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He probably got last minute intel that Iran will begin a retaliatory attack just before the deadline, that's why the truth social post is so rushed.

But, Trump being Trump, he'll probably do a suckerpunch attack today on the deadline.


Unless either Ubuntu has 46 years or is the only distribution, then no, Ubuntu doesn't "ends 46 years of silent sudo passwords".

Linux didn't even exist until the 1990s.

Edit: and the article clearly states, incorrectly, "That behaviour survived — untouched — through nearly half a century of Linux distributions."


Which is equally absurd.

No it isn't? Real example is Amazon, a US company that sells alcohol in the UK, and is required to check age on order & delivery.

Amazon is an international corporation with UK-incorporated entities.

That's true but not relevant to the spirit of the point.

It is relevant. There's a material difference between shipping material overseas and shipping it (and handling it) within the destination country.

If someone mails $ProhibitedItem at a USPS to the UK, then it's the job of local UK police and/or customs to reject the parcel if it is prohibited. It's the UK's problem, de facto if not de jure, because the sender is out of reach.

If someone with a UK subsidiary and local processing center mails $ProhibitedItem to their center and delivers it to someone in the UK, then that's more than the UK's problem.


And on an electronic delivery, is a great firewall the equivalent of customs? And therfore the only way to enforce sovereignty?

Absolutely yes. If a government thinks there is stuff for sale its citizens should not be allowed to buy, they don’t stop county x making it or selling it. They block the thing from entering their country.

If the government thinks there are ones and zeros on the internet it’s citizens should not be allowed to see, they should block them from entering the country.


Practically, yes.

If that were true why is everyone so irritated by this? Just ignore it in that case. But for those people that may want to become subject to British jurisdiction in future or do other business there in future, they will take requests from Ofcom seriously.

No, real example is a British citizen picking up an American AM radio station that happens to broadcast things forbidden by the UK law, and the UK fining such radio station.

Maybe they interviewed a bunch of clawd bots with a touching soul.md

Withholding the truth is the same as lying. Manipulating survey questions is the same as lying.

Sideloading should be called installing, and installing from the store should be called jailloading.

Jailoading is quite catchy, although it does have a "Micro$oft" and "Microslop" feel. Like more an insult than a word made to be used daily.

For the rest of us that deeply distrust and despise the anti-ethical and wasteful assistants is an upgrade.

You haven't thought too hard about it then; Kagi is (in part) looking to get better margins on its AI spend here.

Friendly reminder that you're not forced to use it. "I despise soccer, so soccer should disappear".

You still have to live in a world where LLMs exist and are based on the stolen labor of millions of people and are actively destroying the livelihood of people, our environment and democracy.

Again, right now the assistant is entirely optional. Oh, summarizer and translate are base on the same models, by the way.

Soccer is not destroying the planet and making basic computer hardware unaffordable.

You're looking at the finger and missing the Moon.

I think a more fair analogy is "I despise soccer, so the specific cable package I choose should not include it".

I am interested in your manifesto

A guy on the team passes the issues he gets directly to Copilot, and holy crap, it shows. He hasn't admitted to doing it, but the full code rewrites whenever he's asked to change something are telling.

I'm getting tired, honestly. I'd prefer the simpler "I don't know" of old to six pages of bullshit I have to review.



The average consumer doesn't care about what you think. The average consumer is getting really tired of people speaking on their name. The average consumer would like to vote with their wallet, thank you very much.


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