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Mildly geeky and left-handed. Waste, er, spend time on #raspberrypi and #linux in addition to #WordsWithFriends, #photography and calmly (most of the time) following world happenings. Most frequently in the #Seattle area.

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GottaLaff, to Georgia
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👉🏼Rudy conceded in a court filing Tuesday that he made "false" statements about two 2020 election workers in a filing related to their lawsuit about baseless claims of fraud that he made against them.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/rudy-giuliani-concedes-made-false-statements-georgia-election-workers-rcna96395

bls,
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@GottaLaff @emptywheel Pretty sad that "America's Mayor" (a questionable title, to be sure) has become the prime example of .

Hoping 🤞 that Ruby prevails in court, takes him for whatever the suit is asking, and the US Legal system takes the rest for his -ous activities.

moira, to MountainBiking
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Montlake is closed! 520 is closed! xD

this is also actually montlake but it’s the bridge over 520

bls,
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@moira Biked So Kirkland P+R to Montlake and back this morning. SO nice w/o cars!

PeterSoukup, to RaspberryPi Czech
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I've ordered my second yesterday - this time the 8GB version ... things are really getting better ... 😀 ... the only thing that is still missing is Compute module 4 - this bad boy is still mostly out of stock in most of pi shops ... we'll get there ... 😎

bls,
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@PeterSoukup Today 2. In a couple of months...6 or 8 🤣

GottaLaff, to Georgia
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Womp womp.

👉 Via Anna Bower:

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court has DISMISSED Donald ’s petition that asked the high court to scrap ’s investigation into efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia.

bls,
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@GottaLaff @legallaurak @jonberger Too bad for the maroons that fall for his whining/fund raising and give him money. The only thing they'll get is the satisfaction of giving him money. Nothing more.

DeanObeidallah, to random
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As I keep repeating: Corporate media continually treats Trump like he's President while burying stories about Pres Biden. This is from today's HuffPost top stories of day. And what is top story? Who will be tough for TRUMP at the debates. Meanwhile Pres Biden in UK Is buried

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@DeanObeidallah SO looking forward to the day when news about the orange maroon doesn't make ANY page of the news.

jfreebo, to Seattle
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I drove to and back again this weekend. I really need drivers to internalize the concept of “keep right except to pass”…

(hint: if you’re in the leftmost lane and being passed on the right, you’re in the wrong lane - no, it doesn’t matter if you’re gOiNg ThE sPeEd LiMiT)

bls,
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@jfreebo driver capability seems to have degraded significantly in the last few years, and left-lane lingering is one of the worst offenses IMHO

bls,
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@schizanon I didn't say anything about it slowing me down. I think that left-lane lingering is dangerous because people who ARE in a hurry quickly get impatient, do stupid things, and cause accidents. Although I spent several years learning to drive like a Massachusetts driver, I'm now much more careful, especially after watching a few driving fails videos 😮

taylorlorenz, to random
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Right wing influencers are convinced the Instagram Threads logo is the mark of the devil

Right wing influencers are convinced Threads is the mark of the devil
Right wing influencers are convinced Threads is the mark of the devil
Right wing influencers are convinced Threads is the mark of the devil

bls,
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@taylorlorenz maroons!

ThisPlaceAgain, to random

Error: Too many requests

Please explain, wonderful techie friends.

bls,
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@ThisPlaceAgain I'm also on mas.to, typically using a browser (yes, I'm a luddite), have never seen this. Haven't seen it with Toot! either

GottaLaff, to legal
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Via Andrew Weissmann re: :

NOTE: The report says that waived the attorney-client privilege as to Rudy, which permits to go into detail about the Rudy-Trump conversations without needing to seek a crime-fraud ruling.

Kyle Cheney:

"The misconduct here sadly transcends all his past accomplishments. It was unparalleled in its destructive purpose & effect. He sought to disrupt a pres election & persists in his refusal to acknowledge the wrong he has done."

