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July 24, 2024
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The woman realized how serious her infection was once she was in custody.
that one in the corner
but no FOSS package ever dies
Oh yes they do - and have.
Nowadays, the bulk of FOSS is shoved into GitHub and will be available - for as long as GirHub bothers to run its servers[1].
Back in the day, Tarballs and Arc files were downloaded direct from the author's site and then you were expected to mirror it if it was important to you.
Then the Web was "discovered" by more and more people and for some reason the mirroring stopped and changed to just dropping in a link to "the" download location - and of course, we then learnt that URLs have a half-life.
As public version control servers came online - and people started to trust them - we saw materials on something safer than a personal site, or the pages of a company that vanished overnight (sometimes the entire company vanished, sometimes just the project)[2].
If you are lucky, the Internet Archive grabbed a copy and you can try one of the dead URLs there; patience can be required[4].
If you are really lucky, somebody has put a copy into GitHub[5] - although you can open yourself up to flames because your copy "doesn't compile for me"[6]
And what about the FOSS that is practically single-sourced by being published in that JavaScript compost heap? Was LeftPad() also available from GitLab? Some of it is handled properly (p5.js oooh, squiggly and probably safe from vanishing).
Of course, any FOSS that does fall through the cracks "is not important" - after all, all the Linux distros keep their own copies of source packages, "so we are not actually reliant on GitHub at all, Corner you fool."
Not important. Well, you never know. Literally, you never know, it has gone now.[7]
[1] Then we'll have to go back and pull the older version from SourceForge.
[2] As a few others did I like the old "Elegant" library & util from Philips Labs - good luck finding that, on the Philips site - or doing a web search for it available elsewhere[3]
[3] stop giving your projects names that are normal words!
[4] not being able to find something is, in all practical terms, the same as the thing no longer existing at all. Take note when organising your backup copies...
[5] really must put my compiling copy of Elegant up on GitHub
[6] so maybe I won't put Elegant up, as I only have Makefiles for My Own Build System and am fed up telling people how to write build scripts for their favoured build tools. Seriously.
[7] "Important" is a relative term[8]. Maybe it is really important to you to generate an awful lot of Elegantly laid out syntax diagrams in the next day or you can't pay for Tiny Tim's new clutches, he is growing so fast nowadays, at least the one leg is.
[8] see so very many commentards "well, my PC is ok so this is a non-issue" and the response to same
[9] Footnotes FTW. Be more Pterry!
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While there are many good reasons to vote for Donald Trump and against Kamala Harris, some reasons stand out. So, without further ado, here are ten great reasons to vote against Kamala Harris. //
The Original John Doe Kieran1974
2 hours ago
"Ten Reasons to Vote Against Kamala Harris"
I have twenty relatives who all have one GREAT reason to vote for Harris. They are all dead.
It is possible to push too far and cause voters to recoil. It is not going to be enough to shout "DEI" over and over. Harris has a record, and that record must be meticulously and strategically taken apart for every American to see.
Harmeet K. Dhillon @pnjaban
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Before y’all get cocky, remember they elected Fetterman 1.0 and Basement Biden. Focus. Shitposting doesn’t turn out the vote. Shoe leather does.
4:03 PM · Jul 23, 2024
Right now, I see a lot of Republicans thinking they can just meme their way to victory. That's far too online of a viewpoint. As I said earlier, I'm all for having fun, but beating Harris is going to take discipline and a well-planned political assault. In the short term, everyone should be prepared for her to start leading in some polls and a total reset of the national narrative. That's not coming from me. That's coming from Trump's own pollster. //
The last big consideration is money. Biden was being strangled by donors. That has now ended with Harris at the top of the ticket. The cash is flowing, and if it hasn't already happened, Democrats are poised to pass up Republicans soon when it comes to total resources on hand. That alone is a major game changer.
Yes, there will be an onslaught of ads, but more importantly, Democrats will now have the money needed to pay volunteers and build ground game infrastructure. Republicans can't just expect to do a few rallies in swing states and drive enough turnout any longer. It's going to take an incredibly well-organized effort to outdo Democrats on the ground. //
eburke GBenton
5 hours ago edited
"Where I think he can hammer her is how she is a liar. She deceived Democrat voters and the country in this and the last election about Biden's fitness to serve."
