hey, I got a bridge to sell you, was $20k but we can lower it to $15k if you pay in BTC
You're paying too much for your bridges man. Who's your bridge guy?
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testplzignore commented on Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations cpb.org/pressroom/Corpora... · Posted by u/coloneltcb
According to this page [1] PBS only receives about 15% of its funds from federal funding. The rest is from donations.
1: https://foundation.pbs.org/ways-to-give/gifts-to-the-pbs-end...
So this certainly won't be the death of PBS, as I had feared.
Update 2: For the record (easier to respond in this original post than to each response), I am not defending the decision at all. I grew up listening to NPR, and have been on recurring monthly donations to PBS for years.
I was genuinely curious about what percentage comes from federal funds. So I am just trying to level-set and get ahead of any hysteria about the actual impact.
Per https://cpb.org/funding, $357m goes to public tv and $119m to public radio.
That's a nice chunk of change, though low enough that a few friendly billionaires could put some pocket change into a trust today and make up for this funding in perpetuity. And there undoubtedly will be a massive surge in donations from small donors in response to this.
As long as the bigger fish are willing to subsidize the smaller rural stations, I don't think there is anything to be afraid of.
The removal of this Sword of Damocles is in my opinion a great thing for PBS and NPR.
Ah, that makes sense, it doesn't actually mention gate checking in the article. It sounds like they just asked her to check it as regular luggage prior, then.
On every flight I've taken, gate checking implies the latter, that it will be on the cart or floor of the jetbridge when deplaning.
My experience is that if it is a small regional jet like an ERJ, it will be delivered at the jet bridge. If it's a 737, it's going to baggage claim.
How come this wasn't covered by one or more automated tests that failed?
Based on https://github.com/apache/httpd/commits?author=covener, either the committer never writes tests, or this project just doesn't do testing at all. Nothing here would pass a code review at my company. Totally insane.
testplzignore commented on MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0 anildash.com//2025/05/20/... · Posted by u/freediver
"The rise of MCP gives hope that the popularity of AI amongst coders might pry open all these other platforms to make them programmable for any purpose, not just so that LLMs can control them."
I think the opposite, MCP is destined to fail for the exact same reason the semantic web failed, nobody makes money when things aren't locked down.
It makes me wonder how much functionality of things like AI searching the web for us (sorry, doing "deep-research") might have been solved in better ways. We could have had restaurants publish their menus in a metadata format and anyone could write a python script to say find the cheapest tacos in Texas, but no, the left hand locks down data behind artificial barriers and then the right hand builds AI (datacenters and all) to get around it. On a macro level its just plain stupid.
> On a macro level its just plain stupid.
You've described most white-collar jobs :)
I'm the original author of the Spring Boot feature for heapdumps: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/pull/5670.
It seems that users commonly misconfigure Spring Boot security or ignore it completely. To improve the situation, I made this PR: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/pull/45624.
When the PR was created in 2016, endpoints were marked as "sensitive" and, for example, the heapdump endpoint would have to be explicitly enabled. However, Spring Boot has evolved over the years, and only the "shutdown" endpoint was made "restricted" in the later solutions. My recent PR will address that weakness in Spring Boot when users misconfigure or ignore security for a Spring Boot app so that heapdumps won't get exposed by default.
In my opinion, the original sin of Spring Boot Actuator is allowing server.port and management.server.port to be the same. It makes it too convenient for developers to skip the security review that would be done for opening a non-standard port.
I think it would be wise to either disallow the ports being the same, or if they are the same, only enable the health endpoint.
testplzignore commented on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy... · Posted by u/belter
(waves from across Lake Beira)
It's mind-boggling because the US has been trying very very hard to pull Sri Lanka away from China for a decade now
I would be surprised if the current US administration even knows where Sri Lanka is, let alone our pre-Trump foreign policy with them.
His old website: https://web.archive.org/web/20240415075438/https://homes.lud...
An app he wrote: https://web.archive.org/web/20240304061200/https://sit.luddy... or https://web.archive.org/web/20240727022112/https://homes.lud...
A news (probably PR) article about it: https://web.archive.org/web/20220622001223/https://www.compu...
None of these sites is available any more. This looks suspicious, even given the regular bit rot of American college servers. The app is supposedly downloadable at https://apkcombo.com/app-guardian/edu.iub.seclab.appguardian... . Anyone around with a disassembler and too much time?
App YouTube channel is still up: https://www.youtube.com/@appguardian6684
Oracle used their own unpatched product for over 10 years? Yikes.
Correction on this: Wikipedia was GFDL until 2009. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Licensing_update .