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Ummm… I’m pretty sure it’s 255.255.255.0 ? …or maybe it’s .256…

No wait, it’s [ABCD::EFGH]

Oh, but that’s because you don’t think like a mobster.

It is 2025 and the Pinkertons are still in business.

30 hard drives of bitcoin, you say? Why are you asking me to turn in 20 hard drives for evidence when there were only 10 hard drives?

This is such a great tool. It’s so satisfying to just delete tracking data from URLs and then just do what I wanted anyway.

NetGuard - allows you to block network traffic on a per-app basis. Basically NetGuard is a fake VPN that connects to nothing. If you switch it on for an app, the app and Android behave as if you’re using a VPN and push all the network traffic for that app into NetGuard, where it goes nowhere.

HeliBoard - an open source, configurable, private, 100% offline keyboard.

Insular - an open-source fork of Island. Insular is a sandbox environment that can be used to run apps isolated from the main user profile, preventing them from accessing user files, call logs, contacts, etc.

Aegis Authenticator - an open source 2FA token manager.

Breezy Weather - a very nice weather app.

How is internal company employment policy within the FCC’s jurisdiction?

What is that, about 10 minutes of revenue?

I suspect this is what the payment requirement is really about. Like, yes they’re getting money, but they’re also getting a credit card transaction at the gate at the date and time of travel.

It’s always possible that someone else purchased your travel ticket for you (for instance I sometimes travel for work which my employer’s travel agency books for me). But if you have to pay at the moment when your ID would be checked, presumably that has to be your personal card that you have on you in the moment.

but how else will we track where everyone is all the time

OK, sure, but again the claim was:

there is no problem in keeping code quality while using AI

Whether or not human-written code also requires review is outside the context of this discussion, and entirely irrelevant.

OK, sure, but again the claim was:

there is no problem in keeping code quality while using AI

Whether or not human-written code also requires review is outside the context of this discussion, and entirely irrelevant.

I’m sorry, what exactly do you think this conversation is about if not using AI for code generation?

No, I want worker protections, regulatory enforcement, and broad public distrust of the exploitative owner class who are using AI to extract more wealth while destroying the environment we all live in.

Patronizing “AI” systems is collaboration with the worst garbage of the human race, the robber barons who are comfortable killing people for quarterly profits.

People like Peter Theil, Elon Musk and Sam Altman.

So don’t accept code that is shit. Have decent PR process. Accountability is still on human.

If this is necessary then there is, in point of fact, a “problem in keeping code quality while using AI”.

Every person in every industry in a rush to replace the work of creative people with output from machine learning models can fuck right off.

Every consumer who is content with products made by such people can also fuck right off.

there is no problem in keeping code quality while using AI

This opinion is contradicted by basically everyone who has attempted to use models to generate useful code which must interface with existing codebases. There are always quality issues, it must always be reviewed for functional errors, it rarely interoperates with existing code correctly, and it might just delete your production database no matter how careful you try to be.

Because they aren’t just going out and buying a new car.

A military changing aircraft means rewriting pilot and maintenance personnel training programs, then retraining everyone, changing logistics chains for a completely different set of spare parts, rewriting tactical plans to match the new aircraft’s capabilities & limitations, changing ordnance availability based on what the new platform can carry… changing the aircraft means thousands of follow-on decisions and costs for all of the support structure and military operations built around the aircraft.

Can Sweden supply the number of aircraft that Canada needs? How many, and over how many years? what about spare parts - can Canada manufacture some within its borders, or purchase them from third-party suppliers, or will it be completely dependent on Sweden to supply them? what guarantees can be given about access to those parts? How quickly can pilots be retrained? Can the same type of missiles be mounted on the Gripen, or will the Canadian military have to select different weapons systems, purchase them, and retrain personnel to use and handle them? are the communication, radar and electronic warfare capabilities on these aircraft comparable? can the Gripen perform all of the same mission types as the F-35, or will other aircraft have to provide capabilities and either support, participate in or take over certain mission types? will it fit in current Canadian hangars, or will new facilities have to be built? can it take off and land on the same airstrips as the F-35, or will some have to be modified, or will it simply not be deployable from all of the same locations?

Finally, is the time, effort, internal chaos, and financial cost of changing aircraft worth it? It will take more than 3 years to accomplish these changes. Is waiting for the US administration to change a lower risk/lower cost option?

“Why don’t people like our user surveillance systems? they’re so impressively good at invading your privacy!”

God, this story’s a tragedy:

Four years after Barco was born, his family entered the US with asylum, and were later given lawful permanent resident status.

Barco came to the US with his family at 4 years old.

Barco enlisted in the army at 17 and served two tours in Iraq. Barco was injured by an improvised explosive device during one of his deployments, and received a Purple Heart for his service in combat.

He joined the Army young, possibly as a path to citizenship (very common, and it’s basically supposed to be automatic if you complete a 4-year enlistment), ended up in combat in Iraq and got caught in an IED.

During his military career, Barco had filled out paperwork for citizenship, but his application was never processed for an unknown reason, despite his submitting it. His legal team says his former commander attests to helping him complete and submit the application.

Something went wrong with his citizenship paperwork, maybe it just sat on a desk forever waiting for some officer to sign it.

In October 2009, Barco was sentenced to 52 years after being convicted of firing a gun at a house party in Colorado Springs. He was suffering from PTSD. One of the bullets he fired hit a 19-year-old woman in the leg.

Barco is 39, he was born in 1986, therefore he enlisted 2003-04 at the age of 17. If he did a standard enlistment tour (4 years active duty, 4 years reserve) he would have still been in his reserve duty time in 2009 and should have access to military medical services, but… it can be hard to get real care for PTSD while you’re still in. Either his command wasn’t taking care of him or he wasn’t taking care of himself or both. When the shooting incident happened the Army just washed its hands of him, having failed to give him the citizenship he earned or provide adequate care.

Barco was released on parole this January after serving 15 years due to good behavior.

Maybe Barco had access to counseling in prison, maybe he just had time to think.

Upon release, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detained Barco and took him to a detention center in Colorado.

Barco joined the military two years after September 11. He got out of prison into a very different country, one that doesn’t care about his service. He’s just another number for ICE’s quota, an easy one because he’s already in custody.

In September, an immigration judge denied Barco’s relief appeals, which included an application for asylum, and ordered for the veteran’s removal from the US without specifying a date.

[…]

Most families know at a minimum where their loved ones will be deported to when they are facing a removal order, but Jose’s family has been kept in the dark about his whereabouts and his destination at every stage of this process.

Finally, after using him up and abusing him, the state throws him away carelessly.

What a disgusting abdication of state responsibility.