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I saw another post on reddit with something like a hundred trillion dollar bill. I wish I had saved that link to share it, the comments were quite comical!

One of the big rules of commerce is that competing on price is generally a no-no for large markets. Usually, the powers that be would rather compete on a perceived value; that is how “informal price collusion” works.

Price/cost is the last thing you compete on unless you have a wholesale advantage, which nobody in this particular industry does (visa/mastercard set core rates)

Source: I’ve worked with higher ups in numerous commerce operations.

Commerce is actually even worse than many realize. Look up pepsi and walmart as a small example.

Note that the actual cause of failure in the NES was NOT the cartridge connector, but rather, the poorly implemented security chip.

You can take a flaky NES, cut 1 pin on the security chip, and it will work near perfectly.

I am not saying what you stated isn’t true, however, it wasn’t the reason for the solid pink or flashing screens many of us saw.

Just a note: the article focuses on the ladies, but men should absolutely get it as well because it cuts risk for other types of cancers. I was looking for a better link, however this is the only one I found (I had an older one saved, however I can't find it):

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/24/health/hpv-men-vaccine-cancer...

I'm pretty sure I heard your groan from all the way over here in Nashville. ;)

GitHub == git, which is free. You can clone the repo and push it to wherever. No comment on the rest. I am just pointing out that using GitHub for source code doesn't mean mean that code can't be easily forked or used elsewhere. I suspect GitHub is for convenience since the majority of folks using git use it.

That's fine. The second I stopped caring, which is the day I stopped working for a living, I stopped worrying about what Google thinks. I don't use Google for email or search. (my email addresses are with proton, iCloud, and Hey, and my search is DDG) I'm not a big video person so I never use Youtube, the few times I need to use an office product I will either use OnlyOffice, or the Apple stuff. My Phone is an iPhone (with the stuff mentioned above) My browser is Firefox with uBlock Origin, and I almost never have problems with this setup.

The "problem" is that people are looking for problems. This "problem" isn't specific to Bluesky, ATProto, or anything else. Look at any organization: profit, non-profit, group of volunteers, etc. and you'll always find someone that folks have a problem with.

I'm not an investor and have no conflict of interest with Bluesky beyond being one of the earliest of users. I also understand the protocol, the company, the website within my own limitations.

The site (and app) works just fine. Folks are really focused on finding problems rather than coming up with bigger and better solutions.

Note: the majority of folks don't want an ad-hoc p2p solution like lemmy or mastodon. they want their content in one place, and they want to be able to hold that entity accountable. Because of this, p2p social networking will never take off. I've seen more drama surrounding both Lemmy and Mastodon than I have ever seen with twitter, reddit, facebook, etc. combined.

That's my 2 cents. Also, apparently my spouse feels the same way. So do my friends.

Not really, Qwen 27b offloads to a decent gaming GPU (RTX 4090 in my case) without needing tons of RAM.

Honestly, anyone using Github as a basis for hiring to begin with is approaching hiring with flawed thinking. Github isn't the only source for git, and git isn't the only standard for version control. Further, Github has been pushing companies AWAY from the platform thanks to high costs and other nonsense. I've seen more than one company either run a local git server or something like a local git lab instance. Using github as a metric just ensures that you eliminate anyone not using github. That includes many amazing open source devs, for example.

Tell that to the folks on the front lines, along with folks on both sides, military or not, who have had to deal with it.

Russia would never nuke Ukraine to begin with. They know that by doing so, most of the world would unite against them, and many, including Putin, would be on the chopping block.

oh no...not again...;)

There are detectors for VMs, and modifications to allow VMs to evade those detectors. It's an arms race.

Example: There is (was? I don't actively follow the community) a patch set for a particular piece of VM software that made it undetectable to anti-cheat in games.

While I don't use said software (I have a casual interest in it only...would be nice to get more games working on Linux), I have to disclose that I'm against anti-cheat mechanisms. I'm a software engineer, and I've worked on a few smaller games, and know the overall structure of bigger ones, and I don't think I've ever seen a game use good practices in multiplayer. Instead, they usually rely on client side code and lean on anti-cheat software to stop cheaters.

