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cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/28994

"Late Show" host Stephen Colbert unloaded on higher-ups at CBS late Monday for refusing to air his interview with Texas US Senate candidate James Talarico, allegedly out of fear that the Federal Communications Commission—led by Trump lackey Brendan Carr—would retaliate against the network.

"We were told in no uncertain terms by our network's lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast," Colbert said of the Democratic candidate, whose 15-minute interview was aired on YouTube instead.

During an on-air segment late Monday, Colbert called attention to FCC Media Bureau guidance issued last month stating that daytime and late-night talk shows featuring interviews with political candidates must give equal time to opposing candidates, effectively dispensing with a decades-old exemption for the programs.

Colbert slammed CBS for "unilaterally enforcing" the FCC guidance, a decision he said was made for "purely financial reasons." CBS is owned by Paramount Skydance, whose chief executive, David Ellison, is the son of billionaire Trump ally and donor Larry Ellison.

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CBS leadership's decision to block the airing of Colbert's interview with Talarico came days after the Republican-led FCC launched an investigation into whether ABC's "The View" violated equal time rules with its Talarico interview earlier this month. US Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), who is running against Talarico in the Senate primary, appeared on "The View" in January.

Anna Gomez, the lone Democratic commissioner on the FCC, denounced the ABC investigation as a "sham."

“Let’s be clear on what this is. This is government intimidation, not a legitimate investigation," said Gomez. "Like many other so-called ‘investigations’ before it, the FCC will announce an investigation but never carry one out, reach a conclusion, or take any meaningful action."

"The real purpose is to weaponize the FCC’s regulatory authority to intimidate perceived critics of this administration and chill protected speech. That is not how a free society operates," she continued. "I urge broadcasters and their parent networks to stand strong against these unfounded attacks and continue exercising their constitutional rights without fear or favor."

By refusing to let the Talarico interview air on the televised broadcast, CBS opted to cave to the administration, according to Colbert.

"Let’s just call this what it is: Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV, because all Trump does is watch TV, OK? He’s like a toddler with too much screen time," said Colbert. "He gets cranky and then drops a load in his diaper."

Talarico, for his part, declared in a social media post that "this is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see," posting a clip of his appearance on "The Late Show."

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"I think that Donald Trump is worried that we're about to flip Texas," Talarico said during the interview. "This is the party that ran against cancel culture, and now they're trying to control what we watch, what we say, what we read."

"They went after 'The View' because I went on there," he continued. "They went after Jimmy Kimmel for telling a joke they didn't like. They went after you for telling the truth about Paramount's bribe to Donald Trump. Corporate media executives are selling out the First Amendment to curry favor with corrupt politicians."

Other critics of the CBS decision said it's the latest example of media conglomerates bending to Trump's bullying.

"Big media self-censorship is real," warned Tim Karr, senior director of strategy and communications with the advocacy group Free Press.

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I've found the solution, and it's exactly as stupid and obvious as I was expecting.

The classroom computers were deployed using Clonezilla from an image that had the VirtualBox VM pre-configured. As a result of this, every VM had the same MAC address, which probably caused a lot of ARP collisions, since all the hosts and VMs were essentially on the same broadcast domain.

The solution was to simply randomize each VM's MAC address. After that, ICMP, SSH, and HTTP worked as expected. Thanks for the suggestions, but it was caused by my own oversight in the end.

(edit) I got around to reading the comments just now, @maxy@piefed.social was totally correct.

I know this isn't "selfhosting" as most people imagine it, but it is about hosting services on own hardware, hence why I'm posting in this community.

I'm supposed to help a teacher set up a networking exercise where pairs of computers are connected directly on a crossover cable and can access services (echo, HTTP, SSH, FTP) on each other. Every computer is identical: Windows 10 host, one VirtualBox VM running Linux Mint with a bridged adapter in promiscuous mode. Each host and VM has its own static link-local IP address.

The problem is, the VMs can't talk to each other, and I don't know why.

From one VM, I can ping itself, its host, and the remote host, but not the remote VM. Each host can ping itself, the local VM, the remote host, but not the remote VM. I've tried connecting both hosts to a layer-2 switch, with the same result.

Can someone point me at the one thing that I'm obviously doing wrong?

(edit) I've also tried to set the default gateway to the host's, remote host's, and remote VM's address, but nothing changed.

Running Linux on metal isn't an option. In the past, the classroom computers used to dual boot Windows and Ubuntu, but the Windows install got so bloated (the software too, not just Windows) that it needs the full SSD.

According to the Author of the Post the Model Context Protocol (MCP) disregards RPC best practices like:

• No (enforced) type validation of inputs at compile-time
• Mixing stateful and stateless Operations without clear labeling/separation
• No generated consistent bindings for different languages (similar to the first point) like e.g. gRPC does
• No tracability embedded into the Protocol
• Relying on "yet another library" to add functionality that is baked into other RPC protocols (e.g. Authorization, generators, tracing)

I thought it was an interesting read. We are (in our company) using MCP in a more Basic way (to access company internal ressources like Wiki's, issue trackers, etc.) and for this they work good enough. But I never thought about the consequences you might experience if you MCP in a more complex and autonomuous use case.

