AWS mumbles about its cost-busting networking tech when it should be shouting
Source: theregister
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Source: theregister
https://share.google/gSyeMM1xntXYoWrx6
Sunday, August 30, 2026
Sunday, August 23, 2026
Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter
A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.
Published Aug. 20, 2026Updated Aug. 21, 2026
They once had run free through the desert mountains of the West, a multicolored band of 68 wild mustangs that had never been saddled or corralled.
Then the federal government rounded them up with helicopters, as it has with tens of thousands of other mustangs, in an attempt to control wild populations on public lands. The horses were held for years in a feed lot in Idaho while the government tried to find them what it called “loving homes.”
Abruptly this March, the government found a home. Whether it was loving didn’t seem to matter.
The horses were packed into echoing metal trailers and trucked 1,800 miles east to the pens of a hard-luck livestock trader in Ohio named Brandon Jones, who bought them for $25 each.
A day later, two double-decker cattle trucks pulled up at midnight, loaded the mustangs and quickly drove off into the night.
From there the mustangs disappeared. They never appeared at a public auction. The trader won’t say where they went. Wild horse advocates suspect the horses were shipped to slaughter.
But that’s not the government’s concern — it got what it wanted: two more trucks of wild horses off its books.
It wasn’t the first time, or the last. In the past year, the government has shipped the trader one truckload of mustangs after another. And not just him.
An examination of government records by The New York Times found that all over the country the Bureau of Land Management, the agency in charge of protecting wild horses, is quietly selling thousands of horses to buyers like the one in Ohio. Slaughtering wild horses is illegal, but the bureau’s actions create a loophole that enables people to get mustangs on the cheap and then quickly resell them to be exported alive, processed into cuts of meat and sold abroad.
Gift Article:
Friday, August 7, 2026
Thursday, August 6, 2026
Saturday, August 1, 2026
OMFG: $7 Billion??? Our President is a toddler with a gimme, gimme, gimme attitude and a Platinum credit card, which we pay for.
NYTimes: Trump’s Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts
Friday, July 31, 2026
Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the A.I. Bubble?
One Can Only Hope!
I was personally threatened with a lawsuit by my Oracle salesman back in the day. They demanded we pay for a Production license to run a Dev Only instance. Total Dirtbags
Gift article from The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/
Thursday, July 30, 2026
NYTimes Gift Article: Floundering A.I. ‘Nostradamus’ Hedge Fund Is Rescued by Rival
This Might be the Start of the End for the AI Hype
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/business/artificial-intelligence-situational-awareness-citadel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1lA.zSzw.1MduyUzIM5Pj&smid=nytcore-ios-share
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/business/artificial-intelligence-situational-awareness-citadel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1lA.zSzw.1MduyUzIM5Pj&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Sunday, July 26, 2026
Sunday, July 19, 2026
Posha Cooking Robot $1,500
Tweet from Robert Scoble w/ video
https://x.com/Scobleizer/status/1991931957513797862?s=20
Posha site: https://www.posha.com/
Wired article:
I Tasked Rival Robots With Cooking My Thanksgiving Dinner
The Posha and the Thermomix TM7 are the closest things to a home robot chef that mere mortals can afford. The catch is that you’re the prep cook.
The Posha and the Thermomix TM7 are the closest things to a home robot chef that mere mortals can afford. The catch is that you’re the prep cook.
Saturday, July 4, 2026
Monday, June 29, 2026
[The Washington Post] Supreme Court expands Trump’s power over the federal bureaucracy
The concept of an “Independent Agency” is now dead. ☠️
SCOTUS needs Term Limits and Ethics Rules ASAP.
Supreme Court expands Trump’s power over the federal bureaucracy
The justices allowed the president to fire a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, striking down a nearly century-old precedent intended to insulate independent agencies from political influence by the executive.
By Justin Jouvenal
Sunday, June 28, 2026
NYTimes: How Trump Turned America’s Refugee Program Into a Pathway for White People
This should surprise no one…
Mr. Kleinhaus is among more than 6,000 South Africans — the vast majority of them white — who have benefited from Mr. Trump’s decision to upend America’s refugee program, which for decades had made the United States a sanctuary for people fleeing disaster and persecution.
Under Mr. Trump, the program has effectively become a whites-only path to life in the United States, a culmination of the president’s longstanding antipathy toward immigrants and his embrace of the concept of “reverse racism” as a guiding principle in his administration.
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Sunday, June 14, 2026
Required update for Digital Ocean - Wordpress Multisite - Caddy server configuration
I set up a new Wordpress host (droplet) on Digital Ocean. It is "WordPress on Ubuntu 24.04"
I configured it for subdirectory based Wordpress Multisite (MU) aka Wordpress Network.
Digital Ocean has moved to using Caddy Server, instead of Apache2, which I have never used before.
Previously my Wordpress hosts all used Apache2 and you have to create a custom .htaccess to make MU work. Caddy doesn't use an .htaccess file, so you have to update the CaddyFile itself (Caddy sonfiguration file) to make MU work.
A generic CaddyFile looks something like this:
example.com { root /var/www/html encode php_fastcgi unix//run/php/php-version-fpm.sock file_server }
To support Wordpress MU I hade to update to this:
example.com { root /var/www/html ## Added to resolve wp-admin issue for Multisite uri path_regexp (\/{1})(\w|\d|\s)+\/wp- /wp- ## END Added to resolve wp-admin issue for Multisite encode php_fastcgi unix//run/php/php-version-fpm.sock file_server }
I can admit I don't fully understand the CaddyFile, or Caddy Web Server, but this worked for me.
