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@amperesand

weird machine enthusiast / loud noise enjoyer / incident responder / wandering soul (birmingham al)

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Disk Utility, by G Jones, Eprom 4 track album

Gotta put the new Bandcamp integration to use with one of the best EPs of 2025
eprom.bandcamp.com/album/disk-u...

24.02.2026 18:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Possibly hearsay, but a friend at a large CDN mentioned the company knowingly looks the other way when dealing with internet bot traffic as it contributes to a significant portion of their revenue, and there’s minimal incentive to address it. I imagine phishing infrastructure might be similar

29.01.2026 06:14 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
"We are heartbroken but also very angry.
Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an
ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly.
However his last thought and act was to protect a woman.
The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed.
Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you."

"We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you."

Statement from the family of Alex Jeffrey Pretti:

25.01.2026 01:22 πŸ‘ 209 πŸ” 73 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

invite him to a, mandatory vacation, in her country

09.01.2026 08:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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SoundCloud confirms breach after member data stolen, VPN access disrupted Audio streaming platform SoundCloud has confirmed that outages and VPN connection issues over the past few days were caused by a security breach in which threat actors stole a database containing user...

Change your passwords, ShinyHunters don't fuck around: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

16.12.2025 03:42 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

hah, assuming humans are cylindrical is classic physicist behavior!

20.11.2025 18:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

can you link the video? That sounds up my alley!

20.11.2025 01:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

10.11.2025 19:32 πŸ‘ 7478 πŸ” 3217 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 119

If judges can refuse to officiate gay weddings, gay defendants should be able to refuse to be heard by those judges. If they can’t be compelled to perform the most heteronormative of functions, why would anyone believe they are capable of putting their biases aside for something with higher stakes?

29.10.2025 23:39 πŸ‘ 1678 πŸ” 392 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 5

got to experience autechre live for the first time, it was an incredible audio experience in total darkness. they played banger after banger for 90 minutes. the openers played stellar sets too, kudos to cygnus and mark broom for creating an amazing atmosphere πŸ–€βœŒπŸ»

17.10.2025 17:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Would be a good time to shut down Dreamforce. If I have friends who are still speaking there, this is a good reason to cancel.

11.10.2025 19:50 πŸ‘ 477 πŸ” 139 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 5

would be slick with news.stonking.com bsky.app/profile/ston...

03.10.2025 00:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

it would be neat if searching for a link on #bluesky only showed the link preview once and aggregated all the posts containing it below

03.10.2025 00:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I bet state funding is larger than federal funding, anyway

03.10.2025 00:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

they should pressure wash the thugs tbh

28.08.2025 04:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

SILKSONG

21.08.2025 14:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah yeah, I miss my coffee ritual too. I noticed when I started taking stimulants for my ADHD I stopped getting caffeine withdrawal headaches, and coffee became occasional rather than a daily necessity

18.08.2025 17:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It might be worth looking into L-Theanine supplements as a way to smooth out the energy rush from caffeine. I think it's why green tea is said to provide a more relaxing caffeinated state than coffee

18.08.2025 17:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

this should have detection engineers scrambling to deploy alerts for documents printed using publicly accessible printers!

16.08.2025 16:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

not usually one to share across social media, but y'all need to know what's going down in central alabama www.instagram.com/p/DNEapWzBupj/

08.08.2025 01:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I thought libvirt's Virtio accomplishes the same essence of paravirtualization for QEMU/KVM, but maybe it doesn't have full feature parity? wiki.libvirt.org/Virtio.html

25.07.2025 07:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We Have to Stop Using Facebook and X to Warn People About Disasters In the early morning hours of July 4th, as the Guadalupe River reached catastrophic heights, city officials in Kerr County, Texas turned to an all-too familiar mechanism for getting the word out to ar...

More natural disasters are hitting the U.S. than ever before.

But too often, our crisis warning systems depend on Facebook and Twitter/X, social media platforms that are fading in popularity and have been engineered to hide vital information from people when they need it most.

This needs to end:

19.07.2025 13:20 πŸ‘ 813 πŸ” 255 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 44
A screenshot of the "Download your data" section on the website https://www.spotify.com/us/account/privacy/

A screenshot of the "Download your data" section on the website https://www.spotify.com/us/account/privacy/

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one of my favorite things that GDPR has provided is that I can know the exact date I first listened to G Jones' album "The Ineffable Truth" www.spotify.com/us/account/p...

23.07.2025 02:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Catastrophe and the Cure (Four Tet Mix)
Catastrophe and the Cure (Four Tet Mix) YouTube video by Explosions in the Sky - Topic

youtu.be/YVhgnXhnjqQ

22.07.2025 01:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

my praise for in-n-out is not for quality food, but because i can order a burger and coffee after midnight to fuel my goblin lifestyle. it's one of the last bastions of the late-night diners; a third space for younger millennials and gen-Z to socialize at

14.07.2025 22:42 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Penn Engineers Turn Toxic Fungus into Anti-Cancer Compound - Penn Engineering Blog Penn-led researchers have turned a deadly fungus into a potent cancer-fighting compound. After isolating a new class of molecules from Aspergillus flavus, a toxic crop … Read More β€Ί

Pretty neat read for mycology nerds πŸ„https://blog.seas.upenn.edu/penn-engineers-turn-toxic-fungus-into-anti-cancer-drug/

30.06.2025 04:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Urgent! Every Dollar Counts! We grow science with words, and are the only Asian American-run science newsroom: independent, nonprofit, led by Gen-Z! The Xylom needs to raise $7,500 by the end of the month to stay afloat. Please…

Time for some real talk: @thexylom.com, the only Asian American-run news outlet covering science, climate, and the environment, will run out of funding in July if we don't secure $7,500 by the end of the month. I might lose my job at a time while waiting for a visa extension -- a nightmare scenario.

23.06.2025 12:19 πŸ‘ 202 πŸ” 159 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 14
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Harvey Milk served his country honorably β€” first in uniform, then in public office.

Taking his name off this Navy ship sends a clear message, and it’s one of disrespect and cruelty.

03.06.2025 22:28 πŸ‘ 16369 πŸ” 4179 πŸ’¬ 775 πŸ“Œ 320