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I believe this is just down to USB CDC, where baudrate doesn’t affect the USB transfer speed.

Yes, where would we be without the rules-based international order? Perhaps we would be watching videos every day of children blown apart by weapons of war.

I really hope guide-level docs are on the roadmap for Axum. The current situation of "here are some (third-party) blog posts and YouTube videos" is not greatly encouraging. For ref…

> Everybody involved in this should get fired. I don’t disagree but the events in question took place and were discovered over 30 years ago. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/01/04…

Yeah, I think this may be a good option when actively working on a project. Sadly at the moment, it's mostly a case of "I just need to make a couple of bug fixes in this old projec…

It's only a personal side project and I have a good handle on the untyped modules in question, so in the end I suppressed most of the errors with `# type:ignore` and friends. I'd r…

Worst of both worlds is right. I came back to a Python project with a couple of critical but untyped dependencies recently after writing mostly Rust, and to clear up a large number…

This is an excerpt (starting part-way through) of this article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/07/election-tru...

Comparing Jagan and Burnham to (respectively) Trotsky and Stalin is extremely strange. Jagan was perceived as a threat to British interests in Guyana, Burnham was deemed acceptable…

One of the revelations over the course of this saga was that WordPress.org != WordPress Foundation. It's under the personal control of Matt Mullenweg.

As an example of the latter, Pimoroni offer an NVMe “base” that would avoid this problem and leave the PoE header free: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/nvme-base?variant=4121958…

Archive link for Ben Blum’s article: https://archive.ph/kn1Eb The two scientists who conducted “The BBC Prison Study” in the early 2000s wrote about the revelations in the Zimbardo…

Note this “disclaimer” in the guide: > In recent years, development efforts in the OpenVMM project have primarily focused on OpenHCL (AKA: OpenVMM as a paravisor). > As a result, n…

> [This post] (and many others) have done a much better job than I could, explaining from a reader’s perspective why Fandom is bad place to host a wiki, The linked post (at j3s.sh)…

It may not even be that nefarious — perhaps they did the hack “for the lulz” then had pangs of conscience afterward and scrabbled around for a (false) excuse. In any case, the IA w…

The note currently displayed to my account disputes the claims made in the linked tweet (that the Internet Archive is run by the US government(???)), not the supposed motivation of…

Eric Lichtblau wrote a good book on the resettlement of Nazis in the US, beyond the usual Paperclip names, called The Nazis Next Door. Here’s a talk he gave at UCSB on the topic in…

This is only true of typical UK-style roundabouts which are designed for motor vehicle throughput. It’s extremely common in the Netherlands to replace crossroads and T-junctions wi…

Xtensa is from Tensilica (now Cadence) but, as sibling comments point out, new Espressif designs use RISC-V. There's a bit of an overlap point: the ESP32-S2 and ESP32-S3 are recent…

For those curious about this history, you can watch John Pilger’s 2004 documentary Stealing a Nation for free on his website: https://johnpilger.com/stealing-a-nation/ For those wh…

Mullenweg has for a little while claimed that WP Engine does not contribute sufficiently to the open-source WordPress project, that its branding causes confusion among users, and t…

I believe in this instance he’s referring to WP Engine installations of WordPress pulling from the WP.org plugin & theme registries. There is a longer story in which Mullenweg has …

Here's Matt Mullenweg's post on Wordpress.org announcing this: https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine-banned/ There is some further discussion in the HN thread on the WP Engi…

I have no dog in this fight, but from the outside this is ludicrous behaviour. Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of a for-profit WordPress hosting company, should not be using his position i…