This...repeatedly. //
GBenton eburke
5 hours ago edited
The Dems weakness is they have been exposed as incompetent liars. It's hard to come back from that.
If Trump can paint Kamala as an incompetent liar who really is over her head, the base instinct for the mass of voters will be for a strong leader because they feel unsafe and insecure about their survival economically and physically.
Kamala will call Trump a criminal, a woman abuser, a fraudster, and a "dictator on day one" who worships Project 2025.
The problem is none of that is true and all but the most BlueAnon dorks know life was better 4 years ago and crime was lower, too.
Kitchen table issues and safety on the streets and in the home trumps woke bullshit and debunked Dem propaganda.
What is Kamala gonna say about Trump that the voters haven't heard and factored in already to the current polling?
Kamala inherits stale and tired talking points and her record is atrocious.
https://thehill.com/opinion/4784733-biden-withdraws-democratic-party-nominee/
After weeks of Democrats and the media raising the alarm of his mental capacity, Biden finally gave up his public refusal to step aside. Harris will now be the nominee through succession by defenestration, or being tossed from a window. Yet, there remains a lingering question of Biden’s capacity to serve for another six months as president.
President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw as the Democratic Party’s nominee solved an immediate problem for his party. Biden has plummeted in the polls as the vast majority of voters concluded that he is too diminished by age to serve another term.
Yet, it has now created several new problems, including the obvious problem of a president who is viewed as incapable of running for an office that he continues to hold. //
Millions voted for [Biden], and tens of millions of dollars were contributed to his campaign. He is now withdrawing weeks before accepting the nomination. That unprecedented decision alone would warrant a House investigation into Biden’s continuing capacity to serve in an office that he no longer believes he can run to occupy after January 2025.
Before this decision, a special counsel cited President Biden’s diminished faculties as a reason not to indict him for unlawfully retaining and handling classified material. Now, the president is effectively saying that, in addition to being allegedly too diminished to be prosecuted, he is too diminished to run for the office that he currently holds.
The question is whether Biden has ended the fight to retain his nomination only to trigger a fight to retain his office.
As RedState reported earlier on Wednesday, the left-wing outlet published an article attacking Republicans for referring to Harris as the nation's "border czar." There was just one problem. Axios published an article in 2021 stating that she was. //
What's the first rule of holes? Something about not digging any further? After getting caught with its pants down, Axios didn't step back and admit it got it wrong. Instead, it added an editor's note throwing itself under the bus for once referring to Harris as the "border czar." In other words, an entire article was written to claim Republicans were lying, and in the end, Axios had to admit it had reported the exact same thing. //
Now that it's become clear she failed miserably at the task, the press wants to take it all back and pretend she holds no real responsibility for the disaster that continues to unfold. Call it Soviet, Orwellian, or worse, it's incredibly creepy to witness the lengths to which supposed "news" outlets are willing to go to protect Harris. This is not how the press is supposed to operate. //
CrankyBoomer.substack.com
an hour ago
I beg to differ.
Since her job as border czar was to do absolutely nothing, from the dems' perspective she succeeded brilliantly.
Ditto Mayorkis brilliantly succeeding at securing the border. They got exactly what they wanted from him too.
Proprietary code goes unpublished – but no FOSS package ever dies. //
Proprietary code goes unpublished: if its host company dies, it probably dies with it the moment the servers are wiped.
Open source's default mode is life. The code is published, cloned, archived by default. It may be abandoned to lie dormant, like a tardigrade sitting out a drought in suspended animation, but drop the water of attention on it and it's back in the game. At least, that's the theory. //
Ledru started the project for very personal reasons: as a director at Mozilla, he was surrounded by Rust creators in an entirely managerial job, and he wanted to learn Rust. Reinventing coreutils, for him, was primarily fun; he learned the thinking behind the beginning of modern computing. Plus, it seemed to be something worth doing.
