I love these retro stories from 2012.

What a blast from the past!

This is a retro story from 2012, right?

> Python isn't perfect with its syntactically meaningful whitespace nonsense

I know a programmer with a visiospatial disability.

Braces are fine. Python is literally impossible.

I looked at a few 'Python with braces' preprocessors for her but they all seemed to be half-done and not really usable.

I'm not quite sure why.

It's a dumb reason to shut someone out of an entire software ecosystem. Almost every other language is accessible to her.

Or information on the murder of their whistleblower.

My CU offers a bit of reimbursement, which I don't use.

Fidelity, however, has "all fees reimbursed" for a number of accounts.

Then again, you're not likely to have a cash account there if you don't have significant other assets with them.

It's odd how every time I need to look at a Vimeo it stutters and buffers like it's 1997 no matter what device, OS, or network I'm on.

Literally the only video site that this happens to me. I thought it was my DSL line back in 2009 but home gigabit has been a thing for a while and oddly similar results.

If I understand what TFS is saying, check out The Why? Files for an example of what people like in a show with good production values (it did have a Midjourney rough patch).

"True Crime" seems lame to me but I'm not a chick so that doesn't matter.

"The Telepathy Tapes" is an investigative series that blew up the Internet.

This sounds like the NPR dweebs realized that their product was popular due to scarce distribution. Now distribution is democratized and listeners have choice.

People have long reported that taking a B vitamin supplement keeps mosquitoes away.

Beer drinking is well known to deplete B vitamins.

Consider that you might be dietarily or genetically deficient in B's. It's probably not your haircut or magnetic personality. ;)

I like Life Extension's Two-Per Day. Good blend, cheap for the potency.

>Dawn Wells (Maryann on Gilligan's Island) did because her
>manager/husband asked for them and the studio thought it would
>flop so they said OK as they didn't expect to pay them.

this appears to be an urban legend, although oft repeated.

In the last years of her life, she was pretty much pleading for help for her medical bills.

I would have bought at 5.2mm.

The case adds 6.1mm so how can they excuse a gargantuan 5.6mm?

You're sitting on it wrong.

It's weird how the CIA LifeLog project got shut down a week before Facebook commenced operations.

So many coincidences.

> Seriously though... how do you propose we "just do the encryption yourself" in this case? The IOS app doesn't even have an option to export chat history.

I agree - most of my Signal friends can't manage to do backups and their safety number frequently changes when they drop their phone in the toilet. Not something that's happened to me, but wow, it's common. This breaks the assumed security model.

That said, I use Android and my nightly backups are copied by Syncthing to another device most nights. I keep the restore key somewhere safe under multiple other keys.

It's not too hard for techies but it's too hard for normies.

IMO Signal found an excellent solution to the overall security model of its ecosystem. I was asked to teach a Signal backups howto at an event next year and this probably obviates the need. That's good!

> And please, stop with the microplastics while you're at it.

I get it but I'm glad I learned that most chewing gum is made of polyethylene now, so I've stopped using it.

I would not have been chewing it if I knew it was plastic and not tree resins.

Amazingly the FDA Act was first passed to make labeling mandatory. Now FDA allows manufacturers to lie and hide ingredients.

This is what happens when you ignore the Tenth Amendment.

> As for the "death of culture", if Red Hat relies on HR for its culture, they don't have much to lose.

It's not "relies on" it's "actively destroyed by".

The massive civil rights violations by Redhat/IBM HR are the subject of multiple lawsuits and DoJ actions now. Other tech press sites cover them frequently.

I pulled the cord on Redhat when they broke BIND in an update and ignored a community fix (which was posted to rhbz in a day or two) for about a year. IIRC they said if you want this fixed in distro (was it EL6 or Fedora?) get a contract and talk to your support person. It was clear to me that the Redhat I'd installed over Slackware twenty years earlier was gone.

Little did I know that they were in talks with IBM at that point.

On the plus side I learned Puppet first to distribute that patch to multiple machines. Ironically Puppet seems to have gone the same way so I've got OpenVox on my winter TODO now. The pattern predicts IBM will buy Puppet. ;)

The end game will be dismissal of the case for lack of standing.

It is well established that cows lack standing to sue, even if they can be in chk-a-fil ads! :)

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