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German rejections of asylum-seekers at the border are unlawful, court rules   - Euractiv
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/german-rejections-of-asylum-seekers-at-the-border-are-unlawful-court-rules/

Ninth Circuit Court ruled that the First Amendment does not guarantee this spa’s right to turn away trans women.
The Spa’s Anti-Trans Ban is Not Protected By the First Amendment
Suck on that, Justice Alito!
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/ninth-c…

Ninth Circuit Court Rules a Spa’s Anti-Trans Ban is Not Protected By the First Amendment
The First Amendment does not guarantee this spa’s right to turn away trans women, the court ruled.

Selection rules for charged lepton flavour violating processes from residual flavour groups
Lorenzo Calibbi, Claudia Hagedorn, Michael A. Schmidt, James Vandeleur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24350

Selection rules for charged lepton flavour violating processes from residual flavour groups
We systematically investigate the possible phenomenological impact of residual flavour groups in the charged lepton sector. We consider all possible flavour charge assignments for abelian residual symmetries up to Z8. The allowed flavour structures of operators in Standard Model Effective Field Theory (up to dimension six) lead to distinctive and observable patterns of charged lepton flavour violating processes. We illustrate the relevance of such selection rules displaying the current bounds o…

Last night 8 of us got together for Call of Cthulhu. First RPG for one of us, and a couple of us with decades of experience gaming together. Went off without a hitch. Other than my reporter getting killed by a swarm of vermin (one of two deaths).

Love appeals from bots I ban after 5 seconds appealing like "I've always followed your rules"
bro. you're pretending to be a roofing company from texas? go away.
#Mastodon #mastoadmin

Ukraine just rewrote the rules of war (Max Boot/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/01/ukraine-drone-attack-russia-bombers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250601/p86#a250601p86

Opinion | Operation Spiderweb’s drone attack on Russia exposes all air bases - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/01/ukraine-drone-attack-russia-bombers/
Ukraines massage again to generals all…

Is there a more perfect illustration of capitalism at work? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/01/dark-roof-lobby

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An Invitation to Number-Conserving Cellular Automata
Number-conserving cellular automata are discrete dynamical systems that simulate interacting particles like e.g. grains of sand. In an earlier paper, I had already derived a uniform construction for all transition rules of one-dimensional number-conserving automata. Here I describe in greater detail how one can simulate the automata on a computer and how to find interesting rules. I show several rules that I have found this way and also some theorems about the space of number-conserving automat…

US set to ease bank capital rules | LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/us-set-to-ease-bank-capital-rules-6401180/

Rules, agents and order
Amalia Puente, Diego Radillo-Ochoa, C. A. Terrero-Escalante
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23985 https://arxiv.or…

Rules, agents and order
Complex systems often exhibit highly structured network topologies that reflect functional constraints. In this work, we investigate how, under varying combinations of system-wide selection rules and special agents, different classes of random processes give rise to global order, with a focus restricted to finite-size networks. Using the large-$N$ Erdos-Renyi model as a null baseline, we contrast purely random link-adding processes with goal-directed dynamics, including variants of the chip-fir…

A small victory on the data retention front. #Czechia https://www.expats.cz/czech-news/article/court-rules-that-czechia-co…

Substructural Abstract Syntax with Variable Binding and Single-Variable Substitution
Marcelo Fiore, Sanjiv Ranchod
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24812 https:/…

Substructural Abstract Syntax with Variable Binding and Single-Variable Substitution
We develop a unified categorical theory of substructural abstract syntax with variable binding and single-variable (capture-avoiding) substitution. This is done for the gamut of context structural rules given by exchange (linear theory) with weakening (affine theory) or with contraction (relevant theory) and with both (cartesian theory). Specifically, in all four scenarios, we uniformly: define abstract syntax with variable binding as free algebras for binding-signature endofunctors over variab…

AgentAuditor: Human-Level Safety and Security Evaluation for LLM Agents
Hanjun Luo, Shenyu Dai, Chiming Ni, Xinfeng Li, Guibin Zhang, Kun Wang, Tongliang Liu, Hanan Salam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00641

AgentAuditor: Human-Level Safety and Security Evaluation for LLM Agents
Despite the rapid advancement of LLM-based agents, the reliable evaluation of their safety and security remains a significant challenge. Existing rule-based or LLM-based evaluators often miss dangers in agents' step-by-step actions, overlook subtle meanings, fail to see how small issues compound, and get confused by unclear safety or security rules. To overcome this evaluation crisis, we introduce \sys, a universal, training-free, memory-augmented reasoning framework that empowers LLM evaluator…

