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John Hess
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Software, Aviation, and EMS.

Madison, WI
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UPDATE: NSO just hired former Trump ambassador to Israel.

They're trying to push Pegasus spyware to 🇺🇸America.

Your rights and freedoms are in danger.

NSO Group is no friend to the US & has spent years undermining our security & values 1/
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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We all need to channel this Chicago man’s utter contempt
Here's a short video of an Edison Park man confronting border patrol. You can hear others in the background. #chicago
October 31, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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i weep each time I read about the time Jonas Salk was asked if he planned to patent the Polio vaccine and asked

"would you patent the sun?!"
May 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Can it be the size of the statuettes? 1 plz.
internet archive should have a cute little mascot they can make into a plushie
April 16, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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I wrote a blog post about using TLS Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) from Python guardianproject.info/2025/01/10/u...
Using TLS ECH from Python
At first, the idea of encrypting more of the metadata found inside the initial packet (the “ClientHello”) of a TLS connection may seem simple and obvious, but there are of course reasons that this was...
guardianproject.info
January 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I want to make a data decenter. A small, terrible computer with a bad wireless connection, put somewhere inconvenient, powered by the sun, that you can run your flimsy website on. No SLA, no ISO anything. Just sometimes a computer.
January 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Everyone I know makes up silly songs about their pet. Yet, there are virtually no silly pet songs released by major artists. This is surely a conspiracy of the record labels to deprive us.
January 16, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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LA folk—

my friends in altadena are looking for a new home on the east side — two bedroom and dog-friendly

any leads would be deeply appreciated 🙏
January 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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More news! @institutionaldatainitiative.org officially launched today. This massive effort was conceived at LIL by Greg Leppert, who's now leading the charge as executive director. Our mission to bring library principles to technological frontiers is embedded in IDI's purpose. Read more below!
December 12, 2024 at 9:47 PM