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by marcusb 1y ago
Yes, imagining that the quasi-government organization that is solely tasked with cutting spending might have cut spending at an agency where they are currently cutting spending is a “huge leap.” What was I thinking?
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by marcusb 1y ago
MITRE has been hit with DOGE-branded cuts[0] earlier this month. CISA has been impacted[1]. It seems reasonable to assume they were involved in this. 0 - https://virginiabusiness.com/nova-govcon-firm-mitre-to-lay-o... 1 -
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by marcusb 1y ago
> Did CISA signal to MITRE that they weren't going to exercise the option? An internal letter sent to CVE board members was making the rounds yesterday warning the current contract ("contracting pathway") would expire. Th
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by marcusb 1y ago
? Metacurity’s post was like 90 minutes ago.
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by marcusb 1y ago
Just social media posts, with claims they received the info from CISA https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/114347467581760027 Supposedly, MITRE will make a statement today. Time will tell. Edit - it is MITRE, not CISA
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CISA said to extend CVE contract with MITRE(infosec.exchange)
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by marcusb 1y ago
The last one in my area shut down in 2014/2015. I stopped by and bought several large shopping bags worth of components, all for around $75. Now, I don't think there's anywhere locally to buy electronic components, except
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by marcusb 1y ago
I had a customer once who would just absolutely berate people over email for the tiniest thing. Totally unbearable and unreasonable. So, whenever he would go off, I'd tell him 'look, I'll be in the area [this afternoon|late
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by marcusb 1y ago
I've never (to my knowledge) had a review on Amazon rejected, and I've left very some negative reviews, including when I received counterfeit items. I always thought the review scams on Amazon were more driven by the third-party s
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by marcusb 1y ago
> Ok, maybe very niche hobby products, but then I wouldn't expect a warranty. I bought a bunch of parts for a racing drone from Aliexpress because I didn't expect a traditional retailer's warranty to really matter much. (
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by marcusb 1y ago
I haven't tested that behavior, sorry.
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by marcusb 1y ago
I've seen a bunch of requests with forged ChatGPT-related user agent headers (at least, I believe many are forged - I don't think OpenAI uses Chinese residential IPs or Tencent cloud for their data crawling activities.) Some of th
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by marcusb 1y ago
The only thing that would make that even more perfect would be if there was some way for the site owner to signal to prospective bots which parts of the site are open to the bots to visit. I know this seems really complicated, but I really
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by marcusb 1y ago
I once had a coworker who called this "bullshit bingo" and had a bingo grid drawn on a whiteboard at her desk with all of the latest buzzwords. On a somewhat-related note, my grandfather told me that while he was in Officer Candid
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by marcusb 1y ago
This was more than a decade ago, so I doubt they care that much, and if you want to accuse me of being a liar, please have the integrity to just say that.
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by marcusb 1y ago
First, I'll say it is pretty common to use the terms interchangeably. I don't think anyone was confused by what I wrote, or that your "clarification" was in any way helpful. See, for example, these legal groups using t
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by marcusb 1y ago
All of the RSU offers I ever got stipulated the grant was "subject to the approval of the board", i.e., not guaranteed. That said, I'd be absolutely livid if something like this happened, and would be expecting my manager to
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by marcusb 1y ago
People karma-farm here for no obvious commercial benefit. I'm sure the activity would be greatly reduced, but not eliminated, with a lack of commercial incentives.
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by marcusb 1y ago
I took it as a poor-quality local model. I suppose it is possible, but it seems...unlikely... that one of the three responses to that post was a person who was so upset by the idea of serving junk content to scraper bots that they register
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by marcusb 1y ago
I can understand what the bots posting this stuff on reddit are after, but what puzzles me a bit are the posters here who clearly are LLM-backed bots that post once or twice without any affiliate links or other visible scams, then disappear
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by marcusb 1y ago
A web-based implementation of the Arca Musarithmica is available at https://www.arca1650.info/
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A 17th Century Music Computer(hackaday.com)
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by marcusb 1y ago
> layoff plans must be communicated ahead of time. Minimum 30 days notice, usually much more In the United States, employers with more than 100 full-time, non-probationary employees must provide 60 days notice of most planned layoffs[0]
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by marcusb 1y ago
> Usually there is a hidden variable that you don't know. This is frequently the case. I've worked at big employers (comparable in level of corporate-ness to Google if not absolute size) where the layoff process, roughly was:
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by marcusb 1y ago
You and me both.
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by marcusb 1y ago
To be fair to thunderbird120, the author of this piece made edits at some point. See https://archive.is/K4n9E . No discussion of the recent TPU releases, or TPUs for all, for that matter.
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by marcusb 1y ago
> SVG complexity is a good counterpoint to “why this instead of SVG”. But I don’t think we need to even address the claim that most tools for SVG generation use JS, if the concern is JS on the client. If you want to address the generatio
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by marcusb 1y ago
Maybe they read your comment?
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by marcusb 1y ago
Yes, I understand that. But it does require some method of creating the SVG data, which is generally going to be more difficult than styling td elements with `--start: 0.2; --end: 0.4;`. Most extant libraries for this use JS.
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by marcusb 1y ago
How would you do that client side in pure CSS? "No JS" seems to be a goal of the project.

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