If the Russian Mafia can do it, theoretically so can you.

Do Substack next

Indeed, it is said that John Mastodon himself is German

the meme of the goose chasing the boy. Caption: “freedom to say what, motherfucker?”

So glad my TV is a dumb-as-shit model from the early 00s I bought secondhand for about $30

The poor little duck that’s rich in luck

In the UK, Scots is close enough to English to be almost comprehensible to an otherwise unprepared British English speaker. (Case in point: Trainspotting.)

In German, they use the adjective “abgefuckt” in similar cases; that’s an English swearword with some German prefixes underlining the complete and destructive nature of the state of affairs.

It’s the same in Icelandic, only spelled “kex”. There’s even a hotel in a former biscuit factory with that name.

Which is great news if you’re a Mossad agent tasked with figuring out a target’s life patterns

Hard techno must be the pop-punk of dance music

It’s weird how everyone has his number, even if their reasoning was off. The Slashdot penguinheads thought he a literal Sith lord, the Q-nuts thought he, Soros and Fauci were running 5G vaccine chip biolabs, and now it turns out he was an Epstein Island frequent flyer.

Vibe coding. Not even once.

Require printers to check digital signatures on STL files and have only approved slicers add those

Some VPNs like Mullvad have the option of padding out the flow of data to thwart traffic analysis, at the expense of speed.

Police have UPS-like devices which splice into existing mains cables to keep machines alive on the way into the forensics lab. Presumably it’s standard practice to use those.

Of course, the server could be configured to wipe itself if it loses connectivity for more than a few seconds, or its routing changes. The police would need devices that route Ethernet traffic over 5G, though those would presumably be detectable as bandwidth goes down and latency goes up.

The Tangara is interesting technically, but the firmware is a bit half-baked, and large parts of it are written in Lua, and thus slow. I had one but sold it, and got a Rockboxed HifiWalker H2.

Star Trek fandom. The series appears to be the moral compass of Mastodon.

Mastodon is for kind middle-aged trekkies to hold forth about how to live a good life (it involves Linux, and stopping to look at the flowers)

Lemmy is for goblin-moders to vent about their mental health issues using memes

I have a HifiWalker H2, a Chinese MP3 player that works off SD cards. The default firmware is Linux-based, but you can also flash it with Rockbox.