@GrapheneOS I would 100% buy a phone from an OEM you recommend or device you produce, it's why I switched to pixel to begin with. I really hope there's enough of a market, I recommend pixel and grapheneos to everyone already

@bruces I'm happy to toss in for her newsletter. Such a shining star in this mess

@jef it's an old meme but we'll allow it

@likelyjanlukas @ElwoodCity I moved to gaffer tape for most things. Very strong yet easy to remove without residue. Not that it'd matter much for this application probably

Heading into #wildfire season, found out about this cheap and effective method of DIY air filtering - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsi%E2%80%93Rosenthal_Box - gonna give it a try. #smoke sucks

@breadandcircuses seems like degrowth is inevitable. One way can be controlled and minimize suffering, the other will be a slow large scale catastrophe with pockets of rapid collapse

Voyager 1 and 2 were designed for a 5 year mission. ("Its five year mission"? Hmm.) But both probes have been kept operational since 1977, almost half a century -- an order of magnitude longer than planned. Meanwhile, our consumer electronics products are lucky to make it operationally through a 90 day warranty.

For a half century now, Republicans a) pretend to care about deficits when Dems are in power, as a pretext to cut spending, & b) massively grow deficits when they are in power, via tax cuts for the rich. The mainstream political press has not just allowed this deception, they've actively colluded.

GOP tax bill on track to add m...

@nixCraft I feel personally attacked, t440p and have all 3 k8s certs lol

EPA Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/climate/epa-energy-star-eliminated.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43911252

@ygor hard to answer. Security isn't privacy. Modern stock Android on pixel is competitive with apple, but way behind in privacy and grapheneos is great for privacy and security. I can't lump stuff like lineage in with grapheneos though

ICYMI - my first take on a timeline of global change. More at https://zacklabe.com/climate-viz-of-the-month/

#ClimateChange #DataViz #SciComm #OpenScience

Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.

Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she is never captured. She died in 2011.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

- Mass deportations without trials
- Extrajudicial imprisonment in foreign concentration camps.
- National registry of autistic people, who are declared "nonproductive"
- Arrests of judges

History is rhyming pretty hard right now.

@a1batross.bsky.social he was impeached twice last term. Removal requires gop to play along, sadly

Holy shit the details of this story about #DOGE taking over the #NLRB's systems are nuts.

1. Demanded full control of NLRB's #Azure cloud
2. Disabled logs and network monitoring
3. MFA turned off
4. Russian login attempts with valid (new) credentials
5. 10 GB exfiltrated from #NxGen, the NLRB's legal case database

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1913023007263543565.html

#ElonMusk #cybersecurity #CISA #infosec #Russia #Putin #vladimirPutin #GRU #FSB #crime #Elon #TeslaTakedown #Tesla

@inthehands even funnier if you know what orangeberg pipe is/was

@ohnoitsnoah I've been using it since the 90s. Simple, stable, works great. Always end up going back somehow