Marjorie Taylor Greene has received assassination threats: Police
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 18112 |
Comments: 1296
Police in Georgia are investigating assassination threats made against Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and her family, which were sent via email. This follows a public rift with former President Donald Trump, who has withdrawn his endorsement and downplayed the danger to her life. Greene has also reported other threats, including a pipe bomb threat at her company's office and hoax pizza deliveries.
Key Points:
The Rome Police Department is investigating two email assassination threats against Marjorie Taylor Greene and her family.
Former President Donald Trump has publicly dismissed the threats, stating 'I don't think her life is in danger' and withdrawing his endorsement.
Greene has reported additional incidents, including a pipe bomb threat at her construction company's office and hoax pizza deliveries to her home.
Greene attributes the escalation in threats to Trump's 'unwarranted and vicious attacks,' calling them a 'dog whistle to dangerous radicals.'
There is conflicting information from law enforcement regarding the jurisdiction and reporting of some of the alleged threats.
"President Trump’s unwarranted and vicious attacks against me were a dog whistle to dangerous radicals that could lead to serious attacks on me and my family."
MAGA world celebrates Trump ending coffee and steak tariffs - that he put in place
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 12361 |
Comments: 459
President Trump signed an executive order removing tariffs on over 200 agricultural staples like beef and coffee, which he had originally implemented just months prior. His supporters celebrated the move as 'winning' and providing 'wallet relief,' while critics pointed out the irony of him reversing his own policy, which had initially raised prices.
Key Points:
Trump removed tariffs on food items like beef and coffee that he had imposed in April.
MAGA supporters celebrated the decision as a victory for lowering prices.
Critics highlighted the irony of Trump reversing his own policy, which had previously increased costs.
The reversal comes after Democrats won elections where affordability was a key issue.
Trump has long championed tariffs, once calling the word 'tariff' the most beautiful in the dictionary.
""If getting rid of tariffs to lower prices is ‘Winning!’, does that mean implementing the tariffs that raised prices was ‘Losing,’" one commentator wrote on X"
Kash Patel Assigns FBI SWAT Team to Protect 26-Year-Old Girlfriend
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 8825 |
Comments: 512
FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly assigned a team of elite FBI SWAT agents from the Nashville field office to provide a security detail for his 27-year-old girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins. This is described as a blatant misappropriation of bureau resources, following a previous scandal where he used a $60 million government jet for personal travel. The assignment of these agents has raised concerns that they would be unavailable to respond to a local crisis.
Key Points:
Kash Patel assigned elite FBI SWAT agents to protect his girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins.
This use of resources is described as a blatant misappropriation.
The assigned agents may be unable to respond to a crisis in the Nashville area.
This follows a prior scandal involving the use of a $60 million government jet for personal travel.
The leaks suggest this unorthodox use of resources has not won him friends within the FBI.
"The sources added that those agents, who are typically charged with responding to high-risk situations, would likely be unable to respond in the event of a crisis in the Nashville area."
‘Americans Should Be Enraged’: Reports Expose Unprecedented Corruption at Trump DOJ | “I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm.”
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 7331 |
Comments: 193
Reports from the House Judiciary Committee reveal extensive corruption and politicization within the Department of Justice under President Trump, including improper interventions in cases involving Trump's allies. The findings show the DOJ abandoned its independence to serve Trump's personal and political interests, leading to calls for accountability and reform.
Key Points:
The DOJ improperly intervened in legal cases involving Trump's associates like Roger Stone and Michael Flynn
Attorney General William Barr pressured prosecutors to undermine the Mueller investigation
The department's independence was severely compromised to serve Trump's political agenda
The reports are based on testimony from over 1,000 former DOJ officials
The findings represent an unprecedented level of corruption within the Justice Department
His Legal Name Is One Letter—A reminder that bad validation rules hurt people
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 1004 |
Comments: 484
A traveler with the single-letter legal first name 'A' is unable to book flights with Cathay Pacific because the airline's system enforces a two-character minimum for first names, automatically changing it to 'AA'. This creates potential issues with passport verification, security screening, and transferring loyalty points. The airline's suggested solution of traveling under the incorrect name 'AA' violates their own policy that the ticket name must match the passenger's travel document.
Key Points:
A passenger's legal first name is 'A', but airline booking systems reject one-letter names.
Cathay Pacific's system automatically adds a second letter, creating a non-compliant name on the ticket.
The airline advised the passenger to 'just call yourself AA', causing a name mismatch with his passport.
This mismatch creates risks for security screening, points transfers, and receiving frequent flyer benefits.
The article's author advises correcting the name and cautions against transferring points until the issue is resolved.
"When I go to enter my name, the computer states 2 letters are required for the first name. So it adds a second 'a' to my first name. I email Cathay with copies of my passport showing my legal name and they tell me to travel on the AA [redacted] name."
I got frustrated with ScreamingFrog crawler pricing so I built an open-source alternative
Posted on r/selfhosted |
Score: 401 |
Comments: 80
Frustrated by the high cost of commercial SEO crawlers like ScreamingFrog, the author built LibreCrawl, an open-source, self-hosted alternative. It performs essential technical SEO audits, handles JavaScript-heavy sites, and has no URL limits since users run it on their own infrastructure.
Key Points:
Built as a free, MIT-licensed alternative to expensive SEO crawlers like ScreamingFrog and Sitebulb
Self-hosted with no URL limits, designed to run on your own infrastructure
Performs core SEO audits including broken links, missing meta tags, and duplicate content
Handles JavaScript-heavy sites using Playwright rendering
Exports data to CSV, JSON, and XML for analysis
"I looked at alternatives like Sitebulb ($420/year) and DeepCrawl ($1000+/year) and thought "this is ridiculous for what's essentially just crawling websites and parsing HTML.""
