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C'est pas tout ça, mais je me lève Š 3h45. Zou, au lit!

A defense trick:
If you are in a crowd of advancing ICE or maga-cops you can drop strips of packing tape (the two or three inch wide clear stuff available at any drug or stationary store) or carpet tape (double sided super strong adhesive) in their path. It can really entangle an advancing phalanx.
(This trick can bounce back onto those who deploy it. It may be useful to tack one or both ends of the tape to the ground to prevent it from blowing back and entangling you, or if yo…

Trump's economic and tariff chaos is causing businesses to back off expansion plans.
https://scdailygazette.com/2025/06/05/electric-vehicle-battery-company-halts-construction-of-sc-manufacturing-plant/

An der Kirche von Warth (Vorarlberg) sind gleich zwei Höhenmarken des Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen, 1025 Wien angebracht.

Comme un air de déjŠ vu... Coucou @… https://mastodon.top/@Haviorig/114819403426671442

Haviorig 🌈, presque Rohirrim (@Haviorig@mastodon.top)
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Secret police are anathema to American values.

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Missed in most reviews of the big, bad, ugly bill...
"Minnesota’s Boundary Waters are pristine. Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ could pollute them forever"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/minnesota-boundary-waters-p…

@… @… Exactly.

@… @… Exactly.

I’m starting to wonder if my shoulder problems might in the end be related to my use of a trackpad, specifically hovering over it. So I’ll try using a mouse (with the other hand) instead for a while and see if this helps.

I just had to buy a load of T-rails. Those are steel - yes, steel as in "tariff on". Fortunately I seem to have obtained a price that has not yet been raised.
(I recently needed to buy a replacement car and got clobbered by FFOTUS's initial mad-tariff announcement; I am figuring that I ended up paying between $10K and $20k more than I would have pre-FFOTUS going off his meds.)

Trump turns to one of his pardoned federal convicts for Bureau of Prisons deputy post.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/former-federal-inmate-pardoned-trump-tapped-bureau-prisons-deputy…

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I just saw the images of the DHS "rennovation" of the old St. Elizabeths in DC as the new DHS HQ.
The architectural renditions suggest that they will be turning it into something rather different than its historical shape (but the drawings i saw didn't look too bad - at least they didn't turn it into a Frank Gehry monstrosity with leaky roofs, dead-end hallways, and external stairs that require people to step open crevices.)
Given DHS head Noem's history, I …

It appears that the Trump and Musk relationship is going through rapid unscheduled disassembly.

@… @… I guess that’s what certain people call “neutrality.”

@… @… I guess that’s what certain people call “neutrality.”

Some years ago, to avoid missing files when copying course materials to a different drive (e.g., a USB stick), I started copying (instead of symlinking) all files into the corresponding directory.
Obviously, the downside is that lots of duplicate files accumulate, including large files, like videos. So I thought about ways to deduplicate them... Some hours later:
TIL that on APFS, files copied via the Finder are cloned. So many of the “duplicate” files actually don’t take up extr…

I see no Constitutional reason why SCOTUS is precluded from revisiting a prior decision and amending it.
We issue updates for software, why not for decisions?
Yes, it could lead to uncertainties if used more than rarely.
But imagine if the court could re-open the Dred Scott or Korematsu decisions and change the original?
Git hubs could accommodate this.

I have to admit I didn't think the blow-up would be so fast and so intense.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/05/elon-musk-donald-trump-recession-impeachment-00390762

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First Law of the Internet
Every person shall be free to use the Internet in any way that is privately beneficial without being publicly detrimental.
- The burden of demonstrating public detriment shall be on those who wish to prevent the private use.
- Such a demonstration shall require clear and convincing evidence of public detriment.
- The public detriment must be of such degree and extent as to justify the suppression of the private activity.
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Cancer was Joe biden's cause, therefore Trump must side with cancer.

@… I’m very much in the same boat, but given that there’s Akrapovič, well-known manufacturer of exhaust systems for motorcycles and performance cars, I could very well imagine someone saying, “bro, I had an Akropovič exhaust fitted to my Kosmaczewski MX-100, it’s so freaking fast now, gotta install Piotrowski brakes!”

