Longtime software developer, specializing in Ruby, with European and Asian experience and language expertise.
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Keith Bennett retweeted
My brother posts this every year in the family chat on the 4th. Still hilarious.
Keith Bennett retweeted
To everyone celebrating the first flight on Qatar Force One today, understand what you are actually applauding.
A foreign government handed the sitting President of the United States a $400 million plane. American taxpayers then paid to retrofit it, with an estimated cost of at least another $400 million (some estimates far higher), for security and communications work in a Texas hangar since last September.
When Trump leaves office, the plane does not stay with the government. Ownership transfers to his presidential library foundation. In other words, he keeps it.
You are being asked to treat pure corruption as normal, to shrug at a President personally profiting from a foreign gift the taxpayers paid to upgrade.
In any other administration this would be the scandal that ends a presidency.
With Trump, it’s Wednesday.
abcnews.com/Politics/trump-t…
As with AI, Linters like Rubocop should play a servant, not master, role, subject to critical supervision. After a substantial session modifying code to conform to a lint rule, I pushed back and realized the rule was a net negative for the code base.
Hey @loom & @Atlassian, the incompetence is astounding. First, the email address you put on your invoices is unmonitored. Then when I find and complete your help form, *there is no Submit button*!!!
Keith Bennett retweeted
Pete Hegseth is coming after what I earned through my twenty-five years of military service, in violation of my rights as an American, as a retired veteran, and as a United States Senator whose job is to hold him—and this or any administration—accountable. His unconstitutional crusade against me sends a chilling message to every retired member of the military: if you speak out and say something that the President or Secretary of Defense doesn’t like, you will be censured, threatened with demotion, or even prosecuted.
Every servicemember knows military rank is earned, not given. It's earned through the risks you take, the sacrifices you and your family make, the leadership you display, and the respect you earn from the superiors who recommend you for promotion. From the moment I drove through the gates of Naval Air Station Pensacola, to when I was shot at over Iraq and Kuwait, to when I landed Space Shuttle Endeavour on its last mission, I gave everything I had to this country and I earned my rank of Captain, United States Navy.
Now, Pete Hegseth wants our longest-serving military veterans to live with the constant threat that they could be deprived of their rank and pay years or even decades after they leave the military just because he or another Secretary of Defense doesn’t like what they’ve said. That’s not the way things work in the United States of America, and I won’t stand for it.
In 1986, at just 22 years old, I took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution. I have fulfilled that oath every day since, but I never expected that I would have to defend it against a Secretary of Defense or President. But I’ve never shied away from a fight for our country, and I won’t shy away from this one. Because our freedom of speech, the separation of powers, and due process are not just words on a page, they are bedrock principles of our democracy that has lasted 250 years and will last 250 more as long as patriotic Americans are willing to stand up for our rights.
So today, I filed a lawsuit against the Secretary of Defense because there are few things as important as standing up for the rights of the very Americans who fought to defend our freedoms.
Eloquently said.
Stephen, let’s take a deep breath. Let’s remember why we signed up for this fight: to defend a republic where power bows to principle, not bully posturing.
You call Portland’s protests a “terrorist assault” on ICE, but let’s step back into reality. What’s happening there is speech, constitutionally protected, born of outrage at family separations and federal overreach. These aren’t death squads in the streets; they’re desperate pleas for a country that honors both security and dignity.
A Trump-appointed judge, Karin Immergut, didn’t cook up an “insurrection.” She applied the law. She recognized that neither the Insurrection Act nor the Posse Comitatus Act allows federal troops to be unleashed at whim. She paused the deployment because she saw that the protests were relatively small, peaceful, and did not justify the use of military force.
That restraint is not judicial overreach. It’s precisely what the Founders baked into the system to prevent the drift toward rule by fear. You trumpet “law and order,” yet your instinct is to summon soldiers instead of fixing broken policy.
If you want to claim legitimacy, shift from grandstanding to results. Let’s accelerate asylum reviews, deploy humane technology at ports of entry, and bolster agents with better training and oversight, without compromising on cruelty. That’s real leadership, not culture war baiting.
And a caution: when you stoke fear, you risk widening cracks between you and the men and women in uniform. Soldiers and agents believe in service, not spectacle. Let’s rebuild those bridges together. Will you help write a better chapter for America, or double down on conflict?
.@jetbrains Your recent email message about data sharing is contradictory and could lead users to unwittingly share their data if they don't read the entire message (in which case they would be confused about the contradictory messages). See perplexity.ai/search/is-it-j…
.@CebuPacificAir I was booking a flight on your web site, selected Flexi, *de*selected travel insurance, but the premium was still included at checkout. Tried several times. I then booked on the mobile app without that problem. Also, opt-out for it is sneaky and deceptive. Stop!
Other than that my experience with you has been good, and I especially appreciate the nonstops from Cebu and Davao to Bangkok. However, the travel insurance issues are annoying and erode my goodwill.
Keith Bennett retweeted
If you live in Wisconsin – or have friends or family who do – there’s an important Supreme Court race happening right now. And there’s only one candidate ready to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of Wisconsinites: Judge Susan Crawford.
We’ve all seen how important judges are in protecting our rights, so vote early — don’t wait until April 1st. Find your early vote location: wisdems.org/vote
.@skype A missed call shows up on the iPhone Skype app, but not on either the Android app or the web app (web.skype.com). Unless I'm missing something, this is an egregious bug, & dangerous from the user's viewpoint. Your support pages show many people have this issue.
@skype This seems to be a widespread pain point, as evidenced by the number of posts on your support web site about it (answers.microsoft.com/en-us/…).