Eric Hendrickson

Software Engineer and Libertarian

[Eric Hendrickson @eh3ndrickson]

@LibertyLockPod Chill out, nerd.

[RazörFist @RazorFist]

Praising Ben for dragging Candace should be placed in its appropriate context.

That context being:
"He hired her to begin with.
While others were warning him not to."

[Eric Hendrickson @eh3ndrickson]

@AP4Liberty That person is as American as apple pie.

Cubans may or may not be of greater American culture, but they DO know it exists and they appreciate it.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Today marks five years since the Communist Cuban regime brutally suppressed the peaceful July 11 demonstrations and yet again silenced Cubans’ cries for basic rights, dignity, and opportunity. To this day, hundreds of Cubans remain unjustly detained, suffering brutal conditions, for the simple sin of asking why Cubans cannot freely own businesses, participate in the political process, or provide for themselves and their families. The regime must release these political prisoners immediately.

President Trump and I want a better future for Cuba, in which Cubans have greater opportunity, freedom, dignity, and Cuba ceases to harbor hostile foreign military, intelligence, terror, and subversive operations 90 miles from the American homeland. The United States will continue to use every tool at our disposal to drive significant economic and political reforms in Cuba and to protect Americans from subversive threats emanating from Cuba.

https://t.co/mZiXf7Hlzg

[Eric Hendrickson @eh3ndrickson]

@DataRepublican You've earned it

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

@lovedropx You literally posted it online in a data center. Instead of going to a library and posting a note on a corkboard, you went on Twitter.

I doubt your resolve.

[Eric Hendrickson @eh3ndrickson]

Iceland was independent from the 9th century until the 13th century, after which it was invaded by Norway, and remained under Norwegian or Danish control (or both at times) until the 20th century.

During this time they suffered from the Little Ice Age, devastating volcanic eruptions, and raids from the Barbary Pirates, all while being vassals of foreign powers, only being officially allowed to trade with them, and usually not getting much protection in return.

They were absolutely exploited by foreign powers, and for much longer than Haiti. We just don't call it "colonialism" because they were all European. And while it's true that Icelanders didn't have the post-colonial debt that Haiti did and that they were not considered racial inferiors by people on the mainland, when the harsh environment is factored in, I don't believe the disparity is as great as you believe it is.

[Eric Hendrickson @eh3ndrickson]

@MajToure @RealMattCouch Iceland hasn't had a lot of foreign intervention?

Tell me you don't know anything about Icelandic history without telling me you don't know anything about Icelandic history.

[Eric Hendrickson @eh3ndrickson]

@davepl1968 @JustineBateman Careful. I once made an argument like this. The response I got was "there's no such thing as good or bad art."

People that make arguments like this don't care about stolen work or quality work. They're just mad that a machine can easily beat them at their own game.

[Eric Hendrickson @eh3ndrickson]

@AP4Liberty Of course they do. Fighting the left requires a spine, whereas dogpiling on the right has been popular for over two decades.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

The situation in Cuba is devolving as the island’s corrupt, brutal and anti-American Communist regime continues to prioritize its own total control over the freedom, opportunity and basic wellbeing of the Cuban people.

The Cuban military-controlled conglomerate GAESA has persistently served as the main vector for regime elites to steal the island’s few resources, diverting them for repression, anti-American subversion and spying instead of schools, power plants, and basic necessities for the Cuban people. Today, I designated additional GAESA network entities associated with moving both its money and its physical assets, as well as entities responsible for exploiting Cuba’s mineral and metal reserves for ill-gotten profit.

Anyone providing services to these sanctioned actors is at risk of being sanctioned themselves. Foreign banks and other companies that provide services to these entities should freeze those activities immediately.

[Harman @itsharmanjot]

In 2005, a Finnish developer named Linus Torvalds got a letter he didn’t expect.

The company behind BitKeeper, the tool his entire team used to manage Linux’s source code, had revoked their free license.

Thousands of developers.
Millions of lines of code.
No backup plan.

So he did what he always does when something doesn’t exist.

He built it himself.

In days.

He called it Git.

Almost nobody took it seriously.

What makes Git different is that it solves the hardest invisible problem in software.

When thousands of developers work on the same codebase at the same time, things collapse.

Someone overwrites someone else’s work.
A bug appears and nobody knows when it was introduced.
A new feature breaks everything and there’s no way back.

