@penguin42 spydog451 doesn't sound much like a trademark.. it's possible I guess (although you'd have expected them to mention it in the press release).
@penguin42 I doubt AAISP would block anything. It's just really, really slow.
Finally got there.. slow to drill down but it looks like puffin let the domain lapse at the beginning on 2023 - in may 2023 it just shows a domain parking page, after that it's blank (some of which may be incomplete archiving I guess, esp. if the archive is filtering porn).
So puffin dropped the ball massively, they didn't care about the domain at all until today.
A former National Guardsman planned an American Caliphate on Discord and shipped more than 100 3D printed machine gun conversion kits to what he believed was Al Qaeda (it was the FBI) 404media.co/national-guardsmanβ¦
βWe donβt want democracy lol. We want caliphate.β According to court records, an Oklahoma guardsman with a security clearance gave 3D printed firearms to an FBI agent posing as an Al Qaeda contact.
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Much more than that. Y'all need to make your judiciary completely independent of the executive and the legislature, and stop making judges a political appointment. That would be a good start.
@Ludwig Vielfrass Not like this admin isn't finding new ways to interpret things the way they want them, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
"The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
That doesn't imply that if the president is impeached and convicted, the VP and his entire cabinet are removed too; it means that each of them individually can be impeached and removed.
I'd heard some rumors that Bruce's relationship with Clarence was more than just friends and/or bandmates, but this is the first time I've seen these pictures, and I think it kinda supports that.
Tumblr link as its a string of photos across multiple posts.
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Dip the little boss Clarence
GO FOR IT OLD MEN
Why. Why am I so awkward. Plumbers are here to look at the kitchen and I am just rambling about how weβll pay whatever it costs because we canβt fix it ourselves β¦ just stop talking stargrace ><
*hugs* I feel you... I think it is just a side effect of having to deal with someone in your home. I often do the same thing, like I feel like I have to make small talk with workers.
@belghast I feel so embarrassed any time anyone is here even though my house is fine, but like.. "what if it's clogged because of abc123 reason that they're GOING to judge me on" etc etc etc. and I always feel like I'm *supposed* to make small talk, I sent that message out as a reminder to myself to just ... step back, and stop talking ><
the thing that kills me is that I feel like I cant really DO anything while they are here... so I just loom ghoulishly because I am twiddling my thumbs
Over on tiktok user @nomadicpancakes has observed a group of #bees that have learned to turn on the sensor on a water bottle filling station by walking over the target.
This is just the kind of thing bees are made to learn, they love targets and need to follow them when dealing with flowers all the time.
The interesting thing is that the bee who hits the target produces water for her sisters, herself less so. But these #eusocial girls seem to have that worked out!
Bee dehydration is a serious problem. Why not design a water feeder just for the bees?
Some of the design challenges: -standing water causes mosquitos -bees can drown in water that's even a cm deep, ideally the feeder should reproduce dew drop like conditions -if too many other things trigger the feeder it will waste water or be empty
It could be as simple as a runway that the bee lands on, then after walking through a tunnel there are a few drops of water to drink.
I set up a solar powered water fountain with a shallow tray that I believe is ideal for thirsty bees as well as birds, cats, and raccoons. It has an activated carbon filter to keep the water clean all day. The drain has a screen to safely keep the bees from harm.
similarly, thereβs been a recent discovery of cockatoo birds that have learned how to turn the taps on drinking fountains abc.net.au/news/science/2025-0β¦
Since I get asked a lot about how I got into lockpicking, I figured I'd make a big ol' post about it.
Well, I have the nerdiest backstory for this skill. So without further ado...
First, the setup:
I helped make 5th Ed. D&D. I regularly played in a campaign with friends. I often played some sort of lovable rogue. I also roll natural 1s *way* too often. This became a running joke in-game.
Next, the inciting event:
One day, after rolling a natural 1 and failing to pick a lock on a chest, setting off a trap, and then getting taken to death's door by said trap, I decided I was going to figure out how hard it would be to do IRL (with modern locks and homemade tools, which I figured would be *way* more difficult than medieval locks).
So, after game, I drove home, grabbed my kid, and said we're going to the hardware store for SCIENCE!
