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I dunno, but the article continues to be live, and I can't imagine Substack doesn't know how to scrub posts from their platform if they wanted to. We'll find out eventually I guess, so I'll continue to urge people to be cautious with this and wait a bit.

The Substack is still live[0]. Anyway, one of the images in his Twitter banner[1] is an X-ray of a spine with a bunch of screws in it. The Substack is also named after Breloom and has a picture at the bottom, and that's also in the Twitter banner but doesn't seem otherwise prominent in any of his social medias. Not very hard to figure out a spinal issue as a potential motive and guess at an interest based on the banner and cook up a quick viral post. I'm not saying it's definitely fake, just urging a bit of caution for the time being.

[0]https://breloomlegacy.substack.com/p/the-allopathic-complex-...

[1]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GeYOLH2WgAA16X7.jpg

Was this linked from any of his existing social medias? Do we have any way of knowing it's actually him? I'd be just a tad cautious at this stage, given that the Substack page says it was 'Launched an hour ago' as of writing. The article, sure, dead man's switch, but the Substack publication itself was only created after his arrest?

Edit: also worth noting that whatever this is, it's not the document he had with him when he was arrested, since that apparently contained[0] the following excerpt, while this doesn't

> “These parasites had it coming,” one line from the document reads, according to a police official who has seen it. Another reads, “I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done.”

[0]https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/09/us/unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian...

X's mandatory self-reported figures in the EU show they lost about 6 million monthly active users in the first half of 2024. There doesn't seem to be similar data for the US and UK, but other metrics, like Similarweb, show declines in those places as well.[0]

[0]https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-formerly-twitter-los...

You think tech companies want the repair industry? You know about the right to repair movement, right?

> Without Citizens United politics would be even more restricted to a much smaller set of even wealthier people

Really? Because there are many countries with far stricter regulations on campaign financing than the US had pre-Citizens United, that also have much more working class representation in their politics than the US.[0]

[0]https://www.noamlupu.com/Carnes_Lupu_ARPS.pdf

Well, one of the three fabs did. The newer two fabs, including the one with the most advanced processes, started in '22 and '24 respectively; that was thanks to the Biden Admin, per TSMC.[0][1]

[0]https://www.tsmc.com/static/abouttsmcaz/index.htm

[1]https://pr.tsmc.com/english/news/3122

I kinda doubt they're supposed to advertise support for macOS on there, even in VMWare.

> 95% of campaign contributions in favor of a campaign are not directly to a campaign.

Yes, they tend to go to super PACs, not government election offices.

> What was the outcome of the $450 million?

Election offices having more funding to do their jobs.

Does it? The article I linked says

> But election officials have said there is no indication of favoritism in how the money was distributed, according to previous AP reports. The board of the Center for Tech and Civic Life also includes Pam Anderson, a Republican and former elected clerk of a suburban Denver-area county. Republican election officials have also vouched for the program’s impartiality, including Brian Mead, a Republican election director in Licking County, Ohio.

But even if it was true that urban election offices received disproportionately more funding (obviously they received more in general since more people live there), that's still not the same as "putting $450m into Biden's campaign", which is what was claimed.

> after putting $450m into Biden's campaign in 2020

This is false; he donated to state and local election offices, not Biden's campaign.[0]

[0]https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-mark-zuckerberg-ele...

The arrest tells us that he said no to one country, it doesn't say much about all the others.

Ironic that you link to an article about the Gilens/Page study, which showed that it was in large part Congress that was unresponsive to popular opinion, not federal agencies like the SEC.

The Parker Solar Probe is super cool. It's the fastest ever macro man made object, and will go even faster during its closest pass next year. It's also the man made object that's experienced the highest rate of time dilation relative to Earth; during its most recent close pass it was losing around 1000 seconds (~17 minutes) per hundred years due to its speed and proximity to the sun.

Sure, that's a valid concern to have, and I'm not saying the bill is a great idea. I'm just pointing out that there's nothing automatic about the process and the clock to divestment wouldn't immediately start ticking the moment a company crosses 20% Chinese ownership. The person I was responding to said the bill could get weaponized by the CCP to ban things via the threat of them acquiring more than 20% ownership, but that's not how the bill works.

> So to put it bluntly, if the CCP bought 20% of reddit, reddit can't be distributed, maintained or updated by any US company.

Provided they have more than 1 million MAU (which they do, obviously). The president would also have to affirmatively ban it and report to Congress about the specific threat that company poses, and what assets need to be divested. TikTok is the only company written into the bill by Congress that doesn't require affirmative action by the president, or the report.

> the law very likely could be weaponized by the CCP to get things banned that they don't even own yet

Only if the president believes they should be banned.

