Shite like this is flatout #racist and should be #outlawed worldwide!

The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database

• Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

Link: https://archive.ph/el4IE

If you care about game preservation this non-profit organization that works on preserving games in Japan really needs money.

Article: https://www.timeextension.com/features/we-might-be-about-to-lose-a-powerful-force-in-the-world-of-video-game-preservation

Website: https://www.gamepres.org/en/

I was curious if the closure of The Bay meant we would lose archives about the company history.

Turns out there is an Hudson’s Bay Company Archives, which is a partnership between the Government of Manitoba and the Hudson’s Bay Company History Foundation (HBCHF). The foundation is funded separately from the actual The Bay company and apparently not about to close.

They published a memo to confirm that the archives are safe:
https://librarianship.ca/news/hbc-archives-update/

Amazon will remove the ability to download the ebooks for Kindle at the end of the month. So if you ever close your amazon account, you'll no longer be able to access the books you had bought.

Let's fix that

1. Bulk Exporter: https://github.com/treetrum/amazon-kindle-bulk-downloader

2. Calibre to manage books https://calibre-ebook.com/download

3. Calibre plugin to remove DRM: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/remysharp.com/post/3lihtiq2rqc22

Our PV Spec:

24.14kWDC tied to twin 10k SolarEdge inverters
4.8kWDC is DC coupled to the XW systems
91x Solar Modules, average 330w each
eGauge Circuit-Level Monitoring System
3x Schneider XW6848 Inverters - AC coupled together for power sharing

1x 20kWh DIY LFP battery
1x 5kWh Fortress LFP battery
1x 40kWh AGM Unigy II Battery
1x 60kWh battery in EV with 12v-48v DC converter for charging house batteries

Total 28.94kWDC PV Capacity

Ground mount installed 2017, roof mount 2019. System paid off Oct 2023. The utility pays me!

We bank approximately 5MWh each summer, and draw on it in winter via 1:1 net metering in Maryland.

Additional efficiencies include HP water heater, inverter mini-split, dual-stage central HVAC, and blown insulation.

We use 25MWh annually, which is a ton. But #datahoarding storage drives burn watts!!

TBH, the problem is that #Facebook is allowed to just pay a #fine, instead of facing actual #penalties.

• It's not enough to have #NSAbook pay an insultingly low sum that won't even cover the time needed (or costs) to #unfuck this mess and change all the details of an affected person, but to have actual consequences aka. #jailtime and #AssetForfeiture against the people from the person who implemented it up to the CxOs!

Anything else is undue leniency...

It's a a problem if I can fill 12 Tb worth of drives with data?

I get the feeling, my SpaceQuest collection alone actually looks like a job for a trained librarian...

... I just wanted to play a few retro games!

One of my favorite things about internet communities is how fast they can organize sometimes.

Game Informer was shutdown today with zero warning to anyone and now the MinnMax Discord server is working on archiving as much as possible.

It's a beautiful nerdy thing.

I don't know if this is a culturally-specific thing, but I do not know where our community elders are getting the *spectacular* amount of video content they forward around on WhatsApp and fill their phones with. Who is generating multi-minute "good morning / blessed day" videos of a spinning heart with clip-art text and a song in the background? Is Big Data Storage targeting Black people?

Please help me with a long-term family tech support issue; Is there an easy way on Android to move WhatsApp media (if not the whole app) to the SD card rather than internal memory? Here are the constraints;
- older Samsung (S7 IIRC)
- current data/chats/etc must *not* be lost (includes departed friends and relatives)
- rooting is not an option
- Android forks are not feasible either

Bonus points if you've made this work yourself and can explain it! Thank you :)
#Android #WhatsApp #DataHoarding

New instance, who dis?

#introduction

About me:
#usaf
#veteran
#sysadmin
#father
#vegan
#atheist
#exchristian
#boglehead

Interests:
#solar
#electrification
#ev #electricvehicles
#composting
#sustainability
#datahoarding #datahoard
#homelab
#selfhosting
#homeassistant
#scifi

#Introduction #Welcome

Please repost for visibility, so I can find people with similar interests. Like or comment for me to take a look at your profile, and possibly follow.

Likes/Interests: #Programming #Technology #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #Fediverse #OnlineFreedom #Privacy #Anonymity #Anonymous #InfoSec #CyberSecurity #Manjaro #Linux #Science #Socialism #HumanRights #SocialJustice #MultipolarWorld #Programming #Python #Golang #Rust #RetroGaming #Gaming #SelfHosted #TechNews #Matrix #Youtube #Movies #Anime #Hentai #Erotica #Futurology #AI #Singularity #Fitness #Health #Collapse #ClimateCrisis #Audiobooks #Books #Fantasy #SciFi #StarWars #Fanfiction #Conspiracy #CriticalThinking #Cooking #DataHoarding #Piracy #FileSharing #Meshnet #Decentralized #Distributed #P2P #PeerToPeer #IPFS #Zeronet #Freenet #I2P #Tor

Dislikes/Disinterests: #Music #Memes #Sports #Coffee #Animals #Cats #Dogs #Nazis #CIA #NATO #UsEmpire #Oligarchy #Plutocracy #Kleptocracy #Imperialism #Fascism #Racism #Capitalism #Billionaires #Woke #Wokeism #Liberals #Democrats #Republicans #Conservatives #BigTech #ClosedSource #Microsoft #Discord #Copyright #Censorship #WesternMedia #MaintreamNews #OfficialPropaganda #Surveillance #PoliticalCorrectness #SurveillanceCapitalism #DRM #DataMining #FakeNews #Misinformation #Disinformation #EchoChamber #FilterBubble #CorporateMedia #Consumerism #Materialism #Overconsumption #PlannedObsolescence #FastFashion #Waste #EnvironmentalDegradation #Gentrification #Inequality #Neoliberalism #Globalization #FantasyFootball #Apple #Tech #BoardGames #TTRPG #DnD

Best to worst: #fopnu #nicotine+ ( #soulseek ) #aMule ( #edonkey2000 #ed2k ) #EiskaltDC++ ( #dcpp ) #gnutella #Shareaza #qBittorrent ( #BitTorrent #torrent )

My dream social media platform. What do you think, what are the most interesting ideas, what other features would you like to see, how would be your perfect social media platform?

> So where is the airborne infection control? Mere hours after the meeting concluded, the CDC removed access to a publicly-available recording of the session.
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/hospitals-are-killing-patients-because

Speaking of which, did anyone grab a copy of that and reupload it? Because this kind of memory-holing information is not acceptable.

Been here 2 months and still don't have a proper #introduction, here goes. I work in IT at a small MSP, but want to transition to networking eventually. Relevant tags;

#datahoarding / #datahoarder
#homelab
#linux
#docker
#selfhosting / #selfhosted
#3dprinting (especially speed printing)
Wannabe #maker
Wannabe musician, started learning about #synth recently.

Sometimes it feels like my hobby is picking up hobbies.
I use #archlinux but because I'm too lazy to not have AUR.

Re-#introduction with all of the new faces.

I'm Nat or icco (pronounced eye ko). I am an #SRE (Site Reliability Engineer), Author and general creative person. I live in New York and love making stuff.

Interests: #flyfishing, #hiking, #writing, #datahoarding, #politics, #music, #indieweb, #photography and #wandering.