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bruce_schneier_feedIt was used to track a Dutch naval ship:
Dutch journalist Just Vervaart, working for regional media network Omroep Gelderland, followed the directions posted on the Dutch government website and mailed a postcard with a hidden tracker inside. Because of this, they were able to track the ship for about a day, watching it sail from Heraklion, Crete, before it turned towards Cyprus. While it only showed the location of that one vessel, knowing that it was part of a carrier strike group sailing in the Mediterranean could potentially put the entire fleet at risk.
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Navy officials reported that the tracker was discovered within 24 hours of the ship’s arrival, during mail sorting, and was eventually disabled. Because of this incident, the Dutch authorities now ban electronic greeting cards, which, unlike packages, weren’t x-rayed before being brought on the ship.
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juan_gandhiУ нас посадка в шесть с мелочью, а т.к. посадочных нет, то надо явиться в аэропорт к 4:15 утра. Так что мы залегли рано (ну не очень). Но в два нас что-то торкнуло. А жена ещё посмотрела на телефон. Там пишут, что рейс переполнен, и нам надо будет наши чемоданчики сдавать. Ну окей. Но т.к. мы летим на север, то минут через 15 мне пришло в голову, что всё надо перепаковать, а то если в CDG нам потеряют или задержат чемоданы, то мы окажемся в Бергене в сандалях, шортах и футболках, а там холодно. Жена встал, пошла всё перепаковала: утром-то идти на самолёт можно и в тёплых куртках, а вот наушники мои и в чемодане перекантуются.
Не успели мы заснуть, как пришло новое сообщение. Ваш самолёт нафиг вообще отменяется. Мне сообщение на телефоне советовало ждать, когда Эр Франс найдёт нам другой маршрут, а жене пришло сообщение, что мы теперь летим через Амстердам, вылет в пять дня, и прилетаем в Берген в 11 вечера. Ну мило, там ночью по Бергену под дождём искать гостиницу нашу. Ну да ладно. Но надо будет переупаковывать - мы теперь, идя на посадку в 5 дня, не хотим на себе тащить тёплые куртки. И т.д. Ещё нам выписали купоны на обед. Ну это мы пообедаем в TLS.
А завтракали зато в гостинице, проспав до восьми. Вкусно тут. Гостиница странная, четыре звёздочки, а номер стоил 130 евро. Всё мило. И еда, главное, хороша. Включая рататуй. Да, на завтрак. Мило же!
С утра сделали наши пайки дуолинго. Пойдём погулять сейчас. В город ехать гулять сугубо лень.
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In case you missed it, earlier this month AO3 exited open beta! Earlier this year, we also reached 10 million users and 17 million fanworks. We’re awed by all these milestones we’ve reached as a community, and, as always, are very grateful for all your support.
These milestones would not be possible without the hard work of the volunteers who are part of the Accessibility, Design, & Technology committee (AD&T). AD&T is the team behind developing, updating, and maintaining the AO3’s software and infrastructure, whose work you can keep up with by reading the release notes posts with the list of code updates and fixes. Recently, our AD&T volunteers and contributors moved collections to Elasticsearch as well as made improvements to bookmark filtering and sorting.
If you're familiar with coding and would like to help, we welcome contributions from anyone! Check out our Contributing Guidelines and other documentation on our GitHub repository. All contributors are credited in our release notes.
If you're interested in helping AO3 but don't have any coding experience, consider contributing to AO3 in some other way, such as by donating!
We’ve prepared new donation gifts for this Drive as well, such as the US$350 Fix-It Kit, for when you need to do a little fix-it for canon; and the US$100 tech travel bag for all your fic reading and fanwork creation needs!
As per usual, we have a sticker set at the US$45 level, with a theme in celebration of the inherently human and collaborative nature of fannish culture and fandom, as well as encouragement of new beginnings.
Fiber Art Weavers, who generously donated OTW-themed recycled cotton blankets previously have kindly donated some more this Drive! We’re very excited to add them to our donation gifts at the US$600 level, but please note that these are limited in number and cannot be saved up for with a recurring donation unlike the other gifts. Once again, thank you so much to Fiber Art Weavers for their donation!
