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Robert Buchberger
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developer, climber, nerd
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The kind of person that kills dogs.
March 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Signal's a great app to keep your communications secure, but make sure you know the identities of the users in your group chats.

Our SSD guide on how to use Signal includes guidance on managing your group chat preferences.
How to: Use Signal
Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.0. iPhone: 7.0 License: GPLv3 Level: Beginner Time...
ssd.eff.org
March 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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One of my Radical Leftist opinions is the government shouldn't be able to deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process of law
March 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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"THE PURPOSE OF CLASSIFYING HIM AS A GANG MEMBER OR GANG ASSOCIATE IS BECAUSE ONCE HE GOES IN FRONT OF AN IMMIGRATION JUDGE WE DON'T WANT HIM TO GET BAIL"

--an actual ICE officer, to a reporter while standing in front of a camera he knew was recording him

www.thenation.com/article/arch...
March 17, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife, Noor, files an upsetting but powerful statement with the court: "The past week has been the worst of my life, and I find myself without my single greatest source of support, in my time of greatest need." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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they have to tell this lie about harris running too far left because they're not allowed to say "look, we will not run on the left regardless of electoral performance because our rich donors pay us not to"
This is so profoundly strange from @slotkin.senate.gov. The Harris campaign ran one of the most aggressive outreach efforts to moderates, independents, and soft Republicans in recent memory!
March 7, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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I'm a proud mother. Whether I'm walking my son to school or reading him a bedtime story, I do everything to make sure he grows up loved and cared for.

And for the sponsor of the drag ban to say that my existence is a fetish is false & cruel.

I'm glad we were able to defeat this hateful bill today.
March 7, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Can't wait for the Party of Reagan to explain how Lech Walesa is a woke commie simp.
Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa and 38 other former political prisoners of Poland's communist regime have condemned Donald Trump's treatment of Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, which they said reminded them of communist interrogation techniques
Wałęsa condemns Trump treatment of Zelensky, likening it to communist interrogation
notesfrompoland.com
March 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Anyone out there daily driving #nushell? Should I finally sit down and learn it? I've been interesting in switching for awhile but never took the time.

#linux #foss #cli #commandline
February 12, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Forever grumpy that #sonarr is for tv and #lidarr is for music. Seems backwards?

#linuxisos
February 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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I don’t know what you all are talking about i think Judge Cannon’s call on that penalty was very principled
February 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Instead, consider using:

- Descriptive examples ("user", "product", "order")
- Relatable scenarios ("bookstore", "recipe", "playlist")
- Simple numbered items (item1, item2) if context doesn't matter

Small changes like this make our docs more welcoming and easier to understand for everyone! 💡
February 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
In software development, it is extremely common for devs (especially the young, “smart” ones) to encounter an unfamiliar project, judge that it is too complex to be saved, and decide to throw the whole thing out and rebuild it from scratch.
“Regulations, basically, should be default gone,” Musk said. “Not default there, default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...
Elon Musk Suggests Getting Rid Of All Regulations In Midnight Call
"If it's not possible now, it'll never be possible," Musk said of his proposal to simply ignore all federal regulation as a baseline.
www.huffpost.com
February 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Anyway, we're about to deploy active-duty military on US soil in a primary law enforcement role for the first time in 28 years. The last time we did that Marines stalked and killed an 18-yr-old US citizen who was herding goats.

His name was Esequiel Hernandez.
January 26, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Opinion | Dear Donald, don’t deport my nanny. Yes many immigrants are dirty and lazy, but this one is clean, hard-working, and reliable.

by Bret Stephens
January 24, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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And guess what? Right here you've done the thing.

Thanks!

(What you did was say "hmm, he must mean something which contradicts something I believe and I'm going to make sure I let everyone know because my understanding of nuance is that, if it's not spelled out, it's not there)
January 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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If Democrats had any political will to win at all they would make today all about Trump bringing literal Nazis into government. Get some hundred year old D Day vet to show disgust. Blow it up. But instead I anticipate happy horseshit about seeking areas of common interest.
January 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Better idea: pass a comprehensive data privacy bill that applies across the board... and maybe *DON'T* mimic Chinese authoritarianism by creating a "Great Firewall" of apps that aren't allowed to operate here.

You can actually fix things AND not abuse the 1st Amendment in one shot!
I’m concerned that Americans are flocking to a number of adversary-owned social media platforms. We still need a comprehensive and risk-based approach to assessing and mitigating the risks of foreign-owned apps.
January 15, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
January 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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I made after our episode with Lawrence Lessig.
You all really should listen, it's one of the best episodes we've done!
December 31, 2024 at 8:11 AM
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Honestly, the Let's Encrypt folks don't get nearly enough credit for basically protecting the entire fucking internet, by making it absolute bog standard to encrypt everything. It happened so fast and so many people were skeptical.
VPN vendors have huge budgets to advertise on your favorite podcasts.

We don't have marketing for the IETF, browser and OS security teams, CAs (Let's Encrypt), CDNs, researchers, open source authors, website builders, digital rights activists...

We made the web secure and didn't tell anyone.
Man-in-the-middle attacks on Public WiFi networks haven't been a realistic threat in a decade. Almost all websites use encryption by default, and anything of value uses HSTS to prevent attackers from downgrading / disabling encryption. It's a non issue.
December 20, 2024 at 5:18 AM
This is your occasional reminder that:
- #rss never went anywhere and it’s awesome
- there are so many good #websites out there, you aren’t stuck with big tech feeds
- get some of your news from not-an-algorithm
December 20, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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Hi Adam, I take your point that the quadratic formula can be presented in a way that does not inspire understanding or affection. And it sounds like that's how it was taught to you. So let me try to make a better case for it. Here's how I discussed it in my book The Joy of x. (1/9)
December 15, 2024 at 1:31 AM