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DOGE overstated savings on federal 'receipts' website, auditors find in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] 14 points 5 days ago (1 child)

Yes, for sure. Immediately.

I was on a $9M research contract that was cancelled by DOGE. Their website listed that contract as $9M saved. The problem? We were nearly done with the work. We had spent $8M.

The remaining $1M of work was data review, publishing findings, and preparing public datasets and documentation.

So they only "saved" $1M. But really, they lost $8M because at contract end we were instructed to destroy all the collected data and the government ended up with basically nothing. So that work and those findings will never see the light of day.

Cancelling that contract at that point was the work of fucking idiots.

That's just one story. The DOGE website has thousands of cancelled contracts listed.

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    • Kentucky Governor to McConnell: Prove Fitness to Serve or ‘Resign’ in c/politics@lemmy.world
    Kentucky Governor to McConnell: Prove Fitness to Serve or ‘Resign’ in c/politics@lemmy.world
    Kentucky Gov Orders McConnell to Give a Real Update or Resign Already in c/politics@lemmy.world
    [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago

    Yep, completely gutless/meaningless: "If the Senator is unable to respond for either of those or other conditions, consider this letter a demand for his Senate staff to be honest and transparent with the people of Kentucky."

    It should be a specific date and time when he'll start the replacement process with a specific date and time when he expects the new person to be sworn in.

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    • Orcas filmed ramming one of the world's heaviest fish so hard it explodes, possibly for fun in c/science@lemmy.ml
    *Permanently Deleted* in c/news@lemmy.world
    Mitch McConnell's Health Questions Raise Kentucky Senate Succession Issues in c/politics@lemmy.world
    [–] 41 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    While there has been no indication that McConnell plans to resign

    There's no indication that McConnell is capable of making any plans for anything right now. Step one is proving he's alive. Step two is proving he's mentally capable. If neither is true, he needs to be impeached, like yesterday.

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    The scientist who came up with the heat index died the other day.... in c/dadjokes@lemmy.world
    Trump says proof of his allegations that vandals cut Reflecting Pool paint will be provided in court in c/politics@lemmy.world
    Read the 14-Point Draft Memorandum Between the US and Iran in c/politics@lemmy.world
    Sleepy Trump, 79, Slumps to the Side in Oval Office Briefing in c/politics@lemmy.world
    [–] 67 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Starting to think this guy shouldn't be in charge of the nukes.

    Or foreign policy.

    Or domestic policy.

    Or federal agencies.

    Or a run down donut shop.

    Or putting his own pants on.

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    Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon says markets are in 'greed' mode as AI companies seek billions in c/technology@lemmy.world
    [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    Sure would:

    Goldman Sachs quietly crowned CEO David Solomon the early 2025 pay leader among Fortune 500 company chiefs with a double-digit percentage raise that puts him above both JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon and Disney’s Bob Iger.

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    Super basic Fedora update questions (lemmy.world)
     

    I'm a very new Linux user running Fedora with KDE, as of a few weeks ago.

    I have some super basic questions about updates through Discover.

    Background: There are new updates available nearly every day. The list of updates can get very long and is a text-based list, including many undecipherable things. Unless I were to search for each and every one.

    For example, today's update list includes the following entries:

    cups
Upgrade to new version 1:2.4.16-7.fc43
Release notes:
fix cupsd endless loop on busy servers (fedora#2446938)
cups-client
Upgrade to new version 1:2.4.16-7.fc43
Release notes:
fix cupsd endless loop on busy servers (fedora#2446938)
cups-filesystem
Upgrade to new version 1:2.4.16-7.fc43
Release notes:
fix cupsd endless loop on busy servers (fedora#2446938)
libtasn1
Upgrade to new version 4.21.0-1.fc43
Release notes:
Update to 4.21.0; fixes CVE-2025-13151
vim-minimal
Upgrade to new version 2:9.2.148-1.fc43
Release notes:
patchlevel 148 
Security fix for CVE-2026-32249
zlib-ng-compat
Upgrade to new version 2.3.3-2.fc43
Release notes:
Fix RISC-V build

    Yes, I could look up what these are, but that seems impractical given that each day there are dozens of updates and I really don't want to spend the time on this.

    So onto my questions:

    1. Should I just run all these updates as they come up? Do you all run these updates as they pop up?

    2. Are you all getting this many updates on Fedora or is it something specific to me and the apps I'm running? I installed Fedora as-is and installed maybe 10 additional applications. So I shouldn't have anything super custom. Computer is a 5 year old ASUS laptop with AMD.

    3. Is there a way to de-select some updates if I don't want to run all of them?

    4. Should I ignore daily updates and install them less frequently, say monthly? Meaning, I'm not super interested in being the glitch finder. If there's a bug in an update, I'd rather have somebody else find it first and have the update patched.

    General Fedora feedback: the discover update app feels lacking here. As a new user, I expect more of a description about what each application/service is as well as a clickable link to read more about the app and the update.

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    First Trump co-defendant surrenders to Fulton County jail (www.cnn.com)
     

    CNN — Scott Hall, one of former President Donald Trump’s 18 co-defendants in Georgia, turned himself in to the Fulton County jail on Tuesday.

    Hall, who works as a bail bondsman in Atlanta, was charged by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis with crimes related to his alleged involvement in the Coffee County, Georgia, voting systems breach.

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