I'd guess it maybe takes time and money to ramp up/down natural gas capacity, so it makes financial sense to maintain capacity at a loss for now to better/more rapidly profit when solar capacity drops and prices go positive again? If I'm reading the day ahead chart on that page correctly, prices should go positive again around 5PM.

> The two parties do not significantly differ on their use of earmarks and pork barrel spending.

This is not true; the Republicans strongly oppose them and have repeatedly tried to abolish them (and were temporarily successful at one point).

> Neither of the two parties have (recently) proposed plans for balancing the budget.

This isn't true. Both parties have recently proposed plans for balancing the budget; Biden proposed plans to balance it by raising taxes and instituting a wealth tax just last year, and Republicans have put forward various entitlement reform proposals to balance the budget.

> The two parties both favor and continue sanctions on Iran.

Obama ended sanctions on Iran with the nuclear deal before Trump reinstated them; Republicans blocked Senate ratification of the deal, allowing him to do that and ensuring the Iranians wouldn't trust future entreaties from the US. Claiming the two parties are the same on this is odd.

> The two parties do not significantly differ on their use of super PAC funding and their support of unlimited spending from corporations and special interest groups.

Dems support and have repeatedly attempted to pass an anti-Citizens United amendment.

> The two parties do not significantly differ on their use of gerrymandering to gain political advantage.

Dems repeatedly tried to pass a bill banning gerrymandering federally when they controlled the House in 2021.

I'm no expert but for these 5 at least, I am aware of significant and specific interparty differences.

Debian and RedHat link liblzma into SSH for systemd which OpenBSD doesn't use. So in the sense of there being a larger attack surface with those distros I guess you can consider it more secure, but it's not just OpenBSD though; there are plenty of Linux distros that don't do this either.

The EPA did try to curtail their usage but was blocked by the 5th Circuit[0]. They will hopefully either appeal or try to issue another rule using a different authority.

[0]https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-appeals-court-cu...

That requirement only exists once the EPA has created the rule. What the 5th Circuit has just said is that if you've been using a hazardous process for a while by the time the EPA creates such a rule, even if the EPA and public did not know about it, then SNURs can't be applied. In this case, the EPA tried to regulate PFAS in 2020, but since Inhance had been using them since the 80s (without anyone knowing), the rule was struck down. So any company that begins using a hazardous process is incentivized to keep that secret for long enough that the EPA can no longer create an SNUR regulating it.

> The rule requires companies to alert the EPA if a new industrial process creates hazardous chemicals. Inhance has produced the containers for decades and argued that its process is not new, so it is not subject to the regulations. The EPA argued that it only became aware that Inhance’s process created PFOA in 2020, so it could be regulated as a new use, but the court disagreed.

So basically, any company that begins using a process that produces large quantities of hazardous chemicals is now incentivized to hide it until that process is no longer 'new' so that substantial new use rules won't apply to them? I'm sure there's no way this could go wrong.

*Montenegro

Since Apple has to approve every browser anyway (whether on the App Store or not), why couldn't they just enable it only for WebKit browsers? But putting even that totally aside, more engines does absolutely nothing to explain why they've also ended PWAs' ability to run in full-screen mode.

> AnyDesk spokesperson Matthew Caldwell did not respond to an email from TechCrunch. CrowdStrike, which is working with AnyDesk to remediate the cyberattack, declined to answer TechCrunch’s questions when reached Monday.

> AnyDesk did not respond to questions asking if any customer data was accessed, though the company said in its statement that there is “no evidence that any end-user systems have been affected.”

> “We can confirm that the situation is under control and it is safe to use AnyDesk,” AnyDesk said. “Please ensure that you are using the latest version, with the new code signing certificate”.

Mmm. If I were an AnyDesk customer I'd definitively want more details on what actually happened before I used their software again.

He's more of a Commodore guy than just an Amiga guy, but having been a long-time subscriber of his, it seems like he'll work on anything and everything. Worth sending him an email asking if he wants it at least; I've done it before and he responds pretty quickly.

Regarding their mobile OS, Huawei has previously made claims[0] several years ago that it would be "60% faster" than Android and that "one line of Harmony OS code can do 100 lines of Android code". Does anyone know if these claims ever panned out? That would inform how seriously I take any newer claims they make about performance.

[0]https://cellularnews.com/mobile-operating-systems/harmony-os...

There are also all of the various GPD devices[0] as well if you're looking for something a bit more expensive that theoretically has more of a reputation.

[0]https://www.gpd.hk/

Better yet: there is a company that is still currently maintaining and selling a commerical copy of OS/2![0]

[0]https://www.arcanoae.com/

The Wikimedia Foundation is the example that comes to mind, though it may be a bit of a unicorn.