Last year, the package started to get a reputation for robustness, and was finding its way into production in some significant places. It had attracted hundreds of contributors, it had some performance advantages, and it has a more permissive license – MIT in place of GPL. You can do that if you re-invent. //
The real joy of this is that it's been so organic. One person's itch to learn and code found its salve in a project that few thought needed to be done. But in ten or 20 years' time, it will need to have been done. None of the reasons for this have any place in the proprietary, metrics-driven goal world of closed source.
The end result is that an essential and massively used set of tools from 50 years ago will be just as essential and just as used 50 years hence. To the many freedoms FOSS grants, we can add that of looking ahead as far as you can see and quietly start the business of evolution to fit.
There's a core utility for you. ®
On Tuesday afternoon, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) shared bodycam footage taken shortly after the incident on his Twitter/X account. Grassley has marked the footage (appropriately) as "Sensitive Content," so I'm including the link to his tweet, along with an embed of the video (below) shared by other accounts on the platform.
In his tweet, Grassley stated:
SENSITIVE CONTENT: July 13 Bodycam footage provides more info than Secret Service will share w America We NEED detailed answers ASAP on security failures TRANSPARENCY BRINGS ACCOUNTABILITYVid obtained from Beaver Co Emergency Services Unit in compliance w congressional requests
In a classified letter, US Central Command commander General Michael Kurilla warned Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin that US military operations to keep the Red Sea open to commercial traffic are "failing." General Kurilla's warning to Austin and his cronies predicted that “U.S. service members will die if we continue going this way.” According to reports, there was a sudden demand for brown trousers in the upper reaches of the Pentagon. //
There is no doubt we are getting our asses kicked in the Red Sea. That is happening for one reason. Our foreign policy and defense strategy establishments are running on empty. The Israel Air Force has done more to establish dominance over the Houthis in one airstrike than we have in a year of half-hearted and hamstrung efforts to keep a vital international maritime route open. //
Houthi attacks are responsible for a significant drop in container shipping through the Red Sea, with a 90% decrease since December 2023, affecting 10-15% of global maritime trade. //
According to the report, alternate shipping routes around Africa, despite adding about 11,000 nautical miles, approximately $1 million in fuel costs per voyage, and 1-2 weeks of transit time, can be less expensive than the combined costs of crew bonuses, war risk insurance, and Suez transit fees.
Insurance premiums for Red Sea transits have increased to 0.7-1.0% of a ship’s total value as of mid-February, up from less than 0.1% before December 2023. //
Not only have our efforts to protect shipping not worked, but they have resulted in our allies forming a counter-coalition to avoid being under US command. US leadership in an area of immense national security interest, both the Red Sea route and the freedom of navigation, has been lost and will require much hard work to regain.
Once American hard power is used, it must emerge victorious. The failure to do so leads to instability and more warfare.
Much of Iran's resurgence and instability in the Middle East is directly attributable to Biden's horrendous leadership in closing out our Afghan misadventure. Now, he's about to end his misrule of America with another catastrophe that will echo for generations as a bookend to his Afghanistan failure. All in all, this is a fitting legacy for Joe Biden's life and political career.
So far, the evidence of Harris being a leader of any type, much less a "strong and tested" one, is scant. The sky-high attrition rate in her office indicates a toxic and dysfunctional work environment. Indeed, she reminds me of the story about the lieutenant of whom it was said, "Men follow this officer out of sheer curiosity." //
I find it ludicrous and insulting to the intelligence to say she can make the case "about why Donald Trump is a threat to America’s national security" when she just participated in a palace coup to strip Joe Biden of his candidacy, if not supplant him as president. //
This letter has the same credibility as that of the 51 "intelligence professionals" who proclaimed Hunter Biden's laptop to have the hallmarks of Russian disinformation ... //
houdini1984
9 hours ago
Harris, describing the Russia-Ukraine situation:
"So, Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, basically, that's wrong."
Yep. A true foreign policy genius at work.
