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No, they detected helium, which would be in the upper reaches of the planet's atmosphere (as on Earth); they believe there are other gasses lower down, but the helium is what's confirmed.

If it becomes this easy then Secure Boot just becomes Vista-era UAC. Sometimes making the security bypass an intentional act that requires some knowledge is a good thing. Most PC users, were their bootloader compromised and they saw such a screen on startup, would instantly press yes and forget about it within 5 minutes.

Not to say that having Microsoft as the custodian of the keys preloaded on all PCs is the optimal solution, but I don't think a token yes/no to add any random key on boot is a good idea either.

You can load your own Secure Boot keys and sign your bootloader yourself; as for why the Microsoft ones are preloaded, probably because they're the only entity that interacts with all of these OEMs and had enough leverage over them to force Secure Boot adoption in the first place.

> As long as it meets float and cap requirements

Even with the CRSP indexes this was recently changed to make fast-tracking for these IPOs easier.[0]

> CRSP indexes were also recently changed to better accommodate fast entry . . . Previously, these screens included having at least 10% of shares qualifying as freely tradeable (known as float shares outstanding, or FSO). However, in April the methodology changed to allow stocks with either 10% FSO or approximately $3.3 billion in float-adjusted market capitalization to be eligible for index inclusion.

That change is notable because both Anthropic and SpaceX are planning to IPO at well under that old 10% requirement.[1] Neither would have qualified for fast-track inclusion before, but both are virtually guaranteed to clear the absolute valuation bar.

[0]https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/some-indexes-accelerate-e...

[1]https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/06/01/c...

> The people living there continued to bring river mussel shells to the midden for hundreds of years after the dingo’s death.

Hundreds of years? Damn, that's probably well more than most cultures would afford even beloved pets.

Pretty funny it works on Apple Silicon before it works on a Raspberry Pi

The prevents them from asking before extending an offer, but it seems they could (and should) have checked after.[0]

> However, an employer may ask about criminal conviction(s) after extending a conditional offer of employment (the employer can never ask about arrests or criminal acusations that aren't pending). An employer who properly asks about a criminal conviction can only withdraw the offer or take adverse action against the applicant for a legitimate business reason that is reasonable under the six factors* listed in the Act.

One of the six factors is "Fitness or ability of the person to perform one or more job duties or responsibilities given the offense"[1], which they probably could have invoked after asking (though they never checked or didn't check thoroughly enough, so I guess it's moot).

[0]https://ohr.dc.gov/page/returning-citizens-and-employment

[1]https://ohr.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/ohr/publicat...

No, they mean Anti-Zionist Tag[0], an extension that is live on the Chrome Web Store and identifies anti-Zionists for the benefit of Zionists.

[0]https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/anti-zionist-tag/ek...

> If . . . the replacement has a higher version number than the one in the SYSBCKUP directory, then the replacement was copied into the SYSBCKUP directory for safekeeping.

This as well. I know there are a million ways for a malicious installer to brick Win95, but a particularly funny one is hijacking the OS to perpetually rewrite its own system components back to compromised version number ∞ whenever another installer tries to clean things up.

It doesn't say for certain, but assuming the version of this they settled on (restoring components after the installation finished) is what they shipped in the original version of Windows 95, then no, I don't think this could have caused hangs in the installer itself (unless Win95 misjudged whether the installer had completed or not and started the restore process early?).

> Carr suggested the exemption should no longer apply to programs he characterized as being “motivated by partisan purposes.”

I know the timing makes this seem cravenly partisan, but revoking an exemption like this could be motivated by a desire to ensure fairn-

> while the FCC chair was targeting late-night talk shows, he had made clear that right-wing talk radio would not be subject to the equal time notice.

Ah, well.

> upcoming updates to the weights will fix it

Oops, the unaccountable algorithm eased when it should have tightened and Volcker Shocked when it should have eased. No prob, the weights will get tweaked and all will be well. Once the economic crisis blows over, anyway . . .

> The algorithm is to be tuned over historical data

Because as we all know, when it comes to financial markets, past performance guarantees future results. Oh wait . . .

No, they're referring to an error that pops up when you visit a page whose url ends in 'women-in-the-world.html'; you can click okay and still browse the page though :-)

That wasn't obvious to me, because in that case the answer to why this website wasn't created in previous years seems obvious - because USDS wasn't being demolished in previous years.

