Notices by Paul Chambers🚧 (paul@oldfriends.live)

Grand Theft Shopping Carts
#AltSportingEvents
#HashTagGames

RE: https://mastodon.social/@WarnerCrocker/116919046577870219

Get the Tums out, #TACO bar is open early...

"It's a #Fediblock #StreisandEffect, Charlie Brown"

Thanks to this useless post wanting to block something they don't like on personal standards of what is substance to the entire #FediVerse I found a place to buy something I really was looking for for my self hosting homelab at $40 off. I didn't have to Google, look at Reddit spaces, etc. just was made aware of the account by this post alone in the image. Yeah, being able to find products without all the tracking, personal data risks, etc is pretty substantial. I'll be the judge of what is substance to me.

BTW, I support commercial purpose accounts. From photographers selling their photographs, to artists, painters, musicians selling their art and crafts, to Flohmarkt Craigslist like federated platform, podcasters, authors and writers using platforms that are Fediverse based or capable with monetized elements... Even accounts that post this type of daily wire in the image. Maybe someday, businesses will be plentiful and a good coupon or sale will come my way.

I removed the account name in the image to prevent dogpiling...

Yesterday, my 85-year-old aunt went on a full-fledged sailor curse spree that could be heard 10 rows in each direction on Trump in the middle of Kroger. I think she was hoping a MAGA would try to rebuke her. She is thirsty to whoop one. #USPol We were embarrassingly proud.😂 During checkout, everybody knew her $100 order should only cost $35 at the most.

@cadusilva that IP comes back to f02cc2fe.bot.fediral.com "bot" domain also

I would venture to say, nothing is going to be placed on fediral.com except the placeholder message "launching soon" and they are running bots of some kind. Could be scrappers Who knows. Might not be a bad idea to block the known IP addresses. Who knows how many they have

@cadusilva I have no clue. I was just searching for that TLD and this hosted bot came back... Might not be a bad idea. At least, there is an IP to look at in your logs to see what they are up to if it is different than the IP you referenced in your OG post

@cadusilva Looks like there is a "c2e96826.bot.fediral.com" on Hetzner at 167.235.147.163, also.

https://ipinfo.io/167.235.147.163

@Infoseepage I tried recovery mode and MDM restricts factory reset, even in recovery, also

Anyone know of a way to remove mdm on a Samsung Galaxy? My old spinal medication baclofen pump was managed by one and now I got a new pump it was replaced with a newer system. I now own the galaxy but it is useless unless I can remove the mdm and do a factory reset. #Infosec #android I've been researching if I can do it

@alice There should be a "block automated accounts" feature in the admin panel for instance-wide blocking and user settings for users on instances that don't block automated accounts.

Doesn't JD Vance have his own security clearance to access the DOD computer systems? Who is this woman on the ID? Why doesn't Vance have and use his own clearance?

A card can be seen inserted into the laptop sitting in Vance’s lap that appears to be a Common Access Card (CAC), an identification card used by U.S. defense personnel. The photograph on the card, however, appears to be of a woman and not of Vance.

Cybersecurity experts criticized the incident, noting that government-issued smart cards should never be used by anyone other than the assigned individual or left in public photo #USPol #Iran #3Stooges

Qatar’s prime minister posted this picture:

Fox Corp Is Buying Roku for $22 Billion

Goodbye Roku #USPol https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/fox-acquiring-roku-1236781308/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RealJournalism/116581863705607399

This has been a Republican fever dream forever

@WarnerCrocker In April 2026, the website was overhauled, removing specific shipping dates and revising terms to state they "do not guarantee that a Device will be produced or made available".

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-mobile-preorder-terms-1795469

@gwaldby #Ohio #OH02 271 VA job cuts, and there already was a severe shortage of staff. Mental health care visits take as long as 102 days to get in some offices... #VA #Veterans #DOGE #USPOL

https://vhadata.org/district/OH-02

@evan I basically meant users attempted to follow a hashtag at tags and the account is created by the software... Not really editor / moderator curation

@evan Are they tags found by the software? If so +1mil. Curated, I would say 100K

@tchambers I normally don't correct typos, but is that hashtag PoSdcast intentional?

@cadusilva Dirty they didn't tell people they stopped those other backups...

I found Backblaze unreliable and left over a year ago

@blogdiva The book quote gets me. In "RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise," there's a passage from RFK Jr.'s journal that reads ... "I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be." Yeah, they are the weird ones...SMDH