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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

find leadership where one can

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/opinion/federal-workers-protest-trump-resistance.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.9k4.E5SU.dsfskPnkrvRD&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

Yesterday, 1,400 protests were held to protest the Trump whose headlines fill this page. But to the #BrokenTimes this morning, they are a buried BTW. It has plenty of photos; none here. This is what they call "news judgment." To the Times, we are not news.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
torgo.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Daniel Appelquist") wrote:

infosec.exchange/@krypt3ia/11...

Krypt3ia (@krypt3ia@infosec.ex...

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“All of Apple's services are abysmal”

https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/all-of-apples-services-are-abysmal/

Yeah. And their OSes have been getting worse, fast.

jwz wrote:

Been a while since I printed a zine...

Coming soon to a sticky bar surface near you.
https://jwz.org/b/ykl0

jwz wrote:

Apple is still the heavyweight champion of progress bar lies.

Yes, yes, there are -1 files remaining and they will take 9 minutes. Or maybe 17 hours. Who can know for sure. Nothing is real. No notes.
https://jwz.org/b/ykly

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
runlevelrobot@social.lol ("RunLevelRobot") wrote:

I am proud to say that emacs.social is ready to go! Please sign up and lets see how it does. :) It is running the glitch fork that allows for markdown. Right now it is set for a moderator to approve signups. This is to help cut down on spam accounts. Let me know what you think! #emacs You can find me there at runlevelrobot@emacs.social

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cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

I worked in Trump’s first administration. Here’s why his team is using Signal

No senior US government official in the now-infamous “Houthi PC Small Group” Signal chat seemed new to that kind of group,
nor surprised by the sensitivity of the subject discussed in that insecure forum,
not even when the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, chimed in with details of a coming airstrike.

No one objected
– not the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who was abroad and using her personal cellphone to discuss pending military operations;

not even the presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, who was in Moscow at the time.

👉Yet most of these officials enjoy the luxury of access to secure government communications systems 24/7/365.

Reasonable conclusions may be drawn from these facts.

⭐️First, Trump’s national security cabinet commonly discusses secret information on insecure personal devices.

⭐️Second, sophisticated adversaries such as Russia and China intercept such communications, especially those sent or received in their countries.

⭐️Third, as a result, hostile intelligence services now probably possess blackmail material regarding these officials’ indiscreet past conversations on similar topics.

⭐️Fourth, as a first-term Trump administrationofficial and ex-CIA officer,

⚠️I believe the reason these officials risk interacting in this way is to prevent their communications from being preserved as required by the Presidential Records Act,
and avoid them being discoverable in litigation,
or subject to a subpoena or Freedom of Information Act request.

⭐️And fifth, no one seems to have feared being investigated by the justice department for what appears to be a violation of the Espionage Act’s Section 793(f),
which makes gross negligence in mishandling classified information a felony;

💥The FBI director, Kash Patel, and attorney general, Pam Bondi, quickly confirmed that hunch.

Remarkably, the CIA director John Ratcliffe wouldn’t even admit to Congress that he and his colleagues had made a mistake

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/05/why-trump-administration-used-signal-hegseth-gabbard?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

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GrimmReality@beige.party ("Grimm :bc:") wrote:

OK, whoever did this, you win.

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lochnix@hachyderm.io ("Loch Nix") wrote:

Holy crap. This guy understood the assignment. Nicely done. #handsoff

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Oh I forgot to post this one. Very nice work.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Israel admits mistakes over medic killings in Gaza

- Killed 15 people
- buried their bodies in the sand and hid the vehicles
- didn’t provide UN access to search for the victims
- Lied about what happened
- Got caught out as one of the victims recorded it on his mobile phone

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0xp969n69o

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
morachbeag@aus.social wrote:

You do not owe the dishonourable an honourable fight.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

This is going to be the experience of lots of MAGA people who fail to realize how much their livelihood depends on imported products.
—
'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
evilchili@linernotes.club wrote:

New music from Hiromi -- Yes! Ramen!! A timely message for now and always. The video is just Hiromi wandering around looking for the best ramen place and then b-roll of a ramen shop making Hiromi ramen and I am here for all of this.

