Darrell Root

Retired network engineer. Independent Swift dev. MacOS Apps: “CIDR Trainer”,“Network Mom ACL Analyzer”,“Network Mom Availability”,“Netrek”. CCIE #8302 Emeritus

[Darrell Root @DarrellRoot]

@PeterJAngel @senatorshoshana Imagine buying a product and before they decide on a price they ask to see a list of your family’s income and assets. That would be crazy!

Oh wait. That’s the current college system.

[Jobs.Now @JobsNowPR]

Part of the traditional internship process has been distorted by OPT, which induced many more mid-career “masters” students to move to the US for degrees that are obtained purely for the visa thus hurting undergraduates.

[Darrell Root @DarrellRoot]

@sabrinablittle @HiyaYellowBoy My AP Chemistry teacher docked me points because reading my handwriting constituted “mental cruelty”

She wasn’t wrong. 😂😬

[Darrell Root @DarrellRoot]

@STvSW @doffcocker_ I stand corrected. I was used to the syndicated edits. I guess that means i can watch the original versions and see the whole episode now.

[Darrell Root @DarrellRoot]

@CourtneyRigo @doffcocker_ You’re probably right. I stand corrected. KPTV 12 showed Star Trek every Sunday at 4pm for my whole childhood, but it was probably the slightly shortened versions.

[Darrell Root @DarrellRoot]

@ClassicII_MrMac Reminds me of the Babylon Bee “Elon Musk subscription tier” 😂

[Darrell Root @DarrellRoot]

@EODHappyCaptain “I am the cadre now”

[Darrell Root @DarrellRoot]

@doffcocker_ I know that because I saw the original episodes so often that a bit of added dialogue stood out to me

But it is nice to find this confirmation. So few sites discussing the remasters mention the added scenes that I was beginning to doubt myself.

https://t.co/S62wpAdO6A

[Darrell Root @DarrellRoot]

@threelinestudio My favorite GDW title, although the *setup* time is longer than the “estimated play time” on the box 😬

[PDX Real @PDXReal1]

In an entirely predicable turn of events, the Portland City Auditor's office announced that the Safer Portland Initiative failed to gather enough valid signatures to make the November ballot.

The petitioners originally presented 63,315 signatures to the City Elections Division. Deborah Scroggins, the manager of the Elections Division now claims that over 29,000 of these signatures were invalid - a completely unheard of 46% rejection rate.

FieldWorks, the signature gathering company out of Washington DC that handled the petition gathering and works in nearly every state in the US for managing signature gathering, has said that they have never had a petition with this many rejected signatures in their 25 years in business.

The Safer Portland campaign has responded by saying they intend to file a lawsuit against the Elections Division and City Auditor.

Portland's Election Division has a history of bias against non-leftist measures and candidates. Former City Councilor Rene Gonzalez has successfully sued the office on multiple occasions for fines imposed by the office that the judge ruled the city had violated his due process rights. He currently has a federal lawsuit pending against the city.

Unfortunately, suing the corrupt Elections Division won't get the initiative on the November ballot, but the lawsuit's discovery WILL uncover the corruption at the core of this city agency.

Here is what Aaron Schmautz, President of the Portland Police Association had to say:

“The goal of this initiative is to give voters a voice in solving Portland’s public safety crisis. Over 63,000 emerged and have now been silenced by city and county failures and bad actions. After thousands of signatures were removed, data entry errors, questionable verification procedures, haphazard renumbering of signature pages, and no reliable audit trail, the Oregon Secretary of State called for transparency and accountability – yet city and county officials said look away. This is a loss for Portlanders who suffer under a police staffing crisis that is damaging the safety, livability, and prosperity of our city. On behalf of disenfranchised Portland voters, we intend to file legal action challenging this decision and process. We are not seeking a guaranteed court outcome for the initiative, just a fair, accurate and transparent process. Portlanders must have a voice in the direction of our city. The fight for a safer, better Portland for everyone is not over.”

