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Algiers:
🎵 Irony. Utility. Pretext.
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https://algierstheband.bandcamp.com/track/irony-utility-pretext
https://open.spotify.com/track/5YZSmdCrsYFRtkGqx3ysQ1

Linux utility for binding keyboard/mouse/touchpad actions to system actions (which reportedly has the ability to override and disable the touchpad gestures that are literally compiled into KDE Plasma-Wayland for some unfathomable fucking reason)
https://github.com/taj-ny/InputActions

A court in Russia on Thursday convicted a pro-war activist and critic of Vladimir Putin of
justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in prison.
Sergei Udaltsov, the leader of the Left Front movement that opposes Putin and is affiliated with the Communist party, was arrested last year.
According to Russian independent news site Mediazona, the charges against him stem from an article Udaltsov posted online in support of another group of Russian activists accused of …

i've come around to the utility of the livenation-owned setlist.fm, but i still way prefer a loving fan-made setlist/chronology page. i wrote a bit about why & made a list of a few dozen favorites that i return to often (or just thought were swell). what did i miss? https://jessejarnow.com/202…

Tarah Wheeler has joined the initiative as Senior Fellow and Board Member, where she will direct research to guide CPI’s development of a first-of-its-kind Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) model tailored for rural water utilities across the United States
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Kraken, the software arm of 🇬🇧 Octopus Energy, extends into distribution network territory. Essential Energy 🇦🇺 is the first DSO customer.
https://kraken.tech/press-releases/essential-energy-kraken-build-next-generation-network-billing

Rhetorik und Realität klaffen auseinander: Axel Oppermann analysiert, wie Microsoft sich als digitale Grundversorgung positioniert – mit allen damit verbundenen Abhängigkeiten. Er warnt vor der Bequemlichkeit, sich zu früh und zu exklusiv in ein einziges Ökosystem zu integrieren. Strategische Mündigkeit ist kein Luxus, sondern Pflicht. @…

„Ich hab’s gesagt“ – Warum Axel Oppermann mit seiner Microsoft-Kritik recht behält - ichsagmal.com
Axel Oppermann, Analyst bei Avispador, wollte eigentlich nur einen fundierten Strategiekommentar schreiben – wurde aber prompt als Microsoft-Basher abgestempelt. Sein Fazit: „Die Positionierung Microsofts als Utility bzw. ‚Planet-Scale-System‘ und die faktische Rolle als digitaler Versorger sind zugleich eine riesige Chance und ein massives Risiko für Kunden und Partner.“ Und Du? Wenn Du im Mittelstand Verantwortung … „Ich hab’s gesagt“ – Warum Axel Oppermann mit seiner Mic…

You only hate on Gemini until you need it to write for you a PowerShell script that generates a Kodi .nfo file for each of the ~50 extras of 'Friends' that don't have entries on TheTVDB.
At least I reviewed the final script and understood / learned how things are done. Shout-out to the excellent Bulk Rename Utility, which made the prepping easier. It was a team effort.
God this was a humbling experience 😑

@… I see a telegraph pole with wires crossing a track. Is it still a dirt track?
Plus what I thought was another telegraph pole, maybe an end pole, near the left of the photo, although I don't see cables from there to the central pole.
Second guess: a pub sign, no, it's something with a junction box on it. Utilities?

So I hacked my way into being Cyber Policy Initiative Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. I'm workin on rural water critical infrastructure cybersecurity.
Do you even hack utilities? Please chat w me. I need to quickly find out where I"m wrong about some of my assumptions.
Still very entertained by the fact that I *finally* got into the University of Chicago. :D