This is good news!
The scientists behind the new independent organization Climate.us are the same experts Trump fired because they were researching and reporting on climate change.
Formerly NOAA’s http://Climate.gov, they didn’t disappear. They rebuilt.
Now they’re independent and preserving climate data, outside of political interference, with public support and a team of volunteer scientists.
May we all strive to live a life more like Om’s, and inspire anything close to this kind of eulogy when we go.
Alright, lets start with the problems:
People want to watch television.
Modern televisions spy on you, screenshot what you're watching and phone home with it, and use your home internet connection to proxy other people's traffic.
The modern settop box ecosystem is dominated by google, apple, amazon, and roku.
Roku is being acquired by Fox.
Google, Apple, and Amazon are owned by billionaires who are perfectly happy to bend their knee to fascists, and their products also spy on you.
This is prime time for a good, open source, community focused set top box alternative.
"What makes this breach structurally significant is not just the volume of documents exposed, but the mechanism of exposure: a company collecting identity verification data—ostensibly for legitimate age-gating purposes—stored that data in a way that treated security as optional. No authentication layer. No rate limiting. No encryption. Just raw identity documents, URL-accessible to the entire internet."
"A database of a million passports from around the world was leaked online.
Note what happened. A high-value credential—a passport—was used in an ancillary low-value authentication system: ID verification for cannabis dispensaries. And it’s the low-value system that got hacked, putting the high-value credential at risk."
If you think this sounds like the story of Social Security Numbers in the US, you'd be spot on.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/one-million-passports-leaked-online.html
A database of almost a million passports from around the world was leaked online. Note what happened. A high-value credential—a passport—was used in an ancillary low-value authentication system: ID verification for cannabis dispensaries. And it’s the low-value system that got hacked, putting the high-value credential at risk.
As usual, a woman doing all the work that men should be doing.
(Note she's only worth $30b, just to put into perspective how little the men are doing, especially the ones who pledged to give half their fortunes away.)
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