⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

"I found that penguins differed in their reactions to being hoisted between human legs. Some were calm, mildly befuddled at how they got a foot off the ground. Others acted as if they were possessed, squirming and slapping and biting. Penguins are beefy birds, sleek bullets of swimming muscle, torpedoes of power, and they slapped impressively hard."

https://nautil.us/my-life-with-the-penguins-298047/?utm_source=pocket_collection_story

#Antarctica #Penguins #Marine #Birds #Science

I just got kicked off my health insurance again, so not only do I need a new doctor even moreso but now I can't afford my prescriptions. If you can afford to, I could really use a couple dollars.

https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing #mutualaidreqest

This week, Kenneth and Eugene look at Season 1, Episode 21 of Space Above and Beyond, entitled Sugar Dirt. They look at bad historical analogies, check in on this week’s contestant on Wheel of Court Martial and ask the question, “What has the 58th been eating for three months?”

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https://fusionpatrol.com/2024/12/14/714-space-above-and-beyond-sugar-dirt/

#Podcast #SpaceAboveAndBeyond

I don't think it's possible to undersell exactly what just happened. A handsome, white, upper-middle class man from the Midwest, with an ivy league education and chronic debilitating pain just, without help from anyone else, 3D printed a ghost gun and a silencer at home and used it to execute a wall street CEO.

This murder completely robbed MAGA of all their previous excuses. This wasn't feminism. It wasn't immigrants. It wasn't brown or black people. It wasn't a trans person. It wasn't a left coast elitist. It wasn't mental illness. It wasn't a blue-haired leftist. It wasn't Marxism. It wasn't communism.

This was the consequence of two previously unrelated right wing mechanisms suddenly coming together: the Venn diagram of unregulated healthcare and unregulated guns. This is the MAGA deregulation machine attacking itself. And they are completely unprepared for it.

A Florida woman has been charged with terrorism for expressing frustration at blue cross and blue shield for denying her health insurance claim.

Understand this fact -- this is not about silencing her. It is about silencing all of us. And we must peacefully but firmly resist.

https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/florida-woman-charged-with-terrorism

@splorp ... and a stack full of Newtons?!?

Some of my Babylon 5 art.

Enjoy.

#scifi #SciFiArt #fanart #Babylon5

What is the main use you give to your preferred #retrocomputing system?

Boosts and comments with more details are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for being involved in this 🙂

#dos #amiga #windows95 #windowsXP #apple2

@simon_brooke I would encourage everyone who signs this to ALSO submit a response to the consultation directly. In my experience drives like this, even if they collect thousands of signatures and form responses, get collected and counted as a single "campaign response" and as only a single vote when it comes to determining positive or negative sentiment.

So hey, a ray of light:

One of my clients, [huge company you have heard of], just DECLINED a [vendor] offer to install a “first one’s free” proof-of-concept AI server with a pile of fancy GPUs, because *the power requirements were so high they would skew a key internal sustainability metric*.

AI nonsense being delayed or deferred because of a green energy initiative? Inject that shit right in my veins!

Here's the WPEngine vs Automattic preliminary judgement.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.437474/gov.uscourts.cand.437474.64.0.pdf

Looks like WPEngine get everything they ask for (restored access, SCF back, etc.)

And, yes, Matt's intemperate social media posts were used against him

#WPDrama #WordPress

#curl 8.11.1 has been released. It includes a fix to #CVE_2024_11053 - a #vulnerability I discovered.

It is a logic flaw in the way curl parses .netrc file. In certain situations, the configured password can be sent to a incorrect host. Luckily the affected configurations should be quite rare and thus the situation is unlikely to occur often.

The issue has existed in the curl source code for almost twenty-five years.

• https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2024-11053.html
• https://hackerone.com/reports/2829063

No AI tools were used in discovering or reporting the vulnerability.

#noai #handcrafted #infosec #cybersecurity

Although we are not fully sure yet, there is a suspicious activity pattern from Russian IP addresses that currently brings Codeberg to a halt.

If confirmed, it is the first #IPv6 #DDoS attack in our history. Previously, we were only dealing with IPv4 so far.

Very insightful article on the American ‘healthcare’ system and #UnitedDeathCare

#Pluralistic: Predicting the present (09 Dec 2024)

“UHC leads the nation in claims denials, with a denial rate of 32% (!!). If you want to understand how the US can spend 20% of its GDP and get the worst health outcomes in the world, just connect the dots between those two facts: the largest health insurer in human history charges the government a 183,300% markup on covid tests and also denies a third of its claims.”

#UnitedHeathCare @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/09/radicalized/

"Thompson made his millions and made his company his billions by running a very profitable machine that creates human suffering called a health insurance company. This sort of human-suffering machine creates wealth by putting itself between health care and patients, and then by denying that health care, or at least denying to pay for most of it. This forces sick human beings to make the gut-wrenching decision of whether to be financially ruined or to just die"

https://www.the-reframe.com/peaceful-solutions/

Well the 'reset' hasn't started well; Rachel Reeves in Brussels has called for the EU to drop 'unnecessary' trade barriers with the UK:

'these unnecessary barriers to trade are one of the things that will contribute to the deterioration of living standards & making it harder for British businesses to be competitive on the global stage'!

Errr....The EU didn't just restrict trade on a whim; we left the EU; Reeves is just back on the EU-owes-the-UK-a-living tone; No it doesn't!

#Brexit
h/t FT