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enlightenson Microsoft/TracerAI withdraws copyright takedown against Luanti

correct, here's the statute:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512#:~:text=%283%...

> (v) A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

> (vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

enlightenson Bike Bureau: Report Bike Lane Obstructions

BLU is doing fantastic work

enlightenson Does every question mark deserve a Betteridge?

Betteridge's Law Considered Harmful

Headline Slams Betteridge's Law

Betteridge's Law: Here's What We Know

Sitcks Nix Betteridge's Law Pix

enlightenson A dock that wakes up reliably

I have a ViewSonic ultrawide like this, picked it up as a factory refurb from their eBay account. Makes it incredibly easy to switch between work and personal laptops (Mac and pc), as well as a gaming tower.

enlightenson Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time

Yarn is usually the next best thing but there seems to be something off with the video in this case

https://memes.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/e9d8176d-e936-4224-a1d1-f...

enlightenson Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

FWIW I use Firefox with uBlock Origin and Enhanced Tracking Protection, and use Chase's website almost weekly. No issues that I've noticed on MacOS or Windows

enlightenson 81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone

The ticket is for “two days of resources that you personally can use”, not “two days of resources that can be used by any number of ticket-holders.”

It’s like the “free as in beer” explanation, I can’t pull up to my local bar running a promotion and fill up a tanker truck. Maybe they’re being hostile to me, a would-be customer, for that, but it’s simply not what’s being offered up.

enlightenson We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk

The EO itself agrees with this and says that the War title is secondary. It explicitly doesn’t truly rename the department.

enlightenson We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk

Only Congress can change the name of a federal department, so the Department of Defense is still properly called that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_14347

enlightenson Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build

The most common one I run into is with volumes, when the full path doesn't already exist. Docker will just make the path, Podman throws an error. It's been called a "bug" in docker but the fact is everyone just expects the paths to be created. I want it to just work, not make everyone in the industry redo their dockerfiles to be "correct."

https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/6234

It looks like there was some work done to resolve this in 2023 and 2024 but I know this was still happening for me in mid 2025. Podman is technically correct here but functionally broken in a way that keeps pushing me away because I don't have time to deal with that :(

enlightenson DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?'

from 1864:

> On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage#:~:text=226-,P...

enlightenson Google Public CA is down

VPN to Greece!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_to_me#:~:text=Swedish

enlightenson Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica

Here's a random elementary school in Santa Monica with a 15mph sign https://www.google.com/maps/place/McKinley+Elementary+School...

enlightenson That's not how email works

I took the use of "virtue signalling" to be an intentional jab at HSBC given everything

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC#Controversies

enlightenson DHS Says DHS-Certified Real IDs Too Unreliable to Confirm U.S. Citizenship

real_real_ID_v2_final__USE_THIS_ONE.pdf

enlightenson Does my key fob have more computing power than the Lunar lander?

Never mind the car charger, what about the cable itself?

https://appleinsider.com/articles/12/10/16/lightning-cables-...

enlightenson Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

It's literally "a-shell"

https://github.com/holzschu/a-shell

enlightenson UK Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

that Twitter account famously posts nonsense

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/jordan-petersons-chine...

enlightenson ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair

The summary at the top of the page says

> ABC said it was pulling the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show off the air “indefinitely” after controversial comments by its host about the slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

but the article says the following, which is entirely different:

> “The MAGA Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said.

> “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving,” he added.

enlightenson Long Term Support

from your sibling comment: > "var" also makes your code less reliable as seen in this example

I disagree with this too, I think your example is a classic case of preprocessor directives making it difficult to know what your code is doing because the build system is going to conditionally change your code. Var or not, you can't even know what's being compiled just by looking at the file, and that's a larger problem than the use of var

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...

enlightenson Long Term Support

Ok but var has been around since C# 3.0 in 2007. Love it or hate it, using that keyword in 2025 signals nothing about how current your skills are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_3.0#Local_variable_typ...

enlightenson Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act

Glad you could come visit from Beverly Hills ;)

EDIT: actually, depending on your age and what you watched on TV, maybe you were visiting from Boston?

enlightenson Lessons from 863 episodes of This American Life

Thanks, as always, to our program's co-founder, Mr. Torey Malatia. He spent his July 4th weekend setting the record for baking the world’s largest deep dish pizza, and as he tells it, having it for dinner was no small feat:

> It feels impossible to isolate anything bite-sized out of all that.

Back next week with more stories of This American Life.

enlightenson FICO to incorporate buy-now-pay-later loans into credit scores

>imposed lockdown and mandate policies with zero scientific basis

The If Books Could Kill podcast just came out with an episode last week about how the phrase "lockdown and mandate policies [have] zero scientific basis" is almost technically true but is certainly incredibly misleading. The short version is that it would be incredibly difficult to ethically test many healthcare policies to the point that they have scientific support in the way we usually think of having evidence... but we can look at the preponderance of evidence we do have and understand that masks help block germs and viruses, staying home from work or school means I won't transmit contagious diseases to my colleagues, etc

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/17348825-in-covi...

enlightenson DeskHog, an open-source developer toy

They do web analytics so definitely end up on block lists for people who don’t want to be tracked.

(I’ve used PostHog on several projects and feel that they are better for privacy than, say, GA, but understand why people would block them)

enlightenson Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts

For those who don't know, you can tap on the link preview graphic and select "Convert to Text Link" to switch back to clickable text. As you mention there's no way to change the automatic behavior but at least it is possible to switch back to text links on a case-by-case basis.

enlightenson Cursor hits $9B valuation

Indeed.

"DID YOU JUST BAN CURSOR?" https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dotnettools/issues/1909

> The error seems very clear to me. Dev Kit is licensed only for use with VS Code, Cursor is not VS Code, ergo it is not licensed to use it.

> Not to mention that only VS Code can use the official plugin registry in the first place. Everything working as intended.

enlightenson The April Fools joke that might have got me fired

I had a client (a national company with multiple locations and call centers!) that was using Lotus Notes for email in 2022, and for all I know they could still be using it. They had to run parallel calendars to work with external event invites, and apparently one of the calendars was backed by a system with a clock that was 5 minutes off because everyone was always getting to virtual meetings at the wrong time.