Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

Yet another Linux md RAID array nuked by "helpful" firmware at next boot.

It's now too dangerous to use raw devices for software RAID. Too many firmwares consider an unpartitioned device as broken and try to fix.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-raid/1ce73b33-9b9a-4525-91da-5dc57d070d03@plouf.fr.eu.org/T/#m63c1d91cbc760c569fce3f9a7728d400f8382889

#Linux

But privacy sucking chrome is there. Sheesh.

The 89th anniversary of Social Security is a good day to remember that Trump tried to slash the program in every year of his presidency.

The NY Times has stopped pretending to care about New York City beyond the big stories. https://hellgatenyc.com/nyt-endorses-ignoring-nyc/

@Viss

This is amazing work by @alshafei and team. You can search by company, country and funding entity, and learn things like:

"safeXai is the entity that has quietly resumed the operations of Banjo, a digital surveillance company whose founder, Damien Patton, was a former Ku Klux Klan member who’d participated in a 1990 drive-by shooting of a synagogue near Nashville, Tennessee."

https://www.surveillancewatch.io/

Pleased to announce the launch of Surveillance Watch, an interactive map and resource that documents the hidden connections within the opaque surveillance industry: https://www.surveillancewatch.io/

By mapping out the intricate web of surveillance companies, their subsidiaries, partners, and financial backers, we hope to expose the enablers fueling this industry's extensive rights violations, ensuring they cannot evade accountability for being complicit in this abuse.

#Privacy #Surveillance #InfoSec

@gandalf_the_blue @pluralistic
Ronald Reagan (and Margaret Thatcher) would not have happened were it not for Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Ayn Rand. It began much earlier than the 1980s.

@gandalf_the_blue @pluralistic Technically it wasn’t Reagan, and this is not a “well actually,” that I’m proposing. It actually starts with Reagan’s money sorcerers. It’s a cart/horse thing. The blame always lies with the money sorcerers who all studied at the Chicago school of economics. Reagan was THEIR tool. However, they were the tool of the ultra wealthy. I could draw you a diagram, but it would involve me using photos, push pins, a lot of string, and screaming. 🤬

@pluralistic People still don't understand ALL the damage that Reagan did to the USA.

Page 150 of Project 2025 calls for local police to become deputized agents of Trump's agenda.

Image if your local cops were taking their orders directly from Donald Trump. Would you feel safe?

United States remains last for life expectancy among English-speaking countries https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2024/08/14/United-States-last-life-expectancy-English-speaking-countries/2831723640603/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Majority Of Voters Say Trump Lacks Mental And Physical Stamina To Be President https://www.politicususa.com/2024/08/14/majority-of-voters-say-trump-lacks-mental-and-physical-stamina-to-be-president.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Mitch McConnell issued this "dire warning" to republican state legislators...

"Let's assume our worst nightmare: The Democrats went to the White House, the House, the Senate. The first thing they'll do is get rid of the [Senate] filibuster."

Weird how he didn't have any problem eliminating the filibuster on SC nominations in 2017.

If you sign up for a free trial of Disney+, you can never sue them for killing a family member:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8jl0ekjr0go

‘Bored’ Megyn Kelly Chalks Trump’s ‘Rambling’ Performance in Elon Musk Interview Up to His Advanced Age https://www.mediaite.com/politics/bored-megyn-kelly-chalks-trumps-rambling-performance-in-elon-musk-interview-up-to-his-advanced-age/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Why the fuck would anyone assume at this point that this pathetic wad of grievance and entitlement would do anything BUT refuse to acknowledge he lost? He could lose in a electoral landslide - and just may! - and he would still have a pissy little tantrum about how he actually won. We KNOW this already. It's 100 percent going to happen. Stop pretending it will be anything otherwise.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/14/politics/donald-trump-harris-election-outcome-denial/index.html

@pluralistic How come when we're looking at big business' abusive practices, it always leads to Reagan? The most disastrous decade, no doubt.

'Insult comic' Trump incapable of running on policies – only 'abuse': conservative https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2668964536/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon