Rather, the Hawaiian law is based on the fact that in the United States, corporations are created and given their powers by the charters of the individual states. Indeed, corporations simply are a legal creation of the state, everywhere they exist, by definition. The new law simply states that corporations doing business in Hawaii do not have the power to engage in local, state, or federal political campaigns, that that was not one of the powers enumerated in the state’s corporate charter. It further specifies a range of penalties—including losing the right to conduct any business in the state at all—if they do.

https://prospect.org/2026/05/18/hawaii-state-legislature-citizens-united-corporations-politics/

I spent an hour today on a webinar about how to optimize token usage with more than 500 other participants from the company I work for. Because billing is about to have its come-to-Jesus moment.

I still miss my T-Mobile G1 and G2 with their slide out keyboards. … And the replaceable screens and batteries.

That’s probably an actual quote? It’s so bad, I find it hard to tell.

This could genuinely be actual dialogue from True Blood.

I drunkenly hate watched a season and change of that ages ago and can still hear the vampire guy grunting “Sookeh.”

I’m definitely aware now. We’re global and that means even more overhead with multiple regulatory bodies. Our products are several years to their first market, and at least another year for the global rollout.

And I’m just over here writing software and trying to reduce toil for these insane people who hand-roll excel files like they’re databases and applications.

I left the tech world and now work for a medical device company. All I can say is I’m extremely happy to be working from home with the 3 hours of meetings and 1-2 hours of work I have each week. And the director wants to get me a junior because I’m managing so many projects. Hell, I’m actively drumming up work and it takes weeks for anything to happen.

Sure I took a bit of a pay cut, but I’m not on call 1 week a month and I’m not being run ragged everyday either.

Nah, I’ll stick to known brands.

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I’m not sure they offer anything other than feels with a mark up.

For the Americans, that’s 3.84 football fields per minute; or a football field every 15⅝ seconds.

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You might want to check out distrobox. Nice way to access apps for other distros or package managers like they’re native.

I’m also on Garuda for my main box (Bazzite on the framework 13), and I have an Ubuntu distrobox for dev work with one dev project, another for general tools that are only released as .debs, one running fedora for things that “only support RHEL”, etc.

And everything old is new again.

Congratulations to any of today’s lucky 10k.

My kid would have to be 36 for this to ring true, and I’m a millennial.

Windows was just the boat you already knew.

Now you have a new (more adaptable) one and don’t know all it’s squeaks and rattles. You’re neither dumb nor is something wrong. You just aren’t familiar with what it needs from you.

Give it some time (a week compared to how long in windows?) and attention and soon you’ll wonder why you ever second guessed it.

Yeah, I’m kinda in this picture.

New truck (EV Ford though), parked outside, gym equipment in the garage…

If it makes it any better, the truck is too long anyway. And my street is unlikely to be targeted by burglars.

Pam: “it’s the same picture.”

The number of computer scientists I’ve known that couldn’t set up a VPN, or alter a firewall rule, or change the layout on a web page slightly, or set their out of office replies…

Basically the experience I’ve had is that those people you imagine are gods of tech are frequently terrible at tech beyond their very narrow niche.

But boomers, yeah. Even my mom who was a programmer and mostly stayed current on tech. But when Facebook stopped using a chronological news feed, she couldn’t handle it.

As a lead software engineer: I engineered an exit with severance and unemployment compensation after the company was acquired by VC and I coasted a bit. Basically stirred the pot enough to be on a couple shit lists without getting fired, so when the workers had to suffer because the CEO couldn’t hit his sales numbers after gutting the sales department twice, I got put on the layoff list.

After burning through unemployment and some savings, I’ve landed as an IT business analyst at a giant company. I’m still technically freelance, but that’s just how they hire. I make about 20% less, but am still comfortable. It’s also the easiest job I’ve ever had by far. I talk to vendors, I meet with people, and I spend most of my time building the simplest little tools to reduce toil for others. I make up my own timelines. My boss is already asking if I want to be a manager.

John sure had a great characters moment in 1997: Spawn.