Colin McMillen
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GBCamtober 2026
jours 25-28 : speed, warm, sleep
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Jeremiah Lee
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Dear Dems,
While you've got control of Congress and a lot of states, this would be a swell time to pass constitutional amendments permanently protecting abortion rights and voting rights.
How about also a constitutional amendment requiring a non-partisan independent panel of physicians to annually examine presidents for dementia under the 25th Amendment.
Oh and one banning felons from the nation's highest offices.
Also one clarifying that a president cannot forgive their own crimes. They at least need one colluder president to do that for them.
Let's see, also an amendment declaring that corporations aren't people and banning dark money contributions.
Also, omg WEALTH TAX. Strip those oligarchs of their wealth. If you have a spare half billion to spend on elections, you have a spare .999 trillion that should have been allocated by government to public schools, single-payer healthcare, wiping out student loan debt, eliminating homelessness, and other public interests.
Point is, Mamdani that shit. Blitz the electorate with progress on bolstering the hell out of democracy.
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Google is entirely disabling Search in schools that don’t want AI https://www.theverge.com/tech/1025411/google-turn-off-search-ai-features
@verge so they tore down the “Don’t Be Evil” sign long ago and set it on fire in a children’s playground for good measure, right?
@themadhatter There are surely some good left politicians in the US, but indeed the Democrats would read as center right along the continuum of many other democracies. At this stage I guess it's about stopping Handmaid's Tale from going IRL.
@JulianOliver Yes,there are good ones. But I simply don't believe (yet) that the handmadaids tale is over. #Vance is no way better than #Trump. In my eyes he's even worse.
@niconiconi 
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@zeborah
> I'm not aware of any libre discovery layer per se being developed anywhere in the world
It took me a few seconds with a capable search engine (*not* Goggle or Bing) to discover 3, via a convenient comparison piece;
VuFind;
https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind
Blacklight;
https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight
Aspen Discovery;
https://github.com/mdnoble73/aspen-discovery
All of which have been in development for more than a decade. At least one, Blacklight, was developed by and for academic libraries at US universities.
@lightweight and I are not discounting your expertise. But maybe - just maybe - you're kind of discounting ours because we're not specialists in your field?
@strypey Unfortunately even capable search engines index dodgy websites - there's some questionable content there. Still: yes, those softwares exist, and VuFind in particular was what I was thinking of when I added that "per se" caveat. A better comparison piece would be the journal article https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/17433 which notes that these three are a different kind of software "with vital differences" from the proprietary systems that "include management of an aggregated index of electronic resource metadata".
[The problem is not the software. It's the data. It's just that the data comes with the software.]
It does a) note that VuFind and Aspen are starting to include some of the missing functionality, albeit in "much less complex" ways; and b) puts Sirsi Enterprise in this category of "OPAC-like front ends". So it may be in theory conceivable that VuFind could substitute for Enterprise -- *but* I wouldn't be confident in that without checking actual requirements and actual features, and it could be that depending on the requirements "a library would still need to subscribe to one of the proprietary discovery layers’ aggregated index for those features to function".
(Further down in the article it also talks about the support that libraries using the systems have in place and I lolsob a bit. But granted a consortium would get some economies of scale.)
I'm not discounting your expertise in your own fields. That expertise doesn't include meaningfully evaluating library-specific software, but I have no reason to doubt your ideas in other areas. An all-of-govt approach to address bot harvesting for example is very appealing and could be worth exploring further.
Time to get my ducks in a row...
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First time in a long while not waking up with dreadful news from the US. Congratulations to everyone there! The results surpass optimistic projections, despite the redistricting and billionaire financing.
keef
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Lots of people telling me to vote today, but, like 96% of the world's population, I don't live in the US. So here's an inclusive poll that *everyone* can vote in.
Also on the topic of weird dude who walked around the world for 28 years the media is obsessed with this week, he may have walked a long way in total and in some unpleasant places but his annual average was just over 2,000km. Sounds like a lot but I’m on target to log 1,200km of walks this year and I’m someone with a full time desk job, adult responsibilities I attempt to fulfil and multiple health issues. He must have done a LOT of sitting around
@joannaholman Most of his time seemed to be spent going back to his starting country to get new visas.
didn't know aetios is in the watch game
@cyberleagle
My goodness, "capture user-to-user platforms whose purpose is to enable online interaction and which allow users to post material, alongside having an algorithm." is a quote, rather than a summary!
It says a lot for digital literacy that someone can say "alongside having an algorithm" with a straight face.
@neil No doubt they mean recommender and engagement algorithms (although good luck drawing a line that works). But it is reminiscent of a certain Culture Secretary who is reputed to have walked into Microsoft and asked when they were going to get rid of algorithms! https://www.politico.eu/article/nadine-dorries-digital-minister-big-tech/
Colin McMillen
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Le récent piratage de Binance (6.3 milliards de dollars en crypto volés) a réussi grâce à un faux recrutement.
Un employé de Binance a commencé un processus de recrutement avec une fausse entreprise. On lui a demandé de faire un test technique, avec du code à récupérer pour le modifier.
Il a téléchargé cet exemple de code sur son poste de travail. Il contenait un malware suffisamment violent pour ouvrir les coffres de Binance.
