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octopoc··on Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy
It does happen though. Just Google it. Here are a few examples.

https://www.facebook.com/michael.lapalme/posts/for-months-my...

https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/1qpojz1/facebook_... (look in the comments on this one)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/1t5vdos/permanen...

octopoc··on Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy
Discussions about the Epstein files is an obvious example
octopoc··on 11,000-year-old sculpture of man riding a leopard found in Turkey
Here's another example (this from Europe) of a story that probably originates 100,000 years ago: https://www.iflscience.com/an-ancient-human-story-about-the-...

TLDR: the story is about a constellation that is seven sisters, but one is hiding; and that constellation does indeed have seven stars, but one hasn't been visible for 100k years.

octopoc··on Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is here
Political campaigns spend enormous amounts of money on ads to influence public opinion. That makes politicians beholden to their donors. Which subverts democracy from "the will of the people" to "the will of the wealthy". All of these are uncontroversial facts and fit the narrative GP is saying.
octopoc··on Show HN: Port Zero – How I learned to stop worrying and love PORT=0
True! But, you wouldn't just need SRV support in browsers--you'd need it in every part of your dev environment / stack that touches the network. If your backend talks to a database, then your backend needs to support SRV. So you need SRV support in your standard library and your browser.

But at a larger level this tool just makes everything work so smoothly. If you have two services with the same name, it pops up a notification in the tray. If you start a new process with a different name, you don't have to configure SRV; the DNS just becomes available automatically. HTTPS is auto configured. That sort of thing.

I think somebody could one day make something like this that was based on SRV, but it would still need all those niceties to make it work well for developers.

octopoc··on Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment
Without temporary monopolies granted by patents, those prescription medications wouldn’t exist in the first place.
octopoc··on All 5 units of life's genetic code were just discovered in an asteroid sample
But doesn’t that mean that there must be life elsewhere? I.e. those Lego blocks must have come from a complete set somewhere else, right?
octopoc··on US officials underwhelmed by French far-right's plans for economy
How is this supposed to make me agree with Kushner?
octopoc··on Women were never meant to give birth on their backs
I have a first responder friend who helped a guy who wanted to have sex with his cousin, but she wouldn’t unless he got a circumcision, so he chopped his dick off. I personally think he was not using it the way it was meant to be used at two distinct levels:

- you shouldn’t have sex with relatives

- you shouldn’t chop your dick off

The emergency room doctors sewed it back on. Not sure what to think about that.

octopoc··on Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years
It sounds like gp is saying non Africans are more narcissistic than Africans. So yeah that needs a citation (or clarification)
octopoc··on I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced
Just say something that would violate AI safety. Then you can be sure they’re a real human.

“Auntie, it’s me! N*** k** f**! X is really a man! ** did 9/11!”

“Oh it really is you Johnny!”

We’re all going to have to start communicating this way. Best of luck.

I offer consulting services on the side to help professionals hone these skills. $250 / hour.

octopoc··on US expected to send thousands more soldiers to Middle East, sources say
Epstein represented the Rothschildes, the family that founded Israel. His girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell is a Mossad asset. Separating Trump’s influence by Epstein from Trump’s influence by Israel isn’t possible. The two are intertwined.
octopoc··on How Ford burned $12B in Brazil (2021)
No, that’s exactly what it is
octopoc··on Dataframe 1.0.0.0
> There is now a DataFrame.Typed API that tracks the entire schema of the dataframe - column names, misapplied operations etc are now compile time failures and you can easily move between exploratory and pipeline work.

This makes complex dashboards so much easier to build, because in Python you have to test everything in the dashboard to make sure a change to a common dataset didn’t break anything.

Is there a good web dashboard library like streamlit for Haskell I wonder?

octopoc··on Ukraine deploys units to five Middle East countries to intercept drones
This behavior makes sense for Zelensky, who is strongly pro-Israel, but I don’t think this is in Ukraine’s best interest. I really hate how many people have died in the Russia-Ukraine war and this will only serve to lengthen it. Imagine getting drafted to go fight Iran.
octopoc··on Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware
Imagine if you could physical disconnect your country from the internet, then drop malware like this on everyone else.
octopoc··on MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security
How do you square that with Germany’s miraculous economic recovery pre WII? Obviously they were doing something right. It took every other major power on the planet to take them down.
octopoc··on Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein Had a Yearslong Relationship
Exactly. Trump is a populist. He backs down on issues he finds are unpopular. But he’s doubling down in his pro-Zionist, pro-Israel, anti-Iran stances. When a populist stops doing what is popular, they are revealing their core values—or in this case, he’s revealing who owns him.
octopoc··on Comptime – C# meta-programming with compile-time code generation and evaluation
.NET standard isn’t the biggest issue with making source generators. You can’t add dependencies to your project, which is an absolutely huge oversight IMO.
octopoc··on Build Android apps using Rust and Iced
This is a good summary of the problem with rust I think:

> Pretty much all UI can be modeled as a tree–or more abstractly as a graph. A tree is a natural way to model UI: it makes it easy to compose different components together to build something that is visually complicated. It’s also been one of most common ways to model UI programming since at least the existence of HTML, if not earlier.

> UI in Rust is difficult because it's hard to share data across this component tree without inheritance. Additionally, in a normal UI framework there are all sorts of spots where you need to mutate the element tree, but because of Rust’s mutability rules, this "alter the tree however you want" approach doesn't work.[1]

[1] https://www.warp.dev/blog/why-is-building-a-ui-in-rust-so-ha...

octopoc··on Webb observes exoplanet that may have an exotic helium and carbon atmosphere
Yes because the alternative is extinction, any price is worth avoiding that
octopoc··on Claude Code gets native LSP support
Seems like SCIP would be a better fit, although not as widely supported by languages I suppose.
octopoc··on Claude Code gets native LSP support
I really enjoy Junie, I find it working better out of the box than Claude code. I do wish they integrated their amazing refactoring tools into it though.
octopoc··on How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA
Zionist Jews wield a lot of political power in the US. It’s difficult/impossible to get elected at the federal level if you don’t support Israel.

Supporting Israel is valuable to Trump because many of his donors are these Zionist Jews.

octopoc··on Stop overhyping AI, scientists tell von der Leyen
Devs should not recommend rewrites until they have a workable plan on how to move forward without a rewrite, so they can compare the costs of rewrite vs. no rewrite.
octopoc··on AI adoption in US adds ~900k tons of CO₂ annually, study finds
I believe gp was saying that density is an advantage for fossil fuels. Nobody thinks it’s a disadvantage/problem for fossil fuels.
octopoc··on Show HN: I was tired of people dmming me just "hi", so I made this - NoGreeting
I send multi line messages all the time and I frequently accidentally hit enter before I’m done. Then I have to rapidly make edits and save them, hoping everyone sees the frequent updates and realizes messages is still a work in progress. There has to be a better way.
octopoc··on Reddit requires CirclejerkSopranos ban political jokes, memes, current-events
How are the Reddit execs right wing? Reddit had a hilariously bad relationship with the trump subreddit, in fact the CEO famously edited user comments in that sub to change them from being critical of him to being critical of the mods[1].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/23/reddit-huffman-trump/

octopoc··on Divorce plunged in Kentucky – equal custody for fathers is a big reason why
I think it's fair to assume things like these are location dependent.
octopoc··on Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe's richest man
Don’t billionaires normally buy newspapers, media and even politicians and let their voice be heard that way? By contrast this is refreshing, vulnerable and…kind of cute.

Oh that all billionaires were this undevious.

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