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adestefan··on Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent
So what.
adestefan··on Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business
It was GW Bush winning the election that allowed Microsoft to a settlement.
adestefan··on The lost civic life of movie rental stores
The Postal Service is one of the few entities directly authorized by the US Constitution. From Article 1, Section 8:

> The Congress shall have Power… To establish Post Offices and post Roads

With that one of the hallmarks of the USPS is they really strive to service every person in the country no matter how remote.

The fact they’ve turned it into a “business” and not a public good is really a tragedy.

adestefan··on US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections
This court doesn’t care about precedent.
adestefan··on Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
And Google will exit at 12 months when the S&P seasoning period and 4 quarters of profitability are satisfied.
adestefan··on Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
This is exactly how the dot com crash happened. People point out this like pets.com, but that wasn’t the issue. It was the musical chairs the played with the fiber telecoms. Today it’s data centers.
adestefan··on Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
That icon is a "close Carplay/Auto" button. My Subaru has a Subaru button; my wife's Mazda has a Mazda button.
adestefan··on They Said It Would Cost $54M. We Said "No Thanks."
USDS and 18F proved that strong, internal technical leadership and dedicated teams make this work.
adestefan··on I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers
All our bookkeeping is now in YAML. Watch the spaces on your way out the door.
adestefan··on New gas-powered data centers could emit more greenhouse gases than whole nations
> pro-energy administration

Very far from pro-energy when you give companies money to cancel energy projects that are not burning green house gases.

adestefan··on Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
New England colonists had a habit of ransacking and burning down the houses of government officials throughout the 1760s and during the Revolutionary War. Got bad enough that most did not sleep in their government housing.
adestefan··on Colorado House passes bill to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting
That’s juicy coming from the current Republican Party.
adestefan··on Colorado House passes bill to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting
It’s right at the top of the linked bill.

The attorney general or a district attorney may bring a civil action on behalf of the state against a person that violates the prohibition against individualized price or wage setting based on surveillance data to seek the imposition of civil penalties. In addition, a person aggrieved by a violation of the prohibition specified in the bill may bring a civil action on behalf of themself or a group of similarly situated persons to restrain further violations and to recover damages, costs, and reasonable attorney fees. A violation of the prohibition against individualized price setting or individualized wage setting is a deceptive trade practice under the "Colorado Consumer Protection Act".

adestefan··on Claude's new constitution
What makes Anthropic the most money.
adestefan··on Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
It’s as random as any other UUID.
adestefan··on Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions
The problem isn't only papers it's that the world of academic computer science coalesced around conference submissions instead of journal submissions. This isn't new and was an issue 30 years ago when I was in grad school. It makes the work of conference organizes the little block holding up the entire system.
adestefan··on Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions
The entire thread is people missing this simple point.
adestefan··on Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division
There's a better word for it.
adestefan··on TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)
We've taken the one task that computers are inherently good at and somehow made it worse.
adestefan··on TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)
It's become worse since 2017 when they changed the 1040 to make it "shorter." All they did was move everything to different forms so now it's an insane process of shuffling numbers back and forth across many forms.
adestefan··on TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)
They helpfully send you letter when you screwed up, too.
adestefan··on Apple: SSH and FileVault
But that uses TPM backed keys only protected by the TPM PSRs. Someone could still swipe your box and unlock the disk.
adestefan··on Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce
You don’t. You can’t even serve ads in search without issues. Even when ads on Google were basic text not inline they were an intrusion into the response.
adestefan··on Hawley and Democrats vote to advance congressional stock trading ban
Rick Scott made his money by being the CEO of a company that paid a $1.7 billion fine for Medicare fraud.[0] He’s one of the most corrupt people in Congress.

[0] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/mar/03/florida-de...

adestefan··on US AI Action Plan
The language lets you get around a bunch of pesky laws by declaring it a "national defense emergency."
adestefan··on Backlash to artificial dye grows as Kraft ditches coloring for Kool-Aid, Jell-O
They did it. The Republicans rolled it all back.
adestefan··on Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data
I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters.
adestefan··on Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia
That's the last GPLv2-only version of rsync.
adestefan··on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
It's unclear if you'd win this case right now.
adestefan··on The Lost Art of Research as Leisure
Adam Mastroianni talks about this a lot. His best example is at:

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/things-could-be-bette...

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