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amongst the various start-of-semester things to do today, I started a new backup 800gb of a Time Machine backup onto a HFS formatted disk image.
and also planted my "vegehome" with a fresh batch of little plant plugs. Look at their little plastic domes. 🥰
Once these lettuces and stuff run their course, I want to try something a little bigger... like maybe starting a little fruit tree.
#office #worklife #viu #garden #growing #backup #tech

“Crypto Cash Fusion Cell”
https://ofsi.blog.gov.uk/2026/01/28/ofsi-and-partners-clamp-down-on-the-abuse-of-cryptoassets/

OFSI and partners clamp down on the abuse of cryptoassets – Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation
Sanctions enablers are increasingly turning to cryptoassets to move and hide illicit funds, including those linked to sanctions evasion. But every transaction leaves a trace. By working together, UK agencies are following those traces to identify, investigate and disrupt criminal

British anti-hate speech campaigners sanctioned by US state department
– Imran Ahmed and Clare Melford are among five Europeans hit with visa bans
over claims they wish to
‘suppress American viewpoints they oppose'
http…

The US and the UK and Australia are going after bulletproof hosting companies.
United States, Australia, and United Kingdom Sanction Russian Cybercrime Infrastructure Supporting Ransomware
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0319

United States, Australia, and United Kingdom Sanction Russian Cybercrime Infrastructure Supporting Ransomware
.caption > figcaption { text-align: center; font-style: italic; } WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the United Kingdom’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office are announcing coordinated sanctions targeting Media Land, a Russia-based bulletproof hosting (BPH) service provider, for its role in supporting ransomware operations and other forms of cybercrime.  OFAC is a…

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Sources: UK officials believe China was behind the October cyber attack on the UK's Foreign Office, which aimed to access tens of thousands of sensitive files (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fc7ebe87-8099-45f8-a8c2-2cf1c0b7dd83

On the fediverse, as we live through the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people, there are those who oppose the genocide and are trying to help the victims and there are those who deny the genocide, try to erase the victims, and attempt to vilify the ones trying to help.
If you’re neutral, you’ve chosen the side of the latter.
If you give genocide deniers sanctuary on your servers, you’re telling genocide victims that they are not safe on your server.
This isn’t…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Saun & Starr:
🎵 Big Wheel
#NowPlaying #Saun #Starr
https://saunstarr.bandcamp.com/track/big-wheel
https://open.spotify.com/track/5oBoE6JosX9WMvMU9xsn4C

AG Pam Bondi’s letter to Gov. Walz
What we know, according to Fox News:
In a letter obtained by FOX News, AG Pam Bondi dangled a path for ICE and other federal agents to leave Minnesota.
Here is that path:
🔸Walz’s office must share state records on Medicaid and Food and Nutrition Service programs, including SNAP, with the federal government.
🔸Repeal sanctuary policies. All state corrections facilities must cooperate with ICE, and permit ICE to interview detaine…

Minneapolis shooting: AG Pam Bondi gives Gov. Walz conditions for ICE to leave Minnesota
The United States Attorney General is urging Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to support federal law enforcement efforts and immigration policy, hours after a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident was fatally shot a Border Patrol agent.

Oops, #Terraform datasources cannot contain write-only attributes, which means you cannot use a sensitive value in a secure way when configuring a datasource... Which leaves us with ephemeral resources which are not always what we want or passing the sensitive value to the provider (assuming the provider can take that value and pass it along to the datasource), which is not always possible...…