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Volundr

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Volundr··on Presidential Immunity in the United States
Commanding the military is a "core constitutional power". Thus he has immunity regardless of if said commands are illegal. He (probably) can't go and shoot someone on main Street as he once bragged, but ordering the military to do so...
Volundr··on Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines
> If you can't defend yourself against that then you have no rights.

My sister is wheelchair bound with MS. Half the time she can barely see. You can give her all the guns you want and she isn't going be to able to defend herself. I reject your nonsense assertion that because of this she has no rights.

Volundr··on Anti-aging injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis
Lots of folks are pointing this out, but it's not like there isn't evidence to suggest this will also apply to humans.

> Human knee tissue collected during joint replacement surgeries also responded positively to the treatment. These samples, which include both the joint’s supporting extracellular scaffolding, or matrix, and cartilage-producing chondrocyte cells, began forming new cartilage that functioned normally.

Volundr··on Anti-aging injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis
Always a good call out, but also:

> Human knee tissue collected during joint replacement surgeries also responded positively to the treatment. These samples, which include both the joint’s supporting extracellular scaffolding, or matrix, and cartilage-producing chondrocyte cells, began forming new cartilage that functioned normally.

Volundr··on 2025 was a disaster for Windows 11
> I declined the OneDrive or backup sync or whatever it was and it’s gone.

It is? How? Mine comes back every 30 days and there is no "fuck off, I never want this" button.

Volundr··on Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached
Then your piggybacking on their infrastructure. I don't think they are unreasonable. "It can be done for pennies, but I won't" sort of implies that it does indeed take more than pennies worth of effort.
Volundr··on Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached
If you want to run your own push for pennies all you have to do is compile the client yourself.
Volundr··on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?
FTA

> I've had Claude Code write an entire unit/integration test suite in a few hours (300+ tests) for a fairly complex internal tool. This would take me, or many developers I know and respect, days to write by hand.

I have no problem believing that Claude generated 300 passing tests. I have a very hard time believing those tests were all well thought out, consise, actually testing the desired behavior while communicating to the next person or agent how the system under test is supposed to work. I'd give very good odds at least some of those tests are subtly testing themselves (ex mocking a function, calling said function, then asserting the mock was called). Many of them are probably also testing implementation details that were never intended to be part of the contract.

I'm not anti-AI, I use it regularly, but all of these articles about how crazy productive it is skip over the crazy amount of supervision it needs. Yes, it can spit out code fast, but unless your prepared to spend a significant chunk of that 'saved" time CAREFULLY (more carefully than with a human) reviewing code, you've accepted a big drop in quality.

Volundr··on Netherlands – Capital Growth Tax and Capital Gains Tax for Box 3
Ah, that makes more sense. Sorry I was not getting there from the original comment.
Volundr··on Netherlands – Capital Growth Tax and Capital Gains Tax for Box 3
Calling the expense ratio a tax is like calling the labor cost of your car repair a tax. The expense ratio is what the fund manager is charging to cover their labor and expenses. It's not a tax on the transaction going to the government.
Volundr··on The feds want to make it illegal to even possess an anarchist zine
I understand how one might use a bat to hurt someone or break something. I understand how one might use lockpicks to steal something. I don't understand how one might use a magazine or pamphlet to shoot a police officer.
Volundr··on RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
You missed the point that we are clearly talking about how having backup in your home country doesn't help if the US ships you off to some random prison in another country. If your only concerned about US citizens I guess that's up to you, but the conversation had very clearly moved past that.
Volundr··on RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
Original comment, written by you!

> ... At least the non-citizens typically still have a backup home abroad.

Next reply:

> having a backup home abroad does you no good if you are trafficked to a labour camp in some random hellhole country

Then the comment I replied to:

> Yes, you can imagine bad things.

(Implying this fear is unfounded)

Yeah man, I can read. We're very clearly talking about non-citizens. Your original comment did ALSO mention US citizens, but since we are talking about people with a "backup home abroad" the reply is clearly referencing the non-citizens in your original comment.

Volundr··on Our babies were taken after 'biased' parenting test
My guess was minutes, and looking it up it turns out that's right (is that a precise enough answer though?), but I wouldn't have been shocked if it turned out to be seconds or hours. Fot some odd reason astronomical distances just haven't come up enough in my day to day life that this is something I have ready to go at a moments notice.
Volundr··on RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
None. But the thread isn't about US citizens, so I'm not sure why you'd ask.
Volundr··on RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
I mean we watched those things happen already. The whole CECOT thing was just a few months ago.
Volundr··on Proxmox virtual environment 9.1 available
Funny enough, Proxmox VE is 17 years old. I want to say it was ballpark 13-14 years ago I was using it to replace ESXi to get features (HA/Live migration) that only came with expensive licensing. 15-20 years ago there were definitely companies doing exactly this.
Volundr··on An official atlas of North Korea
And there's not enough in them to charge or investigate any 3rd parties, until some are made public and now there's enough to investigate Democrats.
Volundr··on USDA head says 'everyone' on SNAP will now have to reapply
1% of 1.5%, so ~0.015%. I think it's fair to question if the juice is worth the squeeze here. To say nothing of if the most efficient way to go about it is really to make 41 million people reapply and reprocess all those applications.
Volundr··on Subway sandwich thrower found not guilty in D.C. jury rebuke
> I find it strange that people can go from this man was over-charged for a minor assault to thinking of him as a victim.

