A Trump appointee confirmed that Project 2025 was the plan all along
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 31149 |
Comments: 1973
The article argues that despite Donald Trump's campaign denials of any connection to Project 2025, his administration has systematically implemented its core proposals since taking office. The author cites the appointment of FCC Chair Brendan Carr, a Project 2025 author, and his recent social media post seemingly mocking the connection as evidence that the plan was the administration's agenda all along.
Key Points:
Donald Trump repeatedly denied any knowledge of or connection to Project 2025 during his campaign.
Since inauguration, Trump has enacted major Project 2025 proposals, including mass deportations, purging civil servants, and defunding public broadcasting.
Trump appointed key Project 2025 authors to powerful positions, such as Russell Vought to OMB and Brendan Carr as FCC Chairman.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr recently posted a meme that appeared to confirm the Project 2025 link, treating it as a joke.
The article contends this demonstrates a deliberate deception of voters who believed Trump's campaign disavowals.
"In case it wasn't clear at the time, Trump was lying. Along with other journalists, I tried to make that as clear as possible during the campaign, noting the ties that Trump had with its authors... When he won a second term, Trump dropped the pretense and began enacting Project 2025's proposals, in some cases to the letter."
Donald Trump Claims Charlie Kirk's Last Request Was 'Please, Sir, Save Chicago' During 40-Minute Eulogy
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 15398 |
Comments: 1387
At a public memorial service for conservative activist Charlie Kirk, former President Donald Trump delivered a eulogy where he claimed Kirk's last request was to 'save Chicago' from crime. Trump also announced his administration would soon present a major medical 'answer' for autism, which reports suggest will controversially link it to Tylenol use during pregnancy.
Key Points:
Donald Trump gave a eulogy at Charlie Kirk's memorial service in Arizona.
Trump claimed Kirk's final request to him was to 'save Chicago' from crime.
Trump stated his administration would soon present a major medical announcement claiming to have found an 'answer' for autism.
Reports indicate the announcement will controversially link autism to Tylenol use during pregnancy, despite a lack of scientific consensus.
Kirk, a 31-year-old conservative organizer, was fatally shot on September 10.
""Please, sir, save Chicago," Trump recalled Kirk — who was a native of the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Ill. — saying to him. "We’re gonna do that, we’re gonna save Chicago from horrible crime," said Trump."
Jimmy Kimmel's show returning on Tuesday, ABC announces
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 10061 |
Comments: 1589
ABC announced that Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show will return on Tuesday after being suspended for nearly a week. The suspension followed criticism of Kimmel's remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, which prompted the FCC chair to threaten revoking ABC affiliate licenses. Disney stated the decision to suspend the show was made to avoid inflaming a tense situation, and the show's return follows 'thoughtful conversations' with Kimmel.
Key Points:
Jimmy Kimmel's show was suspended after his comments criticizing Republicans' reaction to the assassination of activist Charlie Kirk.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatened to revoke ABC affiliate licenses, calling Kimmel's comments 'the sickest conduct possible.'
Major ABC affiliate owners Nexstar and Sinclair announced they would pull the show, leading ABC to suspend it indefinitely.
Disney's decision to suspend the show sparked intense criticism from unions, celebrities, and free speech advocates.
The return of the show follows internal discussions, but it remains unclear if it will air on Nexstar and Sinclair stations.
""The announcement ends an impasse that had drawn national attention, plunging Disney into a political firestorm at the intersection of debates over free speech and 'cancel culture.'""
ICE Barbie Dropped F-Bombs on ‘Screaming’ Call With DHS Officials After Embarrassing Stories
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 5965 |
Comments: 354
An article reports that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her de facto chief of staff, Corey Lewandowski, engaged in a profanity-laced, screaming call with department officials following negative press. The press coverage revealed that Noem's policy of personally approving all payments over $100,000 had caused significant delays, including for Texas flood aid. The article also describes a 'terrible' culture of fear and micromanagement at DHS under their leadership.
Key Points:
Secretary Noem and Corey Lewandowski screamed at and berated DHS officials on a call, with Noem using multiple F-bombs.
