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  • Vladimir Ivkovic at Draaimolen Festival 2024

    Vladimir Ivkovic & ISAbella · Soundcloud

    . . . For the most part of the first 5 hours I figured out that it would be great to play for and with the sound guy, playing right and wrong records and figuring out which one sound good. Research and development mission for Addit Audio.


    After 5 hours ISAbella joined for a brief back to back session. Everything can happen in the realm of paranormal. Luckily she stayed and we played together for the next 3 hours until the last song, the one for the deceased. Probably as close as it gets to transcendence.

    My soundtrack for the next 8hrs

  • How CAPTCHAs work | What does CAPTCHA mean?

    Cloudflare Learning Center

    How does reCAPTCHA work without any user interaction?

    The latest versions of reCAPTCHA are able to take a holistic look at a user’s behavior and history of interacting with content on the Internet. Most of the time, the program can decide based on those factors whether or not the user is a bot, without providing the user with a challenge to complete. If not, then the user will get a typical reCAPTCHA challenge.

    If I were stopped and asked on the street to choose a CAPTCHA, image recognition reCAPTCHAs are by far my fav CAPTCHA. I consider it a success on my part whenever I’m confronted with these. Don’t get me wrong, these are annoying af, but it signals to me that they know little about me, something I go to great lengths, and forfeit a lot of convenience to achieve.

    CAPTCHA me if you can.

  • ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree

    Cooper Quintin · EFF

    Standing at $28.7 billion dollars for the year 2025 (nearly triple their 2024 budget) and at least another $56.25 billion over the next three years, ICE’s budget would be the envy of many national militaries around the world. Indeed, this budget would put ICE as the 14th most well-funded military in the world, right between Ukraine and Israel.  

    illustration. grid depicting types of law enforcement surveillance that may be practiced. images of traffic pole mounted cameras, drones, facial recognition, maps, etc.

  • The Plan Is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever.

    Downstream · Novara Media

    Cory’s really gotten good at making this pitch. He’s always presented his case well, but this is a great gatling gun delivery.

  • China hacked email systems of US congressional committee staff

    FT

    The MSS has been operating Salt Typhoon for several years. It allows China to access the unencrypted phone calls, texts and voicemails of almost every American, and in some cases enables access to email accounts.

    Senator Mark Warner still seems to be the only person concerned with this.

  • EYES WIDE SHUT: Recreating New York with Stanley Kubrick

    CRITERION

    And while we’re talking Kubrick …

    Lisa Leone on collaborating with Stanley Kubrick on the pre-production for Eyes Wide Shut. Wonderful insights into how he works.

  • https://kubrick.life/

    https://kubrick.life/

    screenshot from the Stanley Kubrick microsite. Black Background. Red text in very bold, all caps lettering filling the screen and spelling "KUB-" on the first line and "RICK" on the second.

    Quite a nice microsite dedicated to Stanley Kubrick

  • Fascism Expert Jason Stanley on the 5th Anniversary of Jan. 6 Capitol Attack

    Amanpour and Company

  • Meshtastic: Sacto to the Bay

    Meshtastic: Sacto to the Bay

    Google Maps’ “Measure Distance” feature tracks the distance between my node and St35 as being 95 miles as the pelican flies. St35 is 4 hops away. While there is a much higher concentration of nodes in NYC, the geographic spread here in Northern California is considerably larger.

    It makes sense that I can see others nearly 100 miles out, as the connections between nodes is line of sight, then extended by connections and the relaying of data node to node within the mesh network. So looking across a flat valley to join distant nodes, then connecting with others in the mesh around the bay makes for a rather healthy spread.

    Mind you, I’m not using the stock antenna that came with this LILYGO T-Beam SUPREME, so with it I’m connected directly to BIC who is 41 miles away who connects me to the next, then the next, then the next node. Not bad at all.

    I’ll check the app when I’m back in NYC to confirm that this observation is in fact correct. It’s possible the spread isn’t something I notice while there because I’m entirely distracted by the sheer number of nodes on that map.

  • FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals

    Ken Klippenstein · Substack

    Attorney General Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list of groups or entities engaging in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism,” according to a Justice Department memo published here exclusively.

    Ken Klippenstein is sadly one of the only people reporting on NSPM-7.