Now, somewhere in the back of my head was the notion that street sweeper bristles were suitable for making lockpicks (probably from reading the Anarchist's Cookbook, Poor Man's James Bond, or something like that as a little kid). So we looked in the gutters along our walk to the hardware store and managed to find two bristles by the time we got there. I bought like $50 worth of assorted locks, and we walked home.
Once home, I watched a YouTube video just to see what the tools they were using looked like, and then found a small file and some pliers, and made a simple lockpick and turning tool. Then I set to figuring out what the heck I was doing through trial and error.
By the end of the night, I'd opened all of the locks I bought (at least once), and I had my answerβa professional rogue with decent tools should succeed at picking most common medieval locks about as often as they succeed at tying their shoes.
Unbeknownst to me, I'd rolled my own natural 1 on my save vs. falling down the rabbit hole. So now, a decade later, I've taught at conferences, placed in tournaments, been sponsored by a security company, created (and eventually deleted) my own locksport YouTube channel, and have hundreds of locks in my bedroom. Over the years, I branched out to all sorts of locksport-adjacent skills, but picking is still my favorite, and I regularly teach new folx how to pick locks and improvise tools.
So that's it. That's how being a total nerd led me to discover what turned out to be one of my biggest passions in lifeβdefeating other folx' security for fun.
Pictured: (left) my first turning tool, (right) my first lockpick.
At about $125, it's a solid kit with everything you need to go from absolute beginner to moderately skilled picker (you'll want to acquire more locks eventually, but those'll cover you for a while).
The book, written by my friend, and all around great guy, @deviantollam is really good. There are a few typos in the foreword, but all the info, diagrams, explanations, and topics covered are excellent. Highly recommend.
Also, if you happen to be in or around the Seattle area and want hands-on with me, I'd be happy to teach you. Just reach out to me on Signal and we'll find a time π
Once my employer found the nightshift tech (me) knew how to do locks, they made me do all the re-keying and lock repairs in the offices. But I've seen the professional locksmiths in town do their work and they can do it a magnitude faster than me, re-keying over ten locks an hour!
question! Has having the skill ever saved you any trouble? For example have you been locked out of the house and because you had the skills you were able to get in?
ππΌππΌππΌ The Oregon national guard general says if the Oregon National guard were to be deployed they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters not ICE.
Happy Petrov Day to those who celebrate. On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov made the correct decision to not trust a computer.
The early warning system at command center Serpukhov-15, loudly alerting of a nuclear attack from the United States, was of course modern and up-to-date. Stanislav Petrov was in charge, working his second shift in place of a colleague who was ill.
Many officers facing the same situation would have called their superiors to alert them of the need for a counter-attack. Especially as fellow officers were shouting at him to retaliate quickly before it was too late. Petrov did not succumb.
I've attached a short clip from a reenactment of the situation in the documentary The Man Who Saved the World.
The computer was indeed wrong about the imminent attack and Petrov likely saved the world from nuclear disaster in those impossibly stressful minutes, by daring to wait for ground confirmation. For context one must also be aware that this was at a time when US-Soviet relations were extremely tense.
I've previously written about three lessons to take away from Petrov's actions:
1. Embrace multiple perspectives
The fact that it was not Stanislov Petrov's own choice to pursue an army career speaks to me of how important it is to welcome a broad range of experiences and perspectives. Petrov received an education as an engineer rather than a military man. He knew the unpredictability of machine behavior.
2. Look for multiple confirmation points
Stanislav Petrov understood what he was looking for. While he has admitted he could not be 100% sure the attack wasn't real, there were several factors he has mentioned that played into his decision:
- He had been told a US attack would be all-out. An attack with only 5 missiles did not make sense to him. - Ground radar failed to pick up supporting evidence of an attack, even after minutes of waiting. - The message passed too quickly through the 30 layers of verification he himself had devised.
On top of this: The launch detection system was new (and hence he did not fully trust it).
3. Reward exposure of faulty systems
If we keep praising our tools for their excellence and efficiency it's hard to later accept their defects. When shortcomings are found, this needs to be communicated just as clearly and widely as successes. Maintaining an illusion of perfect, neutral and flawless systems will keep people from questioning the systems when the systems need to be questioned.
We need to stop punishing when failure helps us understand something that can be improved.