Read it in Two Steps: Translating Extremely Low-Resource Languages with Code-Augmented Grammar Books
Chen Zhang, Jiuheng Lin, Xiao Liu, Zekai Zhang, Yansong Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01796

Read it in Two Steps: Translating Extremely Low-Resource Languages with Code-Augmented Grammar Books
While large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in translating extremely low-resource languages using resources like dictionaries, the effectiveness of grammar books remains debated. This paper investigates the role of grammar books in translating extremely low-resource languages by decomposing it into two key steps: grammar rule retrieval and application. To facilitate the study, we introduce ZhuangRules, a modularized dataset of grammar rules and their corresponding test sentences. Our …

STATE-NAV: Stability-Aware Traversability Estimation for Bipedal Navigation on Rough Terrain
Ziwon Yoon, Lawrence Y. Zhu, Lu Gan, Ye Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01046

STATE-NAV: Stability-Aware Traversability Estimation for Bipedal Navigation on Rough Terrain
Bipedal robots have advantages in maneuvering human-centered environments, but face greater failure risk compared to other stable mobile plarforms such as wheeled or quadrupedal robots. While learning-based traversability has been widely studied for these platforms, bipedal traversability has instead relied on manually designed rules with limited consideration of locomotion stability on rough terrain. In this work, we present the first learning-based traversability estimation and risk-sensitive…

US court blocks most of Trump's tariffs, rules he exceeded authority: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/us-court-blocks-most-of.html

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A Nurse Staffing and Scheduling Problem with Bounded Flexibility and Demand Uncertainty
Nurse staffing and scheduling are persistent challenges in healthcare due to demand fluctuations and individual nurse preferences. This study introduces the concept of bounded flexibility, balancing nurse satisfaction with strict rostering rules, particularly a real-world time regularity policy from a major hospital in Singapore. We model the problem as a multi-stage stochastic program to address evolving demand, optimizing both aggregate staffing and detailed scheduling decisions. A reformulat…

Sources: the White House is finalizing EOs on drones that could end Chinese drone sales in the US, update federal rules on where drones can be flown, and more (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/30/trump-exe…

Trump order could end Chinese drone sales in the U.S.
The Trump administration is finalizing executive orders that could lead to Chinese drone-makers like DJI being barred from selling new models in the US.

So, tracked down the issue with Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS) 2024. The default permissions for the HOTAS `/dev/hidraw` devices is too restrictive. This is why neither MSFS 2024 or Elite: Dangerous saw the devices. I added new entries into the `udev` rules to relax the permissions and both games immediately saw the HOTAS.
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KERNEL=="hidraw*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="231d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0126", MODE="0666"
KERNEL=="hidraw*&q…

Police Raid Against Journalist Asa Winstanley Was Unlawful, UK Court Rules https://thedissenter.org/police-raid-against-journalist-asa-winstanley-was-unlawful-uk-court-rules/

"Tuna fishing devices drift through a third of oceans, harming corals, coasts: Study"
#Fishing #Oceans #Pollution

Tuna fishing devices drift through a third of oceans, harming corals, coasts: Study
A recent study reveals that drifting fish aggregating devices (dFADs), widely used in tuna fishing, have spread to more than a third of the world’s oceans.  These devices harm ocean life and coastal communities, but weak rules and lack of accountability make it hard to manage them properly, some conservationists say. The study, published in […]

Republicans in Congress illegally vote to end clean air rules they can't actually end | Electrek https://electrek.co/2025/05/22/republicans-in-congress-illegally-vote-to-end-clean-air-rules-they-cant-actually-end/

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Updated Determination of Ellis-Jaffe Sum Rules up to $\rm N^{3}LO$ QCD corrections
In this paper, we explore the properties of the Ellis-Jaffe Sum Rule (EJSR) by employing the Principle of Maximum Conformality (PMC) approach to address its perturbative part up to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order ($\rm N^{3}LO$) QCD contributions. By applying the PMC, we achieve a precise perturbative QCD prediction for the EJSR, free from conventional ambiguities associated with the renormalization scale choices. Considering the presence of the $α_s$ Landau pole near the asymptotic scal…

"Looser privacy rules will not fix our problems."
https://mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar/114592301397747952

The Great Play on [any country]'s Inferiority Complex (markdown formatting is mine) ->
‘"President Trump pledged to put **America First**, and the administration is committed to using every lever of executive **power** to address this **crisis** and **restore** American **greatness**," [Kush Desai] added.’
US trade court blocks Trump's sweeping tariffs in blow to trade policies | BBC

