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A few thousand words written by a human in a magazine feature is not "the enshittification of technology news". For those who want bullet point distillations of news, that exists in the form of Axios et al. Some of us like long form journalism. Both are fine. The real enshittification will be when the web is overrun with LLM bullshit of questionable veracity.

For YouTube, I never actually visit YouTube.com. I view my subscriptions via my RSS/Atom feed reader and I watch the videos with mpv. This has probably saved me many hours I would have wasted clicking through "recommended" videos in the sidebar.

Recently I set up a miniflux instance with the intention of using it as a backend for newsboat. I'd been using newsboat on its own for a while and I liked it, but wanted my feeds accessible on other devices. Turns out I liked miniflux's UI so much that I didn't even bother finishing setting up newsboat to be its frontend. Now I'm 100% miniflux, using the web app on both desktop and mobile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35DSdw7dHjs is as relevant as ever

> Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state? Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.

Jane Street has been purchasing advertisements with popular math YouTubers[1][2] recently, and it really bothers me. Think how many young, mathematically curious people are watching these channels and getting told that working for Jane Street is a worthwhile use of their time and intelligence.

[1]: Numberphile, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBU9E-ZOZAI

[2]: Stand-up Maths (Matt Parker), e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGoRJePORHs

> This year, Gopls releases focused on improving stability and performance

Glad to see more work on gopls, as it sometimes has very high CPU usage in my experience. Could also be an issue with my vim/ALE setup, but other LSPs seem to perform fine.

That link now 301s to another page. Here is an archive of the article: https://archive.ph/Yg64e

Funny that this website is anything but minimal. Instead of using fragments for each section (e.g. http://minifesto.org/#prioritize), this site uses some janky JavaScript scrolling behavior that messes up my browser's back button.

I'm a fan of msmtp for this sort of "lightweight" mail sender, since I really only need it for cron notifications and a few hacky scripts. Maybe I'll give dma a spin.

Happy Purelymail user for about a year and a half now. Multiple custom domains, easy routing, and cheap. It does have a "bus factor" of 1, though, so something like Fastmail might be preferable to some people.

TIL about <mark>, <meter>, and <progress>!

For something like a personal website or blog this seems totally sufficient, though maybe a bit boring. I disagree that these kinds of projects are "generally a terrible idea."

Nice to finally have TOML support in the stdlib, especially considering pip's dependence on it.

That's pretty cool! What other learn-a-new-language projects do you (or others) have? I like to write a very basic HTTP 1.0 server when trying out a new language.