Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

How to force kill process in Linux using kill and killall - https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-force-kill-process-linux/

#linux #opensource #meme

From #CTAN:

Mingyu Xia submitted an update to the NoteBeamer package.

Version: 4.2B 2025-03-20
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: A template for printing presentations on notepaper

https://ctan.org/pkg/notebeamer

#TeXLaTeX

We are working on combating the current bot account waves. As they decide our measures are effective, they are likely to attempt attacks on other servers as well. Please be patient with the admin and moderation staff across the fediverse. Large server administrators looking for additional information are welcome to contact us by email at staff (at) mastodon.social.

THE UK Government's Education Secretary has suggested cutting school spending by £500 million and ending universal free meals for infants in England ahead of the Spring Statement.

Bridget Phillipson has also offered to axe funding for free period products in schools as well as dance, music and PE schemes as part of potential savings.

Labour consider ending free school meals for infants | The National

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25030965.education-secretary-suggests-cutting-free-school-meals/

Green card holders detained. A French researcher denied entry for anti-Trump messages. A new travel ban on 40+ countries coming.

Given all these encroachments on travelers' civil liberties, we've updated our guide to digital privacy while crossing US borders. https://www.wired.com/2017/02/guide-getting-past-customs-digital-privacy-intact/

Staying out of Europe might be a good idea too.
I hear Russia’s nice.

#ukpolitics #scottishindependence #labourparty
So the Labour Government are considering cutting the taxes paid by Amazon and Meta to benefit rich American billionaires while they savagely cut benefits for the disabled & long term sick, plus scrapping the winter fuel allowance. So their message is we can afford to boost the income of the super rich while making the vulnerable poor. Shame on every Labour MP who voted to support this

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25031471.labour-consider-tech-giant-tax-cuts-bid-appease-donald-trump/

UK Labour: cut free school meals.
Scottish Greens: expand free school meals.

No young person should be sitting in school hungry; the Scottish Greens will protect Scotland's students from Labour cuts.

The Universe is doing weird stuff again. If this pans out, and that looks likely, our understanding of the cosmos will have to fundamentally change. Again.

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/is-the-universe-misbehaving-again

shifts cyber responsibility to states: US President signed an executive order last week that shifts responsibility for managing critical infrastructure from federal agencies to states and local governments

Local and state governments will now be in charge of defending and responding to cyber attacks, wildfires, hurricanes, and other events

The executive order comes after the White House ordered sprawling cuts to the US federal government workforce
https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/white-house-shifting-cyber-risk-to-state-local-agencies-a-27793

Hello, world!

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We'll be spreading the word about free software to young people, building supportive communities where teens can explore technology with others, helping young people defend their right to use free software and encouraging them to take their interests further in higher education.

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#introduction #freesoftware #youth #education

Elon Musk is helping Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, by closing Turkish accounts on X, so protesters cannot organize protests against the Erdoğan regime, following Erdoğan's illegitimate arrest of the main opposition presidential candidate Ekrem Imamoglu.

Don't buy the #Swasticar.

https://www.politico.eu/article/musks-x-suspends-opposition-accounts-turkey-protest-civil-unrest-erdogan-imamoglu-istanbul-mayor/

I've seen lots of posts about European countries offering jobs/positions in the physical sciences for Americans looking to leave, but nothing about the social sciences or humanities. Anything?

#getFediHired

Any parent reading this will know the unconditional love you have for your children. It is literally UNconditional.

However, here is Elon saying his child is dead because they're trans. Not committed a horrific crime. Not murdered anyone. Not even shoplifted.

They're just trans.

That's it. And now dead to him.

If he can't have empathy for his own children, what makes you think he gives two shits about the rest of you?

Canadian MP Charlie Angus joins global call to avoid the United States due to security risks posed to foreign civilians and Trump's ongoing ICE Ethnic Cleansing operation: "I am here today to urge Canadians to avoid travel to the United States if at all possible." #cdnpoli

OK I have a tentative gopher server up at gopher://squirrel.bleeve.me:70

#gopher

I'll stick with this for a while, but I'm not sure I'm ready to give up the ability to display images, or see PDFs. Those are just too valuable.

And it hangs, handing off to the h... URL: handler. The lynx client locks up.

I can't seem to get the server to serve from any root except /var/gopher, which means I'm editing sudo'd, which is gross, and I'm tolerating it only because I'm testing (and assume I'm making some stupid config misteak).

But the experiment has me rethinking presentation of content. I'm now writing simple, compliant HTML5, and doing pulldown menus in css. I'm using basic tables, lists, and some wrap around images. I may simplify this further. I could ditch the menus going forward.

But I don't think I give up inline images. They're just too meaningful.