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znpy··on AfD's new state MPs include ex-Stasi officer, former porn actor, and neo-Nazis
So diverse, so inclusive! /s
znpy··on 118M Queries per Second on Neki
If this is closed source then i have zero interest in it.
znpy··on Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route
Hopefully there will be another epic fury operation to clear the situation
znpy··on iPod Classic 6G in QEMU
Really sounds like: If you’re going to paste raw executable binaries, please at least replace “I” with “the compiler”
znpy··on Apple A20 Pro Geekbench Result
looking forward to have this in a macbook neo

also, i don't know much memory that chip has, but i guess the A20 Pro could also be viable for low-end macbooks air.

edit: nevermind, just 12gb. still a good candidate for a macbook neo.

znpy··on De-Anglicizing Programming
The page is its own argument against de-anglicisation of programming: it shows in french for me. I don’t speak french.

English is good enough for being the lingua franca of programming, technology and science.

It’s frankly one of the last issues we should be bothering with.

znpy··on ChatGPT Pro 20x plan is now unavailable for purchase
> Sounds to me like a company that cares about a great user experience!

Sounds like a responsible company that won't sell you capacity that's not there.

znpy··on Are women better than men at endurance running?
the only reasonable reply

/thread

znpy··on “Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain
I opened it again after many years and frankly i'm seeing better content than i find on other social media platforms.

For example, instagram is clearly trying to understand what political side i lean on and pushes me that kind of content. I have to be very careful what kind of stuff i like otherwise my feed gets very polluted with political content rather than with interesting tech stuff and cats videos.

On the other hand, X/Twitter is routinely serving me better and more interesting technical content.

znpy··on LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
I’m using Pages on my macbook neo and it seems it doesn’t really have ai features, and if it does, they are very well hidden
znpy··on Four Weeks of a Vegan Diet Alter Signs of Inflammation and Aging
Most studies on diets are usually skewed because part of the results do not directly come to the specific diet (no matter if it's the vegan, carnivore, atkins, dukan, paleo or whatever) but from study participants "suddenly" following a well-defined eating regime (with a well defined upper bound on caloric intake).

Essentially, if you go from eating shit at whatever time of the day to following a well-specified eating regime... of course you'll get benefits.

Dumb example: this professor lost 27 pounds and got improvements across various markers by eating Twinkies - link: https://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.profe...

znpy··on Should You Buy a ThinkPad?
Yeah i can vouch for the macbook neo as well.

My macbook neo outperforms my thinkpad x13g1 (ryzen 7, 8c16t, 32gb memory, amd gpu) on all metrics.

It’s snappier, battery lasts more, i have the same disk storage (500gb)

znpy··on Ask HN: Any Alternatives to Archive.ph & co?
I’m trying https://archivebox.io/ on my own hardware, along with non-censored dns of course.

It works okay but it’s too early for me to give some strong opinions.

znpy··on Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
It is concerned, but not in the way one would think.

From what i hear politicians like Gavin Newsom from California are passing bills to prevent independent journalists like Nick Shirley from exposing fraud and corruption.

That signals that they (government officials) are extremely concerned with what the public thinks, but mainly in the sense that they don’t want the public to have the information that would put them in a thought spot.

On the other hand, the fact that fraud and corruption is only reported by some early-twenty-something independent youtuber/journalist should really tell you a lot on the state of mass media in the USA (in the sense that the mass media are essentially colluding with politicians).

(Downvote me if you want, I don’t care)

znpy··on The asteroid currently hitting front end web development
Yeah i have a similar experience. I’m essentially a sysadmin and i don’t do much programming and i always kept myself as far as possible from frontend development.

And yet now with AI (chatgpt codex in my case) i can make useful little apps without ever looking at what kind of html/javascript gets generated.

I’ll be honest: my agents.md explicitly states to use vanilla javascript and plain bootstrap for frontend, in case i might have to look at it in the future, but so far i’ve never had that need.

znpy··on IBM Bob
Lost opportunity to call it Hal
znpy··on OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra
indeed 404-ing again, with this note by gpt-5.6-sol:

    A missing footnote
    Leaves the sentence room to breathe
    Read the larger thought
znpy··on Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit
I wonder how they trained siri
znpy··on Euphemisation of Taboo Areas [pdf]
appears to be offline?
znpy··on Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat
I am not talking about Germany. The world does not revolve around Germany (despite Germany’s never-desisted ambitions).

And 30% is a huge chunk of the emissions

znpy··on Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat
Irrelevant.

Here in Italy for example they never held power, but they did a huge lobbying and advertising campaign just AFTER Chernobyl that lead to a referendum whose result essentially forbids nuclear power in Italy.

Holding power is irrelevant

znpy··on Building my own network stack
Yeah, it’s well known that you can prove the presence of bugs but you can’t prove their absence.

All software is to be considered insecure, formally speaking.

znpy··on Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]
Knuth could do them, in theory. The guy was literally there when stuff was happening.
znpy··on Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat
Non-issue
znpy··on Hunting Down a Go Runtime Bug on 32-Bit Embedded Systems
interesting that they build for solaris as well
znpy··on Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2
The m6 “only” being a die shrink is no good reason to shun it.

It’s still an improvement.

znpy··on Twitter: The square is back. And this time, it's yours
I stand for no specific propaganda to be shut down.

That was not the case in the pre-Musk twitter era.

znpy··on Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU
Indeed, and they aren’t doing that well.
znpy··on Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU
> Look what happened to their currency in 2008, at the time they really wished they were using the euro.

Alright, after looking at that, look at what happened to Greece (who adopter Euro as their currency).

znpy··on Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU
Btw this referendum is about starting the talks, not about joining or not joining.

If the result is “yes” then a proposal with all terms and conditions for joining will be written down, and the Icelanders will vote again on whether to accept those terms and conditions or not.

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