Oh wow, #hamradio to the rescue
Remember that hurricane data that is being cut off by the US government? Guess who figured out how to get the data anyway?
The Register: Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off
Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/ssmis_satellite_decoder
TOMORROW, on Presidents' Day, "Not My President" protests in every US state. Look online to find yours. I'll be there!
(Not enough people know about these protests, so please boost/repost freely. Thx.)
EFF and a coalition of privacy defenders have filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the private information of millions of Americans that is stored by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and to delete any data that has been collected or removed from databases thus far.
The annoying nerds who said you should install Linux, use decentralised social media, use Signal secure messenger were right.
Control of our own computing is a prerequisite for freedom.
The internet *is* real life.
Frequency of visits to Chicago *intensifies*
I'm still a good 70 miles away from the St. Paul train station, though...
#MNastodon
Amtrak’s new route between St. Paul and Chicago will start this month | MPR News
A VM vending machine at #SCaLE21x! You put in a dollar, select your distro, and it creates a VM you can ssh into.
Edit: @dualdflipflop was behind this. Give him a follow.