As someone who had actual passive income (small amount, a few hundred USD/mo) prior to my life being ruined by a medical accident: I agree (I killed my site because it was the right thing to do, I could not generate content for it because I couldn't function, so I did not want to waste the time/money of my users).

One thing the author does NOT see, however, is that the local folks doing all the hard work like mowing lawns, building furniture, etc. are in absolute panic over "AI" because their niche little lawn mowing/car washing/house cleaning business has been determined to be irrelevant by ChatGPT, etc. Oh and before you ask, there are folks claiming they can solve that exact thing, and those hard working folks are buying those products, hoping it will solve their downtrend in internet leads.

The solution to this is so simple that it would blow your mind. In regulated industries in the U.S. there is a law called "Know Your Customer" (KYC). If businesses actually made an effort to know their customers, they would not have any issues at all.

The real issue is that everyone scrambles to make a sale, and nobody stops to determine if they should actually make that sale. Funny enough, I blame all of this on marketing and sales.

You fail to understand the problem, I suspect.

Just because files are in bespoke folders, does NOT mean they are being backed up.

Example: I'm 1,016% over my OneDrive limit because I canceled my Microsoft 365 account due to their price hike to cover for AI costs. My laptop still pushes files there upon save thanks to Microsoft defaults (my desktop was moved to CachyOS long ago).

If I had been using Backblaze for backup, those files would not have been backed up.

Luckily, I'm a nerd and I'm way ahead of this (I moved away from OneDrive long ago and never deleted the files). Most folks aren't.

Backblaze should be alerting users when stuff isn't backed up. I've strongly considered their B2 offering for a big project. The fact that they changed this without proper notification has made me decide NOT to move forward.

You are assuming that courts will shut this down. Guess what? The Supreme Court is responsible for these laws: https://publicinterestprivacy.org/paxton-age-verification/

With LLMs, this has become commonplace. Most folks don't realize how far real time video/audio generation has come. You should never ever trust the sound of a voice or a video call, pictures on a screen, etc. it can all be faked.

Behind every virtual "thirst trap" is some dude in another country hoping to scam some sucker out of money.

EDIT: oh and to be clear, I've no issues with meeting folks online. I met my spouse online a couple decades ago, and we quickly moved it offline.

I also know folks (guys) who run hobbyist setups that stream on platforms and pretend to be attractive young ladies. The voice quality is very believable, and the video is approaching realistic. With a bit of doctoring, it looks completely believable...and we are talking about the widely available stuff, NOT the stuff available behind closed doors.

What I am trying to say here is don't treat a relationship as real until you meet the person in real life and build an actual connection.

I Googled the BDS Boycott list at a glance...the top link (https://bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott) mentions a bunch of companies, including Sodastream. The immediate issue I see is that Sodastream is owned by PepsiCo, Inc. That immediately makes them complicit as well. PepsiCo was also facing a lawsuit regarding a partnership with Walmart for price fixing (https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/01/08/walmart-peps...) until the Trump administration threw it out (https://apnews.com/article/ftc-pepsico-trump-walmart-2cd8b42...).

I bring all this up to say that even if everyone boycotts sodastream, it won't do diddly to the actual folks responsible. I bet the same goes for others on that list. Boycotts also don't usually work in general. Most of the time it takes full on government intervention, lawsuits, etc. to change things.

Neat, and kudos! Reminds me of my young hobbyist days. I wish low level dev work was that approachable now.

Back in the old days, it was REALLY easy to initialize VGA and throw pixels around in ASM, C, or C++. The 6502 and related chips were relatively easy chips to build stuff for, even though tooling was non-existent. Shoot, you could do some really awesome things on a Tandy CoCo2 and BASIC of all things.

It feels like engineering has made this type of thing inaccessible. Most systems require a ton of knowledge and expertise. There is no easy 'in' for someone with a special interest in development. Even worse, AI is artificially dumbing things down, while making things even more inaccessible.

