Tootfinder

An anomaly onboard the #Proba3 mission’s Coronagraph spacecraft led to loss of contact between the spacecraft and ground control: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Work_ongoing_to_restore_contact_with_Proba-3_s_Coronagraph - the root cause of the anomaly is under investigation and mission teams are working hard to recover the situation.

#EON #Glasfaser in #BadOeYnhausen
um Sommer sollte das eigentlich hier bei uns laufen. Ich habe in den letzten Monaten allerdings nicht den Eindruck, dass irgendwo etwas passiert.

“Recently I read Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch and Algospeak by Adam Aleksic. The language we speak (and text) to each other is at the core of who and what we are, and the Internet is the strongest among the forces that channel and fertilize its growth. So there’s scope for plenty of books on the subject. Both books educated and entertained, one made me angry.”

While discussing his ongoing military campaign against Islamists in Nigeria,
Trump summed it up this way:
“When Christians come under attack, they know [their attackers] are going to be attacked violently
and viciously by President Trump.
I know it’s not a nice thing to say, but that’s the way it is.”
That 'violently' and 'viciously' isn’t just rhetorical window-dressing.
This is the service Trump explicitly offers to conservative Christ…

Trump at the Pearly Gates
Why the president thinks he’s going to Heaven.

NewsGuard sues the FTC, alleging censorship after the FTC barred Omnicom from working with NewsGuard as a condition of the ad agency's Interpublic acquisition (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/news-g…

A company that rates news sites says the Trump administration is strangling it
NewsGuard sues Trump’s FTC alleging censorship after Chairman Andrew Ferguson barred a major ad agency from using its ratings

Harvard Warns of Active Cyberattack Impersonating IT Staff and Targeting Affiliates
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/4/4/harvard-cybersecurity-threat/

Harvard Warns of Active Cyberattack Impersonating IT Staff and Targeting Affiliates | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard is monitoring an ongoing cybersecurity threat involving individuals impersonating University information technology staff to gain access to accounts and sensitive data, according to a Friday afternoon message to affiliates.

CONFESSION:
My ongoing hatred of git is almost entirely grounded in my inability to switch FreeBSD branches without wiping and recloning.
#Sysadminnery

“Welcome to the first Long Links of this so-far-pretty-lousy 2026. I can’t imagine that anyone will have time to take in all of these, but there’s a good chance one or two might brighten your day.” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/02/03/Long-Links
This ti…

Long Links

Last week, Trump tried to scratch his election-meddling itch in a new way:
a weird-trick-style executive order trying to seize federal control of mail voting by creating new lists of whose ballots the Postal Service can and can’t mail.
Pro-democracy advocates who are focused on the president’s election predations remain wary.
Not because they think the order has a prayer in court,
but because they see it as part of a larger, ongoing presidential strategy to sow doubt…

The Other Thing Trump’s Dying to Break
Reminder: It’s not just Iran.