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Son of a South African emerald mine tycoon, AFAIK family moved to Canada in his youth, then he moved to the US.

I feel bad for any non-white employee of SpaceX, Starlink etc. who feels they cannot quit due to living expenses. If I were in their shoes and could get another job, I'd be leaving ASAP.

Is this in Minneapolis? If so, will the mayor order the police force to stop acting like they're allied with ICE? (Let's be honest, they mostly are I bet). At some point a city is going to need to force their police force to officially choose sides, or resign if they are unwilling.

Potatoman sounds fun if still available? Thanks!

I don't know the incantation offhand, but certainly there is a way to tell your git to treat 'main' as the default.

However, 'master' actually was the historical default; 'main' is a newer name (search online if you are interested in why some repos and git hosting providers switched to use 'main' ... warning, opinions differ on whether said reasons were considered sensible or not).

When will some mayor take the step of ORDERING the police under their command to resist and evict ICE from their city?

I know, I know... probably would play right into the Fascists' hands and be used as an excuse to declare martial law/civil war. But what solution is there? Protests, the courts, Congress (hah!) have all failed utterly.

Not an unpopular opinion at all, trust me. ;)

Could workers not form a 'dark union', gathering members from as many different companies as possible without informing the employers up-front -- gathering a strike-pay war chest before announcing any unionized shops? Then the next time they pull this, everyone everywhere quits out of solidarity. Draw from the war-chest to pay workers while the companies panic, and then dictate fair terms to return to work.

The huge difficulty would be keeping the membership drive truly 'dark' until it was large enough to pull off.

Cue that Ants scene... they want to nip resistance in the bud, before it grows too large.

This should be the point akin to that scene in V for Vendetta where that brownshirt shoots the little girl wearing a V mask, and the neighbours decide they've had enough.

Yes. I saw both, and agree.

Scared the crap out of me as a kid for sure.

Qualcomm has historically been one of the most closed chip vendors. Unless they publish full specs, datasheets and open drivers, that'll be a hard 'no' for me.

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15186897W/Simple_Sabotage_Field_Manual?mode=all

Warning: ASUS Linux support absolutely sucks. The audio, keyboard (docked and bluetooth), and dualscreen support are all unsupported and 1.5 years after the duo 2024's release devs are still struggling to figure out the keyboard. Patches are still pending for upstream. I love my zenbook duo 2024 but still must limp along in win11.

Their RMA reputation is also bad. Making up reasons to refuse warranty repairs is common; get your local dealer no-questions swap protection if you buy ASUS.

ASUS need an attitude adjustment badly.

May the vengeful ghost of Fred Rogers come strangle Trump and Miller in their sleep.

Is it still probabilistic slop or does the model understand what it's doing and verify primary sources? If not, yay for burning the planet more slowly I guess, but still no thanks.

The only real option should be "Untrustwory: honestly doesn't know shit and reminds you that it cannot reason or think and just pukes up chains of words based on probabilities derived from a diffuse mishmash of the entire internet's data. Might accidentally be correct, occasionally."

What's to investigate? Charge Musk, fine Twitter/X into oblivion and block the service.

Guess Trump will be abducting Carney and 'running Canada' like Venezuela now, since we apparently have pissed off the Dept. of War for sending buttplugs to Bahrain. What a world.

This. And hence why it is always good to punch a Nazi. Tolerance is a social contract. When one side violates the contract the other side has no obligation to adhere to it any longer.