Here's the breakdown of the 68-30 vote. Same 16 Democrats who voted yea in the previous cloture vote except for Blunt Rochester (DE), and new yea votes from Hickenlooper (CO), Kim (NJ), and Warnock (GA).

All Republicans supported, sans Hawley (MO) and Paul (KY).

Full list of Democrats who supported were Alsobrooks (MD), Booker (NJ), Cortez Masto (NV), Fetterman (PA), Gallego (AZ), Gillibrand (NY), Hassan (NH), Heinrich (NM), Hickenlooper (CO), Kim (NJ), Lujan (NM), Ossoff (GA), Padilla (CA), Rosen (NV), Schiff (CA), Slotkin (MI), Warner (VA), and Warnock (GA).

Independents King and Sanders both opposed.

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00318.htm

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

Online advertising fuels widespread privacy and security violations, EFF’s @legind told @verge. Meta “is putting WhatsApp’s 3 billion users at unnecessary risk, all for the sake of a monetization strategy no one asked for and no one wanted.” https://www.theverge.com/meta/688714/whatsapp-ads-rollout-change-app-meta

Sega is discontinuing support for 9 retro games that were ported to iOS and Android years ago -they've made them all free and removed in-app purchases. I just grabbed Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe Classics, Super Monkey Ball - check out the list here and grab them in the app stores asap before they disappear, there's Streets of Rage and Sonic too, etc: https://www.theverge.com/news/688167/sega-retro-games-forever-program-free-download-ios-android-crazy-taxi-sonic

#SEGA #MobileGames #CrazyTaxi #GoldenAxe #MonkeyBall #StreetsOfRage #SonicTheHedgeHog #iOS #Android #RetroGaming #SegaGenesis #SegaMegaDrive #iOSGames #AndroidGames

The Most Trustworthy USB-C Cable is DIY

https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/the-most-trustworthy-usb-c-cable-is-diy/

Want to know whether ALPRs and other kinds of police surveillance tech are deployed in your community? Search for YOUR town on the Atlas of Surveillance. https://atlasofsurveillance.org/

As the government takes extreme measures to crack down on immigrants' and protestors' rights, “you can easily see how ALPRs, which is an extremely invasive technology, could be weaponized against that community,” EFF’s Jennifer Pinsof told @404mediaco. https://www.404media.co/california-cops-investigate-immigration-protest-with-ai-camera-system/

@vkc Huh weird, they never ask me when I post links to my Patreon/Ko-Fi. I wonder what the big difference is between me, a generic white cishet male, and you. I just can't put my finger on it.

Sarcasm, obviously. :bunhdsad:

"Why are you posting links to your Patreon?"

I dunno, my family likes food I guess?

i love drawing and typing and gaming and pressing 1000 keyboard shortcuts and playing bass and keyboard and my wrists really love me :3

New video! Featuring my favorite static site generator (@11ty) and how I overhauled my band's 90s-themed website with it.

https://tinkerbetter.tube/w/fYydYFPnuknT7pwXp7kA7P

Haiku’s development activity seems to be shifting from the operating system to its applications

I hate how these months keep going down like vodka-martinis on an Italian beach, but at least we get another progress report for Haiku every time. Aside from the usual small changes and bug fixes, the most important of which is probably allowing th

https://www.osnews.com/story/142591/haikus-development-activity-seems-to-be-shifting-from-the-operating-system-to-its-applications/

#Haiku

hit me with your GPIO protection best practices (esp for i2c interfacing to power-related circuits)

Wir haben heute mit 20 Organisationen im Bündnis #ChatkontrolleSTOPPEN! einen offenen Brief an das Bundesministerium des Innern @bmi geschickt:

Appell zum Schutz von #Verschlüsselung für die Gesellschaft.
Das bedeutet auch ein klares NEIN! zur Chatkontrolle.

Hier der Brief in voller Länge:
https://chat-kontrolle.eu/index.php/2025/06/16/offener-brief/
#ChatkontrolleSTOPPEN

Inspired by Google's move to remove @organicmaps from the Playstore without warning, I finally decided to move my > 3,000 Google Maps saved places to Organic Maps. To facilitate doing this for others' benefit, I made a quick webpage to convert your Google Maps GeoJSON data to GPX and KMZ files that render well in Organic Maps.

https://rudokemper.github.io/google-maps-places-to-organic-maps/

@lritter solid! Thanks for sharing 👍

i call this one "dirty move"

computer-hindered design

@q oof. That's real? 😬

For #textureTuesday here’s a #monochrome set of ripped posters in varying states of decay, on four sides of the octagonal stone column at the top of Middle Meadow Walk in #edinburgh