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rude1.blacksky.team
Shout out @d3ol.dev
September 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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mxfee.bsky.social
I continue to be an unapologetic Yoshi-P fan.
Regarding Mod Usage and Culture | FINAL FANTASY XIV, The Lodestone
Regarding Mod Usage and Culture
na.finalfantasyxiv.com
August 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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weatherken.bsky.social
July 4th Forecast — trending spectacular: Temps to the low 80s, mostly sunny skies, dry air/low humidity. Get the full forecast for your holiday plans!

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/01/m...

#mawx #nhwx #vtwx #ctwx #riwx #mewx #boston #NewEngland @bostonglobe.com
July 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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archive.org
The DiscMaster Game Jam is a wrap! 300+ creators across 12+ countries made 60+ games using retro assets preserved by the Internet Archive & served via DiscMaster. What an event!

More ➡️ www.canberra.games/blog/discmas...

#DiscMasterJam @InternetArchive
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July 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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baileytownsend.dev
WOOOOO, the Raspberry Pi RM2 (it's a CYW43) is finally available for purchase by everyone.

Can now throw WiFi/Bluetooth on your RP 2040/2350 custom boards using the same libraries you are used to since it's the same chip on the picos
Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2 available now at $4 - Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2 is a pre-certified module that provides turnkey wireless connectivity for RP2040- and RP2350-based products.
www.raspberrypi.com
June 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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arstechnica.com
Phones that launch on Android 16 later this year, like the Pixel 10, will be the first to call out fake cell towers.
Android phones could soon warn you of “Stingrays” snooping on your communications
But it requires specific hardware support that is missing on current phones.
arstechnica.com
June 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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verybadllama.bsky.social
taking a break from milking my anemic micro-cow to thresh the 126 individual stalks of wheat that make up the entirety of this year’s harvest
June 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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archive.org
IRC started in 1988 when Jarkko Oikarinen created a real-time chat protocol. 🌐 It soon grew into networks like EFnet (1990) and Undernet (1992), shaping online communities long before social media.

Here's a May 1993 memo about an experimental IRC protocol ➡️ archive.org/details/rfc1...
Top of page 1 of a memo. It reads: Network Working Group Request for Comments: 1459 J. Oikarinen D. Reed May 1993 Internet Relay Chat Protocol Status of This Memo This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested. Please refer to the current edition of the "IAB Official Protocol Standards" for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract The IRC protocol was developed over the last 4 years since it was first implemented as a means for users on a BBS to chat amongst themselves. Now it supports a world-wide network of servers and clients, and is stringing to cope with growth. Over the past 2 years, the average number of users connected to the main IRC network has grown by a factor of 10. The IRC protocol is a text-based protocol, with the simplest client being any socket program capable of connecting to the server. Below this are the Contents. 1.1 Servers The server forms the backbone of IRC, providing a point to which clients may connect to to talk to each other, and a point for other servers to connect to, forming an IRC network. The only network configuration allowed for IRC servers is that of a spanning tree [see Fig. 1] where each server acts as a central node for the rest of the net it sees. Below this is the diagram for Fig. 1. Format of IRC server network
June 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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archive.org
As one of the most popular IRC (Internet Relay Chat) clients, mIRC brought real-time online communities to life in the ’90s. Today, mIRC still serves a dedicated base of developers, hobbyists, & open-source communities.

Explore web history with the #WaybackMachine ➡️ xttps://web.archive.org/
Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Now." Below is a Wayback Machine capture of the mIRC website from December 21, 1996, alongside a capture from June 1, 2025
June 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
Seeing Brad Lander, NYC's comptroller and a mayoral candidate (also my former neighbor and city councilman) violently arrested by trump's immigration gestapo is making me sick to my stomach.
June 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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volts.wtf
A roadmap to electrifying heavy industry:
Overcoming All Barriers To Industrial Electrification • Energy Innovation
A safe climate requires clean industry, and businesses winning globally require clean products. Industrial electrification can do both.
energyinnovation.org
June 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds.

He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.

He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.

This is political intimidation.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jun 17
Whoa! NYC mayoral candidate and current city Comptroller Brad Lander seemingly arrested at the NYC immigration court while attending to escort someone attending their hearing.
gwynnefitz.bsky.social Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · Jun 17
Lander just got detained by federal agents as he tried to escort a man out of the courtroom. Lander was taken in an elevator with masked agents, along with one member of his NYPD security detail.
June 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
This is major. As a reminder, DOGE stormed the USIP building in March with the help of DC Metro Police who were originally called there by building employees. Even tho, USIP owned the building, DOGE just…took it. Background: www.thehandbasket.co/p/us-institu...
kyledcheney.bsky.social Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · May 19
JUST IN: Judge Howell rules that the Trump/DOGE takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace was illegal and should be treated as null and void.

ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
May 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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bsky.app
We’re testing a new feature! Starting this week, select accounts can add a livestream link to sites like YouTube or Twitch, and their Bluesky profile will show they’re live now.
Bluesky profile with “live now” indicator
May 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New from 404 Media: the Signal clone the Trump administration uses was just hacked. TeleMessage makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, Waltz used it. A hacker got some users' messages, group chats. Hugely significant breach www.404media.co/the-signal-c...
The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked
TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.
www.404media.co
May 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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wired.com
Who is DOGE? In fact, there are two DOGEs: the repurposed US Digital Service, now known as the US DOGE Service, and a temporary organization within it called, naturally, the US DOGE Service Temporary Organization, which is tasked with carrying out the DOGE agenda.

Confused? Let us break it down:
‘Who Is Doge?’ Has Become a Metaphysical Question
The acting head of the General Services Administration says it has no DOGE team. It merely lists at least a half-dozen DOGE affiliates on payroll and has a section of its building for DOGE use only.
www.wired.com
April 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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wired.com
And since January, people with ties to Elon Musk have popped up all over the federal government, even if they’re not listed DOGE team members.

All of this means that the line between who is working for DOGE and who is *doing* DOGE is blurry at best. It’s Schrödinger’s DOGE.
‘Who Is Doge?’ Has Become a Metaphysical Question
The acting head of the General Services Administration says it has no DOGE team. It merely lists at least a half-dozen DOGE affiliates on payroll and has a section of its building for DOGE use only.
www.wired.com
April 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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wired.com
So Tesla just dropped its Q1 numbers and... 😬.

The company brought in 20 percent less automotive revenue in the first quarter compared to last year, and profits? Down 71%. Let's get into it...

🔗 www.wired.com/story/tesla-...
April 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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bad-example.com
learned so far:

- 4 cores seems _enough to run_ but on this particular host it’s kind of marginal. 16GB ram seems plenty.
- it’s been dropping pds websockets, and doesn’t seem to recover on its own. not sure why.
- bandwidth is less than i was expecting.
- +jetstream on this server is too much
bad-example.com fig (aka:[phil]) @bad-example.com · Apr 17
kinda still a relay noob but uh

i think it’s doing the thing

non-us jurisdiction (montreal) non-us-company-cloud-provider relay. chillin.
April 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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ellenlweintraub.bsky.social
$$ Millions more than the inauguration could have possibly cost, given by people and corps. with biz before the govt, & no duty to disclose where the $ goes. What could possibly go wrong?

Trump Raised $239 Million for Inauguration, More Than Doubling His Own Record www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
Trump Raised $239 Million for Inauguration, More Than Doubling His Own Record
The staggering amount, disclosed in a filing with the Federal Election Commission, was driven by corporate America’s eagerness to win the president’s favor.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
I know that some people yell at me on this here site when I point out potentially useful ways to use AI, but, um, this is NOT it. Jumping immediately to thinking about "AI employees" is basically the exact wrong way to think about using the tech. And then, well, the rest of it is... 🤢
michaelleibel.com Michael Leibel @michaelleibel.com · Apr 21
Is Henry Blodget ok
April 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Incredible work here by Nilay to expose more telco hypocrisy.
reckless.bsky.social nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · Apr 21
I really enjoyed talking to Verizon consumer CEO Sowmyanarayan Sampath — telecom CEOs do not usually want to talk to me! — but this answer about fighting net neutrality vs fighting Trump and Carr on open censorship sent me reeling www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
I want to be very clear, I’m being very explicit about this. When the government passed net neutrality rules, it wasn’t, “We have to follow the rules of the land.” It was, “We are going to file lawsuits for a decade to get out of these rules because we think they’re dumb.” And in this case, you’re saying Brendan Carr, who has been openly censorious, openly chilling of speech, openly hostile to companies because they have diversity initiatives — you’re saying you just have to follow his rules? We have to follow the rules of the land. I don’t think those are his rules. They are the rules of the land and administration — Are you going to file a decade’s worth of lawsuits about these rules? We don’t know. We’re going to work constructively with them to follow the rules that are needed. But at the end of the day... Look, our role is to the stakeholders that we have. My stakeholders are my shareholders, my customers, my employees, and society at large. We have to manage, and we are going to deliver to those stakeholders what’s needed for us, and we will do whatever is needed with the administration to deliver to all the stakeholders. When you run a large company our size, you have to balance the different stakeholders, and we will balance those stakeholders. We’ve done it extremely well in the last 25 years that we’ve been Verizon, and we’ll continue to do that going forward.
April 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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npr.org
All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.
In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could help
All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted
www.npr.org
April 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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conorsen.bsky.social
I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:
April 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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shiplives.bsky.social
I just learned that the entire press team at the FDA was fired last week. The *entire* press team.

It's difficult to grasp how bizarre this is.

To wrap my brain around the idea, I made a list of things the FDA is responsible for, and that reporters now have no one at the agency to ask about... 🧪🛟
April 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM