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Cake day: July 11th, 2025

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  • Which is unfortunately completely understandable. Sometimes I think Americans (and a few other notable polities) forget who owns their damn country. Despite what the bits stored on the SSD’s of their Swiss banks might otherwise indicate, it’s not the small handful of billionaires. It’s not the politicians either. It’s the people actually paying their taxes rather than dodging them.

    I firmly believe that when a significant proportion of 340 million individuals collectively decide something has to be done, then that thing will get done, one way or the other. Regrettably, the members of the American Aristocracy are really good at dividing and conquering the hoi polloi.





  • I can see why the author did it, and I always respect a person willing to scratch their own itch and maybe help out other people with theirs in the process. With that said, why would anybody who has any other option want to code - let alone build - software on a phone?

    Then again, maybe there’s plenty of people out there who haven’t got any other options. And anything that makes people’s phones more like a real computer under their control is a good thing in my book.









  • “Yes, but after you do, it’ll be blazing fast in the twenty minutes before you’ll have to recompile due to software updates.”

    “So, you’re saying that it would have been really efficient if all my eight cores weren’t constantly pegged building software?”

    “…Uh, yes.”

    “And that optimizing software for the native architecture could have enabled power savings, if those machines weren’t all burning oceans of kilowatt hours building the same software over and over again redundantly?”

    “Ah…”