Now there's a cheap way to completely freak out the world: place 1M$ on one of these dates, a week or two before, and make the money trail impossible to trace.

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When ICE is finally abolished, I think Quentin Tarantino should film the documentary.

Iran has an actual real-world need for citizen-built wireless networks a-la Freifunk in Germany. I'm sure there's lots of experienced rooftop-yagi-people willing to consult setting that up. (Especially if they don't have to physically go there until after the revolution.)

Eh, duh, no routes, no traffic.

Does anyone know what the internet-situation within Iran looks like?

Traffic is gone, but AS's stay visible. I'm not a routing guru, but to me this suggests they do not block BGP. Any routing experts want to weigh in? Does this mean Iranians could use lots of VPN endpoints and Tor bridges on TCP port 179?

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ICE tweet and song it refers to: "We'll have our home again"

(Every single US white nationalist knows this song. If they have a Horst Wessel Lied right now, this is it.)

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YOU KNOW IT'S WINTER WHEN THERE'S ICE HANGING FROM THE TREES.

Holy smokes. I posted something here. My messages get bridged to Mastodon, and one contained a link to my own server. And I just happened to be looking at my server logs.

I'll tell you one thing: if Mastodon ever becomes another order of magnitude bigger, we won't need dDoS tools anymore.

Second time in a short period that there's sabotage to the power network here. The previous time, in September, was also quite a lucky hit: many homes dark, long time to repair.

Anyone else having intermittent trouble connecting to Signal?

Which Democrats are on the record saying that when they get elected, ICE will be immediately disbanded and a new and much smaller and more professional agency will be hired from scratch?

This is your reminder that if you are making any preparations for a wilder post-whatever world, you need to ditch any and all modern vehicles. For the price of one of these, get yourself a small parking lot full of early-90s Toyota LandCruisers.

Jeep software update bricks ve...