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A little bit about me -

57-year-old high school IT Teacher who’s been “eastbound and down” the information superhighway since punch cards were cutting edge. I was born with a “special purpose”—teaching teenagers that the internet existed before TikTok.

When students ask why I’m so passionate about computer science, I tell them, “I am a righteous dude” who discovered the magic of Memes and never looked back. My downloading ... geeknerdcarp.blog/2025/07/04/a…

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#VivaldiBrowser team has just released a new desktop update, Vivaldi 7.5
vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-de…
I personally love the new smooth way of interacting with Speed Dials and Dashboard elements (Widgets), the new Mail and Calendar look, as well as the new Ad Blocker supported rules (badfilter, strict3p, and strict1p).

P.S. Related to the **real bugs** hotel: vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-de…. Does anyone know where I can find the #drill in the photo? I like it. It must be as powerful as #VivaldiBrowser. Maybe it even has a button to change its colour 😀
Please, do you know where to get it from? Possibly on the Vivaldi Store? TY!🙏

#VivaldiBrowser #browser #colour #color #adblock #adblocker #adblocking #SpeedDial #Dashboard #Widget #Widgets #Mail #Calendar #bug #bugs #BugHotel #drill #VivaldiTechnologies #VivaldiStore #Vivaldi

Drawing of a red small #drill with the #VivaldiBrowser logo on it

Vivaldi 7.5: color, clarity, and control | Vivaldi Browser

Just in time for summer, Vivaldi 7.5 is here! This release is about sharper control, cleaner interaction, and stronger privacy.
Jon von Tetzchner (Vivaldi Technologies)
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I made a page for Cal and his box! 😀

It's become a crap day for a lot of folks and I'm struggling with the news and everything too, and I happened to download my Mastodon archive and realized how many photos of Cal in his box that I have - there are 15 so far, I think more if I keep digging.

So as a small good thing for today, here's our goofy boy and his beloved cardboard friend.

hollie.eilloh.net/pets/calbox/

#cats #OrangeCats #CatsOfInstagram #CalsBox

An orange cat curled up in a cardboard box that has his name printed on it, and a Pride sticker that says "This is a Safe Space". Because Cal's box is for everyone. Not really. Just Cal. But you know what I mean.

{cal in his box}

hollie.eilloh.net

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I'm preventing myself from doomposting by acknowledging I don't know a lot of stuff. Hardly anyone in Middle Earth knew about Frodo, Sam, and Gollum, but they fought against Mordor anyway. And those three had no idea of who and what was helping them from afar. Same for every real-world resistance movement or liberation movement. We can't account for everything, there's always someone else working on our behalf, just beyond our ken. Surprise is as much a part of revolution as anything else.

friendica - Link to source
Mini-Documentary Series on the Clash of the Two Americas - An Independence Day Special matthewehret.substack.com/p/mi…

Mini-Documentary Series on the Clash of the Two Americas - An Independence Day Special

What were the core principles of the republic and how were those moral principles of natural law subverted over the course of a 260 year struggle to establish on this earth a system of representative government founded upon the consent of the governe…
Matthew Ehret (Matt Ehret's Insights)

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Goddamn. I was going to boost a post but then I got near the end where it said: "crushing to see this happen to human beings who aren't criminals...", and first of all, in such an unjust society define "criminal" for me, would ya? I'd love to hear it.

Secondly, would you think it's okay if "criminals" were kidnapped and tortured?

I assume this person primarily meant to emphasize that these are just everyday people, like your neighbors, but the implication is not good.

in reply to Artemis

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Artemis

Don't let right-wingers define the debate here. They want to argue with us about who is and isn't a criminal, because they don't actually have a defense for why this is okay to do to *anybody*.

So we can endlessly argue about "criminals" while they send people to concentration camps.

I didn't screenshot the post because I'm not trying to call out this specific person. I just wanted to remind us to be careful whose rhetoric & language we are using.

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BRICS has expanded to 20 countries – 10 members and 10 partners – after adding Vietnam. BRICS+ now makes up 44% of world GDP (PPP) and 56% of the global population. The US failed to divide China and Vietnam in its Second Cold War.

geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/0…

#economy #economics #geopolitics #brics


BRICS expands to 56% of world population, 44% of global GDP: Vietnam joins as partner country - Geopolitical Economy Report

BRICS expanded to 20 countries, 10 members and 10 partners, adding Vietnam. BRICS+ makes up 44% of world GDP (PPP), 56% of global population.
Ben Norton (Geopolitical Economy Report)
in reply to David

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Jeremy Buffer Jones

@freeagent
I never said it wasn't political, every trade agreement is political. What I said is #BRICS is not a military or political alliance it is an alternative system of multi polar trading free of interference from the current US hegemony system where international trade requires trading in US dollars.

