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Arghblarg

@ Arghblarg @lemmy.ca

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-credit to nedroid for strange art

  • Runk

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  • and tcc, which while maybe not as 'important', is extremely cool.

  • RFK Jr tells US families to vaccinate children against measles amid outbreak

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  • sit down!

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  • Hah, no idea... I just grabbed the first/best image link I could find :)

  • sit down!

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  • I like the cut of your jib, sir

  • Big Tech is hiding $1.65tn in off-balance-sheet AI debt

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  • Enron got nothing on these crooks.

  • S&P downgrades Oracle stock to BBB-

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  • I haven't watched "The Big Short" in a long time... but aren't BBB- rated things "dogshit wrapped in catshit"?

  • Claude Code May–July 2026 weekly limits promotion

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  • So is c/hackernews just the "all AI, all the time" community?

    Time for me to un-join and block I guess.

  • Why write code in 2026

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  • I can't stand these AI boosters. I got into programming precisely BECAUSE I enjoyed working through the logic; crafting the code, seeing and understanding how it worked. Crafting it with my own mind. "AI" was supposed to un-burden us from the things we don't enjoy, not take over the things we do enjoy and make us into reverse-centaurs just steering (or being steered by) some statistical model.

    As far as I'm concerned, a programmer that wants to build things but never look at the code, really wants deep down to be a manager, not a programmer or computer scientist. Maybe that's fine, but they should be honest about it with others and themselves.

  • Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked

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  • Kill this with fire. I have had to deal with so many AI scraper bots on my server. The authors of this should be flogged and ostracized from the software community IMO.

  • sneakerweb

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  • Hmm, sounds like a nice tie-in to anonymous USB dead-drop sites and so on. Go connect to a tree somewhere, upload your new .snk files, download any new ones placed there since your last visit :)

    Maybe have a Meshtastic solar-powered node feeding new .snk files onto it too, from afar!

  • US PC shipments fell 7.0% in 1Q26, marking steepest decline since 2023

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  • And now SSD and hard drive prices. Keep your tech going, it's going to be a long few years, if ever, before affordability returns. They (cloud and AI tech-holes) want local compute and storage to be unaffordable so we use their crap. F-ck that, I'm gonna scavenge whatever I can to keep self-hosting to the bitter end.

  • NSA is sabotaging cryptographic standards to weaken it. Act now to stop it.

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  • Sure, but lots of people thought it was crazy conspiracy thinking that the NSA backdoored certain Elliptic Curves CSPRNGs years ago.. yet it turned out they in fact did, and successfully, and it took years to come out. Whether or not some 'threat model' applies to the situation.

    The chances of a normal person being targeted by some obscure NSA backdoor is very low, certainly; but that doesn't refute the historical fact that they do try to subvert standards processes.

  • Are there any websites from the 90s that you can remember but can find no trace of now?

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  • ?!?! It's alive? thanks!

  • Are there any websites from the 90s that you can remember but can find no trace of now?

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  • https://warehouse23.com/basement by Steve Jackson Games was hours of fun back when it existed. Think of the giant warehouse at the end of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' (SyFy also ripped the idea off in the show 'Warehouse 13').

  • Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short

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  • Indeed, beat me to it. Now is the time to make it hurt for these stupid C-levels execs. Oh, and UNIONIZE ASAP.

  • OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users

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  • Haha. Hahaha. Hahahahahahaha.

    Burn.

  • Grit: rewriting Git in Rust with agents

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  • ..and they deserve eternal damnation for the idea, IMO. Hrrmph. LLMs by definition can only make derivative works. That's what they do, draw from their training on other works by humans. They are nothing without the training data. Data which was scraped from the entire f*cking Internet, without anyone's permissions. Why is this so hard for devs to understand?

    Yes, I am grumpy about this.

  • Grit: rewriting Git in Rust with agents

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  • From the article:

    ...given the pretty massive and widespread architectural changes needed to make the implementation libified and memory safe, we decided that the codebase is not a derivative work that would require carrying forward the GPL license and have decided to release the code under the MIT instead.

    I'm sorry but that pisses me right the hell off. I don't care who it is, using this rewrite-by-LLM to work around the GPL is just going to be a pox on the global software landscape.

    Basically the author is saying "if you can afford to spend $20K on tokens, buy your way around the GPL! Those with the cash can bend, nay break, the rules!"

    This is just abhorrent to me. It's STILL a derivative work, git already existed and these LLMs 100%, for sure, used knowledge from their training of the original C git implementation. Just because no one knows exactly how, where or when in the process it occurred, we know the LLMs all had access to original git in their training data.

  • Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them

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  • Agreed, but hey no need to pile the the hate on Pascal, modern ones like FPC/Lazarus are pretty cool actually :)

  • politics @lemmy.world
    Arghblarg @lemmy.ca

    DHS sends deportation notice to a US-born Citizen, who happens to be an immigration lawyer - "Leave in 7 days, or else"

    bsky.app /profile/carlbergstrom.com/post/3lmleebe2r22b
  • politics @lemmy.world
    Arghblarg @lemmy.ca

    Elizabeth May suggests Cali, Oregon, Washington State join Canada or join British Columbia to form 'Cascadia'

    archive.is /xIjN0
  • politics @lemmy.world
    Arghblarg @lemmy.ca

    Canada is one of the world's top 3 producers of mustard

    www.foodrepublic.com /1493803/which-countries-produces-most-mustard-world/