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_pferreir_on OpenAI should build Slack

Maybe I'm living in a parallel reality, but there are plenty of Slack alternatives and plenty of companies using Slack clones such as Mattermost and Zulip, among others. And yes, they work just fine.

_pferreir_on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

Seriously? There you go:

https://legal.un.org/avl/studymaterials/handbook/english/boo...

That's just book one, BTW.

_pferreir_on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

Most European governments have already, in their own (weak) way expressed that this intervention isn't legitimate according to international law.

_pferreir_on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

You're saying only facts and somehow getting downvoted, I guess denial is easier for some people.

_pferreir_on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

"Don't worry, the democracy will eventually trickle down".

There is such thing as a post-Vietnam America, and its record is pretty bad.

_pferreir_on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

It does differ, in ways that many others listed below. That doesn't make it any legitimate, though.

_pferreir_on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

And kidnapping their president in violation of every international law. No big deal /s

Seriously, I'm patiently waiting for the day America or Russia will do the same to Netanyahu, who is an actual war criminal. Not holding my breath.

_pferreir_on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

Muhrica gonna muhrica. It's been like this since time immemorial, the "regime" changes but the modus operandi is the same. True for all other empires.

_pferreir_on Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

EULAs can impose limitations on how you use on-premises software. Sure, you can ignore the EULA, but you can also do so on SaaS, to an extent.

_pferreir_on Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG

I first tried the demos on Firefox and was like "wow, this looks fancy". Then, I saw there was a "Chrome-only" warning. I actually prefer the way it looks on Firefox, TBH.

_pferreir_on Melvyn Bragg steps down from presenting In Our Time

Highly recommended. "In our time" is incredibly informative, and we're so lucky to live in an era where we can enjoy the endless recordings of this show!

_pferreir_on Show HN: Sink – Sync any directory with any device on your local network

This ^

I also recommend magic wormhole.

_pferreir_on OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor

DeepSeek is not Open Source. That's like saying that Microsoft Edge is Open Source, as you can download it for free.

https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1

_pferreir_on TikTok goes dark in the US

Looking forward to seeing the ECJ order Meta to sell its European operations to a European company.

_pferreir_on Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

I know these might have very interesting and even noble applications (think hearing-impaired people), but the last thing I would want in my life is looking even more at screens.

_pferreir_on Microsoft cutting crucial link to Gaza, Palestinians say

This.

_pferreir_on I like the RP2040

I absolutely love the RP2040, and the PIO is extremely useful.

_pferreir_on POV-Ray – The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (2021)

Doesn't Blender's main rendering engine, Cycles, sort of use ray tracing (path tracing, I believe)?

_pferreir_on TinyMCE (also) moving from MIT to GPL

TinyMCE is switching to a licensing model akin to CKeditor's.

_pferreir_on Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions

Wow, that's a very opinionated take, to say the least. Especially when by Europe we mean three dozen countries or so, all of them with their own history, policies and laws. A little bit more nuance would help.

_pferreir_on ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants

Maybe this tells more about BCG consultants than its does about GPT-4?

_pferreir_on Cola: A text CRDT for real-time collaborative editing

Certificate seems broken?

_pferreir_on Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

Lemmy: https://join-lemmy.org/

_pferreir_on Germany pushes for ‘pay as you fly’ model

You would still be required to provide a credit card, like when you book a rental car. The card will often be charged later, but the payment is "cleared" in advanced.

_pferreir_on New NASA Black Hole Sonifications with a Remix

My impression is that this is a completely arbitrary signal run through a filter which shifts it to the lower end of the audible spectrum. You might as well take 20ms of the Macarena and slow them down 100x, to the same effect.

Pure meaningless clickbait. I agree with others saying that NASA shouldn't be doing this.

_pferreir_on “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says

This TBH, I think we're so used to being taken advantage of that we don't realize we should be asking for more. Especially if it's the kind of service which doesn't involve extra preparation costs for the provider.

_pferreir_on Go’ing Insane: Endless Error Handling

Rust handles this quite nicely, with the `?` operator, which someone already mentioned in the comments. It's still as explicit as you want it to be, but made real easy by that small amount of syntactic sugar. Maybe Go should adopt something similar.

_pferreir_on Todo-or-die – Provides procedural macros that act as checked reminders

Nice idea. I would prefer having it as an IDE feature, or within something like clippy (or eslint/flake8, etc...), though.

_pferreir_on Leaving Freenode for a new network

> Fewer clients

It does work decently on my phone though.

> the identity server is centralized

Is that really a downside? I don't know a single newcomer who found authenticating with "Nickserv" was a natural thing to do.