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tatterdemalion

@ tatterdemalion @programming.dev

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Professional software engineer, musician, gamer, stoic, democratic socialist

  • for some reason, there are twitter accounts distributing movies in cloud storage rather than torrents.

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  • Oh come on. What's next?

    "Child pornography is just a really big number, after all."

    "I didn't murder anyone, I just rearranged some atoms. We're all just really big collections of atoms after all."

    If you remove enough semantic layers, you can make anything sound benign.

    I'm not anti-piracy, I just think these lines of argumentation are so flimsy as to be entirely worthless for the cause.

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    ICE Commander spotted in Minneapolis

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  • Or at least a snow ball.

  • Beautiful But Deadly

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  • These days with language services, code should be compiling after nearly every edit.

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    This is America. Do not let this image be forgotten.

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  • Wait I don't think I've seen this angle. Can someone link me the video from this angle?

    EDIT: NVM I've seen it. Just didn't recognize this moment for some reason. Here it is.

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    Another ICE murder in Minneapolis

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  • I'm not really seeing your point. Why is competence a prerequisite for premeditated murder? Especially since they actually fucked up and got caught on video.

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    So how are we going to organize a meaningful nationwide general strike?

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  • There has to be some kind of organization in order to present a coherent list of demands. Otherwise we end up with another Occupy Wallstreet where half of the people in the movement can't articulate what change they want to happen.

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    So how are we going to organize a meaningful nationwide general strike?

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  • I would love to strike for better pay, but I'm worried that particular demand will only spread us thin and make it harder to get leverage. Obviously things are so fucked that we could come up with an endless list of demands. I want to make sure such a list doesn't explode and become a point of division.

    That said, obviously a collective action is about the will of the people involved. So if there is a majority of strike participants that believes one of the demands should be related to pay (hopefully for increasing the minimum wage, not just raising the salaries of those already making 6 figures), that should be considered.

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    Another ICE murder in Minneapolis

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  • Thank you, this is the first video I've seen of the start of the interaction. It's a little hard to tell, but it doesn't look like the victim ever drew his gun. Bovino claimed in a press conference that ICE believed he had threatened ICE with his gun, which I'm currently doubting.

  • All money probably went into NVIDIA GPUs

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  • You can just dual-license as AGPL and a separate commercial license that you negotiate on a case-by-case basis.

  • Are you people all bots?

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  • ChatGPT really can't, even when asked specifically to align them.

  • Why is Rust so bare-bones?

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  • Regarding the derive macros, there are a few reasons these are required.

    1. Rust does not have a language runtime (like Java). So certain features that would normally require reflection instead require an opt-in trait implementation. This is part of Rust's "zero cost abstractions" philosophy. You don't pay for code you don't need.
    2. You get the benefit of being able to customize the behavior of those core traits. Rather than doing something simple (and wrong) for every type, like a byte-for-byte equality check, you get to define the behavior that is appropriate for a given type.
    3. The derive macros are just a convenience. You are free to use "regular code" to implement those traits instead.

  • fin - fish extensible text editor written in fish

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  • This is one of the wildest ideas I've seen in a while.

  • LibreWolf [web browser] - A free and open-source fork of Firefox, with an emphasis on privacy and security.

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  • That's a valid complaint. I've never had issues on any sites with Firefox. If the tides change and I start having issues, I will consider finding a better browser.

  • LibreWolf [web browser] - A free and open-source fork of Firefox, with an emphasis on privacy and security.

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  • I'm not claiming the Mozilla is anything like what they used to be, but the Firefox UX has not degraded in any noticeable way for me that would justify switching to a fork of Firefox.

  • LibreWolf [web browser] - A free and open-source fork of Firefox, with an emphasis on privacy and security.

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  • You can disable it with two clicks and then never think about it again. Seems like a petty reason to completely switch browsers.

  • LibreWolf [web browser] - A free and open-source fork of Firefox, with an emphasis on privacy and security.

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    • So far it's just a tiny button in the bottom left corner that can be removed with two clicks. If it escalates then maybe I will worry.
    • That's fair but at the same time, at least it's a funded OSS project?

    I can agree that Firefox isn't always taking the perfectly moral stance on every issue, but I just don't yet see a deal breaker materializing in the browser itself.

  • LibreWolf [web browser] - A free and open-source fork of Firefox, with an emphasis on privacy and security.

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  • How is Mozilla a pro ai slop company?

  • LibreWolf [web browser] - A free and open-source fork of Firefox, with an emphasis on privacy and security.

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  • I still don't understand why people are recently switching away from Firefox. The telemetry thing seems totally overblown. The ads are absolutely minimal. It's great software.

  • Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever

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  • Yeah so at worst you could get sued by some random reddit users that don't want their post history hosted on your site.

    Given how little traction artists and authors have had with suing AI companies for blatant copyright infringement, I kinda doubt it would go anywhere.