"So, when we first hear about the Insurrection Act, it may trigger our alarmism. But better to face it now, before it comes, than learn about it on-the-fly."
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the longest chain carbon molecules yet on Mars It’s a significant finding in the search for alien life. arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…
Tell me truly, I implore! Is there anything at this store From foreign lands Or within these shores That e’er again I might afford? Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
If you look at the systems that are supposed to be used for classified communications, the underlying cryptography isn’t particularly different from Signal (the AES cipher can be used to protect classified material). That’s not what failed here.
The difference is that systems like Signal are designed to *facilitate* communication with anyone. Classified systems are designed to *limit* communication to authorized recipients.
Both are sensible for their respective - very different - purposes.
"Signal" was Hitler's magazine published by the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany from 1940. Recently Putin renamed his death squads Africa Corps same as the Nazi killers. Historical references names and dates are a favorite of the wanted war criminal Putin.
I hope the same name for "Signal" is just a coincidence.
Notwithstanding the "oops we accidentally included a reporter in our top secret war planning", it kinda bothers me a little that the "You must return to office, if I don't see you working you're a slacker" crowd appears to themselves wholeheartedly embrace the kind of communications tech they don't want other people using. I mean, if you don't need to be in a conference room to discuss *how to invade a country*, it seems silly to require RTO for other things.
I think the officials on the chat probably think that it also provides protection from the USG itself, so conversations can be held without being recorded.
Look, they named it the "small group", so don't go calling it a large group just because so many people were in it that nobody noticed the journalist even as Hegseth boasted of being OPSEC clean. You're making valid points and that is unfair.
If a journalist like Jeff Goldberg was “accidentally” added to the group where Vance, Hagseth, etc., were discussing highly sensitive and obviously classified foreign policy and security issues, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Russians and Chinese had access to it without any trouble. What a disgraceful level of professionalism. I doubt anyone is even considering resigning over this. 🙄
Matt Blaze reminds us that Signal provides: "No protection against certain common usage mistakes (accidentally including a reporter in your large group war planning chat)." -- @mattblaze
Next minute:
"White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalist
In extraordinary blunder top Trump cabinet members added Atlantic editor to chat discussing strikes on Houthis"
But not authorized by DOD to communicate operational information. These guys were in charge of DOD and they don’t follow the rules? A military officer would possibly be court martialed and/or discharged.
🤣🤯scary and funny at the same time. I watched several news about it because I thought it was fake, commedy or satire. But it was not and now I am stuck in a state between scary and funny.
it also facilitates: - adding journalists to your group on purpose, to show power/get a headline. - hurting Zucks feelings not using facebook, insta or whatsapp
😂 and it was my Signal group where I learned about this very 'special' Signal group and their war plotting and planning. Oh the layers and being 🇨🇦 , quite disturbing.
A timely read. It becomes apparent that Elon Musk is a showman, nothing more. He's not an engineer. The whole thing is an act. planetearthandbeyond.co/p/star…
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If you work in government and are asked to remove content from websites (as a result of executive orders), please use the HTTP status code 451 instead of 404.
451 is the correct status code to use for these cases, and you'll be doing the rest of the country a service by using it.
Addendum: you should also include a Link header with the link relation "blocked-by" that "Identifies the entity that blocks access to a resource following receipt of a legal demand."
So... I can't get information due to a client-side problem? I get the literary reference, but 4xx indicate client configuration problems. Even if one's mingling SMTP codes' structure, 451 would imply a transient condition ...which feels unduly optimistic.
reading these RFCs makes me realise how precious the internet is.
I yearn for a world where we can all be this professional and unhinged at the same time, connecting our worlds through hypertext and without JavaScript tracking popups.
If this were the intended use, wouldn't this mean that every not found on a government website would be 451, unless the file was only accidentally not found?
This is mostly unnecessary hairsplitting, but I think it could be argued that semantically 451 is the correct code when the content is not removed but is blocked for YOU but not necessarily for everybody else (using geolocation or something else). I think that's why it's a 4xx client error.
