mkb

Infosec, privacy tech, modular synths, gaming (many flavors). Oakland, CA. 🧷🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦

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Silver Spook Gamessilverspookgames
2025-12-07

"Thought-police" Neofeud 2 is a game where a social worker for homeless robots, an ex-con & an ex-princess fight post-human CEO / Kings Get Neofeud 1 (70% off now!) & help me finish #2! store.steampowered.com/app/673
silverspook.itch.io/neofeud

mkbmkb
2025-12-06
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General Strike Nowstrike@libranet.de
2025-12-06

... general strike is set to disrupt operations at all major airports and across public services. The stoppage, called by Portugal's main trade-union ...

Travelers heading to or from Portugal on December 11, 2025, should brace for widespread flight cancellations and major delays, as a nationwide general strike is set to disrupt operations at all major airports and across
Update | Airlines begin cancellations ahead of December 11 general strike – Portugal

mkbmkb
2025-12-06

@Wen My fist cat used to lose her shit when my then girlfriend was in the bath. “What are doing?!?! Can’t you see the tub is full of water? YOU COULD GET WET!!”

mkbmkb
2025-12-06

Interesting take on the decline of Perl. I'm still only partway though but this is resonating with me and matches my experience in unix hacker circles.

And, I have to admit, was guilty of some of it.

beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/

mkbmkb
2025-12-06
mkbmkb
2025-12-06

@fotd @us They have brought me rocks!

mkbmkb
2025-12-06

Huh. has joined Motley Crue. I guess maybe I like Motley Crue now? We’ll see.

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2025-12-06

@pluralistic The saddest part about losing sectoral bargaining is that the only way we're going to successfully campaign to get it back is a full general strike, where *every* sector shuts down with the specific demand to repeal Taft-Hartley.

It ties back into how in a world of perfect law enforcement, social progress becomes impossible. The optimal amount of crime in society is not 0.

mkbmkb
2025-12-06

Hat tip to @photomattmills for alerting me to bsidespyongyang.com

Yes, it’s real… mostly.

mkbmkb
2025-12-06

@fotd I have! They come every day. Most mornings, when I put out the food, they’ll fly over and watch from the power line until I’m done. Usually it’s 4-6 lately. One day I had 12!

mkbmkb
2025-12-06

RE: mastodon.social/@jonhicks/1156

Good to know. Maybe I'll subscribe to Tidal. And yes, fuck Spotify.

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Michael of Ragged Featherssignalstation@raggedfeathers.com
2025-12-06

Hey, real quick, you checked out Pick Me yet? Trophy Dark rules adapted to a cute/dark Christmas journey for a group of toys? Artwork and writing from Butter Princess superstar Brian Sago? $20 in print, $10 digital! A steal!

kickstarter.com/projects/butte

#ttrpg

Full page from Pick Me featuring an illustration of a brightly colored mantis shrimp wearing boxing gloves.

Header: Playing With Toys

Pick Me is a comedy punctuated by tragedy.

Your characters are all desperate Christmas toys, and will degrade as the story progresses.

One player, as the Game Master (GM), will know the broad picture of what might happen. They will describe major plot events, and need in put from other players. Occasionally you will roll dice when an event is risky or in doubt.

You know your character is probably doomed to fail, but your characters think they have a chance to succeed. Play tehm as hopeful, even when the odds are stacked against them. 

You "win" by telling a great story, even if your character goes out in an abysmal, epic failure.
mkbmkb
2025-12-06

Or not. I was getting wonky readings and discovered the NanoVNA I have is only good up to 1.5Ghz. Units that go into BT/Wifi frequencies cost 3x or more what I paid for mine. If I get a nicer one, will I use it enough to justify the cost? I'll have to think on it.

D'oh.

mkbmkb
2025-12-06

@fotd Yeah, I started with in-shell peanuts and the crows seemed to enjoy the process of opening them up. The problem was a semicircle of discarded shells around the front of the house. I figured I’d better stop before my neighbors got cranky. Maybe I’ll put some out as a Christmas treat for them. :)

mkbmkb
2025-12-06

NanoVNA testing bluetooth antennas for a rooftop node.

mkbmkb
2025-12-06

So, um, it’s perfectly normal to buy multiple pounds of peanuts at once, right?

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Radical Social WorkerRadicalSocialWorker@mstdn.ca
2025-12-06

Happy Friday you bunch of community developing rebels ✊️

a handmade sign that says - community is the most effective form of rebellion.
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Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:catsalad@infosec.exchange
2025-12-04

@0xabad1dea Does Silicon Valley understand consent?

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