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Fired Justice Department official warns we are "driving straight into an abyss" (Scott Macfarlane/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fired-justice-department-official-we-are-falling-into-an-abyss/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p138#a250710p138

A former Justice Department official is warning of a
🔥wave of retribution inside the agency.
Patty Hartman, who served as a top public affairs specialist at the FBI and federal prosecutors' offices, told CBS News,
"The rules don't exist anymore."
Hartman, who was fired Monday via a letter from Attorney General Pam Bondi,
is the fourth person connected to the agency's work on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots to be terminated in the past month.

Fired Justice Department official warns "we are falling into an abyss"
Patty Hartman, who worked with the public affairs team on Jan. 6 prosecutions, was fired Monday by Pam Bondi.

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Repurposing an old fileserver as another backup server using #TrueNAS… First, I want to pull out any disks with reallocated sectors. Most disks are more than 5 years old and my plan is to replace future failing HDDs with larger ones. As an appliance, TrueNAS is not meant for low-level tinkering. The GUI only shows actual uncorrected sectors as SMART errors and has no way to light up a disk slot o…

the safety advice following the recent npm phishing attacks reminds me of an old rant https://dotat.at/@/2016-10-19-domain-transfers-are-shocking.html
i hope things have improved since then (happily i have not needed to do any domain transfers recently)…

Huh, fascinating: https://opencollective.com/opensource/updates/public-service-announcement-re-salt-typhoon Following this development with interest.

Bear is working on web access to notes... finally!
#bearNotes

Bear Web Public Beta - You are invited!
We’re excited to share a new chapter for Bear: Bear Web is now in Public Beta! This is a big step toward making Bear available wherever you need it, and we’d love for you to give it a try. ⚠ Please read the following carefully before jumping in. About Bear Web Bear Web is a web app designed to complement the native Bear apps on Mac, iPhone and iPad, providing you with the flexibility to access your notes from any web browser. It is primarily for situations where you cannot access the n.…

I made a poll to see what generation do programmers in the Fediverse belong. 1,184 of you participated, and this resulted in the following distribution:
82.88 of you reported being a Baby Boomer.
473.6 of you said you belong to Generation X.
532.8 of you said you are Millennials.
82.88 of you said you don't belong to any of these three.
I was surprised to see these many Generation Xers at 40%, vs Millenials at 45%.

The Eagles spend money unlike any other team. Are they the new NFL model, or an anomaly? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6575493/2025/09/10/nfl-salary-cap-eagles-spending-trend/

It's worth bearing in mind that all AI companies are in that phase where they burn money to attract the most customers and hope that the competition blinks first. That means all AI is pretty badly underpriced.
For coding, that's a problem. It's just on the edge of being arguably positive for some. If the price goes up by an order of ten, the bubble is going to burst. And it may take the other AI use cases with it. After all, coding was kind of a killer app.

Anthropic Is Bleeding Out
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