Daniel Lakeland

Well after negotiating with USC's IT group, my wife has finally been given the definitive answer that even if they wanted to they couldn't enable her to use Google Takeout on the shared drives where all her lab data is stored, as it just doesn't work on shared drives. So after all that stuff we went through to design an alternative way to back up almost 2 decades of data, she's back to square one. Putting your data in Google Drive is pretty much a one-way operation. Don't do it!

According to the 2025 forum review report my post from 2021 on gigabit routing in the home #network was the most liked post on the #OpenWrt forum for the 5th straight year in a row

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/so-you-have-500mbps-1gbps-fiber-and-need-a-router-read-this-first/90305

If youre running a 500Mbps+ internet connection you might want to check it out I guess.

#networking

Speaking of PhysicsGirl y'all Dianna just posted her FIRST SCIENCE VIDEO IN 3 YEARS this morning, ever since she got Long COVID.

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOO

https://youtu.be/B3m3AMRlYfc

I want to start an online anarchist research university. Fuck signalling and degrees and publication count, I want to host a place where people come to collaborate on building knowledge and to learn and teach things. Not so you can "improve your resume" or "get a job" or create connections to help get you hired or any capitalist bullshit. Just specifically because you either want to know something, or you do know something and want to share it with others.

And I want to build it starting now.

Are there more cookies?

Thanks to @HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social I was turned on two these two #anarchist #economics academics.

https://capitalaspower.com/2023/01/bichler-nitzan-the-business-of-strategic-sabotage-2/

In this article, they argue that although we think of businesses as being "in an industry" like "Trek is in the Bicycle industry" the concept of Industry and of Business are not only separate... they are opposite!

I'll explain why I think this is a key insight in a thread.

Bitlocker is a Microsoft product that encrypts your laptop hard drive etc. Apparently, Microsoft exfiltrates a recovery key for your Bitlocker encryption and stores it in their cloud, they give it out to law enforcement at request. And of course, they give it out to whoever compromises their system and steals that info. Bitlocker is completely worthless trash. Do not rely on it for information security.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/01/22/microsoft-gave-fbi-keys-to-unlock-bitlocker-encrypted-data/