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There's 2 things, one is the whole geobiology field which is not science.

https://www.senat.fr/rap/r20-487/r20-4874.html#toc29

> "LE RÔLE CROISSANT DE LA GÉOBIOLOGIE EN RÉPONSE AUX ANGLES MORTS DE LA SCIENCE"

Translates to "the growing role of geobiology in response to science's blind spots".

Then for Pneumatit it's not in Senat files, I might have to rewatch the video and add to that later.

Yes it is where I learned about the whole geobiology thing and Pneumatit.

Oh how I wish I was joking.

This stuff is apparently made from small bird femurs and nautilus shells grounded into powder, then add water, then diluted a million times so that they can sell olympic pools of the thing without running out of raw material. It's textbook homeopathic dilution.

I am a French taxpayer.

This is not the most outrageous thing about taxpayer money at work that I learned today.

That would be the fact that local branches of the ministry of agriculture require wind turbine builders to put blue dyed water in concrete to make it friendly to all life or something, I'm not sure I understand, it's called Pneumatit®, and I'm not making this up.

It's biodynamics, it's biogeology (neither biology nor geology, not an actual science, it's more like dowsers). It's not only about wind turbines, it's in so many buildings now, but because it's not only approved but required on some public projects, it's... interesting. It's homeopathy for concrete, and like homeopathy in France, it'll receive government subsidies for far longer than it should.

- Switch to Firefox with uBlock Origin.

- Change your default search engines.

- Uncheck the Firefox ads and remove commercial stuff.

- We all convince Mozilla to refrain from enshittifying Firefox or abandoning it, somehow, because ads are the main reason people hate browsing the internet, so if Firefox becomes a safe haven, Google will stop giving it money to stay alive.

Startups and incubators are actually ruining everything while telling everyone they're improving everything.

I think it's kinda true, but govt regulations should have prevented it, which is not happening anytime soon because politicians act like startups and lobbies act like incubators.

Last time I went to interconnected.org, you could type temporary messages that would appear at your cursor location to everyone, it was fun!

> If we use the US Department of Agriculture’s soil textural triangle, sand is any granular material that is at least 85% sand…

Cool, I just added a single grain of sand to a tonne of snow, now I have a tonne of sand. How convenient.

Your last sentence kinda contradicts the fact that the company Google operates the server behind gmail.com.

If Google was evil (but in reality it's not), it could have forged and signed an email from john.smith@gmail.com with valid DKIM, sent on other mail servers or not (since we talk about leaked emails, we just need a file), when in reality the Google user john.smith@gmail.com never sent that email. To me, John Smith could have plausible deniability in court, depending on if everyone trusts Google to be 100% reliable. If the stakes are higher than what the company would risk to lose if found to have forged the email, what's stopping them?

This captcha is so bad... I'm gonna automate the solving of this captcha so whenever my browser shows me "Press Win+R, CTRL+V <enter>", it automatically runs cmd.exe with the clipboard content so I can get to the site content faster and with no interruption.

Yes, I'm a 10X Windows user.

To me, DKIM doesn't prove that the user john.smith@gmail.com sent that email. It proves that gmail.com sent it.

I'd avoid trusting FAANGs in courts when the fate of political leaders is at stake.

I'd advise a complete rewrite of Astro to Rust+WASM, then add most of what Angular does inside the framework, then usenothing will benefit from it.

Same here, tried clicking near the prompt, nothing. Maybe I'm bad at git, can't even perform a simple commit.

edit: right after typing this, I clicked the title of the MacOS styled window to the left and somehow it worked, even though clicking everywhere inside it didn't.

The only reason to really spend time into learning AI now and buy online courses is to teach AI now and sell online courses. Which explains the Linkedin situation.

Poorly designed checkbox that killed 10 sailors and cost >200 million USD:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41297563

Sure, password managers are a SPoF, but in the event of a keylogger installed on the computer of someone with elevated access, you're screwed either way, password manager or not. Still, here password manager + 2FA could have helped, unless... 2FA recovery codes went through the clipboard at a time when the keylogger was watching the system clipboard... Next time I activate 2FA, I'm writing that down, in the dark, in a restroom, fold it, put it in a safe.

