TIL Linus is Woke. I use Linux BTW 🐧 social.kernel.org/notice/AWSXo...

Most likely US as well, courtesy of DOGE. It's it grand that we'll never know? Because DOGE terminated all of 18F, the small eleet IT team of specialists that has made insane efficiency gains, there's no one watching all the monitors. Not to mention the death threats to any whistleblower.

After a (R) dear friend celebrated the defunding of NPR/PBS, I didn't want to argue that he didn't damage NPR nor PBS. What he did do was close down local radio and TV broadcast stations, preventing independent news journalism in favor of corporate-controlled news.

Wonder why this scene looks so familiar... #WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕

Our talk at this year Transparency.dev summit is now live! Implementing transparency in UEFI boot managers www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srv2... Check out the project: github.com/usbarmory/bo...

No shit.

Judge: Counsel, your evidence? DA: Traffic cams place defendant at scene. Defense: Your Honor, we show these systems are rootable, logs corruptible, chain-of-custody fatally compromised by any novice; we move to exclude. h/t @bennjordan.bsky.social

How's the efficiency of firing all 18F and CISA staff working out, DOGE?

That's about 4,000,000 Linux gamers a month. - We're proud to be 3 of that number. - Converted 2 more extended family. - Converted 3 local parents' kids. - And 1 local professor (she likes Luanti)

PipeWire is the "complexity" of the issue here (not Nvidia begging for a backdoor to record anything w/o user consent). When I was writing Xorg buffer relay agents, Wayland ran into the huge amount of boilerplate code needed to do the same basic things for recording and displaying.

Another to track in Congress.

"There are Epsteins everywhere for those with eyes to see." Many have disclosed such violence to me over my life and I can't help feel a sick in the stomach from every story. ANY PERSON WHO CONTINUES TO DISMISS DONALD'S INVOLVEMENT IS DEAD TO ME.

Queuing up a retro TV show in the lineup for the rest of the year. Haven't seen this series in a while... Boston Legal

The world’s first microprocessor is *NOT* from Intel.

 But you won’t find it in many textbooks. 

It was a secret only declassified in 1998; for good reason. 

 The Garrett AiResearch F14 Air Data Computer was 8x faster than the Intel 4004, and a year earlier!

Here's your deca-reminder: - Y2036 is the next #Y2K for #NTP. - And Y2038 for Unix #Epoch.

My family has been proud to be part of that Linux gaming percentage over the years. Even as one child ages out of my tech decisions, they continue to pick Linux over Apple devices. Success!

While humorous, there is something disturbing here as this feels nothing like how Bob would write code. It's not art or beauty to admire.

Finally!! Someone is putting the corruption together with NVIDIA. Thanks Steve @gamersnexus.bsky.social I ended my Nvidia GPUs when I figured out their max-profit strategy back in the GTX 400 series. AMD all the way since.

I'm just blown away... This is why I run TrueNAS: the wizards, automations, workflows, backup and replication wizards, and visual UX. If I was to task you to add 4 new disks to a ZFS pool, while straight forward with many CLI commands, you can't beat a couple clicks in a wizard.

Or, better yet, kill him in *every* film. (Worked for "South Park"...)

Ever paid attention to #LinksWithFriends' intro? "Microsoft CEO Bathes in the Blood of Innocents in the Streets. Stock Price Jumps!" "Five Things the Rise of the Tech Surveillance State Taught Me About B2B Sales" h/t @wendell1.bsky.social @level1techs.bsky.social

TIL violating any "Terms of Service" of a website, any terms, is a federal crime in the US. h/t @darknetdiaries.com.web.brid.gy Darknet Diaries: 162: Hieu

Ever paid attention to #LinksWithFriends' intro? "Microsoft CEO Bathes in the Blood of Innocents in the Streets. Stock Price Jumps!" "Five Things the Rise of the Tech Surveillance State Taught Me About B2B Sales" h/t @wendell1.bsky.social @level1techs.bsky.social

TIL violating any "Terms of Service" of a website, any terms, is a federal crime in the US. h/t @darknetdiaries.com.web.brid.gy Darknet Diaries: 162: Hieu

I haven't heard nor thought of #USANetworks since like the Airwolf, Knight Rider, A-Team days in the 80s. But season 4 of #ResidentAlien is just damn good writing. The previous seasons on SyFy were were great; however, you can tell season 4 kicks it up to something special with its comic timing.

