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pcdevils··on The last time my family was replaced by technology
25kw brain would probably smell like bbq
pcdevils··on OUI-1: world's first model for Generative UI
Pre-LLMs Steve Krug wrote "Don't make me think" Now we come to a generation of random UIs that will confuse the life out of users and, being non deterministic, be a nightmare for support teams; though they'll probably have no real support, just more llms.
pcdevils··on Building a native C# implementation of CEL engine
Used it for years in part because of https://git-cliff.org/
pcdevils··on EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application
It's companies dumping unsold ranges of clothes as new ranges come in. Not people.
pcdevils··on Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
You can use Mozilla SOPS instead with IAM roles and KMS instead of gpg. They also shifted to AGE over gpg.
pcdevils··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce
Flippant sarcasm that they're pretending this wasn't a financial decision, and was entirely about being ready for the amazing productivity gains of ai they've already seen, expanding across the business.
pcdevils··on Judge: Nvidia's Shadow Library Scripts 'Have No Other Purpose' Than Infringement
"Megatron" appropriate they'd pick a Decepticon
pcdevils··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce
When you announce 639m USD revenue for q1 Then lay off a thousand people because you love the smell of your ai farts.
pcdevils··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
Leveraged buyouts are a fucking disease
pcdevils··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
More AI it is
pcdevils··on The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture
It's not blocked By the UK, he's put a country filter on it Like all the US sites that decided to block.the EU over gdpr because turning off tracking was too much effort
pcdevils··on How to get better at guitar
Killer reply
pcdevils··on Every GPU That Mattered
They had great box art
pcdevils··on Hong Kong police can now demand phone passwords under new security rules
The police must obtain appropriate permission from a judge to obtain a s.49 RIPA notice.

Before a judge grants the notice, they must be satisfied that:

The key to the protected information is in the possession of the person given notice. Disclosure is necessary in the interest of national security, in preventing or detecting crime or in the interests of the economic wellbeing of the UK. Disclosure is proportionate. If the protected information cannot be obtained by reasonable means.

pcdevils··on Italy, Belgium set to lose gas supply after biggest LNG plant bombed
More world problems. Thanks America.
pcdevils··on The Reasons Teens Say No to AI
The kids are alright.
pcdevils··on UK Government to Create 'British FBI', Roll Out Nationwide Facial Recognition
The Tories used new legislation to restrict protests, sliced away at union powers even introducing law stating the gov can force 'essential' workers back to work, created and pushed through the Online Safety act (then left labour to enforce it). And that was only in the few years mess under May/Boris/Rishi

"Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022: Expands police powers to restrict protests based on "serious disruption," including imposing noise limits and start/finish times, reported the BBC.

Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023: Enables employers to mandate service levels during strikes in sectors like health, transport, and fire services, effectively curbing union power, notes Labour Research.

Public Order Act 2023: Introduced further measures against "disruptive" protest tactics, such as locking on, often used by environmental protestors, explain Sage Journals and peoplesmomentum.com.

Nationality and Borders Act 2022: Critiqued for undermining international refugee law and introducing differential treatment for asylum seekers based on their method of arrival, write Sage Journals.

Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022: Critics argue this act weakens judicial oversight, reducing the ability of citizens to challenge government decisions in court, says Zara Sultana on TikTok.

Online Safety Act 2023: While aimed at protecting users, some critics raised concerns about potential impacts on free speech and the regulation of content, suggest Sage Journals. "

pcdevils··on Fix your robots.txt or your site disappears from Google
You lose any real attribution and people following other links on your site... Essentially Google took the value and left you with nothing.
pcdevils··on Photographing the hidden world of slime mould
It's focus stacking so basically just compensating for the way macro lenses and large apertures work. There's nothing artificial about it, the software is just layering the sharpest parts into the photo. It's a common technique, heavily used for things like astro photography and landscape photography as well. https://www.canon.co.uk/get-inspired/tips-and-techniques/foc...
pcdevils··on Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending
There's also digital ocean and hertzner cloud if you don't want to enter the AWS money pit. Though if you're looking to become a forensic accountant, AWS billing is great training
pcdevils··on Windows 11 October 2025 Update Triggers Major Gaming Performance Regression
From the company that was the dominant web browser for a decade and left it to rot. They're pretty good at throwing away a lead position
pcdevils··on GitLab scan finds 17,000 secrets in public repos, leading to $9000+ in bounties
Assuming bog standard lambda they'd have to rate limit a whole Aws region lambda range which would risk affecting legit usage. Bit of an arse way to behave against a service
pcdevils··on A down detector for down detector's down detector
Probably churned out using v0 which defaults to bloat
pcdevils··on Build your own database
Pretty much how eventstoredb works. Deleting data fully only happens at scavenge which rewrites the data files.
pcdevils··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
That's nearly every ai start-up done for
pcdevils··on Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
For one thing, we'd make shit batteries.
pcdevils··on Stockpile 72 hours of supplies in case of disaster or attack, EU tells citizens
People underestimate water needs. Enough to drink, wash, brush your teeth, flush a loo unless you're digging a pit at the bottom of the garden to go in
pcdevils··on Failure Costs
It's more expensive to screw over large workforces in countries that actually look after employees rights Vs ones with weak protections. Have to love the endless "how can we fix this" from people looking to extract as much money as possible with as little regard for staff as possible.
pcdevils··on Magic UI: UI Library for Design Engineers
Scrolled down on my pixel 3a XL and the webview crashed
pcdevils··on Microsoft Security-101: Open-Source curriculum
Same company that ran it's 'container services' on an ancient version of kubernetes with broken isolation
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