Mack Blanta

A fun project I worked on in my early career was tracking DDoS attacks. A lot of DDoS attacks come from infected IoT devices. But most IoT devices use ramdisks, meaning any modifications to the main filesystem gets erased upon reboot, removing the malware along with it. 1/?

Want to read a book but can’t afford to buy it?

❌ don’t pirate/steal it

✅ join your local library and borrow the book for FREE.

If the library doesn’t have the book you want, ask if they can buy it.

You get to read.
Authors get paid.
Libraries stay open.

✨ Triple win ✨

#BookSky #Library

UFC is making billionaires. It's just that none of them are athletes.

This. But also I will, again, beat the drum here.... Game Design IS narrative. The game mechanics ARE the story.

Learning game design isn't diluting your narrative skills, it's sharpening them! How do you convey that feeling of loss to the player as they wander the open world? Make. That. Answer.

Capitalism is cooked

Big Brother Becomes Little Brother Corporations are the new nation state, U.S. intelligence admits

Corporations are becoming more powerful than nation states, U.S. intelligence admits

Start your own website. Run your own blog. Use decentralized and open-sourced platforms

@ghost.org is a great open-sourced blogging platform and website builder
Pixelfed is doing great work for images and runs on the social web

Support open social projects so your homes on the web don't fall apart

We had to get in on the video action too — Bluesky now has custom feeds for video!

Like any other feed, you can choose to pin these or not. Bluesky is yours to customize.

Disney and South Park were my intro to musicals

TikTok was down for like 12 hours lol

lmao no, TikTok users are not moving to Bluesky. They would literally rather learn Mandarin than learn how to read a feed of text posts. This is a millennial retirement home.

Israel Continues to Bomb Gaza Even as Cabinet Approves Ceasefire Deal The Israeli military has killed over 100 more Palestinians since negotiators announced the agreement on Wednesday.

Doctors Without Borders says the agreement, set to take effect at 8:30 am local time Sunday, “arrives more than 465 days and 46,000 lives too late.”
truthout.org/articles/isr...

I know there’s a lot going on right now, but please don’t end up revealing your location when sharing footage of the fires. People are still unfortunately looking for any opportunity to catch you slipping, even in the middle of an emergency.

I always wanted MMA to hit it mainstream and then it did, but in ways I never imagined and now I kinda regret wanting those things. I’ll take a smaller, very niche sport, thanks.

Prince of Persia: Sands of time

Nothing Is Sacred: AI Generated Slop Has Come for Christmas Music AI-generated Christmas classics that dwell in the uncanny valley are giving listeners the creeps.

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Infatuation Jamie Foxx · Peep This · Song · 1994

y’all don’t know nun bout this

Aight man I am about 95% convinced that they are aware of the meme because COME THE FUCK ON

As a historian i can tell you there is plenty of evidence. Like, there were wars about this. They have books written about them. Straight up, are you freebasing comfrmation bias over there or something?

Mariah was like y’all not gon have me outside on Christmas here’s this video

UFC fighters understand their own labor predicament and how to meaningfully improve it challenge (impossible)

The China Report - YouTube Our understanding of China — and U.S.-China relations — has become a defining feature of all global politics. The China Report is a new show produced in coll...

Hi! Just a reminder, I co-host a show on Breakthrough News called the China Report where we help you sort through all the propaganda:
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just monumental news: union majority at the most important chokepoint over amazon's fast shipping out west.

courageous marches on the boss against extreme heat and wildfire smoke helped amazon workers learn their power, and bring more into the fight.

Scarcity creates Demand

I gotta get this money man

If I’m single 6,7,9

If I’m married 1,2,8

Every time I teach Reconstruction, I make sure we read Abram Colby’s (GA legislator)1872 Congressional testimony about the night the Klan knocked on his door & every year I think, nope, I’d never be THAT brave. If you’re not using it in your classroom, you should-SO powerful. #historyeducation

Much thanks to every fucking moron who bought into the Uyghur Genocide scam and repeated it.

This is exactly what the US wanted to happen by taking ETIM off the terror list: militarize Salafist head-choppers and point them towards Xinjiang (1/4)

Wild. $18 isn’t even close to enough to live here on