This mural on Harvey Street @ 2400 Mass Ave is nearly finished! Much gratitude to Cambridge Redevelopment Authority for sponsoring this community art project, Liz and Ainsley for the design and execution, and everyone who came out with brushes in hand to bring it to life!
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Ozzie D, NP-hard 
@ozdreaming@infosec.exchange
mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchAnother drop in the ocean. Parent, healthcare provider, IT/infosec hobbyist, bike commuter, cohousing resident, Susboid, and compulsive volunteer and over-committer. Loves language, music, singing alone and with others. Please contribute to your local instance admin. Trans rights == human rights.
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MLKjr quote:
"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows"
Stephen Jay Gould quote:
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
Ranum's maxim:
"You can’t solve social problems with software"
RE: https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/@mf_newsdigest/116919535195052657
Would be such a tragedy if someone developed a DOS attack against #SurveillanceSpecs. Especially if it drained or overheated the non-replaceable battery.
#SurveillanceTech #MetaDystopia #BanRay
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The EU relaxes its replaceable batttery rules for smart glasses after US pressure.
Smart glasses are in European regulators’ and lawmakers’ crosshairs over privacy and surveillance concerns.
But the bloc’s batteries regulation also held up the EU rollout of Meta’s latest model in recent months because the glasses’ built-in batteries cannot be easily removed and replaced.
https://mediafaro.org/article/20260714-the-eu-relaxes-its-replaceable-batttery-rules-for-smart-glasses-after-us-pressure?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward
#SmartGlasses #Tech #Batteries #Privacy #Surveillance #Meta #RayBan #EU
Open quoted postI watch @NYCMayor@mastox.eu videos to relax, as competence porn. This was far from one of his best, but it still says something special about his "social" acumen that my teen looked over my shoulder, blurted out "Mamdani's playing Mario Kart‽" and immediately shared the video link with his group chat. ("he's not very good" was the first reply.)
https://youtu.be/7yezvrOxU7I#Mamdani #MarioKart #CompetencePorn
Talk With The People
Took my kid to #REI in the Fenway today for hiking boots*, and learned with a shock that the store is closing permanently next month (August 2026). 😣 I missed the announcement last fall.
Hilton's Tent City, gone. All urban EMS stores, closed. Are there any camping/ #outdoor supply shops in the #Boston metro area?
- at least she found a pair of lightly-used Timberlands for under $50!
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@FallsMom@mastodon.coffee @hannah@posts.rat.pictures presumably their shiv is in checked baggage
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@universalhub@mastodon.online
The T reported at 9:59 it had persuaded the train it was OK and got it off the bridge.
I really want to see the job posting for MBTA "Train Whisperer".
TLDR: advice for cleaning stinky PC case and components?
A couple of months ago, I trashpicked a gaming tower from a neighbor whose teenager had switched to a laptop, because the tower had some problem that kept it from booting up. It was stored in a (dry) basement for 4-5 years. I lugged it home with the vague intention of converting it to a home media server (since I don't want to add that duty to our mail server). On first testing, I found that its 8-yr-old Intel motherboard seemed to have failed -- I reckon due to inadequate cooling, since the "Deepcool" case had no fans (until I added some) or liquid cooling system, and the CPU fan wasn't properly installed. Other components seemed ok (including the room-decor LED light strips the prior owner had haphazardly duct-taped around the case interior). Anyway, I shoved it under a desk and didn't touch it again until the other day, when I disassembled it fully and installed a cheap Gigabyte board and AMD5 CPU. And it boots, NVIDEA GPU works, storage seems ok.
BUT IT SMELLS. Like a singed basement troll, with hint of stink bug. Mildly toxic. Not quite like stale tobacco. My spouse immediately complained about it. I had already finished a can of compressed air dusting off various parts, wiped down exposed boards and fan blades, but it didn't help much. I'm going to open and clean out the PSU next. Any tips on cleaning techniques are appreciated!
#fixit #DIY #Repair #PCmasterrace #PCgaming #ElectronicsRepair
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@gullevek@famichiki.jp @mark@tacobelllabs.net @evacide@hachyderm.io Lately I've filled my irc niche with the local #meshcore community. Low reliability, low bandwidth, mostly "test" messages, but it's got that, je ne sais quoi, nerd roost vibe I guess.
(I still miss #initgame.)
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@wafflesies@infosec.exchange aww don't tease the poor fella with icons the colour of lettuce.
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@fedward@distraction.party Excellent, I found a couple of optical shops in my area that carry them! Thanks! And hope your eyes recover soon (my throat is still sore from smoke).
