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larrymcp··on I told people I'm a convicted felon after 20 years of hiding it
I believe I've located a news article which gives a brief description of the altercation, at https://archive.is/utJqE

It says that his mother told police that "her son hit her husband after the couple confronted him about being involved in a robbery. She told police her son had property in his room that they believed may have come from the robbery."

larrymcp··on Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga
I'll give a punctuation correction here, for a more professional look. In the pop-up boxes it says "2 more places under this dot, click to see them". That's a common grammar error called a "comma splice", because the second part is a sentence with complete subject and verb. That comma would need to be a semi-colon, as in: "2 more places under this dot; click to see them".
larrymcp··on How A Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist
One question, how did they know which specific servers to take? That would've required some interesting research / espionage ahead of time, but the article didn't mention that part of the job.
larrymcp··on Corporate America Has Suddenly Decided to Stop Blowing Money on AI
https://archive.is/osBJs
larrymcp··on President pardons 9 for Clean Air violations for 'fixing their car'
I agree with the example given in the sibling comment, and this is why the framers believed there needed to be a final “safety valve” outside the courts. Legal systems are imperfect, and sometimes a pardon is the only practical way to remedy an egregious error.

Another example where pardons might be useful is when laws are changed after sentencing. If the new law does not provide for retroactive adjustments, a president or governor can grant clemency in order to correct disparities in sentencing outcomes.

larrymcp··on As banks close accounts, experts point to immigration crackdown
This link is still the blocked, paywalled version of the article.
larrymcp··on I just want simple S3
Ah, thanks. Yeah I was confused because in his long list of vendors he didn't mention Wasabi, Backblaze etc. It appears that I do not know the context of his post.
larrymcp··on Anthropic Reopens Talks with Pentagon
https://archive.is/cEq9x
larrymcp··on WebMCP is available for early preview
He probably means the large German drug store chain called DM.

https://www.dm.de/

larrymcp··on Kansas invalidates drivers licenses of trans people
The headline was mis-typed here: you're missing the apostrophe in "driver's licenses".
larrymcp··on Fix your robots.txt or your site disappears from Google
I agree; I'm calling "incorrect" on this for now, pending corroborating sources. I run a few sites that don't contain a robots.txt file, and they are showing on Google just fine. I see links to the home page and several interior pages; all good.
larrymcp··on Health care data breach affects over 600k patients, Illinois agency says
Ah, I think I recall the story you're referring to: reporter Josh Renaud of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch discovered that a public web site was exposing Social Security numbers of teachers in Missouri. He notified the site's administrators, and later published a story about the leak after it was fixed.

The governor of Missouri at the time, Mike Parson, called him a hacker and advocated prosecuting him. Fortunately the prosecutor's office declined to file charges though.

larrymcp··on GPT-5.2-Codex
Can anyone elaborate on what they're referring to here?

> GPT‑5.2-Codex has stronger cybersecurity capabilities than any model we’ve released so far. These advances can help strengthen cybersecurity at scale, but they also raise new dual-use risks that require careful deployment.

I'm curious what they mean by the dual-use risks.

larrymcp··on The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy
I think I understand where he's at. If your web site has compatibility issues with smaller browsers like Firefox at 3%, Opera at 2% etc. then you could be losing out on 5% of your sales. If you were to approach any CEO and ask if they'd be interested in an initiative to increase sales by 5%, they would most likely express an interest.
larrymcp··on Claude Skills
> starting from ground zero

You probably mean "starting from square one" but yeah I get you

larrymcp··on Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement
> I had one client spending $12,000 per month on Google Ads

In Google Ads you can just turn off the option to run your ads on non-Google sites; I think it's called their Display Network. Just run your campaign only on Google's search pages.

I'm surprised the article doesn't mention this rather common solution.

larrymcp··on A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator
Here's an archive link: https://archive.is/w0izj
larrymcp··on A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator
Here's an archive link: https://archive.is/w0izj
larrymcp··on After 50 years, The Magic Circle finally inducts Penn and Teller
Fantastic. Another great one that blew my mind (and P&T's) is Nick Einhorn from the first season, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma-S9-bgvlg&t=77s
larrymcp··on Dear valued user, You have reached the error page for the error page
The funny thing is, this error message is hardly less useful than the recent trend of error messages which say only, "Something went wrong".
larrymcp··on Earths largest camera:3B pixel images
The title should be corrected to "Earth's", which is the original NYT headline. "Earths" would mean more than one Earth.
larrymcp··on OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
I think you probably mean "shouldn't have". There is no "shouldn't of".
larrymcp··on Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line
Get a taxi or ride-share maybe?

I was expecting the article to cover this possibility, but it didn't mention it.

larrymcp··on The Taylorator – All Your Frequencies Are Belong to Us
Ah, yeah. If this signal reaches your neighbor across the street, then maybe it's a "public performance" and you've got to get ASCAP and BMI licenses.

(And start taking requests.)

larrymcp··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
https://archive.is/AWVuv
larrymcp··on Indonesian government datacenter locked down in $8M ransomware rumble
Connected storage, then?

That ain't no backup

larrymcp··on Retired detective: We got it wrong in Robert Roberson's death penalty case
That's the case of Cameron Willingham, for which there is an excellent write-up of the details at https://archive.is/HAhJi .
larrymcp··on Is There Any Benefit to Multivitamins?
And what's this "DNS test" which diagnosed it?
larrymcp··on Credit card debt collection
He states that they typically won't sue you for debts of just a few hundred dollars, but if it's over $1000, then they're more likely to sue you in order to be able to garnish your wages and bank accounts, and/or file liens against your property.

So, "maxing out all your credit cards" it depends on just how much that maxxing would be.

larrymcp··on Lawsuit accuses DoorDash of charging iPhone users more than others
My same question, yeah. If you think of buying a new car, for example, the salesman will size up the customer in all sorts of ways, taking many signals into account in order to negotiate the price as high as he think he can get the customer to agree to. Perfectly legal, and it happens all the time.

I don't know if this DoorDash suit named the specific area of law that they allege was violated, but I would need to understand the difference between what DoorDash is doing and my scenario of the car salesman, for example.

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