Later on I also changed some of the algorithms to faster ones, but their impact was much lower than the language change.

We've always been able to do that, but that's not the point. There's a reason free software licenses require the "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it" to be opened.

One of the core tenets is that any user should have the exact same access as the original developers.

Similarly, if I use e.g. jextract or uniffi to generate Java interfaces from C code and check that in, I'll create tooling to automatically run those, and the commit will be attributed to that tooling.

Even if I then edit it to adapt and modify it, I'll just add my copyright header, but I can't replace/remove the original one.

Jaywalking is only illegal if there's a crossing less than 50m away. (And even then it's only a misdemeanor, not a crime).

That also means that city planners have to balance between people jaywalking, putting crossings everywhere, and how crossings slow down traffic.

And every time a car makes a turn, pedestrians automatically have priority. Which creates an implicit zebra crossing.

The only roads exempt from this are autobahn/motorways. These are by law prohibited from having direct access to anything.

That's IMO also a way for the US to get out of its current situation. Set up a rule like that, with a large distance at the beginning, and slowly reduce it over the next few years, forcing local planners to introduce additional crossings, which also reduces through traffic. The separation of streets vs autobahn also mostly prevents stroads.

Just like they allow installing apps from the Play Store without the 24h verification, they should allow installing apps from F-Droid or the Epic Games Store without verification.

Wasn't this supposed to be a general purpose computer? Why can a service decide which apps I can use to access which features of my own device?

At the same time, there are things that are truly novel, even if the idea is based on combining two common approaches, the implementation might need to be truly novel, with new formulas and new questions that arise from those. AI can't belp there, speaking from experience.

It's afterall still a remix machine, it can only interpolate between that which already exists. Which is good for a lot of things, considering everything is a remix, but it can't do truly new tasks.

I also wonder whether this feature will be locked to server and the little-known "pro for workstations" variants.

You'd be surprised how far you can get with that. IRC works just fine (as long as you use Quassel w/ Quasseldroid), HN works well, so does reddit (via redreader). RSS readers and wikipedia work as well, and for general web browsing you can set up a readability proxy (basically Firefox' Reader Mode, but server-side). And of course email works really well, too.

But there's been some comments that even that wouldn't be possible, every app would have to be verified individually, or be signed by a developer with less than 20 installs.

(Which of course then begs the question: Why not build a version of Fdroid that generates its own signing key and resigns every app on device?)