The confrontation was triggered by news reports detailing how Noem's low payment-approval threshold caused major contract delays, hampering FEMA aid and TSA operations.
Corey Lewandowski, an unpaid Special Government Employee, is described as the de facto manager of DHS, with 'everything' having to go through him.
Sources describe a toxic work environment where employees are 'scared s--tless of Corey' and the department runs on a 'you're my buddy' system.
The article mentions widespread rumors of an affair between Noem and Lewandowski, which they deny, and that President Trump had complained about their management style.
"“People are scared s--tless of Corey,” the official said."
GOP Rep Accuses Trump of Protecting His “Friends” With Epstein Coverup
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 4512 |
Comments: 151
Republican Representative Thomas Massie is accusing former President Donald Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel of deliberately obstructing the release of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein. Massie claims the FBI is withholding the names of 20 men to whom Epstein trafficked women and girls to protect Trump's powerful friends. The accusations are fueled by Patel's past advocacy for full transparency, which contrasts with his current administration's actions, including a recent memo stating no further disclosure would be necessary.
Key Points:
Rep. Thomas Massie accused Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel of covering up the Epstein files to protect powerful associates.
Massie revealed that the FBI has names of 20 men linked to Epstein's trafficking ring, information that seemed to surprise Patel.
Patel had previously advocated for full release of the documents but now heads an administration that has decided against further disclosure.
During a House hearing, Rep. Jamie Raskin alleged Patel reassigned agents to redact Trump's name from the files rather than investigate the trafficking network.
A July memo from Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi determined 'no further disclosure' of the Epstein files was necessary.
""This spring, you ordered hundreds of agents to pore over all of the Epstein files, but not to look for more clues about the money network, or the network of human traffickers. You pulled these agents from their regular counterterrorism or drug trafficking duties to work around the clock—some of them sleeping at their desks—to conduct a frantic search to make sure Donald Trump’s name and image were flagged and redacted wherever they appeared.""
📖 Know-How: Distroless container images, why you should use them all the time if you can!
Posted on r/selfhosted |
Score: 373 |
Comments: 135
Distroless container images are minimal images that contain only the essential binaries required to run an application, removing all unnecessary components. This approach significantly reduces the image size and, more importantly, the attack surface by eliminating tools that could be exploited. While not a complete security solution, it provides a critical layer of defense, especially against automated attacks.
Key Points:
Distroless images contain only the application and its runtime dependencies, removing all distribution-specific binaries.
A smaller attack surface makes exploitation harder, as common attack tools like shells, curl, or wget are absent.
The significant reduction in image size saves disk space and improves download and unpacking efficiency.
The absence of common utilities can cause automated attacks to fail, as they rely on these tools being present.
Distroless is presented as a superior solution to techniques like lazy loading for combating container image bloat.
"The app you run, could have an exploit but not offer much in terms of functionality. For instance, the app can’t make a web request... but the attacker gained access to the container's file system, hence he can now use curl or wget inside your image, to further download more tools... If these tools are not available, the attack will already fail."
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 168 |
Comments: 108
The author argues that GitHub's recent addition of YAML anchor support to GitHub Actions is a detrimental step backwards. They contend that anchors are redundant with existing features, introduce harmful complexity, and make workflows harder for both humans and machines to understand and analyze for security. The article calls for GitHub to remove the feature before it becomes widely adopted.
Key Points:
YAML anchors are redundant with existing GitHub Actions features like workflow-level environment variables.
Anchors introduce a harmful form of non-locality, making it harder to understand workflows without context switching.
The feature complicates the data model, breaking the one-to-one object mapping and making automated analysis of workflows more difficult.
GitHub's implementation is incomplete, lacking support for merge keys, which is the one feature that lacks a semantic equivalent.
This change reinforces GitHub Actions' status as an insecure-by-default platform by obfuscating workflow definitions.
"YAML anchors further muddy the abstractions of workflows, jobs, and steps, by introducing a cross-cutting form of global state that doesn’t play by the rules of the rest of the system. This, to me, suggests that the current Actions team lacks a strong set of opinions about how GitHub Actions should be used, leading to a 'kitchen sink' approach that serves all users equally poorly."
