Please show where this "open border policy" was articulated by anyone in the Biden admin. I'll wait while you ask your pet robot.

In this universe, Biden attempted to pass comprehensive immigration reform that was actually a bit harsher than Republicans were asking for. Republicans tanked it anyway, paving the way for people like to to continue to lie about it.

Defunding the police

Whining about kids protesting is just weak-ass bullshit. When you're done whining about a fucking protest chant, take a moment to notice Republicans were the ones attacking cops. They've destroyed the DOJ and the FBI and pardoned the thugs that beat cops on Jan 6.

If you're going to respond, start by naming elected (D)s with power to do so calling for that, or don't fucking running your flaps. You know who I saw calling to defund the police? Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Come back and try again when you're visiting consensual reality.

"Had". Google had the best search in town, 15 years ago.

Sometime between then and now, Google became utterly useless at the one thing they really did well. Their main page is bloated to hell and back, exact phrases aren't, Boolean search terms provably return results that don't satisfy the query... And the one that finally drove me to DDG, searching for "how do I disable enshittification-feature-X" will invariable return nothing but pages explaining how to turn on exactly that feature, just on the off chance someone was fortunate enough to have it broken right out of the gate (which is somehow usually not possible to do in reverse).

Don't get me wrong, I'm not romanticizing DDG, which AFAIK is basically just an alternative front-end for Bing; but if everyone is just out there to fuck us, we can at least favor the ones that bring lube to the party.

Progressive and proportional fines are definitely an improvement, but it's still just a matter of shifting the "don't be evil" line to a simple calculation.

If the EU will seize 4% but a company can boost gross receipts by 5% by e.g. torturing endangered baby seals... I wouldn't bet on the seals in that situation.

1) And that differs from US companies how?
2) I "trust" Xi Jin Pooh more than Uncle Sam simply because China has no legal authority over me.
3) You go right ahead and do without; we couldn't care less about your holy war, we just want sub-$10k BYDs.

The GP merely rephrased the old idea that fines are nothing more than a cost of doing business. When the only "punishment" is financial and knowable in advance, that's neither punishment nor deterrence; it's simply an above-the-line calculation.

How many of us have intentionally chosen to risk a speeding and/or parking ticket to make it on time to an important appointment? Same idea, just at a much larger scale: Ford famously chose to literally let Pinto owners DIAF rather than pay an extra $11 to make key parts of the fuel system safer in a rear collision. Despite that, Ford is somehow still in business and not a single executive from that era was sent to prison over knowingly choosing to kill people as a cost cutting measure.

And MITMProxy is here to help you do it.

here.

Microsoft, of course, refuses to use his excellent free work.

His fix has issues as well, but he kept the pain on the implementation side as best he could.

Discussion on timekeeping in northwestern Ontario has been updated to reflect that provincial regulation has been issued to allow these areas to stay aligned with America/Winnipeg and follow Manitoba’s adoption of year-round -05 after all. (Thanks to Aoun Khan, Chris Walton, and Heitor David Pinto.) Discussion on timekeeping in Saskatchewan has been updated to document its new Time Act, 2026 which comes into force on 2026-10-30. (Thanks to Heitor David Pinto.) No change is expected.
NOTE FOR TEMPORARY HACKS FOR CLDR AND CANADA: This version continues to have temporary hacks to work around Canadian timekeeping bugs in Unicode CLDR releases before CLDR 49 (2026-10-22). These temporary hacks are planned to be removed soon, as they also cause zic versions 2023d through 2026a, in their default mode that generates slim output, to generate TZif files that violate Internet RFC 9636 3.3. The buggy files in turn cause some TZif readers, including tzcode itself, to ignore some 2026-11-01 02:00 transitions to from their old DST to their new standard times and abbreviations. Although the buggy files do not cause any known TZif reader to mishandle UT offsets, caution is advised when using zic 2023d through 2026a to compile data from more-recent tz releases. To work around this problem when using these older zic versions, use ‘zic -b fat’.

In practice, audit trails are 99% about reporting and monitoring needs, not liability after-the-fact. By the time the insurance companies are involved, you're already tossing thousands of dollars of food and possibly have sick people lining up to sue

If there was any sort of centralized monitoring involved here, they would have caught the problem as soon as the temperatures rose above $AlarmHigh or remained above $AlarmLow for more than X minutes. They did not. The exploited interface was therefore a function of convenience, not compliance.

More or less, yeah...

You can use ArcaOS, you can use CSM mode, or you can chain-load it with any of a number of EFI loaders.

CSM mode is probably the closest to "pure" OS/2, but obviously it's not really using UEFI. ArcaOS is the closest to pure UEFI support (and probably the best choice if you plan to really use it rather than just prove you can do it then move on), but it's not pure OS/2. Take your pick.

/ I am not affiliated in any way with ArcaOS / Arca Noae.

I hate Zuck as much as the next geek, but preserving human rights is a governmental-scale responsibility, not an issue we leave up to every random company to do their own due diligence (or we'd have none).

It's great Wyden and Markey are taking an interest in this, but the issue is far bigger than one major brand of spy-glasses; there are dozens of brands of similar glasses that don't even pretend to try to protect privacy; and moving beyond that specific form factor, there are thousands of styles of spy cameras available to any random Joe for under $100 (many in the $20-$30 range!) right from Amazon. This isn't even trying to squeeze the toothpaste back into the tube - This is drowning in a vat of Colgate while pissing and moaning over a stray blob of Crest.

Two engineers (one of whom is a stuffed shirt being thrown a bone post-acquisition) are going to rewrite Cisco's legacy code using AI and an unlimited budget.

I'm sorry, can even the most delusional pro-AI executive out there seriously say that with a straight face? This just plain fails the sniff test - Are they establishing a scapegoat for an already-failing project? Honoring some contractual landmine EZDubs managed to sneak in? Straight-up insurance fraud?

If this is exactly what it looks like at face value, excuse me while I go short Cisco stock.

When they locked out anonymous access to old.reddit.com, I moved on.

I use Kagi, and that's when I demoted Reddit results so they don't junk things up.

Dude seems to have a very high opinion of the value of his website. We'll see if he's right, but the last 30 years are littered with also-rans who came to the same conclusion.

from an economy-of-scale and efficient-use-of-resources perspective, centralization makes sense.

This assumes that my interests are perfectly aligned with Sammyboy's.

But they aren't, and his proposal is no different than that any other greedbag who wants to own your future.

Allow me to counteroffer: Sam, fuck off to an island somewhere and scan crab eyeballs or something. We'll give LLMs their due attention, pat yourself on the head. Somewhere far away from humanity.

Thief steals from money launderer, and nothing of value was lost.