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Key to the effort, Mr. Aleynik said, are criminal contacts in Canada who falsify customs documents and share the latest intelligence on how to evade checks. “I’m not going to point any fingers,” Mr. Aleynik said, “because I’ve used their services myself. But that’s why it’s so easy in Canada.”

i guess the problem with that is having to maintain the repository setup. they’re basically web servers with signed files.

That does solve one problem at the cost of a bunch of other potential problems.

Well duh of course it is! Linux is after all at the cutting edge of future computing.

Unrelated, my ducking smart phone decided to autocorrect to that.

So I can see some uninformed exec with only a MBA deciding to put the keys to everything in one spot behind a data model that likes to do things like delete everything.

Nevermind having a single point of failure.

Amazon Turk 2.0

The French Gardia switched over to an in house Linux distro and now a lot of governments and companies are watching to see what happens.

I have a duel boot setup and it’s been a year since I had to boot into Win11. Seriously concerned with what is going to happen when I have to use it.

This is going to get so much worse. I am on the “foothills” or east side of the rockies and we’re currently experiencing our version of a “monsoon” https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/co/denver From 8/24/26 today into September, the most precipitation is ~0.05 inches (~.13cm).

The entire month we have just under 1 inch of rain https://www.wunderground.com/history/monthly/us/co/denver/KBKF/date/2026-8

This is supposed to be the wet side of the Rockies and we aint got shit.

Meanwhile the watershed for the Colorado River is scraping along the bottom of the current model’s worst projected scenario https://nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov/awdb/basin-plots/POR/PREC/assocHUC6/140100_Colorado_Headwaters.html?showYears=2026

This is, so far, the worst recorded amount in over a decade, including the droughts in 2018 and 2012.

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This is Vail’s snow pack https://nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov/awdb/site-plots/POR/WTEQ/CO/Vail Mountain.html?showYears=2026 All the the snow pack records across the water shed look like this where the actual amount is below even the minimum

This is my biggest fear these days. I have MS and because of the damage already, I can’t be exposed to temps above ~85F (~29.4c) before becoming disabled.

I have been fortunate enough to be able to afford a 6KwH capable PV system and have now added ~55Mj of storage which would be enough to power a small chest freezer and hopefully keep a basement room cool enough with an inverter heat pump. Like I said, I have been very fortunate because that cost me a mid-luxury car worth of money in mostly upfront cash.

Which makes it feel like a crime what is happening to the PV/Solar industry in the USA because of corruption. For over a decade the cost of cells and even the inverters have been going down but who knows if that will continue now?

this sounds like a half ass attempt to do what what Edgerunners did with Cyberpunk.

“consultants” in that they are basically a mixture of cultists and also very aware their future is Microsoft or bust.

I fought and lost to get a simple LAMP box to run a web app for my squadron using software written by dozens of others in my specialty. We lost because a lt. Colonel with a guaranteed seat at Microsoft just said no.

I remember when version 1 of cgroup went out to the world with 2.6(or was it 2.8)? I thought it looked interesting and had a couple ideas to try but I never found the free time. Next thing I know I am in the audience at PyCon listening about this Docker thingy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW9CAH9nSLs

Me and two of the other DevDave’s were here. Pretty easy to spot me, I am the sexy & suave one.

Ah yeah, I can definitely see Mexico. Do they have any form of anti-air weaponry?

Fine, “I wonder which of our more reliable victims we’re going to start bombing first?”

I don’t think enough people inside of and outside the USA truly comprehend how bad things actually are already and where they’re heading towards.

When I was really bored (everyday that ends with a y) when I was in service, I’d do random searches of the DOD email directory.

There were more than one person with the last name of Puddle in the US Navy during the 00’s. I often wonder what their recruiters were thinking and if everyone was screaming at each other “Don’t fucking tell them their title, not yet!”

Only one out of 350k-380k commissioned officers is actually keeping their word and defending the constitution.

I wonder which of our allies we’re going to start bombing first?

For a person I could understand. Now I need to go bother another code monkey I know that is specialized in ML.

like preferably a model only trained on one language kind of idea?

thanks to AI I don’t believe this is real. that said I wonder what the snipers on top of the white house thought as this was being assembled.

From my experience, the number one culprit of legacy code breaking is someone asking if anyone knows how it works. Second most common culprit is someone making a “quick patch” to legacy code.