A lot of indie devs actually are fine with decompiling/viewing source. Even the STS2 devs have no issue with this. I think it is great and helps the indie dev community. Seeing this has actually made me excited about game dev to the point where I'm beginning to dig in myself.

Semi-related note:I learned this morning that there are companies that offer in-home (non-cellular) phone service via wifi/the internet. Think: classic cordless phone, however the base station connects via wifi. Some of those companies offer free unlimited service as well...and the one I was looking at has a companion app for iOS/Android that allows you to make calls from via home number from anywhere as long as you have an internet connection.

I'm assuming these numbers are flagged as VOIP (which limits their use as a lot of apps/sites/companies hate VOIP numbers), however the discover is interesting. I thought home phones were dead and buried.

I see a ton of bickering, however, I simply have to ask the question: how can anyone justify the United States of America and Israel attacking ANY country? It isn't our job, nor is it Israel's, to try and be the world police. People are dying, and because of a certain corpse-to-be controlling MY country, the world is beginning to suffer and it is going to get so much worse. Some economists are saying gas rationing will begin happening within the next 9-15 months. Iran has NO incentive to be diplomatic. On top of that, invisible damage that nobody is reporting about is being done...damage that could last years or possibly decades to very small, yet super important parts of the world supply chain that powers everything from fertilizer to pharmaceuticals. There is not a single person in the world that should be supporting this war. I don't care what your beliefs are. The results WILL affect you, and you won't get a bailout.

Care to clarify? Windows doesn't have fork or a fork equivalent...

USPS delivered more than a billion packages for Amazon last year, close to 15% of all the packages that the Postal Service delivered in the country. Amazon’s guaranteed volumes have been a source of stability for the agency, which has operated at a loss for most of the past two decades. In fiscal 2025, it reported a net loss of $9 billion.

Yes, it's not a business, it's a government agency. That is expected. With proper funding and removal of political interests, it should ideally break even. However, political interests are forcing the USPS to lose money...thanks team red.

Definitely an unpopular opinion: The whole with the internet is anonymity. Keep in mind, I support an anonymous internet, however, political interests, corporate interests, hate groups, etc. are all using it to undermine society.

Example: When Twitter ("X") suddenly started showing the locations of accounts, a lot of folks with MAGA talking points were shown to be anywhere except the U.S. Accounts with millions of followers and tons of influence have never even set foot in the U.S.

Another Example: Polymarket (not the "US" one) is anonymous. Because of this, events like the headline talks about happens. Certain government leaders worldwide could easily be seeding the bets, and playing the market, and you would never know.

Anonymity is nice, however, it is being taken advantage of for power plays. This is why we can't have nice things.

Hard disagree. In most countries, you can not anonymously trade stocks, for starters, where you can anonymously bet on Polymarket.

So, firstly, before I dive into your comment; about the topic above, this is the result of a terrible headline gone wrong in a single state in the US. The language never required any changes to Linux, or Windows, or any other operating system, for that matter.

Someone read the text, and made a clickbaity headline, and it went viral. then, another state made a similar bill, and it went viral again.Age verification isn't coming to Linux any time soon, and no, you aren't breaking any laws by either developing for, and/or using Linux if you are a U.S. citizen. It is literally illegal to pass a law like that thanks to the constitution. Outside the U.S.? well depending on the country, you likely experienced something better or worse, Regardless...

It is pretty remarkable that it [age verification] has popped up in multiple countries at once. It is almost as though a certain few billionaires are interested in suppressing speech.I wonder who those folks might be? ;)

The folks trying to shut down the masses via stuff like this should probably read some history, because that never works out...like ever. Doing the same thing over and over again won't make it work. It won't work this time either.

Qwen is actually really good at code as well. I used qwen3-coder-next a while back and it was every bit as good as claude code in the use cases I tested it in. Both made the same amount of mistakes, and both did a good job of the rest.

Maybe the citizens will learn to elect better leaders.