Comment Re:Code residing in wallpaper :o (Score 2) 57
I think you're misinterpreting that.
" the background image bitmap code" is the code that handled using bitmaps as background images, not code embedded in a bitmap.
Submission + - 50+ House Democrats demand answers after whistleblower report on DOGE (npr.org) 2
echo123 writes: Over fifty Democratic lawmakers have signed a letter demanding answers from senior U.S. government officials about a recent potential exposure of sensitive data about American workers.
The letter is addressed to the acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, William Cowen. The independent agency is in charge of investigating and adjudicating complaints about unfair labor practices and protecting U.S. workers' rights to form unions.
The lawmakers, who are part of the Congressional Labor Caucus, wrote the letter in light of news first reported by NPR, that a whistleblower inside the IT Department of the NLRB says DOGE may have removed sensitive labor data and exposed NLRB systems to being compromised.
"These revelations from the whistleblower report are highly concerning for a number of reasons," the lawmakers wrote in the letter to Cowen. "If true, these revelations describe a reckless approach to the handling of sensitive personal information of workers, which could leave these workers exposed to retaliation for engaging in legally protected union activity."
The letter refers to an official whistleblower disclosure made by Daniel Berulis, a cloud administrator in the IT department of the NLRB, who also spoke to NPR in multiple interviews.
In his disclosure, Berulis shared that he initially became concerned in March when members of President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the agency and demanded high-level access to the systems without their activities being logged. Those fears escalated after he tracked a large chunk of data leaving the agency at the same time as many security controls and auditing tools were turned off, the disclosure continues.
Ultimately, Berulis became concerned that DOGE, which is effectively led by Trump adviser and billionaire CEO Elon Musk, could have accessed sensitive internal information about ongoing investigations into U.S. companies, witness affidavits and even corporate secrets. The alleged insecure practices and removal of data could also create vulnerabilities for criminal hackers or foreign adversaries to exploit, Berulis explained in his official disclosure.
The letter is addressed to the acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, William Cowen. The independent agency is in charge of investigating and adjudicating complaints about unfair labor practices and protecting U.S. workers' rights to form unions.
The lawmakers, who are part of the Congressional Labor Caucus, wrote the letter in light of news first reported by NPR, that a whistleblower inside the IT Department of the NLRB says DOGE may have removed sensitive labor data and exposed NLRB systems to being compromised.
"These revelations from the whistleblower report are highly concerning for a number of reasons," the lawmakers wrote in the letter to Cowen. "If true, these revelations describe a reckless approach to the handling of sensitive personal information of workers, which could leave these workers exposed to retaliation for engaging in legally protected union activity."
The letter refers to an official whistleblower disclosure made by Daniel Berulis, a cloud administrator in the IT department of the NLRB, who also spoke to NPR in multiple interviews.
In his disclosure, Berulis shared that he initially became concerned in March when members of President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the agency and demanded high-level access to the systems without their activities being logged. Those fears escalated after he tracked a large chunk of data leaving the agency at the same time as many security controls and auditing tools were turned off, the disclosure continues.
Ultimately, Berulis became concerned that DOGE, which is effectively led by Trump adviser and billionaire CEO Elon Musk, could have accessed sensitive internal information about ongoing investigations into U.S. companies, witness affidavits and even corporate secrets. The alleged insecure practices and removal of data could also create vulnerabilities for criminal hackers or foreign adversaries to exploit, Berulis explained in his official disclosure.
Comment Summary is incorrect (Score 4, Informative) 57
"A coalition of labor rights groups, 404 Media, is pushing to mandate Wi-Fi on ships"
That should read:
A coalition between a self-organized Indonesian fishers' union, a Taiwanese human rights group and multiple global labor organizations is pushing to mandate Wi-Fi on ships
Comment Re:Doing it the hard way (Score 1) 57
I meant that the other way round: Driver61's doing it the hard way.
For decades, we've had racecars that produce enough downforce that they could theoretically drive on the ceiling, but nobody's done it IRL. Driver61 is designing a track where this can be done.