Anthropic CEO Warns AI Could Wipe Out Half of Entry-Level Jobs Within 5 Years
Posted on r/ClaudeAI |
Score: 155 |
Comments: 115
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns that artificial intelligence could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and push unemployment to 10-20% within the next five years. He specifically identifies roles in consulting, law, and finance as being at high risk, noting that AI is already actively replacing workers, including at his own company where Claude writes 90% of the code.
Key Points:
AI could eliminate half of entry-level white-collar jobs within 1-5 years.
Unemployment could spike to 10-20% due to AI's impact.
Jobs in consulting, law, and finance are particularly at risk.
Anthropic's own AI, Claude, already writes 90% of the company's computer code.
The speed and breadth of job displacement is a primary concern.
""If we look at entry-level consultants, lawyers, financial professionals, you know, many of, kind of the white-collar service industries, a lot of what they do, you know, AI models are already quite good at,""
Claude has improved my coding skills far beyond I ever imagined
Posted on r/ClaudeAI |
Score: 96 |
Comments: 148
The author describes how using Claude, an AI assistant, has dramatically accelerated their coding abilities and productivity. They feel empowered to implement any functionality they can imagine, with the AI generating the code instantly.
Key Points:
AI has significantly improved the author's coding skills and speed.
It enables the rapid implementation of complex systems and functionalities.
The author can visualize the code output before even running it.
The tool makes the user feel 'unstoppable' in their development work.
It facilitates a leap in skill level, from a 'level 3' to a 'level 20' coder.
"It’s like anything I can’t figure out .. it’s able to make it .. any functionality .. *poof* It appears on the screen .. u can see it before u run it"
Microservices: Microliths as a resonable alternative
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 54 |
Comments: 116
The article introduces microliths as an alternative to microservices, designed for scenarios where you don't need high development speed or have multiple teams but have disparate non-functional requirements. A microlith is a service that processes an entire external request independently without calling other services, requiring temporally decoupled data reconciliation between them. This architectural style avoids the complexities of distributed systems during request processing but introduces the overhead of asynchronous reconciliation.
Key Points:
Microliths are an alternative for when microservice preconditions aren't met but services are still desired
They process external requests independently without calling other services
Data reconciliation between microliths happens through temporally decoupled mechanisms
This approach avoids distributed system complexities during request processing
The architecture resembles many small independent applications with batch-like communication
"The seemingly minor constraint that a service must not call other services while serving an external request, makes a huge difference in practice. The service processing the external request does not need to wait for other services to complete the re"
A user is seeking community advice on choosing between Headscale and NetBird to host on a VPS for their homelab, with the goal of easily connecting to their home servers. The article presents this as a direct comparison to help the user make a decision.
Key Points:
The user is deciding between Headscale and NetBird
The software will be self-hosted on a VPS
The primary use case is for a homelab environment
The goal is to easily connect to home servers
The user is soliciting community preference to inform their choice
"I’m currently deciding between hosting one of these on my VPS for my homelab to easily connect to my servers at home."
Dockerlings is an open-source project that provides an interactive terminal application for learning Docker through bite-sized, hands-on exercises. It features a progressive curriculum with 15+ exercises covering core Docker concepts from basic containers to advanced topics like multi-stage builds and Docker Compose. The tool is designed for beginners and intermediate developers to learn by doing in a zero-friction environment.
Key Points:
100% interactive TUI with beautiful terminal interface powered by Bubble Tea
Progressive curriculum with 15+ carefully crafted exercises that build on each other
Covers real-world skills from basic images to multi-stage builds, volumes, networks, and Compose
Instant verification system where users can run checks to immediately validate their solutions
Zero friction setup - just clone, build, and start learning with no complex dependencies
"Learn Docker by doing – the fun, interactive way"
The author describes a project where they modified the memory allocator for their custom-built NAND computer to use the screen's memory region as the heap. This causes graphical corruption in a Pong game because the program's memory operations directly manipulate the pixel data. The experiment is possible because NAND lacks the memory protection found in modern systems.
Key Points:
The NAND computer is a custom 16-bit system with no memory protection, allowing programs to modify any memory region.
The author modified the memory allocator to treat the screen's memory region as the heap for dynamic allocations.
This causes the program's memory operations to corrupt the on-screen bitmap, creating visual artifacts.
The project demonstrates the effects of low-level memory management without modern OS safeguards like segmentation faults.
The modification required only a small change to the Memory.init function to point it to the screen's memory address.
"Universally among modern computers, if you try to read or write memory that belongs to another process or memory region, the operating system will trigger a segmentation fault and terminate your program. But NAND gives every program full reign to modify any part of the computer memory; hence, logically invalid memory operations are shamelessly allowed."
The article argues that while a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) like ServiceNow is often seen as a valuable source for kickstarting enterprise architecture due to its inventories of applications and infrastructure, it is a fundamentally unsuitable foundation. This is because the CMDB's data structures, definitions, and update cycles are designed to support IT service management (ITSM) workflows like ticketing and incident management, not architectural analysis. Using it as an architectural source of truth leads to conceptual mismatches, volatile data, and a structure that misrepresents the enterprise.
Key Points:
A CMDB is a catalogue in a ticketing system designed for IT service management workflows, not for architectural modeling.
The definitions of terms like 'application' or 'capability' in a CMDB differ from their architectural meanings, making portfolio analysis unreliable.
CMDB data is highly volatile, with entities like capabilities being created and removed within days to route support tickets correctly.
The structure of CMDB lists is rigid and often illogical from an architectural view because it is constrained by underlying ITSM workflows and relationships.
Basing enterprise architecture on a CMDB implicitly positions the entire IT department through the lens of a service management framework.
"The answer is very simple, cause those are not architectural lists, they are lists to handle tickets and support issues."