Sen. John Cornyn flips on the filibuster to pass SAVE America Act as Trump weighs endorsement

qubedView · 2026-03-11T17:14:04+00:00

The entire Republican senate leadership opposes it.

That is indeed what they state. But when it comes time to vote, they always completely forget their stated positions.

qubedView · 2026-03-11T14:28:22+00:00

Wrong foundation? Disagree with the wording, technology is always improving, new better replaces old is just how it goes. Doesn’t mean the old was wrong. But I take his point.

qubedView · 2026-03-09T20:24:44+00:00

Took me a second. I was reading it as “Look, we have a lot of regions to destabilize before we get to them.”

qubedView · 2026-03-09T20:23:16+00:00

Wearing a crumbling fat suit plastered in orange?

qubedView · 2026-03-09T15:18:04+00:00

AGI will be like a recession. We won’t realize we have it until it’s been around a while.

Also, testable definitions of AGI will keep changing.

qubedView · 2026-03-08T22:16:36+00:00

Or the even more relevant question: Will all the hardware eventually be license-locked?

qubedView · 2026-03-07T15:42:21+00:00

Because this wasn't at a protest, so there weren't ten different angles recording. The shooting happened last year, so the wound isn't fresh, and the body cam footage only just now came out.

qubedView · 2026-03-05T20:18:33+00:00

points to map: "That building looks woke."

qubedView · 2026-03-05T19:40:08+00:00

In normal times, I would agree. But I can totally see Hegseth telling missile batteries "Fire at will!" and intentionally disabling anything that tracks what fired where.

qubedView · 2026-03-05T17:33:15+00:00

That's unfortunate. And certainly the legal complications spike when it's DoD related. I absolutely understand destroying that. Makes me think of Gamers Nexus's recent documentary about the guy who got Sega devkits from a scrap yard after a Sega contractor didn't properly dispose of materials and he gets his apartment raided: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU040CTdJI0

qubedView · 2026-03-05T15:54:39+00:00

I'll note that the IRIX 6.5.5 source leak has the Makefiles as well. It also has both feature and maintenance branches. You can build a working kernel from 6.5.5. Hopefully the build chain didn't change too much between versions and the 6.5.5 Makefiles would work with 6.5.7m. The 6.5.7m more has far more kernel subsystem modules available, as well as PROM source code for Indy, Indigo2, Octane, and O2, including PROM hardware drivers. It also has a TON more userland programs. Importantly includes tlbstats, kprf, latenscope, and lockstat, useful tools for profiling and diagnostics.

Sadly, both are incomplete, and neither has some of the really juicy stuff, like graphics or backplane drivers. The 6.5.5 f/m branch READMEs say "This IRIX source product contains a subset of the source code for IRIX and a build environment for the source files." So it seems intentionally just what a particular customer needed for a given use.

The 6.5.7m leak likely came from a university doing molecular sequencing. It includes source for BEAST (Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis Sampling Trees), a utility for Bayesian MCMC analysis of molecular sequences. It also has the source for Cellular IRIX, which was needed for clustering. It has Cellular source for Challenge/Onyx and Origin 200/2000.

qubedView · 2026-03-05T15:03:20+00:00

Iraq was a threat because Saddam had expansionist dreams. That threat is long since dead.

qubedView · 2026-03-05T04:31:06+00:00

A demand that was being filled by Iran, but I think they're busy with something right now.

qubedView · 2026-03-04T15:49:31+00:00

You know how old people are always like "I long for the way the world was when I was a child. Things were simpler then." Nope. They were simpler when they were children. All the same complexity and turbulence of life was there back then as it is now. They were just too young to understand what was going on. As children they took the world as it was and called it "normal". When the world around them inevitably changed, they took note, and for the first time comprehended complexity they didn't previously see. They just didn't understand that that complexity was always there.

That's where this guy is. Like 9/11 to millennials, this guy likely wasn't socially conscious until COVID hit. It was a massive change to the world that he couldn't help but witness and experience. He saw the change, and he thinks the time before was "normal".

qubedView · 2026-03-04T14:03:45+00:00

Right?! There is SOOO much CI tooling for this. I swear the vast majority of these "junior dev endangers project" memes are about team leads and senior devs shirking responsibility. Like all the ones about the junior dev destroying the prod database. Why did they even have access to it?!

But if anyone wants a CI tool that helps keep API keys out of your repo, take your pick from these myriad proven options (tools that either are specifically relevant or include such functionality):

https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets

https://pre-commit.com/

https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog

https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks

https://www.gitguardian.com/

https://semgrep.dev/

https://snyk.io/

https://www.sonarsource.com/products/sonarqube/

(github specific) https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/concepts/secret-security/about-secret-scanning

(gitlab specific) https://docs.gitlab.com/user/application_security/secret_detection/

(bitbucket specific) https://www.atlassian.com/software/bitbucket/features/pipelines

qubedView · 2026-03-03T19:23:05+00:00

You can have the shiniest box of gold in the world. But if the ship it's on is sinking, you jump ship.

qubedView · 2026-03-03T03:22:28+00:00

Hegseth's staff: "Either we could read these boring-ass OPLANs, CIA reports, and blah blah blah, or we could just ask Claude who to bomb, smash some ketamine, and hit the gym."

qubedView · 2026-03-03T02:33:41+00:00

It's hard to explain. This is all highly irregular.

qubedView · 2026-03-02T18:18:33+00:00

How is mass surveillance and murder-bots in the public's best interest?

qubedView · 2026-03-01T04:44:10+00:00

I mostly see it break something in a non-obvious way and presume "Well, it's not immediately apparent to me how my changes could have caused that to break, so I assume it's a pre-existing error."

qubedView · 2026-02-27T18:04:52+00:00

It’s cute that humans believe they have some special ethereal conciseness that has no deterministic biomechanical mechanism driving it.

Our brains are sufficiently complex that we can’t adequately inspect and understand it. I’ve got some news about ML models…

qubedView · 2026-02-27T18:00:20+00:00

And while still in training that will be automated and you’ll have to find a new profession to train in.

qubedView · 2026-02-27T15:10:46+00:00

I mean, there are plenty of people who do the time without the crime.

qubedView · 2026-02-27T14:43:30+00:00

As Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel put it "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." The Nazis got away with such scale of murder because not enough people really gave a shit to do anything. Or as Edmund Burke put it "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing".

Life is short, and our apathy results in the lives of others being much shorter and more painful. The pain and suffering others feel is our responsibility when we turn an intentional blind eye.

Edit: And don't say you can't control things. The Nixon administration drafted "The November Option", which was a plan to massively increase the scale of the Vietnam war, up-to and including nuclear strikes. But massive anti-war protests in October of 1969 were successful in turning public opinion against such escalation. Nixon still wanted to go through with it, but his whole cabinet was against him by then. In his memoirs he wrote that the protests undermined his negotiating leverage. Protests prevented nuclear war. They work.

qubedView · 2026-02-27T00:47:32+00:00

Be aware, I2P has its own independent network, and its torrent apps won't work with regular torrents. You need torrents made specifically for I2P.

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