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How projects are named at Techaro

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Simon Willison

ChatGPT's new dossier-from-your-chats feature is a huge change to how it works, and as a power user who tries to control all of the model's input I don't like it at all

“30 messages are good interaction quality (25%); 9 messages are bad interaction quality (7%)” simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/

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@nic221 The main problem with ordinary financial "betting" which I don't think I read in the post is counterparty risk. If apocalypse strikes, is there anyone left on the other side of the contract? Your investment will be gone along with the rest of civilization (or it will be worthless as a result - you can't eat gold).

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Nicole Hennig

Betting on AI risk strangeloopcanon.com/p/betting #AI #opinions

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Robert Stribley

Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.

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@timkellogg.me the next step: social.coop/@cwebber/113835776

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Greg Wilson

That's why I really, really wish someone would write a popular/accessible/appealing book about how various professions and industries came to be regulated. I know there are several about particular fields, but I don't know anything like Young's "Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons From Movements That Won" pmpress.org/index.php?l=produc that compares and contrasts several cases and draws lessons from them for today's struggle. I don't know enough to write it; I hope someone here does. 4/4

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@Ange @ducasleo
- parce qu'on nage dedans ?
- parce qu'en intraveineuse, on ne sent pas le goût ?
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@timkellogg.me I would include a denominator to make it a survival rate, and below a certain amount of total layoffs it seems random (for example my score is between 0/0 and 1/1 - cancelled project == layoff? ).

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Simon Willison

Made some notes on how Cursor works under the hood based on their security documentation - it turns out an organization's list of subprocessors offers a loose form of "view source" for their infrastructure!
simonwillison.net/2025/May/11/

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SRE pop quiz, wrong answer 

@cadey
It's a list of volcanoes

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@b0rk I haven't had it in a while. I think it went away when I upgraded to windows 11 or when I started to use the new Windows terminal app. Before that windows PowerShell used a dark blue background with white text and was generally flaky with rendering selected text (white on yellow I think )

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@timkellogg.me the env var is still SSL_CERT_FILE ...

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@lisyarus interesting! On Android 13, no luck with Firefox ; in Chrome, the particles don't move, which I assume is not the intended behavior.

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Bill Reese

In my day job, I work for a media company that focuses on the toy industry.

Apropos of nothing, I decided to add the Mastodon plushie (aka #Plushtodon) to the latest products on our Toy Insider website.

Please boost this so our editors will frustratingly tell me to stop trying to make Mastodon happen.
thetoyinsider.com/products/mas

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Embedded Podcast

We had an awesome chat( embedded.fm/episodes/500 ) with Komathi Sundaram about her passion for testing and automation!
We dove into the unique joys of testing vs. development, setting up CI servers, and all kinds of tests.

Here's an excerpt from the show:

#testing #engineering #conference #embedded #electrical #software

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Xe :verified:

If you wanna help me make #Anubis happen, please look into pitching in on GitHub Sponsors or Patreon:

github.com/sponsors/Xe
patreon.com/cadey

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Cat Hicks

If you're looking to hire world class talent, I know some brilliant people looking for work now. I would love to connect you to them.

Carol Lee: carol-s-lee-phd.com/
John Flournoy: johnflournoy.science/

Find me at: drcathicks.com/

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦

I've written an unhealthy amount of words on "the cloud" and specifically Europe's woes. In the post below I tie many articles together into a hopefully useful overview. It may be good to know that nothing I write on the cloud is novel or original, I mostly hope to report things as they are. Which is scary enough already! berthub.eu/articles/posts/clou

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Disgusting 

@rich @lritter human centipede remake: UnterEats

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