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sam | @sam@pl.tin-can.tech

Washingtonian born and raised, spend most of my time between Seattle and Olympia.
Got a degree in making your band sound good from a now mostly defunct art school.
Evergreen hack with opinions about tech
F#$%k 47 and the muskrat
USAian

@Avitus @Linux sure signal is so far the best central messenger when it comes to handling privacy on potentially hostile infrastructure. However any seized phone can reveal phone numbers of group members. Collecting IP addresses are another attack vector. Cloudflare which serves encrypted blob files may be able to identify IP addresses of all signal group members who download an encrypted file. It's not data that the signal organization itself has access to but certainly an attack vector.

May I proudly present: The fascist propaganda scraper.

Since stickers spreading hateful messages keep popping up in my neighbourhood, I've decided to make it a permanent fixture in my everyday luggage.

A photo of my left hand holding a slightly rusty scraper. On its handle there's a sticker with an illustration of a small cat in trans colours and the following text: Yes homo.

None of this is normal.

Eventually, there must be a reckoning.

There must a Nuremberg style process.

EVERY enabling MAGAt must be brought to harsh consequences.

If the Courts won't, then WE WILL.

When they abjure the Courts, they end the social contract, thus their own physical safety.

I laughed out loud

Someone holding up a protest sign that says "Hands off working COBOL code"

Surry for the overposting .. but it is my favorite day too๐Ÿ˜„
Winnie the Pooh and Piglet postcard with the trxt: "What day is today?" ask Pooh. "It's the day we expose the broligarchy and take back our Republic!" squeled Piglet. "My fovorite day!" said Pooh

More people just keep showing up ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ’ฏ
Growing crowd @ Washington state Capitol

Lots of folks here waiting for some justice :)
Group of people sitting in front of the Washington state Temple of Justice @ on the Capitol campus grpunds during the #handsoff protest

Great day to be in Olympia, WA
@ the Washington state Capitol rn and the place is lit!!!
#HandsOff
Group of concerned humans gathered in front of the Washington state Capitol building during the #handsoff protest

So true, couldn't agree more!๐Ÿคฌ

If you think this canโ€™t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor
). The tweet reads: "Deporting Americans without due process then saying they no longer get due process because they arenโ€™t in America means no one has rights, FYI. Nightmare scenario."

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Gaza is a stark reminder of humanity's moral decline. If people can be brutally killed in plain sight, show it off, and suffer no repercussions, then weโ€™re all at risk.

@cryptadamist it'd certainly be a bummer if some started forging these and giving them out .. lol

I've developed an alternative to Bitcoin that is eight times as valuable.

Bytecoin

A picture of baby penguin.

Holy shit.

Just wow, wow, holy shit:

Completely rewriting a multi-million line COBOL codebase that has life-or-death consequences for real people in the space of a few months, using gen AI?

Iโ€™ve been writing software for 40-some years, and I have to say: this may be, without exaggeration, the stupidest software-related idea Iโ€™ve ever heard from leadership.

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

@yosephus too bad dude is shooting blanks ๐Ÿคฃ

@msbellows to the extent that Threads cooperates with the feds, which is 100%, this is already happening. Bluesky too most likely

@timberwraith i'd suggest an extended visit first as you might find the politics here to be quite a bit more purple then advertised and the lack of real social services and quality healthcare a bit annoying .. but rain we have a plenty out here :)

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