@… I’m very much in the same boat, but given that there’s Akrapovič, well-known manufacturer of exhaust systems for motorcycles and performance cars, I could very well imagine someone saying, “bro, I had an Akropovič exhaust fitted to my Kosmaczewski MX-100, it’s so freaking fast now, gotta install Piotrowski brakes!”

Well, this seems stupid - New Jersey is forcing the removal of many working NACS charging centers and replacing them with CCS charging.
That's already stupid. But it moves from stupid to destructive in that it NJ wants to expand the moribund CCS charge system while automobile makers are shifting away from CCS to NACS.
Perhaps we ought to remember that New Jersey is a major oil refining/gasoline producing state and thus there are political forces in NJ who abhor EVs.

Pour écrire en français, j’apprécierais bien un peu de l’aide de l’autocorrection.
L’autocorrection:

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I watched a video of the ukrainians blowing up Soviet era aircraft and I have to wonder: why are there tires scattered all over the wings and top surfaces of those planes?

It's still more than 3 months away - September 15, "Birmingham Sunday".
Under the white-nationalist/maga reign I am wondering whether this event will this year be remember or recapitulated.
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/baptist…

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@… Later than the 1981 paper. Given that the first working draft standard was published in 1980, the “chicken scratches” are thus likely to refer to a later draft; given the year 1983, presumably the 6th working draft, which was published as GCA industry standard, as mentioned in the SGML Handbook, p. 569.
Note also that Annex A of the Standard (p. 5 in t…

@… Yes, I agree, and I'd also love to get my hands on these drafts…
The author specifically mentions the angle brackets, which IMHO supports the assumption that the inital SGML working draft still used the GML syntax.

Like all university rankings, the QS World University Rankings are of questionable value. “In partnership with Elsevier” says it all, really…
But of course, they can be a marketing tool, and the metrics based on perceptions also tell a story. This also goes for their Sustainability rankings. So, while they don’t necessarily tell us about the actual “sustainability" of a university, they certainly tell us about how well they communicate about their efforts.
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The present FFOTUS administration has passed into the realm of "crimes against humanity", not just on an individual basis, but also on its overall policy basis.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/06/03/mohamed-…

Family of Boulder suspect taken into ICE custody for expedited removal, U.S. says
The White House said Mohamed Sabry Soliman’s family had been detained following Sunday’s attack against a Jewish group in Boulder and would be swiftly deported.

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@… No, it doesn’t, but it shows that the decision to go with <> must have been taken later.

@… Later than the 1981 paper. Given that the first working draft standard was published in 1980, the “chicken scratches” are thus likely to refer to a later draft; given the year 1983, presumably the 6th working draft, which was published as GCA industry standard, as mentioned in the SGML Handbook, p. 569.
Note also that Annex A of the Standard (p. 5 in t…

Trump is a national emergency.

If an "undercover" officer is seen and known to the press then I would not hesitate to publish their face image and identity - in part because they have failed actually be "undercover".
That said, the fact that agents can't be identified as actual Federal agents, much less identified down to the individual actor when they do ill, is simply unacceptable.
TSA at least has numbers on their "name" badges, so one can make a complaint about a person …

The ICE agents disappearing your neighbors would like a little privacy, please
After taking four people into custody at SF’s immigration court, ICE wanted The Standard to conceal agents’ faces.

C’est évidemment dommage pour les étudiants et étudiantes, mais je me demande s’il est vraiment « trop tôt pour réagir ».
Parce que les universités devraient se poser la question si elles sont prêtes Š s’engager Š faire le nécessaire en cas de refus d’entrée, d’arrestation ou d’expulsion d’un·e étudiant·e.
Et beaucoup des étudiant·e·s suisses sont de nationalité étrangère.

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Forsyth Park, Savannah

This is an interesting article about FFOTUS's cell phone.
Apparently many people know the number. And apparently FFOTUS often picks up and answers.
If I had the number I would publish it so that all of us could carry out our First Amendment right to "right to petition the government for redress of grievances".
"The Secret History of Trump’s Private Cellphone"

The Secret History of Trump’s Private Cellphone
“Who’s calling?” the president asks as he answers call after call from numbers he doesn’t know.

