The paranoid in me wonders though… can DRAM be backdoored? I’d bet ‘yes’, and this would be a perfect opening to introduce a huge amount of compromised hardware to the world market…

Cloudflare has caused too much of the internet to be centralized under their whims. There need to be more alternatives for DDoS protection; I don’t use any at all for my self-hosted site, but if I ever do, it won’t be Cloudflare.

Thank you for linking via xcancel.com rather than to that service directly. Wish more posters would do this.

Reddit API apocalypse and their plan to IPO to sell everyone’s posts for data.

Might actually be a good idea if everyone registered as Republican. Then there’s no way to tell who’s really going to vote for them. Hah, sorry I forgot there probably won’t be any more votes.

Son of a South African emerald mine tycoon, AFAIK family moved to Canada in his youth, then he moved to the US.

I feel bad for any non-white employee of SpaceX, Starlink etc. who feels they cannot quit due to living expenses. If I were in their shoes and could get another job, I’d be leaving ASAP.

Could workers not form a ‘dark union’, gathering members from as many different companies as possible without informing the employers up-front – gathering a strike-pay war chest before announcing any unionized shops? Then the next time they pull this, everyone everywhere quits out of solidarity. Draw from the war-chest to pay workers while the companies panic, and then dictate fair terms to return to work.

The huge difficulty would be keeping the membership drive truly ‘dark’ until it was large enough to pull off.

Cue that Ants scene… they want to nip resistance in the bud, before it grows too large.

This should be the point akin to that scene in V for Vendetta where that brownshirt shoots the little girl wearing a V mask, and the neighbours decide they’ve had enough.

Qualcomm has historically been one of the most closed chip vendors. Unless they publish full specs, datasheets and open drivers, that’ll be a hard ‘no’ for me.

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15186897W/Simple_Sabotage_Field_Manual?mode=all

May the vengeful ghost of Fred Rogers come strangle Trump and Miller in their sleep.

Guess Trump will be abducting Carney and ‘running Canada’ like Venezuela now, since we apparently have pissed off the Dept. of War for sending buttplugs to Bahrain. What a world.

This. And hence why it is always good to punch a Nazi. Tolerance is a social contract. When one side violates the contract the other side has no obligation to adhere to it any longer.

Good god no, don’t send Jordan Peterson back to us, unless it’s via boat, and a very leaky one at that.

What an ineffective distraction ftom the Epstein Files!

And what a travesty Drumpf is literally playing with the lives of others, American and Venezuelan, to do so.

That’s at least partly because the tax department itself is chronically underfunded. In the US the IRS literally avoids auditing really rich people most of the time because it’s too much for their budget. Whereas, they can pick on less wealthy people, who also cannot afford to defend themselves in court.

Fortran – because helping any of the idiot CxOs who embraced vibe coding will only reward them and delay popping the bubble. Let 'em hang by their greed.

I hope any dev who’s asked to come back and fix vibe-coding demands 3x their previous wage, double the vacation and stock options.

There is adventurescientists.org which has projects (sadly most are US-only, but sometimes they extend into Canada). They aren’t necessarily 'camp’s with groups, but they might have something appealing to you.

What an out-of-touch person.