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If I can hijack the thread a bit for a related question -- does anyone know of an easy selfhosted non-macOS server that will periodically pull full backups from iOS devices over Wi…

> Almost all fluoride from the drinking water does not have any effect on tooth enamel, because it has contact with it only for a few seconds The contact via toothpaste or mouth wa…

Ladies and gentlemen, I present the party of government efficiency, spending our money to scrub “Enola Gay” from the web.

It's your copy of the message. I'm not a lawyer, but I think if a copyright owner gives you a copy of their work, the law doesn't entitle them to take it back or rewrite it. A lice…

> BTW, I keep reading and hearing derogative terms like "script kiddies" and "20 year olds". What's happened to diversity and inclusion? So, they have to be of a certain age? What'…

> suspected dead government workers Suspected by Elon Musk, with no factual basis presented. Here's some real facts: > ...22 of the 24 agencies covered by the Chief Financial Offic…

These quotes support the existence of the emails, which people here aren't disputing. They say nothing about whether the only layoffs were those who didn't respond, which was impli…

I was incorrect, and you are right about the order of events in this case, although I don't believe TFA says these 18F employees didn't reply to the email. I noted in an edit that …

Well, why don’t you write your interpretation, and explain how that quote from TFA means that the email came before any layoffs.

TFA: “After thousands of government layoffs, the Office of Personnel Management on Saturday directed federal workers to email a list of roughly five accomplishments” (Edit: I accid…

I had to Wikipedia the memorandum to even know what it was, but wasn't Obama president in 2014 when Russia first breached it? Asking honestly, was that not a crucial failure but Bi…

> the bureaucracy will struggle, writhe, and set fire to everything around it before it can be put down Convenient way to blame "the bureaucracy" for every problem that DOGE create…

Bringing up Palantir is funny to me. I don’t know enough gossip on Musk and Thiel’s relationship, but if I did I would bet it would solely determine the outcome of a hypothetical D…

I’ve watched 2 Angela Collier videos on him albeit in the background — you’d probably have to watch the whole thing to truly understand the “bad rep” and I can’t speak to how wides…

> you can't blame him for not wanting to wait 2 years I do blame him. What harm of 2 years of status quo could be greater than the risks of completely breaking safety organizations…

I believe fish shell solves this by inserting a visible "⏎" character at the end of the line and moving to the beginning of the next line for the prompt.

I’m not a lawyer, but I think he was sentenced already to serve no time. Unless prosecuted for something else, I think he’s in no danger of prison even if Dems come into power soon…

> I started using Linux because I liked stability. > I believe that part of the problem is that it is written in C, You know the Linux kernel, and probably most of your userspace, …

I assume spies in a warzone are often captured/killed without court-admissible evidence. The existence of facial recognition SW probably doesn't change that.

I understand some economists theorize that small steady inflation is necessary for a healthy economy. If that’s true, Congress shouldn’t be contravening it for their own sake again…

Having no other information, the fact he went out of his way to associate it with Biden makes it seem actually politically driven by Trump/Republicans.

It must be so that you’ll pass by other people and might have serendipitous conversations that lead to increased knowledge and synergy. /s Also among the claimed benefits of workin…

I don’t think this captures it all. The “observation” was also about whether they would change the world. They strongly implied they wouldn’t, then did anyway.

I agree it's not specific to MS. But MS was probably inducing much more demand and thereby making them eat more fees than they planned to. (I don't have any inside information thou…