Git fixes all of that.

It tracks every single change ever made to a codebase.

Who changed it.
What they changed.
When they changed it.
Why they changed it.

Every version of every file. Every moment in history. Perfectly preserved.

If something breaks, you go back.
If someone makes a mistake, you undo it.
If you want to try something risky, you branch off, experiment, and merge it back when it works.

Most version control tools of that era needed a central server.

Git has no central server.

Every developer holds the entire project history on their own machine.

No server goes down and blocks your work.
No permission needed to start contributing.
No single point of failure.

You just work. And when you’re ready, you share.

That one idea changed how all software gets built.

Today Git is how essentially every line of software on earth gets written.

Every engineer at Google uses it.
Every engineer at Apple uses it.
Every engineer at Amazon uses it.
Every startup, every open source project, every app on your phone.

All built using a tool one developer made in days because he was annoyed.

The most remarkable part?

GitHub, the platform built on top of Git, was acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion.

Git itself?

Still free.
Still open source.
Still maintained by volunteers.

Nobody owns it.
Nobody controls it.
Nobody can take it away.

You are using software built with Git right now.

The app on your phone.
The browser you’re reading this in.
The operating system underneath both.

All of it tracked, versioned, and shipped using a side project born out of frustration.

That’s the thing about tools that change the world:

They were never meant to change the world.

Someone was just tired of things being broken.

So they fixed it.

[Eric Hendrickson @eh3ndrickson]

@MailynSpeaks Between this and the WSJ stating that North Korea has had an "economic miracle," I am viewing a lot of English language sources as libelous.

[Eric Hendrickson @eh3ndrickson]

Who could have possibly guessed that a Russian propaganda outlet might be using American creators and public figures to promote interests that aren't inline with America's best interests?

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

I think I fell for Russian propaganda.

Let me explain…

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

You: "ugh, our company still runs Windows XP and the IT guy said we can't update until Q3 i'm going to lose my mind!"

a hacker somewhere: 👀

you: "literally nobody at this company knows how to use Jira, why did they switch from Trello!!"

a hacker somewhere: notes which project management tools you use and which ones you recently migrated from

you: "the breach last month has everyone paranoid now and they're making us use a VPN for everything"

a hacker somewhere: there was a breach. VPN is new. old network access was open. writing this down.

you: "my manager is so incompetent i don't know why i stayed"

a hacker somewhere: potential insider. flagging for social engineering.

[Eric Hendrickson @eh3ndrickson]

@MailynSpeaks But on the other hand....

https://t.co/yTWKun4AyW

[Eric Hendrickson @eh3ndrickson]

@MayraFlores4TX @RandPaul @KelleyAshbyPaul You're right, but one thing at a time.

[Eric Hendrickson @eh3ndrickson]

@esrtweet @japan_nobunaga This may be a little bit of an oversimplification, but you are correct. Douglas MacArthur implemented this in Japan and in the southern part of the Korean peninsula, & for a general, he had an incredibly good understanding of how cultural currents have political consequences.

[MajToure999 @MajToure]

Americans.

Regardless of the verdict in the Karmelo Anthony trial…

Do NOT go outside doing dumb shit.

If you’re on the left and don’t get the verdict you want, remember this:

This has ZERO to do with you, your family, finances or livelihood.

Quite LITERALLY.

The US govt has made it more expensive for you, the wealthier have gotten wealthier by stealing your labor and has entered into another war.

If you’re on the right and don’t get the verdict you want remember this:

This has ZERO to do with you, your family, finances or livelihood.

Quite LITERALLY.

The US govt still hasn’t made ONE arrest in the corrupt Biden admin or ONE arrest in the Epstein Client saga.

To BOTH “sides.”

To make this a collectivist argument that’s actually about ONE dead child and another on trial is dumb.

Don’t be dumb.

Both sides presented their cases, the jury will deliberate and make a fair assessment.

Don’t let MEDIA hype you into destruction of property, race wars or other divisive moves.

Over reaching govt that steals your labor via inflation and endless wars is the problem.

Not random people who had ZERO to do with the death of Austin Metcalf.

You are NOT personally involved in this.

But a dumb ass move over an outcome CAN get your life ROYALLY FUCKED.

[Eric Hendrickson @eh3ndrickson]

@seanfalloy @Devon_Eriksen_ @ChristianHeiens There is definitely enough evidence to indicate that is true 😉