@… I explicitly do not discuss the Concrete Reference Syntax (i.e., the angle brackets) in this paper, but some other historical idiosyncrasies:
Michael Piotrowski (2019). “History and the future of markup”. In: Proceedings of XML Prague 2019 (Prague, Feb. 7–9, 2019). Ed. by Jiří Kosek, pp. 323–333. URL:

@… No, it doesn’t, but it shows that the decision to go with <> must have been taken later.

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Forsyth Park, Savannah

Gee, that statement by senator (no capitalization deserved) Joni Ernst and "the white house" about how good it is for Medicare to let people die is applicable to the abortion issue:
As the white house (and Ernst) argue, fewer people receiving medical assistance means (does it really mean?) more for everyone else.
Gee, then if that argument holds they ought to be in favor of abortion - because that means fewer people who will need government services, meaning more for th…

@… SGML descended from GML, which descended from SCRIBE, which descended from ROFF. As described in “A Generalized Approach to Document Markup,” (1981) https://doi.org/10.1145/800209.806456

@… I explicitly do not discuss the Concrete Reference Syntax (i.e., the angle brackets) in this paper, but some other historical idiosyncrasies:
Michael Piotrowski (2019). “History and the future of markup”. In: Proceedings of XML Prague 2019 (Prague, Feb. 7–9, 2019). Ed. by Jiří Kosek, pp. 323–333. URL:

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Here's a document that deserves to be remembered, resurrected, and read (hey, that's 3 "R's!).
"Records, Computers and the Rights of Citizens: Report of the HEW Advisory Committee on Automated Personal Data Systems" July 1973
https://epic.org/documents/hew1973repo

“If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

I also see that the FFOTUS Imperial parade is being designated a "National Security Event", meaning they expect an elevated risk of terrorist events.
From whom? I suspect foreign interests, like neo-ISIS, are quite happy with the way that FFOTUS is dis-assembling the US - Bin Laden must be quite proud of what FFOTUS Musk miller/noem ... are doing to the USA. So why would they bother attacking this silly (and expensive) parade that makes the US look like it is doing a spin-o…

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Trump and Bobby Brainworm are galloping down the trail toward Soviet-style repression of science.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repression_of_science_in_the_Soviet_Union

@… SGML descended from GML, which descended from SCRIPT, which descended from RUNOFF. As described in “A Generalized Approach to Document Markup,” (1981) https://doi.org/10.1145/800209.806456

@… Yes, I agree, and I'd also love to get my hands on these drafts…
The author specifically mentions the angle brackets, which IMHO supports the assumption that the inital SGML working draft still used the GML syntax.

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Trump isn't removing "illegal immigrants."
He's manufacturing them.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-trump-revoke-legal-status-500000-immigrants-r…

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dnacsxh4tk6zqxhyt5i7hahh/post/3lqd2cmlgpc2g

@… Ditto, whence my surprise ;-)

@… @… You think so? ;-)

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Ça se passerade la même manière pour les étudiant·e·s, et ce sera probablement plus agréable d’être refusé le visa: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-my-reporting-on-the-columbia-protests-led-to-my-deportation

@… Ditto, whence my surprise ;-)

Bobby Brainworm cancels research on Bird flu vaccine.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05/28/hhs-moderna-bird-flu-vaccine-funding/

The exercise wasn’t completely useless, though, and I managed to save about 10 GB by turning copies into clones.

Ça se passerade la même manière pour les étudiant·e·s, et ce sera probablement plus agréable d’être refusé le visa: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-my-reporting-on-the-columbia-protests-led-to-my-deportation

I think America was greater when the CDC was the global gold standard and not a pathetic political tool.

Some years ago, to avoid missing files when copying course materials to a different drive (e.g., a USB stick), I started copying (instead of symlinking) all files into the corresponding directory.
Obviously, the downside is that lots of duplicate files accumulate, including large files, like videos. So I thought about ways to deduplicate them... Some hours later:
TIL that on APFS, files copied via the Finder are cloned. So many of the “duplicate” files actually don’t take up extr…

The exercise wasn’t completely useless, though, and I managed to save about 10 GB by turning copies into clones.

@… Peut-être… Ou peut-être c’est un cri pour se motiver avant de commencer une classe.

