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Issue 14 of #OwnYourWeb is out. 🥳
Webmentions.
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Own Your Web – Issue 14: Webmentions
Hi All! 🤗 Imagine, just for a second, a future in which we all have our own websites and that those sites are at the center of everything we do and create...

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/supreme-court-trump-immunity-hearing/

The Supreme Court’s 5 Male Justices Are Fully in the Tank for Trump
During the former president’s immunity hearing, Roberts & Co. made clear that they’re going to do everything they can to delay Trump’s criminal reckoning.

I am archiving my super old Italian tech blog (started in 2008) with Archivebox, which works like a charm.
I am doing the archive because the website runs on a super-old WordPress version that I really have to update, and after all this time, everything that can go wrong will go wrong.

Okay, got the SAS shelf up, got it connected to the NAS, we fought for a bit, and now everything is rosy. Went ahead and mirrored a few repos, got it shared out via `nginx`, and then updated all of the `sources.list` files across the servers. #homelab

“The main reason why the phone-based childhood is so harmful is because it pushes aside everything else. Smartphones are experience blockers. Our ultimate goal should not be to remove screens entirely, nor should it be to return childhood to exactly the way it was in 1960. Rather, it should be to create a version of childhood and adolescence that keeps young people anchored in the real world while flourishing in the digital age.”

The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood
The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.

“The main reason why the phone-based childhood is so harmful is because it pushes aside everything else. Smartphones are experience blockers. Our ultimate goal should not be to remove screens entirely, nor should it be to return childhood to exactly the way it was in 1960. Rather, it should be to create a version of childhood and adolescence that keeps young people anchored in the real world while flourishing in the digital age.”

The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood
The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.

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