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Can you for an outsider expand on this argument. I’m not saying you’re wrong, but why is that?

> All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

This is part of the US constitution. There's no "if they have proper documentation" qualification.


If the US Constitution is to have force as the core document foundational to the governance of the US, it is important for its clear text to have the force of law.

An executive agency creating new requirements for citizenship has the effect of overriding the Constitution, which brings into question what are the controlling documents for the country.


We built it on enthusiasm for enthusiasts and for that reason alone, it became something great.

Then they stole it all for profit.

Probably not the first time in history this has happened.


The amounts of times someone invented something that was important to them and then never make any money from it only for some other entity to make tons of money from it is way too high.


And hopefully not the last


> Very few people with LinkedIn profiles read the social feed.

I read somewhere that in Norway (small sample, yes I know) LinkedIn is supposedly a more popular social network than X/Twitter.

You can have whatever opinion you mean about Elon, X, free speech and whatever. I'm not here to have that discussion.

All that considered, as a Norwegian this had me quite surprised. I don't have the source anymore, but I'd love to dig into it to see what sort of metrics they use to measure this sort of popularity.

Literally nobody I know uses LinkedIn except for business-SPAM.


Same with Pinterest in Germany which seems bizarre to me. It's supposedly more popular than Twitter, Twitch, Snapchat, LinkedIn and Reddit (but below TikTok, Instagram and Facebook).

EDIT: Data from 2023: https://medias.smart-home-fox.de/SDE/Social%20Media%20Statis...


I held out until my work MacBook got force-upgraded by IT.

I've never used my Linux ThinkPad more than after my MacBook got macOS 26.


I just stopped using Finder all together.

Bloom is a fairly cheap one-time purchase and infinitely more capable.

https://bloomapp.club/


I was forced to upgrade at work.

So I’ve enabled reduced transparency and all the other accessibility settings I can find to remove the terribleness.

The UI is now mono-coloured gray and looks like MacOS back in the days before OS X was a thing - but it’s still better than what Apple “envisioned” with Tahoe.


This Reddit thread claims to have identified Meta/Facebook as a/the major villain (for age verification):

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_b...

Disclaimer: I have not myself verified the claims.


> “Covered application store” means a publicly available internet website, software application, online service, or platform that distributes and facilitates the download of applications from third-party developers to users of a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing that can access a covered application store or can download an application.

So OpenWRT would be covered since they allow the user to download packages (ie software) via apk/opkg.

Awesome!


Quite possibly, yes. Though maybe a router wouldn't qualify as a general purpose computing device, and maybe the packages wouldn't qualify as being from third-party developers when the binaries that get downloaded are both built and distributed by OpenWRT.


OpenWRT has a shell. Under the hood it’s just Linux.

If you put it on an x86 box you can attach keyboard and monitor.


> We already have examples of these agents creating an AI religion, an AI social network

That to me sound like a reason not to use this particular aspect of the AI hype.

We need to be better at controlling what AI does and how it does it, not giving it more leeway to do whatever it assumes makes sense.


> It really is the case that a lot of incompetence is hiding in plain sight.

It may sound preposterous but I'm going to make the argument that sometimes not knowing how things work is a feature, not a bug.

I would assume most people with a little work-experience has encountered the kind of legacy systems which is crucial to the business, yet for whatever reason doing any sort of work on them involves a tremendous amount of friction.

A technical person who knows how this system works in and out will often claim that certain seemingly simple things cannot be done, because of how the system works.

It might be highly impractical, but if we're honest about things, it's all software. It can be changed if we decide to and the company is willing to put in the effort to make it happen. It's clearly possible, but the skilled worked will often present it as an impossibility.

The Julius, not hampered by such knowledge or constraints, will be see a seemingly simple problem, and maybe even imagine what other things would be possible or even "simple" if that problem was solved.

If the Julius manages to get management approval for these ideas, you may actually end up getting management approval for changing/upgrading the base system causing the friction, something the more fact-based engineers would not.

Chances are it's going to be messier than projected, not being delivered on time... But in the long term it might be a net good for everyone involved ;)


> I'm going to make the argument that sometimes not knowing how things work is a feature, not a bug.

You will probably be interested in the concept of Shoshin, or Beginner’s Mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_Mind,_Beginner%27s_Mind

But that does not describe a Julius. Julius is not someone with an open mind unconstrained by technical debt, but someone who fakes an aura of knowledge while actually understanding very little.

There is a chasm of difference between an eager beginner who questions the way things work and how to make them simpler and someone who promises things which are impossible. Julius is the latter.


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