Claude Opus 4.0+ made my 15 year old dream come true - AI Tour Guide app
Posted on r/ClaudeAI |
Score: 145 |
Comments: 57
A developer has created an AI-powered tour guide app that generates personalized, real-time tours for any city or topic, fulfilling a 15-year-old dream inspired by a disappointing real-life tour experience. The app was built rapidly using Claude Opus 4.0 and Claude Code after previous attempts with other AI models failed. It provides GPS-navigated tours with an AI guide that tells stories and answers questions.
Key Points:
The app generates personalized, real-time tours with GPS navigation based on user requests like 'Assassin's Creed tour of Florence'.
It was successfully built in just two days using Claude Opus 4.0 after failed attempts with other AI models and no-code platforms.
The project was inspired by the author's personal disappointment with a costly, impersonal guided tour in Florence.
The AI guide speaks multiple languages and is designed for solo travelers who dislike group tours.
The author is a solo founder seeking feedback and has released a free, iOS-only version of the app.
"Within 2 days I had a working prototype. The $200/month Claude Max plan hurt my wallet but holy sh**, it worked."
Pangolin 1.10.2: Declarative configs & Docker labels, multi-site failover, path-based routing, and more
Posted on r/selfhosted |
Score: 122 |
Comments: 27
Pangolin 1.10.2 introduces declarative configuration via YAML and Docker labels, enabling GitOps-friendly management of services. The update also adds multi-site resource failover with load balancing and path-based routing for precise traffic control. Additionally, the post highlights progress on a managed Cloud offering and upcoming features like Helm charts.
Key Points:
Declarative configuration (Blueprints) using YAML or Docker labels for consistent, automatable resource management
Multi-site resources allowing load balancing and failover across different environments with sticky sessions
Path-based routing with rules for exact matches, prefixes, or regex to direct traffic to specific backends
Introduction of Pangolin Cloud with managed, self-hosted hybrid nodes for high availability without bandwidth costs
Upcoming features including a Helm chart for the Newt agent and enhancements like OTEL monitoring
"Instead of tying a resource to a single site, targets are now site‑aware, letting you have multiple site (Newt) backends on the same resource. This means you can load balance and fail over traffic seamlessly across completely different environments with sticky sessions keeping requests on the same backend when needed."
How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 111 |
Comments: 75
The article humorously critiques developer-written tutorials from a beginner's perspective, highlighting how they are often filled with inaccessible jargon and overly complex instructions. The author, a non-developer, expresses gratitude for the effort but points out the significant gap between expert and novice understanding. The piece satirically illustrates the frustration and time investment required for a beginner to follow such a guide.
Key Points:
Tutorials often assume prior knowledge and use insider jargon that is confusing for beginners.
Instructions can be overly complex, with unclear steps and references to unfamiliar tools or companies.
The author appreciates the intent behind tutorials but emphasizes the need for clarity and accessibility.
The piece uses satire to show the real-time struggle of a beginner parsing expert-level instructions.
It highlights the communication gap between experienced developers and their intended beginner audience.
"The first 3 steps will take me approximately 7 hours and 193 internet searches to complete. When I finally get to Boop! it will be really satisfying."
An advocate is exploring a Land Value Tax (LVT) as a progressive alternative to a sales tax to fund transit improvements in Sacramento. They propose a 0.5% county-wide LVT, which they believe could generate sufficient revenue while incentivizing development, especially around transit stops due to new zoning laws like SB79.
Key Points:
LVT is being considered as a progressive funding alternative to a sales tax for transit.
A specific proposal is a 0.5% county-wide LVT to fund the Sacramento transit agency (sacRT).
The goal is to create a financial incentive for building and development.
New zoning laws (SB79) could allow minimum 6-story buildings around transit stops, enhancing LVT's impact.
"I can create an insanely built system on only .5% LVT county-wide (according to chatgpt), would an LVT at this % incentivize building and to what degree?"