Those 350 "experts" are not even qualified to teach at Clown College. //
Scholar houdini1984
9 hours ago edited
An old Asian proverb: "One of the merits of our beloved leader is that he tasted the sugar and declared: It is sweet.". //
Jim frm Palo Alto
9 hours ago
The dishonesty is shocking. Traveling does not mean accomplishment. Meetings are a dime a dozen. Where are the Biden-Harris versions of the Abraham Accords, the five trade deals, the strong push back against China, Trump’s NK trip, etc? Under Biden-Harris all we have is chaos and embarrassment such as the Afghanistan debacle and our continued aid to the Taliban; sanctions relief to Iran and aid to Hamas; the closure of multiple embassies because of threats; getting kicked out of Niger; losing to China around the globe; three years of war in Ukraine.
Of all the recent trends in automotive technology and design, the adoption of capacitive controls over mechanical switches and buttons—particularly on multifunction steering wheels—is among the most deplorable. One can see the appeal to the designer—slick-looking fiat panels trump dust-attracting seams, for starters. The bean counters love them, too—it takes less time to install the subassemblies, and that means a little more profit per car. It's just that they suck. And now, some Volkswagen drivers say capacitive buttons are to blame for their car crashes.
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I am not too sure...
about the "immortality" of FOSS code.
Looking at the C code in Lions Unix (v6) commentary the code is pretty rough by any standard and certainly when compared with contemporary Linux and BSD code. I imagine in 50 years time that code will look peculiar too.
Long ago having ported quite a lot of open source code between System V and BSD systems (and from VAX/VMS) I can say a lot of it was pretty ghastly and could only be immortal in the sense of a vampire or zombie.
Scientific and Engineering Fortran code, mostly numerical analysis or numerical algorithms does seem immortal. I have had to deal with 40+ year old fortran source which with a bit of compiler tweaking and a couple of (automated) edits compiled cleanly and passed its test suite.
Whether Rust, Go etc etc are still in extended use in 20 years time is probably 10:1 against.
PL/1, Simula67, and even Ada while not gone aren't exactly in common use.
Human perversity will probably ensure people are still hacking away in ISO C42 and using -std=c89 to retain K&R function definitions.
I suppose I could reimplement coreutils in SPARK (Ada). ;)
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Sean Cooksey
@SeanJCooksey
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House Democrats are now trying to silence me as @FEC Chairman for raising questions about President Biden giving VP Harris all of his campaign cash. All I did was quote federal regulations.
Why are Democrats afraid of the law?
2:40 PM · Jul 23, 2024
The letter has a distinct tone of "Nice little career you have there, Mr. Cooksey. Shame if anything were to... happen to it." //
Mr. Cooksey asks, "Why are Democrats afraid of the law?" I'm not so sure it's that Democrats are afraid of the law; it's just that they view it as something they can ignore when it suits them to do so.
In the video, which runs one minute and twenty-five seconds, a witness in the crowd named Jon Malis was somehow able to keep his wits about him and keep filming even as he realized there was a shooter perched on a rooftop. Eight shots ring out from the attempted assassin, then two more from law enforcement, including the shot that took him out. That kill shot was reportedly fired by a Secret Service sniper. //
The cellphone cameraman, Malis, explained what he saw:
Definitely wasn't secure. I'm actually ex-military. One of the first things I noticed when we walked up, I'm like, we... None of us have been vetted. We're all along the fence. We all have a view of the stage. We could see Trump.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has told the People’s Liberation Army to be ready to conquer Taiwan by the year 2027. Most U.S. military and intelligence analysts believe Xi will attempt such an invasion before this decade is out. Xi views Taiwan’s subjugation under the Chinese Communist Party flag as a requirement of his personal destiny and the party’s political destiny. //
The United States is not obligated, under the current Taiwan Relations Act, to intervene with military forces should the Communist Chinese forces invade the island nation; we are committed to supporting Taiwan with arms and logistical support. But that, in itself, may make the mainland Communists see value in interdicting any such support, which would mean taking military action against U.S. forces in the Pacific.
