You can’t just seven degrees of Kevin Bacon everyone into being involved in the genocide of Palestine.

Idk, this seems hard for them to do while we own our own hardware.

Right? What year is your org up to?

Feel free to answer in terms of OS or framework version.

Are you under 18 and he’s trying to make sure you’re not a Fed, just because what he’s doing is creepy and illegal?

Then why are you using source control at all? You can manually copy the directory and name it “— Copy”.

Yeah, I don’t plan to leave in two years, so I’m motivated to not say “oh fuck” when I have to maintain the thing I built later.

Plus, you know, I don’t want people to groan when they have to work on my code.

It’s almost like there should be a human in the loop to guide and review what the ai is doing.

The thing works a lot better when I give it smaller chunks of work that I know are possible. Works best when I know how to implement it myself and it just saves me from looking up all the syntax.

People have trouble with the middle ground. AI is useful in coding. It’s not a full replacement. That should be fine, except you’ve got the ai techbros and CEOs on one end thinking it will replace all labor, and the you’ve got the backlash to that on the other end that want to constantly talk about how useless it is.

Money out of politics. We need a constitutional amendment that money is not speech, and that it’s in the interest of the people to control how much influence money can buy.

Having a domain name and access to some kind of basic text and video hosting should be considered speech. (But that doesn’t need to be in an amendment.)

Corporations should be required to serve the public interest, even if that public interest is just providing a useful good or service. It should be made clear that persuing profit in a way that’s counter to the public interest (see Fallout) is illegal. (Note that prohibition under this would become an interesting discussion.)

I’m fine with disallowing people over X age to run for office. Term limits outside of the very highest office are generally a bad idea.

Clearly we need to patch some of our biggest vulnerabilities, the pardon process, the independence of the judicial branch, and the ability of the President to wage war without congressional approval.

Gerrymandering is a problem that needs to be addressed. Perhaps proportional representation should be encouraged here.

They can get paid through insider trading. Why do we need to pay them an honest salary?

Representatives shouldn’t make any money at all. We don’t need poor people trying to represent us.

In an era of anti-vax bullshit, it’s not acceptable to be that incorrect in your “oversimplification”.

You know I replaced that with a static image years ago, right?

That’s the part I get, but what does having the corporate spyware running 24/7 accomplish? What kind of telemetry would they even get out of that other than ip/location, which isn’t all that interesting.

Can you explain this disabling sleep mode thing? What does having the thing awake while it’s closed even accomplish?

Bitwarden disables some features if you self host, even if you pay the $15/year.

Placebo can work even if you’re aware it’s a placebo.

Now that’s real GDP.

On the other hand, you know the Fortran works and you can break it.

The vibe code is already broken.

I’m still pounding the Fortran button as hard as I can.