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Sure. I am not a lawyer, but I can give one example to the best of my ability.

One Civil liberty I see Ice violating is the Fourth Amendment which protects against unreasonable search and seizure. But, for Boarder Patrol (under the Department of Homeland Security) there is a border search exception to the forth amendment. Border patrol can conduct searches without a warrant or reasonable suspicion.

You might be on the fence about that. We do have to protect our boarders... sure. but the way the law is written, this border exception is applicable anywhere 100 miles from the border.

That area covers 2/3rds of the population of the United States. --

So if you are wanting a power grab against your own citizens you would definitely try to use that loophole in creative ways. And that starts by using DHS staff that can claim their actions fall under the border search exception.

This write up is a little off the cuff, so the details might be loose, but I hope this demonstrates the rough outline.

> It's all security theater.

It’s so much worse than that. Because the department of homeland security was formed in the panic following 911, many of the laws meant to protect our civil liberties (which have existed decades/centuries before the DHS was formed) haven’t been amended to explicitly apply to DHS staff as well.

So what ICE is doing right now could only happen with the loopholes that apply only to DHS staff.

So if not for the security theater of the TSA, Stephan Miller might not have had a mechanism to get the ball rolling on his murder squad that is ICE.

boooo! :)

Oh, Memories. I helped build out this target during my student gig as an undergrad.

only you can decide what you find interesting.

Bun still exists. as does tigerbeetle

I’m so excited for this year.

A more accurate title would be:

“How to write type safe generics using the C preprocessor”

boycotted for life. All products.

My condolences. I wonder if you qualify for a loss-of-use rental under the warranty.

fraud is not legal. There's a difference between lying on the playground and fraud in a business setting.

and Linus?

just wait...

Congrats to Alex and Wenting on the reaching your funding goals for the Modos Developer Kit! I'm a backer and soon to be hacker.

[1]: https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-paper-monitor

gentle reminder: online advertisements are so dangerous that the fbi recommends you use an ad blocker [1]. If there’s a social contract at play, users aren’t the ones breaking it.

Their behavior is abusive, and our behavior is self defense.

Let the ads networks do the hard work of 1) cleaning up their act, and 2) rebuilding trust before you worry about your end of the social contract.

[1]: https://www.pcmag.com/news/fbi-recommends-installing-an-ad-b...

As I understand it, the argument is: cash is valid payment for all debts public or private. But a sale isn’t a debt. The business that refuses your cash sale is refusing your business at the time of sale.

That’s a strong pun: seas the day.

But image generation and cloning a visual artist’s style is one of AI’s apparent strengths.

So it’s interesting to think about what the gaps are between fulfilling a single prompt and completing a project.

You could train an unbeatable tic-tac-toe ai on your laptop in five minutes. It doesn’t get any stronger than that.

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I know, I know. I’m intentionally misinterpreting the OP’s clear intent (the stuff of comedy). And normally a small joke like this wouldn’t be worth the downvotes…

But, I think there’s a deeper double meaning in this brave new world of prompt engineering. Most chat isn’t all that precise without some level of assumed shared context:

These days the meaning of the phrase ai has changed from the classical definition (all algorithms welcome), and now ai usually means LLMs and their derivatives.

Your profile states that you are blind.

I’m struggling to make sense of a your story. Why would a blind user bother putting on a VR headset???

Do you know that big’s backyard ultra exists? Even more ways to get your sleep deprived fun.

Another way to say that would be: the USA is finally doing to itself what it did to Iran. Toppling a liberal democracy in favor of an authoritarian cult of personality with the support of a fanatic religious sect.

Is there any chance you've published your project? It would be fun to read the code.

As a matter of local trivia, today (2025.07.01) we had a wind storm in vegas that downed many trees. :)

Dude, chill.

We’ve got to preserve causality. :P

That's fair! I'll check back in a few weeks.

"Say, have you seen any good websites lately?" Is a conversation I've literally never started.

And it feels strange, because I am constantly asking people what books they're reading.

I gave your splash page a look: no docs, no examples, no screenshots.

Your "free trial" is behind a sign-up wall. and I left.

Wonderful.

It’s just a maybe, but what a fun maybe that would be.

:D

This is really great!

Is there a way to run it locally? Maybe with docker?

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If there is any way to make a small donation, buy you a coffee, I would.