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  • Depends probably on the nature of what “forwarded the costs” means.

    If the business collected the costs from you and then forwarded them to CBP while acting as your agent, then you can demand a refund from them or sue them.

    If you agreed to purchase goods for one price while also agreeing to pay a separate “tariff reimbursement fee” in exchange for purchasing the goods, you’re probably shit out of luck.

    Various shades in between might be arguable or litigatable one way or another.






  • Most of those “permissive” licenses require redistributors to redistribute copies of the license texts in derivative works.

    But I bet these AI models aren’t doing that. And it’s a damn neat certainty that the vibe coders who use the AI model are not attaching a license disclosure containing every permissive licenses in GitHub. Even if their vibe coded app is arguably a derivative work.


  • Windows, on the other hand, is a hybrid kernel, which means some functions are managed in user space so that a program has more control over the hardware.

    Windows and Linux are both monolithic kernels, in the sense that most device drivers run in kernel mode with kernel privilege. They’re not like Mach or Hurd.

    Windows outsourced their device driver development early on to the hardware manufacturers, and they encouraged closed-source drivers with separate source trees and builds. To facilitate this, Windows NT developed a system called plug-n-play (PnP) which searches for and loads driver modules (.sys files) from disk into the kernel.

    Linux developed a similar system of loadable kernel modules (.ko files), but their system arrived much later. One reason is that Linux’s GPLv2 license mandates that driver source code be licensed under compatible terms. That and Linux has always been pretty open about accepting driver code into their main source tree. Finally, manufacturers were never interested early on in writing Linux drivers, so the driver development was being done by the community, which was already using the Linux source tree.

    So Linux didn’t have as much pressure to develop a loadable module system. So they did it later.

    To the present day, the majority of Linux device drivers are submitted to mainline Linux and go through the Linux review process. Windows drivers are mainly developed by third parties, but they do have to go through the Windows Hardware Quality Labs review and testing process.

    Apple writes all their MacOS drivers internally, because they are also the hardware OEM.




  • Apparently TF2 added a “community-generated” map last week that was not only broken itself, it broke other maps too, causing game crashes.

    The issue was a model of a row boat that was added to the official game in 2009. cp_premuda was added to the official game in July, 2026. But Premuda is a lot older than that, and it references a version of the row boat model that is older than what was added to the game in 2009.






  • This ruling confirms that there is no other legal path to obtain that data which isn’t a warrant.

    The supreme court ruling doesn’t go this far.

    The ruling says that a search occurred when LEOs obtained the geofenced location data from a service provider. The case was sent back down to the circuit court to determine whether or not a warrant was required.

    There are various exceptions that allow the government to conduct warrantless searches under the 4th amendment. For example:

    • the “frisk” in a Terry stop to search for weapons.
    • search with consent
    • search incident to arrest
    • hot pursuit and exigent circumstance allow police to follow suspects into a place, but not usually to then go looking for stuff.
    • searches within the (generous) border zone for border enforcement
    • searches at airport security and similar contexts
    • public roadway DUI checkpoints and other road safety checkpoints that stop all drivers.

    It’s not obvious that any of those apply to this case, but maybe they do. The circuit court will decide.