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  • Raspberry Pi launches its IPO

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  • I picked up a radxa zero last year and have been quite enjoying it. the hardware is better than a pi zero but costs less. same with a lot of other SBCs

    but raspberry pi has a lot of inertia behind it, a lot of software and hardware support. people will keep using them, just like they keep using Ubuntu, even though it's a soulless corporate husk of what it one was

  • C++

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  • pointers are fine, but when you learn about the preprocessor and templates and 75% of the STL it goes negative again

    c++ templates are such a busted implementation of generics that if I didn't have context I'd assume they were bad on purpose like malbolge

  • Reform UK pulls to within two points of Tories in latest YouGov poll

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    1. almost every major political party in the UK has an anti-immigration stance, so they certainly do act like it's an issue
    2. despite media scaremongering about immigration, there's no credible evidence that immigration in the UK has negative social or economic consequences overall
    3. the lovely people behind reform UK previously campaigned for us to leave the EU in order to reduce immigration, and not only did it not reduce immigration but it was also a multi-year political shitshow (and it tanked the economy, and it pulled us out of the EU human rights convention, and it fucked up supply chains, and it decimated arts and science funding, etc etc)

    to be honest I'm kind of amazed that UK voters would fall for the same obvious grift twice

  • How is everyone handling the 2FA requirement for GitHub?

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  • last time I signed into my Microsoft 365 account for work I got two separate 2fa prompts and two captchas, it was like being in an episode of the crystal maze. the mere act of signing into something is now tedious and difficult

  • Professional Scientists of Lemmy: What is your field of study's, most complex unanswered question?

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  • I work in computational biophysics. The field has been slowly chipping away at the structure and function of every protein for decades (it's a solvable problem, it's just going to take a lot of time and energy) and recently a bunch of clueless SF tech bros have bumbled their way into the field and declared that they've solved everything.

  • Google Delists Sites Providing DIY Hormone Therapy at Behest of UK Government

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  • when people on the internet say something: ideology

    when the extremely conservative british government says something: not ideology

  • AMD confirms Radeon GPU sales have nosedived

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  • on the one hand, cuda is vendor lock-in and if we'd all just agreed on an open standard decades ago then we wouldn't be in this mess

    but on the other hand, rocm is crap and adaptivecpp is very half baked right now, at least in my limited experience

  • Xubuntu 24.04: A minimal install that really means it

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  • I love kde, I love the file picker, I love window management, I love dolphin, I love the panels, I love Kate, etc... but every time I have to switch to a new tty to restart kwin, part of my soul dies

  • Why do non-psychologists talk so much about Freud?

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  • when I think of other famous psychologists my mind goes to people like zimbardo or milgram, because of their attention grabbing studies. but they are not great examples because their work has big problems with ethics and replicability. after that, maybe pavlov or skinner? but their work is most famous for its less ethical uses. harlow? or a bunch of his contemporaries who got famous mostly for torturing monkeys? maybe piaget?

    I only did psychology to a college level but I think a lot of 20th century psychologists are famous for the wrong reasons. Freud was full of crap but at least he didn't torture any monkeys

  • Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths

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  • a more genuine take would have included a series of scenarios (e.g. drunk/distracted/tired driving)

    I agree. they did tesla dirty. a more fair comparison would've been between autopilot and a driver who was fully asleep. or maybe a driver who was dead?

    and why didn't this news article contain a full scientific meta analysis of all self driving cars??? personally, when someone tells me that my car has an obvious fault, I ask them to produce detailed statistics on the failure rates of every comparable car model

  • Sex offender banned from using AI tools in landmark UK case

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  • i read three of the sources you provided (all of them, except the book), and the only thing you've said which is true is that the treatment 'includes acceptance of their desires' (though you have added the words 'as normal')

    the other two claims you've made, including 'it does not prohibit any fictional materials including children' and 'by stripping away safe outlets we may come at risk of these people increasingly turning to real CSAM' are your own inventions, and are not stated anywhere in the texts you have linked, in fact, they are directly refuted by both of them, because the actual prevention project recommends a combination of cognitive behavioral therapy and medication

  • Reminder: crypto isn’t solarpunk. It’s cyberpunk.

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  • crypto is just our current financial system but worse. more risk, more volatility, faster consolidation of wealth, slower transactions, and less actual utility. more than a decade on, there are only a very small handful of things you can actually buy with bitcoin, let alone any other cryptocurrency. what problem does that solve?

    i do at least admire the utopianism of it - i'm not exactly going to bat for our current banking system - but if you see crypto in 2024 as anything other than a failed experiment at best then you're just delusional, it has completely failed to solve any of the problems it set out to solve and it has verifiably made the world a worse place

  • Has this ever happened to you?

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  • the biggest causes of bsods and other crashes on windows up to xp were drivers. after xp, Microsoft required drivers for windows to go through their signing and verification program, which was controversial but it did solve the problem

    modern windows rarely crashes outright but in my experience it does break in small ways over time, without the user doing anything

    in terms of disabling windows components, it's true that this can break your system, but I would argue this is still Microsoft's problem. there are many windows competents that are deeply coupled together when they have no reason to be

  • What do you use AI/LLMs for in your personal life?

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  • if I wanted access to a constant stream of confidently-stated misinformation I would simply open Reddit

  • acceptable screws

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  • I worked for an engineering company that used them almost exclusively and now I won't shut the fuck up about pozidriv l. everyone thinks I'm insane

  • 'Oppenheimer' finally premieres in Japan to mixed reactions and high emotions

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  • this isn't specifically a Japanese thing though, most American kids are taught that dropping both bombs was the only way to win the war, when this is still the subject of a lot of debate. for that matter, they probably aren't taught about how eugenics were effectively exported from America to Germany. I'm from the UK and I had to wait until I was reading history for fun to learn about most of the UK's colonial crimes. the way history is taught in schools is just a bit shit

  • Climate protesters can't rely on beliefs in criminal damage cases, UK court rules

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  • The wording of the article here, 'can't rely on beliefs' is doing a lot of work, first it frames legitimate concerns about climate change as 'beliefs', and second of all it implies that people are somehow dodging criminal damage charges based on their subjective feelings, which isn't what's happening at all. Instead, the UK government is stripping away a layer of legal protection for protestors which was established in the Criminal Damage Act of 1971 (for more info google 'the consent defence').

    The UK has been drifting into authoritarianism for a long time, but in the last few years, the repeated attacks on people's right to protest have become far more transparent. There is a high-ranking UK judge called Silas Reid who became famous for forbidding mentions of climate change in his courtroom, and recently threatened a jury with prosecution if they acquit a group of climate protestors.

    It's sad to see newspapers spin this into such neutral language. This is a brazen assault on human rights.

  • Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England says

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  • this is why i haven't taken my kid to get his supposed 'broken leg' fixed. sorry kiddo but i have thoroughly inspected it and determined that the bone angles are within tolerance

  • It's Time to Ditch Evernote for One of These Alternatives

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  • I think I'm a bit of a dinosaur, but I've been making all of my notes in Zim for over 10 years. It's not much to look at but I find the hierarchical wiki structure easy to navigate, and most of the functionality (todo lists, equations, version control integration, etc) is implemented by simple plugins.

    in my opinion, a lot of these programs are too complicated - I tried Joplin for a while but I ended up spending more time organising my notes than I did making them.