The mental gymnastics with which they support the pdfile is down right Acrobatic.

“Asking one’s chat bot” sounds so much less impressive than “leveraging AI”. Using the right language throws some cold water on the corporate narrative.

QA strikes again

This is the right strategy. Storage space costs nothing these days. Why not just clone and go? That’s what I always say.

Why, you can just ‘inherit’ some code by copying a block, pasting it, then making a few small changes. No thinking, no problem.

Ok, I’m off to copy of my code folder for the next release.

7. N-deep loops mixed with gotos, throws, multiple returns, and mixed memory management contracts.

#include “globals.h”

// please help

“Hey, I’m just asking questions!”

^^^ Look at this absolute asshole!, ^^^

<— also this one

We’ll soon be back to monks transcribing at this rate.

A bit off topic, but these are great when frozen.

Around 2021, I regularly ran into this problem with the Firefox snap. It had various runtime issues, so I preferred the traditional deb package. I’d uninstall the snap then install the deb. Then, some days later, I’d find the snap was somehow installed again. This happened a few times before I realized that the deb was just installing the snap. Imo, that’s not a good design. Debs should be debs and snaps should be snaps.

Anyhow, I use Arch now, btw. Much more consistent experience.

Exactly. Just wanted to say I found this insightful. A key part of historical American success is that every branch, department, and individual completes their role in the same true reality. They may differ in political opinion, but they all have the same facts.

Trump mucks it up by asserting a different, false reality every day. Nobody can guess for sure what it will be, except MAGA 🙄.

Honest people, regardless of poltics, will eventually find themselves an enemy of the clown.

It’s true that the supreme court often bows to Trump, but the DOJ has lost frequently this year in the lower courts. Even there, traditionally the DOJ wins nearly all their cases. However, Bondi’s DOJ has been so incompetent that they’ve lost a record number. So many, that DOJ attorneys are losing their deferential rapport with judges.

It’s not perfect, and justice remains incomplete and slow, but the courts are jamming up the overreaches.

One great source of information and hope is Marc Elias’s Democracy Docket series which frequently covers these topics.

It reeks of desperation. He knows he’s running out of time. We need to keep the pressure up on every front.

I wonder how long before he fires Bondi. There aren’t enough DOJ resources to chase every case he demands. And with virtually all of them being meritless, she has no hope of winning them. Sadly for Bondi, Trump hates losers. It makes me misty eyed to think of her future career 🎻

Cowards will be cowards I say, but us simpletons don’t understand the high stakes and day to day pressures of a modern multinational corporate conglomerate. They have profit margins, investor boards, and mergers to consider. Heavens! What good is free speech if they don’t make more money this quarter than they made last quarter? Please, good people of the Fediverse, won’t somebody think of the shareholders?

‘Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle.’

Nemik teaching us to chip away at the pillars which hold up fascism.

In addition to cancelling, which is the MOST important thing:

What about uninstalling their apps?

App providers can see the number of installations on the different platforms (Apple, Roku, Android, etc). That count falling will further raise their disquiet. Leaving an app installed or continuing to use the service before the cancellation is processed could send an unintentional message that maybe this is all just temporary and we’ll come back in a couple of weeks after the news cycle plays out.

In 2003, it was my dream to play FF7 in Linux. In 2019, my dream came true. Thanks Proton, Codeweavers, Wine, Valve, et al for helping me finally put down Sephiroth right.