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angeldimitrov94

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angeldimitrov94··on America.gov
Surprisingly, it does not shit-talk Biden and does not conceal information about 45's impeachment cases. Also gives unbiased facts about 47's claims that Biden used an autopen to create false signatures.

I sure do wonder what 47 would think about these answers. I reckon he's purposefully not been shown the answers to such questions. There is no way he would let this be launched with such answers.

Finally, I do struggle to understand how this is more useful than just telling Gemini/Gippity/whatever to go search public documents published by the government. Unless the US government specifically blocks agents from indexing/crawling those documents.

angeldimitrov94··on US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati
I find it extremely hard to believe that the current administration would do that. If it has happened, it was prior administrations (which honestly were just as weak in addressing this concern). And if they still are on some list, its likely just an oversight and is a matter of time before they get the Proud Boys treatment (a presidential pardon, a settlement for emotional damage or...whatever, and a bunch of confidence that they don't need).
angeldimitrov94··on US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati
As long as the same lens is applied equally to far-right and white supremacist groups, then this is fine.

This question is rhetorical with this administration, however.

angeldimitrov94··on Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it
Seems like there is no mechanism to allow non-corrupting reads from authorized processes? Begs the question then of what the point of this is. Pure novelty, or truly something that could be used in practice?
angeldimitrov94··on SparrowMap – Cameras that watch government vehicles
It sure would be interesting if suddenly all of the Flock employees coming to work were being constantly watched by a network of crowdfunded private cameras. Might drive home the point of invasion of privacy if its someone other than them watching...them. Or if all of the neighbors of the CEO of Flock suddenly joined some service like this so that everyone could track his activity at all times. I'm sure he'd wouldn't mind the entire world knowing exactly what he or his family are doing always.
angeldimitrov94··on Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
It's kind of sad because in a shitty Jira setup, Rovo is usually the only way to make any sense of tickets. Don't ask me how I know this. Sadly I think many teams have become dependent on the tool to make sense of their dumpster fire of an Atlassian environment (usually by their own doing but anyway).
angeldimitrov94··on Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium
Struggling to see the reasoning behind why you would need to do this if you are remoting into a machine, meaning you have a real machine that you can just open a browser in. Seems more like a solution looking for a problem to me.

There's never been a situation in which I wished I had a browser like this in the CLI.

There have been situations in which I wish I could just get a simplified text version of any site without the styling, but I never once wished I could see the actual full site in all its glory in the CLI.

angeldimitrov94··on Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium
I just don't understand...what is the use case of this? I thought it would be something that cleverly renders text without style in a minimalist-browser sort of way. But this just literally...shows you the web page...in the CLI? I'm confused.
angeldimitrov94··on How to declutter, quiet down, and take the AI out of Windows 11 25H2
Of course, but good luck telling companies who have legacy softwares to go ahead and start testing IOT as well...it's the situation we are in and I can tell you that vendors do not want to test on IOT even though it's painfully clear that there is no alternative to it. It's an incredibly murky situation for those who rely on such vendors, especially ones for software for V&V'd environments.
angeldimitrov94··on How to declutter, quiet down, and take the AI out of Windows 11 25H2
Windows was tolerable up until they introduced their extremely intrusive service that will monitor if the user has disabled Windows updates and then undo the user's settings quietly and without notification, again allowing the updates to occur.

This single feature is almost certain to kill off the use of Windows for any important use cases, like kiosk-type softwares in non-trivial environments. It's impossible to control software updates deterministically.