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azertyfun

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  • It's one of a plethora of scripting languages from the '90s which were designed to be the antithesis of "fail fast" and kept going no matter what.

    I guess what with C/C++ being the Mainstream Option at the time, not having to deal with a strict compiler must have felt like freedom. As someone who has had to maintain, cleanup and migrate ancient PHP code, I call it folly. That mindset of "let the programmer just do whatever and keep trucking" breeds awful programming practices and renders static analysis varying degrees of useless, which makes large-scale refactoring hard to automate which is just amazing when your major versions aren't even remotely FUCKING BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE.

    PHP's original design is just fundamentally atrocious. It became popular in large part because unmaintainable code is usually someone else's problem.

    A language that I would definitely use for server-side rendering and that was already good from its first stable release is Go. It was thoughtfully designed and lends itself really well to static analysis, while still being easy to write and decently performant.

  • I've honestly never quite realized up until now how utterly ridiculous it is that people (especially in the US) regularly demand that their food be chauffeured to them.

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  • How about factoring in vehicle wear, tear, insurance, and depreciation? You said "hybrid" so I'm thinking car, not bicycle. And cars are pretty damn pricy per (especially city) mile, hybrid or not. Also regular insurance policies often don't allow doing such gigs for obvious reasons.

    I also don't know labor laws in the US, but here those companies got in major trouble because even ignoring the exploitative nature of the gig, they were misclassifying employment as "contract work" which allowed them to avoid paying employment taxes, days off, medical pay, insurance, etc. basically displacing all that burden on the State's social systems. That's the definition of unsustainable.

  • America’s famed ‘checks-and-balances’ governance system is failing

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  • There were definitely a couple literal demented sociopath rapists in the mix. What changed wasn't the law, but the political context and institutions.

    It took decades for the GOP to systematically destroy faith in institutions.

    It took years of Trump presidency followed by a strong reaffirmation of popular support in the last election.

    It took Obama and Biden abdicating their duty to their electorate by respectively refusing to nominate a new Justice and refusing to prosecute Trump for sedition.

    It took the media failing their duty to inform voters of Trump's past, intentions, and state of mind.

    It took decades of slow work by the right to reframe the media landscape to be less truthful and more obedient.

    It took social media and their algorithms to galvanize fascism.

    It took an entire cold war and war on terror to normalize an absolutely abnormal and near insurmountable militarization of domestic law enforcement.

    The US constitution is not to blame. That's a cop-out answer, a lame scapegoat. America wouldn't be saved by passing amendments alone. The rot goes far deeper than that. Just like the 13th amendment didn't do much to fix the system of racial injustice the US was built on. If it was just a matter of wording, a silly loophole, it wouldn't have worked. It worked because the vast majority of Americans abdicated their allegiance to the Bill of Rights, to Human Rights, and to Democracy.

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  • 16 transactions per second

    Please, that's nothing. In a mass adoption scenario, the whole thing would either crumble or eat a significant portion of the world's electric production.

    I won't have an argument about the futility of the whole decentralization endeavor and how it fails to meaningfully address any of the very real concerns that central banking has addressed over the centuries. History has already proven all of you fools.

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  • The central bank facilitating electronic cash flow makes so much more sense than letting random foreign corporations siphon billions in profit they clearly don't deserve in the slightest from your economy.

    Good on Brazil for breaking free. There's finally been some push here in the EU for EPI/Wero, but progress has been frigid and online payment processing remains extremely fragmented to the point that if I buy something online outside the Benelux with a small vendor, chances are very high I will have to fall back to an American payment processor, which is insane.

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  • And literally not a single one of them is useful for the purpose of quick, efficient, and secure transactions.

    Blockchains are slow and inefficient by design, since they need to build consensus. On any sufficiently popular blockchain, transactions are either fast or secure, never both.

    The "fix" that the crypto industry has come up with is to re-invent banks, except with even more crime and virtually no regulations. Now you're just entrusting FTX with your coins to enjoy "immediate" transfers, how could that possibly go wrong?

