January 25, 2026 To the Minnesota Law Community: We, the undersigned faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School, write in our individual capacities to address the federal government's ongoing campaign of fear, intimidation, and violence aga…Google Docs
"Signal doesn't log metadata" -- does that really matter in practice? If the government wants to prove you sent a message at a specific time all they have to do is go after your mobile carrier or ISP and get their netflow logs associated with your IP address
They can even prove you have an account as well because when you activated the service you received an SMS... and they can prove this happened too
So even if you try to disavow any ownership of a message they find on someone's phone, they'll still nail you to the wall. They'll even be able to tell where you were when you sent it.
None of this actually protects you when it matters most. Don't for a second believe that a passive monitoring dragnet by the NSA is within your threat model. You're being gaslit by people who are still addicted to the state of technology and the world during the Snowden revelations
Ongoing hydro outages in #Montreal’s NDG and Cote-des-Neiges neighbourhoods is brutal timing.
It is -35 windchill
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*sitting in the Trojan Horse for 6 hours, waiting to attack*
This fucking sucks bro
"If the plane is too far north or too cold it has problems sensing its location, sometimes also caused by solar activity, so that's what's going on"
Good job on this 737-9MAX Boeing, you're a real pro. My fucking iPhone has better GPS than the plane I guess
Why is the GPS module even outside the plane where it can get cold in the first place
ICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest. This is exactly the kind of data privacy abuse that EFF has been warning about.Electronic Frontier Foundation
requests from *blocked* instances or accounts you wouldn't see at all, those must be merely *limited*, and quite possibly with good reason, which is why they still go through manual approval.
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Here's some silliness with this Macintalk speak windo thing people have been playing with lately.
I tried to have it sing the Casio VL tone song without using an external wave form by constructing a new voice based on "good news", but apparently, I ran into a length limit, or something, so it kind of broke.
Reposting because I did a stupid thing and deleted it by accident.
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After all the lies, after all the abuse, after all the attempts to ruin our economy, we still do this . . .
A convoy of linesmen is heading from Canada to the US to help out with their winter storm aftermath.
(Stockshot photo)
because Canadians know that the American government is the belligerent, not the American citizens
They're smarter than Americans are
I’ve documented a clean, native way to integrate FreeBSD 15 into a FreeIPA realm. No heavy dependencies, no Python shims, just pure Kerberos (GSSAPI) and nslcd.
We get full SSH SSO, automated home directories, and centralized sudo rules using standard BSD tools. Pure, stateless, and sane.
blog.hofstede.it/integrating-f…
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A clean approach to integrating FreeBSD 15 into a FreeIPA realm using native components - Kerberos for authentication, LDAP for identity, and no local user management.blog.hofstede.it
this looks correct, almost identical to how I've done it at $corp jobs but we didn't use freeIPA
only thing missing is putting the sudo rules in LDAP too
“Winning the wrong game”
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> If “AI” is actually more expensive that paying actual people actual wages that’s still a good investment for capital because it is about breaking up the structures, networks and organizations that help workers organize and fight for labor standards and fairer wages.
With studies upon studies showing that actual measurable productivity gains through “AI” (which these days basically means chatbots) are really hard to come by and that “workslop” (meaning the extra work created for the rest of the organization by on…tante (Smashing Frames)
I remember explaining this exact use case to Very Serious People at multiple non-profits who had received literal millions of dollars to research privacy, and these Very Serious People assured me that could never happen.
I quit these places with joy because these folks were myopic assholes who allowed their privilege to exacerbate harms.
One of these fuckers told me "but I like the ads - they help me see what sneakers I should buy."
CUPERTINO, CA—Explaining that they took immediate action against what they perceived to be a threat, local police officers repeatedly shot Apple CEO Tim Cook after mistaking an iPhone he was holding for a gun, sources confirmed Thursday.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
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