BREAKING: Speaker Mike Johnson just inexcusably voted against the American people and his voters by casting the tie-breaking vote 212-212 to defeat a FISA 702 amendment requiring a warrant to spy on Americans.

This is how the Constitution dies.

Brought to you by the House GOP.

TYRANNY: House PASSES Bill to Renew FISA Warrantless Spy Program by 273-147 Vote – 126 Republicans Vote YES to Snoop on Americans Without Meaningful Limits

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/tyranny-house-passes-bill-renew-fisa-warrantless-spy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tyranny-house-passes-bill-renew-fisa-warrantless-spy

JIM JORDAN: “It's not complicated. If you want to spy on American citizens, you need to get a warrant.”

The Dutch organization, Massaschade & Consument, sued Google for privacy violations, citing a study revealing data collection without user consent. Researchers intercepted and analyzed traffic from Android devices on a Dutch server. Google's app, Google Play Services, gathers extensive user data, including orders, favorite places, call details, and location via GPS and Wi-Fi.

https://nltimes.nl/2024/04/08/another-dutch-class-action-google-massively-collecting-android-users-data

If you’re one of the several hundred learners in the Linux for Beginners class run by this channel, your invitations for tomorrow’s Weekend Linux Workshop are being sent out to your e-mail now!

This week, we look at using your new Linux Operating System for practical web surfing on your computer: The safest, and best configuration you can possibly use in these dystopian times! Where do downloaded files go on your Linux computer? How do you "decompress" your downloaded files? What programs can you download and execute? And how does this idea of being able to download Windows software to a Linux computer, and run it in a secure container on your Linux desktop, really work?

Learning about the parallel technology world of Free and Open Source Software is a decision to take back control of your personal information, data and ultimately your Digital Freedom. We welcome you to the Linux for Beginners class and a new chapter of your digital life. You will like it! While everyone else is being abused by "big tech" with no end in sight, it's time for you to get used to winning in your technology world!

See you online tomorrow @ 5:00pm Eastern!

Apparently, trains in San Francisco are still running on some pretty old technology. 🤣

Galaxy DX 2547
CB Base Station Transceiver

Now this is truly rare, a D&A Warrior 1kw (1,000 watts!) tube amp for CB radios.

Won’t mean much for those who were never in to CB’s, but for those who are … what a sight!

Use a Ham radio antenna tuner to match impedance at low power then crank it up!

You could drive 700-900 watts output from a 1 or 2 watt radio with one of these. 🤯

Experimental of course for authorized 10 meter bands, not for use where not permitted! 🤩

Ok frens, no joke … found this monster clock radio, first made by GE in 1979, that was called “the Great Awakening” 🤯🤣

It says so in this old magazine ad (enlarge the text and you can see!)

And someone actually wrote an article about it: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-clock-radio-and-its-moment-in-consumer-technology

Just to set the record clear once and for all that Jeff.pro truly finds unique stuff you won’t see on any other channel 😂 😂

only 70’s and 80’s kids will understand 🤣

So many … I guess I’ll go with “Where Everybody Knows Your Name”, the theme song from Cheers.

What do you say frens..best TV theme song?

Good article about Mozilla’s co-founder, Brendan Eich, one of the first “tech figures” to be cancelled by the woke mob about 10 years ago, because he dared to oppose same-sex marriage in California.

This article is being shared by major tech personalities on social media today. It seems to be a recognition that the “woke mob” has caused a lot of unnecessary damage.

“I was working in New York's “Silicon Alley” when it happened, and I immediately recognized it as a major escalation in the culture war. It was a warning that the Leviathan of technocracy did not care how well I did, how hard I worked, or how well I treated others. Ideological conformity to the top-down, programmatic transformation of the country that was rapidly taking place was all that mattered. If I was unwilling to affirm the current thing dictated according to the whims of “progress,” I was an enemy of humanity and an enemy of America. And my beliefs, no matter how ancient, innocent, and valid, must bow to the will of Leviathan, or the digital swarm would descend upon me.”

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2024/04/the-anti-fragile-brendan-eich

John Carmack on Twitter/X today, saying he regrets “not doing more to support and defend” Palmer Luckey when he was fired from Facebook in 2017. Carmack was responding to Netscape founder Mark Andressen who was voicing regrets about the “cancellation” of Brendan Eich by cancel culture (see above article).

Palmer Luckey was a founder of the Oculus gaming company. He was famously fired from Facebook in 2017, because he donated to an anti-Hillary Clinton political group.

Truth is flowing! Seeing John Carmack (one of the best known personalities in computer gaming) make this admission today is stunning! 🤩👍

If you are in the Linux for Beginners class, this week’s livestream was choppy due to apparent capacity issues at Rumble. However, a replay is now available at the same web link you received in your invitation for this week’s class.

Just click on the same link you clicked for the 5pm class, and you should be able to watch the replay!

Thanks for understanding, frens. And as usual it will also be available on the LMS system tommorrow afternoon.

Digital Enslavement vs. Freedom

Learning to break away from the government/'big tech' technocracy is one of the most important, healthy things you can do for yourself, now and for your digital future. Linux is Digital Freedom!

Learn a little more each week by following this channel. And start your Linux journey in our Technology forums -> forums.jeff.pro

PRAYER

Heavenly Father, we rejoice in Your Son's resurrection, the triumph of life over death and light over darkness.

We give thanks for the redeeming sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which we have been granted eternal life. Fill us with Your Holy Spirit, that we may walk in newness of life, spreading the good news of Your love and grace.

We pray for an end to all wars and conflicts in our world. Stir the hearts of leaders and nations to pursue peace, replacing hatred with love. May the corrupting influence of the military-industrial complex be dismantled, and may war profiteering be replaced with a new urgency to meet the needs of our people.

Father, we pray that You raise up leaders of integrity, who seek to serve their people with humility, justice, and righteousness.

We humbly bring these prayers before You, in the name of our risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, to whom belongs all glory, honor, and praise, forever and ever.

Amen.

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We are running a little behind schedule getting last week's classes uploaded to the LMS as there was a bit of a complication on Saturday with the video feeds.

Should be up by tomorrow afternoon!

pretty much

Did you know that T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T are selling access to their customers’ location data, and that data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters and others not authorized to possess it, letting them track most phones in the country?

https://www.cnet.com/news/politics/senators-call-for-investigation-on-phone-companies-selling-location-data/