Cops are such fucking cowards. Anything more than beating up innocent protestors from behind a wall of military hardware and they shit their pants & freeze.

I see this same dynamic in the materials I research. "Compromise" in the 19C literature often means Northerners who oppose slavery accommodating enslavers, who cannot be held responsible for throwing tantrums in Congress and literally threatening Northern colleagues with weapons.

Sounds familiar. As always, discretion is the enemy of good policy. Write rules for the outcomes you want. If you are worried about fringe cases, iterate and write rules about fringe cases. Commissions, executives, legislative bodies should not be making decisions about individual projects.

Also for god’s sake if you’re going to be a poll sniffer at least take note that Trump’s atrocities have succeeded in shifting the electorate in a massively more pro-immigrant direction.

Touch ID dongle so I can use my ergonomic keyboard at my desk with my laptop lid closed

Also, I want badly to figure out how to make a phone able to be plugged in to a desktop USB hub and used like a laptop

The problem is this post-Moses trend in treating the "community" as if it's monolithic and knows more about transportation planning than the experts. We as a society can say "more transit good, road expansion bad" and ask locals to weigh in on where staircases go, not "should this even happen?"

Laughing at the idea that the "first order of business if Dems win House/Senate" should be to re-introduce the right-wing immigration bill Biden/Harris tried to run on in 2024 to take the immigration issue off the table by making a ton of concessions to the anti-immigration right.

Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift.

Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.

Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-bit Symmetric Keys There is no need to update symmetric key sizes as part of the post-quantum transition, due to the details of how Grover's algorithm scales. Most authorities agree.

There are no technical or compliance reasons to double the size of symmetric keys in response to the threat of quantum computers.

This common misunderstanding of Grover's algorithm risks wasting limited resources that should go towards deploying actually urgent post-quantum algorithms.

A frame from Keep Your Hands of Eizouken! of Kanamori, the producer, glowering at the camera

Being kept on task by a loved one with Kanamori frames

I can't believe how much banks love to give me their user's browsers

Folks, there are banks using my API on their website frontends again. And they're using JSONP instead of CORS to parse the data (which means howsmyssl almost certainly has remote execution on their users' browsers :))

It's time to kill that JSONP paramater

Screenshot of the AI overview of the "getting tls version in frontend javascript" Google search

Oh my god it's now in the AI summary for "getting tls version in frontend javascript"

It's so weird that my ancient howsmyssl.com is still doing 65 requests per second

come on man.

Just like self driving cars, the discourse has been so throughly poisoned by Musk’s slapdash efforts that people are talking past each other. Other data centers do not power themselves exclusively via onsite gas turbines! Musk isn’t even allowed to do this, it’s illegal but he does it anyways!

FWIW, the answer to this question is “no”

It’s one instance of voters actually paying attention enough to actual reality and changing their views accordingly

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

Every Single Thing in the Utility RELIEF Act A full description of all 30+ policies contained in the 2026 energy omnibus package

The Maryland legislature recently passed a big energy omnibus bill that is effectively a huge bag of smaller policies. It's difficult to even summarize -- there's stuff on permitting, plug-in solar, data center, on & on. @jamiedemarco.bsky.social has pulled it all together into a master list:

When you elect a Dem majority at the state level, they immediately set about passing good, thoughtful policy. Nobody talks about it. Everybody talks about the Wesleyan freshman. Why is that?

YOU have probably been suckered into talking about the Wesleyan freshman instead of MD leg. Why is that?

Elon Musk basically accused Trump of being a pedophile and then got dinner with him again a few months later. Joe Rogan acted shocked and dismayed about ICE and Iran and now he’s standing behind Trump in the Oval Office. These guys only care about holding onto power through any means necessary

I'm so sorry

having people enter a password to log in is a dying authorization flow - it’s too easy to crack databases, and phishing is rampant and especially easier/cheaper with ai assisted coding and communication. passkey ties it to your device, much like biometric login is tied to your eye or fingerprint

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

It’s all well and good for tech leaders to endorse UBI. But it feels convenient to only focus on a distant political prospect. The GOP, right now, is doing reverse-UBI (work requirements on SNAP). It’d be nice to hear more objections to that.

That's so hard. I'm so sorry

So Portland introduced this exact thing in 2017, it seemed to work out until the big hike in interest rates completely changed the finances of house building, now it’s completely killed house building in Portland.

It’s always weird seeing someone propose the status quo in most coastal cities like it’s a novel proposal.

If anything DBL + SB 35 (YIMBY reform efforts) are the people that actually made that real lol left NIMBYs couldn’t even get on board with by-right affordable housing!

that they are freaking out this badly over a surtax on second homes worth more than five million dollars - the most excessive rich person thing imaginable, which doesn’t even affect most of them - really makes it clear how little attention you need to pay to the freak outs