@bobkmertz@techhub.socialCoaster Enthusiast, Pinball Competitor, Data Center Technician...... Not a member of the red or blue parties.
My coaster/park account: @RagingWolfBob
Rest in Peace, Mom 
1959-2024
WV/NoVA
If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?
-- 1 John 3:17
Mom's chimes singing a song in the storm.... exactly where she would be sitting right now. A fitting night for the eve of her funeral.
Hug your family. Have conversations about the what-ifs. You don't know when the worst case scenario is going to start knocking on your door. You don't know when it might all be over. I promise you this - when those times come your disagreements or politics will not matter.
We knew it was a matter of time but I'm still shocked that we are here ALREADY. A citizen has been arrested and is being held by ICE despite being provided with his birth certificate.
https://newrepublic.com/post/194119/ice-detains-us-born-citizen-despite-birth-certificate
boostedAppealing for help maintaining https://disappeared.us
The sad fact is that detentions and deportations without due process are accelerating, and it is hard to keep tabs on documented cases.
If you are interested in bearing witness and can help find corroborating news sources for such cases, please let me know.
If you're technical, you can do issues and/or PRs at https://codeberg.org/reed/disappeared.
If you're not technical but can help identify and document cases, please, please, please reach out.
It's 2025.... How do we not have pizza rolls that don't use napalm as a primary ingredient?
boostedcan't remember where I saw it but "Using AI in education is like using a forklift in the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you" is a solid quote
boostedThank you to everybody who sent me the news stories and posts about the hacked crosswalk buttons in Silicon Valley and Seattle. Maybe we'll see them elsewhere, too, soon? I'm betting there may be other cities whose DOT chose weak passwords for systems like this.
If you haven't heard what's up, I did a super short video about this...
boostedBlueSky isn’t just censoring posts in Turkey to match government demands, already happening in other countries too.
I really wish the media would stop calling it decentralised. It isn’t. It’s like calling Shell oil nature lovers, because they claim they love nature.
boosted“On Monday, federal agents smashed the window of a car in Massachusetts and arrested Juan Francisco Méndez, a Guatemalan immigrant with no criminal record.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/thescoop/comments/1k0aqdo/on_monday_federal_agents_smashed_the_window_of_a/
boostedIn case you missed it, Bluesky is apparently caving to an authoritarian government:
https://mas.to/@osma/114346166890552471
This is why the Fediverse is so important: each Fedi server is totally independent, servers communicate directly with each other, anyone can set up a server anywhere.
Bluesky posts all flow through Bluesky's own corporate relay which is impossible to bypass, making censorship easy.
No one controls the Fediverse
Bluesky is controlled by a US-based for-profit corporation
boostedGoogle is so sneaky. This prompt inside Gmail gives you three options. The two most visible options (number 1 is 'Try it now' and number 2 is 'Continue') basically mean 'Enable Gemini AI to write emails.' The third option cancels it which is hidden well. Google, you could do better than this. This is a perfect example of a dark pattern. For those who want AI to write basic emails can enable it but there is not need to do this kind of "shady" stuff.
boostedWhistleblower reveals evidence on how Elon Musk's DOGE team extracted 10 GB of sensitive data about American citizens from a government agency, and then deleted accounts and logs to cover their tracks.
Then, when the whistleblower tried to report the data breach, he received a threatening letter containing pictures taken from a drone watching him walking his dog.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
boostedi had to edit the top comment twice because there's is even *another* Jefferson Elementary School that did this in spokane washington, but it's not the same one
apparently the duck-escapes-elementary-school motif is larger than we thought
boostedSome high quality eyebleach for you
The duck nested in the school courtyard, so her and her hatchlings needed a proper send off since they can't fly away
edit: thanks to @fliggerit for finding the story behind this scene
The duck does this every year- flies into a courtyard, lays her eggs, but the hatchlings can't fly out.
So there is now an annual ritual at the school where they clear the way for the escape.
Jefferson Elementary School, Goshen Indiana
boosted boostedProbably the last CVE indexed before it goes dark should be CVE-2025-DOGE (critical, local privilege escalation vulnerability that leads to malicious code execution and data exfiltration).
boosted@isilzha314 I used to work at a factory and one of the maintenance people had a sticker on his toolbox that said:
“We have been doing so much with so little for so long that we are now qualified to do anything with nothing”. I think about that a lot.
(D.Burch) 