If you want a gift but don’t want to donate all at once, you can also set up a recurring donation and save towards the gift of your choice. Simply select a thank-you gift that your recurring donation will be adding up to, and once you’ve “saved” enough to get your item, you will get an email from Development & Membership to confirm your shipping address. You must respond to this email for the donation gift to be sent to you. Those of you in the U.S. might also be able to double your contribution via employer matching: contact your HR department to find out if this is an option for you. For more information regarding donating, refer to the Donations and Membership FAQ.
A donation of US$10 or more will also allow you to become a member of the OTW. OTW members have the right to vote for the Board of Directors—the OTW’s governing board. You have until June 30, 2026 to become a member if you would like to vote in this year’s election, which will be held in August. For more information about OTW elections, refer to our elections website.
While we hope that many of you will take this opportunity to donate and join the OTW, we're grateful for the support of all members of this community, in all its many forms! Whether you create, share, comment on or kudos fanworks on AO3; edit Fanlore; read Transformative Works and Cultures; or spread information from OTW Legal, you all help shape the OTW and its projects every day. We are grateful for your time, energy, and engagement!
The Organization for Transformative Works is the non-profit parent organization of multiple projects including Archive of Our Own, Fanlore, Open Doors, OTW Legal Advocacy, and Transformative Works and Cultures. We are a fan-run, donor-supported organization staffed by volunteers. Find out more about us on our website.
Update April 24 13:27 UTC: We are grateful for all your enthusiasm for the OTW-themed blankets! Unfortunately, our limited supply has now run out and it is no longer available as a donation gift. All other items are still available
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changelogBranch: refs/heads/main Home: https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth Commit: d0f4a97384fd81eef7ce77dd92157eef6e473d34 https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth/commit/d0f4a97384fd81eef7ce77dd92157eef6e473d34 Author: Mark Smith mark@dreamwidth.org Date: 2026-04-23 (Thu, 23 Apr 2026)
Changed paths: M .devcontainer/Dockerfile M .devcontainer/config/etc/dw-etc/config-local.pl M .dockerignore M etc/config-local.pl.example
Log Message:
devcontainer: install Manticore and tighten .dockerignore
Manticore Search is installed but not auto-started, so developers who
don't touch search pay no runtime cost. Enable with a commented
lj::MANTICORE line in config-local.pl plus searchd --config
/etc/manticoresearch/manticore.conf.
.dockerignore now mirrors .gitignore so docker build . is hermetic on
dev hosts with local state (extlib, build, ext/local, node_modules, etc.);
CI checkouts were already clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) noreply@anthropic.com
Commit: 8faae76d08f5ff7e152dfb5084d28257f996fd08 https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth/commit/8faae76d08f5ff7e152dfb5084d28257f996fd08 Author: Mark Smith mark@dreamwidth.org Date: 2026-04-23 (Thu, 23 Apr 2026)
Changed paths: M bin/worker/sphinx-copier M cgi-bin/DW/Controller/Search/Journal.pm M cgi-bin/DW/Controller/Support/Search.pm A cgi-bin/DW/Search.pm M cgi-bin/DW/Task/SphinxCopier.pm R t/search-manticore.t A t/search.t
Log Message:
Add DW::Search: unify Manticore and Sphinx behind one module
Controllers now call DW::Search::{search_journal,search_support}
directly; the Gearman/Storable dispatch lives inside the module.
lj::MANTICORE picks the synchronous SphinxQL path, lj::SPHINX_SEARCHD
falls through to the legacy Gearman worker, and templates see the same
result shape either way.
Both copier paths fan out to SearchCopier when lj::MANTICORE is set
— DW::Task::SphinxCopier and the legacy bin/worker/sphinx-copier —
so writes hit both backends during migration without having to redeploy
the webservers.
t/search.t replaces t/search-manticore.t and targets SphinxQL, since Manticore 25.0 dropped the legacy Sphinx binary API Sphinx::Search used.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) noreply@anthropic.com
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Spring flowers continue in Queens, so I've been doing a spring tromp through my area's cemeteries and started putting some photos up. My knees have been bothering me a bit while picking my way along All Faiths Cemetery's uneven ground, but my podiatrist-mandated sneakers have mostly kept me from turning any ankles. 
