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If browsers were slightly better at asking users, maybe we'd all have our three favourite fonts and background-, text- and link-colours instead of what someone else prefers we stare at all day.

Oh, you have nothing to hide? Kindly paste all your payment and login credentials that your browser stores. Later we'll need to see all your DMs on Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, Discord, etc.

Finally we'll want to know about disputes you've had with intimate partners, employers and other service providers, especially powerful ones like healthcare, insurance and financial organisations.

For example, requiring the “vibecoding” tag on all stories about AI even though very few of them are about vibecoding.

No? You either use AI or vibecoding, like the tag page says:

https://lobste.rs/tags

It’s a short, specific puzzle. I’d love to know if you think the "Correct" path I designed matches your real-world experience, or if I’m off base.

As someone about to step into a C-suite role: I picked the "correct" path and as long as people are reasonable, it works well.

I've used this but you might need to use your browser's translate feature:

https://kalendersiden.dk/

Many experiments have shown that when you take away people's concerns about money for housing and food, that frees up energy and attention to do other things.

Like the famous experiment in Finland where homeless people were given cash with no strings attached and most were able to rise out of their despair. The healthcare professionals could then focus their energy on the harder cases. It also saved a bunch of money in the process.

for this price you can get a really nice N100/N150 laptop with a full HD IPS screen

Can you think of a name or model by any chance?

Hardly a "roll out across the UK".

What's your threshold for when it becomes a problem? Should we wait until it becomes a problem, or should we try to stop this level of facial recognition?

You should also assume this is a proof of concept. It'll get improved and scaled down to run on every police vehicle, and on every camera the police already control.

When you start digging past their marketing material, you quickly discover that these organisations are just right-wing fronts, against trans-people, against abortion.

Here's a 38 minute video that walks through some of the recent major incidents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmHHnPLllUk

Feminists would not campaign to take down games (with zero sexual content) about queer lives made by queer people.

There's a gigantic difference between outsourcing your brain to generative AI (LLMs, Stable Diffusion, ..) and pattern recognition that recognises songs, birds, plants or health issues.

It used to be that if you got stuck on a concept, you're basically screwed.

We were able to learn before LLMs.

Libraries are not a new thing. FidoNet, USENET, IRC, forums, local study/user groups. You have access to all of Wikipedia. Offline, if you want.

In “Irreversible Damage,” Abigail Shrier argues youth are being “fast-tracked” into medical transition — a claim experts say isn’t true and harms trans youth.

Anti-trans activities is the fascist agenda. Fascism should always be stopped. Saving democracy and lives of transpeople by stopping fascists is not controversial in any way.

Both extremes want the same thing.

Citation needed. The 'extreme' feminism & LGBT tends to revolve around identical pay, being able to walk down the street without getting assaulted or being able to work without being harassed or discriminated against.

Portability is overrated. GNU Make is [..] itself portable.

Sounds like it's not overrated, then. You just prefer that other people write portable C and package GNU Make for all systems instead of you writing POSIX Make.

A couple make flags that are useful [..]

But not portable. Please don't use them outside of your own non-distributable toy projects.

https://esgnews.com/ai-boom-drives-150-surge-in-indirect-emi...

Not to mention the ethical / copyright / misbehaving scrapers.

Wild. I evaluate LLMs about once per year, and can't wait for the generative AI bubble to burst.

I most recently asked for a privilege-separated JMAP client daemon (dns, fetcher, writer) using pledge() and unveil() that would write to my Maildir, my khal dir and contacts whenever it had connectivity and otherwise behave like a sane network client.

I got 800 lines of garbage C. Structs were repeated all over the place, the config file was #defined four times, each with a different name and path.

Who do you think built and maintained the socioeconomic systems that allowed women to focus on creating and raising children?

This statement completely ignores how our current world is shaped by white supremacy and the patriarchy. Women were prohibited from taking part in anything expect raising children (which even today is seen as contributing nothing).

Women who dared venture outside the home had their work ignored or credit stolen. Eunice Foote and Rosalind Franklin are two obvious examples.

Later, textiles, telecoms and computing were powered by women labour and they were expected to stay in their lane so the men could take credit and the money.

Women have stopped making babies.

Couples have stopped making babies.

We already tried the whole "not resisting fascist-adjacent people every living second" and it didn't turn out great for a lot of people. Think about it for a moment.

Almost everything that has any impact in the world is political:

The clothes we wear, the food we eat, where and how our children are schooled, the devices and services we have available, consumer rights for said devices and services, etc.

We are not living longer, fewer infants / kids are dying.

you can get houses near major cities for usd 80k.

There are 53706 homes for sale today. 2784 of those are actual homes, not empty lots, costing less than 600K DKK.

I would not expect to live a healthy, comfortable life in most homes at that price range. Draft, mold, poor insulation and high energy bills.

I honestly have no idea why the recruiters from these places have such a superiority complex that they need to belittle people like that.

Many, many years ago I sat next to HR in an open plan office while on a freelance gig.

They treated almost all candidates like subhumans, both when talking about the candidates within the team and when speaking on the phone to candidates.

They handled everyone from factory worker and janitorial roles, to specialists to director level. I very clearly got the impression that they only treated candidates well if those candidates could turn into people who had any power over them within the org.

I've carried that with me since and I often recognize it in HR staff I interact with now.

Fascists chase ideals / purity, so put a lot of effort into their uniforms, for one.

Places like Ordensburg Vogelsang, where they trained Nazi officers, explains how they cut themselves to look experienced in battle, among other things. The Wikipedia page doesn't do the place justice. It's terrifying to visit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordensburg_Vogelsang

Fascists have strong opinions on "correct" art:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_in_Nazi_Germany

Did you try loading this in your own browser and look at the console? I get one warning and five errors:

    * Cross-Origin Request Blocked.
    * None of the "sha512" hashes match the content.
    * Loading 3rd party javascript failed.
    * Another Cross-Origin Request Blocked.
    * Another sha512 hash fails to match.
    * Notification permission error

YouTube Premium still shows ads and they still track users.

Most recently, the ?si= tracker on URLs shared are a new low that lets YouTube map out how we interact with other people.

save nature

A shocking number of people still don't realize we need to save humans.

For all the mis- and disinformation we fight on climate change, I really fear this continued talk about "saving nature" doesn't help at all.

Same with media reporting temperature changes expect in the year 2100. It pushes the problem beyond a time frame most of us can understand.

We need to talk about how bad it was in the past month, and how bad it'll be in the coming month.

Vandalism of art treasures is a serious crime in that it degrades society.

You'll never believe what our current levels of CO2 does to society.

[..] it wasn't a Boeing issue in this case. One of their suppliers [..]

The world would look very different if organisations were on the hook for the actions of their suppliers.

You are genuinely unwell

I'm pretty sure that's not helpful.