BrianKrebsNature hikes 101: Leave your headphones behind. Was hiking a trail today and heard a sickening CRACK directly above and saw an enormous tree limb starting to fall directly down on top of me. Literally dove out of the way and got splinters in my face when the thing crashed down. I probably would not be typing this if I'd been obliviously hiking along w/ my headphones on (which I'll admit I do from time to time).
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Say hello to Fred. I named him b/c I keep seeing him in the same place on trail walks. At least I think it's the same guy. Okay I don't even know if it's a he. But I still call him Fred. Anyway, he looks big, here, but he's actually just a little bigger than a golf ball.
Feeling pretty good about stocking up on 4 of these bad boys at the end of 2024, when they could be had for ~$350 each. Now, just one of these drives costs as much as I paid for all 4. Thanks, AI!
This apparently happened overnight in Virginia, in Annandale near where we used to live.
"Virginia Ex-Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax Kills Wife and Self, Police Say
Mr. Fairfax, a Democrat, served as lieutenant governor from 2018 to 2022.
From NYT:
"Justin Fairfax, a former lieutenant governor of Virginia, and his wife, Cerina Fairfax, were found dead in a murder-suicide at their home in Annandale, Va., shortly after midnight on Thursday, according to the county police.
The Fairfax County police chief said that Mr. Fairfax, 47, shot his wife and then himself. Their teenage children were home at the time, the police chief said.
Mr. Fairfax, a Democrat, served as the lieutenant governor from 2018 to 2022. He was accused of sexual assault by two women in 2019, prompting calls for his resignation. Mr. Fairfax denied the allegations and finished his term. He then ran unsuccessfully for governor, losing in the primary to the former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe in 2021.
Kevin Davis, the county police chief, said that the couple had been in an “ongoing domestic dispute surrounding a complicated or messy divorce.” Court records show that Mr. Fairfax and his wife, a dentist, were in court proceedings this year to divorce."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/us/virginia-lt-governor-justin-fairfax-murder-wife-suicide.html
IDK who Deb Eskew is, but I certainly glanced askew when reading this. See how many red flags you can spot. This one seems to have them all:
-unbidden attachment (which couldn't be auto-scanned for malware btw)
-no actual greeting or salutation
-a password needed to unlock the attachment
-relevant (if a bit on-the-nose) social engineering involving a podcast ostensibly focused on fraud;
-Google is clearly glancing askew here, too, but kind of tapping out on a verdict because it ultimately made it through.
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GrapheneOSHaving a European version of the Play Integrity which permits people to use insecure products from specific European companies participating in it while disallowing using arbitrary hardware or software is the opposite of a solution. It's more of the same anti-competitive garbage.