Why would the US military send email to .mil (US military) addresses while they can send it to .ml (Mali) instead. Much shorter.

BBC News - Typo sends millions of US military emails to Russian ally Mali
bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada…

Typo sends millions of US military emails to Russian ally Mali

Some of the emails reportedly contain sensitive information such as passwords and medical records.

^{By Bernd Debusmann Jr (BBC News)}

It is being treated as hazardous

and

kids were digging sand castles around it

(From BBC News - Australia baffled as unidentified mystery object washes up on beach
bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia…)

Australian kids may have a different idea of hazardous.

Australia baffled as unidentified mystery object washes up on beach

The item is under police guard as state and federal authorities work to identify its origin.

^{By Antoinette Radford (BBC News)}

Parcel left the carrier facility

And somehow has been going around for days now.

This is not a big country. Driving a few hours it should either be at another facility, or at my address, or it has left the country again.

Thinking again of Jane Grey, a royal of Tudor times, and how the world was robbed of her brilliance when she was beheaded on orders of Queen Mary, when Jane was only seventeen. Most people focus on the history around her short time wearing the crown of England (the first woman, or girl, to do so in her own right), but to me her life before is much more fascinating.

The writings of her tutor and of philosophers in Europe, where you can feel how much in awe they were of her intellect while knowing she was a fifteen year old girl, are spine tingling. Her translating a book into ancient Greek from another ancient language and giving it to her father as his birthday present, at that same age, indicates she was indeed super smart but also a total show-off.

Of course it's Aimee Carrero who has the best words, as always. Actors are on strike and of course they deserve to be paid properly for their work, even if it's on streaming, and deserve guarantees against misuse of AI, like the writers do.
instagram.com/p/CupRXuuprsa/

SAG-AFTRA
Strike

For the first time in over 40 years, union film
and television actors are on strike.

I'm reflecting on the importance of unions.

Though *never* above reproach or
improvement, unions harness the power of
the collective.

Together, we can alleviate the crushing
weight of unfettered capitalism.

Together, we can slow the terminal spread of
endless consumption and growth-at-all-cost.

At their best, unions represent the hope that
the worker is not a pawn, that The Man is not
invincible, and that the fight for human
dignity cannot and will not be deterred.

Unions are the ever-rare reminder that
power is really in the hands of the people.

See you on the picket line.

@AimeeCarrero

Rewatching We Hunt Together one episode per week, now they are finally showing it on the BBC (One) after I had previously seen it on the BBC (First) and caught up with the repeat on the BBC (Entertainment).

Hermione Corfield and Eve Myles, double the reason to watch.
#WeHuntTogether

Step one of a migration done and succeeded, as in everything is still running on the same hosts as before.

(But from different data mounts, which was the goal for now, not meaning it as a euphemism for failure)

Good. Then let's talk money and not lollipops.
-- Sally

#TheAvengers

Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, Pixelfed, PeerTube, dare I say it even Twitter, all have websites that work perfectly fine on mobile. I don't understand this obsession with 'I'm on mobile so I should select an app' or 'I want to see the website so I should use a computer'. The sites may even work better than the app. Often you can save them to your home screen too.

You may consider the feature that apps of mainstream social media provided of extra tracking and snooping to be a nice bonus, but you're not going to get that anyway in fediverse apps.

My life began this morning, Baba. Like it does every day.
-- Freddy

#WeHuntTogether

Great to see Prof Francesca back. Reshared, not because of the tech advice request, looks like she got a lot of answers already, but this is of course a very serious and important archaeological photo.

I like the grin...

Prof Francesca Stavrakopoulou

2023-07-03 13:16:38

Hello all! Is there a way to update the Mastodon app? It doesn’t seem to be working well for me (I have an iPhone - is that relevant?) … By way of an apology for such a boring request, here’s a pic of me admiring an apotropiac phallus on the Greek island of Delos last week …

The fair is in town!
#Fair #Fairground #FunFair #Best

(Photos licensed cc-by Gidi Kroon, reuse with attribution allowed)

Why would someone boost a four year old Mastodon post of mine and have I really been here that long(*)? It's the one I got a warning(**) for too, I think.

(*) Has it been that long since I gave up on Tumblr because of it breaking all the time?

(**) The not quoting other people's words rule.

I seem to have activated fingerprint login on a device that doesn't have a fingerprint sensor.

Or does it...

When I removed the wallpaper from the bedroom walls, I found the walls to be quite uneven, too much to paint over. I finally applied the material that is supposed to smooth it out (don't know the English word and neither does Google) to half the wall, since the remainder I can't reach yet. I'm not that happy with the result, it's still a bit uneven.

It's drying now so I have time to think about it.

"If you're done crying I could tell you some stories"
-- Misty

#Yellowjackets

What is the magic word?

sudo

No, try again.

-s $SHELL

Yes, thank you.

'paranoia' => false,

😁

An interesting stroll through the default settings of this software.