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Justin/BTJ/Bethejustin
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Proud Bay Stater. JKMP18 Prime Crew. Future Martian Wanderer. Geek. German Shepherd Dad. Footy Fan. Current & retro tech enthusiast. Longtime fan of all things space.
My #BlueSky workflow...
1- Open BlueSky
2- Immediately see three of the most batshit insane stories I've ever seen
3- Run out of emotional bandwidth
4- Close BlueSky like I'm that Homer Simpson gif
February 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Fascinating. Technology loves a good arms race.
The Nepenthes malware sends AI crawlers down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they "get stuck" and "thrash around" for months, according to its anonymous creator.
AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.
arstechnica.com
January 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Tell everyone in New England to fill out the Did You Feel it report! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
The Earthquake Event Page application supports most recent browsers, view supported browsers. Or, try our Real-time Notifications, Feeds, and Web Services.
earthquake.usgs.gov
January 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Just had a 4.1 #earthquake off the coast of Maine! Felt some good shaking here north of #Boston in #Massachusetts! https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/at00sqr6q8/executive
January 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Wore my #DIGITAL #DEC hoodie to the brewery in the shadow of their old NH software facility. Looked around and was confronted by the age you'd probably have to be to recognize it. 😬
January 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Raiders of the Lost Ark is currently airing on Paramount Network. Is this a coincidence? 🤷‍♀️ Draw your own conclusions.
January 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Well OK then ya don't see that everyday, thankfully!
Departures from Miami International (MIA) are delayed 31 minutes - 45 minutes (avg: 30 mins) and increasing due to OTHER:ROCKET LAUNCH ANOMALY.✈️⏱️ #AvGeek
January 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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SpaceX confirms that Starship broke apart during its ascent burn.

A passenger on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship "Icon of the Seas" posted this video, with the ship's current location in the Atlantic matching other debris sightings.

Video source: x.com/FlyerXT/stat...
January 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I really don't wish #Bluesky had an option to refresh but maintain the current feed position. The always winding up at the top makes looking at older stuff a chore and missing stuff inevitable.
January 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
All the Meta/Tok/continual X drama has me thinking once again about how the answer will never been centralized walled garden apps. Open protocols anything can be built on top of are the actual solve. https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/bluesky-is-getting-its-own-photo-sharing-app-flashes/
Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes | TechCrunch
More good news for those looking to exit Meta's social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a
techcrunch.com
January 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Had to jump through some hoops today and do a fair amount of Unix/Linux command line fu. Weirdly enough that's what I consider fun these days.
January 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This is one of the coolest geekiest things I've seen come along in tech in a good while!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89pAwl55HJw
Mecha Comet Linux Handheld (CES 2025)
www.youtube.com
January 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.
January 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Does anyone know if there's a tool out there that allows you to get notifications for when specific #BlueSky accounts post?
January 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
WTF.
New: Days after Meta had to kill its AI-generated profiles due to backlash, some Instagram users are now being shown AI-generated images of themselves that are being automatically created by Instagram and put in their feeds

www.404media.co/instagram-be...
Instagram Begins Randomly Showing Users AI-Generated Images of Themselves
Meta AI put a Redditor into "an endless maze of mirrors" as part of a new AI feature it is testing.
www.404media.co
January 7, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Here we go again. Back to the grind with 2025 underway. Yeeha!
January 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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