The author, from the UK, proposes land nationalisation as a solution to the country's persistent feudal land system, arguing that all land should belong to the state while allowing individuals to use it for personal gain. They believe this policy would address the vast wealth gap and the disproportionate power held by large landowners. The author questions whether this idea aligns with Georgist philosophy.
Key Points:
The UK retains a feudal land ownership system that the author seeks to reform.
The core proposal is full land nationalisation, where the state owns all land but leases it for private use.
The primary goal is to reduce the wealth gap and break the power of privileged landholders.
Under this system, land would revert to the state if a user (e.g., a retiring farmer) does not pass it on.
The author inquires if this concept qualifies as Georgist, seeking ideological classification.
"I believe such a move will help address the vast wealth gap and the uneven access to power vast land holdings give the privileged."
The article argues that implementing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and process mapping is not about stifling creativity or replacing people, but rather about creating a stable foundation that enables meaningful improvement and innovation. It reframes SOPs as tools similar to detailed recipes, providing a consistent baseline from which experimentation becomes effective. The author explains that SOPs create shared understanding, streamline onboarding, and preserve organizational knowledge, ultimately freeing employees to focus on creative problem-solving.
Key Points:
SOPs are misunderstood as tools for control, but their true purpose is to create stability and shared understanding across teams.
A good SOP, like a detailed recipe, provides a consistent baseline that enables meaningful experimentation and improvement (Kaizen).
SOPs handle routine work, allowing employees to focus on the creative and problem-solving aspects of their roles.
Maintaining a change log for SOPs creates an organizational 'time machine,' preserving lessons from the past to inform future decisions.
SOPs can function as an internal marketing tool for a department, clarifying its value and responsibilities to the rest of the organization.
"Stability Enables Creativity. By standardizing the process: measuring ingredients, tracking steps. You create a repeatable baseline. And from there, experimentation becomes meaningful. Add espresso, swap peppers, try something new, and you can tell exactly what effect it had."
Cap'n Web: a new RPC system for browsers and web servers
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 2 |
Comments: 1
Cap'n Web is a new, open-source RPC system designed specifically for the web stack, built in pure TypeScript. It is a spiritual successor to Cap'n Proto, offering an object-capability model that enables bidirectional calling, passing functions and objects by reference, and promise pipelining. The system requires almost no boilerplate, uses JSON for serialization, and works over HTTP, WebSockets, and postMessage.
Key Points:
Implements an object-capability RPC model, supporting bidirectional calls and passing functions/objects by reference.
Designed for the web with no schemas, minimal boilerplate, and JSON-based serialization.
Supports promise pipelining to chain calls in a single network round trip.
Works over multiple transports (HTTP, WebSocket, postMessage) and in all major browsers and JavaScript runtimes.
Trivial to set up, with a complete client and server implementation shown in just a few lines of code.
"Cap'n Web is more expressive than almost every other RPC system, because it implements an object-capability RPC model. That means it: Supports bidirectional calling. The client can call the server, and the server can also call the client. Supports passing functions by reference... Supports promise pipelining."
Privacy and Security Risks in the eSIM Ecosystem [pdf]
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Score: 1 |
Comments: 0
The article 'A Security Analysis of Travel eSIMs' investigates the security and privacy risks associated with embedded SIM (eSIM) profiles used by travelers. It uncovers significant vulnerabilities in the provisioning and management processes of major eSIM providers, including the exposure of sensitive user data and the potential for location tracking. The research demonstrates practical attacks and proposes countermeasures to improve the security posture of travel eSIM ecosystems.
Key Points:
Identifies security and privacy vulnerabilities in the eSIM provisioning process across multiple providers.
Demonstrates practical attacks that can lead to user location tracking and exposure of personal data.
Highlights inconsistencies and weaknesses in the implementation of GSMA security standards.
Proposes mitigation strategies and improvements for eSIM providers and standard-setting bodies.
Emphasizes the tension between convenience for travelers and the security of their connectivity.
"Our analysis of travel eSIM providers reveals that the provisioning process often leaks metadata that can be used to track users across borders, undermining the privacy benefits promised by this technology."