So one of my goals is to start blogging more. I have two blogs right now, and will have a third soon. Many of these blog posts will be geared toward my Facebook and LinkedIn followers. This is the first of those. I was busy at the end of January and first of February, so I didn't get around to writing a post about Global Switch Day until earlier this week. I just shared it on those awful platforms. I'm also sharing it here.
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February 1 was global switch day. Did you?
Yeah, I'm a little late. February 1 was global switch day, a day dedicated to switching away from big tech platforms and moving to more privacy-friendly platforms.Steven Brady (StevenBrady.com)
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There is nothing illegal about naming inexperienced people currently accessing sensitive government data at the behest of Elon Musk.
They are:
Akash Bobba
Edward Coristine
Luke Farritor
Gautier Cole Killian
Gavin Kliger
Ethan Shaotran
This is a major security breach.
SPREAD
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I have to say, I don't think spreading these names is a good idea. We don't know if these are flunkies or people actually in significant positions.
Mind you, if they are making decisions, we should know their names.
I'm just worried about an innocent person getting doxed. I prefer a presumption of innocence, even if the current govt doesn't share that view.
Spent the evening getting backups running on the new servers. Phew. Also reworked some home networking.
Billionaires are a disease to mankind:
"#Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income
This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent."
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This is a Congress problem where no doubt Tesla legally exploited all of the tax-code loop-holes to get to zero.
It's also not the only company that does this.
So I bought Kaze and the Wild Masks for Switch because, well, sale. Not sure when I'll find the time to play it.
Kaze and the Wild Masks | Retro Platformer Indie Game
Journey through the Crystal Islands in 90’s classics platformer style. Play as Kaze and save your friend Hogo from a curse that spread chaos around the islands. Face enraged living vegetables by invoking the powers of the wild masks.Kaze Wild Masks
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Google Maps is run by cowards
Google, on its Google Maps naming policy, back in 2008:
By saying "common", we mean to include names which are in widespread daily use, rather than giving immediate recognition to any arbitrary governmental re-naming. In other words, if a ruler announced that henceforth the Pacific Ocean would be named after her mother, we would not add that placemark unless and until the n
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Sudden realization.
Everyone who is seeing the misnaming on the Gulf of Mexico (it does not show for me) should go put in a bug report right now to #GoogleMaps complaining that the #GulfOfMexico has the wrong name. Deny the #fascist movement their power, act incredulous, assert reality.
Make it clear that the people who care about this weird #VirtueSignaling are the people who aren't going along with it.
Been testing out Paralino, a new private (supposedly), end-to-end encrypted location sharing app that has plans to open source the client. And they're planning on offering a degoogled version of the client in the future as well.
And I'm impressed. Impressed enough that I already grabbed a yearly service offer.
Available for Android now, and iOS soon.
I was today years old when I learned that ExpressionEngine was open sourced.
For anyone else that missed it, it happened in 2018.
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ExpressionEngine Is Now Free
ExpressionEngine is going open source in November, and is free today!Derek Jones (Packet Tide)
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Instagram and Facebook removed posts from two abortion pill providers; Instagram also suspended accounts; Meta confirmed and restored some of the accounts (New York Times)
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Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts
Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.Claire Cain Miller (The New York Times)
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This was really good. Choir preaching maybe but, Dan McClellan (maklelan) refutes point by point #Shapiro’s anger at #BishopBudde.
McClellan holds a PhD in theology and religion.
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The most basic protip for using the internet:
Do not write a big chunk of text in a browser input field.
Compose your writing in another app where you can save your progress and have better editing tools. And then when you click the Submit button and there's an error and you lose the text in the form, you still have what you wrote in the other app.
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In honor of Inauguration Day, I wrote a new song. TRUMP SUCKS!!! (it’s a singalong).
Free on #Bandcamp - fairyeyelashes.bandcamp.com/tr…
on streaming next week.
TRUMP SUCKS!
HE SUCKS SO MUCH!
HE FUCKING SUCKS!
ALL WE KNOW… TRUMP SUCKS!
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The Liberux Nexx (liberux.net/) seems like it could be the #LinuxPhone I've been waiting for (assuming, RK3588s does not burn through that battery in minutes )
You can follow them @Liberux
(Thanks @awai for the hint!)
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in reply to Steven • • •I... WHAT.
I mean, we're not even sure if they were literal locusts or just carob pods, which were called locusts because of the physical resemblance, but ok, sure, whatever.
I feel like I'm ticking off some kind of crazy end times bingo card somewhere.
If I get a reference to "The Late Great Planet Earth" and a coupon for Jim Bakker's crazy end-times rations, I think I think I'll win a free trip to the Noah's Ark museum or something.
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in reply to R.L. Dane 🍵 • •@R.L. Dane 🍵 Regardless, the verses were describing John, a wild man, and not a directive on how we should all eat. Maybe they'll also sell camel hair tshirts with their brand logo? It's crazy what people pull from the Bible and try to apply to their own lives.
Even the footnote in my Bible says "probably Locust beans."
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in reply to Steven • • •Yeah, this is the cult of all-form-no-substance.
Repeat the same sermons over and over again and never once touch the One who Spoke it.
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