"Miles Adkins blames his arrest on his being a Republican during an election year, but not for committing crimes against the nation." #Jan6
Virginia School Board Member Arrested On Capitol Riot Charges | Crooks and Liars
Her life was destroyed because she had sex with a 17-year-old.
but wait, she didn't even do that.
Stupid Fucking Hysteria
https://ibtimes.sg/virginia-sheriffs-deputy-hit-5m-penalty-after-falsely-accusing-female-tea…
Researchers find malicious code in versions of the Linux compression tool XZ Utils that were incorporated into unstable distributions from Red Hat and Debian (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/
i’m sure i’m not the first to make this but i haven’t seen one yet.
(context: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/backdoor-found-in-widely-used-linux-utility-breaks-encrypted-ssh-connections/)<…
so apparently k3s was crashing badly, producing torrents of stacktraces where the only clue I found so far is “fatal error: invalid g status", which led me to an issue in the Go repo https://github.com/golang/go/issues/52560 that vaguely hints at memory corruption.
yay, I…
The return of #Varda's capsule W-1 ... as seen from a camera aboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWxl921rMgM. A shortened version: https://twitter.com/VardaSpace/status/1762855191865397260. What it was all about: https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/vardas-drug-cooking-winnebago-will-be-remembered-as-a-space-pioneer/
What happens next:
1. Social media rage
2. Free publicity
3. HP's "sincere" apology
4. A watered-down version of printing-as-a-service that doesn't sound so bad in comparison
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112017231756731192
It is wild to me that a game I set up a home network to play with my daughter and her cousins almost 20 years ago, is getting updates! Wow. (OFC that was the Mac version, and sadly this is Windows only)
https://arstechnica.com/?p=2005903
'I Refuse to Accept This': Virginia Cops Arrest Employee for Stealing a Package That Resurfaced While He Was In Custody. The Charges Were Dropped -- But He Still Got Fired
https://atlantablackstar.com/2024/02/21…