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Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by rayiner »

LPisGood wrote: post #139
rayiner wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a weird thing to say. They are slashing and burning government and routing the permanent bureaucracy of democrats that run the country no matter who wins the election. That’s simply what the GOP has been promising to do for decades, but has been too feckless to do until now.

> the permanent bureaucracy of democrats That’s ridiculous on the face of it, unless you think GOP appointed heads of agencies have been in on it, and that there has been a massive conspiracy for years with no real evidence leaking.

The GOP appointed heads had no power. The are reports in the prior administration of political appointees having to follow legal cases on PACER because career bureaucrats weren’t accurately keeping them abreast of developments. Likewise they slow rolled rulemakings and other proceedings.

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by zamadatix »

jmull wrote: post #343
zamadatix wrote: post #306

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Saying something involved hyperbole means you think part of the claim was exaggerated, not that you think the entire affair was invented from the ground up. E.g. if your coworker comes into work and says "Wow, you guys wouldn't believe it - I was passed by this maniac doing at least 140 mph on the way in to work today. What a crazy speeder!" then you see on the news the police arrested the driver for driving up to 95…

Hardly "a lot of hyperbole", especially since the following sentence clarifies (you might understand that it's specifically quoted for a reason). To me it doesn't seem worthwhile to respond from the perspective of misinterpreting a comment, especially when being pedantic. One would hope the same level of precision could be applied to the writing as to the reading?

If breckenedge had corrected the department's name or used more accurate rounding or something of that ilk I'd probably agree with you. Whether programs are cancelled vs have funded decreased some (+ other information from the linked article) is, to me, a substantial difference in understanding what negative impacts might be occurring as a result of actions of the DOGE.

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by slashdev »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #251
slashdev wrote: post #244

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Given they have to be vetted the same way as any other government employee with that access, including security clearances, I’m not sure these will succeed. At least to my mind it’s not clear how a government employee can have access but for doge it’s breaking the law. The devil is in the specific details.

> they have to be vetted the same way as any other government employee with that access, including security clearances We know this wasn’t done when they were rummaging around the Treasury. Courts are granting restraining orders because the DOGE bros acted so incompetently. (It’s generally incredibly hard to restrain government employees.) > it’s not clear how a government employee can have access but for doge it’s b…

> We know this wasn’t done when they were rummaging around the Treasury.

Sorry, do you have a source for that? Having trouble verifying it.

I agree there are standard vetting and security clearances, and they should be followed.

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by nottorp »

EasyMark wrote: post #127
nottorp wrote: post #49

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The first thing I wondered is why you'd post this information on Twitter of all places, to be honest.

because they have followers there and it won't get taken down? Sometimes you have to make a deal with the devil

> Sometimes you have to make a deal with the devil

Does “engagement” justify the means?

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by slashdev »

jonahbenton wrote: post #345
slashdev wrote: post #244

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Given they have to be vetted the same way as any other government employee with that access, including security clearances, I’m not sure these will succeed. At least to my mind it’s not clear how a government employee can have access but for doge it’s breaking the law. The devil is in the specific details.

They were not vetted/bgchecked, full stop, and are not complying with any security controls. Doing my yearly fedgov security trainings while those fucks are yoloing with all classifications of sensitive data is, shall we say, bitterness inducing.

That’s not what I heard. Do you have evidence for that?

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by roughly »

deltarholamda wrote: post #249
rwyinuse wrote: post #132

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Yep, here's a pretty good summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no Indeed I believe that the current administration's end-goal is the collapse of the US as we know it. Thiel and other billionaires need the collapse to create their own cyberpunk states inside current US territory. The remaining territory will be probably taken by Project 2025 guys, who want to rule it as a Christian theocracy / far-right u…

Another possibility is that the uber-rich techbros can see that, if we keep heading the way we're going, the whole thing comes crashing down. We've been speedrunning a far-left utopia for quite a while now, and it's not going well. Whether it's some kind of currency collapse, internal civil war, or something else, this is a death slide towards something bad. Assuming that's the explanation, then radical change isn't…

> speedrunning a far-left utopia

What the fuck are you talking about? We don’t even have socialized medicine in this country.

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by juancampa »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #144
Molitor5901 wrote: post #107

I wish people paid this close attention to federal workers and their agencies all the time.

Most federal workers aren’t openly and flagrantly breaking the law. Given each DOGE bro has violated several laws in the past weeks, it’s prudent to focus attention on them. Not too much. But enough that there is a public record for litigation and prosecution at the state and local level in the future.

Honest question. Which laws?

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

slashdev wrote: post #353
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #251

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> they have to be vetted the same way as any other government employee with that access, including security clearances We know this wasn’t done when they were rummaging around the Treasury. Courts are granting restraining orders because the DOGE bros acted so incompetently. (It’s generally incredibly hard to restrain government employees.) > it’s not clear how a government employee can have access but for doge it’s b…

> We know this wasn’t done when they were rummaging around the Treasury. Sorry, do you have a source for that? Having trouble verifying it. I agree there are standard vetting and security clearances, and they should be followed.

Item 91 in the EPIC complaint [1], which was found to be sufficiently merited to permit a TRO. (It’s a legal filing. Allegations will always be couched.)

[1] https://epic.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/EPIC-v-OPM-25-cv...

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by rectang »

soulofmischief wrote: post #40
Mizza wrote: post #19

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You can even tell that's ChatGPT rather than, say, Claude. Redundant obvious comments are a stylistic signature of their models.

I make comments like this all the time because I write code for people to read, not robots. Well-commented code allows you to skim very quickly, and gives a sanity check, allowing others to ensure a line or block of code does what it is expected to do.

A long time ago I picked up the habit of "coding in commented paragraphs":

https://www.perl.com/pub/2005/07/14/bestpractices.html/#7-co...

This style allows me to scan only natural language comments, generally rendered in a distinct highlight color, to get a high-level view of what the code does. My colleagues have rarely followed the same idiom, but my code has been well-regarded everywhere I've been.

When you do this, there are occasionally times where you wind up with a single line that isn't grouped with the others, and to be consistent the easiest thing is to insert a comment like the one that started this thread.

However, I've adapted this style over the years to avoid any hint of redundancy because some people feel so strongly that they will fixate on it and decide you're a terrible engineer for this one tiny detail. It's easier just to work around them.

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by LPisGood »

rayiner wrote: post #351
LPisGood wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the permanent bureaucracy of democrats That’s ridiculous on the face of it, unless you think GOP appointed heads of agencies have been in on it, and that there has been a massive conspiracy for years with no real evidence leaking.

The GOP appointed heads had no power. The are reports in the prior administration of political appointees having to follow legal cases on PACER because career bureaucrats weren’t accurately keeping them abreast of developments. Likewise they slow rolled rulemakings and other proceedings.

But the democrat appointed heads had all the power?
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