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cantrecallmypwd··on USAID Budget Cut Death Counter
America must voluntarily replace anti-intellectualism, kratocratism, and illiberal attitudes with respecting competency, civility, and integrity because the alternatives are too bleak and painful to entertain.
cantrecallmypwd··on They made computers behave like annoying salesmen
The way out is employee- and customer-owned non-profit platforms not beholden to private equity or publicly-traded corporations driven to exploit dark patterns.
cantrecallmypwd··on They made computers behave like annoying salesmen
Yup. Corporate non-ownership, non-control in consumer products and services is becoming far too normalized. Louis Rossmann regularly points out these absurd, customer-hostile practices.
cantrecallmypwd··on The Future of MCPs
Or: Master Control Program
cantrecallmypwd··on CSS Hell
Doesn't work on Mobile Safari or Brave on an iPad Pro m4. (x) button and add css don't do anything.
cantrecallmypwd··on '60 Minutes' chief resigns, saying show's independence was compromised
Independent journalism is the template for the answer.
cantrecallmypwd··on The Outlook for Programmers
Part hype but also the technological singularity is a gradual, distributed, discontinuous trend moving in that direction partially. This sort of corporate hype is another excuse to suppress salaries and hollow-out another profession.
cantrecallmypwd··on The many ways tarrifs will hit electronics
Cainaio is used for AliExpress Choice and Standard Shipping, part of AliBaba also. In USPS, it usually shows up as Albatross America. I went on an electronic parts AE binge prior to tariffs.
cantrecallmypwd··on DHL suspends B2C shipments over 800 USD until further notice
Yep. YMMV. DE is the most corporate-friendly state, but usually requires 2 state tax headaches. For a very small concern, it might be more costly than registering in another or one's home state.
cantrecallmypwd··on Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS (Homebrew replacement)
This isn't a HB replacement, it's just using HB binaries. It doesn't replace HB at all. HB and this aren't full package managers when they don't officially or technically support building from source or working independently of another project's infrastructure.

A decent full package manager would support a simple, shell-like DSL like say Alpine or Arch, concurrent and parallel phases (such as downloads/builds/installs), multiple versions, reproducible builds, building from source, build acceleration, security auditing, patch management, and package cryptographic signatures (not hashes or signing of hashes).

Nix is theoretically amazing but the barrier-to-entry and gotchas for popular use make it self-limiting. Simplicity in particular areas is a price that is often paid for popularity.

cantrecallmypwd··on US FDA suspends milk quality tests
How and why aren't people in America protesting this specific change by the millions?
cantrecallmypwd··on US FDA suspends milk quality tests
1. Throw away safety regulations written in blood and regulators that cost relatively pennies.

2. Give your demographic a tax break.

3. Wait for people to be injured.

4. Blame the other political faction.

cantrecallmypwd··on Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat
Well, he just wanted to make doubly certain to prove laws and competency were irrelevant.
cantrecallmypwd··on First hormone-free male birth control pill enters human trials
Wouldn't it be simpler to bank sperm when a man turns, say, 18 rather than take a risk on what an unproven medication might or might not do?
cantrecallmypwd··on [dead]
According to Ivana, someone allegedly kept a book of Hitler's speeches by their bedside. Maybe this and/or Project 2025 are purely coincidences.

https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-tru...

cantrecallmypwd··on DHL suspends B2C shipments over 800 USD until further notice
DUNS number and/or EIN.
cantrecallmypwd··on DHL suspends B2C shipments over 800 USD until further notice
It only costs about $300 to register a Delaware LLC.
cantrecallmypwd··on DHL suspends B2C shipments over 800 USD until further notice
Someone will probably turn this into a service to make it more convenient.
cantrecallmypwd··on DHL suspends B2C shipments over 800 USD until further notice
The footgunning unravels the US economy in myriad ways with unintended consequences. Brain drain, tourism, and higher prices with stagflation are just the beginning. It will take a few months to a year, but I think the disillusionment will slowly sow the field for competency and compassion.
cantrecallmypwd··on US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts
There's likely glyphosate residues in most non-organic oats because farmers use RoundUp as a desiccant to reduce diesel fuel usage during harvesting.
cantrecallmypwd··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
Thank you for the unsolicited defense. Linguistic bikeshedding is tantamount to an ad hominem. It's the mark of someone unable or unwilling to form a rational, valid argument or engage in civil discourse. Let's instead refocus to the HN site guidelines please. :o)
cantrecallmypwd··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
This is also a myopic argument against funding standards bodies that support the internet.

The point of having a global, shared database is a single, authoritative (more-or-less), semi-vetted repository that can hold vendor accountable externally without digital amnesia or downplaying issues, and global unique identifiers. If that takes an international nonprofit funded by bits of the free world who are okay with investing in commonwealth infrastructure, so be it. Those who don't understand what they're destroying so casually are ignorant, and possibly evil if they do understand.

cantrecallmypwd··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
Sorry and thanks GP. ;o)

Your nerd card had been validated for today. Go forth, ethically.* :D

* Oops, I introduced 2 more programming languages, my bad.

cantrecallmypwd··on A Ford executive who kept score of colleagues' verbal flubs
A coworker of mine kept score on paper when the associate vice provost used a certain bizword during their all-hands speech. They were a nepo hire because they were friends or family of Condi Rice.
cantrecallmypwd··on Marjorie Taylor Greene Faces 'Insider Trading' Probe
Loads of current and former federal prosecutors and judges are on the verge of blowing a gasket from righteous anger. The wheels of justice turn slowly and they are exploiting and corrupting the system in race before it can catch up to them.
cantrecallmypwd··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
Sorry, I made the mistake of installing PyPy.
cantrecallmypwd··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
Yep. It's also true of people who think they can simply move out of the US and that "solves" the problem too. America's problems are still (almost) everyone's problems too.
cantrecallmypwd··on Kleptocracy, Inc
Less pleasant -cracy words to recognize illiberal devolution trends across the world:

- Anocracy - illiberal, pretend democracy.

- Chirocracy - rule by force.

- Kakistocracy - rule by the most unqualified and/or unethical individuals.

- Kleptocracy - rule for profit.

- Kratocracy - power seized and/or maintained through force and/or guile.

- Mortocracy - rule based on death and destruction.

- Ochlocracy - rule by a mob, i.e., the Reign of Terror.

- Phobocracy - rule by fear.

- Plutocracy - rule by economic aristocracy, a loose subset of oligarchy (rule by an unelected few).

- Quangocracy - rule by unelected bureaucrats.

cantrecallmypwd··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated]
> But maybe this is an opportunity to do CVE better.

Okay, how? This sounds like looking for lemonade in a genocide.

cantrecallmypwd··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
War with China and doing enough reprehensible acts to stoke protests to declare martial law to stay in power indefinitely.
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