It has likely changed since I last checked before his presidency, but he had a Top Secret Clearance with NO SCI.

I knew he had admitted to actively using drugs a few times and I wondered how he held an active security clearance. What I could find was essentially: SpaceX was the best option for the US government to conduct satellite-based intelligence missions, as in launch satellites into orbit for the purpose of Space Force related surveillance.

To that end they waived a lot of sketchy shit on Elon’s background to give him a TS so he could primarily attend and give briefings, but no SCI as he didn’t actually do any work requiring it.

Source: I wish I could fucking find any now, but there’s a flood of thousands of article talking about his security clearance as a presidential advisor now.

We don’t have that in murica

it remains to be seen whether Elon Musk is a Nazi

It has been seen.

I’m pretty sure you also indirectly support monetarily services and countries you disagree ideologically with.

Yes and when I recognize my avenues of support, I switch away and stop supporting things I don’t like. I don’t make excuses to keep using Dogshit.

You don’t support them ideologically, but you are supporting one by giving ad viewership and personal data revenue to Elon Musk. Supporting a Nazi doesn’t just mean you post good things about them online, and talk good about them in person. You support them monetarily by using their platform.

It honestly (usually) does lead to a fantastic product! I maintain my own significantly used tools independently and completely agree. I also have seen locally (as a corporate pawn and life-long software engineer) what happens once somebody quits and no longer maintains their beautiful project(s).

You work so much FASTER alone than you do in a group. You also can NEVER get as far with your tool when you work alone. I think the best FOSS tools are born from independent savant developers, but for them to reliably be carried on, they have to be passed down to SOMEONE. It’s not your job to foster the entire next generation of tablet-children to be able to push golden commits to your curl 2.0 repo; it is pretty worthwhile to foster at least a handful of interested and headstrong people to understand your work in its entirety, and carry on its progress. And then they can do the same, and FOSS will live on forever (as it SHOULD be).

You probably spent an obscene amount of time developing an S+ tier piece of tooling, it would be pertinent to spend another marginal month or so to raise some lil star to be able to mimic your work once you tap out.

Having more free time is cool, but there’s more things in life. As MC Ride said: “LIKE GETTING YOUR DICK. RODE ALL FUCKING NIGHT.” Find some lil dick rider to carry on your shit.

if a maintainer doesn’t want your sticky grubby toddler hands fuckin in their cookie jar, it’s their fucking cookie jar and they can tell you to fuck off.

Yeah, that is exactly how it works. And doing that leads to your tool dying since you have no clue how to foster a community to take care of it.

Original creators and maintainers are hitting retirement age.

And not many good younger people are available to take the mantle.

This is the long-term cost of how persnickety FOSS maintainers are when it comes to accepting outside contributions to their work.

Most social Lemmy user:

How do you feel about this murder? https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-asthma-medicine-lawsuit-walgreens-optum-8b4130ab404e513fbd68c9e02b51976b

Will you post comments asking where the justice is for this lost life?

I don’t mean interacting directly with ICANN. I mean directly interacting with registries, like Verisign.

They control the .com top level domain. They do not interact with consumers, and require you to use a third-layer of registrars to interface with them.

ICANN shouldn’t get into the direct-to-consumer business, that is true and not the issue I am speaking about.

If you want someone else’s servers to replicate a piece of information for you, and you want them to take responsibility for administrative issues like figuring out whether you still want it next year or what to do if you’re doing something illegal

I would like none of these services. I would simply like my domain name to be mapped to my server’s IP. I don’t want to have to pay a registrar, I would like to submit my domains to registers directly. There is a business layer of middle-men who do not need to exist.

Yeah kinda, my coworkers talk to ChatGPT like it actually knows stuff and use it to fix their broken terraform code.

It takes them a week or longer to get simple tickets done like this. One dude asked for my help last week, we actually LOOKED at the error codes and fixed his shit in about 15 minutes. Got his clusters up within an hour. Normally a week long ticket – crunched out in 60 minutes by hand.

It feels ridiculous because it’s primarily senior tech bro engineer types who fumble their work with this awful tool.

DeepSeek claimed the model training took 2,788 thousand H800 GPU hours, which, at a cost of $2/GPU hour, comes out to a mere $5.576 million.

That seems impossibly low.

DeepSeek is clear that these costs are only for the final training run, and exclude all other expenses

Kaiju

Idk maybe it’s just my area, but there’s about a dozen of these on Facebook market place right now for me:

The mileage is “high”, about the same as what I bought mine at (140,000), but it’s a civic. Do basic car maintenance on time, and it will live for twice that many miles. If OP wants to hit me up, I’ll help them look for something in their area or straight up get them in touch with one of the people selling near me. I’m down to road trip the car to them if it’s less than like 8 hours away too

Edit: JK that shit says euros, can’t drive to you sorry lmao

@platypus@lemmings.world

Craigslist ad got me a 2010 Honda Civic for $5,000 in the city. Nothing but oil changes and one new battery, it’s been living for about 6 years now

Speach lmao

How do you show that you care?

Seems like the wrong mindset. Think about what can be done to make her feel cared about. Not cared about by you. Cared about by everyone.

1. DC is small. Not quite Vatican small, but DC is essentially entirely urban. Urban areas are democratic.

2. DC is not a state. They don’t get any representation in Congress because of this. Democrats are the politicians promising to try and get DC a seat in Congress so that they may be represented. They passed a strange bill that allowed DC to have Shadow Congresspeople who vote in Congress, but their votes don’t get counted for anything. Republicans do not want DC to have any representation.

3. This may be anecdotal from being a local and speaking with people from DC, but there’s a general idea that DC and the surrounding NoVa and MD areas are taken care of very well by the federal government. No president or congressman wants to work and live in an area surrounded by crime, homelessness, and crumbling infrastructure, or else they might feel bad. Democratic leaders tend to push for legislature and infrastructure that supports the local community, while Republican leaders have historically shown a mindset of “Fuck everybody else here” and not supported the local community. Reagan flooded DC streets with Contra crack to get rid of “degenerate blacks” in the community. On the flip side, Clinton and Obama fought for DC to get state rights to be represented in the government.

Damn I golf in shorts, suck it nerd