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FCC reply comments are due by 5pm EDT Monday 30 March on Reflect Orbital. If you wrote in a comment, please please please write in again saying that they did not address your concerns in their letter (which is very hard to find in the FCC dumpster-fire-of-a-website). Instructions here: https://aas.org/posts/advocacy/2026/02/how-submit-comments-satellite-applications-fcc

The most horrifying part in their "consolidated reply": they agree that they could in fact cause permanent eye damage to people using medium-sized telescopes. WILD.

Blobster 2d ago

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scribblans 4d ago

Love this tale of some delicious malicious compliance.

Edit to add fyi, the author is on Fedi: @WeirdWriter

https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/

The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner., Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.

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BleepingComputer 2d ago

The European Commission is investigating a security breach after a threat actor gained access to its Amazon cloud infrastructure.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/european-commission-investigating-breach-after-amazon-cloud-hack/

European Commission investigating breach after Amazon cloud hack

The European Commission, the European Union's main executive body, is investigating a security breach after a threat actor gained access to its Amazon cloud infrastructure.

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divVerent 3d ago

@b0rk Nice! You actually need one more fact: an attacker can't be able to, given S o A and S o B, find (S o A) o B.

Of course, if you can find B given S o B, you can do this; however the converse is not true in general (but may be in concrete cases). So in a way, the DH problem is likely easier than the DL problem, and is probably the real fact that needs to be hard.

However, if you were to put that in panel 2, you'd already be giving away too much there... organizing things well is hard to impossible.

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Julia Evans 3d ago

how diffie hellman key exchange works

(with as little math as possible)

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Eric Goldman 3d ago

How annoyed are judges about getting filings with hallucinated citations? They are using ChatGPT to write limericks mocking the filers 🤖😵

https://flcourts-media.flcourts.gov/content/download/2486572/opinion/Opinion_2025-0843.pdf

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Stéphane Bortzmeyer 3d ago

Flicage des courriels : la CNIL va toujours plus loin dans la connivence avec l'industrie https://asso-purr.eu.org/2026/03/21/flicage-courriel-connivence-cnil.html (à propos des pixels de tracking)

Flicage des courriels : la CNIL va toujours plus loin dans la connivence avec l'industrie — Association P·U·R·R

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The-14 6d ago

A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth
#Science #AI #SpaceX #Starlink #NightSky #Astronomy #Environment #SpaceDebris #LightPollution #ClimateImpact #Satellite #SpaceIndustry #EarthOrbit #Astronomers #Pollution
https://the-14.com/a-million-new-spacex-satellites-will-destroy-the-night-sky-for-everyone-on-earth/

A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth | The-14

A million new SpaceX satellites could overwhelm the night sky outnumbering stars and raising risks of pollution collisions and global space governance concerns.

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javi 4d ago

I didn't realize the facebook execs Mozilla acqui-hired last year have been promoted! I was assuming they were still just heading the ads division of Mozilla, but oh boy, I fucking wish.

Now the former Senior VP of Marketing of facebook (2008-2022, the finest years of facebook) is the CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER of the entire Mozilla.

And the former VP of Ads in Facebook (2012-2022), is now the Senior VP of Product of Mozilla.

Let me repeat this:

The guy who used to lead the facebook team that was literally "advertising to teenagers based on their emotional state" is now the guy who decides the direction of Firefox as a product. But hey, let's keep giving Mozilla the benefit of the doubt uh? I'm sure these people-who-should-be-on-trial-in-the-hague are going to do great things for the community!

edit: Bradwood has been promoted to Chief Business Officer of the Mozilla Corporation, not Chief Financial Officer, my bad

edit2: as @[email protected] pointed out, even if Graham Mudd's title is "SVP of Product", the bio in his page talks about him as the SVP of Product for the Mozilla Ads division specifically. So it may be the case that he hasn't been promoted and he's just on top of the ad division. That being said, Mozilla doesn't have a Chief Product Officer anymore, and that makes Mudd the most senior product person in the entire Mozilla organization, outranking the VP that seems to be org-wide.

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