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This feels like a very clearly overly broad request easily challenged in any sane court. Whether that matters anymore is questionable.

I’ve said this for years.

The bullshit justification for these cockroach companies is always about fiduciary responsibility to shareholders.

Shareholders need to start suing these companies for failing their fiduciary responsibilities by allowing strikes like this. The strikes are never surprising. They’re always obvious and the result is as well. All it does is cost millions/billions of dollars and is completely avoidable. How that doesn’t inherently fail the fiduciary responsibility is baffling to me.

Well of course. Republican naming schemes are to call something the exact opposite of what it is. Across the board. Doesn’t matter if it’s something they’re trying to pass or something they are against.

If you hear them talking about something you can safely assume it’s the exact opposite of reality.

That would require the DOJ to not be political, and they very definitely are nowhere near that point anymore.

The Judicial needs their own enforcement arm. Once we’re through this (one way or another) the US Marshall’s Service should be moved under the Judicial Branch to enforce Judicial Decisions instead of relying on the Executive Branch.

Oh the things I could rant on about Android Automotive, and about legacy automakers integrating “smart” things poorly.

Part of this is another well deserved rant against GM for not putting Android Auto on their cars. That’s something that other manufacturers do and I suppose in that case it actually would work well. I don’t know.

If you want to be even more unreasonably angered about this… I currently drive a Honda Prologue, which uses GM’s Ultima EV platform. The Play Store even shows the car “device” as a “GM Aegean”. It supports Android Auto. Even puts it in the little app window as if the system wasn’t already running Android Automotive. Regular Android Auto just like on any other vehicle… inside Android Automotive. They could do it, they chose not to.

Several vehicle infotainment systems literally run Android. Android Automotive is an entire branch dedicated to being an entire vehicle infotainment system… separate from Android Auto on your phone.

Yeah the real question is why the backup software companies are choosing to use a known vulnerable kernel driver.

The quote from the article:

I reached out to Microsoft for a statement and a spokesperson proviued the following: “In the April 2026 Windows security update, we added known vulnerable kernel driver psmounterex.sys to the Vulnerable Driver Blocklist. Backup applications that rely on this driver may experience failures when attempting to mount or manage disk images. We do not recommend uninstalling or pausing this update. Customers with an impacted driver should install the latest application versions and validate against the driver blocklist to remain protected. For more information, please see here.”

Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via alexa! I love the future!

Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.

Security technicians: takes a deep swig of whiskey I wish I had been born in the neolithic.

If you don’t use a rewards or loyalty program, you’re already paying the highest price for the items.

Well, you can get the hardware now for one.

Would be an interesting comparison once it does release though. Especially for a price/performance comparison now that Sony increased PS5 pricing.

Because middle manglement has a constant compulsive need to justify their existence by finding new ways and metrics to “manage”.

Yeah that’s what happens to absolutely everything in Low Earth Orbit in just a few years. Well, unless you keep pushing them back up like we do to the International Space Station.

These satellites are doing exactly what they’re intended to do. These are actually pretty small satellites overall, there are a lot up there quite a bit larger that deorbit and burn up on re-entry just fine as well.

That’s part of the reason things are sent to LEO specifically, because their orbits naturally degrade and they naturally deorbit themselves without needing any assistance or fuel. It also means if a satellite in LEO fails quicker than planned, is put in an incorrect orbit due to a launch issue, or just failed prematurely, it will fail-safe and deorbit without any assistance.

So you now can be absolutely certain that Netgear is actively and openly giving fascist authoritarians what they want.

At least before you could be fairly certain it was just the secretive three letter guys that roughly knew what they were doing at least. Now it’s even the blatant dumb fucks in charge.

That’s kind of the point of those AR games. It’s been obvious from the beginning.

This is a surprise to no one, assuming you have been paying attention.

Of course they do. Apple Intelligence.

But even more broadly you can assume Apple is working on it if:

1. It is in any way tech-related.
2. It has the possibility of marketing existing technology as “magical” and easy to use.

There was a big deal last year after Mastercard and Visa threatened the indie game site itch.io for allowing adult games, after a single complaint from an Australian anti-porn group.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/mastercard-visa-backlash-adult-games-removed-online-stores-steam-itchio-ntwnfb

Payment processors shouldn’t be gatekeepers of what we can buy. They should just process the payments and take their cut for being a middleman.

That is totally available self hosted. Nothing is blocked. In fact that’s why I originally switched, reducing unnecessary monthly costs.

OTP codes for websites as well as all the MFA options for Vaultwarden itself. It also supports organizations, so you can share info between multiple accounts on your server. Emergency access, and even a web vault client.

Everything the paid Bitwarden does as far as I’m aware.

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

If you do any sort of self-hosting, take a look at Vaultwarden. All the premium functions for free.

Before my entire network setup changed recently for unrelated reasons… I had Vaultwarden running on my home server (TrueNAS) and a free Cloudflare account with a tunnel to my home server and a $5/year domain. Worked for my parents easily and no longer had to worry about the big infrastructure being targeted.

Vaultwarden, self-hosted is free as well. And since it’s not using the Bitwarden infrastructure, you’re only as exposed as your own network anyway.

But you can still use all the standard Bitwarden apps and extensions on any device, you just need to point it at your server. Easy to set up for friends and family as well. No need to try and teach them about VPNs, setting up syncthing, etc.

Had some time before the waterboarding appointment.