Tech. Received my Nitrokey 3C yesterday and spent some time in a cold sweat thinking I bricked it by trying to update the firmware. But, got it working. Created a new gpg key, set all the pins and started looking at how to utilise FIDO2. Managed to cram in some TOTP tokens while at it.

🚨🚨 💯 this. Striking and incomprehensible that this is so widely underreported. EU political leaders must rein in #Orban on this. 👇👇

This whas the game Celtic lost 2-0. And the last time they did so at Dundee was 37 years ago.

Reminds me of what my father used to say: '"Vi" sa svinskiten och sjönk. "Du" sa han när han kom upp.' Translated to English: '"We" said the pigshit and sank. "You" he said when he resurfaced.' IOW, the "we" is never meant as the traditional "we", it's always ment as singular "you".

If you want to cancel Spotify, all you have to do is run it through an app that spits out mp3's. Spotify will cancel your account permanently. Don't ask me how I know.

Scottish Premiership. 40 minutes in, Dundee FC lead Celtic, 1-0. Celtic has 79% possession. Dundee has had one shot on goal, and scored. What's going on? Eight games in, Celtic and Rangers are usually six points clear and running away with it.

🇺🇸 🔥 That. Was. Impressive. We are watching America reassert itself and its values from the grassroots up. The world saw you and we have huge hope invested in you.

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

*BOOM* Bringing out the big guns I see. This is gamma-ray-burst-disintegration style. Love it! Keep it coming!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Right-wing populism is rife everywhere in Europe, and that is no accident, as Russia have been fueling it for decades. This assessment is on the money, this fight is now global. No country can afford to look the other way any longer.

When they roll out Chumbawamba, you know things are lit. 😁

Away game against Burnley today. Big game, and will set the tone for a lot of the rest of the season. Hopefully three points, but you never know. MOT!

With a GOP majority in the House, GOP majority in the Senate and a moron GOP president - a government shutdown is 100% a GOP shutdown. Own your failure, weaklings.

'Tis the season for "the anonymous employee survey" again. Yeah, the one where they know exactly who hasn't responded - even though they swear it is anonymous. And just like last year, I won't be participating. If they want my feedback - they can f***ing call me.

Delenda Russia est. They need to be defeated militarily and then they should be broken up into pieces after being stripped of all weapons of mass destruction. At least four separate countries west of Ural. East of Ural, that's for Asia to decide.

We’re in the second Gilded Age just like the first — when America’s wealth was in the hands of a few, money corrupted politics, and working people were abused and exploited. It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the first Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

The stock market is grossly over-valued and a correction is due. When *banks* exit positions on stocks and buy gold instead - you know things are bad. This bubble, when it bursts, will be a magnitude or two worse than the 90's and 2008 bubbles.

The GOP has been 100% projection since at least Reagan. Probably a bit longer. Want to know what shady shit they're getting up to? Look at what they accuse others of. It's a 1:1 match.

You'll want to read this. The users on BlueSky might not fall for this, but the vast majority of other users on Facebook will. And I do not have high hopes they'll get scared by eerily specific adverts.

omni.se/a/Ey3XBK A manager at Meta states employees should work five times as fast with AI "helping" them. A) that's bullshit right off the bat B) rhetorically - do they get a 500% pay increase as well? In case you wondered if Meta had stopped being bat-shit crazy. Apparently not.

Peskov is so deep into the crack-pipe that actual reality will never, for as long as he lives, bother him. The man has been living in, and making statements from, cloud-fairy-land for years.

This is such common sense that it boggles the mind when coompanies or government don't follow this simple paradigm.

Tech. So, I received a question on using an HSM (hardware security module) to sign RPMs with. And it seems process/procedure around that is .. not well documented. As a result, I have a Nitrokey 3C on order so I can figure out the exact steps for how to, and document it.

I see frogs They're multiplying Trump is lo-o-sing control 🎶

Companies tilting heavy into AI now are putting their entire future at risk. And the funny part? The top brass doing it are the ones most easily replaced by the technology they're having wet dreams of replacing staff with something cheaper over.

