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I don't know what the percentage would be, but we do have some historical precedent that could give us a clue. Best one I can think of is when bigger websites started actually drop…

Okay, but is being present at a protest where others push through a barrier enough for the first amendment to no longer apply or do we know he was one of the people doing the barri…

I mean, given how the site performs on average I don't think they've optimized so much that the extra cpu cycles of ANDing with the fixed constant of 2^64-1 and then looking up or …

Perhaps a little tin foil hatty and definitely not the only reason but Microsoft owns Github and also makes a boatload of money off of Azure. Incumbent cloud providers like Azure h…

I think there's an important distinction in making money off of a tragedy your investment had no part in causing and happily announcing you did so. To use a slightly hyperbolic exa…

mm, if i can't get it to work with the dc-dc converter i'll definitely go that route, good idea

Coincidentally, I bought a 12v car horn yesterday with the intent of wiring it into my ebike's power supply with a little button on my handlebars. Not because of other cyclists or …

cause a lot of lives have been lost! they even thoroughly blew up a school. it's generally considered to be in somewhat poor taste to celebrate your personal gain in situations lik…

increasing the (social) pressure on maintainers to get PRs merged seems like the last thing you should be doing in light of preventing malicious code ending up in dependencies like…

You're right, I misremembered the order in which I learned about these things as the order in which they were announced. (lol, I sound like an LLM apologizing for getting something…

yeah, but I got the impression that the EU is very much doing it as a retaliation to the US and UK doing it. Tho they could have limited it to just those countries.

Congratulations, you're a lot smarter than the average person. I understand this is sometimes a bit annoying, but at the end of the day it's probably something to be grateful for.

table stakes, but people still mess up on it constantly. The "yeah, but that's only a problem if you're an idiot" approach to this kind of thing hasn't served us very well so it's …

I flew out of the UK twice in relatively short succession in ~2018 and the first time was out of London City: did not have to take off my shoes. I was pleasantly surprised by this …

I'm aware. I just think the Trump administration would say "Do it anyway".

even if they don't have access to the actual data, the US government has the option to order Microsoft to switch these essential government services services off. For example, as a…

The “benefitting from being friends with the US” is exactly the frame Trump would love for you to use. It’s a little more nuanced than that imo. After WW2 the US wanted the Europea…

Sure, no argument there, but the fact is there was a weakness there and a weakness that would be considered a threat to national security if it were to get out - before today

I shouldn’t have used the word disappeared, I just meant picked up. And yeah no, not for saying a substation exists and could be bombed. But for saying there is a single substation…

I didn’t mean this substation existing. I know that’s obviously not a secret. The fact taking it out takes out the entire main airport for at least an entire day is a different mat…

The fact this substation exists, yes, obviously. The fact taking it out takes out the entire airport: not so much! These kind of things usually aren’t dependent on a single substat…

There's "significant problems" and there's taking out *the* most important airport in the country. Yes, there are other airports but this one matters most. Both in terms of (inter)…