#Mülldeponien in #Colorado stoßen so viel #Methan aus wie vergleichbar eine Million #Verbrennerautos

Colorado landfills generate as much dirty air as driving 1 million cars for a year
Proposed rules would force landfill operators to measure methane emissions, fix leaks and, in some cases, install gas-collection systems

Rather surprised to see the performance scaling of nftables is so bad compared to iptables, especially as many distros switched to nftables by default some time ago.
I do understand that synthetic benchmarks of firewalls are difficult, and that you are supposed to use the advanced features of nftables (e.g. sets, maps) to express the same filter in fewer rules.
h…

WordPress may be run by… that guy, but it still has a massive user base. They all need better accessibility documentation.
@… wants to improve it, but needs sponsors:
https://

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Independence of Irrelevant Decisions in Stochastic Choice
We investigate stochasticity in choice behavior across diverse decisions. Each decision is modeled as a menu of actions with associated outcomes, and a stochastic choice rule assigns probabilities to actions based on the outcome profile. We characterize rules whose predictions are not affected by whether or not additional, irrelevant decisions are included in the model. Our main result is that such rules form the parametric family of mixed-logit rules.

Rather they are, amongst other things, that emails in Arabic be sent when Trust & Security moderates an account, so that recipients can understand how platform rules have been breached.
Given the extremity of the situation, this seems like an aggressively moderate ask.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.11748 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Optimal Decision Rules when Payoffs are Partially Identified
We derive asymptotically optimal statistical decision rules for discrete choice problems when payoffs depend on a partially-identified parameter $θ$ and the decision maker can use a point-identified parameter $μ$ to deduce restrictions on $θ$. Examples include treatment choice under partial identification and pricing with rich unobserved heterogeneity. Our notion of optimality combines a minimax approach to handle the ambiguity from partial identification of $θ$ given $μ$ with an average r…

The Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS/OCR) used to do a fairly good job of protecting patient's sensitive information. They did this by enforcing the HIPAA security rules and penalties for non-compliance included fines, mandatory compliance programs, and CEO liability.
No longer.
HHS/OCR has now been weaponized to enforce anti-DEI initiatives of the current administration. Here is the recent headline from HHS/OCR:
"OCR Inve…

An instance of FreeCHR with refined operational semantics
Sascha Rechenberger, Thom Fr\"uhwirth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22155 https://

An instance of FreeCHR with refined operational semantics
Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) is a rule-based programming language which is typically embedded into a general-purpose language. There exists a plethora of implementations of CHR for numerous host languages. However, the existing implementations often reinvent the way to embed CHR, which impedes maintenance and weakens assertions of correctness. To formalize and thereby unify the embedding of CHR into arbitrary host languages, we introduced the framework FreeCHR and proved it to be a valid rep…

English is hard.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJXBn1kuetC/?igsh=NTJvbHNsaG45eWcy

Ashley Ottesen on Instagram: "Yay grammar rules #dadjoke #comedy #skit"
24K likes, 281 comments - ashleyottesen_ on May 7, 2025: "Yay grammar rules #dadjoke #comedy #skit".

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💯💯💯
"If a billionaire bought one of your local haunts, renamed it, humiliated the employees, brought back many of the people who’d been banned for harassing other regulars, eliminated basic rules of decency, started having town halls with Republicans and a leader of the #AfD, taking your business elsewhere would be perfectly rational."
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Renormalized mechanics and stochastic thermodynamics of growing vesicles
Uncovering the rules governing the nonequilibrium dynamics of the membranes that define biological cells is of central importance to understanding the physics of living systems. We theoretically and computationally investigate the behavior of flexible quasispherical vesicles that exchange membrane constituents, internal volume, and heat with an external reservoir. The excess chemical potential and osmotic pressure difference imposed by the reservoir act as generalized thermodynamic driving forc…

Diffusive noise controls early stages of genetic demixing
Rashmiranjan Bhutia, Stephy Jose, Prasad Perlekar, Kabir Ramola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23698 …

Diffusive noise controls early stages of genetic demixing
Theoretical descriptions of the stepping-stone model, a cornerstone of spatial population genetics, have long overlooked diffusive noise arising from migration dynamics. We derive an exact fluctuating hydrodynamic description of this model from microscopic rules, which we then use to demonstrate that diffusive noise significantly alters early-time genetic demixing, which we characterize through heterozygosity, a key measure of diversity. Combining macroscopic fluctuation theory and microscopic …

