Bill Baran

Full-stack software engineer of 27 years. E-Government, payment processing, Java, and efficient AI use. EDM, VR, gaming and investing keep me up at night.

[Bill Baran @Bill_Baran]

@_TenMoreYears @jmilei_english Currency swaps are to ease and incentivize trade between two countries. It is not debt.

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@LibertyBelle208 If they legally become citizens then we don't need to call them immigrants.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 California just voted to pass AB 2624 aka “The Stop Nick Shirley Act”:
This bill puts journalists at civil risk for investigating fraud and makes it harder to expose fraud in “immigration support services,” including NGOs, nonprofits and health care facilities that receive hundreds of millions from the state of California each year.

This bill would have made it criminal to expose fake hospices in LA or the Somali “learing center” in Minnesota if they then claim “reasonable fear” and the business owner gives a written demand not to post the video.

Plain and simple, California is trying to make it harder to expose fraud and scare individuals from investigating fraud in their communities, as they could be sued for an injunction to remove the video + forced to pay their attorney fees + minimum $4,000 in damages.

The Attorney General's wife, Mia Bonta, created this bill and is now trying to make it law. How is this not a conflict of interest?

California is full of FRAUDSTERS!

[Bill Baran @Bill_Baran]

@antillajon @LydiaMoynihan Wrong. Payroll taxes are refunded. They get benefits they're never charged for. They buy less so they are taxed less and many States don't put sales tax on necessities.

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@antillajon @LydiaMoynihan The bottom 50% pay nothing in taxes, contribute little, but demand the most and are still never happy.

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@bensig I change too fast for this.

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@traveoto @C_3C_3 It's about allowing differing opinions. Pretty simple.

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@intheknowidaho Little has actually been pretty great. He cares about Idaho tradition and public lands, but he doesn't get sucked into drama and extremism.

[FFmpeg @FFmpeg]

FFmpeg is moving to Rust 🦀

Our use of C and Assembly in FFmpeg has been an unacceptable violation of safety.

FFmpeg will be running 10x slower - but we're doing it for your safety.

All your videos will appear green - safety first, working software later.

[Bill Baran @Bill_Baran]

@zaptrapped Sorry, I should have explained that better for you. Using 'grifting' without case or evidence = thoughtless. Opposed to having a thoughtful argument for how you disagree with his statements or opinions.

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@zaptrapped @nickshirleyy "Grifting" is baby talk and only means "promoting something I don't want other people to hear". Try learning real arguments if you ever care for people to take you seriously.

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@zaptrapped @nickshirleyy You can't lie with just a camera a government document. He's not writing diatribes, he's taking simple pictures of what anyone would be concerned about. Protecting thieves while harming those trying to safeguard our limited resources is very bad karma.

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@BenStiller "Stop this war so Iran can keep warring." Think a couple steps ahead man.

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@staysaasy Tbf html capabilities have been constantly improving and native vs html has been a discussion for a long time. The discussion now is whether software is now only a service or not on any platform.

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@MarcJSchmidt Software development is now completely a service, not a product, unless it's tied to hardware.

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@MarcJSchmidt I've felt for a while that Open Core killed OSS

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@ThomasSowell It's not funny, it's disturbing.

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@mert Its youtube video summarization is very handy as well.

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@mert Their Comet browser is my primary. Its my go-to for fast but broad research and product comparison.

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@janetacarr Because binary is for a specific architecture. Languages can be compiled to any architecture. Also, all code needs review.