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blibble
9mo ago
> They really should do this, this is the right and honorable thing to do instead of interfering with local governments and deriding of government organizations by their CEO. plus it will kill their company forever across Europe DO IT! (
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blibble
9mo ago
> With luck, GitHub will soon roll out management features that let us open things back up. I wouldn't bet on it SlopHub
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blibble
9mo ago
> how realistic it is that the US is forcing Amazon to secretly backdoor its own software for US spying abroad? probably 100%?
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blibble
9mo ago
> The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is the only fully-featured, independently operated sovereign cloud, backed by strong technical controls, sovereign assurances and legal protections. independently OPERATED, not independently owned there
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blibble
9mo ago
> Regardless ban evasion is always forbidden so if you slip up pr get caught because of the way you type or whatever, you will be banned again. so you create another account? they don't even do IP bans, (er, so I hear)
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blibble
9mo ago
of course there is this is not the global oil market the UK electricity market is a government creation, highly regulated, and only accessible to limited participants 30 minutely, day ahead, pay-by-clear auction markets are not a property o
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blibble
9mo ago
> Like if gas is $5 and RE is $1 the RE folks get $5 instead? yes if there's 1mW of gas in the grid then everyone gets paid the gas price this is called pay-as-clear, and has some positives (strongly encourages RE construction), and
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blibble
9mo ago
this is certainly an interesting way to pull out an attribute from a tag: https://github.com/wilsonzlin/fastrender/blob/main/crates/fa...
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blibble
9mo ago
> My wife, who has no clue about coding at all, chatgpted a very basic android app only with guidance of chatgpt. She would never ever been able to do this in 5 hours or so without my guidance. I DID NOT HELP HER at all. you know Google
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blibble
9mo ago
yeah I understand the theory behind the system however the market participants have "adapted" to it https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/08/two-power-s... it works pretty well on a sho
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blibble
9mo ago
in the UK the price everyone pays is set according to the marginal price essentially this means if there's one milliwatt of gas on the grid: everyone pays the gas price as a result consumers see very benefit from renewables (but the re
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blibble
9mo ago
as usual for Microslop products: it's designed for maximum lock-in everything is including some crappy proprietary yaml rather than using standard tooling so instead of being a collection of easily composable and testable bits it'
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blibble
9mo ago
it's surprising difficult to rip from audio CDs in a error free manner most tools do it badly and just accept what the drive gives them in default mode, often with glitches
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blibble
9mo ago
> They are probably better than most of us most top engineers will have their best work locked up in their employer's private repositories simonw and antirez have an advantage here, and at least the former is very good at self-promo
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blibble
9mo ago
> And just so we're clear, are you suggesting they shouldn't have an endowment at all did you read my comments in this chain? > I would go so far as to say I think the VC fund is the single best idea Mozilla has ever had for
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blibble
9mo ago
> Maybe objectively it does, but can we convince them that it does? how long would you give our current civilisation if quality of software ceased to be important for: - medical devices - aircraft - railway signalling systems -
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blibble
9mo ago
> It's different this time. they said this every time too
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9mo ago
> that's helping to stand up a VC fund which is one of their most interesting pathways to diversifying revenue oh for fucks sake, that's even worse than blowing it on stupid ideas JUST USE THE MONEY FOR THE BROWSER
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blibble
9mo ago
> What, precisely, are they good for? scamming people
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blibble
9mo ago
very easy way to make bank would be to support extended security updates for old versions of python a couple of paid engineers could support every previous version essentially forever
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9mo ago
> If you're trying to do peer-to-peer security, and you want to prove not only that the evil server hasn't forged anything (which you do with signatures) but also that it hasn't deleted anything legitimate, "throw a h
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9mo ago
there's literally a NFT/crypto scammer occupying the oval office can't wait until he figures out AI
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9mo ago
> What do you think should be done in light of that? you suggested it: > government should ban the development of AI? works for me!
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9mo ago
> Why? https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=Winter%202026
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blibble
9mo ago
> We now sort of accepted the idea of “vibe coding” speak for yourself please, not all of us have
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9mo ago
can't see Microslop GitHub banning AI slop
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9mo ago
> There are not many good revenue options available for a browser other than selling search defaults if they had set up an endowment instead of blowing it on unrelated pointless crap for decades they would have been self-funded indefinit
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9mo ago
the sloppers are just a parody of themselves at this point
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9mo ago
have you used iOS 26? "liquid ass" is how most of my friends describe it
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blibble
9mo ago
ah yes, another market where the private equity scum have realised that "the market is inefficient" and that the existing businesses aren't "extracting maximum consumer surplus" fortunately the UK doesn't have
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