Dale Bustad
@dale.link
divmain on x. Working at @socket.dev. Fmr Salesforce, Vercel, Microsoft, Formidable, non-tech NGO. Core values: kindness, partnership, & creation. Political aficionado, musician, person of faith, devoted learner. Might occasionally post about my dog.
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🚨 Open source supply chain attacks are exploding.
Starting today, that ends.
We’re releasing Socket Firewall — FREE, zero-config, CLI that blocks malware before it lands on your laptop or CI.
Just run:
npm i -g sfw
sfw npm install lodash
Works for: npm, yarn, pnpm, pip, uv, and cargo.
Starting today, that ends.
We’re releasing Socket Firewall — FREE, zero-config, CLI that blocks malware before it lands on your laptop or CI.
Just run:
npm i -g sfw
sfw npm install lodash
Works for: npm, yarn, pnpm, pip, uv, and cargo.
September 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
🚨 Open source supply chain attacks are exploding.
Starting today, that ends.
We’re releasing Socket Firewall — FREE, zero-config, CLI that blocks malware before it lands on your laptop or CI.
Just run:
npm i -g sfw
sfw npm install lodash
Works for: npm, yarn, pnpm, pip, uv, and cargo.
Starting today, that ends.
We’re releasing Socket Firewall — FREE, zero-config, CLI that blocks malware before it lands on your laptop or CI.
Just run:
npm i -g sfw
sfw npm install lodash
Works for: npm, yarn, pnpm, pip, uv, and cargo.
Reposted by Dale Bustad
Maintainer compromises used to be rare. Now they’re happening at an alarming rate, as seen in recent attacks. Today we’re giving developers a new layer of defense with Socket Firewall, a free tool that blocks malicious dependencies at install time.
September 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Maintainer compromises used to be rare. Now they’re happening at an alarming rate, as seen in recent attacks. Today we’re giving developers a new layer of defense with Socket Firewall, a free tool that blocks malicious dependencies at install time.
The actions that Trump has taken against marginalized people are inarguably worse but, for some reason, the thought that they’re pursuing the liquidation public lands (read as "sell off national parks to be privately developed") really hurts my heart.
Trump Quietly Plans To Liquidate Public Lands To Finance His Sovereign Wealth Fund
President Donald Trump’s executive order to create a sovereign wealth fund requires that the United States come up with heaps of cash quickly, which may make selling out and selling off public lands i...
www.americanprogress.org
February 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The actions that Trump has taken against marginalized people are inarguably worse but, for some reason, the thought that they’re pursuing the liquidation public lands (read as "sell off national parks to be privately developed") really hurts my heart.
Reposted by Dale Bustad
Ok here’s a thread of feeds that aren’t topic themed but utilitarian and do things like show you different versions of your timeline or provide services that should be official Bluesky features. 🧵
Would y’all want a thread of helpful feeds that are basically utilitarian and make the experience of Bluesky better by, for example, showing you different versions of your timeline and things like that?
November 27, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Ok here’s a thread of feeds that aren’t topic themed but utilitarian and do things like show you different versions of your timeline or provide services that should be official Bluesky features. 🧵
Reposted by Dale Bustad
Our current energy system is extremely wasteful.
More than 2/3 of primary energy inputs end up as waste heat.
Yet the customer has to pay for all of the energy in the left hand side of this chart to get the small amount of energy converted to energy services.
More than 2/3 of primary energy inputs end up as waste heat.
Yet the customer has to pay for all of the energy in the left hand side of this chart to get the small amount of energy converted to energy services.
November 11, 2024 at 9:45 AM
Our current energy system is extremely wasteful.
More than 2/3 of primary energy inputs end up as waste heat.
Yet the customer has to pay for all of the energy in the left hand side of this chart to get the small amount of energy converted to energy services.
More than 2/3 of primary energy inputs end up as waste heat.
Yet the customer has to pay for all of the energy in the left hand side of this chart to get the small amount of energy converted to energy services.