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there is also https://gitlab.com/dto/cell-mode and https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/ses.html... and https://github.com/ShuguangSun/ess-view-data

though I tend to stick with org

I thought that kind of career change only happened in The Sims :-)

> If we allow ourselves to be seduced by the superficial similarity, we’ll end up like the moths who evolved to navigate by the light of the moon, only to find themselves drawn to—and ultimately electrocuted by—the mysterious glow of a bug zapper.

Good argument against personifying wordbags. Don't be a dumb moth.

https://www.pan-europe.info/resources/reports/2025/12/unseen... seems like the report

> LLMs are so good on the Turing test scale that people can't help but anthropomorphize them.

It's like Turing never noticed how people look at gnarly trees in the dark and think they're human.

The original statistical machine translation models of the 90's, which were still used well into the 2010's, were famously called the "IBM models" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_alignment_models These were not just cool tech demos, they were the state of the art for decades. (They just didn't make IBM any money.)

I used to have no worries about my kids playing in the street here (Norway), but I've noticed a few of these big trucks lately – I cannot understand how their drivers can be able to see a five year old running around it?

Air in populated cities or air in general? Air quality seems a bit harder to compare across countries than road deaths, considering the US has so much sparsely populated land.

The Norwegian term for e2ee is "ende-til-ende-kryptering".

And "ende" can also mean 'butt' https://naob.no/ordbok/ende_3#52867988

So I guess it makes some kind of sense.

How do you do this in practice?

If I just need to `fly secrets set KEY=hunter2` one time for production I can copy it from a paper pad even but if it's a key I need to use every time I run a program that I'm developing on, it's likely going to end up at least being in my program's shell environment (and thus readable from its /proc/pid/environ). So if I `npm install compromised-package` – even from some other terminal – can't it just `grep -a KEY= /proc/*/environ`?

Or are you saying the programs we hack on should use some kind of locker api to fetch secrets and do away with env vars?

but if you `cd project && npm install compromised-package` then compromised-package's setup script can still read your env vars, right?

portals are used by wayland, but you can also use them without wayland.

E.g. under X you can use bubblewrap or firejail to restrict access to the web or whatever for some program, but still give that program access to for example an xdg portal that lets you "open url in web browser" (except the locked-down program can't for example see the result of downloading that web page)

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/a-lighter-weight-alternative... talks about workarounds for multiline definitions

Nice. I tried to look up when the poem was written and came across

https://gradesfixer.com/free-essay-examples/lust-and-resigna...

> it is the word “stock” that remains the most meticulous justification for the virtuous intent of the poet. The word “stock,” in addition to a hard stalk, is a term used in the art of grafting, a process by which two plants are woven into each other and continue to grow mutually. The “stock” (23), then, is the true nature of the speaker's “mortal part”

hahahah that's one way to see it, if you want to "redeem" the author (just completely ignore the more overt imagery of the soft vine turning into a hard stalk). To me the ending just looked like yet another lascivious pun :-)

I remember seeing it in Sandman spelled "quoint" (by Shakespeare) https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.comics.dc.vertigo/c/Qi2...

For Android, https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncth... works really well.

I've heard good things about https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/synctrain/id6553985316?platfor... for iOS, but I'm guessing it can't work constantly in the background like on Android?

Or Qobuz, which they say pays creators more than the alternatives

    My echoing song; then worms shall try
    That long-preserved virginity,
    And your quaint honour turn to dust,
    And into ashes all my lust;

hah, barely couched at all

kind of disappointed the article didn't use the word Vogon in the title :)

Ouf, yeah, maybe should have given more warning.. "Can't look away" indeed – I also got completely sucked into it after seeing a random link to it with no warning.

So that works if it's possible to actually reach the person and the family agrees that they need help to get out. What if the family is part of the problem or is tricked? (I recently read https://elan.school/ about this unimaginably horrible Kids for Cash-like scheme/cult. The only thing I can think of to prevent such things would be to get parents, teachers, lawmakers and social workers to read those stories too.)

https://old.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1oujfmi/mutexes_su... apparently "optimistic" glosses over some details

TFA has a whole section praising actors for certain tasks and explaining why it doesn't fit here.

"I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person"

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-work-for-an-evil-compa...

> I long for the halcyon days of Windows 8.

That's a phrase I would never have thought I'd see. I remember Windows 8 as being generally despised when it first came out.

Seems like good advice, search has been built quite a few times now :-) I've defaulted to elasticsearch myself.

However, have you tried running any of the "up and coming" alternatives that keep showing up here? In particular, https://github.com/SeekStorm/SeekStorm seems very interesting, though I haven't heard from anyone using it in prod.

Any references to how you use selinux? I've used bwrap and firejail, but I don't feel confident that I'm not leaving holes open?

There was some article here on how llm's are like gambling, in that sometimes you get great payouts and oftentimes not, and as psych 101 taught us, that kind of intermittent reward is addictive.

Finnish: "safe" – sounds right

South Estonian: "vulnerable" – sure, yeah

Karelian: "endangered" – seems correct

Swedish: also "endangered" – wat

Ghari (12k speakers): "safe" – :facepalm:

Are these really language-vulnerability ratings or did they just make a mapping from Trump's tariff rates?