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Only one "are you happy with your purchase?" follow-up email? He should count himself lucky...

In a delicious irony, Trump is accelerating the transition to renewables he hates so much.

Of course not. That's why Charles de Gaulle repatriated French gold from the New York Fed in the 1960s. Before Trump, there was Nixon, the US has form in reneging on its commitments.

It seems there are still 138 tons of gold left over that will be recovered by 2028:

https://www.mining.com/france-pulls-last-gold-held-in-us-for...


I might be wrong in my reading, but i read the article as stating that while all french gold is now in France, some of that gold is still below modern standards, not that there still remains any gold in the USA.

I think your reading makes sense.

Wildcard email addresses will subject you to a torrent of spam when spammers try dictionary attacks against your domain. It's better to explicitly create aliases, I built a web UI for Postfix to do this for myself and family (https://GitHub.com/fazalmajid/postmapweb)

I am more specific: if I start receiving pornographic spam like I did to the address I gave Dell, I will know they have been hacked.

I will also not hold my breath waiting for the legally required breach notification they are supposed to send.


Ah yes, the fabulous car engineering of Dieselgate.

Well they got caught..

And then they successfully lobbied the EU to water down rules for transitioning to electric.

The Linux Terminal app is incredibly buggy in my experience, but that may be because I use GrapheneOS.

NDAs cannot cover whistleblowing of actual criminality, including sexual harassment, which is why modern NDAs take pains to disclaim that, so they wouldn't be invalidated on that basis. Presumably the behavior exposed in the book, while arguably immoral or amoral, doesn't rise to the standard of criminality.

Writing a book isn't covered whistleblowing. If she wants to go to the FBI or whatever, no one can stop her.

Ms Wynn-Williams has also filed a whistleblower complaint with the US markets regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), alleging Meta misled investors - which Meta also denies. The BBC has reviewed the complaint.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5zyq0250wo


Exactly. She was not prevented from doing that.

Exactly. Or a legislature as Frances Haugen did.

That said, arbitrators like that which gagged her are inherently conflicted since they are paid by the corporation, sadly our corrupt Supreme Court rubber-stamped binding arbitration so she has no recourse.


The UK is far worse, with draconian libel laws where the burden of proof is on the defendant. Originally designed to stop uppity commoners from challenging the aristocrats, now used by oligarchs to silence journalists.

I use SVG where I created a text object in Affinity Designer and converted it to curves so the SVG doesn't have text any more, just vectors for the glyphs of it. Seems to work pretty well at keeping spammers at bay.

It also keeps visually impaired people at bay.

Good point. I'll add a voice recording of me spelling out the email address.

But now users cannot copy the email nor can they click it to email you?

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