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Once again @swiftonsecurity.com gets it right.
November 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Once again @swiftonsecurity.com gets it right.
What a fucking waste of dev time. I wonder how many hours he billed for a shitty regex.
This DOGEr wants more transparency in code!
*DOGE fired the technologists who wrote open source code (18F)
*"Transparency will solve our problems" is a civic tech perspective from about 2012. But they figured out changing govt is more complicated and requires real work!
*DOGE fired the technologists who wrote open source code (18F)
*"Transparency will solve our problems" is a civic tech perspective from about 2012. But they figured out changing govt is more complicated and requires real work!
May 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
What a fucking waste of dev time. I wonder how many hours he billed for a shitty regex.
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Interesting piece which reveals a lot of the tech bro ignorance of government: DOGEr comes in, expects to find lots of inefficiency, is at least willing to acknowledge he was wrong unlike the hard core ideologues.
![Now that he’s there, he says he finds himself surrounded by people who “love their jobs,” who came to the government with a sense of mission driving their work.
“In a sense, that makes the DOGE agenda a little bit more complicated, because if half the government took [a buyout offer], then we wouldn’t have to do much more,” he says, implying software can replace departing employees. “We’d just basically use software to plug holes. But that’s not what’s happening.”
Lavingia’s skills with automation, which have helped keep Gumroad lean, are what he hopes to bring to the VA. But when it comes down to it, what he’s found is a machine that largely functions, though it doesn’t make decisions as fast as a startup might.
“I would say the culture shock is mostly a lot of meetings, not a lot of decisions,” he says. “But honestly, it’s kind of fine—because the government works. It’s not as inefficient as I was expecting, to be honest. I was hoping for more easy wins.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2rrp7amblhg3xoly5n5huiqv/bafkreignzunuto2j42vbchtvzg26ablavrjq7e3cq3pbcicwskvpyddlzu@jpeg)
May 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Interesting piece which reveals a lot of the tech bro ignorance of government: DOGEr comes in, expects to find lots of inefficiency, is at least willing to acknowledge he was wrong unlike the hard core ideologues.
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So, I had an interesting conversation last week.
For @fastcompany.com, I spoke with Sahil Lavingia, the founder of Gumroad, on his decision to work at the VA, a role he has thanks to DOGE. He was remarkably transparent.
www.fastcompany.com/91330297/dog...
(Gift link)
For @fastcompany.com, I spoke with Sahil Lavingia, the founder of Gumroad, on his decision to work at the VA, a role he has thanks to DOGE. He was remarkably transparent.
www.fastcompany.com/91330297/dog...
(Gift link)
Thanks to DOGE, Gumroad’s founder has a second job with the VA
The creator economy pioneer Sahil Lavingia on his eyebrow-raising decision to embrace DOGE—and, after thinking it over, open source.
www.fastcompany.com
May 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
So, I had an interesting conversation last week.
For @fastcompany.com, I spoke with Sahil Lavingia, the founder of Gumroad, on his decision to work at the VA, a role he has thanks to DOGE. He was remarkably transparent.
www.fastcompany.com/91330297/dog...
(Gift link)
For @fastcompany.com, I spoke with Sahil Lavingia, the founder of Gumroad, on his decision to work at the VA, a role he has thanks to DOGE. He was remarkably transparent.
www.fastcompany.com/91330297/dog...
(Gift link)
Man, I can't wait for managers to use AI slop to generate jira stories for me and make confluence docs useless.
April 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Man, I can't wait for managers to use AI slop to generate jira stories for me and make confluence docs useless.
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Foreign Friends with Travel Plans to the U.S. for Conventions:
A bit back I said you should maybe reconsider those plans.
I would like to amend my prior statement.
Cancel them. Cancel them now. We cannot keep you safe from our own government. Take your holiday in Spain or something.
A bit back I said you should maybe reconsider those plans.
I would like to amend my prior statement.
Cancel them. Cancel them now. We cannot keep you safe from our own government. Take your holiday in Spain or something.
April 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Foreign Friends with Travel Plans to the U.S. for Conventions:
A bit back I said you should maybe reconsider those plans.
I would like to amend my prior statement.
Cancel them. Cancel them now. We cannot keep you safe from our own government. Take your holiday in Spain or something.
A bit back I said you should maybe reconsider those plans.
I would like to amend my prior statement.
Cancel them. Cancel them now. We cannot keep you safe from our own government. Take your holiday in Spain or something.
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My Windows 11 start menu was unresponsive today, unable to find local apps. I disabled Bing search "feature" and then it started working as expected:
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search" -Name "BingSearchEnabled" -Value 0
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search" -Name "BingSearchEnabled" -Value 0
March 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
My Windows 11 start menu was unresponsive today, unable to find local apps. I disabled Bing search "feature" and then it started working as expected:
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search" -Name "BingSearchEnabled" -Value 0
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search" -Name "BingSearchEnabled" -Value 0
Wild how efficiency and updating means moving to online only support for social security issues, but removing online support for student loan issues.
March 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Wild how efficiency and updating means moving to online only support for social security issues, but removing online support for student loan issues.
It's a problem because without section 230 online user made content can't exist. Nobody has enough moderators to watch and police every YouTube video uploaded, which is what YouTube would have to do if they were made responsible.
So why would that be a bad thing to hold social media companies accountable for threats/ hate speech/ etc.? Besides the obvious government censorship argument.
Thanks for explaining btw
Thanks for explaining btw
March 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
It's a problem because without section 230 online user made content can't exist. Nobody has enough moderators to watch and police every YouTube video uploaded, which is what YouTube would have to do if they were made responsible.