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kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

1. Drain the swamp
2. Build a Trump resort
3. Invite the ghouls back in

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
404mediaco ("404 Media") wrote:

A DEA agent used a local police officer’s password to the Flock automated license plate reader system to search for someone suspected of an “immigration violation.”

That DEA agent did this “without [the local police officer’s] knowledge,”

🔗 https://www.404media.co/feds-used-local-cops-password-to-do-immigration-surveillance-with-flock-cameras/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
urixturing@hachyderm.io ("Urix Turing") wrote:

"Remember back in 2023 when hackers exposed (and fixed) malicious anti-repair software in Polish trains? Well, it turns out that the manufacturer, Newag, is at it again" cc @pluralistic https://www.ifixit.com/News/112008/polish-train-maker-is-suing-the-hackers-who-exposed-its-anti-repair-tricks

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

armed thugs claiming to be federal agents

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-citizen-detained-ice-l-says-wasnt-water-24-hours-rcna224493

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
DrALJONES wrote:

Interview: "A Game of Target Practice" Doctors Back From Gaza Share Harrowing Stories of Israel’s Brutality

One day, boys "would be coming in with gunshot wounds to the head or the neck."

The next day, gunshot wounds to the chest.

Then four boys, 13, 14, "all of whom had been shot in the testicles."

This clustering was so striking, "it was inconceivable it could have been coincidence.”

https://zeteo.com/p/doctors-gaza-humanitarian-foundation-target-practice

#GHF #IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #USPol #EuroPol #USCrimesInGaza @palestine .

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
osma@mas.to ("Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦") wrote:

Here's a thought: russian military withdraws east of the Ural mountains, relinquishes nuclear weapons, navy is demilitarized, putin steps out of power, russian federation is dismantled and republics declare independence of kremlin.
#peaceterms #putin #trump

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
theicarian ("The Icarian") wrote:

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Considering trading in both my iPad Air and M1 MacBook Air for an M4 MacBook Pro. One the one hand, that’s probably buying expensive toys to combat mild depression. On the other hand, that often works.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I keep wanting to write about #freelance. I have a decade's worth of knowledge that I know would be helpful to those just starting.

I know all the pitfalls, time-sucks, tips and tricks. Actual valuable information.

I want to make it a whole thing. Maybe even put some actual effort into branding. I could be the anti-grindset freelancer (lol)

Putting it out into the universe #Fediverse.

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
vruz@mstdn.social wrote:

@lrhodes

[x] All cookies.

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Government that’s going all in on “AI” urges you to delete old emails and pictures to save water. You couldn’t make this shit up. https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha%5FJay/115016993942039602

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële") wrote:

A professional customer asked me to order and prepare a new PC for him. I know it is to replace a Win10 PC. I also know that he uses a portable with Linux Mint that I prepared for him two years ago.
I asked him if he would prefer a Win11 PC or a Linux Mint one to replace his desktop computer.
He replied that he doesn't know the difference; he just uses Firefox, Thunderbird and LibreOffice. It doesn't matter, however he finds Linux is sexier! :-)

If you're using a PC for simple office tasks (his CRM is Dolibarr), a Linux desktop is also a better choice.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
crashthearcade@mas.to ("mike") wrote:

I ended up replacing our TRMNL with a Raspberry Pi running MagicMirror connected to an official Pi display. For $30 less than the TRMNL X, I got a bigger colour display, complete control (and privacy) over what shows on the screen, and the satisfaction of knowing I'm not giving money to a homophobe.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
lrhodes@merveilles.town ("L⁂Rhodes") wrote:

We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us.

☐ Accept
☐ Maybe later

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

Election security just doesn’t have a clean narrative. There are real problems, and there’s been real progress. Both stories are partly true, but neither is the whole story.

