The real answer is because in America rich people buy houses, and then create HOAs in the housing deeds and contracts to force all future owners to maintain the house in a way that will increase the neighborhood property value forever.
HOAs exclusively fight to make houses more and more “valuable” since housing is a financial investment here
You hear about the illegal things federal agencies do almost entirely because there is a standard automatic declassification date that is about 25 years after report creation for most agencies. See Executive Order 13526 from Obama for more info as to why. Similar orders existed prior to Obama, but generally for longer time-frames than 25 years.
But understand that the actual spooky stuff gets reviewed at the end of those 25 years, and does not get declassified. It gets determined to be a “continuing threat to the safety of the United States”, and remains classified. This is the vehicle that a majority of JFK and MLK’s assassination files have been recurringly re-upped for over 50 years (up until Trump’s recent EO demanding the files get released [which is an absurdly terrible way to get these files declassified IMO but I guess we’ll see how it goes]). All it takes to justify making a report “not ready for declassification” is the agency director’s say-so, which can be for any reason including that it would foster a bad view on the federal government and/or it’s agencies from its citizens.
Anyways, this usually leads to FOIA requests on intelligence agencies (some agencies more than others) being nearly useless, because anything spicy will not be labeled unclassified and released to you. I think it’s still a good idea to submit FOIA’s to them anyway because it’s always fun to make the FOIA offices squirm with their 100th annual request for information on Bigfoot, and it’s not illegal (yet!) to do so.
It honestly (usually) does lead to a fantastic product! I maintain my own significantly used tools independently and completely agree. I also have seen locally (as a corporate pawn and life-long software engineer) what happens once somebody quits and no longer maintains their beautiful project(s).
You work so much FASTER alone than you do in a group. You also can NEVER get as far with your tool when you work alone. I think the best FOSS tools are born from independent savant developers, but for them to reliably be carried on, they have to be passed down to SOMEONE. It’s not your job to foster the entire next generation of tablet-children to be able to push golden commits to your curl 2.0 repo; it is pretty worthwhile to foster at least a handful of interested and headstrong people to understand your work in its entirety, and carry on its progress. And then they can do the same, and FOSS will live on forever (as it SHOULD be).
You probably spent an obscene amount of time developing an S+ tier piece of tooling, it would be pertinent to spend another marginal month or so to raise some lil star to be able to mimic your work once you tap out.
Having more free time is cool, but there’s more things in life. As MC Ride said: “LIKE GETTING YOUR DICK. RODE ALL FUCKING NIGHT.” Find some lil dick rider to carry on your shit.
if a maintainer doesn’t want your sticky grubby toddler hands fuckin in their cookie jar, it’s their fucking cookie jar and they can tell you to fuck off.
Yeah, that is exactly how it works. And doing that leads to your tool dying since you have no clue how to foster a community to take care of it.
Intelligence Communities work with classified stuff more than anyone. You may only FOIA unclassified stuff so the information and documents you can FOIA is limited
OPM is the most important at the moment as they are the office primarily under attack and being abused by Elon Musk and DOGE. They are the vehicle that Musk is using and abusing to try and destroy all Federal workers across every agency.
Original creators and maintainers are hitting retirement age.
And not many good younger people are available to take the mantle.
This is the long-term cost of how persnickety FOSS maintainers are when it comes to accepting outside contributions to their work.
One thing I would like to say for people who aren’t familiar and won’t read the article:
Every federal agency has its own FOIA team, in this case the OPM FOIA team was slaughtered and flayed for sport. It’s possible other agency’s FOIA teams were removed, but also more likely that they still exist. This wasn’t a blanket death of all FOIA, just the death of arguably the most important FOIA team
Yeah kinda, my coworkers talk to ChatGPT like it actually knows stuff and use it to fix their broken terraform code.
It takes them a week or longer to get simple tickets done like this. One dude asked for my help last week, we actually LOOKED at the error codes and fixed his shit in about 15 minutes. Got his clusters up within an hour. Normally a week long ticket – crunched out in 60 minutes by hand.
It feels ridiculous because it’s primarily senior tech bro engineer types who fumble their work with this awful tool.
DeepSeek claimed the model training took 2,788 thousand H800 GPU hours, which, at a cost of $2/GPU hour, comes out to a mere $5.576 million.
That seems impossibly low.
DeepSeek is clear that these costs are only for the final training run, and exclude all other expenses
Idk maybe it’s just my area, but there’s about a dozen of these on Facebook market place right now for me: 
The mileage is “high”, about the same as what I bought mine at (140,000), but it’s a civic. Do basic car maintenance on time, and it will live for twice that many miles. If OP wants to hit me up, I’ll help them look for something in their area or straight up get them in touch with one of the people selling near me. I’m down to road trip the car to them if it’s less than like 8 hours away too
Edit: JK that shit says euros, can’t drive to you sorry lmao
Craigslist ad got me a 2010 Honda Civic for $5,000 in the city. Nothing but oil changes and one new battery, it’s been living for about 6 years now
Not sure if you mean without alcohol as in without you yourself needing to drink, or if you mean where do you find an entire community who doesn’t drink.
If you’re looking for athiest teetotallers, you’re already cutting out more than three quarters of people you’ll ever meet, so no wonder you may be finding it hard.
If you’re anywhere slightly populated, check out local festivals and street markets that get stood up on a regular schedule. Where I am there’s usually a weekly farmer’s market in a few cities nearby. If you want to volunteer to set-up or work at one they always have the most friendly, community-based people. You’ll have to not be anti-social for long enough to make friends with people, but normally it will be the same group who goes to every street festival and market, and you’ll recognize all the vendors and workers (who are chill people).
That might be what he meant, good on her family for seeing she has dementia and getting her away from her job
It’s alright homie, you can have all the clowns to yourself
Yeah, and most raw chicken won’t give me salmonella
John Wayne gacy…
Hi, I love your art so much
It doesn’t serve my IEMs
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