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Submission + - Email shows that Musk ally is moving to close office behind free tax filing prog (theguardian.com)

Alain Williams writes: An Elon Musk ally installed in the US government said in a late night email going into Saturday that the office behind a popular free online tax filing option would be shuttered – and its employees would be let go.

The 18F office within the General Services Administration (GSA) created the IRS Direct File program that allows for free online tax filings. It has been a frequent target of Musk, and one of the billionaire businessman’s close associates who holds a key position in the GSA informed staffers that the agency would close 18F in an email to staffers that arrived around 1am on Saturday morning.

Submission + - France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. (tuta.com)

An anonymous reader writes: France is about to amend a bill against drug trafficking, the “Narcotrafic” law, which will force encrypted messaging apps like Signal and WhatsApp to backdoor the encryption for being able to hand over decrypted chat messages of suspected criminals within 72 hours of the request. In order to enforce it, the text provides for a “fine of EUR 1.5 million for natural persons and a fine of up to 2% of the annual world turnover for legal persons”. The amendment has already been passed by the Senate and is now moving fast to the National Assembly.

Submission + - 9th Circuit says Terms of Service forced arbitration has a loophole

schwit1 writes: You know those terms of service that nobody reads when you get an online account? Well, turns out if you lie (like we all do) and say you've "read" them—but weren't forced to actually view their text—that's different than the website forcing you to scroll through them before you lie. So says the Ninth Circuit (over a dissent), ruling a California woman, and her class, doesn't have to go to arbitration over the automatic renewal of her gym subscription and therefore "eludes the Gordian knot that Ross Geller and Chandler Bing struggled against."

Comment Meh (Score 1) 68

Gave it a chance, so already think it laughably bad. I won't even use it where I thought it would save time at this point. They're charging production grade rates for a product that users should be getting paid to test and develop. They had the nerve to try dinging my card the other day, after it had been broken the week prior.. No thanks!

I could get it to go into an infinite loop, reliably, generating the same half baked output no matter the prompt. I was streaming to teach friends code, so I might link to that later, if I don't forget. We can all have a good laugh here and now..

Comment Re: requirement (Score 1) 93

Do you have a particular claim of malfeasance against the investigators? Obviously, to investigate an investigator, another investigator is required. These organizations aren't without their own oversight. Also, why be envious of behaviors that drive economic depletion? It lowers standards, it's not a badge of honor.

Comment Re: Israeli Fanboys (Score 1) 522

Terrible thought, but interesting nonetheless. I don't have chips in the politics game, if that wasn't clear in the OP. In fact, I find it difficult to keep up with any of that. I just want peace, if at all possible. And if it wasn't clear, I'm devastated by what's happened to the point of vomiting if I think about it too much.

Comment Re: Israeli Fanboys (Score 1) 522

What people wouldn't violently revolt? I know a few. As far as I can tell, Farid didn't and Om didn't (there's a song about her). Like yesterday's /. quote said, the lesser of two evils is still evil. And Hamas? They chose the greater evil, to great success as evidenced by the support they've garnered.

Comment Re: Israeli Fanboys (Score 5, Interesting) 522

You act like Gaza was destroyed due to spontaneous violence or that actual terror was justified. Fact is, not only was Hamas warned not to do what they did, those they subjugate were warned too. And it wasn't a one time warning. They were warned all the way back in 2019, over and over, verifiably. My friends in Gaza, etc that know exactly what I'm talking about, who afaik are all still alive, they know there was a time when they were told to tell everyone what was known about Hamas terror plans and the consequences for continuing supporting them on a path towards extreme violence. Now, they've repeatedly asked for me to help more. What should I do now? Wear a SJW hat for them? I could criticize Israel for leveling the place, but then again, I remember the many conversations that took place with Palestine that discussed exactly that would happen if Hamas followed through. So, not only did they want high casualties, they wanted it so people like you would go to bat for them. In other words, batter up, it's your turn to put lipstick on their terror.

Comment Re:Not enough (Score 1) 34

I'd say the DOJ suit is a good indication this isn't all about theory. What I'm talking about allows native, bare metal performance and features with low-level and high level abstractions available using mixed source (and hell, mixed package management if you're a glutton for punishment). With WebKit, we're talking about a restrictive high-level abstraction managed by DOM, which while important to have, is a ridiculous constraint. Apple does some cool stuff, at times, but they're not saints. Speaking of conspiracy theories, I do have one to throw out there: Apple screwed with the curl bin's cert handling to target a specific set of individuals for the intelligence community, not out of some odd unspoken convenience. Took the source for that project down for now, but will put it back up soon. End goal is providing an open source, cross platform mobile code editing toolset that isn't restricted to niche apps or groups with massive pockets.

Comment Re: Let's test it out (Score 1) 36

Depends on what the difference would be without it. If it can get there with guidance while saving significant time under close supervision, I'll give it a try. I don't think the most useful aspect here is with accuracy or safety, but it's extremely useful when starting daunting tasks, things you might procrastinate with otherwise, etc.

Comment Let's test it out (Score 1) 36

It definitely struggles with implementing libssh2 in swift. So far, suggestions are reasonable enough, but it failed to suggest implementing a check for st_size when getting remote file stats for scp. The scp c example it is referencing from clearly does that. I can coax it into a correct implementation, but until stuff like that improves, noob mistakes will be cropping up all over the place.

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