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My understanding is that probationary employees weren't eligible for the deferred resignation offer.

adenylylon USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap

The US government does run its own self-hosted analytics platform (https://analytics.usa.gov), which the USPS does in fact use. Which makes it all the more questionable that they were additionally using third-party analytics.

adenylylon Homebrew: AVX instructions in Big Sur bottles crash when run in Rosetta 2

Why is this interesting? Rosetta 2 is documented to not support AVX: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple_silicon/abou...

adenylylon macOS 11 (Big Sur) Compatibility News

There have been a series of beta releases since June. (For some reason, they say in the linked page that beta releases have only been available since August, but that's not correct).

adenylylon Jeremy, I think you'll wan't this job

For example, there is no option to cancel a Wall Street Journal digital subscription on the web site, unless you change your billing address to one in California, and then a cancel option will appear.

adenylylon Vintage video game cartridges with built-in modems

Someone recorded the SEGA Channel's menu interface on VHS back when it was in operation and has subsequently uploaded it to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMRLZcBiN-k&t=72s

An interesting detail of the SEGA Channel is that it was a one-way modem. There was no way for the cartridge to communicate anything back to the headend. Instead, there was a constant broadcast of

Game 1, Menu program, Game 2, Menu program, Game 3, ...

looping forever. When you selected a game, it would just wait for it to come around on the loop and store it locally.

adenylylon Attacking a Pay Wall That Hides Public Court Filings

The Public Access to Court Electronic Records system is not meant to provide public access to court electronic records?

adenylylon Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online

I don't know, Apple had all the source code to GS/OS leak a few years ago. Now _that's_ serious!

adenylylon If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

"Erase the affected volume" is really the best solution they could come up with?

adenylylon What can a technologist do about climate change?

"Anticipated Clearance Level: Q (Position will be cleared to this level)."

... why would someone working on climate modeling software need a clearance for nuclear weapon design information?

adenylylon A Cabinet of Infocom Curiosities

If you’re interested in Infocom stuff, I’d also recommend Jimmy Maher’s ongoing series on the history of Infocom: http://www.filfre.net/tag/infocom/