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Sorry what do you even mean? > Java and Kotlin as regular Android app already provide all the juice required to do the job. To do what job? What job can Java and Kotlin do on a pho…

Creatine is very uncontroversial and the scientific consensus is that it's an all around good thing, so I wouldn't be surprised

I swear I'm not trying to be inflamatory, but this is the _worst_ programming language feature I could ever imagine. I'm not trying to be hyperbolic, if I try to reason about it th…

We don't have a red scare. Communist symbols aren't a dealbreaker in europe.

>YouTube is eating itself from the inside out too. Everyone hates the demonetization stuff but the low effort AI slop content is what really kills it for me. YouTube got massive be…

Most of europe has communist parties running in elections and getting non negligible scores, then alliances and seats in parliaments, municipal councils, ...

So that's just one more win for formal verification despite the title it seems I'm genuinely excited about AI agents and formal verification languages. To me it's obviously the way…

Woah I stand corrected. Not really when AI starts but when it starts getting useful for sure.

>Every morning a few thousand people wake up and ship something. A tool, a SaaS, a newsletter, an app that does the thing the other app does but slightly differently. They post it …

this is plenty of actual reasons already A world championship with rapid timecontrols alone should have been enough reason

> Hikaru Nakamura, the 2022 Fischer Random World Champion, declined his invitation to the event, citing the changes in the format, rushed arrangement, reduced prize fund, and his f…

For those wondering why Nakamura (who we're used to seeing winning, or in the top 3 in chess960 tournaments) isn't there > Hikaru Nakamura, the 2022 Fischer Random World Champion, …

You got that fact from my own comment a few ones above this https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jmzd972leo It was a 3rd party

I'm not saying they won't ever start collecting it and selling it. I'm saying the day they do, it will be laid out in their privacy policy. Right now they're making statements that…

Nope, when corporate overlords sell your data they say it in their terms of use and privacy policies because no one is that stupid. If Discord says they're not selling that data, t…

>How many users are paying? 7.3 million paying every month >How many use the service for "free"? 143 million times maybe 2 bucks once. Most likely five cents once. >Are you stupid?…

How much? 2 bucks per user? Their paid users shell out 3 a month... And then you think of the real world > secretly selling your IDs data behind your back, they have to account for…

Oh hey Direwolf I've contributed some stuff to your mods. You mean if they lied about just the IDs but not the faces? The paragraph quoted mentions that the verification is done cl…

Discord is an app that's so routinely reverse-engineered there are projects with a million+ users designed around patching changes to it, straight in the binary. https://betterdisc…

No API, they sign the tokens with the government's private key and you verify them with the government's public key If discord needs to contact an API, then the government can asso…

> Key privacy protections of Discord’s age-assurance approach include: > On-device processing: Video selfies for facial age estimation never leave a user’s device. > Quick deletion…

I didn't see that exploit showing up on Hackernews so here it is https://hub.ivanti.com/s/article/Security-Advisory-Ivanti-En... Ivanti doesn't explain how this happened or what mi…

I've acquired one for curiosity (a relative used to teach engineering, he was thrilled I wanted one, gave me his own) I used it a few times, it works, of course, ... but it's not f…