Jon Sagara
@jonsagara.com
Professional nerd (C#/F#). Swift newb. Pretend woodworker. You may remember me from such Internet sensations as @us-parks.parksalerts.com and @us-monuments.parksalerts.com
The Trump regime admitted in court filings that the cancellation of clean energy grants for Hawaiʻi was because the state voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, rather than the previously stated reasons of advancing energy needs or economic viability.
Trump Administration Lawyers Admit Hawaiʻi Funding Cuts Were Partisan
The admission about terminated clean energy grants emerged in recent court filings, confirming what many already suspected.
civilbeat.org
Heat Safety Experts Advise Americans To Seek Privilege https://theonion.com/heat-safety-experts-advise-americans-to-seek-privilege-1850623871/
LOMBARDO: So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi-- TRUMP RALLY CROWD: *Boooooo* LOMBARDO: No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away here recently
Progress Telerik has confirmed that their new license forbids ALL Commercial usage of Fiddler "Classic" for Windows, even if you pay them. I have thoughts. textslashplain.com/2026/08/05/f...
Fiddler in 2026
I’ve shared the stories behind the Fiddler Web Debugger a fair bit over the years, in the Fiddler Book, in a talk at the CodeMash conference in 2015, and on this blog. It features prominently…
textslashplain.com
Right after full self driving … Gotta boost that plummeting stock price right.
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 14h ago$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳
Progressive advocate overcomes over $60m in spending to defeat pro-Israel Congresswoman Haley Stevens.
Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Democratic primary for Senate, NBC projects
Progressive advocate overcomes over $60m in spending to defeat pro-Israel Congresswoman Haley Stevens.
aljazeera.com
Self-propagating malware named 'ChainDrop' has compromised more than 1,300 packages with a combined 2 billion monthly downloads on the Node Package Manager (npm) registry.
Massive ChainDrop npm supply-chain attack infects hundreds of packages
Self-propagating malware named 'ChainDrop' has compromised more than 1,300 packages with a combined 2 billion monthly downloads on the Node Package Manager (npm) registry.
bleepingcomputer.com
If you're Mastodon-curious, I have found phanpy.social to be a much nicer web interface than the stock Mastodon UI, mostly because the former collapses boost storms into a carousel and keeps the timeline relatively tidy
Phanpy
Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client
phanpy.social
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 2d agoCEO of KFC says he wants the company to focus less on fried chicken.
CEO of KFC says he wants the company to focus less on fried chicken.
Stop calling me an amateur. I've been doing this for decades. I'm incompetent.
Here’s some video I shot of the Placer County Big Trees Grove youtube.com/shorts/A9GBG...
Placer County Big Trees Grove #sequioa #placercounty
YouTube video by Jon Sagara
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Moving to NuGet Trusted Publishing was very easy devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/stren...
Strengthening NuGet Supply Chain Security: Reducing API Key Lifetime - .NET Blog
NuGet API key durations will be reduced to 30 days starting August 17th. This change will significantly strengthen the integrity of the NuGet supply chain.
devblogs.microsoft.com
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
I drove Mosquito Ridge Road today, and it seems a little sketchier than it used to be. The road is still uneven in places, but there are now big potholes in the middle of the road 😳
"Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:"
DB 🌱💦 (@dbattistella@mstdn.ca)
Attached: 1 image @Ayzacoder: Attention if you have a Gmail account: Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by defaul...
mstdn.ca
Sometimes it's easy to forget there can also be nice, wholesome stories that involve the internet.
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 4d agothis owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...
Vibe coded software is free as in puppy not free as in beer. Even if writing code is now cheap, you still have to maintain it.
A warm welcome to those who’ve traveled to play or watch the Women’s Pro Baseball League in Springfield. Excited to have you all here in the Land of Lincoln; now let’s play ball!
WPBL set for inaugural game today in Springfield: ‘We want this to become the MLB of women’s baseball’
The inaugural season of the Women’s Pro Baseball League begins Saturday — weather permitting — when Denae Benites and the New York Heights face Mo’ne Davis and the Los Angeles Queens.
chicagotribune.com
🖥️ Good old mstsc.exe GUI on the surface 🦀 Rust IronRDP ActiveX under the hood 👻 mstscax.dll nowhere to be seen 🪝 MsRdpEx doing the API hooking
These dodo birds failed to notice that "Ivory Coast" was not on a coast
At least I got to see the Grand Staircase before those goons defile it 😑
krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read...
Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick
Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the user'...
krebsonsecurity.com