Spent some time this evening debugging a deadlock issue in a personal tool written in Go. It's simple with just enough complexity that it might be useful to an advanced beginner. I used delve to inspect my goroutines and figure out what was causing the application to hang. Check it out and let me know what you think. #go #delve #deadlock #debugging

https://blue42.net/code/go-deadlock-debug-delve/

@g 👋 I've been to respectable street a few times. Might run into you someday...

If it walks, talks, and quacks like a coup attempt....

WASHINGTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

"Since taking office 11 days ago, President Donald Trump has embarked on a massive government makeover, firing and sidelining hundreds of civil servants in his first steps toward downsizing the bureaucracy and installing more loyalists."

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/

And from The Washington Post:

"The highest-ranking career official at the Treasury Department is departing after a clash with allies of billionaire Elon Musk over access to sensitive payment systems, according to three people with knowledge of the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private talks."

"Typically only a small number of career officials control Treasury’s payment systems. Run by the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, the sensitive systems control the flow of more than $6 trillion annually to households, businesses and more nationwide. Tens, if not hundreds, of millions of people across the country rely on the systems, which are responsible for distributing Social Security and Medicare benefits, salaries for federal personnel, payments to government contractors and grant recipients, and tax refunds, among tens of thousands of other functions."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/31/elon-musk-treasury-department-payment-systems/

@akmartinez personally for my home backups I use rsync and tar. Rsync the filesystem or directories you want to backup and use tar for archiving daily/weekly/whatever snapshots.

Rclone is nice too. It's rsync-y but can clone to s3 compatible storage (and probably others). https://rclone.org/

If you're looking for a more fully featured type of backup software check out restic. https://restic.net/. This should work on Windows also but I've never used it there.

The awesome self-hosted bookmarking app Hoarder is facing a potential trademark issue. Whatever the outcome, this is a passion project by dedicated devs who deserve our support! #HoarderApp #SelfHosted #OpenSource
I hope this helps get your message out there!
https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/s/YD7pdBLJgH

@catsalad not the best picture but Palm Beach County had some good stickers.

We also voted for the marijuana and abortion amendments. I really hope they both pass.

@SwiftOnSecurity I've been in the industry for 20+ years. I if I can avoid jobs that require me to use Windows in the future I will.

:thinkerguns:

@trzyglow welcome aboard! and arch btw :nice:

@misty your home page is super cool!

Finally Mastodon has a use system theme option instead of manually have to select light/dark!

Wooo

You don’t like gay marriage?
Don’t get gay married.
You don’t like gender-affirming care?
Don’t have any.
You don’t believe in abortion?
Don’t get one.

Your opinion/religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.

@nixCraft Well time to start looking for replacements. Any suggestions that are multi platform? I'd try Arc but no Linux or Android support.

@magicalgirlsabrina Good luck! Break ups suck, but most times an opportunity to start a better/healthier relationship. Wishing you the best internet stranger...

In the 60s the top US income tax rate was 90%. Corporations paid 50% on profits. Similar for UK.

People don't know that.

Now the middle class "shoulders the tax burden" instead, and billionaires tell the government what to do.

#taxes

#Cycling

VIa Julia Proofreader @ProofreadJulia
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#ElonMusk’s new #superPAC is collecting scores of voters’ #personalInformation under the guise of inviting them to register to #vote, as part of his effort to boost #DonaldTrump’s presidential #campaign.

cc: @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

#ElonSucks #MuskIsADick #FuckElonMusk #ElonIsATwat #ElonMuskIsATroll #FuckElon #boycottMusk #boycottTwitter #Xodus #shittyFather #electionsMatter #Kamala2024 #VoteBlue #VoteBlue2024 #VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy

https://newrepublic.com/post/184517/terrifying-way-elon-musk-stealing-peoples-data-help-trump

If you've been wondering about the cybersecurity and national security implications in the policy goals espoused in Project 2025, look no further:

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3477366/project-2025-could-escalate-us-cybersecurity-risks-endanger-more-americans.html

tl;dr:

-Abolish the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
-Move the office of National Cyber Director to the National Security Council, and require NSC employees to submit to something akin to a political loyalty test.
-Scuttle DHS and give most of its constituent agencies into a cabinet-level border and immigration agency
-Purge mid-level civil servants responsible for implementing the work of the above agencies.

The next time a security professional tells a colleague to stay in their lane and not bring politics into everything, you can ask them why any of the above would be necessary or desirable.

From where I sit, these policy goals will only weaken and confuse the United States' national and cybersecurity posture (there is very little difference between the two these days), stymie international cooperation on cybercrime, and strengthen our adversaries.

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3477366/project-2025-could-escalate-us-cybersecurity-risks-endanger-more-americans.html

KOSA passed overwhelmingly in the Senate yesterday, but today it’s dead in the House. The fight isn’t over, but we have won this round and let’s take a minute to enjoy it.

Trump’s tax law cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%.

What did corporations do with the money saved?

They didn’t invest it or raise wages.

They spent a record $1 trillion on stock buybacks the year after the law went into effect.

Nothing trickled down to workers.