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    On WAN show last week, Luke mentioned he’s daily’ing Linux on his work laptop. In the past, he has used Mint because “it just works” but always had problems so he would give up.

    He expected to try Mint again, but decided to go nuclear and try Arch. For him, Arch just worked.

    Just goes to show that different distros can mean different things to different people.





  • In 2020, he filed paperwork in Texas to launch a company called Black Kartier Militia LLC, according to state records. No other information was immediately available.

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    Eddie Cortes, a veteran defense attorney in Houston who has no connection to this case, said it is an unusual course of action but it typically comes down to whether the defendant has hired a lawyer who is known to prosecutors.

    “They’re not going to do this with somebody who is just Joe Blow off the street,” said Cortes. “But they will if the guy has counsel, and he’s a well-respected longtime defense attorney here in town.”



  • Billy Long, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), is under increased scrutiny following disclosures that he used recent campaign donations to repay a personal loan from his unsuccessful 2022 Senate campaign.

    https://ifindtaxpro.com/tax-blog/trumps-irs-nominee-billy-long-faces-scrutiny-over-campaign-funds-and-donor-ties/

    President Donald Trump’s choice for Internal Revenue Service (IRS) director just had his six-figure debt paid off by campaign donors whose firms have significant, often contentious business before the tax agency he would lead, according to federal records reviewed by the Lever.

    In new campaign finance filings, Long disclosed an outstanding personal loan of $130,000 that he had made to his failed 2022 US Senate campaign. The dormant Senate campaign committee had raised less than $36,000 in the last two years, which could have forced Long to absorb the losses on the loan.

    But after Trump named Long to head the IRS, the committee suddenly raked in nearly $137,000 in less than three weeks in January — money that Long then used to remunerate himself, according to disclosure documents filed this week.

    At least one-third of the money came from donors working at firms in the tax consultancy industry or involved in major tax-related legal battles.

    https://jacobin.com/2025/04/billy-long-debt-trump-irs/

    Note that last one, and how Long is moving budget from free filing to auditing support.













  • This is contrary to OSS definitions. Personally, I’m not a fan of the strict position OSS takes with things like SSPLv1, but I’m the vocal minority.

    Free software and open source are the same thing in the accepted definition. A good example of where this is tough is something like MongoDB, where it’s free to run and source available, but the license doesn’t allow you to resale it as a service. This was done to stop companies like Azure and AWS from making millions without supporting development, while not restricting most business use.

    By OSS standards, Mongo is not free, and is not open source.