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https://archive.is/vbCAp#selection-1577.0-1577.52

La veille technologique IT n'a jamais été aussi cruciale qu'aujourd'hui, surtout pour les entreprises qui évoluent dans la tech. Comme consultant chef de projet IT, je m'efforce depuis des années à travers mon blog de décrypter l'actualité, d'apporter des analyses concrètes et surtout, de m'engager dans une recherche d'informations actuelles qui dépasse le simple relai de communiqués marketing.

Starlink operator SpaceX is fighting Virginia's plan to deploy fiber Internet service to residents, claiming that federal grant money should be given to Starlink instead. SpaceX is already in line to win over $3 million in grant money in the state but is seeking $60 million.

Starlink is poised to benefit from the Trump administration rewriting rules for the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) grant program. While the Biden administration decided that states should prioritize fiber in order to build more future-proof networks, the Trump administration ordered states to revise their plans with a "tech-neutral approach" and lower the average cost of serving each location.

What’s next you tech bro wankers, is AI going to drink the pint for me?

… just when you thought they couldn’t force AI into any more things. The epitome of a solution in search of a problem

Obviously the blatant propaganda disseminated straight to my email at taxpayers' expense is fucked, but I find the instagram part particularly funny bc it's just like:

• Like us on Facebook
• Find us on X
• Watch us on YouTube
• Instagram also exists and we are on it

Literally fascism on full display

Does anyone remember an old blog post where someone used various Python language hacks to override boolean primitives, such that the statement false == true evaluated as true? I'm 90% sure it was python, but maybe it was some other language.

I've been looking for that post recently, but haven't had any luck.

Thanks to antagonistic for finding it! I guess it was less of an "exploit", and more of a "please don't touch the loaded foot-gun"

They may be on to something. Two came by my work the other day and I went back to my office and stayed until the were gone.

A jury convicted former Republican candidate Solomon Peña of conspiracy, weapons and other charges in the shootings in 2022 and 2023 on the homes of four Democratic officials in Albuquerque, including the current state House speaker.

Blue States Need To Defeat Trump with his playbook. There are blue states like NY that have laws in place to prohibit gerrymandering. They need to redraw their maps anyways before the 2026 midterms. Have the conservatives take them to court, and fight it, dragging they feet, until whoops, it's after the election. Trump does things knowing they are unconstitutional but he won't stop until he loses in court and has no further appeals, and even then might not stop. We should do the same. To save our country, to once again be a nation where the law applied to everyone, we need to temporarily throw out the rules and ignore the laws, just like Trump does, then when we have control, pass laws and put measures in place to prevent that from happening again in the future. So that no state can be allowed to gerrymander their Congressional maps. No President can blatantly defy our nations laws and get away with it for months while it is fought out in court. There needs to be a method to remove a president and members of Congress via a recall by their constituents.

Completely disingenuous article claiming at first that Mamdani is unpopular outside of NYC followed by stats that show that many Americans don't even have an opinion on him.

Guess what?! Not many people in Missouri or California are going to give a damn about a local election in another state!

For starters, Mamdani is clearly not popular outside of New York City.

A Siena College poll this week showed statewide New York voters disliked him 37%-28% – and that’s in a left-leaning state.

A recent Yahoo News-YouGov poll, meanwhile, showed a relatively similar verdict among Americans nationwide: 31%-22% negative.

While those aren’t good numbers, they don’t exactly suggest he’s a pariah who could be used effectively as a bogeyman on the national stage – at least yet. In the national survey, 46% didn’t even have an opinion of the Democratic mayoral nominee, underscoring the room that exists for him to define himself — or be defined by others. (Even in New York, 34% of voters didn’t have an opinion about him.)

As Gov. Gavin Newsom launched his California redistricting campaign Thursday at an event in Los Angeles, a U.S. Border Patrol sector chief showed up outside with a contingent of armed and masked agents.