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Imagine being so bad at your job of creating log-in systems that you have to outsource rate limiting to a CAPTCHA that punishes your actual legitimate users—especially one run by a third party.
Air Canada does this with Google’s obnoxious “train our driving vision ML to see motorcycles” recaptcha scam. It doesn’t accept my answers probably 90% of the time, so I have to try over and over and over. I hate it so much that I’d change airlines if I reasonably could.

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image Oh, fuck you, British Airways.

"Young women tend to vote for parties of the liberal left. Angry young men, sometimes dismissed as toxically masculine by those parties, are being shrewdly wooed by politicians from the right and the far right.
(..)
In Europe, where many countries offer a kaleidoscope of political choices, young male votes have helped fuel the rise of reactionary outfits such as the AfD in Germany, Confederation in Poland and Chega, which surged at Portugal’s election on March 10th."

Technical sysadmin-ish question. We've had our family mail hosted at a bullshit rinky-dink server since forever, we pay too much, and today we had a mail glitch because some bullshit automated IP address filter triggered.
So, what's the process for transferring a domain name, plus all the IMAP mail on those servers? We have ssh access to a server, even. I researched this once, I think something like "Dovecot" is part of the answer. Not sure if I should look at blueho…

Bundesregierung: Russland für Cyber-Angriff auf SPD verantwortlich
Im Januar vergangenen Jahres griffen Hacker E-Mail-Konten der SPD an. Die Bundesregierung macht jetzt "eindeutig" Russland dafür verantwortlich.

Of course, I can't start a day without being awfully angry about some shit.
So #Gentoo suddenly undoes USE=lzma [and USE=zstd] that used to be enabled by default in 23.0 profiles, apparently based on "consensus" on the mailing lists. The "consensus" boils down to one conspiracy theorist developer complaining, and being supported by 3 users whose Gentoo contributions boil down to having to express their opinions on everything on the mailing list.
This isn't only a problem, because Gentoo is letting itself be controlled by a vocal minority. This is a problem, because we've enabled something that can affect program output, told everyone to upgrade and rebuild their systems, then pulled the carpet from under them.
Wait, did that random app start using LZMA compression now that you've enabled it? Well, bad luck, you won't be able to open your files anymore. Surely, there's no better #security than not being able to do anything!
Unfortunately, sys-apps/kmod had explicit IUSE= lzma by default for a while now, so there's still a risk that you'll be able to boot your system. That's not good for security at all!
#xz

Verif.ai: Towards an Open-Source Scientific Generative Question-Answering System with Referenced and Verifiable Answers
Milo\v{s} Ko\v{s}prdi\'c, Adela Ljaji\'c, Bojana Ba\v{s}aragin, Darija Medvecki, Nikola Milo\v{s}evi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18589

Verif.ai: Towards an Open-Source Scientific Generative Question-Answering System with Referenced and Verifiable Answers
In this paper, we present the current progress of the project Verif.ai, an open-source scientific generative question-answering system with referenced and verified answers. The components of the system are (1) an information retrieval system combining semantic and lexical search techniques over scientific papers (PubMed), (2) a fine-tuned generative model (Mistral 7B) taking top answers and generating answers with references to the papers from which the claim was derived, and (3) a verification…

Pennsylvania’s primary election is slated for April 23, 2024.
Election officials in Pennsylvania remain in a legal limbo, uncertain about the answer to a seemingly simple and straightforward question:
whether to count undated mail-in ballots.
And unless the legislature decides to act, Pennsylvania voters who forget to put dates on their ballot envelopes may be disenfranchised while the wheels of the judicial system turn.

Why courts aren’t the fastest or clearest ways to solve election disputes – a former federal judge explains
What counts as fast for a court is slow for the rest of the world, and judges can give contradictory or vague rulings that delay final decisions into the future.

Thank goodness we have websites like answers dot com to help with #science questions.

Someone at the local museum found this map today and sent it to me. It's from 1892 of Stamp Harbour in #PortAlberni near the very beginning of the settlement by colonialists in the area.
The mark that sticks out for me is “Remains of old Indian Vil.” (about 1/4 up the river in the top right). I believe this is what is properly known as “Nuupts’ ikapis” by the Tseshaht and H…

Wineloader von "CDU": Russische Cyberspione nehmen deutsche Politiker ins Visier
Deutsche Politiker erhielten eine Einladung per Mail zu einem angeblichen Abendessen der CDU. Dahinter steckt laut Forschern ein russischer Phishing-Angriff.