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Got this email from the #VA today, inviting me to attend the Army's 250th birthday in Washington D.C.. A small part of me wants to go, but a bigger part of me realizes this has nothing to do with the Army and everything to do with our wannabe dictator's ego. 1/ #Politics #USArmy #Veterans

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Headline: #Telegram, the #FSB, and the Man in the Middle Subtitle: The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with #Russian intelligence services. Source: www.occrp.org/en/investiga... #Russia

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Headline: #Google begins rollout of #Android 16 with several new features Source: www.neowin.net/news/google-...

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Honestly I'm glad to see it. There are very real performance and web compatibility issues they need to fix before they worry about AI garbage and shopping assistants. Headline: #Mozilla shuts down even more #Firefox services you might still be using Source: www.neowin.net/news/mozilla...

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Headline: A Spam Scheme Is Filling University, Government, and Tech Giants’ Sites With AI Trash Subtitle: Domains owned by Nvidia, Stanford, NPR and the U.S. government are being quietly eaten by #AI slop. Source: www.404media.co/spam-blogs-a... #Spam

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Your older Apple computers are getting one final OS upgrade and that's it. Headline: #Apple says #macOS 26 will be the last to support #Intel chips Source: www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/a...

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I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

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Resisting the digital coup means choosing open-source solutions over Big Tech. Carole Cadwalladr's TED Talk inspires us to rethink our digital presence. #DigitalResistance #OpenSource" news.elenarossini.com/this-is-what...

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Got an email about this the other day. #GoG is doing mods now, 🙂 Title: Give your game new horizons with free mods Subtitle: GOG's curated selection of the best mods, directly packed with the game for the smoothest installation ever. Link: www.gog.com/mods #Gaming #PCGaming

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Headline: #Airlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to #DHS Subtitle: A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data. Source: www.404media.co/airlines-don... #Travel #Privacy

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this is literally the same thing southern segregationists said about the civil rights movement.

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Newsom: I told the president, just get it over with. Arrest me. Move on. If you need someone’s head to scalp, then do it with me. But stop messing with these kids. Stop messing with four-year-olds. Kids in elementary school

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I've literally got a Sourceforge community award for having over 10,000 downloads of a project and not a single person has ever donated. Sure, it's not anything huge and I don't do it for money, but it would've been nice if at least one person out of 18,000 would've kicked me $5, 😛 #OpenSource

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I've updated my youtube downloader. You can download binary release files here: sourceforge.net/projects/you... You can read the source without downloading anything here: gitlab.com/gerowen/yout...

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Pretty stoked about #ResidentEvilRequiem after seeing it posted on my Steam activity feed. I know the game is still two years out, but the DLSS/FSR upscaling or fake frame gen artifacts in the trailer were kinda distracting. Link: store.steampowered.com/app/3764200/... #Gaming #ResidentEvil

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So I was just visiting the webpage for my #Plex service (getting turned off in the near future anyway) and got this popup. I clicked "I Do Not Agree". Let's see if they force me to shut it down early, 😛

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Just posted an impromptu YouTube video of some lessons learned while taking apart my #XBox controller. Title: XBox Controller Partial Teardown, Two Things to Watch Out For Link: youtu.be/kG-Qv0nundo #Tech #Gaming

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I hate setting up #Microsoft #Windows so much. But my wife makes things with her Cricut using a Windows virtual machine on our desktop PC all the time, so I'm setting up a duplicate VM on her laptop so she can use that as well because the Cricut software only functions properly on Windows.

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Headline: Showing people how to self host their own media is harmful, according to #YouTube Link: www.neowin.net/news/showing... #HomeLab #SelfHosting #Google

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In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

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Headline: #Amazon annihilates #Alexa #privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading Snippet: each Amazon Echo device will cease processing audio on-device and instead upload all the audio it captures to Amazon's cloud for processing Source: pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/a...

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Headline: Teachers Are Not OK Subtitle: #AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching." Source: www.404media.co/teachers-are... #Education

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#Mozilla has patched mobile #Firefox to mitigate the #privacy issue outlined in my other post where apps from #Meta and #Yandex would listen on localhost for connections initiated by mobile browsers when they ran code on certain websites. Wonder what they changed to fix it.

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For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government. But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes. Where is the outrage over that?

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Headline: The #IRS #Tax Filing Software #TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced Subtitle: Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing." Source: www.404media.co/directfile-o... #OpenSource

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I think my #XBox controller needs lubrication. The joysticks feel ever so slightly tacky when I'm playing. Like, if I'm really gentle when moving them they kinda want to stay in certain spots. May see about taking it apart later and adding some 3in1 oil or something. #Gaming

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Just posted a quick little video about #GoG to YouTube. Title: GoG Does It Better Link: youtu.be/FZsjpXnI5ZA #Gaming #GoodOldGames

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#Microsoft killing off more features. Headline: Microsoft Authenticator users: Your password auto-fill is dying soon - this is what to do Source: www.neowin.net/news/microso... #Security #Privacy

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Headline: The #CIA Secretly Ran a Star Wars Fan Site Subtitle: The site, starwarsweb.net, was a covert CIA communications tool. It has pictures of Yoda and C-3PO on it. Source: www.404media.co/the-cia-secr...

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If you're on #Debian stable but would like a PQ key exchange algorithm on your SSH service, #OpenSSH 10 is available in the Bookworm backports with the following release notes. #Security #CyberSecurity #Quantum

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Just found this kid on YouTube; he seems like a cool and friendly guy who wants to stream about #Linux and #Gaming. He's playing DOOM the Dark Ages right now. Link: youtu.be/pU0wPP-doKk

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#PBS caved. Headline: Criticism of #Trump Was Removed From Documentary on Public Television Subtitle: A segment in a documentary about the cartoonist Art Spiegelman was edited two weeks before it was set to air on public television stations across the country. Source: archive.is/FQsBM

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Headline: Hacker claims to have grabbed 1.2 billion #Facebook user records - here's what we know Subtitle: The authenticity was confirmed, but when was the data taken? Source: www.techradar.com/pro/security... #Meta #Security #CyberSecurity #Privacy

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I just had a thought that my gitlab might be a neat place to store files related to services and projects I set up manually, even if not "programming". So here are the files I created to manage and host my own #Luanti (formerly Minetest) server on my personal NAS. Link: gitlab.com/gerowen/luan...

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The #BigBeautifulBill isn't just a handout to tech bros, it bans any meaningful state level regulation of bullshit generators ( #AI ). Link: www.youtube.com/shorts/iVN1d...

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New #Plex update is out and while I didn't test it, you may want to update because this "sounds" like it may have been allowing some kind of directory traversal. #Security #CyberSecurity #PlexMediaServer

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