  • Ever notice where they put the guardrail on busy roads? 🤔

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  • They are designed to crumple on impact, absorbing energy by bending - quite a bit actually. You would die if you stood behind a crash barrier in a crash. So it's a good thing they're not being put right next to sidewalks, in addition to the accessibility issues.

    The actual thing wrong here is that sidewalks go on streets (slow speed, pedestrian traffic) and crash barriers go on roads (high speeds, no expected pedestrian traffic). If you need pedestrian access between two points only connected by road, build a separated path.

    No pedestrian should feel unsafe due to the lack of a crash barrier, because no pedestrian should be expected to walk next to car traffic going so fast that curbs aren't enough of a deterrent.

    The problem is North America in particular is infected with stroads, roads with street-like characteristics (i.e. lots of houses, businesses, intersections) but retaining the throughput and speed of a road. This design is fundamentally dangerous, to road users and in particular to pedestrians. There are ways to rehabilitate stroads into streets, but that requires actual thoughtful urban planning and not a bandaid solution like "encase sidewalks in concrete".

  • 🚨 New York City is holding a public hearing on Mayor Adams's controversial proposal to cap e-bike speed-limits at 15 mph. People can file a written comment until 5 p.m. 📢

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  • That's just factually incorrect. This 25 km/h limit has been law for years in (most of?) Europe. And it is totally possible to "jailbreak" virtually any common platform.

    The real problem is that if you get into an accident you might get sued and dropped by your insurance company, and be held liable for all damages. No thanks.

  • Detained immigrants at 'Alligator Alcatraz' say there are worms in food and wastewater on the floor

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  • I'm not American so I won't involve myself in the organization of your protests.

    But from experience when shit hits the fan at even a third of that magnitude, you're supposed to be flooding the streets every Saturday. Don't set up 15 committees for a bimonthly thing that people will forget about. Make it unforgettable because it's next Saturday, every week.

  • Anubis is awesome! Stopping (AI)crawlbots

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  • If I am not mistaken the 47.0.0.0/8 ip block is for Alibaba cloud

    That's an ARIN block according to Wikipedia so North America, under Northen Telecom until 2010. It does look like Alibaba operate many networks under that /8, but I very much doubt it's the whole /8 which would be worth a lot; a /16 is apparently worth around $3-4M, so a /8 can be extrapolated to be worth upwards of a billion dollars! I doubt they put all their eggs into that particular basket. So you're probably matching a lot of innocent North American IPs with this.

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    1. More protesting, yesterday. The "no kings" protest would have been half-decent if they were a start, but as a one-off thing it is more than pathetic.
    2. Political organization parallel to the neutered DNC to push the envelope beyond mildly worded letters and twitter clapbacks.
    3. When the feds come to perform violent unconstitutional acts in your neighborhood, there is a proper response other than "shut the blinds and cower in fear". Unfortunately the moderators of this instance will delete my message if I propose it.

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  • Americans: "Best we can do is one large-ish peaceful protest a couple months ago. Ah well, we tried everything, and we're all out of ideas."

    Thousands of kids died for Americans' right to bear arms and yet when the Gestapo jumps out of an unmarked van to kidnap their neighbor the most the average American can manage is to duck and film a TikTok. Absolute disgrace of a country.

    "American ideals"? All bark, no bite. You'll spend billions making horny patriotic Hollywood movies about how Great and Free you are, but a couple masked bitch-ass Nazi shows up to round up the brown people and the whole neighborhood is suddenly like pwease don't huwt me mistaw officaw, wight this way, also pwease fuck my wife.

    Your country disgusts me. Not so much because 30 % of y'all are actual Nazis. But because virtually everyone else is a complete coward about it.

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  • Classful IPv4 was obsoleted 32 years ago. Only 8 years left before it's literally older than a standard career.

    It's fascinating the sheer inertia that leads formally-trained IT professionals to use and perpetuate such profoundly useless and obsolete nomenclature. You'd think that having an incorrect use of the term "class A" and not having any use for classes B and C would tip off academia that they should cordon off classful networking to the "History of Computing" course next to ARPANET.

