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Image released by the Finnish Police about the Eagle S boarding. Two helicopters were used, one Finnish Defence Forces and another Border Patrol (AS332-H215 Super Puma in the image). The helicopters were crewed by Police and Border Guard Special Intervention Units. The units were armed in case of resistance, but none was met.

#police #borderguard #infrastructure #ESTLINK #estlink2

Pressure is mounting to bring Gambaryan home. After 16 members of congress sent a letter to the White House urging he be treated as a hostage, Rep Rick Mccormick demanded in a hearing yesterday the US special envoy for hostage affairs take up his case:

https://www.youtube.com/live/i5MAxZhQ1C0?t=4380s

The Plight of Americans Detained Abroad

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Simultaneously loving and hating #CodeQL . Just as I'm starting to get the hang of #github, github goes and does a #holdmybeer on me. Great tool, just steep learning curve getting it working with manually built binaries.

That LastPass breach that was announced just before Christmas was pretty bad, eh?

Hold my beer... There's more.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/24/goto-customer-backups-stolen-lastpass/

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Twitter Account Following Elon Musk’s Private Jet Gets Shadow Banned

The supposed free speech absolutist appears to have presided over the deadening of an account that shared publicly available data regarding his private jet.

The Daily Beast

So here's the thing. You can only violate people's legal rights and your own word so far before they lawyer up and come after you.

I really do hope Musk changes his mind and does the right thing - the employees deserve that. But it'll be fun as hell if he doesn't.

Today’s Google Doodle honors Jerry Lawson, the black video game pioneer that worked on the Fairchild Channel F (1976)

He would have been 82 today (1940-2011). The Doodle lets you play a neat Mario Maker-style game

I interviewed Lawson in 2009: https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/545/vcg-interview-jerry-lawson-black-video-game-pioneer

VC&G | » VC&G Interview: Jerry Lawson, Black Video Game Pioneer

Adventures in vintage computers and retrogaming. Includes articles on classic games and obsolete computers.

Have a spare Raspberry Pi sitting around, here's a great little exercise. Built this last semester and find myself still playing with it even after the course is long over. Cheers.
#satcomms #rtlsdr #SDRRadio #raspberrypi

https://youtu.be/rSzgz575VCE

UNM ECE-535 Design and Build an Automatic Weather Satellite Ground Station

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Well... that escalated quickly!

iX and #truenas to the rescue. My #homelab has been maxing out with data, media, and VM's from my course load. Decided to give a NAS a shot, but all I had on hand was a 16 year old HP XW tower server. But it had 4 SATA drive slots, 8gb ram, dual multi-core cpu's, dual NIC's... and most of all it still ran :)

Slapped a 75gb mgmt drive and 3 x 2Tb SATA drives I had laying around and spun up truenas with RAIDz1. Within minutes it chewed up and swallowed my entire hodge-podge of external drives scattered around my workspace. So much faster to access, search, and transfer files from. Just wish I made the change a long