the trans Cassandra thing again.
The government is now moving towards regarding trans people as effective children until the age of 25.
This will be established as precedent and then used to screw over any and all young adults who can’t escape from abusive parents, especially young women.
If you want to do anything about this, you need to fight for trans people. Yes, you. Now.
We all know that isn’t going to happen to any significant extent though.
As you were.
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I think it's easy to underestimate how far most people have moved on this already. (Not that *most* makes it safe). There seem to be two groups pushing this:
1. boring folk who moan about the metric system, car parks, youth of today, ULEZ, "they're all as bad as each other", immigrants, etc.
2. Westminster-y policy type people, both left and right, professional dinner-party attenders, columnists, writers, wonks, essayists, student union types.
The (dangerous) difference now is that these groups -- our society's loudest, most boring, dull, dim, and reactionary, who only differ in social class -- are united on one subject.
The public don''t need to "come round".
People think Guardianista idealists lay out liberation's groundwork -- surveyors going ahead. But they're just apologists hanging on the coat-tails of emperors, minting excuses for comfortable lives at court. The powerful, their "clients", are moving right, so they're representing them, coining theories and writing reports.
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The Disintegration Loops (Remastered)
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in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •Ummm...why?
I remember borrowing the neighbor's VCR to dupe the one porn tape the teenagers could get and watching that grainy stuff, but...why? Slumming? Recapitulating extinct hassle?
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in reply to Alex • • •@compucat yeah, I've thought about doing the same!
It'd revolutionize all these analog horror makers and their shitty VHS filters 😀
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in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •honestly the thing that stops me is content filtering and output caching. we all know what the internet will do with a Free Data space...
human-vetting input is the gold standard but has obvious problems.
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