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micka190

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  • Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions

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  • According to a Stack Overflow survey from 2025, 84 percent of developers now use or plan to use AI tools, up from 76 percent a year earlier. This rapid adoption partly explains the decline in forum activity.

    As someone who participated in the survey, I'd recommend everyone take anything regarding SO's recent surveys with a truckfull of salt. The recent surveys have been unbelievably biased with tons of leading questions that force you to answer in specific ways. They're basically completely worthless in terms of statistics.

  • Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why

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  • Maybe I'm just dumb, but I always thought half of GitLab's features were unavailable to self-hosted instances. It's why I just self-host Gitea and Woodpecker instead.

  • AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone

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  • Every sub I was active in has become one of two things:

    • Bot spam
    • Dead

  • Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest

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  • Pretty sure this kind of thing has been illegal since before Edward Snowden became a whistleblower, tbh. The US Government hasn't cared about people's privacy and the laws surrounding it for decades.

  • Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online

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  • "Researchers scrape thousands of hours of news footage from their TVs!" is about as big a deal, honestly.

  • uBlock Origin is no longer available in the Chrome store

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  • Yeah. What company wouldn’t allow it?

    My IT department uninstalled it from my work laptop, and told me not to reinstall it because - and I quote: "The only browser IT officially supports is Google Chrome."

    What makes this doubly stupid is that I'm a web developer. I literally can't test my stuff on another browser...

  • Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order

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  • No one outside of China has their data stored there, though. Every tech company that complies with China hosts the data in China and usually makes the Chinese version of their software work differently as a result. The Chinese government isn't able to just see everyone else's data.

  • Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data

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  • Someone else in this thread mentioned that going to about:config and typing telemetry will apparently show that some things are still set to true despite unchecking the settings in the Privacy section.

    Note: I'm not the guy you originally replied to, and I haven't personally tested this. Just pointing out where you can allegedly find those settings if you're interested. (I personally don't care and think this whole thing is overblown by the community, for what it's worth)

  • Apple pulled end-to-end encrypted backups in the UK after request for backdoor

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  • The UK government's obsession with being a Big Brother is so damn frustrating. A preview of what other governments will try and become in the near future, unfortunately.

  • Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian

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  • Not daily, but their canvas feature has a feature that lets you embed previews of your files into the flow charts you make. It's pretty nice, since you can have shorter files entirely visible with everything else. Makes it pretty good for software development and project management, in my experience.

    Careful not to go overboard with it, though. I feel like a lot of people fall down the "productivity pipeline" when using it, where they end up procrastinating by trying to optimize every little thing and end up doing nothing at all.

  • AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

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  • Any good web crawler has limits.

    Yeah. Like, literally just:

    • Keep track of which URLs you've been to
    • Avoid going back to the same URL
    • Set a soft limit, once you've hit it, start comparing the contents of the page with the previous one (to avoid things like dynamic URLs taking you to the same content)
    • Set a hard limit, once you hit it, leave the domain altogether

    What kind of lazy-ass crawler doesn't even do that?

  • Rednote right now

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  • Honestly, I don't even believe it's inefficient. There's plenty of documented/recorded evidence of child labor around the world. Sometimes, all you really need is a pair of hands, and kids are physically capable of doing it. Countries with shitty labor laws are ripe with child labor abuse.

  • YouTuber LegalEagle sues PayPal over 'sleeping leech' Honey extension | TechCrunch

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  • That's not what his video showed though. They don't change the URL, they open another tab, which then overrides the cookie/session variable that is used to determine who the referrer is. It's still scummy, but it doesn't seem to be swapping links outright.

  • YouTuber LegalEagle sues PayPal over 'sleeping leech' Honey extension | TechCrunch

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  • This gist of it from the WAN show was this:

    • They were unaware that it was intentionally not looking for the best deals (thus, scamming the consumer)
    • They stopped advertising Honey because of the referral hijacking
    • A ton of creators knew about it, and had already dropped Honey (people just talked about it via DMs, not publicly)
    • This all happened when YouTubers were getting shit on for even doing ads/sponsors, and they didn't want to make a video that was basically "stop using this thing that saves you money because it takes my money" (see first point)

  • Statue Facts Nobody Asked For

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  • Camera pans down

    His crotch is polished bronze.

  • Now playing in Canada

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  • That, and winter tires. The amount of people I know who don't bother getting winter tires because "it's not required by law" is infuriatingly high.

  • Now playing in Canada

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  • Gestures at a car that did barrel rolls at a 4-way stop with a speed limit of 50km/h with 1 inch of snow on the ground.

    Yeah. Sure thing.

  • DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly

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  • I feel like Trump's probably going to axe whoever is finally tackling these monopolies, unfortunately.

  • Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky

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  • Every time I see non-tech people talk about Bluesky vs Mastodon, they talk about how awful the user experience is on Mastodon, and how it's been an issue for years and they keep ignoring it, so people just go to Bluesky instead.

    It definitely feels like a "Us tech folk who care about the tech love it, we don't mind the user experience as long as the tech is here" vs the "I just want the same thing I have over here, the tech aspect could not be any less relevant to my choice of platform" kind of issue.