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@ShnoofleBear @nixCraft here is what my retirement fund manager is forwarding to clients to try to keep them from panicking:
https://www.morganstanley.com/insights/articles/ai-disruption-fears-stock-market-2026
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@maxleibman
Meanwhile, this is the kind of swill my retirement investment manager is forwarding to clients to try to keep them from panicking:
https://www.morganstanley.com/insights/articles/ai-disruption-fears-stock-market-2026
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@paninid@mastodon.world This is just a LinkedIn ad for an AI scanning tool. The "author", who you didn't attribute, is merely summarizing (prob via chatbot) investigative journalism conducted by Kentucky Public Radio in Oct 2024. https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/g-s1-27676/tiktok-redacted-documents-in-teen-safety-lawsuit-revealed
"FairPatterns' AI scans websites and apps for addictive design, dark patterns, and exploitative practices", yadda yadda yadda.
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@quinn@social.circl.lu @crazyeddie@mastodon.social @farrisswisher@c.im amusingly, this post was in my feed right before I came across this thread: https://mastodon.social/@paulrickards/116586198540063644
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@h2onolan@infosec.exchange @blogdiva@mastodon.social damn, this totally upstages our #CambridgeMA city councilors riding with the Bike Bus here (but thanks @bikepedantic@transportation.social for all those toots!)
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@corgidad @Kevin Oooh, bike up Cadillac Mtn for the sunrise!
I need to research beginner #bikepacking overnights in the area to go on this summer with my kids (one or both of them). Nothing too far away from home, to start.
As a teen, I spent a week bike touring the Cape & Islands, and I can see doing that with the kids too (but they also might prefer to do it with peers).
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@dnkboston @claralistensprechen3rd Hear, hear! But how, how‽ Every time I'm in a grocery store, and see each aisle full of plastic containers end to end, I want to weep. The only way I can imagine this changing is to make the cost of plastic packaging far higher.
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@bones@toot.boston per my neighbor, there's a pick-up soccer game at Russell Field in North Cambridge every Sunday at 9pm.
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If anyone has a recommendation for a personal accountant in Mass who doesn't use cloud-based tax software that imposes a terrible privacy policy on the end user, please feel free to share a recommendation.
To wit: https://www.getcanopy.com/privacy-policy/ . To their credit, at least the policy is legible, and clear about the many ways they'll (ab)use your info, as a client of their actual customer. And it's probably pretty typical. But that doesn't mean I can't look around for something better.
(Our family taxes are not that complicated,we could return to doing them ourselves, but we prefer to hire someone to do it). Sadly, I suspect that any online personal tax filing software will have a similar privacy policy and TOS.)
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@Kevin This makes me want real-time mapping of all the bikes on the road (esp kid-pedi-cargo-cabs) to track where our friends are! If only we didn't live in a surveillance police state.
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@DemonHusky@mas.to Sun Moon Farm, distributes Tuesdays in North Cambridge. https://www.sunmoonfarm.org/
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@nixCraft Hey Grover Norquisling, where ya been, mate? How's that "drown it in the bathtub" plan working out for ya? I'm sure it's all according to plan in your echo chamber.
I wish I had time to compile a great big beautiful book of all the Orwellian bills that these so-called small-government corporatist clowns have enabled, and drop it on their heads.
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@rickscully I don't see a message - what is/was it?
ETA: I see it! Didn't load the first few times.
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@gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place This looks great, thanks! My younger kid wants an electronics/soldering project. (I think this would be a stretch for them, but maybe when they're closer to 12yo.)
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@flaki original journalism by public radio in 2024: https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/g-s1-27676/tiktok-redacted-documents-in-teen-safety-lawsuit-revealed
Better to repost that report, IMO, than someone's LinkedIn summary (which is just a thinly-disguised ad).
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@tankgrrl@hachyderm.io I ominous vaguetoot ... will have to check the Crimson more often I guess.
These stone half-circles line the promenade abutting #RevereBeach. My only guess as to their purpose is that they once held rubbish bins, but all are now empty. Or were they designed for something else?
#RevereMA
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@ShnoofleBear @nixCraft I don't expect to hear these guys concede that their entire "industry" is a sham (c.f. the Upton Sinclair quip about how difficult it is to get anyone to understand something when their salary depends on not understanding it), but I think it's interesting to observe how they try to calm the herd while the bears start to bray.
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@knizer
North Cambridge Family Opera - our final weekend of shows this season! Come see us perform "Weedpatch" today and tomorrow.
https://infosec.exchange/@ozdreaming/116302442524234944
https://familyopera.org
#BostonWeekend
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@stacey_campbell@aus.social ok It's been a couple of decades since I lived in Australia, but none of my flats had flyscreens in the windows. It was like they hadn't been invented.
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@draken@masto.nyc if this happened because of your suggestion, nice job!!
@2600@mastodon.online @hopeconf@mastodon.online
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Meant to link to the festival website: https://www.internationalsandsculptingfestival.com/
Happened right at dismissal time -- my kid heard the shots walking home from school.
https://www.cambridgeday.com/2026/10/06/one-injured-shooting-russell-field/
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