@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-31 21:55:36
Jack Smith withheld names of GOP lawmakers from judges who granted access to phone records (Josh Christenson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/31/us-news/jack-smith-withheld-names-of-gop-lawmakers-from-judges-who-granted-access-to-phone-records/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p73#a251231p73
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-01 01:32:48
New court filings allege that federal and state officials withheld evidence of the Trump administration’s involvement in the Everglades detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” a revelation that could revive a court-ordered shutdown. The Jan. 7 filings come as the Miccosukee Tribe presses ahead with its legal challenge amid President Donald Trump’s recent veto of legislation expanding the tribe’s control over Everglades lands.
The filings, submitted by Friends of the Everglades…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2026-01-31 07:56:11
@hansaplast42@social.wastedalpaca.wtf2025-12-27 13:44:40
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2025-11-28 16:19:02
Ugh why is this always the way. I evaluated like 25 authentication servers for a small scale web project — I do want to support things like OIDC and Passkeys, so this is not something I really want to make myself like the old days of “use crypt() on the passwords and just make a simple database”.
5 of them are just dev mode garbage that will never see the light of day as a thing people use.
2 of them are home network nonsense for people who want enterprise login for their family, but where One Nerd controls the whole user-list.
15 of them are freemium "open source" where they withhold features for their enterprise tier and make them so unfortunately difficult to deploy, all requiring postgresql databases and a complex containerization setup and helm charts and oh so much.
and then there's kanidm, which is great except its opinions make it completely unusable for a community project, it's really more trying to fit the ‘enterprise unix authentication' space. Kudos to them for communicating it but it's the wrong tool, even if it is really good.
And then there's rauthy. Which is exactly what I want, well built and delightful, uses a lightweight embedded database, and even has a peer-to-peer sync for scalability. But customizing it is going to be a lesson in building it from source repeatedly, and its configuration is just a bit strange, and its frontend is extremely Backend Developer Wrote A Web UI. I guess I got a second project. And maybe a third to make debian packages of it.
Yet it really is the best of the options _by far_.
NLNet supported projects continue to punch above their weight class.
@roland@devdilettante.com2026-01-29 08:29:40
lawbreakers gotta break the law. liars gotta lie. criminals gotta criminal. etc. sad face.
https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/115976151589371023
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-01-27 05:08:22
Goings on in China!? The USA seems not the only one where power is being consolidated.
"The CMC, usually made up of around seven people, has now been whittled down to just two members - Xi and Gen Zhang Shengmin. That only Xi and one CMC general remain is unprecedented, according to Lyle Morris from the Asia Society Policy Institute.”
#China #USA #CPC
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8d0l0g8yz5o
@jhamel@social.linux.pizza2025-11-22 10:02:18
>> Merz schlägt wieder zu
Berlin oder Belém - Hauptsache Fettnapf <<
Ich mag es einfach, am Morgen so etwas lockeres zu lesen. Für mich sehr unterhaltsam.
https://www.n-tv.de/politik/politik_wieduwilts_woche/B…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-31 13:25:08
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #JamzSupernova
Fish Go Deep:
🎵 The Cure & The Cause (feat. Tracey K)
#FishGoDeep
https://astute.bandcamp.com/track/astute003-fish-go-deep-the-cure-the-cause-carlo-astuti-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5mIjBU8wTULTmmKolSXylx
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-25 04:27:45
Representative Robert Garcia accused the administration of shielding powerful figures who abused women and girls.
"The White House is openly engaged in a cover-up protecting Epstein's co-conspirators and the powerful men who abused women and girls", he said,
noting it was "outrageous that the DOJ has illegally withheld over 1 million documents from the public".
Notably, under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, there was a December 19 deadline for …
