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penskymaterial··on CIA World Factbook is dead – Here is an attempt at recreation
https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hr10102/BILLS-118hr10102i...

https://youngkim.house.gov/2024/11/08/reps-kim-crow-lead-bil...

> In June 2024, the Office of the SIGAR submitted a sunset plan to ensure a smooth shutdown process and effective and timely transfer

penskymaterial··on FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review
> Have you considered

No, I didn't consider, I muttered "this is fucking stupid" under my breath and tossed the bread in my cart.

When you dilute the meaning of a warning so much, it becomes meaningless.

penskymaterial··on FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review
They're worried about the sacks when the coffee beans are being grown in lead- and arsenic-contaminated soil.
penskymaterial··on FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review
When I lived in California I saw one of those prop 65 cancer warnings on a loaf of bread.

Apparently burning toast can generate trace amounts of acrylamide.

This was enough to convince me a subset of these people are complete lunatics.

penskymaterial··on Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen
> It's a vulnerability of all modern desktop operating systems

Uhm, OpenBSD would like a word, buddy.

https://man.openbsd.org/unveil

penskymaterial··on 11 of 23 Core Open Source Projects Run on 1 or 2 People
You saw it here first hand today, with half the forum losing their minds because they built their tower of slop atop a javascript interpreter which will be sunset in a year. And that dependency is professionally maintained, with a 12 month off-ramp.
penskymaterial··on Platforms' Violent Content Rules Are About to Meet The Pentagon's Firing Squad
You've decided this unilaterally for everyone else, including the families of the unarmed service members who were murdered?

All executions should be public if not for transparency's sake.

penskymaterial··on Platforms' Violent Content Rules Are About to Meet The Pentagon's Firing Squad
You can only cry "muh terms of service" so many times before it's dismissed with a collective eyeroll.

Unfortunately they blew their wad back in 2020.

penskymaterial··on New gTLD Application for .lan
What, exactly, makes it poor? Be specific.
penskymaterial··on New gTLD Application for .lan
Pretty sure MS's official documentation always strongly suggested using a real domain you own for AD.
penskymaterial··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
You're implying that the guy married to an Indian, who named his son Vivek, is somehow racist against Indians?
penskymaterial··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
https://www.jobs.now/jobs/746649922-android-developer

Here's one for Android Developer.

Must apply by snail mail.

If only they made a device (with an OS perhaps) where one could apply to such things electronically.

penskymaterial··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
Are you trying to justify the exploitation of this loophole?

Nearly all these ads say "Send CVs to immigration_department@tech.corp" they aren't even trying to conceal what they're doing.

penskymaterial··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program

  s/American/British/
  s/European/Polish/
or

  s/American/Canadian/
  s/European/Indian/
There has to be a common thread here (ignore Canada's lack of boardwalks).
penskymaterial··on Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
It was revealed George Michael donated millions of pounds to charity and individuals in need during his life... and never told a single soul nor felt a need to.
penskymaterial··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
The army of developers stuck working helpdesk right now because they can't find work, would like a word.
penskymaterial··on Margaret Hamilton has died
Little did she know, the term would be co-opted by guys changing the color of a button on a web site.
penskymaterial··on UPS Worker Missed Security Email, Letting China Get F-35 Parts
UPS has a strong union. I wonder if s/he keeps his job.
penskymaterial··on Account bans on Reddit
The only winning move is not to play.

You should take your ban as a badge of honor, for having upset the worst, most petty, worthless people on the Internet.

Then go outside and take a walk and watch the leaves change colors.

penskymaterial··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
> because AOL corporate email shared namespace with its customers

I wonder where this ranks in the top 5 stupidest things I've ever heard. It's bad enough merging customer databases when two companies merge.

No other major ISP has ever done this that I know of. Likely because it's completely unnecessary. Who made this decision (and why weren't they fired immediately)?

penskymaterial··on South Korea says AI agents appear to have been used to hack the country's banks
They didn't have this problem when they forced everyone to use Internet Explorer + ActiveX...
penskymaterial··on Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
Did those people sign a legally-binding end-user license agreement?

Because what I see is essentially "they're storing stolen property" but the burden of proof is on the author to prove it was, indeed, stolen.

I imagine the bar for that is pretty high otherwise anyone could weaponize DMCA to target their competitors' repositories.

penskymaterial··on Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
Publishing source as client-side JS when millions are out there looking to rip you off at every turn is a losing proposition. And I think you know it.

Shifting blame to GitHub is absolutely idiotic.

Try removing locks from your doors in a high crime area (which is what the Internet is) then being indignant when the police can't stop all the criminals stealing your property.

penskymaterial··on Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
You want to sue people for blocking ads? Did I read this correctly?

If you want to make proprietary software that's cool, but client-side JavaScript was a terrible choice. The cat is out of the bag.

There's a reason software for which you purchase a license key generally doesn't give you source code outside rock-solid legal agreements.

penskymaterial··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
The NPR front page right now has a clip from a profanity-filled interview with a drag queen.

Famously fair and balanced, I know.

penskymaterial··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
Yes, all of them, minus the ones you can count on one hand that's missing a few fingers from a fireworks mishap.
penskymaterial··on Resurrecting iChat audio and video conferencing
A time warp to when video conferencing actually worked, as opposed to every new release of FaceTime now being some kind of avant-garde art experiment with the UI being increasingly impossible to use for both technical and non-technical users.

The last straw for me was making the recents/contacts as confusing as it was, and I personally made some accidental calls to former contacts that for some reason were made front and center.

I expect the next version will hide even more controls behind a new, indecipherable icon that looks like a 2D abstract pair of testicles.

penskymaterial··on OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
Yeah they did it in a sandbox blah blah it could have been a real article just as easily.

It's not worth the outrage when Wikipedia is filled with ministers of truth.

penskymaterial··on Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
Bruh the entire Mac OS used to fit in 20 GB and nothing they have added since has meaningfully improved my life, though some has made it more difficult.

That extra space is for my media.

penskymaterial··on Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
Maybe someone can explain why their SSDs, when not soldered down, are a proprietary form factor and can't be replaced with a standard M.2 device?
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