Two things can be true. If I step on your toe, intentional or not, and you shoot me in the face, I'm a victim. It doesn't make me innocent of toe stepping, but the disproportionate response was entirely unjustified.

This guy tossed a sandwich into the chest of a man wearing a bullet proof vest, offered to turn himself in, and they responded by having a massive raid on his house that they remixed for their socials. That alone makes him a victim to say nothing of the ridiculous prosecution or the officer lying on the stand.

Volundr··on Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race
> Declaring bankruptcy means you don't pay the debt, you wouldn't pay a lot AND declare bankruptcy. You'd see the amount was too much to pay, declare bankruptcy, and have the debt wiped out.

Bankruptcy isn't a magic get out of debt button. First you have to prove your inability to pay, which generally means not having much in the way of assets. So you probably have to spend a significant amount of money on the debt before bankruptcy is even an option. Then once you have successfully declared bankruptcy it means, aside from a few classes of protected assets (e.x. your primary residence if your sufficiently lucky to be a homeowner) your creditors get to divy up what you have left amongst themselves. THEN the debt is wiped away. It's a last resort that keeps every penny you earn for the rest of your life from going to creditors, not a way to walk away with your assets and lifestyle intact.

Volundr··on At the end you use `git bisect`
If all you care about it fixing the bug, this is probably often true. Certainly bisect is not part of my daily workflow. Sometimes though you also need to know how long a bug has been in place e.x. to track down which records may have been incorrectly processed.

Edit: tracking down where something was introduced can also be extremely helpful for "is this a bug or a feature" type investigations, of which I have done many. Blame is generally the first tool for this, but over the course of years the blame and get obscured.

Volundr··on Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
Yes actually. As far as I'm aware even the President can't pardon crimes someone may commit in the future. Can you point out the ones where he did that?
Volundr··on Shutdown with no clear end poses new economic threat
Republicans also have the option of agreeing to extend the ACA subsidies, which is even a majority of MAGA voters want.
Volundr··on Migrating from AWS to Hetzner
> Do i search for Postgres?

Yes. In your AWS console right after logging in. And pretty much all of your other setup and config questions are answered by just filling out the web form right there. No sshing to change the parameters they are all available right there.

> And what happens if it uses too much resources?

It can't. You've chosen how much resources (CPU/Memory/Disk) to give it. Run away cloud costs are bill by usage stuff like redshift, s3, lambda, etc.

I'm a strong advocate for self (for some value of self) hosting over cloud, but your making cloud out to be far more difficult than it is.

Volundr··on Email bombs exploit lax authentication in Zendesk
Yeah I got enough of these from discord, that I emailed their abuse@ and put in a support ticket, but they ignored me. Nice to have it confirmed. I ended up doing a password rotation on the off chance it was me.
Volundr··on Half of America's Voting Machines Are Now Owned by a MAGA Oligarch
So I did go ahead and read over the first on your list, claims, Pennsylvania supreme Court ruling, and the district court ruling (super fun reading) and yeah... Not convinced. I won't attempt to summarize everything here because it's a grab bag, which is common with all these election cases. Throw a bunch of shit at the wall and hope something sticks. The claims pretty much boil down to X common practice (including many that are common in my state of Idaho, ex mail in ballots, drop boxes, which, weird, no challenges) could lead to fraud and are therefore unconstitutional, under some fuzzily spelled out mechanizm, and we are entitled to ??? (Seriously, no clear cut relief was spelled out for most claims, which is generally a requirement).

Now sure, maybe this is one of the "kooky" ones, but then we are back to, which ones? "Here's a list of 100 cases, read them all" isnt a reasonable ask. Getting a handle on this one was a significant (wasted) time investment. One which I already wasted significant amounts of time on back in 2020-2021.

You claim "most" did not get a fair hearing. It shouldn't be hard to pick one and clearly explain what was unfair about it.

Volundr··on Half of America's Voting Machines Are Now Owned by a MAGA Oligarch
> The vast majority did NOT get a fair hearing at all.

Which ones?

Volundr··on Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid
I mean there's the (in)famous example of all the Venezuelans being sent to El Salvador.
Volundr··on Regarding the Compact
None of these establish heckling as illegal. The first two are about the police not being able to arrest the target of the heckling for incitement (which, yeah, clear 1st amendment violation), the last is about Stanford imposing limits, which is entirely different from the government doing so.
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