All VPNs are blocked on my university’s network

I live off campus, thankfully, but it sucks that I can’t have any privacy on my laptop while on campus.

Sit back and relax.

You can sync user and daemon UIDs across machines with LDAP and SSSD.

And even if you don’t do that, keeping the information is useful when restoring to the same machine

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It’s certainly the agenda being pushed.

Are you referring to Nordstream, or another Baltic pipe?

It looks like the Polish train accidents are no longer blamed on Russia.

Polish authorities initially believed Russian sabotage was afoot.^[1]

But after investigations were carried out by Poland’s Internal Security Agency, it seems that local radio enthusiasts using amateur equipment managed to copy the brake signal used to override the manual functions of the train operator and force the trains to stop abruptly, causing the accidents.^[1:1]

I no longer take any of the accusations from Western intelligence at face value (i.e. without evidence), because I believe they’ve lied about Russian culpability so many times in the past.^[2] I don’t discount the possibility though—the Baltic Sea cables one seems to have a plausible motive at the very least, if they were used for NATO communications.

the Russian sabotage going on

What happened?

“To any Westerners losing sleep over the situation in Ukraine: Just pretend it’s happening in Africa.” —Sergei Lavrov (paraphrasing)

Would this only apply to servers hosted in Mississippi (or wherever)? Or any server with users registering from Mississippi IPs?

Edit: I’m guessing it’s the latter.

That’s a relief. I’m guessing the admins have to remove the instance from the block list first?

It’s bullshit cowardice.

Yes. It’s in their database init code:

https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/commit/f3e863d277932b55a15b1fe5043d750994fb8c14/app/cli.py

            banned_instances = ['anonib.al', 'lemmygrad.ml', 'gab.com', 'rqd2.net', 'exploding-heads.com',
                                'hexbear.net',
                                'threads.net', 'noauthority.social', 'pieville.net', 'links.hackliberty.org',
                                'poa.st', 'freespeechextremist.com', 'bae.st', 'nicecrew.digital',
                                'detroitriotcity.com',
                                'pawoo.net', 'shitposter.club', 'spinster.xyz', 'catgirl.life', 'gameliberty.club',
                                'yggdrasil.social', 'beefyboys.win', 'brighteon.social', 'cum.salon', 'wizard.casa']

I tried but he got mad and chased me down the hall yelling “give me back my stuff, you filthy animal!” 🖼️ 🦝 💨 🤬

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1. […] Become expert at using ChatGPT

4.8% of recent college graduates can’t find jobs in 2025, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

My understanding is that the unemployment rate only includes people who have recently been laid off and are receiving unemployment benefits, and so that naturally wouldn’t include recent graduates who haven’t yet been offered a job. Am I wrong?

*The sound of children screaming has been removed*

This was interesting:

Burnout seemed to vary by specialty. Surgical professions such as neurosurgery had especially poor ratings of work-life balance and yet lower than average levels of burnout. Emergency physicians, on the other hand, had a better than average work-life balance but the highest burnout scores. The inconsistencies began to make sense when a team at the Mayo Clinic discovered that one of the strongest predictors of burnout was how much time an individual spent tied up doing computer documentation. Surgeons spend relatively little of their day in front of a computer. Emergency physicians spend a lot of it that way. As digitization spreads, nurses and other health-care professionals are feeling similar effects from being screen-bound.

I imagine there is probably somebody who died of a fentanyl overdose on an American street last week, who would have had a relatively prosperous life as a textile worker or horse trainer if they had been born 160 years ago.

I’m sure conservative were all over that “activist judge”, right?

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