Friday, June 5, 2026
Good 1 on 1 Meeting Advice
From Blind, of all places…
You should be having three types of meetings -
1) 1:1's for 30 mins: your 1:1's should be weekly and this should be a "fear-free" zone where you discuss your day-to-day, key blockers, areas where they need help, etc.
1) 1:1's for 30 mins: your 1:1's should be weekly and this should be a "fear-free" zone where you discuss your day-to-day, key blockers, areas where they need help, etc.
2) Performance management: this should be monthly. As you learn/set your OKR's, this meeting should specifically be about how you are tracking . If any of my direct reports are faring badly, i'll also spend sometime in 1:1's recalibrating
3) Talent management: This is usually once a quarter for an hour and driven by the employee. Focuses on aspirations to get to the next level and training to help you get there.
Monday, June 1, 2026
Colorado elections clerk released from prison after governor commutes sentence
Let’s be truthful here the Governor was THREATENED by the pResident. He threatened the Governor and all the citizens of Colorado
Peters was the first local election official to be charged with breaching security after the 2020 election. She snuck in an outside computer expert affiliated with My Pillow Chief Executive Mike Lindell — who himself denied that Trump lost the White House in 2020 — and the person copied the county’s Dominion Voting Systems computer server as it was updated in 2021.
Peters then joined Lindell onstage at a “cybersymposium” that promised to reveal proof that the election was rigged. Video and photos of the computer system upgrade, including passwords, were posted online. The move stoked false claims that voting machines were manipulated to steal the election from Trump.
Peters was convicted in 2024 of attempting to influence a public servant, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, violation of duty and other crimes by jurors in Mesa County, a Republican stronghold that supported Trump. An appeals court upheld her conviction in April, but ordered Peters to be resentenced because it said the judge who sent her to prison wrongly punished her for speaking out about election fraud.
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Friday, May 29, 2026
Judge Reopens Trump I.R.S. Suit, Questioning ‘Weaponization’ Fund
The ruling by the judge, Kathleen M. Williams, was a significant blow both to Mr. Trump, who had voluntarily dismissed the suit last week, and to the Justice Department. After the president withdrew the suit, senior department officials released a pair of extraordinary agreements that settled the case by establishing a $1.8 billion fund to compensate people who claimed they were victims of government “weaponization” by Democrats.
The deal also conferred lucrative tax benefits on Mr. Trump, his family and his businesses.
Judge Williams’s decision came in response to court papers filed on Wednesday by a bipartisan group of 35 former federal judges who urged her to bring the case back to life and dig into the details of the agreement to settle it.
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Pregnant woman from Ghana detained with child at Dulles Airport, ACLU says
Just a reminder that “We The People” are funding CBP to hassle pregnant women and their children using our tax dollars. WTAF?đŸ˜³
From the article:
They arrived in the United States on May 19 after securing a visa and an appointment for her son at Akron Children’s Hospital in Ohio, where she hoped her son would get care for a physical abnormality affecting his hands, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
The pair had arrived seeking medical treatment and have been in a windowless room for more than a week, according to their lawyers.
“Everyone in CBP custody, including this individual, has access to appropriate care, including medical evaluation by a doctor, medication, and food,” the department said. “The individual is currently in CBP custody at Washington Dulles International Airport and will remain in custody pending her immigration hearing.”
The ACLU alleges that Gyasi told CBP officers she preferred to be deported because she fears remaining in detention could result in her losing her unborn child. After agreeing to leave voluntarily, CBP officers allowed her to request additional food and let her shower for the first time since she was detained, the lawyers claim.
*So you get food and a shower by agreeing to give up your rights. That’s so incredibly UnAmerican. * added by me.
“CBP has put Ms. Gyasi in an impossible position: either risk her own and the life of her unborn child to improve her young son’s life, or return home to ensure safe conditions for her pregnancy but unsafe conditions for her son,” Heilman said in the organization’s news release.
Tens of thousands of immigrants have abandoned asylum claims and agreed to voluntarily depart the U.S. rather than face long stints in immigration detention, The Washington Post has reported.
On Monday, Gyasi backtracked and said she did not wish to self-deport, according to Heilman. That day, Gyasi experienced vaginal bleeding and was again taken to a hospital, where doctors said her condition was caused by high stress, the court filing states.
A judge on Wednesday ordered federal officials to show a legal basis for Gyasi’s detention by 9 a.m. Thursday.
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Monday, May 18, 2026
CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github – Krebs on Security
Holy crap. This is so bad.
The GitHub repository that Valadon flagged was named “Private-CISA,” and it harbored a vast number of internal CISA/DHS credentials and files, including cloud keys, tokens, plaintext passwords, logs and other sensitive CISA assets.
Valadon said the exposed CISA credentials represent a textbook example of poor security hygiene, noting that the commit logs in the offending GitHub account show that the CISA administrator disabled the default setting in GitHub that blocks users from publishing SSH keys or other secrets in public code repositories.
“Passwords stored in plain text in a csv, backups in git, explicit commands to disable GitHub secrets detection feature,” Valadon wrote in an email. “I honestly believed that it was all fake before analyzing the content deeper. This is indeed the worst leak that I’ve witnessed in my career. It is obviously an individual’s mistake, but I believe that it might reveal internal practices.”
One of the exposed files, titled “importantAWStokens,” included the administrative credentials to three Amazon AWS GovCloud servers. Another file exposed in their public GitHub repository — “AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv” — listed plaintext usernames and passwords for dozens of internal CISA systems. According to Caturegli, those system included one called “LZ-DSO,” which appears short for “Landing Zone DevSecOps,” the agency’s secure code development environment.
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