Khalil, who has a green card, is a lawful permanent resident. In ordering Khalil’s deportation, Rubio relied on a rarely used federal statute from the 1950s that played a major role in shaping American immigration during the Cold War. The McCarran-Walter Act, or the Immigration Nationality Act of 1952, gives the secretary of state authority to decide that a noncitizen’s presence in the United States threatens the country’s foreign policy goals. [emphasis added]

I think it’s telling that, 30 years since the Cold War’s conclusion, news outlets are still steering clear of describing what the war was actually fighting against: socialism. The statute was developed during the second Red Scare and was an outgrowth of McCarthyism, a series of anti-communist witch hunts. 30 years later, the mass media are still Inventing Reality.

If I’m going for this interpretation, then I just send the GIF.

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Mozilla agrees that we need to improve search competition, but the DOJ’s proposed remedies unnecessarily risk harming browser competition instead.

The only one hurting browser competition is Mozilla. They want to keep sucking at the teat of BigTech. They don’t want to be a non-profit with a focused mission, constrained by recurring and one-off revenues. They want to be an adtech company, bUt wiTH pRivAcY. The judge should absolutely rip the band-aid off. If Mozilla sinks, it sinks.

The Thunderbird team spent a good chunk of time a few days ago replying everywhere they were mentioned on Mastodon, insisting that the problems did not apply to them:

The Firefox Terms of Use do not apply to Thunderbird or any other products we develop (e.g. Appointment, K-9 Mail)

You can check out their replies here: https://mastodon.online/@thunderbird/with_replies. Lots of the same, or similar, verbiage across replies.

Support for Ukraine is a foregone conclusion generally

The libs are losing their minds right now in the fallout of the Trump-Zelensky meeting. It’s what no materialism does to a political ideology.

Every manufactured product, from toasters and automobiles to ballistic missiles, runs on computer chips. The United States invented the integrated circuit but now fabricates just 12 percent of the world’s chips, and none of the most advanced versions.

As a dude that got a BS in Computer Engineering only to give up on the industry, yeah. That tracks. AMD and Intel were like “got a PhD and post-doc work? No? Maybe go fuck yourself, work in verification/validation for a decade at 40k/year, and then maybe we’ll consider you.” So I said “oh well” and wrote code instead. If I could tell my decade-younger self one thing, it’d be: Learn Chinese.

Just gonna leave this here…

https://blog.brixit.nl/developers-are-lazy-thus-flatpak/

China diverts doomsday asteroid… to maintain its big panda paw’s grip on the world’s rare earth mineral supplies. Don’t look up!

Dedicate no more than two or three replies unless you’re absolutely sure that the person is engaging in good faith. The single biggest tip-off that they are not is that they do not engage with the core of your case, and instead do any number of other things: (1) snipe at edge cases or other minutea (2) change the subject (3) move the goalposts (4) etc.

I.e., you didn’t create the @claymore username for the bit a few hours ago. You’re legit @claymore.

Joined 2 years ago

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Can you explain more about how this relates to alleviating the problem? I’m curious and admittedly, when I read “crypto”, I think of big tech grifters, but I know that’s not all of cryptography as a field.

Cryptocurrency has forever ruined “crypto” :(

But in any case, m-of-n cryptography (Shamir Secret Sharing) permits “m” keys out of a total “n” keys to unlock a secret, such as the login credentials for a domain registrar. So long as “m” keys are available, the login credentials can be recovered. This avoids having a single point of failure, for example, where only one person knows the login credentials and is AWOL. So long as “m” other folks are still around and active, they can recover the login credentials without the AWOL person.

I’m curious.

What happened here?

The one person with the keys to the building went AWOL.

This is one of the things that bugs me about the design of a lot of the internet. Far too much that ultimately comes down to one single person, with zero accountability process. … I don’t know what the answer is there because it’s hard to have accountability and a stable structure in disjointed borderline anonymous environments, but it has long bothered me.

Part of the answer is m-of-n cryptography (and other crypto), but the tools around it are barely usable for technically inclined people, much less those that aren’t. It’s a common enough story, unfortunately. Theoretically, the tech is all there to ameliorate these problems. Practically, only people with encyclopedic knowledge of esoteric tooling have access. And typically, there aren’t enough of those people to go around.

You know, the thing that always seemed really scary about the OG Nazis is that they were competent, intelligent, put-together people that were just fucking evil. Then you look at the US Nazis and the fucking bozo density is off the charts, but they seem to be succeeding anyway.

Not every fascist and Nazi needed to be competent, intelligent, and put-together. Just enough of them. I suppose we’ll find out in real-time if they have amassed sufficient numbers this go 'round.

NoSQL is web-scale.

Mozilla is an ad-tech company now. It’s just as untrustworthy as Google.

Hellwig could have been more tactful, but like it or not, arguments against a cross-language codebase have merit. Framing it as a ‘clear confession of sabotage of the r4l project’, attempting to weaponize the CoC, and trying to drum up an army via social media was all out of line.

When a maintainer calls somebody’s efforts “cancer” – “spreading this cancer to core subsystems” – and that they’ll do everything they can to halt those efforts – “I will do everything I can do to stop this” – that’s as clear an indication of sabotage as you will ever get.