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Marcus

@gerowen.bsky.social

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• Privacy, open source software, cybersecurity, self-hosting/homelab and tech enthusiast • Father, husband, occasional gamer • Website: https://marcusadams.me • Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@gerowen

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Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · Aug 10

Reminder that I post to #Mastodon more than I do here. The greater character limit, the ability to edit posts if I make a mistake and the audience in general makes it a better experience for me than #Bluesky, so follow me there, 🙂

Link: mastodon.social/@gerowen

RSS: mastodon.social/@gerowen.rss

Marcus Adams (@[email protected])

6.12K Posts, 382 Following, 766 Followers · • Privacy, open source software, cybersecurity, self-hosting/homelab and tech enthusiast • Father, husband, occasional gamer

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Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 6h

A flatpak cleanup script I wrote a couple years back, before Gnome Software and KDE Discover had the little button to clean up after your removed flatpaks. Still, it might be useful if you've installed and removed any flatpaks with the terminal.

Link: gitlab.com/-/snippets/4...

#Linux

Flatpak Data Cleaner ($4898051) · Snippets · GitLab

GitLab.com

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Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 11h

Why our #Dodge Journey's calipers keep sticking.

Link: youtube.com/shorts/R9YMi...

#Cars

Why our Dodge Journey's calipers keep sticking...

YouTube video by Marcus Adams (Gerowen)

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Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 12h

Now that #AWS is back up and I'm home.

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Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 23h

Some more info on the #AWS outage. Just one more reason that real #decentralization is important. (And #selfhosting if you're willing and able)

Headline: Massive AWS cloud failure takes down dozens of popular services worldwide

Source: www.neowin.net/news/massive...

#Networking

Massive AWS cloud failure takes down dozens of popular services worldwide

Amazon has confirmed a major AWS outage affecting hundreds of online services and says it's working to restore them.

www.neowin.net

Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 23h

Headline: #Xubuntu website compromised to deliver crypto malware to #Windows 10 refugees

Source: www.neowin.net/news/xubuntu...

#Security #CyberSecurity #Linux

Xubuntu website compromised to deliver crypto malware to Windows 10 refugees

Users looking to switch to Linux may have been affected by malware being distributed from the Xubuntu site after hackers compromised it to deliver crypto stealing malware.

www.neowin.net

Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 1d

If some websites aren't working for you right now, it looks like #AWS might be having an outage.

Link: health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

Link 2: www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/c...

#Networking

View the overall status and health of AWS services using the AWS Health Dashboard.

health.aws.amazon.com

Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 1d

#Jellyfin 10.11.0 has been released and is a fairly major update that will will perform several background migrations that could take up to several hours depending on your library size. You can read the release notes for this version here:

Link: jellyfin.org/posts/jellyf...

#SelfHosting

Jellyfin 10.11.0 | Jellyfin

We are pleased to bring you Jellyfin 10.11.0, our new stable release. This is probably one of, if not the, biggest and most impactful releases we've done yet, with some massive backend changes to impr...

jellyfin.org

Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 1d

Two of the three longest government shutdowns in US history have happened under #Trump and Republican leadership.

Link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...

Government shutdowns in the United States - Wikipedia

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Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 2d

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Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 2d

If it's opt-in that's "better", as long as it's abundantly clear what's happening and not slipped in via some shady dark pattern, but I had heard somewhere that it's actually opt-out. I don't have a Facebook account so I can't check.

Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 2d

Headline: #Facebook’s new button lets its #AI look at photos you haven’t uploaded yet

Subtitle: The opt-in feature will also give #Meta a chance to improve its AI using your camera roll.

Source: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

#Privacy

Facebook’s new button lets its AI look at photos you haven’t uploaded yet

Like we always say, read the terms and conditions, folks.

www.theverge.com

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Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 2d

#Microsoft temporarily broke localhost resolution for http2 applications. There's a rollback fix out now.

Title: #Windows 11 Update Broke LocalHost This Time

Link: youtu.be/osp02QMXt_M

Windows 11 Update Broke LocalHost This Time

YouTube video by ThioJoe

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Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 2d

Headline: #Tor Browser says no to #Firefox's #AI features as it removes them

Source: www.neowin.net/news/tor-bro...

#Privacy

Tor Browser says no to Firefox's AI features as it removes them

As AI in browsers goes mainstream, with companies like Microsoft and Mozilla leading the pack, browsers like Tor are swimming against the current by removing AI-related features in version 15.0a4.

www.neowin.net

Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 2d

If you're using #Ubuntu or another #Linux distribution with snap packages enabled, #GIMP has taken official control of the snap package.

Headline: GIMP devs take official control of Snap package from Snapcrafters

Source: www.neowin.net/news/gimp-de...

GIMP devs take official control of Snap package from Snapcrafters

The GIMP Snap package is now maintained by the official GIMP team instead of a third party, aligning it with the other universal Linux packages like AppImage and Flatpak.

www.neowin.net

Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 2d

#Firefox has fixed several longstanding issues with the release of version 144.

Title: Finally.

Link: youtu.be/g-CGIWHeSyo

#Mozilla

Finally.

YouTube video by Theo - t3․gg

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Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 3d

Woohoo!

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Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 3d

Headline: #Israel Tortured And Sexually Humiliated #GretaThunberg

Source: mronline.org/2025/10/17/i...

#Gaza #Palestine

Israel Tortured And Sexually Humiliated Greta Thunberg | MR Online

Israel is so evil it’s actually hard to wrap your mind around it.

mronline.org

Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 3d

Headline: Hackers Dox Hundreds of #DHS, #ICE, #FBI, and #DOJ Officials

Subtitle: Scattered #LAPSUS$ Hunters—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials, including nearly 700 from DHS.

Source: www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...

#Security #Privacy

Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials

Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials...

www.404media.co

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Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 3d

Show us where anybody has actually demanded free health care for non citizens.

Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 3d

How is it Democrats' fault when Republicans have a majority in the house, the senate, the presidency AND majority representation in the supreme court? All we want is affordable (preferably universal) health care. We're the richest country on earth and are literally funding other people's wars...

Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 5d

Hopefully Nintendo or the Pokemon company don't sue me for this screenshot...

Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 5d

Turned the #Minecraft Java edition creative server back on because my nephew and kids have really gotten back into building in Minecraft and they wanted a shared space they could access from anywhere regardless of where they'e at.

#Gaming #PCGaming

A screenshot from our creative server. A Pikachu status is in the middle. The game is being rendered with a shader pack that makes things look "much" nicer, especially the lights and shadows.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 5d

Insurance rates up $2000.

Food benefits cut off.

Farmers unable to sell their crops.

Skyrocketing national debt.

$40 billion to Argentina.

America First!

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Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 6d

Nah you're correct, AES-256 has been a normal default for a lot of things for ages. HTTPS traffic is often AES, LUKS full disk encryption is AES, etc. Heck a few things are even opting for newer alternatives like ChaCha20. Firefox is really late to the party here.

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Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 6d

Headline: Man Stores #AI-Generated ‘Robot #Porn' on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

Subtitle: A man ... has lost his #security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network.

Source: www.404media.co/man-stores-a...

Man Stores AI-Generated ‘Robot Porn' on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network.