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#Trump is proposing to cut, by $2.4B, a program that offers low-cost financing for #WaterQuality projects, targeting the largest source of federal funds for #DrinkingWater utilities, #sewage treatment plants & other #infrastructure like #water #pipes.

The program had gotten a major boost under #Biden’s #infrastructure #law. But Trump claims the money was “heavily earmarked by the #Congress for projects that are ultimately not repaid into the program, & bypass states’ interest & planning.”

On a #coding mission to improve my #poser lib 😎.

In the current implementation of #swad, I don't really like that I need an extra thread, just to control a child #process. A first piece to add to poser is generic "child process support", which I'm testing right now. I realized I could reuse my #Connection class, which was built for #sockets, but works just as well with #pipes 🙃

TODO now is mostly testing. See screenshots for some mimimal testing code and its output ... would you like this kind of interface? 🤔

The Register: Altnets told to stop digging and start stuffing fiber through abandoned pipes. “Network operators laying fiber infrastructure could cut their costs by taking advantage of ‘thousands of miles’ of abandoned infrastructure, including gas and water pipes, according to a firm that tracks such things.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/06/the-register-altnets-told-to-stop-digging-and-start-stuffing-fiber-through-abandoned-pipes/

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