For example, New Zealand, which is not even a #BRICS member country, has a FTA with its biggest trading partner China that means NZ and China can freely trade with each other in their own currencies.

in reply to Yogthos

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Jeremy Buffer Jones

@freeagent

I have no idea what argument David is trying to make. His initial comment was that BRICS doesn’t appear to be a unified bloc pointing to the relationship between India and China. Which is why I pointed out the fact BRICS is not a political or military alliance but a cooperative economic system of trade.

USA’s 3 largest trading partners are Mexico, Canada, and China. It would be ridiculous to assume this makes these countries a unified political bloc.

Ironically, since Trump introduced his tariffs India, Japan, South Korea and the ASEAN member nations have all agreed to increase their economic and political cooperation with China.

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Nvidia Is Full of Shit

Link: blog.sebin-nyshkim.net/posts/n…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


NVIDIA is full of shit

Since the disastrous launch of the RTX 50 series, NVIDIA has been unable to escape negative headlines: scalper bots are snatching GPUs away from consumers before official sales even begin, power connectors continue to melt, with no fix in sight, mark…
Sebin's Blog

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This is the heartwarming moment we need right now:

11-year-old Danish kid Jens Fogh made Easter decorations and sold them, thereby raising USD 5300 which he used to buy 270 school backpacks for Ukrainian children. So while in Denmark, Zelenskyy presented him with a medal for his friendship.

A hero meets a hero — I love it! ♥️

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Israeli Regime Conducts Bold Ground Incursion Near Damascus tn.ai/3348038

Israeli Regime Conducts Bold Ground Incursion Near Damascus

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Israeli occupation forces have launched three coordinated ground incursions in southern Syria and near Damascus, marking an unprecedented escalation in their illegal military presence inside Syrian territory.
Tasnim News Agency

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oh THIS aint good!

statesman.com/story/news/2025/…


Floods kill 6 in Hill Country flooding; some children are reported missing

'It’s total devastation ... helicopters are flying in, rescuing people trapped in trees,' said the owner of Howdy's restaurant.
Gabriella Ybarra, Tony Plohetski, Anthony Franze, Elizabeth L T Moore, Marc Duvoisin, San Antonio Express-News (Hearst - Austin Transition)

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Best privacy preserving measures

Considering the current intrusive cyber climate, what are the best ways to preserve privacy?

For example, I have been exclusively using a VPN connection network-wide at home setup on OpenWrt, which in turn has a PiHole as its DNS, with the PiHole using Unbound and NextDNS (redundant I know, but I use it to encrypt my requests more than anything else).

I also have Wireguard setup so I can VPN all my devices to my network while I am on the road (also have a NextDNS profile installed. Yes I know, it’s redundant).

I also basically have all my “smart” devices (TV, lightbulbs, air purifier, etc…) at home cutoff from the internet using OpenWrt’s firewall to prevent them from calling home.

I rotate web browsers frequently to try and attempt avoiding getting fingerprinted, not sure how useful that is.

I switched email providers to mailbox.org because f*** Google and Microsoft.

I also am hosting my own cloud drive on Nextcloud to avoid using services like GDrive, OneDrive, Dropbox, etc…

I own Apple devices which aren’t the best for privacy but migrating from a whole ecosystem that I have been embedded in for MANY years is easier said than done. Hopefully in the future that’s my next move.

I feel like there is a lot more I can do but I am not sure what else. I would appreciate any and all suggestions ya’ll might have.

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Colombian Lawmakers Demand US Congressional Ethics Probe Over Alleged Interference in Colombia telesurenglish.net/colombian-l…

Colombian Lawmakers Demand US Congressional Ethics Probe Over Alleged Interference in Colombia - teleSUR English

A group of Colombian legislators from the government coalition formally requests the US House of Representatives Ethics Committee to investigate and sanction
teleSURenglish

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23 girls unaccounted for after Camp Mystic along Guadalupe River in Kerr County evacuated overnight

23 girls unaccounted for after Camp Mystic along Guadalupe River in Kerr County evacuated overnight

More than 20 campers are still missing after overnight flooding at Camp Mystic, a girls-only camp on the Guadalupe River.
Rebecca Salinas (San Antonio News, Texas News, Sports, Weather from KSAT.com, Expect More)

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Supreme Court declines to revive Montana law that would require parental consent for minors to obtain abortions

Supreme Court declines to revive Montana law that would require parental consent for minors to obtain abortions

The Supreme Court turned away an appeal by Montana officials seeking to revive a state law that requires minors seeking abortions to obtain the consent of their parents.
Lawrence Hurley (NBC News)

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Nanook

@Theodore John Kaczynski @Autumn It's the sum total of what was done. And robotics were less a thing in 1969 than 1976. Beyond that I love sci-fi, I've seen lots of it, and 2001 was probably the most technically realistic ever, even so it paled by contrast. I don't think Hollywood was up to the task. By the way, did you know Holly Wood is what witches made their wands out of?
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