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Maybe a bunch of AI agents ganged up on starring it to help a fellow AI out?

Great move to counter the hostile takeover of the RubyGems GitHub repo (not the rubygems.org repo) and organization by Ruby Central. I hope they find financing to cover hosting cos…

I get the occasional request to NordVPN image assets beginning with `/nordvpn/media/` on my server. Apparently this is or was a way to find out if an IP address is acting as an exi…

In the comments here I read a lot about if this is whistleblowing or not, or if disciplinary measures are warranted for an employee "badmouthing" an employer's client while not hav…

You are right about Gnome vs. macOS. It has many features which are not obvious and may be hidden behind an alt modifier key. But this makes it very usable for beginners and expert…

Did anybody expect Reddit to become a better place after all what happened a couple of weeks ago? I was never a big Reddit user, but I'm sure as hell not going to be one in the fut…

It's a boring stereotype of good and evil, which threw almost half the world's population from the wrong side of the iron curtain under the bus. It chastises the behavior of those …

Many extensions need full access to the DOM, because their functionality depends on it. Their sole purpose is to manipulate the DOM for various purposes. That's why it is always a …

> It's sad to NUCs go, but it was inevitable. They made products for customers, while simultaneously competing with said customers. That is true, but they're already a decade into …

I always liked NUCs because of their usage of mobile CPUs with low power consumption in a small case. No need to consume 50W idling for nothing. I only need iGPUs for a zippy UI, b…

Most CO2 footprints are not meaningful, because they are measuring the total and not per capita, and the CO2 footprint is counted against the producers and not the consumers. Steel…

Most likely the EU created new dependencies, which will bite them in the future.

I'm not assuming that we must trade those features for improved latency. It is a possibility, but there are always alternatives. Unfortunately in IT you always trade one set of pro…

Dan Luu's post, which I also read months ago, is very detailed, has a lot of data, but fails to make sense or come to a helpful conclusion in the end. Like so many of his posts. Wi…

In my opinion WordPress can be compared to Windows. Not just in terms of security, but everything. WordPress is the Windows of content management systems. They both are widely used…

While the premise of the post is interesting, I've stopped reading it when reaching "a computer from 2015 is 2-5 times slower than an Apple 2e from 1986 just at reading a keystroke…

I read this article and wanted to weep.

You're mostly right. The problem I experienced is, that those people managing the old machine spec the new to lowly, because the prices are high. The optimize like before: for them…