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I got a suspicious email etransfer, but it looks legit.

$49 for paying an extra $1.50 every week since 2001. That comes pretty close to covering the $400+ they've gouged me.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) announced Friday he is granting clemency to Tina Peters — the former election official convicted for her role in a voting system breach — cutting her sentence and making her eligible for parole as soon as next month.

The move marks a dramatic and controversial intervention in one of the most closely watched election interference cases to emerge after the 2020 election — and comes after months of sustained pressure from President Donald Trump and his far-right allies to secure Peters’ release.

“We condemn Governor Polis’ clemency grant. It is a gross injustice to our elections, election workers and democracy with far-reaching consequences,” Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) said in a statement. “This is a dark day for democracy.”

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/45562

A changing climate tends to leave behind a big mess. Those who sweep up after it are usually paid far less than those whose work creates heat-trapping emissions. From forest firefighters to respiratory therapists to oil giant CEOs, here’s a look at how salaries stack up

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The Trump administration broke the law, Michigan and others told a court, by declaring an “energy emergency” and forcing an aging coal-burning plant to keep operating.

The uncomfortable part of all this is that it is not a technology problem. It is a leadership problem. AI does not make bad executives worse. It gives them a faster way to prove they are bad. The leaders still standing in 2030 will be the ones honest enough to put the rehiring cost in the business case before the ink dries on the layoff letter.

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Yes, this is official documentation from the MS Learn course for the Agentic AI Solution Architect certificate

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I got lucky, mine was free.

Recently I've installed luci-app-banip on my OpenWrt router and blocked most countries from accessing my services on my network. Not seeing why I would want any of that traffic I also blocked the whole of the ARIN registry, responsible for IP addresses from Canada and the United States.
Edit: Note this is only for inbound traffic. Outbound traffic is allowed no matter the target country.

Fast forward a few weeks and my certbot renewals fail with the following error: Failed to renew certificate enter.domain.here with error: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org', port=443): Read timed out. (read timeout=45)

Confused af I start looking for solutions and as so often only find useless or completely ridiulous solutions (lowering my MTU to 1300, what? WHY?). Finally I find some enlighted figure that says they recently enabled a blocklist for certain countries and that was the issue for them.
Now I make the connection to my use of banIP, re-allow the USA and my cert renewals start working again. Hooray!

However, there are two things bothering me:

1. Why would such a block even interrupt my renewals? I'm using DNS challenges and the ACME servers should only check the DNS entries, not where those entries actually redirect to. The DNS server/root isn't in my home network, so isn't affected by any firewall shenanigans I do here.
2. How can I make an exception for the Let's Encrypt ACME servers while blocking the rest of the ARIN IP space?

I see there's the option for ASN selection and external allowlists:

Does anybody have an idea on how to configure this so that Let's Encrypt continues to work without compromising on my network security?

(Edit: And just for clarity, I do not live in the US or anywhere on the American continent.)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46898440

Swimming among the corals of the Great Barrier Reef is a fish that could be a doppelganger for the famous Sesame Street character Mr. Snuffleupagus. This bright orange-red, hairy, long-snouted ghost pipefish is a new species that has been hiding in plain sight for years, often confused with other ghost pipefish.

*This is a repost of a repost, but this time it is not a crosspost but a regular post post. Post.

I wasn't sure if anyone was seeing because any posts usually get at least one or two downvotes. Last few times this had none at all and I think this is too friggin' cool.

In the latest episode of "they will always sell you out" - they sold you out! Who would've thought.

Hoping for a good alternative client to appear, the writing is on the wall. Vaultwarden can't exist without "leeching" off of Bitwarden.