It’s a question of degrees–Proton is less worse–but every millionaire tech bro seems to want to defend the party enabling this admin. “10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned.” —Andy Yen, CEO of Proton

Is the answer that we were the bunny all along?

Their “and then we’ll be forever tyrants” story actually has another possible ending. It’s not an ending anyone will like though.

To be fair, that code almost certainly was “borrowed” from open source npm projects. I just spent 10 minutes studying it and had a few AHA! moments so you can still exercise your grey cells. Also, you can’t assume LLM gen code is correct so you def should study it until it makes sense to you anyway.

Counting down the minutes until we hear that America will create its own peace prize, much bigly than the Nobel, and the first recipient will be…?

NPR just wants to give both sides. On one side is The American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the UK’s National Autism Society, plus peer reviewed studies involving millions of children. On the other side we have… checks notes… a guy who suggested people drink bleach to treat COVID.

“Due to the special nature of the BBC…” was how many, frankly bonkers-sounding, requirements were presented to us. But to be fair the BBC was right on the cutting edge in many technologies and damn if they don’t have a whole lot of “special” requirements!

I feel like I worked on that “feature” when it was first introduced. We were told, for performance reasons! and how they configured their caching, we could NOT redirect server side. There was some mitigation about it only ever happening once on first visit and only non-UK. Not my proudest work. 😬

Did this originate with the onboard computer in the original Star Trek series? At the time that was written, the idea of a crowd-authored, widely distributed knowledge base was certainly not as relatable as a single all-knowing supercomputer.

A cynical take would be that Trump promoters (including foreign interests) funded and fomented the 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on campuses, firstly as a way to split the Democratic vote and then later as an excuse to accuse those same universities of antisemitism and justify applying the jackboot.

Did a spit-take when I read "Linux distributions… rarely suffer from these sorts of attacks." Maybe I misunderstood the XZ Utils near-disaster, but wasn't that the same issue? OS libraries maintained by unpaid and unsupervised contributors, each a hacker's target? Is that fixed in Linux world now?

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It’s actually not illegal to die from drugs.

I moved away from Tidal after they raised their fees—Apple had a good family package deal on Music, Games and TV. Spotify were promoting far right podcasters so, no. I saved money but Apple’s recommendations ate pants compared to Tidal. Now I just keep listening to recommended music I don’t like.

Let’s add crypto grift to that list: “Those who own land would be offered ‘a digital token’ by the trust in exchange for rights to redevelop their property, to be used to finance a new life elsewhere.”

Literally the office of thoughts and prayers.