Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

Re the Supreme Court leak, the most plausible explanation for the report's findings is pretty obvious in retrospect:

They investigated everyone -- including a look at their digital communications -- who had access to the draft ruling EXCEPT the justices.

That's basically a roundabout way of saying the leaker had to have been one of the members of the court.

This is a coverup, not an investigation.

House Republicans seem to be doing everything in their power to ensure a crushing defeat in 2024.

As they say, never interrupt your opponents when they are making a mistake.

regex ~ When you have a problem and solve it using RegEx, you end up with two problems https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/grep-regular-expressions/

It's disheartening to see that lots and lots of posts here are simply retweets from the birdsite. Apologies to those posting, but my policy is only to click through when there's also a link to what the tweet was pointing to.

EU Court puts end to emergency use of bee-toxic pesticides – EURACTIV.com

These emergencies were not actual emergencies so I commend the court.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/eu-high-court-bans-use-of-bee-toxic-pesticides/

A free-to-read gift link for our story on the frenzy of performative TikTok bans:

https://wapo.st/3kxnJKK

I was blunt: “This has become a politicised issue that is not really about data security or the security of the national discourse, but is really about making TikTok into an example, or a sort of manifestation, of a broader political struggle around what to do regarding China.”

This is from Times Higher Education whom I told that the TikTok risks are non-zero, but pointed out that the reactions are blown way out of proportion inaction on a hundred more immediate risks.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/us-universities-caught-crackdown-tiktok

OpenSnitch is an open source Linux application firewall with a simple graphical interface that allows to easily accept or deny network connections from any program

Shows a popup message box giving technical stats about an app that is trying to access the Internet OpenSnitch, an application-based firewall, protects you from unwanted data leaks by letting you set customized rules for all your applications. The main thing that OpenSnitch does is track internet requests made by applications you have […]

https://gadgeteer.co.za/opensnitch-is-an-open-source-linux-application-firewall-with-a-simple-graphical-interface-that-allows-to-easily-accept-or-deny-network-connections-from-any-program/ https://squeet.me/objects/962c3e10-0f0d2e3c-6227c15196fa6050

No Florida Miracle - Excellent post explains the fraud in Texas that led to NCLB and the fraud in Florida that is leading to terrible student progress through the grades. https://reflectionsinedblogblog.wordpress.com/2023/01/20/no-florida-miracle/ #Education

TRUMP DUMP!

Less than 24 hours after being fined $1,000,000 by a Florida judge for filing a frivolous lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump withdrew his $250,000,000 lawsuit against New York Attorney General Latisha James

Trump had filed his own suit in response to a $250 million lawsuit by James.

HOW can anyone support him?

WHAT are they thinking?

WHY are they blind to his actions?

WHERE is their love for our country?

WHEN.. WHEN.. WHEN?

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-withdraws-lawsuit-new-york-attorney-general/story?id=96562382

When active duty military are in on the coup, it'’s time to do some investigating. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/20/politics/marines-us-capitol-riot-arrest/index.html

People exposed to weedkiller chemical have cancer biomarkers in urine – study | US news | The Guardian

The problem is the genetically modified crops called "Roundup Ready". They allow farmers to blanket spray the entire field. The plants absorb it but are not affected. You eat the plants and are affected.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/20/glyphosate-weedkiller-cancer-biomarkers-urine-study

So, if you are writing a program under #Linux and you would like to use some storage to keep temporary data, you can create a temporary file. And then you need to remember to clean up the file at the end of you program execution. However, because of the semantic of Linux (and other unixes as well, it might come from #POSIX), one can remove (unlink) the file from filesystem. However, as long as the file is being open by at least one process, the content of the file is still there. Just the name disappears from the directory listing. As soon as the file is closed (and that happens automatically when process ends), the data is not accessible anymore (well, not without the tools for data recovery) and the space used by the file is freed. So, one could create a file and open it, unlink it, and still use it for purpose of keeping some temporary data.

Because creating a unique file name in a secure manner is a feat itself, since Linux 3.11 one can ask the kernel to create an unnamed file directly. Just the descriptor is provided to the process. The file does not have an entry in the directory listing. Check man 2 open for details, look for O_TMPFILE.

That last functionality is not available in #bash (the #shell I am using on every day basis), however the trick with creating and removing the file keeping the descriptor still works.

Below is the code using the trick. However, I cannot decide, if that's a neat trick I should show people at the company and teach them to use it, or rather an abomination which should never had see a daylight and should be exterminated immediately.

#!/bin/bash
tmpfile=$(mktemp)
exec 3>${tmpfile}
exec 4<${tmpfile}
rm ${tmpfile}
sleep 1
echo Test >&3
date >&3
echo Does the file ${tmpfile} exist?
ls -l /tmp
ls -l ${tmpfile}
echo "Let's check its content"
cat <&4

The party of free speech out there free speeching I see

https://apnews.com/article/ron-desantis-florida-race-and-ethnicity-education-353417231de0a790c8e290479a5e52b8

Meta, Twitter, Microsoft, Yelp, and others file amicus briefs supporting Google in Gonzalez v. Google, asking SCOTUS not to weaken Section 230 protections (Brian Fung/CNN)

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/20/tech/meta-microsoft-google-supreme-court-tech-algorithms/
http://www.techmeme.com/230120/p17#a230120p17

hey this is crazy but what if we passed privacy legislation for the internet era that meaningfully held giant corporations and executives accountable for repeatedly over-collecting consumer data then repeatedly failing to secure it

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/19/t-mobile-data-breach/