Comment Doing it the hard way (Score 2) 57
Driver61 is working on a project to drive upside down without using a fan, using downforce generated by driving the car at high speed. The main problem was finding a place to do this: road tunnels have too much infrastructure hanging from the ceiling.
Comment Re:Wh, not W (Score 1) 193
No, the problem isn't me. The problem is that a spec is used that is useless on its own and requires calculation (of a type that not everybody is familiar with, and that requires data not everybody has) before it is useful for any purpose at all.
Comment Re:Wh, not W (Score 2) 193
A unit that actually means something (Wh) is objectively superior to the useless unit we're stuck with due to "we've always done it this way" (Ah).
No consumer understands the Ah unit, either.
Comment Wh, not W (Score 5, Insightful) 193
The capacity of a battery can usefully be specified in Wh. Power draw is in W, multiply by the time that power is drawn to get the capacity you used.
Wh is superior to Ah: if you only know the Ah, you have to find out the voltage of the battery to find out what capacity it has. Power draw for devices is generally specified in W, not A.
Comment Re:But will it ignore the obvious (Score 1) 77
Defender, OneDrive, CoPilot and the search indexer don't just consume resources when the computer is idle. I see them each hogging a processor (i.e. pegged 25% CPU on a four-core machine) while I'm trying to do my work.
Comment Firefox too (Score 1) 162
I see the described behavior regularly in Firefox: endless reloading of the CloudFlare 'I'm not a robot' checkbox. I suspect one of my extensions is causing this, but haven't taken the time to test this.
Comment Re:Ended in data, not failure. (Score 2) 284
Catching the booster alone was a big deal because that had not been done before, only second stage.
This was the third time they recovered the booster, not the first.
Comment Re:'The Farthest' (Score 1) 28
Also, 'It's Quieter in the Twilight'.
Comment First step (Score 5, Funny) 78
towards our ultimate goal: the saber-tooth squirrel!
Comment This just in (Score 3, Funny) 142
the estate of John Cage will sue all of these artists for copyright infringement of his work 4'33".
Submission + - Musk to "fix" Community Notes for contradicting Trump (arstechnica.com)
smooth wombat writes: The man who espouses "free speech" has announced he will be "fixing" Community Notes on Twitter because they repeatedly contradict what Trump says. He claims a cabal of governments and media are using Notes to game the system.
Musk's attack on Community Notes is somewhat surprising. Although he has always maintained that Community Notes aren't "perfect," he has defended Community Notes through multiple European Union probes challenging their effectiveness and declared that the goal of the crowdsourcing effort was to make X "by far the best source of truth on Earth." At CES 2025, X CEO Linda Yaccarino bragged that Community Notes are "good for the world."
Yaccarino invited audience members to "think about it as this global collective consciousness keeping each other accountable at global scale in real time," but just one month later, Musk is suddenly casting doubts on that characterization while the European Union continues to probe X.
Perhaps most significantly, Musk previously insisted as recently as last year that Community Notes could not be manipulated, even by Musk. He strongly disputed a 2024 report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate that claimed that toxic X users were downranking accurate notes that they personally disagreed with, claiming any attempt at gaming Community Notes would stick out like a "neon sore thumb."
Musk's attack on Community Notes is somewhat surprising. Although he has always maintained that Community Notes aren't "perfect," he has defended Community Notes through multiple European Union probes challenging their effectiveness and declared that the goal of the crowdsourcing effort was to make X "by far the best source of truth on Earth." At CES 2025, X CEO Linda Yaccarino bragged that Community Notes are "good for the world."
Yaccarino invited audience members to "think about it as this global collective consciousness keeping each other accountable at global scale in real time," but just one month later, Musk is suddenly casting doubts on that characterization while the European Union continues to probe X.
Perhaps most significantly, Musk previously insisted as recently as last year that Community Notes could not be manipulated, even by Musk. He strongly disputed a 2024 report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate that claimed that toxic X users were downranking accurate notes that they personally disagreed with, claiming any attempt at gaming Community Notes would stick out like a "neon sore thumb."
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