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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 4h

My Microsoft Shit Posters signal group is full of baseball nonsense and this is not what I created it for 😬

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 5h

Not much point in developing new features if you don’t have the capacity to deploy them 🤷‍♂️

Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 6h

Work it

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 7h

Too many fingers de’on 😂

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 7h

Bets on Thiel being a backer?

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 17h

SCOOP: Spyware maker NSO Group confirmed to us that the company has been acquired by a U.S. investment group.

NSO's spokesperson said the group "has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership," but declined to say who is behind the investment.

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors | TechCrunch

NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.

techcrunch.com

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 17h

SCOOP: Spyware maker NSO Group confirmed to us that the company has been acquired by a U.S. investment group.

NSO's spokesperson said the group "has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership," but declined to say who is behind the investment.

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors | TechCrunch

NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.

techcrunch.com

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 7h

That’s a car not a laundromat

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 7h

And I got a private one because the state one will only pay out in WA so if you retire elsewhere it’s wasted money.

Plus it was a percentage of income, with no cap.

Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 7h

As someone who has long term care insurance because the state mandated it I can safely say it’s shit. Max payout $30k over your life time

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 8h

@tess.bzky.team are you at the laundromat yet?

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 9h

I note that this doesn’t say “I am doing it by myself”

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 9h

Why you no give treats?

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 10h

A tub of British toffees

Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 10h

He should complain and say he’d rather have had chocolates 😈

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 10h

Homeland Security’s tweets are starting to get DMCA’d

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 10h

Dear gods what is @tess.bzky.team doing to your towels?

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 10h

Don't forget to research which ER has the best poison control.

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 10h

Don't forget all the mushrooms that will suddenly appear

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 11h

Ha. We’ve ruled out doing a proper thanksgiving because the kittens are a menace.

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 12h

Umm

An ad for a heritage turkey asking you to “celebrate the art of breeding”

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Liz Miele @lizmiele.bsky.social · 15h

SHE WASHED HER CAT IN THE WASHING MACHINE • silly sketch i made about my the very real incident where i washed my cat in my washing machine (HE’S FINE!!). Full story is in my new special SPACE CAMP out now on @punchup at punchup.live/lizmiele • it’s ad free, uncensored and pay what you want.

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 15h

I don’t know about happy

Slightly less unhappy maybe

I wouldn’t be a security person otherwise

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 16h

Naw that's just a bad preview photo, it's actually the desktop forum

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 16h

Oh god, that's what I'm hoping for. my old desktop sounds like a jet engine when compiling, but I was worried when i read community.frame.work/t/noisy-psu-...

Noisy PSU fan

Nice write-up. Thank you for sharing! Had to run some errands earlier and was inspired by your post to also capture my PSU noise intervals: Tried some post-processing to bring it out a bit more. I...

community.frame.work

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 16h

@hailey.at How's the noise on your framework desktop? There's a big angry community thread about it.

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