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Trampling on citizens rights is a luxury of the rich, but in this case it's an echo-chamber government ran by technocrats.

The GET request method is supposed to be safe. "Request methods are considered 'safe' if their defined semantics are essentially read-only; i.e., the client does not request, and d…

I'm getting Access Denied - You don't have permission to access " http://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/08/aws-outage-data-center-fandue... " on this server. (with an Edgesuite error code)

I'm still surprised by the number of web developers who do not understand that, once you include someone else's Javascript on your site, they have full access to everything on your…

"We are also excited to make our 2026 sponsorship packages available in May for organizations interested in enhancing their visibility with event attendees."

California is not anywhere near 83% renewable for total electricity generation. [1] Are you just adding up nameplace capacities without capacity factors? 1. https://www.eia.gov/tod…

I can't believe that it has been over 15 years ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1982489

Cox Communications used to do it in California to inject JS into sites. I remember seeing little Cox popup/toast messages in the corner of other sites.

How does this differ in performance from rffmpeg? https://github.com/joshuaboniface/rffmpeg

I've said it before, but Zero Trust is such a misnomer. It implies less trust in firewalls, VPNs, and other network controls, but much more trust in the ability of end-user devices…

Link to report PDF: https://www.challengergray.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/CR...

A big part of the job losses were driven by Amazon and the end of their UPS contract.

How did the word "suddenly" get into the title?

I'm using Firefox on a Linux workstation (without Tor) and I still got the CAPTCHA. The statement "blog.adafruit.com needs to review the security of your connection before proceedi…

Reddit used to be free for anyone to view without logging in, but now I get "Your request has been blocked due to a network policy." Sorry, but I'm not turning my ad blocker off.

Would it be possible to write an addon to use Perl's Finance::Quote [1] like GnuCash does? It supports scraping many financial websites, as well as paid AlphaVantage quotes. 1. htt…

"Your request has been blocked due to a network policy" Is Reddit going login-required now?

What browser blocked it?

How does this impact reproducible builds in Debian? Does Rust have a good bootstrap story now?

I think it's time for AWS to pull the curtain back a bit and release a JSON document that shows a list of all internal service dependencies for each AWS service.

I believe the MRE Orange Drink powder is fortified with Vitamin C, so that should help a bit.

Is "micronode" a new GPU concept, or did they mean "microcode" in the bulletin?

If you have a special project need, you might be able to get one-way IRIG time signal on fiber with guard boxes at both ends. There's really no technical reason why you couldn't do…