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If you send a follow request, I will look at your page and see what sort of things you post before I accept. Don't take this personally. I just want to be sure my home is not cluttered with things I'm not interested in. That's why I prefer Mastodon: I can control what shows up.
I just scanned the schematic for the Sun-2 Ethernet board. The memory mapping hardware is weird.
I was randomly checking the rules for immigrating to Scotland. As expected, I would need to pay for access to the NHS, since I never paid taxes, etc.
I'm looking at the prices, and it looks like I'd pay $1500/year for health care. I currently pay an insurance company about $600/mo, plus all the "out of pocket" costs, and medicines, etc.
Assuming NHS charges are just the cost of providing care (not subsidized), I think I'm being ripped off.
evacideIf you have an iPhone, make sure you always have the latest security update.
If you are concerned that you might be targeted by government spyware, enable Lockdown Mode.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/apple-fixes-new-iphone-zero-day-bug-used-in-paragon-spyware-hacks/
Whoever is going to the Trump Birthday Bash on Saturday: Y'all should get together and sing "Springtime for Hitler" as loudly as possible. I'm sure Mel Brooks will not mind you using his music.
ISC.orgThis Saturday, June 14 at 2:30 PM EDT, Dan Mahoney of ISC will speak about "Running a root DNS server on FreeBSD -- from Alpha to Now" at BSDCan 2025 in Ottawa!
We hope you can be there!
Guess who's been complaining about ICE raids? Farmers. Trump said, "Our farmers are being hurt badly. They have very good workers. They've worked for them for 20 years; they're not citizens, but they've turned out to be ... great, and we're going to have to do something about that."
42% of farm workers lack legal residence status. How did they think deporting them was going to go? But billionaire farmers talk to the billionaire king of America, and *now* there's a need for change? Corrupt.
mekka okereke 
🤷🏿♂️ Y'all are still trying to play the game where you pretend that Trump's immigration policies are unpopular *with his base*.
The "They didn't vote for this!" stans really want to believe that.
But the Quinnipiac poll shows that 87% of Republicans approve of the way he is handling immigration.🤦🏿♂️
To put into perspective how astronomically high 87% is...
In 2012, 87% of Black men voted for Obama. Republicans like the way immigration is "being handled" as much as Black men liked Obama.
🤔I swear, I don't think some of y'all even talk to Trump voters before you claim that they don't like this.
Lauren WeinsteinGo look at the U.S. federal vaccines hub -- do it now
ADDING: It's a DNS hack, pointing that .gov subdomain at an AWS site.
Just scroll down a bit. And I'll add, at the moment those pages are NSFW ... only the best people running stuff there now!
"In 1776, the Second Continental Congress appointed the Committee of Five (composed of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston and Roger Sherman) to draft a declaration of independence from Great Britain, to be completed in the subsequent 17 days." (From AP News)