“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.

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.

Same. And I’ve bought many UGreen chargers and cables since that whole ordeal. Since then I’ve seen some Anker chargers, batteries, and desk power strips that looked really appealing and that I would’ve bought if I wasn’t avoiding them.

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.

What sneaky?

It’s correct. A product with various options will have each combination of options under a different SKU. It’s a singular number that identifies an exact version of a product.

The reverse Monty Burns

Followed by RFKJ with a juxtaposition of TB, polio, measles, smallpox, and food poisoning from raw milk.

I’m no herpetologist, but Florida scarlet snake was the closest I could find.

No. Turns out having to remove from your toilet an uncooperative frog that was just swimming in your pee is not a good time.

Florida scarlet snake. Disconcerting to find a danger-colored snake in your house at midnight, even if it’s harmless. Very surprised I found it before the dog or six cats did.

I’ve had a toilet frog sneak-attack my butt while I was sitting on the toilet.

More common in geckos, I think, but yes.

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.”

For the last few years, every time I’ve looked at the DeviantArt homepage, it’s run rampant with inflation porn. Every goddamn time. I’ve tried hiding a few dozen of them, but there’s either no personalized algorithm, or it absolutely sucks. I’ve now basically written the site off as an inflation fetish site.

My work Teams is only really active for my department’s channels. My department is about 10 or so people, so I don’t suffer from the same problems others have mentioned with notifications for reactions and whatnot. My two gripes are:

• I’ll send a writeup from my Google Pixel phone while on-site doing field work and include inline photos. I’ll proofread my message and everything is good. After I click send, my phone shows my post truncated in the group chat. I cannot see the full message, and it looks like I deleted half my written message. From the desktop or my coworker’s Samsung phone, everything shows up fine.

• I’ll often find Teams silently closed on my workstation. I might minimize it occasionally, but I don’t believe I ever close it, and Windows reliability history doesn’t show any crashes.

The recommendation to not daisy-chain UPSs together is less about what makes for a cleaner setup and more about not damaging them.

https://www.eaton.com/us/en-us/support/eaton-answers/daisy-chain-ups.html

(5) grammatical error(s): “We will ship again in” instead of “we will ship again on”

Edit: more subtle errors and phrasing that feels like it was written by a non-native English speaker.

I was 18 or 19 when my dad scared me straight into learning to drive manual transmission.

Yes, there are men named Carol, or alternative spellings thereof.

Carroll Shelby is the biggest name that comes to mind.

“Carol” as a male name seems to largely be a Romanian thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_(given_name)#Male