ICE is not law enforcement any more, they are terrorist killer commandos now.

They're Nazi death squads. I've been screaming for a decade that this would be coming and now it's here. Update your threat modeling accordingly.

The writing was on the wall with the Patriot Act. “When we say you’re a terrorist, you lose all rights and protections” is merely a gradual difference to what is happening now.

Could downvoters explain why this is incorrect?

To me, this looks very much like testing the waters. Stephen Miller said, "To all ICE officers, you have federal immunity." ICE has blocked state law enforcement from investigations into the killings. ICE has said they're done with their investigation of the last one, and those fuckers are still working.

Aside from scale, what's the difference?

[EDIT:15-minute chunk of] video that lays out the evidence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rThhm1-g1a8

Killer Commandos loyal to DJT.

I miss Aperture dearly, too. It is a monument of a time when Apple still could do Software, instead of just Services that feel restrictive and patronizing. I cannot get myself to use that shitty Photos app and am still constantly on the lookout for something to recreate the Aperture of old.

Many of the "old-timers" on the Photos team (when I was on that team for a couple of years) also missed Aperture. Very much so.

Many kept Aperture running on a device at home—still used it for their own workflows (many passionate photographers on that team—surprise!). And in fact when it came time to discuss future Photos features there was always a contingent pushing to add back features that were lost in the transition away from Aperture.

While I was there, for example, they pushed (and got) Curves added to the editing pane. Levels had always been there but the purists missed the more laser-focused "curve" adjustments.

They wanted, did not get, the ability to "brush" a setting (the way you might dodge/burn an area of the image).

These days, who knows. Like me, perhaps the old guard have moved on…

(To clarify though, I was never the "old guard" with regard to the Photos team—had never worked on Aperture.)

Around the time Aperture became dead, I was looking for a photo editing app on the iPhone; three of my non-negotiable requirements: non-destructive adjustments, curves, and the ability to brush a mask for an adjustment. I found Snapseed which fulfilled these requirements. But of course, why did I get the idea for these requirements of mine? Aperture of course. Once you got used to the features of Aperture, you really don’t want to use a lesser app like Photos.

> And in fact when it came time to discuss future Photos features there was always a contingent pushing to add back features that were lost in the transition away from Aperture.

Apple actually publicly promised they would be doing this when they killed it. But not much ever came of it.

It is so disappointing; I started getting into photography over the past few years, shooting rolls of film here and there and need some basic library management tools to track my shots and add EXIF data for film stock, camera, etc. Photos.app kind of does what I need, but there's baffling decisions like all photo data being uneditable, even through APIs. You can edit EXIF data on the original image but the app's internal database is completely immutable. I have a handful of photos with inconsistent metadata I'd love to fix and the only option appears to be removing them from the library and re-adding them.

I really don't need many features! I'm not a pro and while I wouldn't mind shelling out a one-time fee for good software I'm not paying a subscription for cloud storage I'm not going to use. The OSS options here are not awesome, either.

I didn’t know there’s such a thing as Pencil Day, but this collection is impressive.

The number of startups is no proof they’re doing anything useful. It only proves that the founders think they can make money with it.

And potentially their investors, for the startups that got funding. And maybe their customers, for the startups that are already hitting millions in ARR in a year or less. There are some of the numbers out there worth looking up.

Is your contention that we don't already know how to do useful things with AI?

This idea has a certain perverse logic. Windoze is already enshittified to the max, enshittifying Linux next will be easier than finding ways to make Windoze worse.

Are you on a VPN? That could be a trigger.

That twin tower emoji with a plane rushing into it betrays a sense of humor.

1. By now, reality is indistinguishable from satire.

2. If you thought VC mercenaries have any scruples, you were in error.

Terrorizing everyone indiscriminately is not immigration enforcement.

> Documentation is the cheaper form of customer service.

Thank you so much for saying this. Trying to convince anyone of the importance of documentation feels like an uphill battle. Glad to see that I'm not completely crazy.

I had to talk to a human in PayPal's customer service because neither their documentation nor their chatbot says anything about how to "remember" a device, even though certain operations only work on remembered devices.

They do document how to delete an unrecognized device.