That could make things in the Pacific downright spicy, and quickly. And China may be preparing to do just that. //
USA_Proud
9 hours ago edited
Their aging demographics alone make military attacks in the next 5 years likely. While their "One Child" policy resulted in a high percentage of Military age Males, it ran for decades, and only ended in 2015. The lack of females in prime child- bearing years makes it difficult to staff a Military. While China may have wanted to wait a few more years to further let Biden decimate our Military while they modernize theirs, fear of a GOP Administration may cause them to jump early. //
Chuck in TX
9 hours ago
China is surrounded by some very strong opponents that would view an attack on one as a likely attack on all of them. Also, Xi has to have serious questions about whether the PLA is as prepared and capable as he has been told. Fatal flaws seem to reveal themselves with the PLA pretty regularly. Any kind of high-tempo operations will reveal even more. Fortress Taiwan undoubtedly has agents within China ready to make life miserable for the CCP and a Three Gorges Dam failure wipes out almost a third of China (from the river to the sea, indeed).
Laocoön of Troy Chuck in TX
7 hours ago
Glad you caught the Three Gorges Dam problem. It really is a war-loser for the People's Republic if it's taken down. The threat of famine over the next coupla years if it goes is all by itself a PRC killer. Their garrisoned waterlogged sandbars in the South China Sea can be made into quicksand with a MOAB...we don't even hafta go nuclear to sink them back into the ocean one at a time.
In a new wrinkle exposed in the defamation lawsuit brought against CNN by a private contractor and former military veteran, a deposition filing was made with unredacted content that may expose the network further. As we covered recently, the news network is facing a lawsuit that may match – or exceed – the defamation settlement FoxNews reached with Dominion Voting Systems.
This stems from a report made on “The Lead With Jake Tapper” by Alex Marquardt where he covered a component of the extraction efforts from Afghanistan. Security contractor Zachary Young worked as a private evacuation expert in the region, and Marquardt’s report carried the supposition that Young was an illegal operator. Judges have determined there is enough revealed to bring to a jury the charge that CNN knew there was a lack of factual basis and may have acted with malicious intent.
In light of the Biden administration's poor record of truth-telling when it comes to POTUS' medical condition, many people questioned whether that COVID diagnosis was a convenient way to get Biden out of the spotlight for a few days, or if there was more to the story. Based on the reporting of Charlie Kirk and Jordan Schachtel, portions of which were confirmed independently by RedState's Brittany Sheehan, and exclusive details provided to RedState by a well-placed credible source, it seems that skepticism was justified. According to these sources, Biden had a sudden medical emergency and was headed toward University Medical Center trauma center before his team decided to "medivac" him out instead, and that medical emergency was some type of neurological event like a transient ischemic attack. //
Several law enforcement officers on duty that day were informed over the radio that the president was dealing with an unspecified medical emergency. Far from a case of the sniffles, this was sent out on encrypted police airwaves as if something akin to a five-alarm fire had broken out.
Our sources estimate that it was “easily” hundreds of Las Vegas Metropolitan officers and employees who heard the broadcasts live, so a curious media shouldn’t have a problem reporting any follow-ups to this story. The dispatches made clear that this was much more than a mere change of plans, because it set into motion so much of their on-duty emergency response apparatus.
Radio dispatchers responsible for coordinating with the president’s detail requested an immediate “surge” of law enforcement resources into the area, both to secure the vicinity and to expedite the president’s movement. //
But the president’s team decided not to bring him to the hospital. The plans changed in rapid succession once more. It was then relayed over to on duty officers on the president’s detail that they would need to clear an express route to Harry Reid International Airport. The police assigned to the president’s detail and the emergency “in the box” squads then redeployed their resources to getting the president out of town as fast and as safe as humanly possible. //
US Secret Service diverted from the route to University Medical Center back to the tarmac when their doctor determined it wasn't a full stroke, and they could treat him on Air Force One.
The source added that it's now believed that Biden had a TIA. //
RNC Research @RNCResearch
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PROOF OF LIFE? Biden shuffles out of his motorcade, mumbles incoherently at reporters, and ascends the stairs of the smaller AF1.
It's Biden's first public appearance since the coup to force him off the ballot.
1:48 PM · Jul 23, 2024