C# development was spearheaded by Anders Hjelsberg, one of the brains behind Borland Delphi/Object Pascal.

I saw them at a coffee shop in Field, BC a few years ago and asked the owner about them, as I thought at first they were maybe pasta or some kind of starch-based bioplastic (the holder was just labelled ‘biodegradable straws’); they felt just like a good sturdy plastic straw. The ones I saw were translucent beige, but websites I find them on show opaque green straws so I don’t know what the difference is there.

Why hemp straws aren’t everywhere baffles me, they’re perfect replacements.

It may become the duty of every software engineer at this time to offer their services to those who need security, to make custom solutions for those who require it.

Cypherpunks, arise!

:) So far at least, they’ve done good for me. I hope they stay that way, it’s nice to have a tech store that seems to deal in decent stuff.

Memory Express in Western Canada.

Good questions, and important that we crowdsource verification of this. I saw some other posts on bsky that other people have received these emails, suggesting it is not a single instance. Implication is that it’s a new automated effort, perhaps “by AI”, to intimidate people en masse. But it could be fake, so the more examining it, the better.

EDIT: Link here to a thread, indicating others have received these emails: https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lmljpkrdj22h

I was trying to sound the alert that this might be a thing – BUT if it turns out to be fake, please by all means shout to the hilltops that it is bunk.

Credit Unions! At least I hope in your country they exist, and are better than banks which, where I live, they most DEFINITELY are.

Bedeviled NXP/ARM SDK stdlib. Hate it, we need \n\r there. Why!!! What a PITA.

… but allegedly based on stolen source printouts from the college dumpster, and written using stolen time on their timeshare mainframes.

You bring up a good point, but I’m not sure enough Americans are ready or aware, or desperate enough, yet, that civil disobedience is a thing. I hope they progress to using it very soon.

Bananas in ICE vehicle tailpipes. Not paying taxes. Jamming ICE ‘snitch’ phone numbers with spurious reports … that sort of thing.

Hey we gotta allow Hoserish still, eh? The US can take right off, you knobs. <snort> Good Day.

Oh ho ho… you’ve pissed off Quebec now. Gods help you now USA. :p

Hah, LOL no. Sadly, I have no illusions there will be any accountability in this regime.

Just be sure to check support before buying any newish laptop. I really like my ASUS Duo Pro 2024, but ASUS adamantly refuses to lift a finger for proper Linux support for special features. Even the audio chipset which is standard somehow doesn’t work with default kernels due to something they’ve done. Dual screen can be made to work with some scripting-fu, but the keyboard’s multimedia keys just don’t work at all.

Vote with your wallets and be noisy to those brands who don’t support Linux well. Let them know if lack of Linux support was why you didn’t buy.

Perhaps his admiration of despots like Putin, and his seemingly desperate desire to become like them, to be considered an equal by them, is the thing that drives him. It could be that he just truly, truly wants to be like Putin, so does anything he can to impress or aid him.

If that’s true, then there’s really nothing anyone can do. (Well, nothing I can mention, that we all know full well, without being on some lists).

Never mind the reasons – this is patently illegal and violates security clearances. Yet another reason, as if more were needed, to oust him and then prosecute him.

Maybe they’ve got something really, really big on him. Something he values beyond all else – even money, even fame, even attention, even power, since those seem to be all he loves.

Maybe Putin convinced him years ago he will bump off Ivanka if he doesn’t obey, or something.

Sounds great, if it’s non-allergenic too it would be a great product.

Hmm, guess that’s tacit permission for Canada to do the same with our southbound water then eh? >:(