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So, Anmeldeübernahme, Passwortwechsel und LDAP-Abgleich umgeswitcht für das Update auf LBS 2.13.8 heute Nacht. Und damit dann auch endgültig gute Nacht Internet Explorer-Version!
Ich hoffe, es läuft dann so RHELativ gut, dass kein Telefon klingelt und nichts ins Ticketsystem läuft.
Aber fällt schon auf, wie viele Kollegen in Rente sind und wie wenig Thema so ein Update noch ist. Beinah Alleinunterhalter. Naja, immerhin kann man im Gegensatz zu FOLIO noch was machen :D

That Beth Gibbons album is actually really, really good. Highly recommended – not only for Portishead nostalgics! 😉
https://bethgibbons.ffm.to/livesoutgrown.OWE

Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
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Former Georgia star Brock Bowers already has the perfect new nickname in the NFL https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/former_georgia_star_brock_bowers_already_has_the_perfect_new_nickname_in_th…

Former Georgia star Brock Bowers already has the perfect new nickname in the NFL
Nobody loves football more than former Georgia star tight end Brock Bowers and his nickname in the NFL only continues to prove just that.  Bowers' new teammate and Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver, DaVante Adams, revealed to reporters on Wednesday that he calls Bowers "BM" for "Business Man." "BM, that's the Business Man," Adams said. "He don't care about nothing else other than just locking in on football. I can see it in his eyes. I try to tell a joke and get him to laugh. [I was] talking to …

#UKPol #Green #manifesto #election
Couldn't watch the launch, stupid jobs.
The gist seem to be tax the rich to invest in the country.
Hurray. Finally.
* Wealth taxes
The rich will finally have to sell some assets to pay their taxes. Anyone with ore than 10 million quid.
Wealth taxes are hard to implement, but you will never fix inequality with just an income tax and you can't fix asset-price inflation and so house-prices without fixing inequality.
They wanna raise a full 50 billion a year extra and then spend it on investment:
* Insulate homes
Insulate Britain would get their way! Hurray! Cheaper energy bills for everyone.
* Build homes.
Everyone's promising this. The green-party number is similar to the Conservatives number but the Greens will do it without lowering building standards to make it cheaper. They'll probably build good insulated ones one assumes.
* CEO/lowest-wage ratio set to 10:1
Currently CEOs earn about 200 times the average wage of their workers. They are worth, they think, ten classrooms full of other workers.
Maybe it'll encourage the CEO to actually give pay-rises?
* Scrap tuition fees & Ofsted
Education should be free.
* Personal Social Care free like the NHS.
No more Granny selling her house to be put into a home I guess?
* 15 quid minimum wage
Pay the workers what it costs to live damnit.
* More Rights to Roam
We will walk these green and pleasant lands even if the farmers don't like it.
* Stop All new Fossil Fuels
This is in fact needed, because "net zero" is bullshit, but not for the reasons Farage or Galloway say, but because carbon-capture is basically impossible. The "net" part is bullshit, it's gotta be actually zero
* Phase out nuclear energy
As is traditional, all parties must have at least one terrible policy which would lead to terrible results. The Green one is phasing out the only non-carbon energy source which is reliable and works all night and day every day.
* Wind power to 70% of all power.
Good, but the wind don't always blow, where are the nukes to back it up eh?
* Decriminalize possession of all drugs.
The drug war was always a counter-productive fraud, it's expensive, ineffective, encourages a police state, and doesn't even really stop anyone taking things. It's stupid, axe it.
Ought to make supply legal and licensed really too but they ain't promising that.
* Support Ukraine and Palestine against the aggressive countries attacking them.
War is bad.
* "No use first" on nukes.
Oh, surprising, they aren't promising to scrap trident.
* Brexit - Rejoin "when the conditions are right"
Well, not making as big a thing of it as the Libs, but it's there.
The Greens are clearly the sanest of the parties with the most progressive policies that would actually help people and help prevent climate change.
So of course the media tell everyone that they're crazy and the political system fixes it so they can't possibly win.
#UKPol #Green #manifesto #election

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05103 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

Algorithmic neutrality
Algorithms wield increasing control over our lives: over the jobs we get, the loans we're granted, the information we see online. Algorithms can and often do wield their power in a biased way, and much work has been devoted to algorithmic bias. In contrast, algorithmic neutrality has been largely neglected. I investigate algorithmic neutrality, tackling three questions: What is algorithmic neutrality? Is it possible? And when we have it in mind, what can we learn about algorithmic bias?

Lightwave-controlled relativistic plasma mirrors
Marie Ouill\'e, Jaismeen Kaur, Zhao Cheng, Stefan Haessler, Rodrigo Lopez-Martens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06396

Lightwave-controlled relativistic plasma mirrors
We report on attosecond-scale control of high-harmonic and electron emission from plasma mirrors driven by relativistic-intensity near-single-cycle lightwaves at kHz repetition rate. By controlling the waveform of the intense light transient, we reproducibly form a sub-cycle temporal intensity gate at the plasma mirror surface, leading to the observation of extreme ultraviolet spectral continua, characteristic of isolated attosecond pulse generation. We also observe the correlated emission of a…

UKPol conservative manifesto
Defense! They want you to feel threatened everyone! Only the Conservatives can protect you:
* From the country's "enemies" like China (who make most of our stuff).
* From "Immigrants" (who provide half of our services as the population-bulge retires).
* From Eco-zelotory and the expense of maintaining the planet (by building lots of dirty carbon-burning electricity stations to burn so much oil we'll have enough to sell to our neighbours, even though it's not really economical to export energy more than a few hundred miles and a decentralized green electricity network is cheaper and cleaner)
* From tax: Tax Cuts by cutting back on welfare other than pensions. Halving national insurance contributions, especially for self-employed. (Even though welfare is already cut to the bone, the working-poor are so poor they don't pay tax)
* From education and kids: Fewer university degrees, more training apprenticeships. Forced labour for national service. (Even though forced national service weakens an army)
* From homes: Build 300,000 houses a year (10% fewer than the Libs promise, but by abolishing building safety laws!).
No more stamp-duty. Help-to-buy schemes. (even though these things subsidize house-buying thus driving up house prices. They are good for landlords I guess?)
* From children: Free Childcare (so you can get to work on poverty wages instead of looking after your kids)
* More teachers! More cops! (Especially more cops)
* Sex means sex.
He says we need certainty, rather than the uncertainty Starmer would give us, but he doesn't seem all that confident of it.
#ukpol #election #conservative #manifesto

An attempt to walk RDAP to get a picture of who is using the IPv4 space.
(TIL Amazon uses unallocated 240/4 addresses internally, which will be interesting if they are allocated elsewhere.)
https://labs.ripe.net/author/jschauma/whose-cidr-is-it-anyway/<…

Whose CIDR Is It Anyway?
IP address space wasn't divided evenly, and after years of re-allocation and re-assigment, the question that comes to mind is: who owns what parts of it? In the latest in a series of articles on the centralisation of the Internet, Jan Schaumann digs into the data to try to get a clearer view.

#NowPlaying - got my califone turntable fixed specifically so i could listen to records when it's too hot to listen to records in the space where i usually do, & here we are. ready to reacquaint myself with the monaural pleasures! the lovin' spoonful were basically invented for this. what amazing underrated & undervalued LPs. if they hadn't shot themselves in the feet by narc…

my brother's attempt to get his roommates to wash their dishes