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6yyyyyy··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Rather than criminalizing more substances we should legalize more to apply a uniform standard.
6yyyyyy··on Zelensky says Russia has widened attacks to hit Ukraine's data centres
A dedicated group of people with some engineering knowledge and an achievable amount of money could easily launch a missile into space. Getting to space is easy, staying in space is what's hard. You don't even need a warhead, as long as the missile intersects the data center's orbit, just hitting it at speed will have the same effect as a bomb.

The point is moot though, as data centers in space is a complete fantasy that will never happen.

6yyyyyy··on Vibecoding isn't a crime How Distribute Your App on Linux after Flathub refusal
BASED. I'm going to feel a lot better about getting software from Flathub from now on.
6yyyyyy··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
An AI generated poster signals low effort. If you're too lazy or too cheap to make a real poster it makes me wonder what other corners have been cut.
6yyyyyy··on Introducing GNOME 51, "A Coruña"
Wow Maps is cool, I had no idea this was on my computer.
6yyyyyy··on Reversing Factorio's RNG
Games, especially multiplayer games, should start using CSPRNGs and hash functions for random events. This has in particular been a problem for Minecraft where people can reverse-engineer coordinates from screenshots of natural terrain. Most games don't need so much randomness that performance is an issue.
6yyyyyy··on The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities
If you were living in 1992 and already had a good TV you probably would turn down something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpBMLFLjNx8
6yyyyyy··on Steam Frame starts at $1059
How many flights are you people taking that it's cutting into your work time? When I fly I just read a book.
6yyyyyy··on Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco
The seal between the piston and the cylinder isn't perfect, so when the engine runs combustion products will mix with the oil, making the oil eventually unusable. That's why ICE engines meed oil changes so often.
6yyyyyy··on Implementation of GCC's Nested Functions (vs. C++ Lambdas)
The benefit is that you don't have to solve one of the hard problems in computer science (naming things).
6yyyyyy··on Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools
This seems like the LLM is vastly overcomplicating things. My entire Neovim config is a single 500 line init.lua and this is enough for LSP to work.
6yyyyyy··on Hang on to Your Firefox
It does (to the search engine you use) unless you turn off "Show search suggestions in address bar results".
6yyyyyy··on We spoke to the man making viral Lego-style AI videos for Iran
The protests and killings were extremely widely reported at the time.
6yyyyyy··on Windows native app development is a mess
You should run away from React Native Desktop screaming. It's built on top of WinUI 3, and inherits all it's problems, while also being dramatically slower. Almost all functionality requires writing C++ code, and communicating between C++ and JS is a huge pain in the ass. Use QT instead.

And if you think using it will let you port your app to other platforms, think again. There's no drop-in compatible equivalent of RNW for Linux, and the version for Mac is even worse than the Windows version.

t. works on a huge app written with React Native Desktop

6yyyyyy··on UK Society of Authors launches logo to identify books written by humans not AI
I hope this is successful. Fake books are flooding online stores and if this was widely adopted I would certainly refuse to buy anything without it.

But unfortunately I think that's unlikely. Most authors will likely never hear about this. I assume there will be some kind of fee to participate, but this will discourage people from using it. And even if it takes off, the fake book authors will just slap it on anyway as I'm not sure what enforcement mechanism would be effective.

6yyyyyy··on UK Society of Authors launches logo to identify books written by humans not AI
No AI period. As soon as you feed your writing into the slop machine it starts telling you how to make it more like slop (I know someone who's cowriting a book with ChatGPT - this is exactly the result.)

I'd rather read things with typos and bad grammar than read something copyedited by AI.

6yyyyyy··on Wired headphone sales are exploding
You can fix this by dubbing the vinyl onto a CD-R. It'll sound identical and you won't need to mess with the turntable more than once.
6yyyyyy··on FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is
I thought the government was shut down? Why is this funded but not SNAP?
6yyyyyy··on Boring is what we wanted
They should go back to the Windows 2000 theme, that was the best one.
6yyyyyy··on Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026
It's more complex than that: The card actually has some nonvolatile storage with your current balance, which gets decremented each time you use it.
6yyyyyy··on I’m Not a Robot
Couldn't find Waldo, but this reminds me of the skill check CAPTCHA I encountered on Sega of Japan's website:

https://i.imgur.com/5940xMk.png

6yyyyyy··on Left to Right Programming
Please no. I hate when the editor adds random shit I didn't type to the file.
6yyyyyy··on Self-Guaranteeing Promises
You can use KeePassXC for passkeys. It will generate completely unidentifiable public keys, and save the the private keys to a portable KDBX file.

It's unfortunate that passkeys have been such a disaster. Attestation should never have been part of the spec, it should never have been presented as a replacement for hardware U2F keys, and a private key file format should have been defined on day 1. But there is useful functionality buried under all the noise and confusion.

6yyyyyy··on The US Relies on 51 Forty-five-year-old ships to Transport its Military Overseas [video]
Why do we need to transport our military overseas, anyway? We should close all our overseas bases and save the money.
6yyyyyy··on The US Relies on 51 Forty-five-year-old ships to Transport its Military Overseas [video]
The Gaza Pier failed because it was a PR stunt and not a serious attempt to get aid into Gaza.
6yyyyyy··on ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]
The ideal answer is the UN sends in peacekeeping forces to kick out the IDF.

That won't happen due to the USA. So in practice the answer to "How will the Gazans eat?" is "They won't."

6yyyyyy··on The sad state of font rendering on Linux (2018)
High PPI screens have been around for 10 years or so, and they still cost about twice as much as a standard PPI screen the same size.

Put yourself in the shoes of the average computer purchaser: Would you rather buy a high PPI monitor, or two standard PPI monitors? To me this is a no-brainer.

6yyyyyy··on Payment processors' bar on Japanese adult content endangers democracy (2024)
Much evidence contradicts your theory.
6yyyyyy··on Civil War in 3D: Stereographs from the New-York Historical Society (2015)
I flipped them all, enjoy:

https://imgur.com/a/OOiQ5AK

(FYI: -vf stereo3d=in=sbsl:out=sbsr in ffmpeg.)

6yyyyyy··on Open source and self hostable/private file converter
You have your timeline confused. When Microsoft bought Mojang, the only version of Minecraft on PC was Java Edition. It wasn't under the next year that they released the Windows 10 Edition (which is what became Bedrock on PC).
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