    Maybe next time someone refers to 10.0.0.0/8 as a Class A network I'll refer to it as the ARPANET Network. That's only very slightly more anachronistic (3 years).

  • Intel CEO says it's "too late" for them to catch up with AI competition — reportedly claims Intel has fallen out of the "top 10 semiconductor companies" as the firm lays off thousands across the world

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  • What do you mean what was the plan?

    This is the new CEO, spinning into "stripping Intel off for parts" mode.

    The previous CEOs (Brian Krzanich, Bob Swan, and Pat Gelsinger) meanwhile made more money than you or I will ever make on maximizing short-term profits by refusing to invest into competitive levels of R&D.

    That has always been the plan. If you want to figure out why Intel paid 3 CEOs millions to shoot itself in the foot, then one has to start investigating the board of directors since 2013-ish. They're either inside traders, incompetent, or both.

    Intel, Boeing, and the Big Three are emblematic of the ultimate decline of American capitalism post-2008. They inherited empires and had virtually unlimited state welfare and still fucked it up because halfway decent corporate governance is apparently a bigger challenge for these big companies than building airplanes the size of buildings or mass-printing circuits with sub-micrometer resolution.

  • Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic Portal 2 as Steam’s top-rated game

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  • (They've already stated they won't do Portal: VR because of the nausea issue.)

    I completely agree with your analysis, they would need to completely switch up the ambitions from a writing perspective for Portal 3 to make any sense. There are plenty of super interesting stories to be told in Aperture Labs, but I don't think that Valve is structured to write any of them

    Valve has always been "gameplay/tech first, story second", and it just happened that Portal 2 delivered unexpectedly well on the writing. But I don't think they can make a game with gameplay/tech twice as ambitious as Portal 2, and at the same time double down on Portal 2's amazing writing. They're just human and most of the people involved have moved on with their lives; in fact Portal 2 was their last truly ambitious narrative-heavy game, and they had to hire the old writers as consultants to make Alyx (which I haven't played but from what I heard the narrative wasn't on HL2's level).

    I'd love to be proved wrong but IMO there won't be a Portal 3 for as long as Valve exists in its current form.

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  • It's one of my favorite games of all time, but I don't think Portal 2's basic formula would be culturally relevant if it was reused today. The quippy writing is very 2010s-coded (à la Guardians of the Galaxy), the gameplay is a bit too simple to be re-used as is in 2025, and the sweet&short linear storyline of Portal 2 would ironically be lacking ambition for a successor to Portal 2.

    Like all truly Great pieces of classic media, Portal 2 is a product of a skilled and truly passionate team getting together at the perfect time with the right idea, and reaching its public at a culturally relevant time.

    The Portal universe still has stories to tell, and there are still test chambers to solve, so I obviously wouldn't complain if Portal 3 came out, but I understand why Valve wouldn't want to make a barely decent game in the shadow of Portal 2.

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  • Half the time I realize the parenthesis works better as a separate sentence, preceding the original sentence, because I'd gone "Thought (context)." instead of "Context; thought."

    But then I start writing "thought (context1; small tangent; context2 (sub-context)). Follow-up thought (..." and it's a damn Chinese puzzle trying to put back flat and in the right-order.

  • there is a remote controlled ai agent on every google device that can not be turned off

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  • It doesn't have the worst of google apps, but it still runs Play Services with all its opaqueness and potential spyware. So Gemini should hopefully not be an issue but GrapheneOS would still be nice to have.

  • there is a remote controlled ai agent on every google device that can not be turned off

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  • So my Fairphone is not supported because the security updates aren't good enough. Serves me right trying to find an ethical approach to mobile computing.

    I understand GrapheneOS' philosophy but buying a google product to get away from google software is certainly... a choice. Refurbished or not buying a Pixel would serve Google's interests, nevermind the fact that I bought my current phone a couple years ago hoping to get close to a decade of use out of it.

    Realistically software freedom on mobile phones is doomed until the industry improves the firmware situation. Every project suffers from severe drawbacks because of it.