HEY FREELANCERS - California just passed the Freelancer Worker Protection Act (SB 988). The gist: Clients have to provide you a contract with scope of work and pay, they gotta pay you in 30 days (or else pay double damages), and they cannot retaliate for trying to get paid. nwu.org/governor-new...
Watched this interview. As always impressed with the clarity and calmness of Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.
Nearly 100,000 Asheville residents may not have access to water for weeks, the city announced
Asheville may not have its water system repaired for weeks; communities across region under boil water advisories.
Yikes. YIKES. For a company of Meta’s size and sophistication to be storing passwords in plaintext is almost unthinkably reckless and incompetent. I genuinely cannot fathom how that was allowed to occur. This isn’t even security 101, it’s like Baby’s First Infosec Coloring Book.
"While the State’s interest in protecting 'unborn' life is compelling, until that life can be sustained *by the State* -- and not solely by the woman compelled by the Act to do the State’s work -- the balance of rights favors the woman."
The main reason I work on civilian drone data for a living is because it’s one of the hyped-up “new” technologies that’s actually really lived up to the hype in many ways (It hasn’t with drone delivery, but I don’t really care about drone delivery at all - it’s all about the drone imagery).
Consumer drones represent one of the only truly big *hardware* consumer tech innovations of the last 15 years, IMO
Having seen 3D printed cookie cutters and butt plugs, now is a great time to remind, you cannot sanitize most 3D printed pieces because they are riddled with small holes/nooks between layers because of how they're made.