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mastermage··on Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business
AFAIK they also Rent out Apartments
mastermage··on SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods
I realy wished we had a way to have Companies make Legally enforcable claims.
mastermage··on SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods
Honestly why couldn't steam itself operate this? It seems like a great additional resource to steam
mastermage··on Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business
100% we do not need one company that makes everything hi there Samsung.
mastermage··on AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
Honestly still one of the main reasons why I am actualy considering switching to iPhone. Atleast with Apple I know what to expect. And as a bonus I get amazing vertical integration and probably the best aftermarket there is.
mastermage··on We are rebuilding Monica
Exactly this if I would not track it in my Calendar I would forget the birthday of my grandparents who I love dearly. It just cannot compute in the web of information that is in my brain. I need a crutch for it.
mastermage··on The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
Sam "Its only Open until it does not benefit me anymore" Altman
mastermage··on Hacking IKEA Furniture
There has been quite some changes on the construction of IKEA furniture within the last 30 years. There was an interesting video that I cant remember the name anymore about this.
mastermage··on Hacking IKEA Furniture
Ok so i have varied opinion on this. IKEA is great for getting some stuff quickly and you know what to expect.

The big problem I have with Ikea is it creates a sort of disposable Furniture Industry because quite often people will throw their Ikea Stuff away after the first or second moving. Or not even take it with them. Because it is so easy to get and so cheap.

mastermage··on Hacking IKEA Furniture
What do you think Phone Cases are for? People love phone cases because it gives their devices a bit uniqueness. AirPods also have cases. Other than that for Obvious Reasons Phones all look similar. The shape of your phone is not self expression. However i would hazard a guess if you look into the phone on the home screen you will not find two alike.
mastermage··on The End of Programming
I think he is saying this in reference to this: "If you can reduce a problem to a clearly verifiable end state, provide the necessary context [...]"

Which for reference i am not an engineer but a Physicist is literally one of the things we make jokes about for engineers. Not that we are much better in that regard as a verfiable end state in Physics is like realy realy dificult to get so is the necessary context.

mastermage··on The End of Programming
I do see this as good... for my personal future career. Currently AI has caused a massive hiring stop in Consulting which is the area I want to go into. However the more terrible AI decisions there are in the future the more need for a human that can scrutinize those decision there is again. Aka Consulting will boom in a few years. (Is my hope)
mastermage··on The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source
nearly as bad as closed source compilers. Looking at you ADA (one of the imho nicest designed languages) suffering from an awfull network of closed source compilers.
mastermage··on Mojo is now open source
it definetely existed and was one of the major things why I was interested in it. I wished I could have used this to slowly migrate away from Python codes in Physics.

But alas they dropped the goal and for me the ball with the decision to stop following this. I will probably not write mojo code when I could use Rust or Julia instead, which are more aligned with my necessities.

mastermage··on OpenLogi
Dumb question but its because I genuinely do not know better. What is the security risk of what is as far as i understand a mouse driver with config options?
mastermage··on A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
i love woops
mastermage··on A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
I love DuckDB genuinely more than sqlite even though they do completely different things but DuckDB has like for me the perfect mix between simplicity, embedded capabilities and expressiveness. (and actual Time and Date Types).
mastermage··on Claude: System Prompts
let me add especially if one country in continent x has a vastly superior military firepower compared to everything else.
mastermage··on U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’
Hi from Germany here I have had to for the largest part of my School life grt up at 6:15 so i could be in school at 8:00 then i often had school until 15-17 and had to do homewerk after aswell. Only in my 11th to 13th grade did it relax a bit because I changed schools and also got better due to redoing some of the basics. And mind you in germany Extra Curriculars are not realy necessary.
mastermage··on Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?
I took a trip from Germany to Italy over the alps with my EV with only 60 kWh of Battery. In reality the largest amount of delay I got due to other uncontrollable factors like a massive 2 hours traffic jam. in contrast to that I had like 1 20 minutes charging break and one 5 minutes to buy my esim that i forgot for switzerland. The 20 minute break i was gonna take anyways to take a piss and eat some food.
mastermage··on Substack writers, you need a website
because they have to due to EU Laws every business operating in the EU has to allow this.
mastermage··on Substack writers, you need a website
what improvements? The algorithm that radicalises people and keeps them seperated in bubbles? The Mass Data Harvesting?
mastermage··on Android may soon restrict on-device ADB
There is a reason that I am considering switching to IOS because google keeps pulling this shit. Atleast with Apple I know what I get.

Which is not the most flexible system, with apple only implementing the mandatory minimum of interoptability and features required by EU rules. But other than that delivering a rather solid product with excellent vertical integration. And at least i know that unlike Google their main business is not in advertising. (but in pricing their incremental upgrades ridiculously)

mastermage··on Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
It is question i just foegot the Questionmark because i am dumb.
mastermage··on EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps
How is the US doing with their Tariffs?
mastermage··on Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot
I enjoy JetBrains IDEs alot. Altough I mainly use Dataspell and Datagrip and not Intellij but they make my life easier. Specifically when connecting to new DBs
mastermage··on Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
Or in the words of Clickbait articles: MATHMATICIANS SHIVER OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF AI WILL MATHMATICIANS NO LONGER BE NEEDED.

to which betteridge's law of headlines says: NO.

mastermage··on Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
Interesting didnt know. Expected but not great. Though depending on the application workable I would say.
mastermage··on Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
Only actualy censored thing i found so far was Tianmen Square. And depending on what you use it for thats realy not a big issue.
mastermage··on Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations?
Hopefully
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