> The average taxpayer spends $150 and 9 hours a year on their taxes

Not in a meaningful way for most people

> Ask yourself: Could this website have been written anytime in the last 8 years?

No? It was authorized by the IRA, which was only passed in 2022.

> Given where we are now, the stat I gave, and that only a small number of people are mourning something important speak to my point?

I mean, I wouldn't expect regular users to mourn anything until tax season rolls around next year and people find the tool is missing; even still, I actually have seen a lot of people mad about this, not that it matters. And I still think 16% growth after months of reporting about it getting shut down isn't bad.

> we all see what we want to see

Yup, and what I see is that Intuit, Inc. gave to exactly one PAC, that donates exclusively to R candidates. Tesla employees also overwhelmingly donated to Kamala Harris[0]; does this mean Tesla and Elon were backing Kamala to win?

> If it hadn’t been Trump, Intuit would be working Joe Kamala.

They didn't donate to him in 2020, so I'm not sure why I should assume this.[1]

[0]https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/tesla-inc/summary?id=D00005...

[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20210110001759/https://bideninau...

I'm not sure how much control the USDS that developed DirectFile (or whatever was left of it) had over that given the reasons that article cites for the confusion

> The IRS deemphasized the program on its website, the report said, and the media coverage this filing season focused on the question of if the tool existed or would continue to in the future.

> Billionaire Elon Musk caused confusion in early February when he posted on X that the team powering Direct File was “deleted,” leading to headlines like “Elon Musk says he 'deleted' IRS Direct File. Can taxpayers still use the free service?” Direct File saw a drop in use after that.

To be honest, I'm impressed there was even a 16% traffic increase this year at all.

So (if we take your interpretation at face value) you could call it a 'presidential power grab', or maybe even an 'executive power grab' (if we stretch things and assume power is being transferred away from executive departments subject to greater oversight), but 'federal power grab' still doesn't make sense. No power is being grabbed from or by the federal government as an entity.

> this just looks like a federal power grab

A federal power grab from . . . the federal government?

DirectFile was a material product that had a 94% satisfaction rate.[0] Within the remit of this organization, if making filing taxes free and easy doesn't count as making people's lives better, then I'm not sure what does.

[0]https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/06/direct-fi...

Interesting, thanks for reinforcing the point. I would note the two columns 'From Individuals' (which includes all employees) vs. the 'From Organization' column. Worth noting that the R-affiliated GOPAC is the only listed recipient that actually recieved funds from the organization.

Of course, this page doesn't include the $1M inauguration donation, so it's still incomplete.

Nobody in the Eastern Bloc was trading with the US very much; I was thinking more about other countries. North Korea would have been relatively unfettered within the Eastern Bloc, for example, same as most communist nations.

Also, the director was kidnapped in 1978, so before those sanctions were tightened down in the 80s and well before any Eastern Bloc states could see any writing on the wall. I'd be curious how those restrictions compared to those the US had on most other communist nations.

At the time this movie was being made I don't think NK was any more sanctioned than any other Eastern Bloc country, and plenty of other Eastern Bloc countries had little issue scraping together enough cash to pay westerners to do stuff

How's this project doing after it lost its founder and biggest contributor (Andreas Kling)? I see the commit history is still reasonably active, so it's not dead at least . . .

Ladybird is no longer part of the SerenityOS project, and Jakt seems pretty dormant; my understanding is that Ladybird is moving to Swift as an eventual C++ replacement.

Just run VSCodium[0]. Unfortunately there's no Xcode equivalent, of course.

[0]https://vscodium.com/

This is common? Did the Biden admin halt all communications, grants, travel, etc.? NPR posts transcripts of their programs, do you have a link so I can see what they said?

The Trump admin repeatedly weakened regulations around atrazine imposed by the Obama admin[0][1], only for the Biden admin to reimpose them.[2][3] I suppose we're about to see them severely weakened again.

Edit: to the people talking about RFK Jr., he's not going to be running the EPA; anti-regulation crusader and laissez-faire fan Lee Zeldin will be.[4]

[0]https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/trumps...

[1]https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/trump-...

[2]https://www.eenews.net/articles/epa-tightens-limit-on-popula...

[3]https://www.sej.org/headlines/biden-proposes-raising-accepta...

[4]https://www.eenews.net/articles/meet-the-great-deregulator-t...