Some years ago, to avoid missing files when copying course materials to a different drive (e.g., a USB stick), I started copying (instead of symlinking) all files into the corresponding directory.
Obviously, the downside is that lots of duplicate files accumulate, including large files, like videos. So I thought about ways to deduplicate them... Some hours later:
TIL that on APFS, files copied via the Finder are cloned. So many of the “duplicate” files actually don’t take up extr…

An American breakfast

Pour écrire en français, j’apprécierais bien un peu de l’aide de l’autocorrection.
L’autocorrection:

@… Peut-être… Ou peut-être c’est un cri pour se motiver avant de commencer une classe.

That said, if you know that “sustainability” has been the only consistently communicated strategic goal of #UNIL for the last 8 years or so, the relative ranking of the universities in Lausanne may be surprise you.
https:/…

Pour écrire en français, j’apprécierais bien un peu de l’aide de l’autocorrection.
L’autocorrection:

This is the real America: Immigrants with the courage to move halfway round the world to build a new life.
Also, dim sum.

Like all university rankings, the QS World University Rankings are of questionable value. “In partnership with Elsevier” says it all, really…
But of course, they can be a marketing tool, and the metrics based on perceptions also tell a story. This also goes for their Sustainability rankings. So, while they don’t necessarily tell us about the actual “sustainability" of a university, they certainly tell us about how well they communicate about their efforts.
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That said, if you know that “sustainability” has been the only consistently communicated strategic goal of #UNIL for the last 8 years or so, the relative ranking of the universities in Lausanne may be surprise you.
https:/…

Reopening Alcatraz as a prison is a really dumb idea, but I think it might be possible and probably appropriate to reactivate a few cells for the current occupant of the White House.

C’est évidemment dommage pour les étudiants et étudiantes, mais je me demande s’il est vraiment « trop tôt pour réagir ».
Parce que les universités devraient se poser la question si elles sont prêtes Š s’engager Š faire le nécessaire en cas de refus d’entrée, d’arrestation ou d’expulsion d’un·e étudiant·e.
Et beaucoup des étudiant·e·s suisses sont de nationalité étrangère.

Like all university rankings, the QS World University Rankings are of questionable value. “In partnership with Elsevier” says it all, really…
But of course, they can be a marketing tool, and the metrics based on perceptions also tell a story. This also goes for their Sustainability rankings. So, while they don’t necessarily tell us about the actual “sustainability" of a university, they certainly tell us about how well they communicate about their efforts.
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I keep seeing this meme about how great it was in the old days when Democrats and Republicans worked together politely. This nonsense is spread by people too young to know, or too old to remember, McCarthyism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

I’m starting to wonder if my shoulder problems might in the end be related to my use of a trackpad, specifically hovering over it. So I’ll try using a mouse (with the other hand) instead for a while and see if this helps.

C’est évidemment dommage pour les étudiants et étudiantes, mais je me demande s’il est vraiment « trop tôt pour réagir ».
Parce que les universités devraient se poser la question si elles sont prêtes Š s’engager Š faire le nécessaire en cas de refus d’entrée, d’arrestation ou d’expulsion d’un·e étudiant·e.
Et beaucoup des étudiant·e·s suisses sont de nationalité étrangère.

@… @… You think so? ;-)

Pity the poor billionaire who will never be happy, never be satisfied, never achieve whatever he is hoping to achieve, because there is never ever going to be enough. The greed eats away like a cancer and the rest of the world will suffer for it.

@… Interesting! I guess it really needs a local OS then.

@… Bro, lol!

@… dtksh was fun, though!

@… Ah, interesting! The only non-diskless machine we had at the time was a 735/125, which was obviously much faster in all respects, so…

⇢ What I find more surprising is that the 720 was actually a little too slow to run HP-VUE smoothly, which makes me wonder how it ran on 68K-based machines…
So people typically used either twm or HP-VUE Lite. There seems to be hardly any information online about the latter (apart from the documentation

Crazy, I’m posting about 100BaseVG and HP-VUE on the same day!
So, one more thought… Back in the day, we ran a DUX (diskless cluster) of about a dozen Snakes (HP9000/720) over 10Base2. They had disks for local swap and scratch space (context-dependent files, anybody?) and ran #HPUX 9.
And it worked fine. Booting all machines at the same time obviously was slow, but there was rarely any…

… or “liquid glass” gimmickry, for that matter.
But unlike what most replies suggest, this isn’t #CDE, this is HP-VUE, the ancestor of CDE.
#retrocomputing