This is not directly selfhosting but related. I have 2 Proxmox hosts which both support Intel AMT which is a remote control tool similar to supermicro IPMI, supporting KVM, power cycles and more. I wanted it to be able to repair stuff in case I can't reach the servers via ui/ssh.

I set it up and it worked fine for months. I could access both on ip.address:16992.

Lately, one of them started disappearing after days or weeks. Rebooting brings it back, but it's a running server and I don't want to reboot it so often. The server is working fine otherwise.

Does anyone know that problem? It's hard to pin down since it can't be seen on the host linux (port not shown in netstat for example).

LOS ANGELES (AP) — As national Democrats search for a unifying theme ahead of the fall’s midterm elections, a California proposal to levy a hefty tax on billionaires is turning some of the party’s leading figures into adversaries just when Democrats can least afford division from within.

Bernie Sanders will be in Los Angeles campaigning Wednesday for the tax proposal that has the Silicon Valley in an uproar, with tech titans are threatening to leave the state. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is among its outspoken opponents, warning that it could leave government finances in crisis and put the state at a competitive disadvantage nationally.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43300918

While international recognition of a Palestinian state has gathered momentum, the situation on the ground is moving in the opposite direction. Israel’s government has advanced new annexation legislation, settlement growth is accelerating, and daily life for Palestinians is becoming more restricted and precarious.

In a new series, reporter Matthew Cassel travels through the West Bank to document what daily life looks like under deepening occupation. Starting in Hebron and moving north to Ramallah, villages outside the city, and finally Nablus, he meets people across generations to ask; what does the idea of a ‘Palestinian state’ mean today?

It's not me that made this meme; it's from Imgur.

Gen Z Australians are now the most likely to consider relocating away from metropolitan areas, according to a new survey, as property prices in regional centres start to increase faster than those in the cities.

Agreements with India and Indonesia would be test cases under a new “accelerated procedure” floated by the European Commission.

The European Commission wants to cut almost a year off the time it takes to approve trade deals by giving the English version of agreements a head start, allowing political approval to move ahead before translations into the EU’s two dozen languages are finalized.

The EU is under pressure to raise its trade game as the U.S. and China close faster deals, and President Donald Trump wields tariffs to exert geopolitical leverage. But, as the bloc acts to diversify its trading relationships, the process of checking and translating deals can hold up its own agreements for as long as two years.

The EU executive outlined a draft plan to capitals earlier this month that would telescope the time for agreements to enter into force by streamlining their translation, according to an internal presentation seen by POLITICO.

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Dozens of world leaders head to Washington for what White House says will largely be a fundraiser on Thursday

Dozens of world leaders and national delegations will meet in Washington DC tomorrow for the inaugural meeting of Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, as major European allies declined to join the group and criticised the organisation’s murky funding and political mandate.

The White House has indicated that tomorrow’s summit for his new ad hoc council at the renamed Donald J Trump Institute of Peace will heavily function as a fundraising round, with Trump announcing on social media that countries have pledged more than $5bn toward rebuilding Gaza, which has been devastated in the war with Israel and remains in a humanitarian crisis.

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But, despite Trump’s characteristic bombast, the Board of Peace summit will open to heavy scepticism, with expectations limited both for the meeting tomorrow in Washington and in the Middle East, where the 100-day peace and recovery plan announced by Jared Kushner in Davos has stalled and aid into Gaza remains at a trickle.

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Separately, Israel's public broadcaster KAN said that the Security Cabinet meeting scheduled for Thursday to discuss developments in Iran has been rescheduled for Sunday, without providing any additional details.

Trump is clearly going to wait until the Winter Olympics end on the 22nd to launch the Iran War, I don't know why everyone is freaking out it would be bad television to step on the Winter Olympics with starting the war too soon, well that is unless the US isn't allowed to get enough Gold Medals... but then that will be the rest of the world's fault won't it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Winter_Olympics#%3A%7E%3Atext=The+2026+Winter+Olympics+officially+the+XXV%2Cin+selected+events+beginning+4+February+2026.

Politico is owned by the german Axel Springer SE, a publisher that also owns Bild, Fakt (polish) and Welt among others.

The publisher and its news outlets (with the aforementioned Bild, Fakt and Welt most prominent) is a main driver for a news coverage and reporting that is jointly responsible for the rise of the far right in Germany and Europe.

Politico itself has published so-called Native Ads, a form of advertisng that is designed like op-ed articles and other opinion pieces in a way that is hard to differeentiate from regular, non-sponsored content, mostly for fossile fuel companies but also healt insurance, finance and weapons industries. (Source 1, Source 2).

That sums up to a news outlet that should not be shared, not be trusted and hence, not be posted here. It was not an issue mostly since this outlet wasn't posted here often , but recently, Politico articles are getting posted very frequently again, so I suggest the ban now.

Edit: lost a word

Edit 2: it should be noted that there is another publisher with a similar name (Springer Nature with several subsidiaries), but that company os not affiliated with Axel Springer SE and has different issues.