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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
carsten@minnesotasocial.net ("Carsten") wrote:

Hello Minnesota!

This is a new server for people who live in Minnesota. We hope to connect people in the state and the greater fediverse.

#Minnesota #MN

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

HCR is calling them what they are: fascists.

https://www.youtube.com/live/CQPOHCoTbgE?si=aOkxf58VwInB9qts

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
vga256@tomodori.net wrote:

a few years ago i mentioned that i wrote a book about the exciting, awkward and embarrassing experiences of growing up with computers and video games in the 80s and 90s.

i wanted to remember what it felt like being the only dorky computer kid at school. or what it was like to hear my first modem handshake sound. or starting the first flamewar on the school's national FirstClass BBS in the macintosh lab over the lunch-hour

it was originally something i wrote only for my family and friends who were there at the time.

and then i met all of you folks when i started my first masto instance 4 years ago. i had no idea there were so many hardcore retrocomputing and gaming nerds out there; unix and mac and ms-dos folks alike.

so i mentioned it casually. i was surprised by the interest in the book.

so i spent the better part of the past 3 years rewriting the book for *you* fellow mastodon dorkus malorkuses. the book is a celebration of all of the best (and worst) parts of a kid growing up in the digital age.

we're all busy old tired stressed folks now. so every memory and cringetacular story is short enough to read on a 5 minute bus/metro/toilet ride. they're weaved together into an arc that starts at my family's first Tandy TRS-80 and ends at my school's Mac LC II and building my first Pentium 133.

it's finally published, and i'm super proud of what it became thanks to everyone here nerding out for years.

enjoy the book. i wrote it just for you. ❤️

paperback edition: https://mybook.to/EDuUf

DRM-free ebook (EPUB format) and chapter samples here:
https://tomotama.itch.io/mages-modems

#books #indiePublisher #bookstodon #author #macintosh #vintageApple #vintageComputing #msdos #dosGaming #yeg #canada #alberta #bbs #smolWeb #indieWeb

[![The rear cover of the book, showing a Carmen Sandiego-style letter from the ACME Detective agency. The letter has a picture of a spazzing out kid wearing a Just Do It sweater. The letter reads: ACME Detective Agency Dear Detective #0294, As discussed, I have enclosed a hardcopy of VGA256's journals discussed at the departmental briefing. The journal entries are chronological, and document the suspect's computing and gaming activities from the early 1980s to late 1990s - his childhood and adolescent years. Each vignette is an introspection into the suspect's self-described obsessions, including but not limited to: * IBM PC, Amiga, Apple ], Macintosh, Tandy * MS-DOS, MacOS, Windows 3.1 & 95, UNIX * NES, GameBoy, Sega Genesis, TI-85 * Modems, BBSes, CompuServe, Prodigy, ISPs * Warez, FTP, Usenet, IRC, Shell Accounts * Origin Systems, LucasArts, and Sierra On-Line ... and so on. The stories are a treasure trove of immoral and illicit activities that made him the dysfunctional adult he is now. I hope these will be of value in building your dossier on this delinquent. I expect a report on my desk by Friday. Deputy Chief Conover Brat & Punk Division]20

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange ("BeyondMachines :verified:") wrote:

#Sloperator

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (Television Executive)") wrote:

Standard eBooks celebrates public domain day: https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
losso3000 wrote:

Yo dawg, I herd you like Amiga mouse pointers? Well, here’s all of them!

https://heckmeck.de/pointers/

#amiga #pixelart

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

Today in History: Arcangelo Corelli dies in Italy, 1713

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

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

Today in History: David Bowie (then David Robert Jones) is born in London, 1947

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

Today in History: Elvis Presley born in East Tupelo, Mississippi, 1935

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

Today in History: Monaco gains its independence, 1297

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

Today in History: Battle of New Orleans

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

Today in History: Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982

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

Today in History: Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889

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

Today in History: American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982

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

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Boosted by jwz:
netblocks ("NetBlocks") wrote:

⚠️ Confirmed: Telemetry indicate a major disruption to networks in Belgorod, western #Russia, after Ukraine targets the region's energy installations with missiles; initial analysis suggests one of the most effective infrastructure strikes by Ukraine since the start of the war

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("We’re Going To Keep The Popehat") wrote:

It is the position of the Trump Administration that its agents can come into any state and city in America (let alone other countries) and kill people and that state and city have no jurisdiction to inquire about it. Treat any Trump official accordingly.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mbwhpvwctp2q

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
aboutsignal ("Signal News & Tips") wrote:

Signal massively downloaded amid rising tensions, number one in Denmark 🇩🇰 🇬🇱

People are looking for a safer alternative to WhatsApp

👉 https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-massively-downloaded-amid-rising-tensions-number-one-in-denmark/

#signal #signalmessenger #signalapp #tech #privacy #whatsapp #denmark #greenland #news

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@PCMag/115856696065155915

Not content with littering up the Earth, the billionaires are now coming for our night sky too. I wish we could shoot all of it down.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Wired (who are not on Mastodon!?) is dissembling.

https://www.wired.com/story/x-grok-app-store-nudify-csam-apple-google-content-moderation/

The answer to "why is X still in app stores?" is obvious: the fascists like it.

