That kind of thinking has gotten a lot of decent folks killed.

This isn't normally a concern for people advocating for totalitarianism.

If GitHub really cared about security they could fix this tomorrow by declaring any tag linked to an action immutable.

They don't because they don't.

Anybody who's ever moved a git tag knows the ergonomics of doing so are so awful that you're obviously not supposed to be doing it.

What tools did you use to get that awfulness?

git.

ah, makes sense, a tool renown for its awful ergonomics, thus you can't really derive from that the intent of "you're not supposed to do it"

Fair point, but still: anything that messes up other users is generally identified as "don't do this outside of personal stuff nobody else has touched, once others have pulled it it's forever."

For example all the history rewriting has that rule -- "don't force push after somebody has pulled that branch".

Deleting/recreating git tags has same behaviour.

A lot of things that should be one bash command turn out to be dozens of lines of incantations and handling edge cases. Microsoft I'm looking in your direction.

For those things an action helps.

There's a difference between abusing a free API of a service to harass people vs "shut up and take my money".

The assumption of a single shared medium is dead.

When you talk about a single entity to single entity connection it can be any protocol. Email, Matrix, WhatsApp, SMS... Discord... Instagram. All of them work especially if you whitelist the other party.

What doesn't work any more is assuming that everyone is using the same thing. Back when email was invented it was the only computer-based communication protocol - I don't remember whether it came before or after USENET - I'm assuming before. If you wanted to send a message to someone you sent it to their email address. Now things aren't so clear.

How is it for resource use? I tried to make labwc+lxqt work for a low-gpu desktop to free up GPU for local LLM but lxqt is very not good without Openbox and I don't like switching back to X.

(I prefer KDE Plasma generally but it uses more GPU)

Can't you just run pi in normal tmux?

Also tmux has the worst tui I've ever used.

They may have dropped the ball on AI-for-programmers, but the Google slopbot is the one the normies use. As much as their AI summaries used to be the biggest joke in the industry, today they're the one I think normies who aren't "AI people" are using the most day-to-day. I see a lot of people doing it:

Search with Google, see the AI summary and the search results, realise they want more detailed info, and put that request for clarification into the AI reply and now they're off to the races on a Google AI conversation.

Now, it's questionable how "sticky" that is and latest financials revealed it was extremely unprofitable, but in terms of raw "who's using AI" it seems to be working for them.

Bingo, this is exactly how I use AI personally. There’s just too much SEO spam to wade through on search results anymore, and Google’s AI Mode RAG is pretty good at citing trustworthy sources when I want to dive in.

DuckDuckGo’s equivalent feature is unfortunately too prone to hallucination, especially whatever cheap model they are using for AI summaries. Once you click in it switches to GPT Luna, which will sometimes hilariously correct the previous response.

Yeah, I try to use DDG as my "default" search but it's just all around mediocre compared to Google. Even simple dumb things like "image search for a meme I remember that I want to post on bsky": Google has it near top result, DDG doesn't even have it on the first SRPs for the same query.

how i have been using it 'at home'. its ok conversationally. It honestly is a very 'mid' search engine. Sometimes it can zoom right onto what I want. Other times it gets very fixated on the 'wrong thing' and you have to club it into expanding its view. It just randomly gets 'lost' and you have to nudge it along to actually dig in. even then even if you explicitly tell it to review its sources it will just kinda ignore the request and keep going.

I was confused why the github file browser was falling over.

Now I'm wondering what it's like for people whose lives naturally involve "suspicious travel patterns" but aren't actually doing anything suspicious.

Like, how often do people who live on that rez get pulled over?

> The cops already knew who they were looking for because a car parked at a casino for a couple hours is not suspicious and definitely not suspicious enough to follow.

The above is key to understanding that part, they KNEW who the smuggler was. They just needed a legal reason to pull them over.

Right but the travel pattern they used to determine that this person was a smuggler is "frequently drives to/from the rez", as if there's no legit reason to be doing that.

Right but you and I do not know the details of the investigation so there is no point speculating.

It's a known smuggling epicenter because the reservation covers both sides of the border and doesn't have normal border controls at crossings.

They USED to, until Canada wanted to lightly arm the border officers (something the US side has done for decades) and then they all lost their shit and forced Canadian Customs to move inland instead of the original POE they used.

Yes, I’m a local, and I lost my entire respect for that reservation as a First Nations myself for how they run their show of crooked corruption.

All they've got is nothing but pot dispensaries (both "legitimate" and "illegal" ones that they're chasing internally because of a power struggle between themselves), the casino, a failed attempt to own the Restasis patent, and endless billboards telling you to either not do drugs or not beat your wife. Oh, and all the 'under the table' drugs at the illegal dispensaries - I've heard from the college news network that they're lacing weed with coke and fent to some students they sell to.

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