Richard Schwartz

Inspired by @andrewkostrub.bsky.social

I told you we’d be back

The Schwartz will be with you. At least this one will be.

Over years, I have a few times called Musk a liar (across the country by 2016, then 2017) and thief (money for upgrades), on national TV even. Maybe that’s why my Twitter account has been blocked for a few months despite violating no rules. I can’t get it fixed.

No idea about Hegseth -- but I would not consider those to be hallmarks of ChatGPT. 1) Lots of software converts two consecutive dashes to an em-dash; 2) I use semicolons; 3) Sometimes I use a), b), c), and sometimes I use numbers.

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

Everyone in chat: Failure to preserve official records due to the use of an unapproved commercial messaging app with an automatic timed deletion feature. (44 U.S.C. 31 - Federal Records Act)

Waltz: Inviting a reporter into a national security principals chat. (Is there a U.S. Code reference for criminal stupidity?)

Everyone in chat: Failing to report and secure the classified information that was transmitted and received (18 U.S. Code § 1924 - Unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material)

Everyone in the chat: Mishandling classified information by participating in a national security principals group chat using personal or government devices on an unapproved commercial message app (18 U.S. Code § 1924 - Unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material)

Hegseth: Leaking classified information (18 U.S. Code § 798 - Disclosure of classified information)

немыслимо

As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

He won't just keep his job. He'll get a promotion.

Only if they can unlock it, which gives them the key to decrypt local storage.

I have a Proton account that I set up a long time ago, but I've never advertised the address or considered switching to it as my primary. It's just reserved for if/when I need to send something that must be end-to-end encrypted, which hasn't happened yet.

And smartphone clients were not a thing back then, so I never thought through what the implications would be.

Hmmm... Does that mean that the data is unencrypted on the phone? Or does the index use your encryption key to decrypt, build the index entries, and encrypt the index entries? At eVelocity we were very interested in end-to-end encryption and we faced a similar problem -- for users and support.

3/3 May 20th, 1875 is referenced in the current ISO-8601 standard, but that is just short of 150 years ago, not "over 150" years ago. The standard states that dates before 1875 (when the "Convention du Mètre” was signed) all the way back to 10,000 BCE can be represented in ISO-8601 format.

There may be some truth in it somewhere, but (a) the epoch date in COBOL is 1601 not 1875, and (b) there is no such thing as an ISO 8601 standard for numeric dates. ISO-8601 is a standard for text representation of dates (for unambiguous display or interchange), not numeric representation.

1/3 This is popping up all over my feed. I am skeptical.

AI-generated, for sure.

But no, I have not found any additional info about this.

The square of the hippopotamus equals the square of the other two... I forget the rest. ;-)

The account was @senatorhassan1.bsky.social.