Rather surprised to see the performance scaling of nftables is so bad compared to iptables, especially as many distros switched to nftables by default some time ago.
I do understand that synthetic benchmarks of firewalls are difficult, and that you are supposed to use the advanced features of nftables (e.g. sets, maps) to express the same filter in fewer rules.
h…

The global communication pathways of the human brain transcend the cortical-subcortical-cerebellar division
Julian Schulte, Mario Senden, Gustavo Deco, Xenia Kobeleva, Gorka Zamora-L\'opez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22893

The global communication pathways of the human brain transcend the cortical-subcortical-cerebellar division
Neural communication across the cortex, subcortex, and cerebellum is orchestrated by the structural connectome, forming the indispensable anatomical framework for capabilities spanning from elementary motor actions to higher cognitive functions. Yet, despite this importance, the core organizational rules that govern this connectivity remain insufficiently understood. Here we show, for the first time, how the integrated cortical, subcortical, and cerebellar brain areas shape the structural archi…

Can creativity and science-related work go together?
In this post I share four take-aways I had about creativity in relation to our work
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​1: Innovation requires creativity.
​2: Creativity is in the little acts.
​3: Constraints can spark creativity.
​4: Experiment with saying “no” to rules.
http…

Creativity in our work ✨

Whatever is left of our constitutional rights and liberties exists mostly in the gaps between what the government knows about us. This is the beginning of the end. Soon, when conservatives are in charge, they'll make us follow their stupid, puritanical rules whether we like it or not, and when liberals are in charge, well, they'll make us follow [i]their[/i] stupid, puritanical rules whether we like it or not.
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U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data
The government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people.

This prick is always wrong.
LD_PRELOAD rules, paper coming soon!
(Yep it’s fake but I don’t care lol)

A post from the archive 📫:
Monopoly
#musings #law

Exploring Integration by Differentiation
R. D. George, C. Vignat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22896 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.22896

Exploring Integration by Differentiation
This work validates and extends the method of integration by differentiation, initially introduced by A. Kempf et al., and demonstrates its compatibility with classical rules of integration. It provides applications to classical integrals, including one by Ramanujan, and extends the method to the multivariate setting. Volumes of simplexes are computed by acting with indicator functions on elementary kernels, and a rotationally invariant formulation is derived. Finally, the method is extended to…

Medium writer Paolo Perrone curates a short list of interesting algorithms, the rationale behind them, along with graphs and diagrams to boot.
Algorithms that made this short list:
Wave Function Collapse
The Diffusion Model
Simulated Annealing
Sleep Sort
BOGO Sort
BOID
SHOR’s
Marching Cubes
Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance and,
Boyer Moore
"The 10 Weirdest, Most Brilliant Algorithms Ever Devised and What They Actually Do&…

10 Weirdest Algorithms That Changed Tech Forever | Data Science Collective
Discover 10 unusual algorithms that defied logic, broke rules, and transformed the way we think about technology and problem-solving.

TIL that the family coat of arms used as a logo by Donald Trump is just some *other* family's arms.
> The Trump Organization made only one change: replacing the word "Integrity" with the word "Trump"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40097665

Right to bear arms? Trump accused of plagiarising family crest
Donald Trump has been criticised for using another man's coat of arms, but what are the rules?

Jšnos Bóka (Hungary's EU Minister) used the wording “hysteria” last year in September too when describing the reaction of the other EU members over Hungary's visa rules for Russians. Now it's “hysteria” over the member states worried about the gay pride ban and the rule of law of Hungary.

Ich nutze #AI täglich, im wesentlichen für meine Arbeit. AI dafür manchmal gut genug und manchmal nicht. Und es bleibt eine Black Box.
Was mich stört, ist unter anderem, daß die besten Modelle nicht offen sind und sich in den Händen weniger Player befinden. Daher spielt die AI Gesetzesinitiative der Republikaner in den #USA

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Baltimore mayor & council members introduce comprehensive yimby package. Has backing of city's main business & community action organizations:
● Legalize 2-, 3- & 4-unit houses in 1-family districts
● Abolish minimum off-street parking requirements
● Legalize single-staircase structures with more than 3 stories
I don't think I've seen all this in one package anywhere up to now.

Baltimore’s top YIMBYs want to erase zoning rules blocking more housing
A package of five bills will attempt to make it easier to build and redevelop Baltimore City properties.

