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Comment · 12 days ago
I believe I've located a news article which gives a brief description of the altercation, at https://archive.is/utJqE

It says that his mother told police that "her son hit her husband after the couple confronted him about being involved in a robbery. She told police her son had property in his room that they believed may have come from the robbery."

Comment · 2 months ago
I'll give a punctuation correction here, for a more professional look. In the pop-up boxes it says "2 more places under this dot, click to see them". That's a common grammar error called a "comma splice", because the second part is a sentence with complete subject and verb. That comma would need to be a semi-colon, as in: "2 more places under this dot; click to see them".
Comment · 3 months ago
One question, how did they know which specific servers to take? That would've required some interesting research / espionage ahead of time, but the article didn't mention that part of the job.
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Comment · 4 months ago
I agree with the example given in the sibling comment, and this is why the framers believed there needed to be a final “safety valve” outside the courts. Legal systems are imperfect, and sometimes a pardon is the only practical way to remedy an egregious error.

Another example where pardons might be useful is when laws are changed after sentencing. If the new law does not provide for retroactive adjustments, a president or governor can grant clemency in order to correct disparities in sentencing outcomes.

Comment · 4 months ago
This link is still the blocked, paywalled version of the article.
Comment · 6 months ago
Ah, thanks. Yeah I was confused because in his long list of vendors he didn't mention Wasabi, Backblaze etc. It appears that I do not know the context of his post.
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Comment · 8 months ago
The headline was mis-typed here: you're missing the apostrophe in "driver's licenses".
Comment · 9 months ago
I agree; I'm calling "incorrect" on this for now, pending corroborating sources. I run a few sites that don't contain a robots.txt file, and they are showing on Google just fine. I see links to the home page and several interior pages; all good.
Comment · 9 months ago
Ah, I think I recall the story you're referring to: reporter Josh Renaud of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch discovered that a public web site was exposing Social Security numbers of teachers in Missouri. He notified the site's administrators, and later published a story about the leak after it was fixed.

The governor of Missouri at the time, Mike Parson, called him a hacker and advocated prosecuting him. Fortunately the prosecutor's office declined to file charges though.

Comment · 10 months ago
Can anyone elaborate on what they're referring to here?

> GPT‑5.2-Codex has stronger cybersecurity capabilities than any model we’ve released so far. These advances can help strengthen cybersecurity at scale, but they also raise new dual-use risks that require careful deployment.

I'm curious what they mean by the dual-use risks.

Comment · 11 months ago
I think I understand where he's at. If your web site has compatibility issues with smaller browsers like Firefox at 3%, Opera at 2% etc. then you could be losing out on 5% of your sales. If you were to approach any CEO and ask if they'd be interested in an initiative to increase sales by 5%, they would most likely express an interest.

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