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• On the post: Oaths Of Office, And How Everyone Not Moving To Impeach Trump Is Violating Their Own

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 27 Nov, 2025 @ 02:54am

  Oh, it's certainly fear. They're all deathly afraid of his followers, and justifiably so.

• On the post: Oaths Of Office, And How Everyone Not Moving To Impeach Trump Is Violating Their Own

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 27 Nov, 2025 @ 02:53am

  We? You got a turd in your pocket, or something?

• On the post: If Your Antitrust Case Depends On Pretending TikTok Doesn’t Exist, It’s Going To Fail

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 25 Nov, 2025 @ 11:08pm

  Europe is an entirely different legal animal than the US, and it doesn't track that what happens there can happen here. Chrome has such massive market share because everything else sucked huuuuuge balls. Firefox was (and still iss) really bad, Internet Explore was less than useless, and fuck Apple sideways. To even suggest that Google should have to spin off Chrome is so fucking detached from reality, it's absurd. Fundamentally you're trying to treat the symptoms. There's no determined effect, it's a long slow process, and often the industry has changed before the case is sorted. Instead we should actually approach consumer protection laws. Mandate data interoperability: user data is theirs and always accessible, no undocumented file/API/ABIs, standards testing for software to actually meet what it says on the box, required security and bug fixes regardless of service contracts. No undocumented APIs between individually procured software/services. Gotta use what you publish. Frankly, i don't give a shit about adwords. I want to be able to get my data and select software that's fit for use.

• On the post: James Comey, Letitia James Indictments Tossed Because Trump’s Insurance Lawyer Wasn’t Legally Appointed To The DOJ

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 25 Nov, 2025 @ 04:26pm

  I guess this is the upside of the Trump administration. The down side of this Supreme Court is that they would find a way to override this given half a chance.

• On the post: If Your Antitrust Case Depends On Pretending TikTok Doesn’t Exist, It’s Going To Fail

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 25 Nov, 2025 @ 09:03am

  What relevance does EU Antitrust have for us? Some Apple users can now charge their phones and laptops with the same charger now? Congrats, I guess. Apple still is an incredibly customer hostile company. As for recent domestic Antitrust 'wins', they're a fucking mess. Apple, who is far more restrictive with their app store and has a larger market in the US, doesn't have to open their store. Google, who already has a method of side loading, must now distribute other stores. This is dumb as hell. Further, spinning off Chrome (a largely open source project that generates no revenue) is quite possibly the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard. Nobody that can afford that will be better than Google, and certainly will be worse if Meta, X, or MS get it. Further, that will almost certainly kill firefox because Google will no longer need to find 90% of it's development. Calling anything we've done recently success is stretch IMHO.

• On the post: X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 24 Nov, 2025 @ 07:50pm

  In the center of the asshole/moron/mark ven diagram is MAGA.

• On the post: Details Of DHS Agreement Reveal Risks Of Trump Administration’s Use Of Social Security Data For Voter Citizenship Checks

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 23 Nov, 2025 @ 02:04am

  If it makes you feel any better at all,now sounds like the DOGE folk are starting realize that they're potentially the first to go into the wood chipper and musk isn't giving them cover anymore.

• On the post: September Arrest, Deportation Of Firefighter Shows The Administration Just Wants Brown People Gone

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 23 Nov, 2025 @ 01:57am

  I've met white supremacists. I don't want their help with anything.

• On the post: This Week In Techdirt History: November 16th – 22nd

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2025 @ 11:43pm

  If I were an asshole like all of MAGA, I'd be able to get some joy out of watching the families of farmers starve and cheer on the people losing protection in coal mines. But I'm not a sick twisted fuck, so I still feel bad for the kids at the very least.

