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I'm a developer, developer, developer! Now cough up the Windows source code, Balmer!
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yupyupyups··on Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system
Exactly. Weapons in their hands is absolutely NOT a good thing given that elephant in the room.
yupyupyups··on 2025: The Year in LLMs
Let's talk about the societal cost these models have had on us including their high energy cost and the proliferation of auto-generated slop media used to milk ad revenue, scam people, SEO farm, do propaganda or automate trolling. What about these big corporations collecting an astronomical amount of debt to hoard DRAM and NAND in a way that has crippled the PC market within weeks? And what are they going to do next, put a few dollars in Trump's pocket so that they can rob/loot the US population through bailouts? Who gets to keep all the hardware I wonder?

Nvidia, Samsung, SK Hynix and some other voltures I forgot to mention are making serious bank right now.

yupyupyups··on Iran Protests Enter Third Straight Day as Students Join In
>They are probably hoping to hit more then 1 hospital and 3 residential blocks next time

Are they planning to bomb more buildings in Gaza?

yupyupyups··on Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite
1 hour passed and it's already nuked?

Thank you btw

yupyupyups··on As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise
Why would government officials and politicians want to stop making money?
yupyupyups··on Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)
It's like Hackintosh all over again but with Apple hardware rather than their cursed software.
yupyupyups··on Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters
Rook is ceph.
yupyupyups··on Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters
Garage is amazing! But it would be even more amazing if it had immutable object support. :)

This is used for ransomware resistant backups.

yupyupyups··on Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters
Depending on the underlying storage being reliable is far from unique to garage. This is what most other services do too, unless we're talking about something like Ceph which manages the physical storage itself.

Standard filesystems such as ext4 and xfs don't have data checksumming, so you'll have to rely on another layer to provide integrity. Regardless, that's not garage's job imo. It's good that they're keeping their design simple and focus their resources on implementing the S3 spec.

yupyupyups··on Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks
>the world’s most customer-centric company.

Those are big words Amazon certainly doesn't earn.

yupyupyups··on Show HN: Stop AI scrapers from hammering your self-hosted blog (using porn)
Very educational
yupyupyups··on Show HN: Stop AI scrapers from hammering your self-hosted blog (using porn)
Excellent advice! I tried it out and it helped. Thank you
yupyupyups··on Show HN: Stop AI scrapers from hammering your self-hosted blog (using porn)
We need to find more ways to poison their data.
yupyupyups··on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
You could suggest installing Firefox next to Chrome and install uBlock Origin on it. Open YouTube and show them that there are zero ads. They will likely see a contrast.
yupyupyups··on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
Of course not.
yupyupyups··on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
Maybe because they don't know any better.
yupyupyups··on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
In a liberal context, marriage means nothing except for being a symbol of a union between two people. But all rules, obligations and rights that make marriage a meaningful institution are rooted in religion, and are hence not always respected outside of religion.

You could argue that there are laws that only apply to married couples, and that THAT brings meaning to marriage. But:

Firstly, generally speaking, even the most important features of a marriage are not protected by law, most notably: fidelity. So the law is disjoint from what's traditionally considered to be obligations within marriage. That leaves the legal definition at the whims of contemporary polititians. Therefore, law cannot assign the word "marriage" any consistent meaning throughout time.

Secondly, to my limited knowledge, the line between a married couple and two people living together is increasingly getting blurred by laws that apply marriage legal obligations even to non-married couples if they have lived together for long enough. It suggests that law-makers do not consider a ceremony and a "marriage" announcement to be what should really activate these laws, but rather other factors. Although, they seem to acknowledge that an announcement of a marriage implies the factors needed to activate these laws. If that makes sense...

So marriage is inherently a religious institution that in a religious context comes with rules, obligations and rights. Hence why people who take religion seriously will find it offensive that somebody that completely disregards these rules calls themselves married.

yupyupyups··on Denmark plans to restrict social media use for young people
>a new “digital evidence” app, announced by the Digital Affairs Ministry last month and expected to launch next spring, will likely form the backbone of the Danish plans. The app will display an age certificate to ensure users comply with social media age limits

Ok, what qualifies as "social media" and how can adults bypass this to not connect their real identities with their online accounts?

The article doesn't address this, but addresses some weak argument that says this law infringes upon the rights of children, an argument most critics don't make.

I'd also like to know who developed this app. There could be some serious financial incentives to push something like this.

yupyupyups··on Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies
Doesn't matter. All of this stuff, servers included, need to be based on open source, maintained to a large part by European engineers, and hosted in the EU by people with security clearence. It makes NO sense whatsoever to risk this sensitive data getting stolen.
yupyupyups··on Firefox to create AI Window: Built for choice and control
>FF hard-locks 3x a day for me now.

I've never had this problem. Which OS do you run?

yupyupyups··on XKeyscore
>NSA does not have magic tools to break modern encryption.

They don't. But they have other options.

For example, Cloudflare is an American company that has plaintext access to the traffic of many sites. Cloudflare can be compelled to secretly share anything the NSA want.

yupyupyups··on EU hits X with €120M fine for breaching the Digital Services Act
^

This sort of shit-tier troll post is what you'll find in X times a million, because it's probably amplified by bots.

I'd be happy to see X gone. You won't be missed.

yupyupyups··on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
But you got to give it to him, he does seem to be really good at catching deficiensies early that may accumulate to become serious bugs or security vulnerabilities in the future. Sure, being an asshole is not ok, but being assertive is a must for a person in his position.
yupyupyups··on Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k
>whoa there, pardner!

>Your request has been blocked due to a network policy.

>Try logging in or creating an account here to get back to browsing.

>If you're running a script or application, please register or sign in with your developer credentials here. Additionally make sure your User-Agent is not empty and is something unique and descriptive and try again. if you're supplying an alternate User-Agent string, try changing back to default as that can sometimes result in a block.

>You can read Reddit's Terms of Service here.

>If you think that we've incorrectly blocked you or you would like to discuss easier ways to get the data you want, please file a ticket here.

>When contacting us, please include your Reddit account along with the following code:

Reddit is weird these days. I'm not even sure how this is related to fonts.

yupyupyups··on C++ Web Server on my custom hobby OS
Thanks. The advantages of having a spec is obvious to me as well. I'm just not sure why building business logic that generates the spec (that generates the client) is a bad idea. That way you still have a single source of truth, and a spec.
yupyupyups··on C++ Web Server on my custom hobby OS
Care to explain the advantage of starting off with the spec rather than with code?
yupyupyups··on C++ Web Server on my custom hobby OS
You should add OpenAPI generation. So that basically the endpoint /openapi.json is auto-generated.
yupyupyups··on Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
Oh it's not only Dutch universities.
yupyupyups··on GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack
Something helpful here would be to enable developers to optionally identify themselves. Not Discord-style where only the platform knows their real identity, but publically as well.
yupyupyups··on Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected
Just make sure to update when new CVEs are revealed.

Also, some software are always buggy and every version is a mixed bag of new features, bugs and regressions. It could be due to the complexity of the problem the software is trying to solve, or because it's just not written well.

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