Really starting to believe that if Stephen Miller, not Trump, were to exit the scene, much of our current slide into authoritarianism would stop. #USPolitics
without a doubt, at least a certain flavor of authoritarianism would be gone. Just as a certain flavor of malicious insanity would be gone if RFK Jr were removed.
Yes, it would be nice to not see him on TV. I'm sure there's 5 people working behind the scenes like banyon. Total jerks. Eating dinner with him every night and pulling strings
I don't think it's that simple. Yeah, he's a massive racist, xenophobe, and bunch of other shit, but he's far from the only one. And they all know they may never get another chance like this. That's why Project 2025 was written.
"John N. Mitchell, President Richard Nixon's first attorney general, was convicted of multiple felonies for his role in the Watergate scandal and cover-up. In 1977, he began serving a prison sentence, becoming the first former U.S. attorney general to be incarcerated"
"Mitchell was found guilty in 1975 of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury."
anyone know if Fastmail does sales or discounts, like for black friday for example? I think I wanna give it a shot but I don't wanna miss out on a sale if it's gonna happen within weeks of me forking out lol.
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We need to find ways to ween ourselves off of their tech & stop giving them ourπ²
& shame on everyone who just bought the new thin apple phone even though they didn't need a new one. they are just a slave to consumerism. fuck the planet. & fuck them
There comes a point where a company is so large, so powerful that it should be disbanded entirely. The state (wherever you are) might not want that but it should happen anyway.
βThe βPerdomo concurrenceβ refers to a controversial writing by Kavanaugh β¦ It came as a Supreme Court majority ruled that federal agents could continue stopping people based on race, language and other factors in California amid a deportation campaign there.
β¦ one thing seems clear: ICE rousted American citizens from their apartments during the middle of the night and detained them β in zip ties no less β for far longer than the βbriefβ period authorized by the operative regulation β¦ and envisioned by the Perdomo concurrence,β wrote Judge Cummings.
"A federal judge in Chicago extended restrictions on ICE's warrantless arrests until February 2026, finding that the agency violated a settlement agreement by arresting 22 people without warrants." chicago.suntimes.com/immigratiβ¦
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So let me get this straight. The same administration that claims fentanyl is such a dire threat that it justifies sweeping tariffs against Canada, Mexico, and China is simultaneously pulling federaβ¦
Bondi also wouldnβt answer whether sheβd seen photos of Trump in the Epstein files around half naked girls, as a witness alleged theyβd seen. She must resign.
Even though I know it'd defeat the purpose of the hearing, I'd love if a senator came back once if these kinds of answers with "Ma'am, this is a Wendy's"
Illegally Blondi ignoring the oath she presumably just swore to tell the truth in her testimony, gives combative BS answers rather than perjure herself.
No mention about what age those "half naked girls" were. It might be relatively easy to identify them today, and then determine whether they were under 18 when Trump was photographed with them half naked.
If they were minors at the time, that would be quite a legal problem for Mr. Trump, and for those hiding information about whether he broke the law.
her oath is to the sitting president, just like all of the acting, whatever they're calling themselves these days. They certainly aren't behaving like conservatives, they all left when things went too right, but they sure are acting like a coup for a People's Republic. Now, any impartial, hardworking soul still left with a government job will have to hail to the king if they want their paycheck back. Empirialsm is on the march, and it's not a good look.
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in reply to Neil Brown • • •"Publisher Puffin said it was taking the matter extremely seriously and was working to get the website removed."
I wonder whether that's possible.. if the domain lapsed and was sold, and it is in other ways legal, they don't have much say really?
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in reply to penguin42 • • •@penguin42 I doubt AAISP would block anything. It's just really, really slow.
Finally got there.. slow to drill down but it looks like puffin let the domain lapse at the beginning on 2023 - in may 2023 it just shows a domain parking page, after that it's blank (some of which may be incomplete archiving I guess, esp. if the archive is filtering porn).
So puffin dropped the ball massively, they didn't care about the domain at all until today.
Tony Hoyle
in reply to Tony Hoyle • • •@penguin42 The interesting experiment would be to add the archive to my vpn list, if there's shenanigans going on that would show it.
Seems fully dead at the moment..
Tony Hoyle
in reply to Tony Hoyle • • •@penguin42 WTF.. that worked.
0 chance @AAISP are blocking this.. what is?
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