#jazz #ramen #hiromi

https://youtu.be/8%5Fa8Tj1P0OQ?si=O%5FEpPA1-bCYvZARh

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ChristineMalec@mstdn.ca ("Christine Malec") wrote:

Fuck I love Mastodon! No other platform has ever given me as a Blind person such access to the public sphere as I've gotten today from alt text of protests in the United States. Thanks to all you gorgeous folk for demonstrating that inclusion matters, cause it sure does to me!

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jik@federate.social ("Jonathan Kamens") wrote:

This is also, by the way, why Musk wants to destroy the American social safety net. He wants people to be _desperate_ to find work, so that they will take jobs with poor wages and terrible working conditions. He wants people to be subservient to him and people like him. He wants a country chock-full of people who have no choice but to be servants of the rich if they want to stay alive.
🧵6/8

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
dandean@indieweb.social ("Dan Dean") wrote:

“Should Microsoft sever all ties to Republican-led states that have made women’s reproductive healthcare illegal?”

Actually now that you mention it, John, yeah they fucking should do exactly that.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
XLBilly@vivaldi.net wrote:

Emacs 19 running on OPENSTEP 4.2. Emulated on 86box.

Note that OPENSTEP 4.2's installation CD comes with emacs 18 which can only be used in the terminal. The one with gui support can be found in https://www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/index.php?folder=NeXT/Cube-Station/OPENSTEP/Apps/EMACS

#Emacs #NeXTSTEP #86box

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
fenrir@universeodon.com ("Fenrir aka Isabelle Barbour") wrote:

#handsoff #HandsOff2025 #Indivisible

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

It’s #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

#HandsOff #FrankChu #Retrojenicul

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
scottwillsey@social.lol ("Scott Willsey") wrote:

Boy, I don’t know, John. I think it’s ok to call Microsoft on their bullshit on this one.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/04/05/microsoft-50-employee-protests

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

You'll notice that each site operated on multiple frequency pairs across the HF spectrum. This was for two reasons. First, each channel could only handle one call at a time, and so this allowed for more simultaneous traffic. Second, not all frequency bands were usable (due to atmospheric and geomagnetic conditions) at any given time. So in practice, at most half a dozen or so ships PER OCEAN could use the system at any moment.

Multiple transmitters shared the antennas using tuned combiners.

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

By the way, here's what I believe was the final published frequency list and schedule for the AT&T high seas service, (a souvenir of one of my visits to the station before it went off the air).

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

I should note that while the site (and its cousins) had a number of large discone antennas like this one, they were mostly there as backups in case the main antennas (which included truly massive wire rhombics oriented toward various oceanic regions) or transmitter combiners failed.

The old Bell System did not mess around.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Ships on the high seas still occasionally make some use of shortwave radio, but its importance has greatly diminished over the last few decades. The Coast Guard still maintains a "watch" on emergency shortwave frequencies, listening for distress calls, but most transoceanic ships are now equipped with more modern, higher-bandwidth satellite communications systems.

Places like this are what the Internet looked like a century ago. Infrastructure is often heroic, and occasionally looks the part.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

There were three AT&T radiotelephone sites in the continental US, each with its own transmit and receive antenna farms: Ocean Gate, NJ (shown here, serving the North Atlantic), Miami (serving the Caribbean and the Gulf), and Point Reyes, CA (serving the Pacific).

All the sites have by now been razed, either for redevelopment or as nature preserves. The antennas (including this one) are mostly gone now.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Captured with a DSLR and a 24mm shifting lens.

During the 20th century, AT&T operated a shortwave "radiotelephone" service for vessels on the high seas. Ships could contact an operator, who could connect them with any landline telephone number they wished.

The North Atlantic station, callsign WOO, occupied expansive transmit and receive "antenna farms" in marshlands near the shore in central New Jersey.

Rendered obsolete by satellites, the service ceased operation on November 9, 1999.