Tech. I obtained a small-cheap u-blox 7 USB attached GPS receiver ($20) and plugged it into my server. After some fiddling with Wine and the windows-only config tool, it's now a reliable time-source for ntpd. Plus I can use xgps to watch where satellite are in the sky. :)

Dublin, Ireland, used to have a problem that it was hard to find a house to buy as wealthy people bought up houses to let as a source of income. I believe Dublin enacted the perfect solution. First house you buy, stamp duty 1.5%. 2nd house, 30% stamp duty. Magically, the problem solved.

If there was reliably captured statistics on pollution, it'd be interesting to see what the air quality was like after a couple months of this, compared to just beforehand it started. Imagine if people decided the cleaner air was preferable...

ISW recently (last few days) said Russia is in phase-0 regarding Europe. It's basically last step before invasion. At the same time, they're not seeing the required build-up of troops/material to suggest anything is likely to happen immediately.

The cruelty is the whole point. Because it instills fear. And it dissuades people from protesting. It is done so they can cement their rule, unopposed.

Keep hitting their petro-infra. Reduce it to rubble so it takes them a century to get it back to working state.

Q: how high is inflation in % since 1978? Because if that number is greater than 26 (it is, don't worry, much greater), then all workers have been getting a *pay cut* continuously since 1978.

Robber barrons, leeches, ticks, fleas .. there are a lot of euphemisms that are applicable. Personally, I like "malignant parasites".

So. I got introduced to Weird Al some 30 years ago, through music and UHF. It's now my twelve year olds time to get to know Weird Al. Played some in the car during the school run, watched a smile play on his face as it dawned on him .. this is *fun*. Mandatory Fun. Bah-dum-tiss. I'll get my coat.

Explaining in simple terms the definition and threshold of an armed attack, including the accumulation theory, to trigger a response in self-defence that could trigger Article 5 of NATO agreement. inews.co.uk/news/world/p...

I think that intercepting them, dropping into attack position and arming the weapon systems might, you know, get the point across. Don't have to blow them out of the sky. Then watch the radar. If Russia scrambles fighter-jets, make sure twice the number goes airborne from EU.

When will the republican leadership (if it still exists) realize that Trump is truly mad & unable to be president?

This is quite interesting. It seems the pharmaceuticals are keen to bend the knee and move in the other direction. That manufacturers of combine harvesters are making a different decision is.. very interesting.

Arguably, if it is indifferent to truth, it has no place in society as it will cause more harm than good. If it is built on probability, it should be relegated to fields where probability rules. Any field where objective truth is pertinent should shun it with prejudice.

My statement formally recognising the State of Palestine.

All this was predicted within the first couple weeks after Jan 20. Said it before, will say it again, you've had your last free/fair elections. Hoping for the mid-terms next year is just 14 more months of head in the sand. Wake up and smell the coffee.

A good thread, and unfortunately, probably right on the money. EU is so afraid of conflict that it *will* take a mass-casualty event for the penny to drop. That we are tetering on the edge of full scale war. Putin certainly is gambling everything on that being fact.

Electricity prices are funky. Sometimes, they go negative here. With water and wind power, if it rains a lot and gets very windy.. I recently switched to Fortum, and their app is actually useful.

To be honest, the best way to protest against what is going on in the world is to embody virtues. Truth and Justice have been in short supply for too long. It's on us, regular plebs, to turn that trend. The in-power folks won't. Gandhi said: Be the change you wish to see in the world.

Tech. a.aliexpress.com/_EJ4w6hu 4k OLED screen, 15.6". I've been eying an upgraded screen for quite some time, but it was like $1200 and I could not justify it. Then this caught my eye. At $230 each, I ordered two. In HiDPI mode, it'll be a joy to use. And they have VESA mounts.

So, I've been quiet. Been a heavy period as kid is back in school, and with that, possible harrassment from the specialist pedagog using social services. As a result, we're looking to move. Likely next stop, Kalix. Not quite polar circle, but close. Yeah, it's north. 😂

omni.se/a/gw50vL OK, I've been quiet. Trump demanding political opponents be prosecuted. I was off by a month. I said six months, it's seven. Add to that omni.se/a/KMdyoE - USA is no longer a democracy. Still think you'll have free/fair elections next year? Think again.

Tried a new string hold today (as shown in this video youtu.be/agMHcmGFwH0) and... It slapped my chest. Now I know why women wear chest guards when shooting bows. (F*ck it stings.) Vest on order to avoid another slap like it. Aside from that, very impressed by the hold itself.