[Darrell Root @DarrellRoot]

@LChenlz I was crew for Macworld 2008 and know the crew member who ended up with the envelope

Sadly not signed

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

It's so wild how the NY Times will celebrate the Palisades Village without highlighting that it survived specifically because Rick Caruso had WATER shuttled in by private water tenders. If only LADWP hadn't cut off the rest of us, our homes would still be here, too.

[Global Government Affairs @GlobalAffairs]

X received an order to restrict access in Türkiye to the official Presidential Candidacy Office account of the now-detained Mayor of Istanbul. Although Türkiye’s laws force us to comply with the order, we are challenging the order in court and, in the spirit of full transparency, are sharing the court order.

This follows the similar order we received and complied with in May 2025 restricting access in Türkiye to a related account belonging to the Mayor. At that time we also issued a public statement via this account, expressed our strong disagreement, challenged the order in court, and shared the court order. Our challenge against this order remains pending before the Constitutional Court, awaiting a decision following our recent legal filings.

These orders require X to block content in Türkiye that is available in the rest of the world. Not complying with these orders can trigger severe sanctions, including throttling of the entire platform in Türkiye. X challenges these orders in court because we believe keeping the platform accessible in Türkiye is vital to supporting freedom of expression and access to information.

X will continue legally challenging requests to remove content in Türkiye and around the world when those requests do not align with principles of free expression, due process, or other local laws.

Istanbul 8th Criminal Judgeship of Peace 2026/6804

[Chancy Luck @chancy_luck]

UCLA recently filed a notice of intent to hire a foreign Business System Analyst via H-1B for $108,396 per year.

American college students have no idea how badly they are getting screwed by the collegiate system.

[Darrell Root @DarrellRoot]

@realEstateTrent EV driver here. I prefer chargers be in the back of the lot. That way people don’t take the spots. The “good spots” should be non-EV.

[AAGHarmeetDhillon @AAGDhillon]

We secured a $3.2 million settlement with OpenAI for discriminating against U.S. workers. Employers must recruit U.S. workers in good faith when sponsoring temporary visa workers for permanent residency via the PERM process. @CivilRights will hold violators accountable!

https://t.co/ew0x0pK7r4

[Darrell Root @DarrellRoot]

@techspence 29 years ago I had a script malfunction and delete the designs (then in development) for Intel’s 233 MHz Pentium II 😳

An entire building of chip designers were sent home for the day

Being able to restore from tape saved my job

“Backups are easy. Restores are hard.”

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

NY requires an ID to:

✅ Shop at a city-run grocery store
✅ Qualify for affordable housing
✅ Get a book from the library
✅ Shovel snow for the city
✅ Apply for food stamps
✅ Adopt a shelter pet
❌ Vote in elections

[nick kokonas @nickkokonas]

I downloaded and reviewed NYC's grocery store RFP... as someone who has built biz's and bought a lot of food... wow.

Forget for a moment whether or not the govt should own a grocery store. Let's review the doc instead.

Here you go... /1

[Anton Liubich @antonliubich]

One of my earliest childhood memories is a winter morning at 0°F, when my mother and I stood in line for milk.

In those days, if she wanted to be sold an additional bottle so that we would have something to cook our hot cereal in, she had to present me to the clerk. The concern, apparently, was that a woman might invent a child in order to claim more than her share, and so I was produced as evidence that the child was real. For an hour at a time, in that cold, we waited for milk.

Measured against the Soviet communists, Mamdani is a humanist, because all he intends to require for the purchase of groceries is an ID.

Americans, many of you surely remember 1989 — 1991, when Russians, Germans, Poles — every people that had lived under socialism — threw the communists out at the first opportunity they were given, precisely so that they could live the way Americans lived. Not one of those nations has restored socialism in the years since. (Belarus, admittedly, is the exception.)

So why is it that you want so badly to repeat in your own country an experience rejected by everyone who actually went through it?