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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do whistleblowers always do this?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He ALREADY testified: he was found dead AFTER.

  Barnett's body was found in a vehicle in a Holiday Inn parking lot in Charleston on Saturday, police said. One day earlier, he testified in a deposition about the string of problems he says he identified at Boeing's plant where he once helped inspect the 787 Dreamliner aircraft before delivery to customers.

  https://www.npr.org/2024/03/12/1238033573/boeing-whistleblower-john-barnett-dead

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is living with your parents considered a bad thing?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I totally agree, though I wrote this in the context of OPs post specifically saying (emphasis mine):

  I have seen in many US shows where they portray guys who are living with parents as losers, or there are jokes or memes about it, I never get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is living with your parents considered a bad thing?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Scrolled through the thread long enough and I still only see people blaming stigma and capitalism but... Those just just the end effects.

  It's plain toxic masculinity:

  • A man must be strong
  • Independence is a sign of strength
  • Living with your parents is dependence (for good or for bad is irrelevant)
  • ipso facto, according to toxic masculinity, guys who live with their parents are weak and not "real men"
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Queer.af mastodon instance has been shut down by the Taliban⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, the other workaround that's elsewhere in this thread is to set up an entry with a different authoritative DNS in the hosts file, allowing a single machine to resolve the old domain manually.

  This could be part of a greater effort, basically asking other instances to help the users evacuate the instance and transfer their accounts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Queer.af mastodon instance has been shut down by the Taliban⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OP, this title is stupidly misleading and incorrect, you should change it immediately.

  The Taliban seized the DOMAIN, aka the ownership of the queer.af name that people could type into their browsers, and their system would resolve into an IP address.

  As the Taliban control Afghanistan, (see where the domain comes from), this was inevitable and the instance owners were already planning to retire the instance as they didn't want to give money to the Taliban to keep it up.

  The INSTANCE, aka the physical server, was not in Afghanistan, and still has its IP address(es), and so has had absolutely nothing happen to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It can also be used to make methamphetamine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney+ has started cracking down on password sharing in the US⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, Steamboat Willie going into public domain really has Disney tightening the purse strings /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What DID Apple innovate?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it absolutely wasn't, as can testify anyone who actually had to work with it:
  https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/the-death-of-adobes-flash-is-lingering-not-sudden/

  There are lots of good reasons to get rid of Flash. Browser makers say it's a top sore spot for security, performance and shorter battery life.

  https://tedium.co/2021/01/01/adobe-flash-demise-history/

  Usability means a few things in this context—simplicity, ease of use, convention, and accessibility. Flash was none of those things. It took the blank-canvas approach to creativity—which was great for the artists and illustrators that originally made up its target audience, but morphed into numerous other forms that it wasn’t necessarily designed for. It fell into overuse and quickly became abused by others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What DID Apple innovate?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do think it sped up the demise of Flash on the web considerably.

  That's unironically an innovation right there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honda's commercials saying they are going to be carbon neutral by 2050. What?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for actually attempting to answer the question instead of just spouting the knee-jerk reaction of "it's bullshit".

  And yes, maybe it is bullshit. Maybe they'll never end up actually offsetting their carbon footprint. Maybe they'll think they are, but end up getting scammed out themselves. Last Week Tonight did a great piece on Carbon Offsets on that whole subject.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, you can have too many CPU cores - Ampere's 192-core chips break ARM64 Linux kernel in two-socket systems, company requests higher core count support⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the headline is stupid bait.

  They already built it. They're trying to contribute the change upstream.

  Which is technically "requesting higher core support", but is a very obnoxious way to phrase it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck's sake, people. Gitlab already didn't allow search unless you were logged in.
  This ain't enshittification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fully agreed, hence the "most" :^)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I very rarely care for what most 62 year olds have to say about the capabilities about the theoretical limits of computation.

  This isn't much different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the wonderful world of code obfuscation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on whether this code is in a hotpath (and considering how "elementary" it is, I figure that's a possibility), this could very well be a significant speed improvement.

  Though I'd say that only excuses it if it's truly an elementary function (and not one line as part of a larger function), as otherwise it's unreadable garbage. But on its own it:

  • has a clear purpose
  • (presumably) isn't reimplementing functionality
  • is easily tested
  • can be modified with no side effects (besides breaking your calendar, but that's beside the point)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside an OnlyFans empire: Sex, influence and the new American Dream⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This honestly a very well-written article

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually bought the second edition of Mastering Nim paperback the other day! Should be arriving tomorrow, hopefully.

  I had fun dogfooding my interview problem in it, I feel like it's basically step forward as far as modern syntaxes go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours, bringing 2013’s Her closer to reality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think said lonely people would rather chat with a boring therapist than with assholes on the internet who don't even make the slightest attempt to empathize

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am God's greatest programmer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately if you let Junior play in legacy code once, it'll learn some nasty habits and make more of it from scratch, usually when you're trying to sleep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody is supporting Firefox, but no one wants to use it. Because it is destroying itself.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Source?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefish Mastodon alternative⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd love to know where that setting is. As far as I've been able to see, I'd have to rebuild mastodon myself to be able to do that, and that's just less convenient for me than pulling the default docker images

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"waves of technological innovation" have gotten faster over time, "students might now find themselves learning skills in college that are obsolete by the time they graduate"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Joke's on you, the stuff that my college tried to teach me was obsolete a decade before I was even born thanks to tenured professors who never updated their curriculum. Thank fuck I live in the Internet age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canon Connections: Strange New Worlds 2x10 - Hegemony⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  IT'S GREEN

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Defiant Class USS Defiant NX-74205⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This was always one of my favorite renditions of it. I had it as my desktop background for years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Setting up your own VPN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  @Coldus12 I got wireguard hosted on my openwrt router. Straightforward and no fuss.