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

I remember after last year’s Voting Village getting a panicked phone call from a senior government official who was upset about some of the reporting and “messaging” that was citing us. It didn’t go well, ending with me be called an “enemy of democracy” because I refused to say that US elections are perfect. Others say the same thing because I refuse to say they’re being stolen.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
atax1a@infosec.exchange ("mx alex tax1a - 2020 (5)") wrote:

the existence of the car wash implies the existence of the cdr wash

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
adapalmer@wandering.shop ("Ada Palmer") wrote:

Just one year after its breakout public health moment, 'miracle drug' lenacapavir has been approved by the FDA and recommended by the WHO. The drug, which Science called its 'breakthrough of the year' in 2024, is a long-lasting shot that provides almost 100% protection against HIV infection. https://www.science.org/content/article/breakthrough-2024 #ShareGoodNewsToo

jwz wrote:

Thousands of once-secret police records are now public.

For the first time, you can look up serious use of force and police misconduct incidents in California. LAist, KQED and other California newsrooms, together with police accountability advocates,...
https://jwz.org/b/yktK

jwz wrote:

I'm gonna need you to take some personal responsibility for that data center.

The UK National Drought Group offers this helpful advice: How to save water at home: ...
https://jwz.org/b/yktI

jwz wrote:

If President Nyarlathotep Says Colonial Williamsburg Requires 24-7 Carcass Battalion Patrols, So Be It.

Andrew Paul: I'm already seeing my Facebook feed blow up with people whining about how this sets a dangerous and dark precedent for Nyarlathotep. I...
https://jwz.org/b/yktG

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
macronencer@mastodon.scot ("Mike Torr") wrote:

@skeletor For some reason this calls to mind The Wizard Of Speed And Time, an astonishing short film that was popular in the 1970s. Here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XReeuhBeiIA

Boosted by jwz:
lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E01
🎥 Episode: Weird
🎬 Directed by: Ryūtarō Nakamura
📅 Release Date: July 6, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0959

Boosted by jwz:
MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

“Driving to the golf course I was offended by the sight of homeless people and so have ordered their removal from the city” should honestly be getting more play.

Boosted by jwz:
MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

Breaking: President Trump federalizes the town of West Tisbury on Martha’s Vineyard to ensure the continuation of pierogi service to Alan Dershowitz.

Boosted by jwz:
ingrid@everything.happens.horse ("Ingrid Burrington") wrote:

One of my more pedantic nitpicks is finding it annoying that people forget that in the movie Minority Report the "tech" was not AI or fancy algos but three psychic orphans with weird drug-induced aliments who spend most of their time in a milk pool

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

crypto, full of guys who make you go "i'm not a fan of the carceral system. BUT"

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dngrs@chaos.social ("as a large fashion model,") wrote:

@davidgerard ok but what if my solution is 3d printed

Boosted by jwz:
nblr@chaos.social ("~n") wrote:

@rubinjoni @davidgerard
Don't worry. It's currently being replaced with systemd-systemic-problemd.

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Dear Mastodon commenters:

When someone describes a systemic problem with a technology in society, you dickheads have an awful habit of Kramering into the mentions proposing to solve the problem with some lump of open source with an interface bad enough it's a list of reasons to become a terrorist.

Apart from how nobody fucking asked, you are also being too obnoxiously self-centred to realise that INDIVIDUAL SOLUTIONS DON'T SOLVE SYSTEMIC PROBLEMS that are not a matter of people not being enlightened to the existence of a particular lump of FOSS that isn't going to work for that user in that situation anyway.

Your reasons for thinking this is in any way appropriate behaviour trace directly back to the libertarian origins of open source and the Californian ideology as outlined as far back as the 1990s. Many of you are absolutely not libertarians and you *still pull this shit*, and that's where you got it from.

This is a perennial fucking pattern. I realise that posts like this reach everyone except the fuckheads who really need to read them, but to sum it up:

NOBODY ASKED FOR YOUR SOFTWARE REC FOR THIS SYSTEMIC PROBLEM.

TRY SHUTTING THE FUCK UP AND NOT ACTING LIKE A FATUOUS BOZO.

Feel free to link back here when someone does this to one of your posts.