The Justice Department's new staff decided to just hand criminals sacks of money.
Tim
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I work on cloud stuff but also like Rust and native code. The opinions expressed are are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.
Anytime I get a job I have to check and double check my contract to make sure I'm not signing something forcing me to give up every single idea that enters into my head and assign it to the company paying my salary.
This despite the fact that half the time I'm useful at work it's due to knowledge picked up by hobby nonsense which I wouldn't have bothered with if I'd been forced to assign the IP to the company just so they could bury it forever.
Why oh why are most of my peers okay with this?
Anytime I get a job I have to check and double check my contract to make sure I'm not signing something forcing me to give up every single idea that enters into my head and assign it to the company paying my salary.
This despite the fact that half the time I'm hired or am useful at work it's due to hobby nonsense which I wouldn't bother with if I'd been forced to assign the IP to the company just so they could bury it forever.
Why are all Americans okay with this system?
The other day I ran a Windows XP virtual machine I'd created years ago as a blank "dev" box.
Windows of course gave me some awful message about how the hardware had changed so I could only use it for two days; that was expected. But I was really shocked when I opened up Sublime Text 2 and it wouldn't even load because it was out of date.
I've always known Sublime Text is commercial software but the fact by default this old thing I'd paid for wouldn't load made me feel somewhat betrayed.
Here's a very ironic thing about coding agents that explains their rising adoption:
say you hate coding agents but you work on a team that loves using them.
Eventually you'll find that the only collaborator on that team you trust is the coding agent because everyone else is just pushing code they got from the coding agent.
Dare ObasanjoJust a year ago, we heard reducing the deficit was so important Elon Musk had to fire as many scientists, forest rangers and Black women on the government’s payroll that he could find.
Now? 🤷🏾♂️
So often I think I've started listening to the one album I own from an artist in Plexamp and then realize no wait, it's randomly rearranged the order of the tracks as some kind of perverse favor to me. So I have to go to the album explicitly, then select the option to play the entire album. I'm not sure why software made for and buy enthusiasts of owning their own collection of digital media, where albums, disc and track numbers can be stamped in as metadata on each file, would work this way.
Truly one of the all time great “f u”’s from the universe: working late to finish something that’s already annoying and having a computer crash.!
There's nothing wrong with my life that a year long sabbatical and a two million dollar stipend wouldn't fix. Follow me for more self-help tips.
JA WestenbergBetween the gamblers and the disappeared, there is almost no space left for the old model: the person who plants a tree knowing they'll never sit in its shade.
Everything's Casino
Everything's Casino On the evening of February 28, 2026, American B-2 bombers lifted off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. By the time they reached Iranian airspace, Tomahawk missiles were already in flight from submarines in the Persian Gulf. Operation Epic Fury hit over a thousand targets in its