Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org
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Software developer, open-source enthusiast, wannabe software architect. I like learning and comparing different technologies. Also general STEM nerd.
Joined May 2021
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> hacker included /home in the tarball he used as a payload
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I don't like US politics but can't not be aware of the most internationally important stuff, and Jesus man, the only explanation for how Democrats choose their presidential candidates post-Obama is that they vote who they want to be chosen the least and somewhere along the way the list gets flipped.
@icedquinn yeah but that's the thing, browsers are hell and nobody wants to develop them, so everyone uses the ones that are already developed and actively worked on by someone else. If that stops being the case they'll have no other way.
@icedquinn it's worse than the Chrome thing, if Google decides to abandon Chrome, all the Chromium people can pick up the torch and develop it. Using Google's index just means you're screwed if anything ever happens to it.
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Congrats to @collabora for bringing DRM-CI to life!
We badly need a cross-driver CI solution that isn't mailing-lists-based and largely opaque to developers. We need CI that is integrated in the development workflow and that provide guarantees about code quality, not just a service that can be ignored by chance or malice.
It isn't perfect though as it inherits testing methodologies better suited for userspace testing, but kernelCI is no better in this regard ;)
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#bluesky devs trying to convince people who thought picking a server on mastodon was too hard, to use regex
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🇬🇧Consumer-hostile #Whatsapp messenger will soon be interoperable - we #Pirates ensured this via the #DMA. In the coming months, we will be able to switch to better and open messenger services such as Matrix and continue to communicate with our consenting Whatsapp contacts securely and end-to-end encrypted across platforms using the Signal protocol. Wired reports: https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-interoperability-messaging/
Facebook Messenger will also become interoperable, possibly iMessage too.
Anonymous use of the participating alternative messenger services remains possible, and Whatsapp only receives data on messages sent across platforms.
Even if Threema and Signal want to stay on the sidelines at first, I am confident that more and more messenger services will join in over time, because interoperability is the future and brings real competition and real freedom of choice!
@icedquinn at this point I'm ~80% sure the first libc to surpass glibc in adaptation will be something written in Rust or the like. That'd be nicely cursed.
@icedquinn one of the funnier high effort shitposts tbh
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Feb/8/2024: Google announces Gemini Advanced
Feb/8/2028: Google announces the retirement of Gemini Advanced with one month's notice, as all other AI services are dead or Google found that the ad-supported AI model works better.
Killed by Google adds Gemini Advanced to its webpage.
The end.
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@jokeyrhyme @nixCraft how could significant whitespace introduce invisible bugs? The entire point of it is that it's easily visible.
Only way I can think of is mixing spaces and tabs in indentation in a way that on some editors will make a block appear to have the same indent but not be treated as such, but Python 3 already thought of that:
> Indentation is rejected as inconsistent if a source file mixes tabs and spaces in a way that makes the meaning dependent on the worth of a tab in spaces; a TabError is raised in that case.
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A few times I have told the anecdote that the singly most baffling thing I ever saw in a code review — not the most insecure, just the most “how could a real programmer have written this? how could this ever make sense?” thing — was simply a C++ variable “number_of_trucks” … declared as float. Unambiguously referring to real physical trucks in a fleet.
Reader, it’s been over ten years and I am blowing the gods damn whistle. I had edited that story to protect the guilty: the variable was named number_of_planes. It was shipped by a company whose name begins with “B” and rhymes with “GOING out of business.”
@pansocial @nixCraft "Supply and demand work reliably under impossible conditions that do not exist" is an insane take, just because both supply and demand can be manipulated to some extent doesn't mean they don't work lol. They work very well and pathological extremes such as the US's insulin problem (which only affects the US, which uses regulatory bodies to stifle competition and artificially keep insulin price high) are caused by either monopolies or regulations that make it hard or impossible for healthy competition to occur.
Anyway, I'm not gonna waste any more time arguing over economy on the Internet, if you don't believe that automating work makes its results cheaper then continue to pay manual computers for doing math for you and buy only hand-crafted goods as surely they should have the same price as mass-produced ones.
@pansocial @nixCraft the nice thing about a market ecosystem is that the companies compete with each other and so price=supply/demand works. Cheaper production does make them lower prices because that's how they stay competitive.
And I think you misunderstood what I meant by profit being net value provided to society. Revenue is receiving money proportional to value provided to the payers. Cost is spending money proportional to value taken from the payees. Profit is therefore proportional to the net value provided to society. It doesn't matter what they spend the money on, they had to provide value to earn it and the monetary profits they receive are only a reward for it.
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The stylish, unknown & extremely rare SEGA AI COMPUTER (1986) promised natural language processing and "artificial intelligence" via its Prolog interpreter.
We're making available today, for the first time ever: system roms, game cards, tapes recordings, scans, photos, MAME driver & more: https://smspower.org/SegaAI
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Software developer, open-source enthusiast, wannabe software architect. I like learning and comparing different technologies. Also general STEM nerd.
Joined May 2021