So, if the pages are made unavailable for everybody (in other words, removed), I would say 404 is the correct code. Do I actually care? Absolutely not xD
Just noting we're asking people to risk their jobs because a bunch of us were too fucking lazy to vote these bastards out. I hope they do it, but I hope we all do some soul searching to ask ourselves how we got here.
I got a 451 last week, the first time I'd ever seen one. I'm afraid I don't remember which site I was trying to access, other than I'm pretty sure it was a US one.
Based on the extraordinary career of Rene Carmille, history's first known computer hacker. Much of the Vichy bureaucracy, including the operation of the deat...
I love the idea, but I suspect it's not practical. Because most of the people doing these jobs are probably not technical or digging into code, but will just be working in a CMS where they can press the "delete" button. There's probably not going to be an easy button to send a custom status code.
Good people, if you see news articles mentioning error code 451 for MAGA Project 2025 censorship chaos crusade, please update Wikipedia article HTTP 451 #HTTP451 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451 Obstruct, resist the MAGAfascists!✊🤘🖖
It also depends on the playbook the service uses. I'm wondering if this and other obscure error codes aren't used more frequently to meet standards like NIST 800-137.
I’d love to hear the argument from all the tech bros who made their money on top of this protocol explaining why this time it’s wrong to use it correctly.
Legal? Unless we come up with a new error-status eg: "471 Unavailable for extra-judicial reasons", perhaps a simple "403 Forbidden" response would be more appropriate.
Clients cannot rely upon the use of the 451 status code. It is possible that certain legal authorities might wish to avoid transparency, and not only demand the restriction of access to certain resources, but also avoid disclosing that the demand was made.
Every 4 years, a team of libraries & research organizations work together to preserve material from U.S. government websites during the transition of administrations. 🗳️
@eotarchive@bird.makeup I’m so relieved this is done. I wonder if a “difference tool” could be made, so the next administration could easily see, in list form, what the current administration did to the website structure they inherited. Such a tool might make it easier to rebuild the structure. I imagine it’s not a simple matter of restoring the structure from the previous administration’s EoT Archive.
Starting to get the itch to re-do my server, as this is the year Ubuntu 20.04 LTS loses support. Was thinking TrueNAS but wanted a little more freedom with lower ports. Now thinking about using #ZFSBootMenu on Alpine as a host for converting most everything to #docker :
Yeah babe, I'll come to bed, I just first need to set my computer resources to assist in the emergency archival of the Entire United States Government, because that's a totally cool and normal thing you have to do in this day and age.
On the little server I have running here at home, I'm now helping @internetarchive back up US Government websites and data.
You can help, too:
1. Download and run the ArchiveTeam Warrior 2. Set the selected project to "usgovernment" (or select US Government from the available projects in the web interface)
I'm running Warrior as a container with podman, but there are various other ways to run it.
Thanks for making this project aware. After migrating our stuff to a new data center, I have a ton of resources I'm still paying for until I get around to collecting it. Might as well put it to some use and saving data before Trump/Musk delete it.
If you have a spare laptop or other device that you're okay with leaving on, they have a virtual machine that can be run on windows and linux. You just need to download the image and install virtual box and open the image in virtualbox. See under basic usage:
Just got mine running on docker-compose on my server. Downloaded the yaml file, pulled, run with docker-compose up -d, and allowed the appropriate ports on the yaml file through ufw. Looks like it's scanning NIH now. 😎 Probably the easiest deployment I've ever run!
The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
NOAA had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
The Chinese system is superior to democracy and climate change is not man-made: disinformation and conspiracy narratives are widespread among the German population - especially among young people and TikTok users, a new survey by the Gemran Allensbach Institute on behalf of the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung shows.
Ahead of Germany federal elections in Feb. 23, there is growing concern about foreign disinformation in the country. The German government is concerned that foreign states will deliberately influence public debate. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution warns against false reports and manipulation.
The representative survey by Allensbach Institute now shows that young people and TikTok users are particularly vulnerable.