I can see some ways to use this and easily check that the LLM is not hallucinating parts of it, because you can ask the LLM to unminify (or deobfuscate) some component, then request unit tests to be written by the LLM, then humanly check that the unit tests are meaningful and that they don't miss things on the unminified code, then run the tests on the original minified version to confirm the LLM's work, maybe set up some mutation testing if it is relevant.

This game made me realize that even if I think it's sweet to code with keyboard only, using the mouse is generally faster, especially in this game where there's no back and forth to type something.

However, using the mouse to navigate is flaky here, probably because of how the terminal and decorations are rendered, it lands a character to the right or left when clicking the target.

Ad placement in software? Not many users appreciate it, and usually it's implemented to create value for the software company, not for the user. And yet it usually gets a lot of development resources.

Sounds like something a replicant would say.

Will this mean in-person business interactions will thrive because it will be the only way to avoid spam? Will companies hire thousands of people to deliver message in-person because emails no longer work?

Will our AI overlords create perfect androids to fool us into thinking we're interacting with a human when it's just LLMs disguised as people? Are we ourselves delusional because we're actually already LLMbots so advanced that we can't distinguish thought and running inference? Why do we have only 12 fingers?

Yes, that's quite right.

That's why I created EtherGPT, an LLM Chat agent that runs decentralized in the Ether blockchain, on smart contracts only, to make sure that value is created and rewards directly the people and not big companies.

By providing it just a fraction of just a bit north of 10% of the current fusion reactions occuring in our sun, and giving it a decade or two on processing time and sync, you can ask it simple questions like "what do dogs do when you're not around" and it will come up with helpful answers like "they go to work in an office" or funny ones like "you should park your car in direct sunlight so that your dog can recharge its phone using solar panels".

Ripgrep is recent and written in Rust, but it does not describe itself as modern, even if some apects of it are.

Its interface is designed to be an almost drop-in replacement of grep, which makes it "old style".

I think software can be old style, modern, or neutral. Most software written today aims for modern, it seems logical.

And for reviewing failed tests that were hallucinated by LLM testing software. And for fixing the consequences of LMM testing giving false negatives.

I hate clickbait, but this doesn't look like this one is, because it's not misleading, it's not trying to hide something to get you to click, and does not lure you with information that's not in the article.

If most of those projects would never even have started if they didn't go Agile, is it survivorship bias?

Not implying it is true, but there is the possibility that Agile allows you to fail early, fail more often, lose less money, try more things, maybe?

Yes, let’s try to explain technical things to non technical people without using technical words and pretend we're getting somewhere and that it's useful for them.

Nice to know MacBooks also can have this kind of problems, I was under the impression that if you paid the price, walled gardens and controlled hardware would make life easy.

Computers are hard. Could be worse, though, in alternate universes, major OSes never agreed on USB and other standards.

You won't care, but the living will.

Funerals aren't meant for the deceased, they allow the living to mourn and move on. It may be irrational fears, but living people often fear what's gonna happen to them after they die, and respect for people extends after they die for most people. Not for everyone, but this means that some will feel uncomfortable about sharing private stuff. And then there's also superstition.

I have a T480/Ubuntu-Gnome at work and a T480/Debian-KDE at home, both work fantastic, however for some reason the Lenovo Universal USB-C docks with 2 1080p external displays connected (1 HDMI and 1 DP) cause a lot of Gnome crashes when docking, and when it happens, I lose external displays and/or the usb keyboard, and have to spend 15 minutes fiddling around deactivating and reactivating in settings, or unplugging the dock PSU, and other desperate methods. Windows users don't have these issues for some reason, and other usb-c docks seem to work better most of the time, with exceptions.

There's also specific issues unrelated to Thinkpads, like bluetooth headphones microphones, Bose QC 35 II can't be used with mic over bluetooth, maybe Pipewire will improve this, maybe not, IDK.

Apart from Thinkpads, I also have a gaming desktop PC with an Nvidia RTX, I don't use Windows anymore, Steam, Proton, WINE, third-party launchers like Heroic work wonders for gaming, but I can't use Wayland at all, it's Xorg only (probably because of Nvidia drivers), otherwise it's flickering and crashes. And you can't screenshare whole screen easily in Wayland yet.

We're getting there and right now, I think I'm better off on GNU/Linux even with all these issues than with the enshittified Windows, but there's still a long way to go, things are moving slowly, and somethings the whole Linux community relies on unpaid work from one dude that delayed good bluetooth audio support by years because someone insulted him in a PR comment.