Ed

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Just an old geek. Learned about computers on a CARDIAC (CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation). Then the math teacher at HS got an old Navy surplus computer with drum memory. It had a high speed optical paper tape reader. From there it was BASIC, Cobol, FORTRAN, CMS-2Y, Jovial, Ada. Did some Java and C but never got that good. In retirement learning Rust.

Note: the main picture is from the B-24 my father was co-pilot on in the South Pacific

Dissent"'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman"
Ed1h ago
PBS News2h ago

WATCH: Trump says other nations can 'fend for themselves' in Strait of Hormuz after U.S. leaves Iran
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/watch-trump-says-other-nations-can-fend-for-themselves-in-strait-of-hormuz-after-u-s-leaves-iran?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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WATCH: Trump says other nations can 'fend for themselves' in Strait of Hormuz after U.S. leaves Iran

President Donald Trump lashed out Tuesday at allies who have been unwilling to do more to support the U.S. war effort against Iran, telling them to “go get your own oil” and declaring that securing the Strait of Hormuz is “not for us.”

PBS News
Ed2h ago
Street Art Utopia5h ago
💥 Wile E. Coyote — Sand Sculpture by PUFFERFISH <3 Made Funny Sculptures (12 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2026/03/31/artists-made-funny-sculptures/
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Steve Herman7h ago
(AP) — A federal judge has agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service.
Ed11h ago
Randahl Fink18h ago

Everyone wants to get rid of Trump, but I am starting to think we should give him a third term and get

— Iceland in the EU
— Britain rejoining the EU
— Norway fully joining the EU
— All EU countries switching to European weapons systems
— Laws against US surveillance systems in Europe
— An end to European collaboration with American NSA
— More people switching to Mastodon to get away from Zuckerberg and Musk
— Rise of European streaming services
— Full bankruptcy of Tesla

(Joking, but still…)

Ed12h ago
Taggart20h ago

This is a big deal. Already seeing evidence of this by way of OpenClaw installations.

https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/axios-compromised

https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-compromised-on-npm-malicious-versions-drop-remote-access-trojan

One of the most popular JavaScript packages on earth Axios has been compromised

The Axios NPM package has been compromised and the maintainer of the project has been locked out of their account. This will go down in history as one of the most successful software supply chain attacks ever

Ed12h ago
GeofCox3d ago

I often joke that Brittany is the most left-wing region in France - and has the highest number of cafés and bars per capita... but perhaps the two aspects are more closely linked than I thought.

This article - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/27/progressive-paris-far-right-french-capital-food-culture-community-extremists - links the increasing number of car-free and non-commercial social spaces in Paris with its continuing extraordinary left voting record - and suggests that the well documented disappearance of such spaces in the US and elsewhere may be a factor in the rise of the extreme right.

Progressive Paris has many weapons to fight the far right, but the best? Spaces where you can simply hang out

Drop into any of the French capital’s ‘third places’ and you’ll find food, culture, community – and an antidote to the disaffection extremists feed on, says Paris-based writer Alexander Hurst

The Guardian
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Staff Chief of Joints1d ago
I need a cool, dry place to store 12 tons of KitKats and not a lot of questions.
Ed12h ago
Muppet GIF of the Day13h ago
Today's #Muppets GIF of the Day is...
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Max Leibman4d ago

A billionaire enters a gas station. Seeing the "Leave a penny, take a penny" dish on the counter, he scoops up all of the coins and pockets them.

"I'm a genius," he says to the protesting clerk. "I earned this money. Anybody could have taken it, but only I had the vision to see what was possible."

Ed12h ago
Liam Proven14h ago

I Decompiled the White House's New App

https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

(By "thereallo" -- https://thereallo.dev/?explore=about )

I Decompiled the White House's New App

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

Thereallo