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

ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones:

"TOSV also signed a similar contract with ICE in September 2024 for $818,000, showing that the relationship between the agency and the company predates the Trump administration. "

#ICE was always fascist and their existence is a bi-partisan effort. Say it with me. https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/ice-bought-vehicles-equipped-with-fake-cell-towers-to-spy-on-phones/

jwz wrote:

Did we ever get an answer to the question, "What time is love?" Because I feel like "I wanna see you sweat" is just a deflection.
https://jwz.org/b/ykwJ

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
isagalaev@social.seattle.wa.us ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:

WA state: if you're interested in making universal healthcare reality, Whole Washington is looking for volunteers https://wholewashington.org/apply/

If you want to help but don't have time or willpower required for volunteering (like me), consider donating. We need all the help!

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Blue hour at Skelwith Bridge.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #LakeDistrict #TheLakes #Cumbria

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

Okay, I have all but confirmed that the mysterious "layout constraint" error that started happening in my app after upgrading to Tahoe is a SwiftUI bug: the layout engine gets freaked out by an HSplitView in the detail of a NavigationSplitView. (No, YOU have too many splits.) #SwiftUI

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
PrivacyDigest@mas.to wrote:

Celebrating 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived | #Internet #Archive Blogs

This October, the #InternetArchive will celebrate an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved and available for access via the #WaybackMachine.

Since 1996, the Internet Archive has worked with #libraries & partners around the world to build a shared digital #library of humanity’s online #history: capturing websites large and small—from breaking news to forgotten personal pages
#wayback

https://blog.archive.org/trillion/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

Everything Is Becoming a Bank. “Most major corporations — from airlines to social media platforms — now aspire to become unregulated banks. Bankification today accounts for the highest profit margins in the US economy.” https://jacobin.com/2025/10/bankification-financialization-debt-interest-credit/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

"[Ars Technica] asked Cruz's office to explain why a senator pressuring Wikipedia is appropriate while an FCC chair pressuring ABC is not and will update this article if we get a response."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/ted-cruz-picks-a-fight-with-wikipedia-accusing-platform-of-left-wing-bias/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
EmilySchnall@mastodon.art ("Emily Schnall✨Commissions Open") wrote:

Daring to ask the real questions, like what if a goblin was tall

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

Even if Germany opposes Chat Control on October 14th, this is still only a blocking minority. If your country is still undecided or is supporting Chat Control, keep the pressure on! 💪🇪🇺

👉 Use this tool to contact your MEPs: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

📰 Contact your local media

🗣️ Keep talking about it on social media!

Let's change this blocking minority into a blocking majority! ✊🔒

#ChatControl #Privacy #EUpol #HumanRights #Democracy

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

I think it's all but a certainty that in our lifetimes we see a politically viable candidate who runs on outlawing local computation.

All it takes is one t*rrorist attack that uses AI; one photo of a brown guy next to a group of daisy chained Mac Minis, for the US media to run wild with the narrative— should everyday Americans have powerful computers with local computation?

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

We talk a lot about the #centralized vs #decentralized dichotomy, but what's much more consequential is local vs #cloud computing.

It's #Nvidia (and #Amazon, #Meta, #Microsoft, #Google ) vs #Apple.

Not saying Tim Cook is the good guy, but if we never got Apple custom silicon, we'd all be on thin clients that couldn't compute a meal tip without the cloud.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

Annie Lowrey, wife of Ezra Klein, gets an Atlantic Cuomo-apologist hit piece (with a scary illustration) against Zohran Mamdani, and is against ranked choice voting.

"Liberals" like this are why Trump wins. They'll throw "vote blue no matter who" and even democracy under the bus to prevent progressives from winning.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
benjojo@benjojo.co.uk wrote:

Qualcomm owns Arduino, Hackaday is owned by Siemens

My teenage electronics hobby landscape is now owned by the companies that would never supply datasheets to me back then

Boosted by kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin"):
CursedSilicon@restless.systems ("Cursed Silicon") wrote:

HEY #retrocomputing folks

You know that retro ISP thing me and like, 20 others have been working on for LITERALLY A YEAR?

Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net (CGHMN) is now IN OPEN BETA!

Bring out your Windows, your Macs, your UNIX boxes and let's get them networked and running services and games like it's 1999 again!

https://signup.cghmn.org/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
logicalelegance@mastodon.online ("Elecia White") wrote:

One of the things that came up in a recent Embedded.fm is what are the non-AI uses for the AI accelerators appearing on some microcontrollers.

Linear algebra but how what kind and how can I put my algorithms in if they aren't neural nets?

Anyone know about this?

Boosted by jwz:
paco@infosec.exchange ("Paco Hope wishes ill for JK Rowling") wrote:

Thanks to my hardware store. New insult unlocked.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Occasionally, I remember the fact that in the 25 years I’ve been doing web dev, I’ve never even gotten so much as a single email from a recruiter, and I honestly don’t know if that’s unusual or not.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“State of the software engineering jobs market, 2025: what hiring managers see”

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-tech-market-in-2025-hiring-managers

The tech job market seems to be poor on both sides of the Atlantic, not just in the states as I've seen some claim

jwz wrote:

Basecamp alternative.

Against my better judgment, I let my staff start using Basecamp about 7 years ago, and now, for reasons, I would prefer to just be self-hosting everything like we should have done from the start. Do you have experience making the...
https://jwz.org/b/ykwH

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

How many times do I have to block Gavin Newsom from my text messages?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:

lol Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) just said to #PamBondi, “I have noticed that when my colleagues ask you a question you come up with something in their background, so I’m looking forward to my turn.”

Busted.

#propaganda #gaslighting #deflection #law #Senate #judiciary #LegalEthics #tyranny #RevengePolitics

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cgerrish@sfba.social ("c.gerrish") wrote:

In 2011, 80.26% of all email was spam. In 2024, the number was around 45%. That's about 14.5 million spam emails globally per day. While that's an improvement, half of everything you receive is trying to pick your pocket. In realtime social media, we're still in 2011.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/420400/spam-email-traffic-share-annual/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell 🏴") wrote:

ICE now owns roving vans with integrated cell site simulators

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/ice-bought-vehicles-equipped-with-fake-cell-towers-to-spy-on-phones/

for commentary on this breaking news, i turn to my recently-made friend Ray Hunter

Luckily everyone else can too!

#infosec #privacy

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lorenzofb@infosec.exchange ("Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai") wrote:

NEW: ICE purchased custom-made vans from a company called TechOps Specialty Vehicles (TOSV) that are equipped with fake cellphone towers designed to spy on phones.

TOSV president told us that the company integrates the cell-site simulators into their vans, but does not manufacture the surveillance tool.

The contract was signed in May and is worth $800,000. ICE did not answer our questions about these vans and the cell-site simulators.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/ice-bought-vehicles-equipped-with-fake-cell-towers-to-spy-on-phones/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
masek@infosec.exchange ("Martin Seeger") wrote:

Everyone with an Arduino project has, starting as of NOW, six months to look for a replacement.

If you don't start right away, I can point out someone who will be in a lot of pain in a few months.

Believe me...

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2025/10/qualcomm-to-acquire-arduino-accelerating-developers--access-to-i

I know this will play merry hell with the 3d printer and mechanical keyboard scene. Innumerable hardware will die from this takeover.

#arduino #qualcomm

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

“The world’s wind and solar farms have generated more electricity than coal plants for the first time this year, marking a turning point for the global power system.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/07/global-renewable-energy-generation-surpasses-coal-first-time

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

They shouldn't have killed it -- I would have like to see something about its sexual behavior and whether it could reproduce.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/07/spider-gynandromorph/

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Anyone having @Codeberg ssh issues? I'm trying to push but I'm getting "Connection closed by 217.197.84.140 port 22"

Update: seems to be resolved now 🤔

#Codeberg

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Ecuador has invaded Oregon. The conquest of North America is imminent.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/07/portland-is-burning/