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  • An option to auto-block downvoters

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  • I disagree with OP too, but I also think downvotes are not great for disagreement. I like them much more for marking something as wrong or off topic. Otherwise we just limit lemmy to a tool that finds the majority opinion, instead of being an actual discussion platform.

    For example, OP starts a discussion and your comment that I disagree with is a legitimate opinion, so I won’t downvote either. But if someone tried to derail the discussion by commenting ramen recipes, I might downvote that.

  • 'Why does he keep speaking English to me?' Chinese woman scolds AirAsia crew for not speaking Mandarin

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  • I've witness people being racist because someone is from another village

    We have this in Germany too. Traditionally, the area where I live hates the area where I was born. These two places are maybe an hour apart and in the same state. All because they were governed by different nobles ages ago who had different ideas about Christianity. Tbh though it was much more of a thing in my parents’ generation.

  • I built an ad-free vegan-places directory and scored every city by vegan-friendliness. Looking for feedback on the methodology.

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  • It’s probably out of scope for you, but what always ticks me off a bit with these rankings is that they usually mostly care about restaurants. I think that’s only half the story.

    To give an example, HappyCow rates Tokyo the fifth most vegan friendly city in the world basically because it’s huge and in a metropolitan area with 40 million people there’s going to be a few vegan restaurants. But I lived in Tokyo for a bit, and normal shopping is a completely different story. There is no uniform labelling, you can’t even count on allergens, or on listed ingredients (lots of hidden fish, the bone char sugar problem, etc.). Also, vegan food is mostly seen as a part of the health food niche anyway so there aren’t many meat alternatives products, and labels aren’t seen as important. So if you’re not eating all your meals at restaurants I wouldn’t say it’s particularly vegan friendly.

    In comparison the tiny city in Germany where I currently live has zero vegan restaurants. But literally any supermarket has a decent selection of products clearly labelled as vegan, not just alternatives (although they have a ton of those too) but just normal products. There literally are Japanese brands that sell clearly labelled vegan versions of some of their products here that are not vegan in Japan. In terms of actually living here as a vegan, it’s significantly easier than in Tokyo. And tbh the next city that has vegan restaurants is maybe half an hour by train and that’s actually not too different from what I used to travel within Tokyo to get to restaurants.

  • MCP 'design flaw' puts 200k servers at risk and Anthropic won't fix it

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  • I personally wouldn’t blame MCP, it’s just a protocol. My theory is the feature was vibe coded in the vulnerable tools and nobody thought about it much.

  • Suzuki producing biogas auto fuel from cow dung in India

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  • I think they have one (also built in India, but not sure which markets it’s sold in other than EU).

  • Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight

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  • For me zip was mainly two things:

    • I put all my things on it that I wanted to use on a shared computer. At the time that included downloads from the internet which I didn’t have access to directly from my own computer.
    • Hot fix for running out of hard disk. Zip was not far off from the sizes hard disks were in the early-mid 90ies. 100 MB of extra room was big and attaching another hard disk wasn’t necessarily an option.

    I’m not sure about them “dominating” though. Virtually none of my friends had one.

  • Top-selling video games ever (2025)

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  • Mario Kart 8 is a Wii U game that was later ported to Switch under the name Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

    The number looks like they added the sales numbers for both together, which I think makes sense. It’s expanded but not a new game.

  • Just curious, how many Messages do you have in iCloud?

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  • Less than 10k, oldest from 2014. I guess it’s mostly automated SMS notifications.

  • MCP 'design flaw' puts 200k servers at risk and Anthropic won't fix it

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  • GPT Researcher is a research agent, just one of many AI tools.

    I think the idea is that these tools let users configure mcp servers, and because mcp doesn’t necessarily use the network but can also just mean directly spawning a process, users can get the tool to execute arbitrary commands (possibly circumventing some kind of protection).

    This is all fine if you’re doing this yourself on your computer, but it’s not if you’re hosting one of these tools for others who you didn’t expect to be able to run commands on your server, or if the tool can be made to do this by hostile input (e.g. a web page the tool is reading while doing a task).

