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This is worth reading all the way through. MIT takes money from Israel's defense ministry to research better ways to genocide Palestinians, and subjects any student who points it out to violence and legal attacks.

Good on this guy for being brave enough to withstand their intimidation. Those who actively enable and support genocide don't like being reminded in public that they do. So we must all keep pointing it out.

I guess they're really proud of their support for Israel.

I have stopped encrypting my drives, because if anything goes wrong and the system won't boot it makes recovery more difficult. It's a dual boot machine with Windows 11, and I had a lot of awkwardness with Bitlocker that led to me deciding to abandon encryption in both OSs. I save sensitive files to encrypted volumes in VeraCrypt.

If it hurts cis women as well as trans people, Republicans will consider it a bonus.

The therapy costs about £100,000 upfront and then as much as £200,000 a year.

Is that per patient? Sounds awfully expensive for extracting a bit of blood.

Meta is successful because people can promote their small and local businesses. Because money can be made from ‘likes’. Because of the algorithm. Because people can get their news inline with their family photos. It’s everything.

Everyone who leaves Meta reduces the value of their advertising just a little bit. If lots of people leave, it will make the company less profitable.

The USA is just clarifying what the rules always were.

I'm used to ORM layers where you can write SQL queries but you're basically converting the results to objects before you use them. These kinds of things tend to handle bits OK, and bit parameters can usually be set as booleans directly. I haven't used SQL Server in a while though so maybe it isn't as convenient as that.

It would probably carry less risk, but in terms of bytes used this would be even worse. And we have other problems there that I'd tell you about but it would make me too sad.

Well that would be ok, because any standard tool for interfacing with the database would transparently treat bit in the DB as bool in the code. I think many DBs call it a bit rather than a bool.

Oh you have no idea. There is no teaching this guy.