Misleading headline.

"... told Court of International Trade Judge Richard Eaton it cannot currently comply ..."

Note the word "currently."

"CBP suggested it could begin issuing refunds by late April after revamping its technology."

Human nature is so strange, we always look up at the oligarchs or sideways at the Jones, but we never look at those who are not doing as well as us.

Speak for yourself

My father was a refugee who studied under street lights.

I sold shaving cream door-to-door to pay for textbooks.

I am speaking for myself and others like me.

Now, sure, but you also wrote:

> ...we always look up at the oligarchs or sideways at the Jones, but we never look at those who are not doing as well as us.

Which uses universal language to incorrectly declare the behavior of all humans. I assumed you were writing in good faith and reporting you find true and in my writing rejecting your claim.

Maybe there's no one doing worse than you but I doubt it because here you are, with clear, well written english. Do you not offer them a helping hand?

The real problem with your statement is that there are many of us who do look at and after those who are not doing as well as us (and some of those are quite wealthy). A group of us spend every Tuesday to collect food from stores with which to prepare a meal that we send to homeless encampments around town and then serve to anyone who shows up (usually around 100) for dinner. We provide a positive environment, build relationships, and help them to get clothes, toiletries, services, and emergency shelter. I and many others give substantial portions of our incomes to reduce poverty and disease across the world. I have been lucky to write software that has helped resolve the violence of genocide and open source software that has lifted businesses and made starting them more accessible. I have spent the core of my mind's considerations on trying to understand why the world functions as it does and how that can be improved, how we can move the standards higher, and how we can include everyone. In all of this there are many ways I have made decisions that make my wealth less, my comforts lower, and my time and mind more strained but I will not cease and I am not alone.

So... When you claim that everyone only looks to those who are doing better I assert that you can speak for yourself. The belief that it's all every person for themselves and dog eat dog is false. It's bad for hope and bad for seeing reality.

Everyone wants a Booker Prize these days.

Stopped at "The real guardians of Skype’s secrets lay within, and they were watching my every move."

What nonsense.

"In 2023, the United States imported U3O8 and equivalents primarily from Canada, Australia, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. The origin of U3O8 used in U.S. nuclear reactors could change in the coming years. In May 2024, the United States banned imports of uranium products from Russia beginning in August, although companies may apply for waivers through January 1, 2028."

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=64444

Elector magazine used to prank too; my favourite one was their "solar powered pocket torch." It wasn't rechargeable.

Data does have real weight. In one of my early assignments my firmware was too large to fit on one EPROM. Naively I thought the hardware team could just add another EPROM to the board. Turns out while they had left place for another device, it would have exceeded the payload budget by a few grams. Had to go back and reduce the code by a few hundred bytes.

It depends on the QR code:

1. Static QR codes displayed by the vendor have the problem you describe.

2. Dynamic QR codes are time limited, have the amount embedded in them along with the destination. These are the ones generated by websites or POS terminals for payment. Most people will only use these at a POS terminals, pay and move on.

Fraudulent websites have used static QR codes but I'm told one can dispute the transaction and the amount is usually reversed in a couple of days.

so this exists:

microslop.com

I even registered microslop.ee (directs to .com) because of how much I dislike Microslop.

Well played

I use a couple of slim A7 notebooks, one is like a diary, it gets stored when it's full. The other is a hard copy of my memory of how to do things like squishing PDFs. I rarely have to look at things twice as the act of writing it down gives me enough context to remember it. But it's invaluable when I need it.

Tried Evernote and tagging and so on and it turns out cataloging stuff is hard, and the lazy recourse is to over-tag, and then I end up doing a brute force search.

I do this too. A7 is the sweet spot for me because it fits in my back pocket and so it's always there when I need it. I write the date started on the front cover and the same when I finish them and file them away. The hard part about using physical notebooks is resurfacing old info, I really need to work on processing and triage.

Nobody reads any more. It's been that way for at least ten years. Nobody writes any more, without prompting.

plenty of people read. maybe you're just an illiterate surrounded by illiterates?

I'm on Hypocrisy News, with you, so yes, you're right.