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  • If companies don’t push the envelope, nobody will mark it return to sender.

    So…what’ll probably happen:

    • Samsung does this. It is universally despised.
    • A year will go by, and Google will do this. It will be universally despised.
    • A year will go by, and Apple will do this. It will be loved by Apple users and despised by everyone else.
    • A year will go by and it’s a part of every Android phone on the market. Apple users will accuse Android of “stealing” the feature. Everyone else will despise it.







  • I don’t disagree, but that’s probably closer to implicit bias than overt bigotry. When people talk about the “bad part of town”, often it’s the “bad part” as a result of perpetual systemic racism, and the concerns of going there is more rooted in personal safety (or at least the perception of it). And sure, that feeds into it, but it’s really more of a cycle or a feedback loop.

    And there’s also the anxiety of being the cultural and demographic opposite of everyone around you. That’s gotta be some sub-type of agoraphobia or something.

    Sure, probably, “implicit bias” is just a PC way of saying “racist-ish”, but it is at least a start. It’s very difficult to retrain behaviors that have been learned since birth, if not hypnopaedically earlier.



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    Nope. No reason that you should pay $1000 for a device and not, at the very least, be able to install compatible software from other sources.

    We wouldn’t accept this from Microsoft. Could you imagine if this was the norm for DOS or Windows?

    Should side loading be discouraged and warned about? Yes. Should it be impossible? Maybe through “parental” controls or MDM, but absolutely not out-of-the-box.



  • Netbox is a documentation tool. You can plug in Napalm to do some stuff but it mostly exists to catalog the intended state of the network.

    It’s a wonderfully powerful tool, and Stretch has done a great job with it…but it’s not an analysis tool, it’s documentation.

    Stretch is a pretty cool guy too. He strikes me as the kind of person that really wants to help colleagues “see the light” of the role Python and FOSS can play in network automation and maintenance. I respect that, a lot…finding enjoyment in the way you do things, and wanting to share that with other people.








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