Bobby Quine

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Curmudgeonly computer security person. Opinions (and the like) are mine.
This is not getting enough attention: https://archive.ph/Pc9dG

The operational costs for:

https://pixelfed.social
https://pixelfed.art
https://pixelfed.org
https://fediverse.info
https://fedidb.org
https://loops.video
https://push.pixelfed.net
https://pubkit.net

Now exceed $4,000 USD per month, we currently get $1,465 from Patreon.

We could use your financial support more than ever while I build a foundation for long term financial support (think official hosting).

Please boost 🙏

https://pixelfed.org/support-our-project

pixelfed

The original Pixelfed instance, operated by the main developer @dansup

pixelfed

As expected, the administration took down the dedicated January 6th page on the DoJ site.

NPR has a very good one: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965472049/the-capitol-siege-the-arrested-and-their-stories.

The img & img alt text contains Bash for how to get the JSON from it. NPR will no doubt take the site down.

All the data from my daily scrapes (up to Nov 6, 2024) is available as well: https://github.com/hrbrmstr/capitol-breach-scraper-and-data/tree/main

#NeverForget

A friend informed me that alerts about ICE and other dangerous groups should use the SALUTE system to prevent bad actors from spreading unnecessary fear.

UPDATE: In case you thought this was not a politically-motivated decision, here's what DHS just told us:

“Effective immediately, the Department of Homeland Security will no longer tolerate any advisory committee which push agendas that attempt to undermine its national security mission, the President’s agenda or Constitutional rights of Americans.”

My last #selfie for the algorithm before I deleted IG last weekend. Goodbye after 12 yrs + 50k followers 👋🏾 I couldn’t have done it if I hadn’t gained some traction here, so thank you for following.

I grew up in #punkrock and #anarchist organizing, so moving to #NonCorporate and #decentralized social media feels full circle. I want my #pottery to be part of a future of thought that represents progress and liberation.

#punk #clay #ceramics #nonhierarchical #art #blackmastodon #africanart

Sad, but fitting, that, today, a neighbor down the street had a Trump 2024 flag waving "proudly" from the flagpole on the front of their house while the Flag of the United States was just casually draped over the railing (much lower, of course, than the flagpole) of their front porch.
Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg
OpenAI quietly revises policy doc to remove reference to ‘politically unbiased’ AI https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/14/openai-quietly-revises-policy-doc-to-remove-reference-to-politically-unbiased-ai/
OpenAI quietly revises policy doc to remove reference to 'politically unbiased' AI | TechCrunch

OpenAI has quietly removed language endorsing 'politically unbiased' AI from one of its recently published policy documents.

TechCrunch
I, for one, can't wait for the future where every error message is a single vague word with a convenient link to automatically burn down a forest to explain what I'm supposed to do with that word. I'm so glad we're doing this instead of paying technical writers to write quality documentation