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Rob Carlson
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mastodon 4.7.3Coder, pest of local gov'ts, mason & tech nerd. In the third outer rung of "From Philly" where there's 1,000 people per square mile: Lower Salford Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA. I love flashlights, social justice, mechanical keyboards and public schools. Forged in the fires of the Internet of the 1990s.
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Best variant of this meme #Dolly
If some insider at Anthropic posted a torrent of the raw images/OCR of every book they scanned before feeding them into models, it would be a bigger contribution to distributed human knowledge and progress than anything the weighted model will ever bring.
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@FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange Now you're just poking fun at an actual (regrettable) township name.
Me starting my public comment at town meetings:
"Long time listener, first time caller, love the show."
"I love that you have these open mic nights."
"Hello, it's me, the public."
My sons cardboard #cosplay is arguably more frightening than the original
Me: What's the rewards?
Bank of America: Deez nuts
Revised county code and these paper signs stapled to park entrances are what we call a good start.
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org A previous employer offered a generous stipend on cell phone service as one of the benefits. I never took it because I knew what was coming. One day global IT rolls out app-based authentication and I declined to put it on my phone. They said "well you take the stipend you need to install it" and I was almost gleeful in telling them that I did not and they would need to provide a device or come up with a secondary method. Suddenly TOTP access from a app of my choice was sufficient.
Feeling a distinct lack of effort in today's younger email scammers
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@FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange @ajn142@infosec.exchange @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
"Does anyone call you after hours and say you need to forsake your personal life and login to the systems to fix someone else's mistake?"
""No, no, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man."
The neighborhood cats are in a triangle on their respective porches and windows keeping track of each other.
Figured out a fun style to show that a page content on my site is signed without scaring the muggles with details of GPG.
Ever have a household task that was so much simpler and more rewarding than you expected and now you want to do a bunch more? Mine is window rescreening. The supplies were dirt cheap, the tool is fun to use, and the result looks amazing for a few minutes effort. I want to knock on my neighbors doors and see if they need their patio doors done for a beer or two.
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@wbud@tech.lgbt @alice@lgbtqia.space @deviantollam@defcon.social With the laws we have in place debit cards simply leave the consumer with unreasonable risk compared to credit
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@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social 43k followers on Fedi plus boosts, I think you'll be okay for reach 😆
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@mistersql@mastodon.social @b0rk@social.jvns.ca There are not a lot of ratio-worthy topics on Mastodon/fedi but AI makes up the top five. That's why I mostly stay quiet about it in general.
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@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social I just stumbled across this on my RSS feed and was very impressed. Great advice for ANYONE working in an agent or contract model, not just writers
Someone is sending a dozen tracked packages out of Los Angeles in a way that's being associated with my Informed Delivery so they all show as having postage generated in my town and then being dropped off at a local LAX post office. I have an inquiry out with USPS but haven't heard anything back yet. Want to get ahead of this in case those packages are something unsavory.
Like a stopped clock, Fetterman thinks Republicans were being too mean to Fauci.
#Meshtastic #Philadelphia #MontCoPa Frequency and Mode Testing
Test 1: Aug 1st at 10pm to Aug 8th at 10pm we will be testing MediumSlow 22
Test 2: Aug 8th at 10pm to Aug 14th at 10pm we will be testing LongTurbo 12
https://phillymesh.net/freq-test/
Philadelphia Fire Fighters and Paramedics Union posted a Facebook message addressed to MLB all-star game visitors to avoid the "colored areas" on the map of Philly if they wanted to stay alive. What they posted below it was a context-free map of non-fatal shootings and homicides with red and yellow dots. Most comments below were genuinely confused, but the folks who heard the dog whistle knew exactly what they were saying.
If you still have Facebook and want to help feed the algorithm great Democrats, please follow Margaret Burke for PA House 147 https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61584455714544
Advice needed: Added an international eSIM to my phone last week and now my iPhone can't get it back in its head to let me input numbers as default US (NANP) format without the +1. No obvious settings in Phone, Contacts, or Region that appear to change this. Anyone know how to fix?
The Montgomery County Planning Commission is updating the county's on-road bicycle plan, Bike Montco, and is inviting residents to participate in a public survey through July 30.
Community feedback will help inform the Bike Montco 1.5 update and guide future bicycle planning and improvements throughout Montgomery County.
https://engage.montgomerycountypa.gov/en/projects/bike-montco
#MontCoPa #Bicycle #Transportation #Pennsylvania
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@FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange @cR0w@infosec.exchange An IR laser maybe but more from the heat burning your eyeballs out than anything else
Hey #indieweb reply with the page(s) you're most proud of from your personal site and if I think its awesome too I'll link it up either on my link blog or in the context where it fits in my pages about software, civics, local interest, and purpose.
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@Helenhorstall@jawns.club Thrilled that Represent PA is out there supporting _all_ these amazing women
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@stumblewyk@jawns.club Get a bunch of scouts to carry you around on a litter carrier "for practice"
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@samiamsam@mastodon.social People with a $30k balance don't leave it rotting in a BOA checking account.
Only 100 days left until the mid--term general election here. If you're in the United States make sure you have a plan to vote, know where you're voting, and check your voter registration online for validity. If you have questions about WHO to vote for, reach out to your local party of choice or turn on the news for thirty seconds or so.
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@BoydStephenSmithJr@hachyderm.io It doesn't, it just assumes Americans don't call anyone outside of the +1 prefix regularly.
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@cR0w@infosec.exchange @FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange I believe you were told that, but I'm skeptical because the wavelength is not high energy enough to do anything but heat your cornea a little and you'd feel it on the rest of your skin like being out in the sun on the beach
The marketing priorities of the Republican State Leadership Committee based on their ads page:
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Democrats are scary tax raisers
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PLEASE don't be afraid to vote by mail
Conclusion: GOP got shellacked by the sheer quantity of mail-in ballots from Democrats in the primary election around here. They know this misinformation from Trump admin (among other things) is actively hurting their local chances.
https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR12183047847502938113?region=US
Gross podcast ad for Monday.com in my feed about how their ad was made with AI after they laid off 20% of staff.
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@encthenet@flyovercountry.social As a site owner I'm not going to validate randomauthbox.win just so one or two users can hop on my service. Anything it "attests" to is no more credible than what you write in a form box. What does self-provided SAML SSO provider give you any more than a passkey (hardware or virtual) does?
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@FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange
You pretty much hit on the same stuff I did. Here's my marked up version I'll talk about tomorrow:
https://files.vees.net/2026/Lower%20Salford/Data%20Centers/Ord%202026-07%20Carlson%20Comment.pdf
@phillycodehound@indieweb.social
On a first read, the proposed and advertised data center ordinance in Lower Salford Township (2026-07) seems pretty good actually https://www.lowersalfordtownship.org/media/3076/packetaug4_5.pdf
#LowerSalford #DataCenter #Pennsylvania
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@encthenet@flyovercountry.social In most cases you are trusting the SSO to give you a unique identifier that you can leverage AND you're trusting the provider's security mechanisms as an extension of yours for account takeover. IDP size isn't *terrible* as a proxy of deciding if they're secure. I guess there's a world where you just check /.well-known/jwks.json and log your user's auth creds as iss+sub for subsequent logins if that's what they want, but then you'll have/need some secondary cred reset path anyway.