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"For decades, we've done our jobs in the background. We made it easier to file taxes, get veterans' benefits, and apply for financial aid. During times of crisis, we helped refugees navigate immigration processes, helped everyone find vaccines, and helped parents find baby formula."
"We don't work for DOGE. We have always worked for you."

"I replaced Mastodon's native post embeds with lightweight HTML and CSS snippets that are faster to load, more resilient to outages, and support dark mode -- and I had fun doing it. "

The public comment period is open for the next 30 days. Time to tell them that these changes will hurt people and shouldn't go through, despite that discriminatory EO.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/14/2025-02648/30-day-notice-of-proposed-information-collection-application-for-a-us-passport https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/18/2025-02697/30-day-notice-of-proposed-information-collection-us-passport-renewal-application-for-eligible https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/18/2025-02696/30-day-notice-of-proposed-information-collection-application-for-a-us-passport-for-eligible

"Track the progress on Project 2025"

Why is using the web on mobile still such a pain, despite browser capabilities largely catching up to native apps? "This is not a technical problem. This doesn’t get solved by web standards. This is a cultural problem."
Tracking, heavy frameworks, pop-ups, banners, ads...

The people analyzing spending data for DOGE either don't understand basic SQL (foreign key constraints and join tables) or are just plain lying.
Or, y'know, both. Both seems likely, given they were also complaining about 150-year-olds in Social Security rather than recognizing it as missing data.

"South Koreans reversed a martial law decree in just 6 hours, showing how ordinary citizens and politicians can take fast action to uphold democracy."

Let's put it like this. If you're at a party and it's full of assholes, it's quite reasonable to leave and go to another party.

"Everyone's security plans and situations will always be different, which is why we often say that security and privacy are a state of mind, not a purchase. But the first step is always taking a look at your community and figuring out what's needed and how to get everyone else on board."