I used to have Hopi and Navajo friends and I have no idea what they are referring to.
One thing I can tell you that the whole situation up there is contentious and complicated between the tribes, the states and the feds where one could support any argument as there isn't some standard "Rez Life" one can point at.
I mean, I used to have this one friend who grew up (and still had family) on a part of the reservation which was completely surrounded by the other tribe and her and my other friends (from the other tribe, don't quite remember which was which here) would get into some serious arguments at the bar over the issue where we'd have to separate them before it came to fisticuffs.
The issue isn't that they were issuing CDLs to people who didn't qualify but that their work visa and license were supposed to expire around the same time so they couldn't overstay their visa and keep their job.
Or, I'm guessing this was the intent of the law they're now enforcing.
The thing I think most people forget is why society made the decision that the government requires a neutral third-party to be consulted to determine if there is probable cause to conduct a search of "persons, houses, papers, and effects".
Otherwise, you have a 'king' issuing general warrants which allow federal agents to search and seize anyone they want in the course of their investigations based on 'feels'. What makes it even worse is some court said racial profiling is sufficient reason to conduct a Terry stop to determine if the person is engaged in (civil) criminal activity and lets law enforcement demand they show their papers or be scanned by some dodgy app.
Telling people they need to take their ball and go home if they're incapable or unable to maintain an entire compiler back-end seems like a, shall we say, 'interesting' lens for a major distro such as Debian.
These are not officially supported platforms. It doesn't seem that unreasonable for Debian to not want to be restricted to "code that can be run on CPUs from the 1990s" in 2025
It's cool that you can run modern Debian on an Amiga or whatever, but it's not particularly important that that be the case.
Oh, it's worse than that. The companies who moved production overseas are the ones who taught them the advanced manufacturing technologies necessary to make the now offshorn products (looking at you, Apple).
While being able to walk into a Walmart and buy a microwave for $20 is good for 'society' its not so good if you want to onshore microwave production and have to compete against these 'Everyday Low Prices' coming in from overseas.
It's funny, I've been working on a CPS (continuation passing style) graph optimizer loosly based on Cliff Click's thesis and when I show it to the robots they're like "yeah, that's academic fluffery, it'll never fly" to try inflate my ego a bit until I explain how it actually works then they're "wait, that's actually possible ...and a good idea".
His 'optimization as a constraint solving problem' thing is actually pretty powerful and it just so happens I've been fiddling with a Projective Dynamics constraint solver (which is what the VM is for, to define the constraints) whivh I can abuse to optimize CPS graphs so... take that Robots!
But, you know, I've never really heard of the police (local, state or federal) executing a general warrant against an entire apartment complex. How do you even get a judge to sign off on that?
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Oh, flagged, guess we don't talk about that here...
I think my favorite thing about Ton is he would putter around the Blender offices most of the year doing whatever he did to keep the ship running but would use his vacation time to implement some pretty far reaching changes like, the last one I remember, drag-and-drop then just be "here, have fun". He really didn't micro-manage the thing but just let The Community figure out where things needed to go, in the couple years I was involved in Blender I talked with him maybe twice on the IRC.
I do wonder how much more complicated Blender has gotten over the years (to go a bit off topic) as before one could spend an afternoon tracing through the code and mostly figure out how something worked. Well, as long as you stayed away from the game engine and Video Sequence Editor as they were both kind of tacked on to serve a need and didn't get much love.
One thing I can tell you that the whole situation up there is contentious and complicated between the tribes, the states and the feds where one could support any argument as there isn't some standard "Rez Life" one can point at.
I mean, I used to have this one friend who grew up (and still had family) on a part of the reservation which was completely surrounded by the other tribe and her and my other friends (from the other tribe, don't quite remember which was which here) would get into some serious arguments at the bar over the issue where we'd have to separate them before it came to fisticuffs.
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