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Although a small majority of respondents say that misinformation in the media is a big problem, only 44 percent of them say it is easy to recognize them.
Thus, 30 percent of the respondents do not recognize that Russia is deliberately spreading disinformation, and around 40 percent do not identify China as an actor that deliberately circulates false information.
The results show that young people are much less suspicious than older ones. For example, 42% of people under 29 doubt that Russia is deliberately spreading false information; in the case of China, more than half do.
TikTok users doubt the prevalence of misinformation at 50 percent in Russia and 59 percent in China. TikTok users are therefore significantly less suspicious than consumers of other media.
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The survey of certain disinformation narratives confirms this picture.
Only around 78 percent of those surveyed fully or rather "agree that Russia is conducting an internationally unlawful war of aggression against Ukraine. In the group of under 29-year-olds, this approval is still significantly lower at 69.7 percent. Among TikTok users, only 66 percent.
It is also a matter of concern that more than one third of all TikTok users believe that Russia has a greater interest in peace in Ukraine than the West. In the general population, only 18 percent believe this, while among young people it is 23 percent.
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The susceptibility to disinformation narratives is equally clear when it comes to whether China is a dictatorship. While around 81 percent of Germans agree with this statement, the figure is only 67 percent in the group of under 29-year-olds. Around a third of TikTok users even believe that China is not a dictatorship.
Almost 30 percent of Germans also believe that the autocratic Chinese government system is "more efficient and successful" than Western democracies. Among TikTok users, the figure is significantly higher at 42 percent.
Doubts about vaccines, climate change and pandemic
The view of fundamental scientific knowledge by young people and TikTok users is particularly frightening.
Only 71 percent of people under 29 agree that vaccines have helped save millions of lives. Among TikTokNutzers, the approval rate is even lower at 69 percent. More than 20 percent of young people, that is one in five, and around a quarter of all TikTok users even openly doubt this knowledge, which has been established for decades.
On climate change alone, young people and the general population seem to be shockingly unanimous: only 64 percent of respondents and 67 percent of young people agree that climate change is caused by human activities. Among TikTok users, it’s just over half.
Kritik an der Demokratie und Leugnung des menschengemachten Klimawandels sind verbreitet – besonders bei jungen Menschen und TikTok-Nutzern. Das zeigt eine Allensbach-Studie im Auftrag der FNF.
The view of young people and TikTok users is particularly frightening at fundamental scientific findings.
For example, only 71 percent of those under 29 years old agree that vaccines have helped save millions of lives. Among TikTok users, the approval is even lower with 69 percent. More than 20 percent of young people, and around a quarter of all TikTok users, even openly doubt this decades-long insight.
Young people and the population as a whole seem to be shockingly agreed on the issue of climate change alone: only 64 percent of respondents and 67 percent of young people agree that climate change is caused by human activities. Among TikTok users, it is only a little more than half.
And the corona pandemic also remains a source of conspiracy theories. A quarter of the total population agrees with the statement that the pandemic was deliberately created by governments or elites in order to be able to control the population more. This dangerous narrative seems to be particularly widespread on TikTok: there, almost 44 percent of users agree with it.
It's hilarious how these "studies" completely ignore the nonstop domestic propaganda. People are completely brainwashed to the point that they support genocide but somehow china/russia is the problem. It's so transparent and so gross. Fuck this imperial trash.
For the few months that I have been here you have been flooding the comms with 1 or 2-sentence messages like this one and literally every single of them conveys one and the same narrative. Are you really this braindead or do you need the 50 cents so urgently for always the same derailed comments?
Thought I'd write an #introduction for all those #newhere from the Musk exodus:
I'm an analytical chemist. I've hosted my own #Friendica node (instance) at my home since 2018, shortly after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. From there, I got bit by the #selfhosting bug and am now hosting my own #opensource replacements for many FAANG services.
Welcome all to the #fediverse ! If you are thinking about self-hosting and have questions, would be happy to help as able! #introductions
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