  • Too much discussion of the XOR swap trick

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  • I don’t know a C compiler that would break the addition based version either that I could tell him about, but maybe it’s worth pointing out that there are languages with overflow checked arithmetics, e.g. Swift. Still not an example where it doesn’t work though because it has separate overflowing operators (&+ and &-).

    Rust could be a candidate too, it has a flag for runtime overflow checks. Ada would be the strongest candidate since it requires checks, but most compilers have an option for it anyway, and some older ones even disable them by default.

    It’s actually pretty interesting to think about how compilers used to omit checks for performance, while with modern compilers the checked version is often free anyway and can sometimes be faster because it can help with further optimizations down the line.

  • Fast and Easy Levenshtein distance using a Trie

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  • I know it’s 15 years old, but I’m not buying that the trie as such is what improves the performance.

    • traversing a trie built from a sorted list yields the nodes in the original sorted order, so you’re not optimizing the order
    • you do have additional pre-computed information in the trie, but it’s basically just the common prefix of the current and previous word, which can be trivially obtained without the trie
    • subtree pruning basically just translates to skipping until the prefix changes at a shallower level

    Basically, yes storing the data in a trie persistently will improve performance (scanning all words is still slow, but not that slow because you are skipping most early and can do binary search too, while the trie approach does a lot of python dict lookups), but the main performance gain comes from the trie forcing him to use properties that the sorted input also has but he just wasn’t using in his naive implementation (specifically, shared prefixes and subtree pruning).

    He’s also leaving performance on the table at trie build time, which is not part of the benchmark. He’s building the trie in the straight-forward way, but for sorted input it could be built in O(n).

  • Am I German or Autistic?

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  • 33/60 for me. Seems accurate

  • Umfrage: Bevölkerung findet Energie-Importabhängigkeit bedrohlich

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  • AKWs können es nicht sein wenn es um Importunabhängigkeit geht - Deutschland fördert kein Uran mehr. Zuletzt hatten wir das hauptsächlich aus Russland.

  • Donald Trump: »Iran kann in einer Nacht ausgeschaltet werden«

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  • “life unworthy of life” ist wie es übersetzt wird.

  • Londoners are sick of viral videos telling lies about their city

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  • It’s not far from the truth. Knives, including cutlery knives, are age restricted in the UK, and you do need ID. And this was indeed just made stricter last year in response to “knife crime”, in particular a 2024 case of a teenager circumventing existing age checks for online knife sales and killing three girls. Now you need to provide photo ID both when buying, and on delivery or collection if you buy online.

    There’s also a proposal to require stores to report bulk sales of knives to the police. This one would exclude cutlery, but e.g. a sale of a set of six steak knives would have to be reported.

  • States sue Trump admin over 'unlawful attempt' to enforce new standards on mail-in voting

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  • In the US, the constitution can generally only be violated by government entities or by people acting on government authority. So it doesn’t really have punishments that apply to poor people as such. It has ones like impeachment of a president.

  • In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants

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  • This says their AI explains the rules, not that it plays with you.

  • States sue Trump admin over 'unlawful attempt' to enforce new standards on mail-in voting

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  • Criminal prosecution is specifically for acts that violate criminal law, a.k.a. crimes, not for anything in general that’s against some law, such as, in this case, the constitution.

  • Iran threatens 'complete and utter annihilation' of OpenAI's $30B Stargate

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  • That’s because it was announced as a US AI infrastructure project that would generate jobs in the US etc. They started looking into other locations really quickly. But I guess a lot will still be in Texas.

  • Steam is adding support to show estimated FPS for your hardware before buying a game

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  • It doesn’t have VRR but it does have a configurable refresh rate. So e.g. if a game runs at a stable 40 fps you can run the display at 40 Hz too (or 80 Hz for the OLED model) and then you don’t get the uneven frame spacing you’d get from vsync with 40 fps on a 60 Hz display. With VRR the screen would also adjust to whatever frame rate the game produces even if it’s not stable, and the Deck doesn’t do that. But being able to get 40 fps with uniform frame timing instead of the 30 fps you’d have to use if the display was locked to 60 Hz (LCD model) or 90 Hz (OLED model) is a huge difference.