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debo_··on Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial
This was not at all the ethics program that was taught in my university computing ethics course. They did indeed cover the societal and moral responsibility of software developers. This was way back in 2002.
debo_··on Discord Alternatives, Ranked
Users?
debo_··on Discord Alternatives, Ranked
If you self-host and stay small enough, this is moot. Discord is also rolling out age verification to the whole world, while only a small number of governments have currently enacted laws that require this.
debo_··on Stoat – open-source, user-first chat platform
Also: https://stoat.chat/
debo_··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Revolt/stoat has existed for quite a while: https://itsfoss.com/revolt/
debo_··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
I believe the original finding was that they were not deleting IDs that were involved in disputes.
debo_··on Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode
Maybe the xcode developers hate Tahoe as much as HN seems to.
debo_··on Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins
MicroStrategy?
debo_··on GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations
I've been a software "engineer" for over 20 years, and my personal experience is that software engineers are basically never happy.
debo_··on Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
You forgot the more relevant: https://xkcd.com/149/
debo_··on Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
Someone make this man a sandwich.

https://xkcd.com/149/

debo_··on Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload
/s is pretty good
debo_··on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
This is literally Linux Mint, Zorin, and several other distros. I haven't had to "go under the hood" on my daily driver machines that run either of these distros for over 7 years.

I think at this point people are just (reasonably) making excuses not to change.

debo_··on India and EU announce landmark trade deal
It's what the Irish said to us Italians when we were immigrating to Canada in droves.
debo_··on TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
Thank you, Godwin.
debo_··on State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11?
Thanks. I was asking because I was hoping to run it for a relative's computer that I am reinstalling Win11 on now, and they would not be capable of re-running it after the fact.
debo_··on AI Was Supposed to "Revolutionize" Work. In Many Offices, It's Creating Chaos
How often does one experience an orderly revolution?
debo_··on State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11?
This looks great. In your experience, do you run it once and that's it? Or do you need to re-run as updates add or re-introduce "bloat"?
debo_··on State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11?
If this is a joke, it was a very good one.
debo_··on State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11?
I use Linux for home and both Windows 11 and Tahoe for work. I personally find Windows 11 actively hostile while Tahoe is mostly just whatever. I'd much rather be using Tahoe.
debo_··on China tests hypergravity centrifuge that compresses time and space
Do you want the three-body problem to happen? Because that's how you get the three-body problem to happen.
debo_··on Yyvette's
Incredible.
debo_··on We compiled the Torah into 183KB of binary data. It acts as a simulation seed
Do you want Shin Megami Tensei to happen? Because this is how you get Shin Megami Tensei to happen.
debo_··on Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK
Whenever I hear people say Trump exhibits signs of dementia, I wonder if they've ever seen what dementia actually looks like.
debo_··on Raising money fucked me up
I used to have problems like this and then I almost died a couple of times. I no longer have problems like this.
debo_··on Plunging US Birth Rate Leaves Too Many Colleges with Too Few Kids
Pretty soon we'll call trying to have children "giving it the old college try."
debo_··on LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet
Why is it in these invented HN scenarios that the engineers just happen to have absolutely no agency?
debo_··on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
I hope "cutting corners" in this context was an intentional pun.
debo_··on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
I prefer Swift as a language, but Apple's developer documentation back then was clear, detailed, and overall excellent. Occasionally I felt like I was reading a classic CS text rather than a manual. I could always find the guide on the particular facet I was looking for within a few clicks.
debo_··on I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
Mac OS Touhou would probably be better received than Mac OS Tahoe.
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