On March 10, 2025, Xitter experienced major service disruptions throughout the day. Users couldn’t access the platform on both mobile apps and the website. Here’s what happened and why it matters. What Happened? X suffered multiple waves of outages starting early Monday morning: First wave: Around 6:00 AM Eastern Time, ... Read More

(This post originally published on 47 Watch) Recent administrative changes at the Social Security Administration (SSA) reveal a concerning pattern of decisions that disproportionately impact vulnerable populations while being implemented in ways that limit public awareness and oversight. Two specific policy reversals highlight this trend: the reinstatement of 100% benefit ... Read More

I sent this as an op-ed to the Portland Press Herald but have no delusion they will ACK it or post even a small part of it. As a longtime Mainer and independent voter, I have watched Senator Susan Collins’ career with cautious optimism, hoping her self-branded image as a ... Read More

Today, my Senator — Susan Collins — failed in her oath and duty to uphold the Constitution. She voted for the appointment of a traitor to head national intelligence, and is supporting someone for director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) who openly wants to dismantle the foundations ... Read More

We generate a ton of PCAP files at $DAYJOB. Since I do not always have to work directly with them, I regularly mix up or forget the various tshark, tcpdump, etc., filters and CLI parameters. While this is less of an issue in the age of LLM/GPTs (just ask local ... Read More

Short post just to get the internets to index that I posted a repo with a small Bash script I’ve been using to resolve Bluesky/ATproto handles (like hrbrmstr.dev) to did:plc identifiers. Not sure why I did do this ages ago tbh. Code is here but it’s small enough to include ... Read More

Christian nationalists, the GOP, clueless Dems, & SCOTUS have done quite a bit of real, serious damage to the fragile state of democracy & discourse in the U.S. They’ve also set back over 70+ years of hard fought advancements at record speed. It’s a big, complex problem to solve, and, ... Read More

Wake the heck up, 🇺🇸. This is the company the dude +40% of you want to give the keys to the country again kept. Crooks hang with crooks. I don’t know about y’all, but I like candidates for U.S. President who haven’t been convicted of a felony. Here’s the list ... Read More

I had not planned to blog this (this is an incredibly time-crunched week for me) but CERT/CC and CISA made a big deal out of a non-vulnerability in R, and it’s making the round on socmed, so here we are. A security vendor decided to try to get some hype ... Read More

I use Fantastical as it’s a much cleaner and native interface than Google Calendar, which I’m stuck using. I do like to use the command line more than GUIs and, while I have other things set up to work with Google Calendar from the CLI, I’ve always wanted to figure ... Read More