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Novel browser extension idea: Site bookmarks
Sometimes bookmarks are only useful when you're on a specific website, when visiting a specific page, etc. This extension would let you create a bookmark that would only show up as a suggestion on specific pages
Extra credit: allow users to configure include/exclude rules for showing a bookmark

CFP: Party Studies by Leland Masek & Jaakko Stenros
"Parties are interactive structures, featuring expectations and rules, meaning that humans can and do play around with these expectations. In this way we invite analyses of not just games in, around, or co-occurring with parties, but also contributions that understand parties as games and play. Thus, we call on scholars of games and play to turn their eye towards parties and partying."
Call:

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Very, very useful:
https://abyssdomain.expert/@filippo/114496179105976467

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On The Merit Principle in Strategic Exchange
New fairness notions in align with the merit principle are proposed for designing exchange rules. We show that, for an obviously strategy-proof, efficient and individually rational rule, an upper bound of fairness attainable is that, if two agents possess objects considered the best by all others divided into two equal groups, then at least one receives her favorite object. Notably, it is not possible to guarantee them both receiving favorites. Our results thus indicate an unambiguous trade-off…

Trying to sell my #Amiga1200 accelerator card, a Blizzard 1230 II with 64MB simms, on a local 2ndhand site. So far the potential buyer does not like the platform I'm selling on or the way I asked to be paid (Money transfer to my account.) I had to explain the rules of selling and acquisition, I own the object you desire, I choose the platform I advertise on and I choose how I want to be…

Look, all I'm saying is, this Kennedy psychopath is trying to kill our children. I feel like self-defense rules apply. Isn't it time for a new HHS Secretary anyway?
https://apnews.com/article/vaccines-fda-kennedy-covid-shots-rfk-tr…

New Trump vaccine policy limits access to COVID shots
Federal health officials will no longer routinely approve annual COVID-19 shots for younger adults and children who are healthy. Companies that want to market their vaccines to those Americans will need to conduct large, new studies, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday. It’s a major shift in FDA’s approach to updating vaccines that protect against the virus. It comes as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his appointees continue to scrutinize the use of vaccines for a numbe…

Make it so that you can decide if ie. only followed users or followers(and amount of time followed rules) can reply in comments to all posts or make it to specific ones.
This in a fight against reply guys!
#ReplyGuys #MastodonFeatureRequest

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A High Efficient and Scalable Obstacle-Avoiding VLSI Global Routing Flow
Routing is a crucial step in the VLSI design flow. With the advancement of manufacturing technologies, more constraints have emerged in design rules, particularly regarding obstacles during routing, leading to increased routing complexity. Unfortunately, many global routers struggle to efficiently generate obstacle-free solutions due to the lack of scalable obstacle-avoiding tree generation methods and the capability of handling modern designs with complex obstacles and nets. In this work, we p…

Heute z.B. @… verstehen. Show rules ergeben schon mal sehr viel Sinn. Denke z.B. an die Handstände, die man in LaTeX mit BibTeX macht, um z.B. bestimmte Autornamen in der Bibliographie fett zu drucken.

The bias of IID resampled backtests for rolling-window mean-variance portfolios
Andrew Paskaramoorthy, Terence van Zyl, Tim Gebbie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06383

The bias of IID resampled backtests for rolling-window mean-variance portfolios
Backtests on historical data are the basis for practical evaluations of portfolio selection rules, but their reliability is often limited by reliance on a single sample path. This can lead to high estimation variance. Resampling techniques offer a potential solution by increasing the effective sample size, but can disrupt the temporal ordering inherent in financial data and introduce significant bias. This paper investigates the critical questions: First, How large is this bias for Sharpe Ratio…

Very cool read! A novel (to me and the author at least) approach to computing recurrence for iCalendar rules.
#RustLang #rust #calendar #RayMarching #SmallWeb

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Prof Anthony Costello on the UK's flawed covid policies
"UK decision not to suppress covid raises questions about medical and scientific advice"
"Early in the covid pandemic, evidence emerged from several East Asian countries that suppression could lead to successful control. Yet the UK did not adopt the approach. ... Why was suppression not recommended, and what can be done to improve advice in future?"
Currently looks like it'd go the same way in the next pandemic too:
"Five years on, many of the people who developed the UK’s flawed response are still in post; they have not changed their views on suppression, and little has been done to improve government pandemic advice committees or to introduce detailed governance rules for the UK’s future pandemic response and resilience."
#covid #history #UKPol #pandemics

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#TIL that, on #Linux systems, #Docker bypasses #ufw #firewall rules ( #iptables under the hood ) because of some incompatibility on how they interact with iptables.
Does anyone know if the same happens with #Podman ?

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Today's #MicroPrompt: Anthology
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Clock
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