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Deebster

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  • Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00]

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  • I have the DeDRM plugin set up on Calibre and it's either it's working perfectly or everything I've bought from Kobo didn't come with DRM (I think it's the first one).

  • Everybody's so Creative! (about library abstraction design)

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  • That StealthWriter thing doesn't feel very reliable to me, e.g. it pick up the first paragraph:

    After 4 years with Rust, I love the language – but I’m starting to think the ecosystem has an abstraction addiction. Or: why every Rust crate feels like a research paper on abstraction.

    I think AI would write "four" instead of 4, would use an em dash, and the construction of the second sentence (a Doctor Strangelove reference?) doesn't feel like most LLM's style.

    Anyway, there is this massive red flag at the end which suggests I was completely wrong:

    P.S grammarly forked me over vro 🥀

    I'm not 100% sure what that means, but Grammarly is an AI writer thingy (or maybe it's only their premium level?). I know that AI tools do pick up on Grammarly-filtered stuff as these somewhat false positives are a problem in educational circles.

  • Everybody's so Creative! (about library abstraction design)

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  • Really? I would be shocked if an LLM's been anywhere near this, it's not in AI style at all.

  • Diptyx is an open source, dual-screen eReader (crowdfunding)

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  • I just checked the weight: it's 300g which is a little heavier than my Kobo with case (273g) and a ~400 page paperback (213g). That's lighter than I expected given that it's basically two readers stuck together including two batteries.

    However, I think the kind of media that would benefit from the original page layout would also need a higher resolution, and perhaps colour.

  • Everybody's so Creative! (about library abstraction design)

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  • I find that even without abstractions, code can be fairly unreadable if it goes in strong on Uncle Bob's Clean Code ideas and you're bouncing up and down the code/stack frames trying to see where the work actually happens.

  • Downdetector spiking hard overnight

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  • overnight

    Ah, you mean just now. It's not night everywhere!

  • The county installed a new sign showing the wrong way.

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  • Only problem is that it's probably illegal in the US.

  • When your vibe code works, but it has no right to

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  • I think that must be fairly common as I remember a video talking about using a tape measure being used on a satellite.

    I've found it! I thought it would have been Scott Manly, but it was a question in Tom Scott's Lateral quiz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrsBn1pzQFE

  • Woman Swallows Eight Live Frogs to Cure Her Back Pain

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  • Is she related to the old lady who swallowed a fly?

  • The box is mine!

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  • We broke it up.

    The box or the fight?

  • Deleting Files

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  • It's a pretty old issue (and you can find others complaining online over the years) and my current machine is running Gentoo Linux, so I'm not trying to fix it any more.

  • Deleting Files

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  • I barely know er!

  • Deleting Files

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  • On my Windows 10 laptop, Task Manager virtually freezes the whole system for about four seconds when you switch tabs.

  • Deleting Files

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  • The first version of PowerToys was released for Windows 95 on 17 November, 1996 as a download on Microsoft's FTP server at the time.

    Well wadaya knows?

    I like that it wasn't a proper installed thing, just a bunch of executables in a zip file.

  • Endless AI-Generated Wikipedia

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  • No robots.txt or headers to stop the resultant slop from ending up in search engines :(

    Might also have helped prevent the bill that caused him to disable generation.

  • xkcd #3143: Question Mark

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  • That must have taken some practice!

  • xkcd #3143: Question Mark

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  • People sometimes introduce a quote by doing that air quote gesture - I suppose with this logic they should only do it on one hand at the quote start and use the other hand to end the quote.

  • How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me

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  • Sometimes both in the same article!

    They'll start by explaining what the internet is before descending into a dense conversation about how to use eBPF to do packet filtering and observability - just who is the audience that needs both halves of this?

  • I must have died and gone to heaven [nushell]

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  • I've been using nushell for a year and while it is great mostly, and means you don't need to use external tools like jq, the verbosity is tedious at times. I have a lot of aliases set, and I often use the caret escape hatch to run the traditional command if I just want a quick answer.