Badabinski

Hey! Boeing! There’s a saying that’s popular amongst lawyers—“if you must eat crow, do so while it is fresh.”

The uh, crow is already pretty fucking old. Best to just eat it now before you get it shoved down your throat by the DOJ.

As others have said, Utah is, in fact, heavily gerrymandered. We even had a ballot initiative that passed in 2018 demanding that the legislature draw more fair maps. Rather than do that, the shitfucks at the capitol came up with maps that were somehow even worse. Like, we have some real idiots in this state who want to be abused by fascists for some reason. I’m also an idiot, but I am firmly progressive and do not want to suck on a fascist’s boot, and I’m not alone. Utah may be red, but Salt Lake City is very, very blue.

This article does a pretty good job of discussing how fucked the situation here is: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/us/redistricting-map-utah-salt-lake-city.html

Here’s an archive link if you hit a paywall: https://archive.ph/4scLB

As a Utahn, it pisses me off that we still have fucking coal plants here. We have 200-250 days of sun here. Shit, we’re at 4-5000 feet of elevation, so the solar flux is fucking intense. Why the fuck haven’t we built solar panels and shut these plants down? Why aren’t our reservoirs covered in at least some number of panels to cut the evaporation? Rather than fix that, let’s scum up the air for us and our neighbors with our shitty 1900s era coal plants and our fucking oil refineries that help contribute to some of the worst air quality in North America when an inversion hits Salt Lake City.

I have nothing but contempt for the basket of cunts our gerrymandered districts keep shitting out. It’s amazing how ugly the politics can be in such a beautiful place.

The article mentions this, but this is the second time this piece of software has been in the news in as many years. Last year they had an SQL injection vulnerability on an unauthenticated page that was widely exploited to grab all kinds of juicy data. This year, it appears like their dumb, closed source SSH library may be responsible for allowing unauthenticated access.

I’m excited to see what vulnerability 2025 will bring. Maybe this will push more people to use audited open source code like openssh and the tooling built around it. I’m pretty sure sshd is compliant with HIPAA and PCI.

Which mouse and which distro? I’m genuinely curious. I’ve plugged my MX Master 3S directly into my work laptop running Arch many times and have never had to do anything to make it work.

I honestly don’t know. I do know that people regularly reference the Chomsky Hierarchy (or works based off of it) when writing FSAs or parsers, since the class of grammar dictates what you can use. A FSA can’t be used to completely parse a context-free grammar (or anything above it). The thing about parsing HTML with regex is an example of that, and is what first keyed me in to the different types of grammars.

I find it interesting that the article makes no mention of his linguistic work (edit: this is not a criticism of the article, just an idle remark. It need not be mentioned, given the political focus of the article). The Chomsky Hierarchy has had a massive impact on the world of software development, for example. If you’ve ever written a regular expression, you’ve used his work.

I’m genuinely interested in how government involvement increases the cost. I honestly don’t know. Like, is it dealing with zoning and permitting? I hope my good-faith intent is coming through here, I’m not just trying to bait an argument.