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@SlangC5326
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Talking Head. Typing Hand. Midwestern nerd. Full of corn. Fully of corny jokes...Hey, hi how ya dern? 👋 ✊ Mostly here for #nerd stuff, #Linux, [sometimes] #Mac, #FOSS, #art, #music, #digitalprivacy, #onlinesecurity, #decentralized media, #humanrights and the occasional LOL.

Coyotes howling at each other in my yard never gets old.

But uhhh, we also avoid the backyard with the dog on a leash when they stay near.

The dog did not appreciate the howly-howly. "Uhhh, Ma? You hearin' 'dis?"

Oh dang, something hit our downspout though. Something is running away 🐇🐈‍⬛ from someone doing some hunting 🐺.

Stay tuned for more #nature chronicles.
😆 Yah, the vid date is wrong & you can hear breath. It's a 📱 mobile inside my house. 🤷‍♂️

#michigan #coyote #mybackyard #naturesounds

PSA on old gardgets, fam.

#SwollenBattery alert. 🪫 Have an old POS electronic in the drawer? Make sure it's okay. I found this old backup 2G #GSM phone whilst looking for a certain cable in a container and its battery is noticeably swollen behind the screen.

🚨 Remedy: Recycle / proper disposal immediately and until you can remediate store outside the house in a bucket of sand. 🪣 Seriously. Don't F around with swollen #lithiumionbatteries (#LiOn). 🚨

#badinternetbills alert: USA Edition
Ends anonymity online. Ends encryption. Increases government surveillance.

These bills passed initial committee and move to full committee. It's #ChatControl and #AgeGatedInternet for the US, ending encryption for gov or corp surveillance on ALL messaging and also require ID for most things. They hope we are too distracted.

https://www.badinternetbills.com/ (dont give them your info unlessyou want to)

Contact your reps immediately *please* and share the message.

NGL, my login window makes me full of #joy 🤩 on the daily. #Retro #rainbows and #Tux just vibing.

#Linux

Today's #Qobuz listen: #JohnnyCash & #WillieNelson VH1 Storytellers Live (1998) - Excellent when it aired and excellent on disc / digital.

Those two had a rapport that wasn't oft matched.

https://open.qobuz.com/album/0060253735120

Open Qobuz

Someone recreated and expanded the #WesAnderson film soundtrack for #TheRoyalTenenbaums on #Qobuz and I'm feeling all nostalgic for college and cigarettes. (I'll be returning to neither.)

https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/28763488

...And this is why we practice good #encryption hygiene, friends. Because sometimes #BigBrother 's little brother's cousin's uncle is "passively listening".

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"Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
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With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of #TMobile users’ calls and texts and even US #military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted."
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https://www.wired.com/story/satellites-are-leaking-the-worlds-secrets-calls-texts-military-and-corporate-data

@WIRED

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.

WIRED

@Mastodon & #MastodonDevs Mastodon iOS app is breaking into a ghosting mess. Yeah, I reported it elsewhere.

18.7.1 = timeline kerfuffle x3. Click on anything and everything disappears when you go back. Here's a vid.

I still love ya, for what it's worth. 🤓💙😘

And yeah, I also have an Android. And a Mac. And like four Linux computers. But I like the computerized, glowing, time-wasting Apple 🍏 in my pocket to work. XO 💋

#MastodonBugs #MastodonApp

Never really thought we'd nix #Microsoft completely, but here we are. ✅

Bye, Bill. 👋

Another day, saving another laptop 💻 with #Linux. Today's flavour: @pop_os_official Pop!_OS Linux on a Dell Inspiron that previously ran Windows *8* (ok and 10). New battery arriving today and voila: This i7 w 1 TB HD runs like new. (Mint Cinnamon also ran well on it, TBH.) PS: Batteries that clip in are FRICKIN SUPERIOR for sanity. I miss those things.