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by xyst 2y ago
Pretty good timing on the attacker. https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files/tags?after=v35.9... Most folks around the world signed off. B-squad probably left cleaning up remaining tasks or just fucking around
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by xyst 2y ago
A company I worked at went all in on GH too. The internal gh team probably going to do a fire drill this whole weekend and app teams forced to rotate all secrets and credentials. Fortunately don’t have to deal with that shit anymore
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by xyst 2y ago
Haven’t heard of any controversial political leanings in Proton Mail. Only controversy I remember was this incident where PM was compelled by govt to release IP address of one of its users — https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by xyst 2y ago
Does Kobo allow you to keep pdfs or epubs of the books? Or is an account always required (DRM)?
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by xyst 2y ago
Besides not being AMZN. They act as a middleman to redirect purchases to local bookstores in your area. Plus registered/certified as a B-corporation is a plus in my book — https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/find-a-
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by xyst 2y ago
I’m buying the book, but definitely not from AMZN. Found it on back order at a local shop and ordered there. Bookshop.org is a pretty good alternative to AMZN.
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by xyst 2y ago
A company of this size definitely wouldn’t be able to tank a multimillion dollar lawsuit.
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by xyst 2y ago
Have seen demos where garbage sorting has been automated. No AI necessary. Just had cameras, visual detection, some compressed air nozzles, and millisecond (nanosecond?) reaction time to separate the non-recyclable materials.
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by xyst 2y ago
The video demonstrations are underwhelming to be honest. Obviously has been pre-trained to do these “random” tasks. Wonder how many cuts they had to do before it was picture perfect. Also, I vaguely remember similar demos without the AI hyp
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by xyst 2y ago
NSA and AT&T (telecom in general?) caught with their pants down not just once, but twice. All of this heavily publicized yet here we are today with privacy being an afterthought in everyone’s mind. I hate to say it but the private corpo
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by xyst 2y ago
> … AI Startup School will gather 2000 of the top CS undergrads, masters, and PhD candidates in AI to hear from speakers including Elon Musk What a blunder by YC. What is this tool going to add to the conversation? Hope he gets removed
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by xyst 2y ago
GDP is such a deeply flawed metric of measuring human welfare. It’s an aggregate measure and doesn’t tell the distribution of wealth amongst nation. Also, it’s a metric that was sort of useful in the 1950s and during wartime when this count
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by xyst 2y ago
> predictive economic models Not possible with this neoclassical economy we live in. It’s an ongoing grift that has been ongoing for _decades_ which has allowed for irrational thinking to prevail, for wealth and success to be focused int
614.
by xyst 2y ago
If TSLA goes bust, your car will cease to function. This is guaranteed, m8. Don't buy this junk.
615.
by xyst 2y ago
All I have to say is: good. Hope it continues to nosedive.
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by xyst 2y ago
brb re-creating pitch deck with presenterm to take presenterm from OSS to closed/limited/business source licensed software (ie, hashicorp strategy) then IPO. Then rug pull the stonk. Leave retail holding the bag, go on permanent l
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by xyst 2y ago
Google just needs to send the appropriate amount to kleptocracy war chest and this will get killed on the backend.
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by xyst 2y ago
I have been buying direct from manufacturers for a few years now. Sure I don’t get it in 1 day. The common carriers are a hit or miss (FedEx straight up doesn’t deliver on weekends). Sure, I may pay more. I’ll tank the cost if it’s a qualit
619.
by xyst 2y ago
Yet another blow to the American hegemony by the kleptocracy cabinet.
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by xyst 2y ago
I completely forgot about Hamachi. Remember using this as a teenager for creating private xbox lobbies over the internet
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by xyst 2y ago
I like tailscale as a replacement for the dogshit enterprise VPNs I have had to use in the past (looking at you, ZScaler). But for personal/single home use it’s overkill. I used to run a WireGuard server on a raspberry pi with ddns to
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by xyst 2y ago
Lovely, now LLM can hallucinate how much I spent or earned in a month, or year.
623.
by xyst 2y ago
Time to start up a business as a “conflict free” gum arabic supplier. Maybe they will make a movie about it: Lord of Gum <WIP>
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by xyst 2y ago
I might like Apple again if the SoC could be sold separately and opened up. It would be interesting to see a PC with Asahi or Windows running on Apple’s chips.
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by xyst 2y ago
People like Krugman are one of the reasons USA is in a hot mess and wealth has concentrated into a select few. Neoclassical economists have been selling themselves as “scientists” (think physicists) for decades and their theories are cited
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by xyst 2y ago
Restoring “American greatness” is well beyond switching to the gold standard or “brain drain” of the world. We need a paradigm shift from what we call neoclassical economics and neoliberal economic theory. The author sort of hints at it but
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by xyst 2y ago
Optimistically, the increase of EV sales is good for decreasing overall tail pipe emissions. But I still see the EV as saving the car industry rather than saving the world/environment. Reducing tail pipe emissions is great, but if it m
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by xyst 2y ago
Same. Maybe if I had drawing talent, it would be useful. I have tried to incorporate it into my daily workflow (maybe use it to help with diagramming), but it ends up collecting dust. Or used to watch films in bed. Using it as a glorified K
629.
by xyst 2y ago
The result of 40+ years of pseudoscience from neoclassical and neoliberal economists. America is cooked.
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by xyst 2y ago
Some people just live under a rock; or they have never been impacted by god awful management decisions. Sometimes I wonder what that life looks like? Maybe just sipping champagne at beach side (or on the couch) all day in ignorance. Watch w

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