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> Not sure GDPR applies to apps though. GDPR applies to we the people and the organizations who hold our data. Doesn't matter if it's morse code on paper strips. If we can dictate …

If browsers were slightly better at asking users, maybe we'd all have our three favourite fonts and background-, text- and link-colours instead of what someone else prefers we star…

Oh, you have nothing to hide? Kindly paste all your payment and login credentials that your browser stores. Later we'll need to see all your DMs on Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, Disco…

> For example, requiring the “vibecoding” tag on all stories about AI even though very few of them are about vibecoding. No? You either use AI or vibecoding, like the tag page says…

> It’s a short, specific puzzle. I’d love to know if you think the "Correct" path I designed matches your real-world experience, or if I’m off base. As someone about to step into a…

I've used this but you might need to use your browser's translate feature: https://kalendersiden.dk/

Many experiments have shown that when you take away people's concerns about money for housing and food, that frees up energy and attention to do other things. Like the famous exper…

> for this price you can get a really nice N100/N150 laptop with a full HD IPS screen Can you think of a name or model by any chance?

> Hardly a "roll out across the UK". What's your threshold for when it becomes a problem? Should we wait until it becomes a problem, or should we try to stop this level of facial r…

When you start digging past their marketing material, you quickly discover that these organisations are just right-wing fronts, against trans-people, against abortion. Here's a 38 …

There's a gigantic difference between outsourcing your brain to generative AI (LLMs, Stable Diffusion, ..) and pattern recognition that recognises songs, birds, plants or health is…

> It used to be that if you got stuck on a concept, you're basically screwed. We were able to learn before LLMs. Libraries are not a new thing. FidoNet, USENET, IRC, forums, local …

> In “Irreversible Damage,” Abigail Shrier argues youth are being “fast-tracked” into medical transition — a claim experts say isn’t true and harms trans youth. Anti-trans activiti…

> Both extremes want the same thing. Citation needed. The 'extreme' feminism & LGBT tends to revolve around identical pay, being able to walk down the street without getting assaul…

> Portability is overrated. > GNU Make is [..] itself portable. Sounds like it's not overrated, then. You just prefer that other people write portable C and package GNU Make for al…

> A couple make flags that are useful [..] But not portable. Please don't use them outside of your own non-distributable toy projects.

https://esgnews.com/ai-boom-drives-150-surge-in-indirect-emi... Not to mention the ethical / copyright / misbehaving scrapers.

Wild. I evaluate LLMs about once per year, and can't wait for the generative AI bubble to burst. I most recently asked for a privilege-separated JMAP client daemon (dns, fetcher, w…

> Who do you think built and maintained the socioeconomic systems that allowed women to focus on creating and raising children? This statement completely ignores how our current wo…

We already tried the whole "not resisting fascist-adjacent people every living second" and it didn't turn out great for a lot of people. Think about it for a moment.

Almost everything that has any impact in the world is political: The clothes we wear, the food we eat, where and how our children are schooled, the devices and services we have ava…

We are not living longer, fewer infants / kids are dying.

> you can get houses near major cities for usd 80k. There are 53706 homes for sale today. 2784 of those are actual homes, not empty lots, costing less than 600K DKK. I would not ex…

> I honestly have no idea why the recruiters from these places have such a superiority complex that they need to belittle people like that. Many, many years ago I sat next to HR in…