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Is gitea any good?

Are security vulnerabilities good marketing?

Rarely do I think "that would make great poem"

Microsoft is a strategic risk for the US, too

The market is perfectly efficient, value is well attributed, lobbying is a social good, being rich means you’re smart and should have special privileges, optimizing for returns on …

Since there are comments below asking about benchmarks, others noting or expressing interest in other projects, I'll drop the one I made: https://github.com/e-dant/watcher (and als…

This is cool stuff, but a nitpick: It’s not undefined behavior in the language sense in C to do socket ops on a bad file descriptor. It’s just an error from the kernel’s point of v…

Think the world would be a better place if 70-80% uptime were more tolerated. We really don’t need everything available all the time. More time to talk to each other, to think, mor…

A fascinating en dash, used as an em dash, followed by two em dashes. Hmmm.

I have no mouth and I must scream

Some of these I’ve been told are taboos in the opposite way. For example, the one about serving or taking food from the opposite end of the chopsticks, I was told, is polite. But h…

Linux does not have a marketing team. Microsoft, Apple, Google do. The market is not efficient, it is gullible.

I think, if I’m reading correctly, that PFAS are the thing that PFXX stuff gradually breaks down into? https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12028640/ Edit: Nevermind, Wikipedia…

Good fucking riddance. Time to start actually talking to each other again.

The issue this paper is grappling with (to what extent humans have a place in the middlespace between them asking an ai to do something, and the ai doing it) is interesting (althou…

Thought it was obfuscated C code, then I realized it’s a tree or something

It is an accomplishment in a healthy, pro-social environment.

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This life is needlessly absurd. Why does this even exist? And yes, I get what mining is and I get what the blockchain does. I’m saying that proof of work is absurd.

I have more of a problem with poor governance than strong automation. The economy should provide us all food and shelter, beyond that, do what you love.

You never had a voice to lose

A masterclass in debugging