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ranandtoldthat

@ ranandtoldthat @beehaw.org

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  • So, Linus Torvalds is a jerk

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  • Honesty and hostility are not the same. You can call code bad without cursing someone out or belittling their existence.

    Linus himself admitted years ago to being a hostile jerk, and realized it had a negative impact on his life and projects. He took time to improve upon this. See my other comment for some sources.

  • So, Linus Torvalds is a jerk

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  • A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating

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  • High school very much is real life for kids.

  • Google Gemini deletes user's code

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  • Oof. This individual is really counting on "no such thing as bad publicity". As someone who had had final say on a handful of hirings, this would be a red flag. Being able to learn from mistakes and use your tools is vital in software engineering. Publicly blaming tools is not a good look.

  • get sum

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  • Really depends on what the question asked. I'd mostly trust the GSS to report the data correctly, but not really trust Wapo to do so. I looked at GSS questions (can't view data on mobile) and it seems like Wapo might be being drawing some misleading conclusions from the data, as no question specifically asked this. Hard to be sure.

  • Brazil rules that social media platforms are responsible for users’ posts

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  • Thanks for the context and analysis. Hope it works out for smaller forums.

  • Brazil rules that social media platforms are responsible for users’ posts

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  • When something similar happened in the UK, it was pretty much exclusively smaller/niche forums, run by volunteers and donations, that went offline.

  • Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

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  • I gotta reread Vinge's Rainbows End

  • Iranian-Aligned Hackers Attack Trump's Truth Social: Report

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  • Wait. You're advocating for collective punishment for Americans resisting Trump?

  • Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps

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  • Recognizing bias is indeed important. But every source has some bias. Refusing to engage with biased sources will rule out everything. If you think it doesn't rule out something, you've found your own bias! Good, it's powerful to know your own bias.

    Neutrality is in fact its own bias. Not everything need or should be neutral.

    So, check the source. Eff? OK you know or can readily discover they are going to have a bias toward protecting individuals online. Read the piece knowing that and you can get valuable information from it.

    If you like, you can reference the information with attribution, Eg "the Eff says..." to avoid taking on their own bias as your own.

  • Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps

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  • As a reader, you can't rely on headlines to be a replacement for reading the article. Headlines tend to be shorter than the corresponding article and require a level of summarization to be effective.

  • how's your week going, Beehaw

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  • I enjoyed that book. Really apropos reading in these times, an interest examination of "post truth" ideas.

  • Discord CTO says he’s “constantly bringing up enshittification” during meetings

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  • I read the article, but nothing can convince me the discord execs aren't purely thinking of how ways to further enshittify.

  • Microsoft wants a version of USB-C that “just works” consistently across all PCs

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  • It applies. The Microsoft requirements are different than the standard requirements. Stricter in some ways, but more lenient in others.

  • Google's new AI video tool floods internet with real-looking clips

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  • It's like Infinite Jest, just an alternate timeline.

  • Brian Eno, creator of the Windows 95 startup sound, calls on Microsoft to sever ties with Israel

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  • He's not saying this because he has influence with Microsoft directly. He's doing it because he's Brian Eno and he will be heard, and because of the respect he's earned amongst his peers, he will be heard by people with even louder voices. So Microsoft and other companies and consumers will hear. Hopefully with enough acts like this, companies are shamed enough that it affects their bottom lines enough that they stop supporting genocide.

  • VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them

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  • I have a lifetime nebula. I'm probably about 2/3 of the way to it being positive value, but it's such a good service that I don't mind.

    I really wish dropout had a lifetime option.

  • Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act

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  • I'm confident leadership whipped the votes hard on this one, probably as a futile show of unity. That's where the blame lies.

    It would indeed be nice to see a few democrats resisting attacks on the constitution and such but in the house a small number of voices cannot block legislation like in the senate.

    I would also like to hear an explanation from AOC just to understand the politics of not acting as the singular democratic "no" vote here. But I'm not going to hold her to task given the obvious failure of leadership.

  • Any good FOSS music player apps for Android that are still getting updated?

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  • I switched back to VLC a while ago after trying others. Not fancy, but it tends to just work.