seo-speedwagon

Where’s the flex seal guy when you need him?

That’s possibly the sloppiest march I’ve ever seen.

Trump's obsession with tariffs dates back to 1988 when he lost an auction for the piano from the movie Casablanca to a Japanese buyer. Afterwards, he started complaining about how all these other countries are ripping America off, and here we are.

It was invented by the courts entirely from whole cloth.

And don’t forget the US’s own automated foreclosure schemes where banks automatically and fraudulently foreclosed on homeowners in good standing, literally stealing their houses and ruining their lives.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_foreclosu...

Pretty sure no one went to jail over this one, either.

It’s pretty cool that the ruling class’s big solution to all problems is now to build a machine god.

Getting rid of de minimus exemptions made it impossible to assess duty on the volume of packages coming in. So they just won’t accept packages at all.

We couldn’t even build a pier in Gaza

Like Truth Social and Twitter?

How much?

Most people I’ve seen are going on about either

1) the novelty of talking to entirely new people, which is a relative rarity since the early, heady days of MySpace when social media was new and gardens felt much less walled. For Gen Z, it might actually be a first given their average age; or

2) how the lives of average people compare to theirs and compare to their prior notions of what they thought life was like

These seem to go both ways btw, e.g. Chinese people being amazed that we really do need to pay for ambulance rides and that it’s not just govt propaganda. People are going where interesting things are happening, it’s plain and simple.

TikTok is old news now. Everyone’s joining 小紅書 and getting fully Xi-pilled.

I’m not trying to pick on you specifically but that is precisely the kind of neoliberal thinking that has caused such rot in the US (and more broadly, western) military.

Is spending a lot of money the goal or the measurement here? If your goal is actual effectiveness, then things such as force structure, results in recent conflicts, production rates, etc. are what you’d measure. If your goal is funneling money to capitalists then yeah sure budgets and adherence to “%GDP spending targets” from your vassals is what you’d measure.

Same. GitLab CI isn’t perfect, but it is quite excellent and GitHub seems very rudimentary in comparison. At my job we’ve been using GitLab CI for a few years now. We did an analysis of what it would take to move to GitHub and the answer was on the order of hundreds / thousands of person-hours and there are some things we just couldn’t port, period.

Endlessly courting Republicans who’ll never vote for them, having an empty platform and delivering nothing in four years, and (as the article mentions to its credit) their full-throated support of genocide did it. Why sell yourself out for losers who don’t particularly seem to care about anything you care about and just keep moving further and further to the right? That’s the calculus 10+ million Americans made.

And what’s the takeaway from the big brains in the Dem machine? Americans just love fascism. Americans just hate women. Minorities and poor people are just too dumb to know what’s good for them. The platform of delivering nothing and scolding you lost and is going to continue losing.

No one forced them to write a comment without reading the article. And it’s not a small point that the author corrected them on; multiple paragraphs addressed thoughts like archiving to make searching old things intentional, and soft deletes.

Also I didn’t read a scolding tone in the author’s response. And calling it an “inflammatory headline” is quite a stretch: this is a post tagged “thoughts” in someone’s personal blog, not a headline in the New York Times.

How about 80x markup vs commercial airliner soap dispenser? The article states that Federal acquisition policy is to “only” pay a 25% markup vs commercial alternatives, which means we’re not talking about things that are exclusively military (god I can’t imagine the markup on those).

I think the far simpler explanation is that the company that has historically cut corners on QA, released shoddy products that have killed several hundred people, and had executives go to jail for bribery, is also price gouging.

It’s definitely not a parody.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS_PAY

It seems to be (or proposes to be, I can’t figure out if it really exists yet) based on “distributed ledgers” and “blockchain” so I’m pretty skeptical. But hey, maybe they’ll be the ones to develop the first non-pointless blockchain!

These companies exist as capitalist organizations, they don’t build planes and chips out of patriotic noblesse, they do it to turn a profit. In such a system, failed companies go out of business. It really is that simple, anything else leads to bailouts that socialize losses for companies that privatize profits.

If they’re so important, then they should be nationalized.

The explosive used was PETN which is very difficult to make and very difficult to detect. You pretty much need a spectroscope.

Generally airports and ports are set up for detecting things like explosives you cooked up yourself or stolen mining equipment or whatever. Military grade explosives are expected to be chemically tagged because they’re for, y’know, legit military use and not terrorism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Marking_of...

