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throwfgtpwd234··on GNU Make Standard Library
GNU Make and GCC, of course.
throwfgtpwd234··on CIA staffers offered buyout deals to resign
Based on what specific evidence?
throwfgtpwd234··on How to prepare to flee your country?
Money and resources are the same thing.
throwfgtpwd234··on Words flagged in search of current NSF awards
Agreed. It's groups in multiple camps that want to force everyone to change how they do things. Superficial, performative "action" and causes don't change anything. Let's just be sensible and try not to harm or discriminate against anyone for any of their attributes. How is this so difficult? I think it's that there are too many people who have firmly married their identities to hate of their socially-acceptable (in their hermetically-sealed echo chamber of team red or team blue) scapegoats.
throwfgtpwd234··on Carl Sagan Predicts the Decline of America (1995)
There was a much more thorough treatment for the reasons and causes in the body of work of Chalmers Johnson. Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope was recommended reading at the CIA. And here's an hour video from May 2004: https://youtu.be/oOjYteh-ZRs
throwfgtpwd234··on U.S. foreign aid freeze derails efforts to stem proliferation risks
Nuclear terrorism hasn't been a trope in mass media for about 10 years, and 20 years since Graham Allison's book Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe. This book convinced Warren Buffett that it was a serious problem. And, that's what's so stupid about ending aid unilaterally without understanding the totality of implications of doing so. When a mushroom cloud sprouts over Los Angeles, it won't be the plot device of 24 anymore and nothing will be able to change what coulda, shoulda, or woulda been possible after-the-fact.
throwfgtpwd234··on Microsoft cracking down people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware
The reason Windows gets slower and slower is to continue selling PCs. It never gets faster.
throwfgtpwd234··on Microsoft cracking down people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware
And the LTSC version won't keep trying to upgrade itself. LTSC enterprise version of Windows or bust.
throwfgtpwd234··on Microsoft cracking down people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware
That's an Arm version of Windows though. The main reasons to install Windows revolve around the need to use Windows only x86/x64 versions of drivers or software.
throwfgtpwd234··on Microsoft cracking down people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware
vTPM only works if there's a real TPM available.
throwfgtpwd234··on Microsoft cracking down people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware
Microsoft sends telemetry and displays ads all over Windows unless it is 11 Enterprise.
throwfgtpwd234··on Microsoft cracking down people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware
That's on newer machines where it's likely built into the processor, not for older machines that had a TPM as an option that connected via a header.
throwfgtpwd234··on Microsoft cracking down people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware
It has to be a TPM 2.0, not 1.2.
throwfgtpwd234··on How to Store and Dry Your 3D Filament: Full Guide
This is exactly what I needed as I'm dusting off my modded Prusa MK3S+ w/ MMU and piles of vacuum-sealed filament.
throwfgtpwd234··on Infosec 101 for Activists
Proton also suffers from a pathology similar to the LavaBit problem. Better off using some other email service that doesn't insist on keeping GPG keys on its servers and using something like Mega instead.
throwfgtpwd234··on Infosec 101 for Activists
Signal leads to metadata by virtue of demanding a phone number. Use the fork Session instead that doesn't have this vulnerability. Or Mega, which does audio and video calls, chat, and file storage and transfer.
throwfgtpwd234··on Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong
Cainiao (AliExpress's shipment arm) and others will probably end up chartering planes to get customs' cleared packages to the US and then cross-ship them from somewhere in the US like Kentucky or Long Beach. Shipping costs will rise but hopefully not by much.
throwfgtpwd234··on Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong
The point is Jeff Bezos wanted AliExpress shutdown because $$$$.
throwfgtpwd234··on Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong
That's not the point. The point is the USPS is abusively discriminating against trade for political purposes.
throwfgtpwd234··on Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong
It's effectively the same price as on Amazon but good luck ever returning that to China. https://amzn.com/dp/B0CSYB8RNC
throwfgtpwd234··on Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong
This is $$$$ compared to China Post Epackets.
throwfgtpwd234··on Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored
The type of business that rests on its laurels and believes ratcheting continuously-increasing rent seeking at the expense of goodwill will soon find themselves without new customers and possibly without a market because they took their self-assured dominance for granted. Hubris. Cfengine and Tripwire both found that out the hard way.
throwfgtpwd234··on Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored
I'd rather pay money to EnterpriseDB than give it to Redwood Shores.
throwfgtpwd234··on Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored
TypelessScript

(Very fun to type when the "S" is lowercased.)

throwfgtpwd234··on Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored
That no longer exists in any meaningful form.
throwfgtpwd234··on Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored
gift without t. ;)
throwfgtpwd234··on Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored
JarvisPact
throwfgtpwd234··on GNU Make Standard Library
What we really need is a C to GNU Make transpiler written in C just so it can translate itself.
throwfgtpwd234··on GNU Make Standard Library
OP FYI: US copyright law doesn't recognize or require a range of years, only the date of first publication. Many organizations have decided to omit (the) year(s) altogether. https://blog.ntpsec.org/2020/02/15/copyright-year.html
throwfgtpwd234··on What's happening inside the NIH and NSF
Remember that that is the goal. Acknowledge the data and deal with it as another obstacle.

Also, I'm wondering if multiple universities could band together to file a TRO and/or a class-action lawsuit against the government for something like estoppel.

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