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Well, MAGAts have been saying it for long that the US isn't a democracy but a republic. I guess the banana, like with measurements, was implied.

Imagine all the gut bacteria you kill with every shot of alcohol you drink...

And it's just yet another turn of the gears that makes me want to see that shitpile country implode like it was supposed to do ~30 years ago.

I'd honestly be so much happier if it was a permission request similar to e.g. accessing location or microphone access, for a number of reasons:

would be easier to manage as it would end up being a single interface handled by the browser instead of a per-website implementation
no differently worded, intentionally vague bullshit options that are designed to entrap the user
no struggle finding the enable/disable option after clicking either accept or decline
the ability to automatically provide a default answer that gets around to the fucking popup blocking 2/3 of the page

It was inevitable and kind of expected.

The US wasn't built on that solid of a foundation. In fact the founding fathers have said explicitly that said foundation - the Constitution itself - should be a living document updated regularly by the people, for the people, to reflect the changes in the world and in the people themselves. It was literally written at one of the most prominent times of change, so of course those who saw said change and were responsible for enacting it, weren't idiots who thought things would never change!

The first cracks appeared in the US a hundred years later with the industrial revolution kicking into high gear and transforming the so far mostly rural, self-sufficient communities into manufacturing giants. That's when factory and mining towns began to boom, and when the US truly began to claim its world power status - without adjusting the laws of course since it benefited the handful few who managed to get their fingers deep into those oh so lucrative pies.

And it's not like there haven't been warning signs of the impending capitalist doomsday. Capitalism was literally built on the back of the industrial revolution (which allowed the means of production to transfer into and concentrate in private hands), and immediately people saw the issue with it - no wonder Marx saw the need to work out a competing socioeconomic system that, if you think about it, was truly in the spirit of the American independence and the US Constitution (aka by the people, for the people).

All that capitalist rush? That allowed a handful of people to become obscenely rich, without the curtails of previous obscenely rich (aka kings, royalty, nobles), allowing them to grab power without any of the responsibility. Kings paid with their heads for their wrong decisions, but in the US, that was deemed excessive, so instead y'all elected people who then got paid off by said obscenely rich to go against the people electing them... and the worst that happens was that the elected official got rich, then got replaced by another who got bought out the same way.

And all that money/power concentrated in such a small number of hands would ALWAYS lead to them wanting more and more until they sucked the host dry like a parasite. There's no symbiosis with capitalists because wealth (resources and man-hours) are finite, unlike their greed. And since the US made it harder and harder to amend the constitution, to make that document truly living and serve the people... The fall thus became inevitable.

Typical fascism. There always needs to be an out-group to demonise, to fearmonger against, so that people can ignore their own problems caused by the fascists and rally behind them.

It worked for Hitler, it worked for Mussolini, and it is working for Trump. Absolutely pathetic that after all the education, all the warnings, morons are still falling in line for a seemingly strong leader just because he targets the "right" minorities.

I'm very well aware. But you're clearly not aware of the fact that this X server simply wouldn't be running on an old enough kernel for the 2038 problem to be relevant.

It isn't necessarily a 10-15yo server. Intel was releasing CPUs with DDR3 support as late as 2017-2018 (Goldmont/Denverton/Apollo Lake arch), and many of those embedded CPUs went into low power servers and mini PCs.

Mostly uncircumcised, except for the Middle East.

Gormagander? I barely even know 'er!

It's not just hard to start your own business nowadays but nigh impossible.

You have three options:

the easiest, contractor way. You basically employ people, then "rent" them out to third parties as workforce with domain specific knowledge. This usually only works if/when a company lays off a big chunk of their workforce, in an attempt to cut costs by offloading the work to a similar company in a much cheaper country (e.g. India, Philippines). Since such ventures have an astonishing failure ratio within 6-12 months, the old employees can bank on the company crawling back for their knowledge etc., and as contractors can ask for a much higher fee. But I don't think this will be relevant for you.
the easier, "software house" way. You get the engineers, designers, team managers etc., employ them, and take on contract work where you supply the entire pipeline from building requirements to delivering software and testing and maintaining it. This can be either super fun or super soul crushing, depending on the client and the project. But for this you better have at least one client lined up OR a superb marketing-sales guy who can get clients quick.
the hardest is when you roll your own product. It's not enough to have a good idea anymore, even though venture capitalists would want you to believe that fairy tale. No, you need a solid plan going in, viability studies etc. on hand, to even start working on an idea - because that software has no buyer at that moment. You need your own design and marketing team, sales, as well as the engineering AND a clear idea of what you're going to make. B2C, you'll need massive investments to get off the ground as each client will provide minimal revenue and you'll need to bank on large numbers of them. B2B is easier to manage but is a much harder sell most of the time, especially on the volume you need to keep things afloat.

Since you're leaning towards option 3... as I said you need to see if your project is even viable. If it's truly a novel solution for a problem, not just A solution but something people will want to pick over competitors. Then you need a proper business plan, on how you plan not just finishing its various stages, but how you plan on monetising it, when you expect to turn a profit, all supported with professional analyses, calculations, facts, numbers.

Once you have that you need to find investors. Angel investor will be your first stop - people who don't mind throwing around money that to them is chump change, but to a new business, it's make or break amount. Their terms are usually pretty lax and they go in with the knowledge that they might lose everything, and most angel investors don't really want to influence your product too much either. In return their investments are usually pretty small ($10-25k at most), so you'll need to court a number of them to get that starting seed fund going.

Venture capitalists are a bit different - they can offer BIG money, $200k and upwards, pledge continued support, but they also ask for a lot in return, lots of share options, guaranteed say in the processes, etc., they're basically your first shareholders. The money might be good but you're selling off your company, your project, before it even starts out.

There are other kinds of investment rounds too but for those you'll definitely need a finance guy so they're not even worth mentioning as any discussion would lead to the conclusion "get a finance guy and ask them".

Age of consent =/= age of majority.

Age of consent does not demark the beginning of adulthood.

Wow. You managed to name 6 countries from the 197 distinct ones we have - and THREE of those don't even cover the entire country, just parts of it!

That totally shows how 18 is not generally accepted as the age of majority...

A teenager under the age of 18 - the generally accepted age of majority, age of maturity and thus age of adulthood - is a child, regardless if they're 2, 7, 12, or 16 years old.

From the presidency, sure, but he's been somewhat active up until Hillary got her ass handed to her in 16.

I mean, we should give a flying fuck about Trump trying to distract people.

Sure, throw Clinton on the chopping block too, but don't get distracted from the orange kid rapist himself. It's more important to get the child molester who has actual power than the one who's been retired for a decade. Obviously, get both, but the order of priority is important.

I fully concur with the intern metaphor. That's what an LLM is - an intern with VAST amounts of lexical knowledge but little understanding of large scale system design, or generally, experience.

LLM generated code is mostly okay. You do have to review it, like you would an intern's contributions, but generally, it's good quality code and well documented.

Web control panel. All my network runs OpenWrt and I prefer to manage it from the web UI instead of terminal tinkering.

Yep, they're not decrypting HTTPS, I've triple checked. But we do have an MDM forced proxy service that does check any non-encrypted traffic...

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