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I agree with literally everyone who thinks this is pointless and probably malignant. The problem isn't the visibility or the fact that weird stuff "exists" on the internet. The pro…

You don't think knowing a users self disclosed age-group would be beneficial to adtech? A) they shrug any liability for showing inappropriate things to minors when all the onus is …

> We need PII to be so toxic that companies run screaming from the liability This is how healthcare workers used to treat health information protected by HIPAA, but it seems like t…

It's almost as if the business-side/idea-guy founders never really respected their tech co-founders/CTO's etc. The same people hyping up (beyond it's current due) AI are the busine…

> The reality for most people - even expert programmers - has been that the freedom is more about being able to lean on other people to do that This is the sad truth. Some of these…

I have mixed opinions on this. On one hand - "it's about time". This should have happened a long time ago just for parity's sake and I would think that of all the game stores - the…

While I personally agree with you, there are plenty of "churches" with a focus that seems to be almost or more focused on networking than prayer and worship. Not recommending it, e…

Unfortunately, development is essentially dead afaik. Pico-8, originally just a prototype/development playground for Voxatron, became an instant hit and totally eclipsed Voxatron a…

I don't understand what this is doing. Can't you sideload any ebook onto a kobo anyway? Never had an issue on my Clara

I wonder if the real problem isn't being able to write efficient queries, but that developers struggle to add (yet another) programming language. Just use AWK, just use SQL, just u…

I unfortunately had the infuriating experience dealing with a (government, of course) site that did this. To add to the experience, not only did it silently truncate at registratio…

It's almost like the big companies are playing by a totally different set of rules. How else could Sam, Zuck and co, just blatantly rip pirated, copyrighted, copylefted material an…

Ethically, selling code or programs built on other peoples code without consent is wrong. Legally, it's probably also unlawful, unless you believe that smoke they're selling that i…

The amount of cigarette glazing on the internet in the past 1-2 years is crazy to me. On Reddit, there are very thinly-veiled promotional content popping up more and more often lik…

How are people handling AI generated code these days? Seems like everyone is using some sort of coding assistant. You can't just ship AI generated (or assisted) code to clients as …

I've been a very happy user of firefox container tabs, but this is the first I'd heard of container proxies. Any resources on them you can share?

Only thing that comes to mind off the top of the head is that JGL has been very outspoken against AI and the dangers of kids using it.

I'm curious to see if this will embolden game corps to continue mistreating consumers or if they will acknowledge consumers are aware of that ethereal state of their "ownership" of…

Any examples? I guess I only know of his public/FOSS works.

Phivolcs literally gets hugged to death after almost every significant event. Really unfortunate considering the subject matter.

I'm fully ready to drink the "just let systemd do all the things" kool-aid, but I would love to see some sort of introductory/tutorial info into some of the things it can do other …

I don't think we should blame the LLMs, frameworks and the libraries necessarily. In my own experience, it feels like the real problem is a lot of companies (especially start ups) …

I get why the government is keen to do this, but what sane citizen wants to live anywhere near those factories they want to bring back? Nothing like contaminated drinking water, po…