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Predicting the 6 Wildcard games this weekend https://insidethestar.com/predicting-the-6-wildcard-games-this-weekend

My fellow Minnesotans and all supporters of this state, stay safe at the protests. I'm glad to be in a community that is helping and watching out for one another, like we always have. You won't hear about this on the news, but a lot is being done behind the scenes to support and protect our family, friends, and strangers, regardless of their immigration status.
Additionally, if this makes it to the ballot this fall, I urge my fellow Minnesotans to vote yes on this state constit…

Ausbau der Online-Überwachung: Internationales Bündnis warnt Bundesrat
Mit einem offenen Brief protestiert ein Zusammenschluss von Menschenrechts- und Digitalrechts-Organisationen aus dem In- und Ausland gegen die geplante Ausweitung der Online-Überwachung.
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Ausbau der Online-Überwachung: Internationales Bündnis warnt Bundesrat
Mit einem offenen Brief protestiert ein Zusammenschluss von Menschenrechts- und Digitalrechts­-Organisationen aus dem In- und Ausland.

So yeah, as @… is perhaps implying, part of the reason you don’t see it is that the mainstream press is under-covering everything that’s happening in Minneapolis.
BUT! There’s a second reason you might not know about this activity, equally important: the activity that followed the murder of George Floyd — rallies, protests, marches, police riots — was of a highly visible sort. What I see now is much more community infrastructure work: neighborhood organizing, watching for ICE, delivering food. That happened in 2020 too, but the scale of it now…!
https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/115857252713224712

One of my New Year's resolution is about watching (and reviewing) a bit more movies this year. So I thought I might as well share (some of) those reviews here:
https://letterboxd.com/njamster/film/late-shift-2025/
This (fictional) film follows the protagonist throu…

A ★★★★★ review of Late Shift (2025)
Pretty much what I expected after watching the trailer: A very stressful, yet extremely well-made movie with an important message. Guess this won't be for everyone (and especially: not every mood), but for what it [i]wants[/i] to be, it's absolutely perfect! At first, I was a bit worried about it being too black-and-white when absolutely everybody seemed angry, hostile and impatient. But in the end, the script turned out a lot more nuanced than I thought (most evident in the "lost watch" subplo…

Vikings-Packers analysis: What we're watching in J.J. McCarthy's season finale https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6936225/2026/01/03/vikings-packers-predictions-analysis-j-j-mccarthy/

"One workload I now support would cost an estimated £6000 per month to run on one of the large cloud providers, which would allow me to purchase the actual hardware in use four times over every year. But “spinning up an instance” today using free credits means you can worry about that cost later, whereas ordering a box from Dell means waiting two to three business days by which time the hackathon is over."

Five Computers
There is no direct evidence that Thomas Watson, Sr. predicted in 1943 that there would be "a world market for five computers". First, he probably didn't know about computers back then: in the 1940s computers were classified research projects at the UK Government Code and Cipher School and the US Army, while Watson's IBM were famously involved with the other side during the war.

ICE Is Watching You -- In the latest stop in Donald Trump's war on liberal democracy ... (Tressie McMillan Cottom/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/opinion/ice-surveillance-protesters.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JVA.dhXI.BfXFYsw1chhr
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p90#a260203p90

This is the year of the set piece. A big part of Arsenal winning close games is their ability to conjure a moment when other parts of the attack are misfiring. Long throws back in vogue as well.
#LFC are near the bottom of the league on both sides. Can’t defend them and can’t score them.
Watching back the tying goal is an agony. Zonal marking can absolutely work, but it hasn’t at all for LF…

Weekend Reads
* VPN IPv6 leaks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19698
* ACME protocol brief history

Smoothing Rough Edges of IPv6 in VPNs
How do commercial VPNs interact with IPv6? We show two "rough edges" in how commercial VPNs handle IPv6. First, we show that many IPv4-only VPNs leak IPv6 traffic to the ISP. Individual use VPNs in part to conceal their local IP addresses, so such leaks reduce user privacy. While prior work has studied VPNs in testbeds, we use a new dataset of 129k VPN-using daily visitors to WhatIsMyIPAddress.com that quantifies these leaks and show 12 VPNs previously considered safe still leak for at least 5%…