• On the post: Defense Contractor Lobbyists Are Trying To Kill Army ‘Right To Repair’ Reforms With A Bunch Of Lies And Bullshit

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2025 @ 03:21pm

  Fundamentally, if the law doesn't require them to include something like this in the bid docs, then they're accused of gold plating by adding it in. It's very hard for any government agency to go above and beyond the absolute minimum for solicitations. And as much as this article claims billions will be saved, I'm suspicious that once a right to repair law comes into place then the base bids will increase. The executives aren't passing up on their third yacht, so something will have to change to match. I saw this happen in a region I did consulting in. Johnson Controls were notorious for buying projects, then absolutely fucking the municipalities in service contract and parts. So they passed some new procurement policies that required 5 year parts and service pricing and escalation rates so they could do a TCO calc for a Best Value solicitation instead of lowest price solicitation. At the end of the day, they didn't save much as JC just upped their base price most of the way and cut their parts and services to be competitive. And then they bent them over on future projects at the same facilities because nobody wants multiple control systems for the same function of you can avoid it at all. Further, the DoD has a real bad case of eat-the-cake-and--it-too these days. They want to have both fixed term performance based contracts where the contractor takes on the riat, while also dictating a bunch of deeply technical, and often unproven, details that prevent the contractor from controlling that risk. Now. I'm not saying we don't do it, or that I have any sympathy for the contracts. I'm just saying that don't expect it to actually matter much in the budget.

• On the post: Clown Show: CDC Website Changed To Suggest Vaccines May Indeed Cause Autism

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2025 @ 03:05pm

  The fucking DOCTOR confirmed him. A. Fucking. Medical. Doctor. He should have his license revoked.

• On the post: This Week In Techdirt History: November 16th – 22nd

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2025 @ 01:12pm

  Five years ago really underscores the difference between the last Trump administration and this one. Even at the end, Trump had people around him that touched back. Now it's nothing but obsequious toadies.

• On the post: Trump, Brendan Carr Threaten To Censor Some More Comedians For The Crime Of Comedy

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2025 @ 11:28pm

  You're welcome? No commenting allowed on blogs is weird take.

• On the post: The TikTok ‘Ban’ Continues To Be One Of The Biggest Turds In Tech Policy History

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2025 @ 02:13pm

  Then he can see why TikTok will never pull out of the largest market in the world

• On the post: The TikTok ‘Ban’ Continues To Be One Of The Biggest Turds In Tech Policy History

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2025 @ 08:34am

  Even in Russia, you've got to understand how money works. Right?

• On the post: Trump, Brendan Carr Threaten To Censor Some More Comedians For The Crime Of Comedy

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2025 @ 11:39pm

  Come on, obviously I could have googled them. We're both here on the same Internet. It was a commentary on their noteriaty, in contrast to Kimmel and Colbert.

• On the post: Kansas County Pays $3 Million Settlement For Illegal Raid Of Local Newspaper’s Office

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2025 @ 11:26pm

  Well then, all the money should magically transported straight to their bank account. But honestly the entirety of the post is stupid, uniformed, and is fantasy. And you're STILL ignoring that there's not nearly that much juice in these people to squeeze out. And doing it over their lifetime is dramatically reducing their damage. Still uniformed.

• On the post: Daily Deal: The Complete Superstar Photographer Bundle

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2025 @ 12:13pm

  Fuck it, gonna try this. 30 bucks seems like a solid deal. Always see these but never purchased.

• On the post: Kansas County Pays $3 Million Settlement For Illegal Raid Of Local Newspaper’s Office

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2025 @ 12:09pm

  That's not how this works: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trial-over-rudy-giulianis-florida-home-is-delayed-due-to-the-former-nyc-mayors-unexplained-absence And that is such an absurdly clear case that he has the assets at hand. Let alone trying to take someone's retirement, or a chunk of their paycheck they're using 80-90% of to live off of. It's an immense amount of work to collect from someone, and the amount they will leave them is much higher than you think it is.

• On the post: Kansas County Pays $3 Million Settlement For Illegal Raid Of Local Newspaper’s Office

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2025 @ 12:04pm

  I forgot to ad, 3 million over a lifetime is a LOT less 'money' than a lump sum of 3 million.

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