@tofugolem Also, she is asking for the death penalty, which is the result of criminal prosecution. That involves a trial conducted in accordance with law. That isn't a threat.

@eniatitova Yes, most of these companies have huge in-house legal departments and it effectively costs them nothing to take a maximalist approach to fighting requests for customer data. Instead they've bent over for the Trump regime and betrayed their customer base in countless ways when there was no legal reason for them to do so. They have shown themselves to be active participants in the overall machinery of this nascent regime. They've made their choice. Now it's up to users to make theirs.

@ScottishGreens I remember when I visited Turnberry Castle (likely birthplace of Robert the Bruce) which is on the Paedophile in Chief's golf resort, I spoke to some people about all the military flights and they said that there was basically zero rational reasons for them to fly through the local airport except for it kept the prices of jet fuel cheaper because of the volume of traffic, effectively acting as a subsidy to anyone who wanted to fly in by plane to play golf.

@robinince I'd guess early to mid 1930's. Getting a strong early modernist vibe.

@codinghorror

@HarriettMB @newsguyusa @michael_w_busch Going to be really awkward if H5N1 becomes spread efficient and deadly in humans and the rest of the world gets vaccinated like six months ahead of the US because of this petulant anti-science nonsense.

@solonovamax I want old Notepad back, the Notepad that is just an EXTREMELY basic text editor.

@newsguyusa An mRNA flu shot is probably the only type which could be manufactured in significant quantity in a timely enough manner to avert mass death in a pandemic flu situation, like the one which still might happen from H5N1.

The Spanish Flu reached it's month of maximum mortality around 7 months after it was first recognized as spreading in Kansas. That is a very tight time window and the world is far more efficient at accelerating pandemics with air travel these days.

@georgetakei Trump's Ambassador to France is Charles Kushner. Kushner once paid a prostitute to seduce his sister's husband so he could make a blackmail sex tape, because said husband was testifying against him after he created a bunch of fake businesses in order to make illegal donations to candidates. This guy was convicted of a bunch of felonies, served time, was disbarred as a lawyer in three states and Trump made him an ambassador to a country as significant as France. Worse diplomat? Yes.

@lzg I met one at an aquarium in North Queensferry in Scotland (just across the Firth from Edinburgh) this last year! So much weirder in person than you think.

@web3isgreat I'd bet you anything this was an insider "mix up" and that there were a bunch of accounts established with fishy credentials which immediately began pushing the BTC through mixers the second the transaction started registering. This was probably a robbery disguised as a typo. $140m qualifies as one of the biggest robberies of all time.

@aebrockwell @pluralistic @_the_cloud The Isle of Mull has Otter Crossing signs.

If you have a public facing or even just internal networking device, it would be a really good idea to check that it doesn't have telnet enabled. Check to see if there is a firmware update specifically mentioning this bug. If your device is older/not being actively supported, you should probably assume that the telnetd it is running is vulnerable, as this vulnerability has existing for ~11 years.

Here are the release notes from Synology, the CVE and some lay reporting on just how incredibly bad this bug is and how long it has lingered providing backdoor root level access to a really long list of devices running Telnet. So many routing/networking devices have Telnet access at least as an option which can be enabled to this day, despite this being an absolutely terrible idea.

https://www.synology.com/en-us/releaseNote/DSM?model=DS1821%2B#ver_86009-1

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-24061

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/22/root_telnet_bug/

Saw that there was a DSM update for Synology available and read the release notes. Looks like the only thing it does is patch Telnet to address that comically bad long running security bug which allows people to login without actually supplying credentials. So, if you have a Synology device and for some perverse reason have Telnet enabled, you might want to get to patching. Lol.

@fazalmajid @jwz @cstross @inthehands I personally use Bvckup 2 and run off manual copies to my bank vault drives. I also use it to backup both daily and weekly rotated copies of my user profile folder. I have a strong preference for manually run jobs with fault logging so I can sanity check everything.

@cstross @jwz @inthehands If I had $40k to throw around, I'd have seriously considered buying something like this to keep my whole data archive on my person without breaking my back. I even considered buying multiple highest capacity HDD's, but they're pretty much just sold to datacenter customers directly at this point and I question their survivability given how many pratfalls I've taken over the last year.

https://nimbusdata.com/products/exadrive/

@cstross @jwz @inthehands When I packed my bags a year ago, I did so on the assumption that I might never return to the US again. Throwing a copy into the cloud and having a 8TB NVME feels pretty minimal to me and is ultimately a small portion of my pack-rat data archive which is well about 100+ TB. No real way to run off a mobile copy of that which I could carry around, so I pared it down to mostly my family photo archive (Going back to the 1850's).

@cstross @jwz @inthehands Yes, but what about when the sun explodes? Where is your backup solution then?

@jwz @cstross @inthehands Since leaving the US a year ago, I've also kept a 8TB NVME drive in an enclosure in my pocket with a copy of my family photo collections on my person in a zippered pocket at all times. I'm backed up/redundant in so many different ways and I STILL feel nervous about loosing all copies.