I don’t want to alarm you, but we’re now 22 years past your graduation. “Almost ten years” and then some.

DOOM Dark Ages. I’m about halfway through.

“All code paid for by taxpayer dollars should be open source, available for comment, for feedback, for people to build on and for people in other agencies to replicate. It saves everyone money and it is our [taxpayers’] IP,” she said. “This is just good government and should absolutely be the standard that government technologists are held to.”"

Nice sentiment, but bad take. Open-sourcing the software that runs our military equipment would be a fantastic gift to the bad actors of the world.

Not a CEO, he’s the president of Panama.

The only text on that page that states the origin of the dev’s code is Mazda’s claim that the relevant code is Mazda’s. If their claim is true, then it would seem to me the DMCA takedown is valid.

The reason the DMCA takedown notice is malicious is that code from Mazda’s official app is not required to develop a tool that works in a similar way. The API of the server is freely accessible and figuring out how to interact with it can be done completely without infringing on anyone’s copyright.

Okay, it doesn’t matter how it could have been done, it matters how it was done, and again, the only claim made on the page is that it was stolen code.

I’m all for actually owning what you buy and being able to integrate it with your other stuff however you please, but distributing someone else’s work is a valid claim for infringement. And as with any other cloud-based stuff, don’t expect it to work forever. Support and push for local device access without the need for cloud services.

Brace yourself, because it’s going to get a lot worse.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/17/big-telecom-robocallers-love-brendan-carrs-plan-to-lobotomize-the-fcc/

Semantic satiation

Eco Tank is a good choice if you print with regularity or need a photo printer, but not if you print maybe once or twice a year. It’s still an inkjet, and the head will still clog if sat unused for a couple months, requiring a lengthy head cleaning cycle and possible replacement of the maintenance box. If you almost never print, but need your printer to just work without fuss that one random day you need to print, it’s gotta be a laser printer.

A sane president who values geopolitical allies would just work out a deal with the host country to install more military bases in the region of concern, rather than burning every partnership we have by being aggressively expansionist.

The end of I’m Your Captain (Closer to Home) by Grand Funk Railroad fits that description.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvOPucs7dC0

What sneaky?

Because the main box is divided into three smaller boxes, one for bow, one for stern, and one for midship. You can build them in any order, or they can be built simultaneously by you and your friends/family. They included a brick separator in each sub-box.

That game cartridge mechanism is satisfying.

I’m guessing OP was talking about set #10497 Galaxy Explorer with 1,254 pieces.

Maybe two weeks of nightly building after work while watching TV.

Titanic, and no. I looked at getting an LED kit for it, saw how much I’d have to disassemble and decided not to.

It’s small enough that I can post a comment on something, and my girlfriend will independently run across my comment. Though she doesn’t read the usernames, so she doesn’t know it was me. Then I’ll mention it and she’ll say “oh yeah, I saw that comment.”

Ah yes, giving Netanyahu even more bombs is totally the right way to bring about a ceasefire and definitely won’t just lead to more Palestinians getting blown up.

The leaders also discussed concerns over US interest in Greenland, where Denmark recently announced a $2 billion military investment to counter potential territorial ambitions.

This has arisen in me a suspicion that Trump’s mandate that the US takes Greenland is a ploy to divert some NATO member funds away from Ukraine, and not actual territorial ambition.

Regardless, Greenland is considered NATO via Denmark, and there has been at least some signaling that Congress would resist Trump pulling US out of NATO. It would be disastrously moronic to piss off NATO, and unfortunately “disastrously moronic” doesn’t seem to be a deterrent for Trump. I don’t know where this is going, but I don’t like it either way.