I can’t find anything on whether or not the PETN that Israel used was tagged. If not, it would be yet another layer of irresponsibility. Unexploded ordinance is very real, as the recent news about the WWII era bomb blowing a hole in that airport runway in Japan attests to.

proc0’s concern was “trusting the results” an election and how this law would impact that. I addressed it in multiple ways:

1. I pointed out that the original concern r.e. provisional ballots is unrelated to this law.

2. I also pointed out that the law codifies existing practice and prevents local municipalities from setting arbitrary rules. This does not loosen any existing practices.

3. And finally I commented on how much larger structural issues than individuals committing voter fraud contribute more towards legitimate mistrust of electoral processes.

Feel free to actually comment on any of that if you get bored of scolding and snipping at me.

Oh HELL yeah dude, now you’re talking my language. If we’re talking about how much faith we should have in our electoral process, “extremely skeptical at best” is a charitable position. But penny-ante voter fraud is a distraction; incidents are very low and it’s almost always some right wing nut casting a ballot as their dead mom or whatever.

The real disenfranchisement happens before a vote is even cast. Parties gerrymandering their districts to hell and back, big purges of “inactive” voters from rolls, candidates colluding to box out opposition from outsiders, massive dark money PACs essentially bribing politicians in broad daylight or serving as effectively personal slush funds, the first-past-the-post system ensuring effective duopoly of political parties, the entire structure being profoundly anti-democratic (why is there an electoral college and not just popular vote? why should someone from Wyoming’s vote count for 10+x my vote thanks to how senators are apportioned? Etc).

This shit is just red meat for both sides. BUT, that said, it is overall a good thing to not let local municipalities set up their own bullshit rules on top of all this.

What does your voting via provisional ballot have to do with anything?

Here’s the rules for provisional voting. You’ll note that it has to do with whether or not you appear on the voting roll in the location you show up to.

https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting-resources/provisiona...

It’s “provisional” because it’s only counted once they verify you’re registered to vote and haven’t already voted.

It’s already the case that you usually don’t need to show voter ID at the polls in CA. This law would prevent every dipshit city council from enacting their own rules, i.e. it keeps things sane. I thought guys like you preferred smaller government and fewer rules?

No idea what you’re going on about with China

Tilt beds for shipping containers already exist. Just fire it out the front? Or just use a winch?

Nothing in the linked article backs up the implication that only members of Helbollah’s militant wing had these.

It did, however, mention that an 8 year old girl was killed by one of them. Which is a foreseeable consequence of widely distributing a bunch of bombs and then detonating them without regard for who’s nearby.

Hezbollah also has a massive social services wing, operating hospitals, schools, etc. I'd keep that in mind when hitching my wagon to this line of thinking.

Turning Elon Musk into the richest person on earth was a US government project on the same kind of scale as the TVA and Apollo program. It’s actually kinda funny when you think about it.

These NDAs are backed with extremely onerous jail sentences, which is IMO a meaningful distinction vs. other types of NDAs.

Beyond that, all your paperwork to get that clearance is in the government’s hands now. In my case that included a full SF-86 and fingerprints, which the government would otherwise not have from me. So it’s IMO accurate to describe the consequences as “lifelong”.

Truth be told, having left that line of work long ago, it bothers me these pieces of info about me are out there somewhere in Uncle Sam’s possession.

It’s kind of why I settled on “annoying” as my descriptor. I know just enough about it to do what I need and nothing more. So maybe that’s the reason, and it’s a good reason, or maybe there’s also other good reasons. Honestly don’t know.

I’ll say that it feels somewhat pointless on every system I’ve personally used it on. In all cases I’m still generating my private key in PEM format and using filesystem permissions to restrict access. So the PKCS12 / JKS password stuff just becomes another thing to bother with that doesn’t provide any real improvement to security.

Now maybe we should be deleting that PEM once we slurp it into the keystore, and actually setting real keystore passwords sourced from a secure location and only kept in memory, etc. I’d definitely rather not though.

I gotta say, as someone who uses Java for the majority of my professional day-to-day work, Java’s keystore and truststore workflow is very annoying. Compare to Go, Rust, etc. where you just point your HTTP server (or what have you) at some PEM files and off you go.

It’s not a huge deal in the grand scheme of things, but it’s frustrating to need to do something special just for Java.