Sadly, @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver just posted about this.

I think it’s quite risky to hedge our entire economy on a technology that is built entirely on stolen data.

Ya, the combination of ICE getting a contract to use Paragon's Graphite, along with the purchase of NSO by US investors, I had the same presumption about Pegasus getting picked up. There's also tracking tools such as Altamides, which i'd be really shocked if they weren't already using.

Want another reason to diss on AI browsers like Comet and OpenAI's Atlas? Or perhaps you use Cursor or Windsurf IDEs? They are being released with OLD versions of Chrome(ium). As of yesterday, researches have found and exploited some of the 94 already-patched CVEs. h/t #CyberSecurityToday

You'll need to opt out by today, 6 PM EST! (Part of that whole UTC and Nov 3rd thing) To opt out of LinkedIn's automatic AI harvesting: Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement h/t #HashtagTrending

I've been screaming this at the top of my lungs that it wasn't just for ICE: but the entire US Gov. What's worse? How about combining the data they extract from those compromised devices, to Palantir. Let that sink in for a moment while thinking about applying for benefits or gov loan...

They have already tried, and got caught, at the VA - a test case: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Car loans, mortgages, insurance, jobs, etc. China perfected the model as a playbook for Social Credit Scores. Basically, this. 👇 bsky.app/profile/paul...

YIKES: NSO floats Pegasus spyware used in hypothetical "time of domestic crisis" in 🇺🇸America. I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA. To hack Americans. 1/

This is very clearly the direction in which things are headed, especially since so many of the people who built and maintained the tools the US IC has developed-in house have been fired or have left.

Finally completely binge watching the #JurassicPark and #JurassicWorld movies. Once to get a feel of the gory parts, and a second time with the little kiddo skipping those gory parts. We're going through the animated TV series now.

Remember, remember the 5th of November, Gunpowder, treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes and his companions Did the scheme contrive, To blow the King and Parliament All up alive.

Grok's source code was leaked.

Check out the deleted scenes of T2. They need to disable ReadOnly mode of the T800, and flip it to ReadWrite, to allow the T800 to "learn." So, they deactivate the T800, open the skull, and remove that CPU.

The concept of "block programming" has been around since the 1970s. The rise of OOP kind of put a back seat to these simple "single input, single output" modular concepts. Once the "Ah Hah!" moment clicks, you'll fit right in with ASIC, Blender, and even FPGA programming.

Currently listening to...

And teenagers call your bluff.

Introverts are really nice until you break their trust. Then they’ll cut you off and disappear without a word. Don’t mistake their kindness for weakness

Nov 3rd, LinkedIn, who has always implemented "auto Opt-In" features for a decade, will be [further] harvesting your personal profile, data, and site history to train their AI, "and partners AI", aka their owner, Microsoft/Copilot. No one explained where to "Opt Out", except #HashtagTrending!

Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Grok's source code was leaked.

Pretty sure I have the scariest engineering costume of the day.

me [from bedroom]: mommmmm! mom: what? why are you yelling me: grandma’s trying to pinch my cheeks mom: grandma’s dead hon me: that’s why i’m yelling

I'm in for two!

Nov 3rd, LinkedIn, who has always implemented "auto Opt-In" features for a decade, will be [further] harvesting your personal profile, data, and site history to train their AI, "and partners AI", aka their owner, Microsoft/Copilot. No one explained where to "Opt Out", except #HashtagTrending!