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yesbuton How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs

"hold on, let me ask Claude what I should think about this topic."

yesbuton Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series

https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2026/09/announcing-l...

yesbuton A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals

hot take: generative AI isn't an existential threat to humanity.

These companies are insolvent and these stories were designed to scare the public, and governments, into implementing regulations that designate these AI corporations the "responsible stewards" for this technology. The ultimate goal is to block competitors and open source alternatives.

They don't know how to make enough money pay their investors so they are resorting to trying to scare the public into submission.

yesbuton The lost joy of music piracy

weird, I still love pirating music.

yesbuton Ask HN: High school student – is learning programming still worthwhile?

yes

yesbuton Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition

silver linings

yesbuton Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"

> Police bodycams should make police accountable.

on an often under reported note, police body cams have led to an increase in police brutality as opposed to a reduction.

https://prismreports.org/2024/07/16/complex-troubling-histor...

excellent book on the topic: https://thenewpress.org/books/copaganda/

yesbuton Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

what is the theoretical file size / project size limit? what happens when the browser crashes?

yesbuton Spectre Programming Language

unfortunately I don't think you are convincing anyone

yesbuton Spectre Programming Language

...or, you know, make something new that improves developer ergonomics. or is that too hard?

yesbuton Spectre Programming Language

> You will notice the trust keyword here. Any operation (such as IO) that has an underlying unsafe mechanism (such as the @print builtin that std.stdio.print uses), must be explicitly trusted, as it is inherently impure.

just document the impure operations and stop forcing the programmer to type extra characters.

yesbuton For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions

nope

yesbuton For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions

that is basically how all large companies behave anyway. socialize the losses (bailouts, layoffs, negative economic impacts in the communities they reside, etc.) and privatize the gains.

yesbuton Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity

relevant Norm Macdonald

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXdtafGdIVM

yesbuton FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why

because Netgear is willing to do what the US wants in regards to its mass surveillance projects.

yesbuton U.S. to Create High-Tech Manufacturing Zone in Philippines

Greetings Filipinos, its a trap. Do not trust the US. They will exploit your labor and pay you pennies (do those still exist anywhere?). They are selling you a bill of goods. Fire your representatives that are allowing this. No jobs are coming, only higher energy costs, more pollution, more fat cats, and more corporate ownership of your political system. Abort ship.

yesbuton The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?

> We're not prisoners of history. We don't have to go back to being serfs for the few people who own all the land, oil, food, energy, data centers, and operating systems. I hope.

Unfortunately, that is the current stage of humanity. We all currently live in a global subscription model for food, housing, safety, etc. No doubt that we will move beyond it eventually, but the current organization of society is kept in place by the owner class which benefits from the current arrangement.

One of the steps for moving beyond it is educating the modern day serfs (our peers) about reality as it is and alternative visions of a future where we are no longer selling our labor to the owner class. It will take generations.

yesbuton It's cool to care (2025)

A good book in this topic, Virtue Hoarders by Catherine Liu.

https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517912253/virtue-hoarders/

https://classautonomy.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Foreru...

yesbuton Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices

can't wait until this is just completely bypassed and we can ignore Google again.

yesbuton VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS

basically every app is a tab. this is how I run i3wm. full screen tabbed layout. smaller modal windows still appear in their normal smaller windows in front of the current full screen app.

yesbuton Vatican Rebukes Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures in Rome

Power causes brain damage.

https://archive.md/sdLQP

yesbuton Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store

https://old.reddit.com/comments/1rh60py

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/cance...

yesbuton Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store

no, it is because of the public perspection of Anthropic holding a principled stance against allowing their software to pull the trigger and kill humans. ChatGPT still has the bigger brand name recognition.

yesbuton Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store

they were having a sale on jock straps.

yesbuton Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store

As usual, the corporations benefiting from supporting war and subverting the rights of everyday citizens is rewarded by massive subsidies by the capitalist state.

Anthropic currently is winning the public sentiment war, but OpenAI is being established as another to-big-to-fail capitalist regime institution.

yesbuton Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface

Nobody believes that.

yesbuton A tough labor market for white-collar workers has turned recruiting upside down

coming soon to a town near you: indentured servitude.

hopefully they will at least have nice bunk beds in the corporate dorms.

yesbuton CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook

https://www.wired.com/2007/08/wiki-tracker/

yesbuton Amazon's "Project Dawn" cuts 30k jobs while AWS loses its community champion

> An accidental email revealed the scope of Amazon’s workforce purge. For thousands of cloud professionals, the news hit personally.

yesbuton Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race

Consider the framing today: "Trump is doing all these terrible things, making all of these drastic changes, exploiting the system to his will."

The Dems can no longer use the excuse that the president is handcuffed. Trump 2.0 is showing us what the president can do. The dems consistently use that excuse to prevent popular policies from being enacted. Obama even had a ~6mo super majority where he could have codified abortion rights. But instead they keep it around as an outstanding issue because it is a good fundraising issue.