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@countercontrol.bsky.social

Community. Tech support. Anarchy. Ⓐ #privacy #privsec #infosec #anarchism #techsupport #linux #foss #qubes_os

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His name is Brian, obviously.

27.02.2026 15:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In one four-day period in March 2025, engineers logged 205 maintenance calls. Sailors reported working up to 19-hour days to fix leaks and restore suction, with problems in a single head capable of disabling an entire section of the ship. Since 2023, the Navy has carried out at least 10 acid flushes, each costing about $400,000, though the procedure cannot be performed while the carrier is underway.

In one four-day period in March 2025, engineers logged 205 maintenance calls. Sailors reported working up to 19-hour days to fix leaks and restore suction, with problems in a single head capable of disabling an entire section of the ship. Since 2023, the Navy has carried out at least 10 acid flushes, each costing about $400,000, though the procedure cannot be performed while the carrier is underway.

The sailors on the USS Gerald Ford who keep stuffing their t-shirts into the toilets so the bathrooms flood and the carrier can’t deploy to Iran should be awarded a collective Nobel Peace Prize

27.02.2026 11:35 — 👍 2893    🔁 734    💬 40    📌 61

This is a goddamn tragedy.

09.02.2026 18:21 — 👍 495    🔁 65    💬 22    📌 0
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Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge : PwC survey finds more than half of 4,500+ biz leaders see no revenue growth nor cost savings

🤷🏿‍♂️

21.01.2026 16:39 — 👍 74    🔁 25    💬 2    📌 13
‘Washington Post’ Publishes Editorial Defending FBI Raid On Its Reporter

‘Washington Post’ Publishes Editorial Defending FBI Raid On Its Reporter

‘Washington Post’ Publishes Editorial Defending FBI Raid On Its Reporter https://theonion.com/washington-post-publishes-editorial-defending-fbi-raid-on-its-reporter/

15.01.2026 20:20 — 👍 2145    🔁 342    💬 48    📌 26

Nazi shit

17.01.2026 01:00 — 👍 74    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 1

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center.

Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...

14.01.2026 00:47 — 👍 7193    🔁 3303    💬 143    📌 229
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Meet the team that hunts government spyware For years, Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline has been aiding journalists and dissidents who have been targeted with government spyware. This is how they operate.

NEW: Meet the folks at AccessNow's Digital Security Helpline, who have been investigating government spyware for more than a decade, helping journalists and dissidents all over the world.

I spoke to Hassen Selmi, who heads the incident response team, to learn how his team fights spyware abuses.

27.12.2025 18:52 — 👍 120    🔁 47    💬 1    📌 6
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We are planning the Chinquapin Run Trail, a proposed 1.8-mile trail through Chinquapin Run Park that will connect to the Baltimore Greenway Trails Network.

The trail is designed to support walking, biking, skating, and running, safely separated from traffic.

24.12.2025 14:00 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
The Linux kernel is just a program Most books and courses introduce Linux through shell commands, leaving the kernel as a mysterious black box doing magic behind the scenes. In this post, we will run some experiments to demystify it: t...

The Linux Kernel is just a program: serversfor.dev/linux-inside...

24.12.2025 05:18 — 👍 454    🔁 71    💬 15    📌 5
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

22.12.2025 22:45 — 👍 8934    🔁 3497    💬 336    📌 279
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This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required.

www.404media.co/flock-expose...

22.12.2025 16:37 — 👍 1688    🔁 646    💬 16    📌 82
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Donate to Freedom of the Press Foundation Support Freedom of the Press Foundation by donating today.

In 2026, we aim to deploy our whistleblower submission system, @securedrop.org, to more news outlets worldwide. But we can’t do it without your help!

Support whistleblower protection today: freedom.press/donate?utm_s...

17.12.2025 15:26 — 👍 18    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0
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Disney Spent More On ‘Andor’ Than Any Of Its ‘Star Wars’ Movies Disney has revealed it spent $60.5 million on Star Wars streaming series Andor in 2024, giving the show a total cost of $705.5 million - far higher than the spending on any of the movies in the saga.

Worth it, it's far better than every cinematic Star War made since 1980

www.forbes.com/sites/caroli...

23.11.2025 18:04 — 👍 1965    🔁 242    💬 1    📌 0
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

23.11.2025 11:37 — 👍 18232    🔁 5771    💬 812    📌 1095
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Airlines Will Shut Down Program That Sold Your Flights Records to Government The move comes after intense pressure from lawmakers and 404 Media’s months-long reporting about the airline industry's data selling practices.

For this monthly update, I was actually going to add how to opt out of a newly discovered program that got shut down before I could do so, in part (I'm guessing) due to journalism, congrats to 404Media www.404media.co/airlines-wil...

23.11.2025 00:05 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Day laborer organizers protest Home Depot, pressuring it to "scrape ICE out of their stores." Over one hundred community members gathered at the Home Depot in Monrovia Saturday to pressure the company to stop the immigration raids taking place at its locations.

Day laborer organizers protest Home Depot, pressuring it to "scrape ICE out of their stores."

23.11.2025 02:02 — 👍 456    🔁 145    💬 7    📌 7

Join us tonight at @redemmas.org, Baltimore folks!

22.11.2025 19:59 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

OK, _now_ they've started running them through ChatGPT.

19.11.2025 18:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump to sign bill to compel release of more files related to Jeffrey Epstein Trump had fought against releasing the files but reversed course after it was clear the House would pass legislation

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Months of stalling is just enough time for servile lackeys to learn the ChatGPT equivalent of `sed -i s/[Tt]rump/hot dog costume guy/g`

19.11.2025 17:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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AMD Continues Working On Xen GPU Virtualization Features - "The Best Is Yet To Come" When it comes to GPU virtualization we have seen AMD engineers carry out a lot of work in recent years around the Xen hypervisor even when it hasn't seen as much interest from other vendors

www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Xen...

A lot for #QubesOS users to get excited about, here. Hints at the possibility of Windows gaming Qubes. I would settle for GPU-accelerated terminals

19.11.2025 12:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Big news. Ate entire pint of ice cream in one sitting for the first time tonight.

#icecream #pints #pumpkin #cheesecake #pumpkincheesecake

19.11.2025 00:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jesus fucking Christ

16.11.2025 12:36 — 👍 2551    🔁 347    💬 173    📌 247
Epstein files - Distributed Denial of Secrets A collection of documents, emails, and recordings relating to Jeffrey Epstein, including his FBI and Interpol files, court documents, releases from the Department of Justice and Congress, and leaked…

Epstein files (121 GB)

A collection of documents, emails, and recordings relating to Jeffrey Epstein, including his FBI and Interpol files, court documents, releases from the DOJ and Congress, and leaked emails.

ddosecrets.com/article/epst...

Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/supporting-d...

14.11.2025 13:36 — 👍 545    🔁 258    💬 11    📌 14
At Harvard Talk, Princeton President Says Colleges Should Set Clear Time, Manner, Place Rules for Protests | News | The Harvard Crimson Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber said at Harvard talk on Wednesday that universities should enforce clear time, place, and manner rules against student protesters — and refuse t...

these guys are such fucking tools www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

06.11.2025 20:14 — 👍 61    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 0
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FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.

New: The FBI filed a subpoena trying to unmask the person or people behind archive.is / archive.today, which have been running anonymously for 13 yrs. Site was widely used by GamerGate, and then to bypass paywalls but has become kind of core archiving infrastructure

www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...

06.11.2025 14:53 — 👍 342    🔁 136    💬 10    📌 17
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just....enjoy this

03.11.2025 21:17 — 👍 3743    🔁 1084    💬 178    📌 481