Gus Nasses
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Gus Nasses
@gnasses
Systems Architect generalist, programmability padawan, automation acolyte, AI prompting artisan, unrepentant displaced Denver sports fan.
A big ol' cold place Katılım Kasım 2009
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@Theurb @jaketapper @atrupar It’s really simple. If ICE agents had followed the law and their standard procedures, no one would have been killed.
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@jaketapper @atrupar It is really simple. Had these people not been whipped into a frenzy by state politicians who want to protect illegal immigrants, they would still be alive today. They had the freedom to protest and obstruct law enforcement, it just didn’t go the way they expected.
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A CNN investigation — 18 Days In Minnesota: The false claims, chaos and coverups behind the Trump administration’s killing of two American citizens cnn.com/2026/07/22/pol…
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All ICE has to do is follow the actual law and the findings of courts.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Homan on people getting killed by ICE: "It comes down to one simple fact -- these people failed to comply with law enforcement ... all they had to do is comply. If they did, they'd be alive today."
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Look what I found.
A portable backpack from Israeli company Cognyte that is being sold to American Police Departments that allows them to surveil and intercept cell phone signals pretty much anywhere.
New York’s equipment catalog lists the FalcoNet Backpack Core V2, containing six software-defined base stations and support for a broad collection of 2G through 5G cellular bands. It includes Silent Call, Heat Map, MuCom, Enhancer, spare batteries, a tablet and a mobile controller. The state contract price was $372,777.30.
The backpack allows surveillance personnel to leave the vehicle and continue tracking a phone inside environments where a van cannot go, such as:
Apartment buildings
Shopping centers
Hotels
Airports
Parking garages
Convention centers
Stadiums
Pedestrian demonstrations
The system is portable enough to be carried covertly through dense public spaces.
Texas also purchased one backpack package for $355,500, plus a $70,000 unlicensed configuration and a $27,000 flexible antenna kit.
This has to be unconstitutional and needs to be challenged immediately because this is only going to get worse.

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This dandy from the WSJ Editorial Board:
"Since Mr. Trump declassified the memo, we can quote the part he didn’t. “Vote tabulation systems would be difficult to manipulate on a wide enough scale to compromise election results,” it says. “The systems in each voting location are not connected to the Internet or to each other, and many methods for exploiting them rely on physical proximity.” Achieving it across many jurisdictions “would be difficult” and “audits and paper trails very likely would uncover such an effort."
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"Unfortunately, the message from Mr. Trump and others has been that America’s elections can’t be trusted, and the only hope is the SAVE America Act. Aside from being untrue, this is a political backfire for the GOP. If Republican voters believe it, and the bill falls short, then why waste time going to the polls in November? Has the GOP already forgotten how Mr. Trump’s fraud outbursts cost them two Senate seats in the 2021 Georgia runoffs?"
wsj.com/opinion/donald…
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If you thought Flock was bad check out Falconet.
Falconet from Israeli company Cognyte serves as a cell tower simulator that intercepts cell phone data from all devices within range. Police mount these systems in Tahoes so the vehicles can collect information while driving through areas without any direct interaction with targets.
This mobile approach generates ongoing records of phone locations and communications for everyone nearby rather than only suspects, which creates comprehensive movement profiles and bypasses traditional warrant requirements under the Fourth Amendment.
Cognyte sells the technology directly to U.S. agencies, as shown by the Texas Department of Public Safety purchase of four Tahoes where over three point eight million dollars went to the interception equipment. Adoption spreads through routine vehicle procurement with little external review of how the collected data is stored or shared.
Once active the systems permit warrantless collection of private cell phone data across entire communities during normal patrols, which enables potential misuse and leaves individuals with no effective way to discover or contest the surveillance.
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"The fine must fit the crime": Supreme Court agrees to hear @IJ case of an Alaska bush pilot whose plane was taken by police after a passenger was caught with a six-pack of Budweiser in her luggage. @m_greenberg1 ij.org/press-release/…
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Anything u put heart into is art.
Code can be art. Hacking can be art. Doesn't mean they always are.
Architecture is sometimes art and sometimes it's a block of flats.
Code is sometimes art and sometimes it's made in Silicon Valley
mel@melqtx
people who say programming is art baffles me
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@dorianmuthig @TracketPacer Modern servers I work with use VICs or other CNAs that allow virtualization of a multitude of NICs. For Cisco UCS M8 chassis you can install VIC 15235, 15425, 15237, or 15427 or a quad-port Intel x710 or e810 or others. These are physical cards in built-in slots or PCI-e slots.
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@TracketPacer Nobody “removes” a NIC from a server, unless the C literal, still stands for “card”, and it has previously been *added* to it.
Modern servers have NICs (multiple!) integrated into motherboards and they aren’t removable… unless you try really hard with specialist soldering tools
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@RuslanSmith1 @GSDeutch @WajahatAli @jewishinsider Allies help during wars. When America was attacked on 9/11 our NATO allies joined us in military operations. Where was Israel?
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@GSDeutch @WajahatAli @jewishinsider Why should it fundraise for congresspeople who abandon America’s closest ally in the midst of a freakin war?
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New: AIPAC is no longer fundraising for the 18 Dems it endorsed — 15 of whom are up for reelection — who voted this week to end U.S. aid to Israel
Now 71% of the candidates AIPAC is funding are Republicans, & 29% are Dems
More in @jewishinsider:
jewishinsider.com/2026/07/aipac-…
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