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There's something upsetting about that combination of traits, don't you think? "Millionaire hackers" should be using their influence and money to try to avert a doomsday scenario if they believe it's likely. Not just prepare to hole up and wait it out.

It also works well on Steam using their Proton system, although you'll have to opt in to it. I just bought this game last week!

My TV is a 42" 1080p LG TV I've had for almost ten years now and I fear the day it gives up the ghost. I don't really care about 4K or the thinner bezels (although having a physically lighter, as in less heavy, TV would be nice). But the last thing I want is a "smart" TV. I just want a dumb box that pushes the pixels I give it. Are there any of those left out there? Will I have to sacrifice quality otherwise just so my TV doesn't spy on me or get viruses?

I used the phrase "tickling the dragon's tail" recently when I ran some maintenance code in production without testing it first (because there really wasn't a way to test it outside of production, long series of failures to get to this point, I know). I used to call it cowboy coding.

FWIW, this was the first time I'd done something like that in about 5 years and I felt horrible during and afterwards even though nothing went wrong. I felt like I should have given up a sobriety coin or something. Feels bad. Like falling off the wagon.

I grew up on OS/2 Warp on a PS/1 Consultant. I still have a couple of boxes with original copies of OS/2 Warp and the manuals and optional software disks in my back closet. I guess you could say I have a soft spot for it. It was really ahead of its time compared to its contemporaries, second only to BeOS. But people who weren't techies back in the early 90s didn't see the value in buying a different operating system when their system came with DOS and Windows 3.1. And, honestly, they were probably right! Computers didn't really have the oomph or the networking capabilities at the time to power all the multimedia applications IBM had in mind.

So I can't really judge the MTA too harshly because OS/2 is solid and it'll probably gladly do the job for another 30 years so long as the hardware lasts.

No big surprise here, but this does not work on my phone.

Use your own experiences and your common sense to make good decisions yourself.

I think it only limits "freedom" in that it only makes sense on Debian-based operating systems. Whereas I can and do run npm on tons of different Linux distributions, MacOS, and (theoretically) Windows.

You can do things with deb packages on other Linux distributions kinda-sorta using various programs and scripts, but it's not painless. And Mac and Windows are right out.

The same applies generally as to why there are usually two types of dependency managers. One for binary packages and binary shared libraries (even though these often include source code for C & C++ stuff), and one for specific language development environments. See also Rust, Dart, Python, Ruby, Go, Lua, etc., etc. All those languages have their own package managers.

At first, I thought this was going to be some "A Scanner Darkly" level stuff done real-time over Skype or something. Turns out it's just using thispersondoesnotexist.com to generate a profile pic for a website. I'd expected bots to have picked up this trick by now.

Since the Mario Maker sequel is just around the corner (release date is 6/28, I believe), this is a great source of good design hints and lessons for making satisfying, enjoyable levels.

This is what the decentraleyes browser plugin is for.

https://decentraleyes.org/

In the FAQ section under "Is Razer Silver a cryptocurrency?" it says it is not. It claims to be a royalty rewards program.

So, it's not a cryptocurrency if for no other reason that you can't exchange it with anyone but Razer. But then why is it called a "miner". And what are they doing with your CPU cycles?

/s? Please?

This really doesn't sit well with me. Yes, the bars in question were breaking the law. However, keep in mind that one business was using private citizens to essentially spy on other businesses without the citizens' knowledge or consent.

I'm sure the users of the app technically gave legal consent via the app's terms of service. But I doubt even 1% of the app's users were actually aware of this aspect of the app.

Also, this is why the permissions an app requires to operate matter. I roll my eyes just as hard as the next person when I see comments in the Google's Play store about the absurd level of permissions required by some apps. But I also think twice when I install apps requiring ridiculous permissions compared with what they're supposed to do.

I love the concept of this. There's no better way to put Facebook's policy to the test than to turn it against them.

Wow, that's embarrassing that I missed that. Thank you.

I may have missed it since the README is a plain text file and Github didn't make that url a link. That's still on me, though.

FWIW, I'll stick it here in a way that's actually a link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC976eejfms

Is the implication of this article that people should be having kids to avoid loneliness? Because that's a bit of a twisted reason to have kids IMHO.

"Low on friends? Have kids! They're pretty much required to be your friends." Yikes.

I'd love a screenshot or video or gif or something. I'm on mobile at the moment and I can't try this out. And I totally understand that it would have to be a camera pointed at a monitor. That's fine.

I wasn't aware Coq could generate data types for general purpose programming languages. According to the docs, it supports OCaml, Scheme, and Haskell. I think I may have spotted a plugin to generate C code as well. I wish it supported more!

The ol' bait and switch. But, I mean, it is technically an image browser. Despite the title, there's nothing in the design that limits the types of images this can be used for. In fact, I missed that distinction until your comment because I was mostly skimming.

If it delivers on its promise, this could be very useful. I'm no kernel hacker, but any tool that makes working with kernel code easier and safer is a real boon!

Ehhhh... I'm very aware of everything behind the "elf wife guy". I was in the various fandoms when that whole drama went down just a few weeks ago. And that little snippet, "elf wife guy", is about as incorrect as one can be. The "guy" was never publicly about his wife. His now-former wife is not and has never been "a professional elf". I can't believe how completely wrong something can be in so few words.

This is fantastic and I think it aligns perfectly with many of the goals of the language, at least so far as I perceive them. As the blog post says, it's going to be a long, hard road to reach Sealed Rust. But I, for one, believe it's worth it. I hope Ferrous Systems sticks with it.

Also, please let the community know how we can help. Whether that involves writing code, unit tests, or financial contributions with a Patreon-like system. I really want to see this become a reality and a first class citizen of the Rust ecosystem.

Embrace of death, maybe?

I was able to get New York to work, but then I foolishly switched to Portland. Now I can't get any of the scanners to work. It's just the music.

SF may be down but New York is up. I love the idea of this. Technology remix culture used to create a Big Mood.

I'd like to request the addition of Chicago, please!

I can't seem to zoom in far enough on my phone to read the labels. What are those two events where traffic spikes tremendously?

Nobody comes off looking particularly good here. If these corporations are going to act like grade schoolers calling each other names on the playground, I'm inclined to not use either of them.

I used NordVPN for about a year a couple of years ago and I found their quality of service unsatisfactory. I've been using ProtonVPN for about a year now and I've been very satisfied. But that's just my personal experience and YMMV.

I love Lady Ada. But I wish I could just read this instead of having to watch a video.

It's definitely done on the backend with Twitter. Probably HN, too.