army-mccarthy hearings. and were my first exposure to television.

while horrifying, the anti-vax/science appointments are more chaos fluff meant to distract. the major goal of a wannabe dictator is the military, justice, and disabling intelligence.

i have pointed the sniffer dogs to NBIP trail. thanks.

thanks. though that appears to be more of a service for the administration of LI. i am more interested in on-device tools and practice.

is there any guidance on implementation and/or configuration of 'lawful' intercept to reduce the likelihood of the PLA doing your QA for you? cf. Salt Typhoon, Greece 2004, ...

wapo: "Trump eyes privatizing U.S. Postal Service, citing financial losses" let's get honest, so he can dump the civil service pensions.

try scenraged

laptop with totoro, less bullshit more engineering, a dragon, and a small pic of itojun hagino.

i do worry about the attack surface of the ActivityPub protocol.

as mastodon is actually distributed, one has to choose which instance to join. yes, this seems to present a confusing barrier to entry. i prefer mastodon’s funky diverse culture, and am sick of silicon valley slick. i try to learn from being mildly uncomfortable as a cis old white male.

given bluesky’s (currently and for a long while) centralized architecture and corresponding scaling problem (cf. https://anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/maybe-bluesky-has-won how does the platform avoid enshittification?

our family has words/phrases in daily use which were invented by three year olds fifty years ago. three year olds have talent in apt phrases/words. e.g. "weeper sweepers" for windshield wipers, "diggy dumps" for heavy construction equipment.