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megopie

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  • Could someone fill me in on the Rust situation?

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  • So, rust can do a lot of the same stuff as C and its various derivatives (further referred to as just C for simplicity here) Increasingly it’s gained prominence doing stuff that used to be only done in C. A lot of the core utilities and Linux kernel are written in C. Now, there has been some folks writing contributions to the Linux kernel in rust, and Ubuntu has done some work to rewrite some of the core utilities in rust.

    I’m not privy to the deep lore (mailing list drama) but, my understanding is that there are a lot of people throughly opposed to using rust for important low level stuff in Linux and apparently some people who want to rewrite everything in rust.

    I suspect the reality is that… as rust has gained prominence in other areas, some people have developed a lot of experience with it and are more comfortable with it than they are with C. They have thus advocated for using rust to contribute to things. People who are more comfortable with C on the other hand are frustrated when they try to parse a language they’re not as familiar with. And thus, many debates have raged over the qualities of one over the other, and salt has been scattered.

  • Meta's AI display glasses reportedly share intimate videos with human moderators

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  • Display on my glasses? That would be neat. Camera and microphone on my glasses? Why the fuck would I want that.

    It’s a devil’s bargain. Except that the benefit is pretty slim next to the obvious cost.

  • AI Bros Wanted Trump. Now They Learn What Happens When You Tell Him No.

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  • Anthropic is just trying to cover their ass from liability.

    Ether the user who put the bot in a position to do something illegal is liable, or the person who made the bot that did something illegal is liable. But 90% of the reason hegseth want to use the bots is to avoid liability when doing illegal stuff, and if anthropic is saying “hey it’s not our fault if you break the law using our product, we told you not to use it like that” then they’re basically denying the main use case for hegseth, who really really wants a get out of jail free card for breaking the law.

  • When making curry, when should I add the apples?

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  • I would say It depends a lot of the type of apple and the final texture you want. Something like a granny smith or a honey crisp will hold their texture better. Something like a red delicious or mcIntosh will break down quickly. If you want the apples to hold texture add them towards the end and preference the former, if you want them to totally break down the later will be better.

    I don’t think them breaking down would be very good though as they will not create a smooth sauce that I at least associate with a Japanese curry.

  • When making curry, when should I add the apples?

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  • Yah, they’re supposed to go in at the very end, if not off the heat outright, there are a lot of ingredients in them that are heat sensitive and will break down or cook off with long exposure to heat.

  • Leak confirms GrapheneOS & Motorola partnership for non-Pixel hardware

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  • Most people I’ve talked to in real life have complained about how large phones are and wish there were still smaller phones available. Maybe I’m just some gravitational nexus of small phone likers, but I think there is some other factor at play other than consumer preference.

    Perhaps the issue is that they sell too well and canibalize the larger phone market, which probably has higher margins, sales people at stores often also get payed a commission so they probably have an incentive to nudge people towards larger phones.

  • Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs

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  • Any job that can be done by an LLM wasn’t a job that needed to get done In the first place.

    any manager who tries to replace an actually useful job with an LLM is going to get bit in the ass as productivity slows to a crawl. Other people will hav to step in to clean up the mess and basically do the work that should have been done by the person replaced. Most of the jobs being “replaced by AI” are actually just routine layoffs or companies correcting from over hiring.

    I’ve read a story the other day from someone who said they left Amazon due to what a mess it was becoming internally. How increasingly managers were hiring people they didn’t need so their team would be bigger and they would seem more important. This is a well known phenomenon. I suspect a lot of people who did this and created a mess are using the excuse of “embracing AI” to give them selves an off ramp from the mess they created by bloating their departments.

  • No More Neutral ⚛

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  • Everything would get slightly heavier. Then a lot of compounds would break and a lot of new compounds would form.

    Also a lot of lightning.

  • Relieving oneself over the edge of the ship

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  • Yah there is a lot of nonsensical compression artifacts, and they’re of wildly varying scales.

  • Conservative MP says Canada is harming its relationship with the US by throwing an "anti-American hissy fit".

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  • And the more you blue ball him and deny him what he wants, the weaker his domestic position gets and the less he’s able to lash out.

    So don’t fucking bargain with him, don’t make deals, tell him to suck wind. The more people doing this the more he is diminished as a threat to everyone involved.

  • Conservative MP says Canada is harming its relationship with the US by throwing an "anti-American hissy fit".

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  • As an American, no it fucking ain’t. Keep boycotting American shit please. Keep being a problem. I beg you.

    This situation is dumb, and the only way certain compatriots will get that through their inch thick steel skulls is pressure from all sides.

  • Godot Engine suffering from lots of "AI slop" code submissions

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  • “I’m helping development of a foss project!”

    doesn’t write a single line of code, just submits claude code without reviewing it or even testing

  • Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen and paper instead

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  • On the one hand, I’m skeptical of the assertions that pen and paper is inherently a better way to take notes and learn.

    But I do agree with the general aversion to a lot of ed tech. So much effort to shove kids faces in front of softwear and hardware that was sold to administrators by marketing teams from big tech companies. So many opportunities for those tech companies to exploit local school districts, ether to extract unreasonable profits, or for access to a mailable locked in user base.

    If a school is going to go all in teaching with computers, they need to be carefully choosing what they use and not just adopting a premade package from some tech company.

  • Bitwarden 2026 Data Privacy Week survey results

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  • Comparing brave and fire fox is like comparing librewolf and chrome. When people suggest using a privacy browser other than brave, they’re not saying “just use fire fox”.

  • Smart Homes Are Terrible

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  • So many extra moving parts, so many additional points of failure. But for what benefit? So I can turn on various washing machines on remotely… after loading them manually anyways? Why not have a washing machine that doubles as a cabinet so I don’t need to load it and unload it?

    So I can have a lawn watering system that automatically waters when the soil moisture gets too low? To have a lawn mower roomba that automatically deploys when some sensor sees the grass get a bit to long? I’d rather not have a lawn, or at least some sort of native plant lawn that doesn’t need watering and constant mowing.

    I don’t hate clever gadgets, I hate brain dead gadgets, automation of pointless systems. Why automate something that could be avoided entirely with better design. You have perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

  • New McCarthyite Campaign Against Mamdani and DSA

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  • Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal

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  • We’ve known for a while that the current government in Tehran has been willing to do awful things, but that it’s constantly being brought up now makes me think that this is an attempt to manufacture consent to start another war. This is, obviously, a very bad idea.

  • My bike lock was full of ice. Hot water bottle cleared it up, WD-40 to keep it clear.

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  • When I first read the title i saw it as “pouring boiling hot water on it cleared it up” and imagined some part in it cracking due to thermal shock.

    Not sure how big of an issue that would really be, depends on the metals in it I imagine. I know a lot of people destroy car windows trying to melt ice off them with boiling water.

    A hot water bottle is a much better option, slower heating.

  • Dutch students create modular electric car "you can repair yourself"

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  • I to have a modular electric vehicle but, mine already has a massive variety of after market options to modify and upgrade it to me needs with.

    It’s called… my bicycle that I put a motor on.