App stores are centralised rentiers, ergo easy to coerce when proprietors are avaricious bootlickers. Wired's *so close* to connecting the dots, but fail here yet again. From last Oct:

https://infrequently.org/2025/10/the-app-store-was-always-authoritarian/

/cc @pluralistic

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

There's some more details about what happened at the high school ICE attempted to storm after murdering Renee Good.

It seems ICE rolled up with several vehicles and in short order ended up pepper spraying students and fighting with passers by.

📸 mrs.frazzled via Facebook

#ReneeGood #minneapolis #PublicSchool #FuckICE

Attachments:

• video: e00b6d19abf0b63d.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

The Chinese word for ‘owl’ is ‘cat headed bird’.

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Torties

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
KimPerales@toad.social ("Kim Perales") wrote:

"Remember🚨everyone who's out there defending cold-blooded #murder.🚨They’ve shown you exactly who they are."
-M Touch

"Men🚨who murder innocent women & then destroy their pub #memorials aren't LE. They’re a fucking rogue admin at war with the American ppl."
-A Standal

"If you let🚨#ICE murder #immigrants, they'll eventually murder anyone who disagrees with them➡️if you let them murder anyone who disagrees with them➡️they'll murder anyone they want.🚨may be YOU."
-C S&G
#USPol
https://metro.co.uk/video/ice-officer-stamps-candle-left-memory-shooting-victim-renee-good-3583053/?ito=vjs-link

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stefano@bsd.cafe ("Stefano Marinelli") wrote:

A few days ago, a client’s data center (well, actually a server room) "vanished" overnight. My monitoring showed that all devices were unreachable. Not even the ISP routers responded, so I assumed a sudden connectivity drop. The strange part? Not even via 4G.

I then suspected a power failure, but the UPS should have sent an alert.

The office was closed for the holidays, but I contacted the IT manager anyway. He was home sick with a serious family issue, but he got moving.

To make a long story short: the company deals in gold and precious metals. They have an underground bunker with two-meter thick walls. They were targeted by a professional gang. They used a tactic seen in similar hits: they identify the main power line, tamper with it at night, and send a massive voltage spike through it.

The goal is to fry all alarm and surveillance systems. Even if battery-backed, they rarely survive a surge like that. Thieves count on the fact that during holidays, owners are away and fried systems can't send alerts. Monitoring companies often have reduced staff and might not notice the "silence" immediately.

That is exactly what happened here. But there is a "but": they didn't account for my Uptime Kuma instance monitoring their MikroTik router, installed just weeks ago. Since it is an external check, it flagged the lack of response from all IPs without needing an internal alert to be triggered from the inside.

The team rushed to the site and found the mess. Luckily, they found an emergency electrical crew to bypass the damage and restore the cameras and alarms. They swapped the fried server UPS with a spare and everything came back up.

The police warned that the chances of the crew returning the next night to "finish" the job were high, though seeing the systems back online would likely make them move on. They also warned that thieves sometimes break in just to destroy servers to wipe any video evidence.

Nothing happened in the end. But in the meantime, I had to sync all their data off-site (thankfully they have dual 1Gbps FTTH), set up an emergency cluster, and ensure everything was redundant.

Never rely only on internal monitoring. Never.

#IT #SysAdmin #HorrorStories #ITHorrorStories #Monitoring

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Answering myself, the author at the second link has actually started her interactive writing seminar with this post. So I subscribed. (Note to self: don't share links before you finished reading them :-) )

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
people@flipboard.com ("People") wrote:

ICE Academy Shortened Its Training to Just 47 Days Under Trump in Nod to the 47th President, Report Claims
https://people.com/ice-academy-training-shortened-47-days-under-trump-report-11881592?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Celebrity Parents & Families @celebrity-parents-families-people

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kathimmel@mstdn.social ("it's kat! 🇵🇸✊") wrote:

back to the future with a 1954 masterpiece made by three communist artists, all of whom had been blacklisted in hollywood. it's one of the first films made fully independent of the hollywood studio system.
advancing workers' rights & embracing social & political thought from a feminist perspective, this is well worth a watch.
#cinema #film #communism #feminism #workersRights #saltOfTheEarth
https://archive.org/details/clacinonl%5FSaltOfTheEarth

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

Putting on my marketing cap again for a second. (I have no power, so if you hate what I'm saying take comfort in knowing Mastodon would never hire me lol)

The feeling this illustration gives you should be the feeling people get when they hear Mastodon. Community, public, commons, subversive, a dab of punk. It's what I felt coming here for the first (third) time. There's an appetite for this on the corporate web, I just know it.

Artist: Gareth McMurchy
Curator: Molly White

#CnM

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gbjorn.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Gunnar Björnsson") wrote:

Martin Peterson doesn’t suffer fools gladly.