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Husband. Father. InfoSec and IT Nerd. #FoD. Star Trek geek. Guy who mostly worries about stuff but expresses it as bad jokes. My views are my own and […] [bridged from https://friendsofdesoto.social/@mikey on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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@Bridgemakes @mikey I appreciate that. Can't say there's anything that I can request help with. Suffice it to say, things have just gotten chaotic in a way I haven't shared, largely out of habit.
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@Bridgemakes This is how I've lived every day. Though is does sometimes seem like there's a marked trend in the increase of not-togetherness that seems like something that someone should do something about.
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@kenwhite.bsky.social People get mad when it seems obvious that someone should be in trouble. People forget why due process exists, and why the presumption of innocence is so important.
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@0xabad1dea Are you using Apple or Android? If you're using Android, the Graphene OS camera is available for stock OS, and doesn't have retouching by default. I don't know if that's useful.
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"Mother Nature doesn’t care who you voted for. If there’s a #tornado headed your direction, you need access to early #warning systems. Gutting #NOAA means you won’t have that... "NOAA is already] down about 2,000 employees since January “as a result of the […] [Original post on newsie.social]
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Leaked audio from a staff meeting at the U.S. Social Security Administration suggests the agency may be in peril. Acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek, a career civil servant who was promoted to his current position by the Trump administration, told others at a closed-door meeting […]
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I should say this is a bad situation for federal IT support staff and engineers, as more will be cut as a result. Difficult to manage vulnerability when you cut the people who do the patching.
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@hacks4pancakes It can be hard to change mindsets when you are used to being a giver. When you spend all your energy propping others up, you often feel like others helping you is taking something away, and being a burden. But you have to remember why you were doing it for others, and why you […]
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@Bridgemakes @mikey Do always try to keep those ones nice and clean. Never know when we'll need to divert aux power to the deflector...
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@NickGates I get actual physical letters like that. All the time... It's weird...