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@GottaLaff You have to wonder what the heck got into his silly little brain to go from being "America's mayor" to "America's bonehead"

GottaLaff, (edited ) to twitter
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lol 🤼

#Twitter is threatening to sue #Meta over #Threads
#legal https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threatening-to-sue-meta-over-threads

bls,
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@GottaLaff If you can, compete. If you can't...sue their asses off!

thurrott, to random
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"Q&A with Adam Mosseri on how Threads started"

Um. Isn't it just, "We copy popular services all the time"?

bls,
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@thurrott ...and leverage our absolutely huge customer base. Now watch us monetize it!

GottaLaff, to legal
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Via Joyce Vance:

advised about his authority to prevent certification of the electoral college vote. Seems like that would make him a witness & we've not seen any litigation over privilege issues, so, very likely he's spoken with prosecutors. That makes this an interesting take.

Katherine Faulders:

In NYT op-ed, former Judge Michael Luttig believes a indictment is "almost certain" and slams what he says is the GOP's "spineless support" of Trump

bls,
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@GottaLaff Luttig's op-ed is amazing

lolennui, to random
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this plant has more will to live than anyone I know

bls,
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@lolennui Most weeds are super-insistent about living as well 🤔

GottaLaff, to random
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Former VP Pious McKissAss (& the entire GOP) can bite me.

Via Jessica Mason Pieklo:

Say it louder for the suckers who fell for the 'leave it to the states' lie

The New York Times:

Mike on Friday challenged the entire 2024 Republican presidential field to support a national ban at 15 weeks, demanding that the party go further than its primary front-runner, Donald , has so far been willing to go.

bls,
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@GottaLaff He's pretty much guaranteeing that no Independents and women will vote for him. He'll be one of the BIGGEST LOSERs. A shame, b/c he might have captured the Independents and even some Dems if he campaigned on "I upheld Democracy against that evil peabrain "

gairdeachas, to chicago
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The Museum of Science and Industry has this cute exhibit with a model train between and . They really skimped on the Seattle end of things -- our skyline is nothing like Chicago's but it's much bigger than what they have here. And time for that outdated viaduct to go too.

But hey, they're celebrating !

Rainbow colors light up the inside dome of the museum.
Picture of a model of the (very sparse) Seattle skyline. The Space Needle and Colombia Tower are present as are a few others.
Picture of the model of the Chicago skyline.

bls,
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@gairdeachas I grew up near Chicago...they've always had a cool train exhibit...wasn't aware that they upgraded to include Seattle ❤️

briankrebs, (edited ) to random

This is quite the ask from Barracuda Networks in response to cybercrooks pouncing on a recent 0day in their software:

"JUNE 6th, 2023:

ACTION NOTICE: Impacted ESG appliances must be immediately replaced regardless of patch version level. If you have not replaced your appliance after receiving notice in your UI, contact support now (support@barracuda.com).

Barracuda’s remediation recommendation at this time is full replacement of the impacted ESG."

https://www.barracuda.com/company/legal/esg-vulnerability

*edited post to change "ransomware groups" to "cybercrooks" b/c it's not clear anyone but spies have been exploiting this so far.

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@briankrebs Yikes! Makes you wonder how much proactive monitoring BN actually does on their products. Not good.

moira, to infosec
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Holy shit did we dodge a bullet. When I upgraded our mastodon server last December I originally ordered a Gigabyte motherboard as part of the upgrade, ended up sending it back as defective.

Turns out it was much, much more defective than I knew.

https://eclypsium.com/blog/supply-chain-risk-from-gigabyte-app-center-backdoor/

bls,
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@moira Yea, saw that and so glad that I've never used their MBs. I can't believe that any MB would download crap of any sort without informing you. Pretty bad look.

moira, to random
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The actual studio script for Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League is floating around out there on the internet, if you want to look it up. If you're into that sort of thing, you can meet Pecos, the Strike Teams, and so on.

bls,
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@moira Whereever you go, there you are.

moira, to random
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good day for in

(also for in )

bls,
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@moira Kirkland bike ride this morning 👍

shanselman, to random
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It’s very likely you’re an expert in something. It’s much less likely that you are the expert.

I try to remember that as I navigate my technology career as a Swiss Army knife that’s kind of a crappy pair of scissors and weird hidden toothpick.

bls,
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@shanselman even Swiss Army knives have their moments of expertise. Or many of them if it’s a really good one

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