And of course I love seeing the way my community treats it as no big deal. She's just a nice lady who helps the kids get safely to school.

Yeah, the original promise of free software was *lots of people* being able to fix and customize their software to their needs. There are new and different challenges here, but that promise is much more within reach right now than it has been.

I'm excited for the possibility that more people will be able to tweak their computers to behave the way they want.
There's a lot of software that doesn't need to be general purpose and robust.

Building an OS from scratch might be a bit much, but having an OS that's open source and/or has comprehensive APIs for customization could become an edge.

An LLM would probably have an easier time writing a gnome-shell JS extension than a scary C monkey patch for macOS customization.

You've got one of those old IBM Model M mice?

I will be checking that out if sufficiently stir crazy over Thanksgiving.

Ohio? Let me know what you find. We're there at least once a year and I have no idea where to go for that stuff.

We recognize our own.

Yeah, but the last couple of NYC mayors didn't even go to the right schools...

We did! We voted overwhelmingly in favor of gerrymandering! Which for some reason is good this year. I hate this timeline.

Republicans, mostly.

And yet some people are still saying we can't be replaced with AI.

Some weeks I really could use the Strict Scrutiny edit that's just pop culture references because I've already consumed all of the news and takes I can take. But I still need my fix.

Have we ever seen any side-channel attacks in the wild?