Kazumara

That makes sense. He's old enough and close enough thematically to have seen a few of these tech hype cycles.

You'd think the secret service were better at opsec than random soldiers getting their helicopters blown up.

Many people are willing to accept lower pay for a remote role, making it a highly effective tool for companies to leverage against workers.

Interesting way to look at things. You could then look at it like this: Allowing people to work from home was essentially a raise. And now they are rescinding it.

I got a weird one. Multiple friends, including one who is diagnosed with autism and one who is diagnosed with ADHD and family members have asked me if I thought I had some form of neurodivergence. The autist friend thinks probably autism, the ADHD friend thinks maybe ADHD. The others, who don't know much, mostly asked about autism or aspergers. But I don't see ASD as fitting at all.

I'm quite introverted and don't do well in big social situations, sure. I also don't deal well with conflict even if I'm not directly involved. But I have no issue with faces, or eye contact, or body language, or reading emotions, or sarcasm.

I'm quite analytical in my thinking, but not overly so, I would say. Sometimes I get episodes of hyper-focus where I stay on a task for unnaturally long, not managing to take a break to eat and such. That one is a bit suspicious, but it's also a pretty rare occurrence.

So the one on the right in the picture is actually Jackie Haffner, the one who originally complained to Central Oregon Daily about Ada Gallagher competing as a girl in the Sherwood Need For Speed Classic. Even though they were in different disciplines. Ada was running while Jackie was jumping.

Here is Jackie wearing that same piece of clothing and hairstyle of the picture but at a different meet, just for proof that it's really her in the picture: https://youtu.be/wLFJRcMVctY?t=35

The one in the left of the picture is Saskia Dorf, see here: https://concordia-university-river-forest-illinois.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?event_id=14466&do=videos&video_id=389703

Certainly neither is Ada. Ada is the winner in heat 1 of the 200m sprint, there is a picture of their photo finish available here: https://live.athletictiming.net/meets/33717/events/individual/1224515

I think it's most likely that the Cruz campaign fucked up, didn't do their research and assumed Saskia was trans just because she's tall and sporty. The other option is that they wanted to depict the poor uncomfortable girls who have to compete against a trans girl, except they didn't since they weren't on the track that day.

The weird bit is that our parent's generation is also the one that build the damn things in the first place!

Pretty good disclosure text. There are much bigger companies that don't manage to be this clear.

The only nitpick I have is saying "encypted" with bcrypt, even though they clearly know that bcrypt only hashes things.

Repairing things helps reduce the endless resource expediture and trash creation. Ice cream machines are just a random example. As you can read in the article they were going for much more, and more significant stuff, but got denied.

Ah this bit is sad. The exception only covers bypassing DMCA protections to fix your own stuff not distributing the tooling for it.

It is still a crime for iFixit to sell a tool to fix ice cream machines, and that’s a real shame. The ruling doesn’t change the underlying statute making it illegal to share or sell tools that bypass software locks. This leaves most of the repair work inaccessible to the average person, since the technical barriers remain high. Without these tools, this exemption is largely theoretical for many small businesses that don’t have in-house repair experts.

Except Battle for Wesnoth and Pingus.

Maybe OpenRCT and Osu! a little further down the line.

I know, that’s a lot better than many people that have been forced into 5 days a week or similar bullshit

I hope for your sake this isn't just their first test followed by an escalating series of demands :-/