Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org
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So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
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"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
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I just spit water (thank heaven I finished my coffee) all over my monitor.
The "expert" witness is a forensic examiner in the Massachusetts State Police "cyber crimes unit."
"Q What's the difference between Google and Google Chrome?
A Minimal differences. Chrome has more features, as I recall."
THIS GUY IS TESTIFYING ABOUT THE CONTENTS OF A DEFENDANT'S COMPUTER BUT HE DOES NOT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SEARCH ENGINE AND A BROWSER.
I rest my fucking case.
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Hi #LawFedi & #lawprofs. Given the exodus of #legalacademia and #lawtwitter from our usual hangout, we thought we should make an account here. Please be gentle with us as we get used to posting (tooting?) on this platform. 🙂
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“Is mastodon like twitter?”
“No, not at all. Mastodon is still a thing.”
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🔐 #Apple has released urgent patches to address multiple vulnerabilities in #iOS, iPadOS, #macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and Safari.
This includes a critical 0-day bug (CVE-2023-38606) actively exploited in the wild.
https://thehackernews.com/2023/07/apple-rolls-out-urgent-patches-for-zero.html
Make sure to update your devices ASAP! #InfoSec
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A third of Republicans say racism against White people is a big problem. Only a quarter say racism against Black people is. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/24/desantis-racism-slavery-education/
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Let me tell you the secret of the "Everything App".
It's real, it's not called X, and it's about 33 years old. It's called a Web Browser.
Despite a decade of walled gardens trying hard to ruin it, you can still do pretty much any task you need on the web.
You can even make websites into apps with Progressive Web Apps (two clicks on WordPress).
The everything app is old, and under siege daily. But it works, it's resilient, and it's magical.
@dcdeejay @Teri_Kanefield You make a good point that's easily overlooked by savvy people. My fellow Boomers, who didn't grow up in Hollywood like I did, but grew up in rural America, grew up at a time when television news basically never lied. They couldn't just make stuff up because the FCC would yank their broadcast license.
Today, it's all cable and there's nothing to stop Fox Entertainment from putting on their parody and entertainment show called Fox News. But the rubes here in West Virginia don't know that. They watch Fox and think it's Walter Cronkite telling them how it is. Of course they believe what they see and hear on TV. Fox has automatic credibility with my generation simply because they're an official news outlet in their eyes.
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@visionsofnapa Ah, so that's where the term catatonia comes from.
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Next week: DeSantis claims that some Jews benefitted from the Holocaust, arguing that obesity was nonexistent in the concentration camps.
@alank So Elmo has money to spend on this folly but he can't pay his rent?
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Trump's social media attacks on Jack Smith could 'violate' D.C. court rules: former FBI lawyer - Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism
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@BlackAzizAnansi Yes, on Japanese servers (where it's legal) that everyone who isn't a pedophile defederates from. Too bad they don't bother reporting about all the Nazis on Twitter. (Also, yet another article from someone reporting on the fediverse who has no idea what the fediverse is and how all the parts relate.)
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One other thing:
This kind of annoying headache inducing super local nit picky local politics is *the most important kind of political battle right now*
Power is built from these tiny councils up-- and the structures that keep all manner of "outsiders" from participating, or even knowing what they are doing need to be destroyed -- one little town at a time. Get the school board too.
If you live in a small town and don't know who the mayor is or what he does.
Maybe YOU should be the mayor.
@HCBunny But at least you do *want* to cook dinner.
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So the verb ‘to tweet’ I assume will have to change to ‘to Xcrete’ ?
- Website
- https://shuttersparks.net
So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
#HamRadio
#Morse
#MorseCode
#Birding
#BirdWatching
#eBird
#wv
#WestVirginia
#food
#cooking
#astronomy
#physics
#engineering
#photography
#FountainPens
"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
Joined Nov 2022
