Federal judge grants Minnesota law enforcement’s request for a temporary restraining order against DHS, ICE, CBP. Prohibits federal agencies from destroying or altering evidence related to federal agents lethal shooting of Alex Pretti […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I got to visit some cows at a friend's farm! The internet needs some fuzzy animals right now

I grew up with cassettes, VHS, and floppy disks that you needed to safely eject. So I have a habit of pausing a streaming show before turning off the TV, which really upsets my 9-year-old son. "You don't need to do that!!"

BSides PDX keynote by @micahflee, "Practical Defenses Against Technofascism," talking about protecting yourself against spyware, device searches, etc. https://micahflee.com/practical-defenses-against-technofascism/

I am here to distract you with Wojtek, a Syrian brown bear given to Polish soldiers by an Iranian shepherd during World War II and who achieved the rank of corporal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(bear)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/115930053789910854 Reminds me of the strip where Calvin complains to Rosalyn, "That's not how Mom does it." Don't be that guy. You learn a lot from Calvin & Hobbes!

As part of our effort to eat more healthily, my wife and I have been eating this nut mix with dried anchovies instead of lunch and breakfast. The anchovies sound weird, but they are incredibly delicious with the nuts! Highly recommended!

I love it when the chick schedule comes out each year. It gives me something in the near return to look forward to, and also reminds me that things will soon be green, warm, and flowering again. My hope is that each of you has something wonderful to look […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

I honestly wouldn’t mind more of these types of spam messages. I’ll take encouragement wherever I can get it.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@BleepingComputer/115907284860483758 And so it begins ...

OMG this is hilarious. It turns your totally boring URLs in to ones that look like phishing links. https://creepylink.com/

[us pol] If it fits ... https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism

[us pol] It was never about terrorists or violent criminals. This administration's immigration policies are about reducing immigration from poor countries, and it's extremely UN-AMERICAN. When someone argues that it's about illegal immigration, you can […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

The obvious ginormous caveats apply, but I'm excited about some of the things that the current administration has floated (some of these ideas are from Dems like Sen. Elizabeth Warren). Absolutely get institutional investors out of the single-family home […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Two things from Enshittification by Cory Doctorow that have stood out to me so far, that I hadn't quite thought of that way before. One is the different between profit-seeking capitalism and rent-seeking feudalism.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/health-2g9ldae7z/-/a-67-qaX3AQmOhBwluTDfY9g%3Aa%3A3199692-%2F0 Sigh. I don't see a lot of good alternatives to PFAS-laden hard shells for backpacking in the PNW, unfortunately. Waxed canvas would be incredibly heavy. I guess you could go with some type of […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115860072439977180 Not only is this the right thing to do, but #righttorepair laws should make this required. They should also anticipate malicious compliance (make the device perform really badly before open sourcing it, then open source a crippled, shitty […]

"Secret police" is often misunderstood to mean a force that operates covertly, with all their operations secret. But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.

Look for the helpers. Faced with evil, watch for the decent people standing against it.

The highest levels of the federal government have made clear that they regard Americans who engage in protest and dissent as a national enemy. It is unsurprisingl that their troops on the ground treat them accordingly. Kent State showed us that this is what happens.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/115844378828249052 :blobcatfacepalm: "... all it took was a simple URL trick of adding 'download-all-users/' to the top-level domain."

Grateful to the people who took the time today to remind me that I had somehow previously neglected to block them.

A recently laid-off Big Tech engineering leader posted a video 7 days ago on a new YouTube account and he's gotten 20.5K subscribers. He shares honest reflections that are resonating with people. I'm guessing most of us here on Mastodon already know the things others are discovering: that […]

Did the Bell Mountain Loop #hike from Moulton Falls (#WA #Cascadia) with my youngest. Beautiful day for it. Cool, damp, but no rain […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

I've been thinking about the sentiment sometimes described as "I want to quit tech and become a goat herder." Setting aside burnout, I think there's also a growing disappointment that technology does not magically solve problems. The way I see it, there were a few eras in this process of […]

The RCMP seized a laptop for forensics, pressed charges, the Calgary police pressed charges too, all based on an email with headers that clearly identified it as spoofed? Shit like this is scary as hell […]

Does anyone know about growing loofah (luffa)? Wikipedia says that it's a sub-tropical plant, but I'm wondering if it will grow where I am in zone 8b. I'd love to grow these and make loofah sponges for our own use and to give as gifts. We grow squash really well here in the summer, and I'm […]

This is a mood for sure

I used to take my eight inch floppies to mental hospitals to debug the patient bank COBOL software on the fly when I was still a teenager. I laugh in the face of your hub of git.

One silver lining of all the rain in the #pnw is that it is prime time to dig up blackberry vines. The soil is incredibly saturated and loose, it should be much easier to get entire rootball out. [Taps head] Fight smarter, not harder.

Salmon back at it even after the ginormous flood subsided here near the Raging River (off the Snoqualmie River). The river and stream were crazy balls. Like super insane—I saw multiple large trees on their sides in the river today. These fish are world-class […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Planning a visit to the USA just so somebody has to read my posts

I like rain. A lot. But I'm very relieved that it's stopped raining, or at least gotten back to normal pitter-patter rain. We probably received 6-8" over the last couple of days. Now we just have to wait for the waters to recede.

We could hear the boulders rolling in the water! This is the Raging River near Preston, WA. #wawx

The chicken run is flooding, and the ducks are loving it. They are living their best ducky lives! 🦆 #backyardchickens #RunnerDucks

Even the plutocratic Wall Street Journal sticks up for refugees, which just goes to show the current GOP rhetoric is about racism, not about economics. Hopefully this gift link works for y'all […]

The Raging River lives up to its name once in a while. Snoqualmie Falls must be something. I can't get out there today, but will try on Thursday.

New profile on the CEO of BlueSky. TIL that she lives here in Seattle. Personally, I'm worried about their VC funding but wish them success developing decentralized social media. I think we've already got that here on the Fedi but I don't care whether it's a white or black cat that catches the […]

I spent some time up in the treehouse last night to listen to the rain. It was coming down so hard that I discovered a leak in the chimney, unfortunately. It wasn't that bad and stopped when the intensity lessened. Turn on the sound on the video to hear the […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

If I get a chance, I'll check out Snoqualmie Falls this week. I expect massive amounts of water flowing over the falls as we're expecting 5+" of rain over the next few days. Exciting! #pnw #wawx

Eye-opening article that explains the lengths to which the Chinese government will go in order to suppress speech that it doesn't like abroad. I remember enjoying movies from Zhang Yimou in the 1990s before he sold out. It's sad to think of the creative expression the world loses out on because […]

After some thought, I've determined that I get more minutes of direct sunlight if I hike counter-clockwise around the mountain than if I hike clockwise. The sun is a moving floodlight. I'm here in #italy for the longer days. I've been unreasonably happy and energetic today, only my fourth day […]

"As he has come to know, Andy’s grief for the things that are lost affirms his love for them, as even the loss of them affirms the bounty by which they once existed, for in this world grief goes hand in hand with gratitude." ~ Wendell Berry, from his latest […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

"Even Carrington would be impressed" 😬 https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=12&year=2025 Hopefully we just get "someone should check on our satellites" levels of auroras and not "A bunch of open questions in solar-terrestrial physics are about to be answered"

My family decided to not put my grandpa on IVs. He fell a couple of weeks ago and injured his spine and is mostly paralyzed. He somehow got pneumonia and a UTI, and in general his health is declining rapidly. He's 92 and has lived a great life overall. I spent a couple weeks with him as a […]