All of my lab's data is available on public GitHub repos. My Chinese student doesn't have a leg up on anyone with an internet connection. It's insane to discriminate like that. I can sort of see issues with DoD funded work, but basic science?

A good chunk of the Midwest would be wiped out if the dams along the Missouri failed in sequence. There's a ridiculous amount of water there.

I've never used vpn even in the US. Private trackers and encryption have been enough for me. Also, it seems like my ISP doesn't care. Some basic caution is sufficient to avoid consequences.

My dishes fucking sparkle, and that’s because I rinse them clean.

This is how I can tell you live in an area that doesn't have hard water. Water spots all over my dishes, even though I rinse them... sometimes because I rinse them.

What's wrong with programming socks?

Travis used to be brutal about this. Email headlines that were like "Still failing...", one piled up after another when you were trying to tweak the CI process.

NIST has abandoned them

Would that my IT department had gotten the memo. They think NIST is god-tier, even when our own CS department is like... yeah, no. And personally, having worked with NIST researchers in fields that aren't IT policy, I wonder how good their IT policy docs really are. The whole organization is bureaucracy getting in the way of good science and common sense.

I love the brush attachments for my power drill. Saves so much scrubbing.

I miss the /r/legaladvice drama and the fun on /r/bestoflegaladvice. That was my go-to "take a break and feel better about my life" sub where I would also learn things occasionally.

This is just ensuring that companies are forced to blacklist Chrome if they want their secrets to stay secret. It's already happened at my partners workplace (power industry, federal regulations on security) - hilariously, all google cloud services are blocked, but Bing is fine (w/ automatic ChatGPT integration).

It will be very interesting to see how companies handle this type of practice in the long run.

shit, scihub is easier to use than the library, so we're all grateful to her too.

I mean, I believe that he is stupid, and yet, if you know you're stupid, you shouldn't put yourself in a position to endanger the whole freaking world with your stupidity. So I'm sorry, but even if it is true, he still deserves to be held accountable, because stupidity isn't an excuse.