15:24 on Sunday October 18th, over Brazil

The late GOP Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican Rep. Joe Wilson and Democratic Rep. James Clyburn were both under investigation by the FBI for allegedly participating in a vast criminal bribery scheme in South Carolina. The evidence authorities had gathered included a confession from Martin Kao, CEO of a defense contractor, who said that his business model consisted of bribing officials in exchange for government contracts. “This is how much I want, and how much I am going to give you,” Kao remembered Graham saying. Then the FBI agents and prosecutor on the case were swept up in Donald Trump's purge of the Department of Justice. "Today, there is no one left to look into Kao’s explosive allegations, as the Trump administration has abandoned any pretense of prosecuting public corruption. The case is dead," writes the team at @ProPublica, who have resurrected it as part of a series of investigations.

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#USPolitics #TrumpAdministration #News

The Matrix Conference 2026 schedule 2.0 is here!

https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/schedule/changelog/

#MatrixConf #OrgaLeaks

This was a really smart discussion youtu.be/bcpQkvBCACw

I think the smartest and most correct view on these "AI" tools and what they mean to us. David Krakauer seems like a very smart peanut.

#ai #ArtificialInelligence #startalk #llms

@CenturyAvocado nope!

ah yes, just what I need right before I travel, the fan dying on my media server.

just gonna swap its nvme drive into my other Linux server which isn't actively being used for anything right now and which has a better GPU for transcoding anyway, maybe this is what I should have done to begin with

I have my blog address (which goes to my home server) in my Mastodon profile, and every time I post on Masto, my server gets a request from every Mastodon site that federates with my instance - i.e. hundreds of requests. It’s no problem for my server, because my blog is a static site, but for anything that dynamically generates every single page impression (like worpress or joomla), it could be a problem. Caching settings might help, I suppose.

Truth is, though, I get far more traffic from vulnerability scanners and AI crawlers that don’t honour robots.txt (or aren’t yet listed).

It’s almost like the software that powers the internet was designed for a different time and is only still used because there’s monied interest in keeping it around. We need GNUnet.

@Tak there's a fourth type and it's call of duty

@christin @zeroday@chaos.social @ppxl @krachomantik oh stimmt, sorry.

Wunschdenken.

Is there a reason why the publishing instance is not downloading the preview image, and then submits it with the post to the other instances? This way they would not have to fetch it themselves.

Yeah, thats how it should be: one download, everyone else downloads from that server, not the original source.

Seems abusable though