Richard Stanley
@citizenrich.bsky.social
PhD, Engineering, Interoperability, Privacy, Electronics Hobbyist.
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Senate Republicans insisted on restoring about $400 million in funding cuts the president had proposed for PEPFAR. It was a rare show of mettle. But it was not enough. ICYMI @citizencohn.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-fum...
We Are Fumbling the Fight Against AIDS
Senate Republicans saved some PEPFAR funding at the last moment—but Trump has already heavily damaged the program.
www.thebulwark.com
July 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Senate Republicans insisted on restoring about $400 million in funding cuts the president had proposed for PEPFAR. It was a rare show of mettle. But it was not enough. ICYMI @citizencohn.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-fum...
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"Others such as OKNOB, UTITI and RATPU seem much closer to puerile schoolboy humour. Yet these will also be expunged, along with COXPE." Most waypoints, like me, were named in the 1970s. It was a different era. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
Air traffic controllers refuse to use ‘inappropriate’ route names
Six UK markers, including PIKEY, UTITI and RATPU, will be renamed next month following complaints
www.telegraph.co.uk
July 23, 2025 at 4:32 AM
"Others such as OKNOB, UTITI and RATPU seem much closer to puerile schoolboy humour. Yet these will also be expunged, along with COXPE." Most waypoints, like me, were named in the 1970s. It was a different era. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
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"I will sincerely celebrate a nation that, despite its demagogues and fools, was capable of producing an Abraham Lincoln, a Franklin Roosevelt, a Frederick Douglass, a Wendell Willkie, a Martin Luther King Jr., a Learned Hand, a Dwight Eisenhower."
Despite It All, I’m Still Patriotic
This country has greatness in its soul. Let’s recover it.
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July 4, 2025 at 3:59 AM
"I will sincerely celebrate a nation that, despite its demagogues and fools, was capable of producing an Abraham Lincoln, a Franklin Roosevelt, a Frederick Douglass, a Wendell Willkie, a Martin Luther King Jr., a Learned Hand, a Dwight Eisenhower."
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“You want to get your data into an LLM, but you don’t want everyone else to see it.”
MCP is evolving fast — but its security model hasn’t kept up. Our own Lee Briggs shows how to build a realistic and secure model for AI data access using @Tailscale.
🔗 leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2025/06...
MCP is evolving fast — but its security model hasn’t kept up. Our own Lee Briggs shows how to build a realistic and secure model for AI data access using @Tailscale.
🔗 leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2025/06...
June 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“You want to get your data into an LLM, but you don’t want everyone else to see it.”
MCP is evolving fast — but its security model hasn’t kept up. Our own Lee Briggs shows how to build a realistic and secure model for AI data access using @Tailscale.
🔗 leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2025/06...
MCP is evolving fast — but its security model hasn’t kept up. Our own Lee Briggs shows how to build a realistic and secure model for AI data access using @Tailscale.
🔗 leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2025/06...
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Did I mention that the data broker industry must be destroyed?
The Trump administration is building a central online marketplace for the Intelligence Community to buy private information about individuals from unregulated data brokers — coming soon to www.icdata.gov
theintercept.com/2025/05/22/i...
theintercept.com/2025/05/22/i...
U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data
The government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people.
theintercept.com
May 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Did I mention that the data broker industry must be destroyed?
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Before you get your account verified by BlueSky, consider whether or not you might benefit from some plausible deniability of the posts made on a platform that is public, accessible by everyone, and does not have locked/private mode for accounts.
April 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Before you get your account verified by BlueSky, consider whether or not you might benefit from some plausible deniability of the posts made on a platform that is public, accessible by everyone, and does not have locked/private mode for accounts.
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Helen Garner may not be as widely read here as she is in her native Australia, but she bloody well should be!
March 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Helen Garner may not be as widely read here as she is in her native Australia, but she bloody well should be!
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If you've ever wanted to know why you can't get direct connections with certain clients using @tailscale.com - give stunner a try
github.com/jaxxstorm/st...
github.com/jaxxstorm/st...
GitHub - jaxxstorm/stunner: Detect your NAT quickly and easily, and that's the bottom line..
Detect your NAT quickly and easily, and that's the bottom line.. - jaxxstorm/stunner
github.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
If you've ever wanted to know why you can't get direct connections with certain clients using @tailscale.com - give stunner a try
github.com/jaxxstorm/st...
github.com/jaxxstorm/st...
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"'In this instance, this was a training mission, so there was no compelling national security reason for ADS-B to be turned off,' Mr. Cruz said." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/u...
Army Helicopter’s Tracking Technology Turned Off at Time of Crash (Gift Article)
Senator Ted Cruz, the chairman of the committee with oversight of transportation, said there was no compelling reason for the technology not to have been in use when the helicopter collided with a com...
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:05 AM
"'In this instance, this was a training mission, so there was no compelling national security reason for ADS-B to be turned off,' Mr. Cruz said." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/u...
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This is what the Rubidium reference looks like when it locks up. Here I feed the Bodnar LBE-1420 on the X and the FRK-L on Y on my scope to follow the action.
Video slightly speed up to fit the limits here on 🦋.
Video slightly speed up to fit the limits here on 🦋.
January 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This is what the Rubidium reference looks like when it locks up. Here I feed the Bodnar LBE-1420 on the X and the FRK-L on Y on my scope to follow the action.
Video slightly speed up to fit the limits here on 🦋.
Video slightly speed up to fit the limits here on 🦋.
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Authoritarianism is just domestic abuse writ large. It uses the same tools and the same logic and, honestly, the perpetrators are often the same damn people.
January 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Authoritarianism is just domestic abuse writ large. It uses the same tools and the same logic and, honestly, the perpetrators are often the same damn people.