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  • Signal is working on registration without a phone number. But what form will it take?

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  • As someone who uses matrix and runs a matrix server, matrix fucking suuuucks jfc why are so many privacy tools soooooo bad at what they do on so many levels like wtf the proto the servers the clients the ux the metadata issues like so much wrong

    Edit: and if anyone tells me to use XMPP I'll slap them

  • The Cost of Scattered Validation Logic | The frustrated developer

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  • I recently made a lua framework that constructs callable tables to be used as functions that take a table as a dictionary of named argument. The function declares a schema of parameters with associated required/default/optional policies that put their respective values through a transform and validation pipeline. A similar pipeline can also be put on the result to make explicit guarantees. Can also configure whether argument errors/violations should throw or return results,error shape

    The wrapped function recieves a table of processed arguments in a known state, while keeping that noise separate from the business logic. Also configurable at runtime with introspection, and param pipelines are immutable so they can be composed.

    If that sounds like it introduces a lot of overhead, you're right! But 1) it's Lua and 2) omg is it so worth it when used properly. The UX is great; the callsite ergonomics, maintainability, and self-documenting nature is always what I felt was missing. Ships with & plays pretty well with type annotations too.

    Anyways, that all makes it really convenient to know what's responsible for what, and encourages pretty safe designs.

  • This is a glass

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  • It's not a glass, it's the

    hydrationContainerManagerObjectFactory

    Not to be confused with the

    hydrationContainerManagerTypeFactory

    Which is the template

  • DHS admission suggests sham emergency will justify ICE arrests at midterm polls

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  • Okay I hadn't heard that before; I lol'd in the traditional meaning

  • I'm in!!!!

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  • Hey it's me

  • Beans

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  • The guy next to me on the list was "iluvlamp" so I can only assume...

  • RFK's CDC publicly claims "studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism"

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  • Studies have not ruled out the possibility that the worm ate his whole brain

  • House Republicans Subpoena Left-Wing Groups Amid Trump Administration Crackdown

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  • No wayyy!

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  • Found the human

  • Mayor Mamdani said he won't accept raise after New York City Council approves pay hike

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  • Well you're right that my line of reasoning certainly works better for some words than others; ones where there's more room for ambiguity or flexible usage. Nigger in particular is strong to your point; very heavily weighted in American English with active reclamation efforts under the 'soft R' nigga. There's a definate "in-group" ruleset for their common usage with a lot less wiggleroom. But a counterpoint would be trap: the maybe-slur for transgender to some, while being a self-descriptor for others or a completely distinct term to even more (referring to the dimensions of gender expression rather than gender identity). More commonly used with strong positive connotations in the anime-adjacent communities while simultaneously it has been deployed as verbiage in Latin America and south Asia as part of legal defenses for the literal murder of trans and nonbinary-expressing people.

    I completely understand how someone who's familiar with the word trap in one setting would be absolutely put off by seeing it so casually used in another, especially if that person was effected by it elsewhere in their life to some capacity. But that doesn't mean all other uses are invalid or need to be censored; we can acknowledge how that's terrible and denounce it without also having to tell every anime-coded trap femboy on tumblr that they need to change their bio or else they're implicitly supporting trans genocide...

    The word retard has a troubled past (almost everything to do with the history of IQ does; like imbecile, idiot, and moron, which were common descriptors even before they became clinical signifers, and they've returned to their colloquial usage in modern-day).

    But I'd really like to see a world in which the treadmill stops, even if temporarily; what if retard was adopted as a non-slur perjorative, despite the clinical definitions changing to destigmatize? The word is currently seeing a resurgence for various reasons and on both sides of the American political spectrum; woke 2 shedding the hollow liberal virtuesignalling in favor of direct action, and the right acting like it's a cultural victory (which it isn't); somehow there's a perfect storm which may allow the colloquial focus to be held bad despite the clinical terms moving forward. It's almost like a firebreak that's pulling oxygen from "special" or "challenged" or "deficient" growing in popularity as schoolyard-grade insults (or whatever the latest generation is; I haven't kept track)

    For the first time (I can think of, at least) there's actually hope for a destigmatizing effort to last longer than a decade! And part of that is the aire of taboo which can be pushed back at. So for that, I thank you for your contribution, ironically.

    But we can agree to disagree.

  • Mayor Mamdani said he won't accept raise after New York City Council approves pay hike

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  • Yes, I will happily continue to misuse slurs. But thanks for the history lesson. I also call myself an "idiot" and "moron" with some frequency, so if that's indeed how language works then I suppose I may have some claim to the slur...

    However, I don't think linguistics works like that. Perhaps you learned nothing from the endless cycle of prescriptive rebranding, but many others have. I find much personal utility in these sorts of words, with very directed usage and now even my explicitly declared intent.

    If you or anyone else was offended or personally hurt by an (obviously understandable) misunderstanding, then I wish to make it very clear that I sincerely apologize for any undue harm, as my intended target was not you and I wasn't using the same word you're thinking of. But if you wish to stubbornly continue to take something else from them other than what I mean, and after I've elaborated on what I meant,... then that's not really my problem anymore. After that, you're not really "calling me out" so much as just being wrong

  • Mayor Mamdani said he won't accept raise after New York City Council approves pay hike

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  • Well we're probably thinking of different words then.

    Having disabilities, disease, cognitive challenges or neurological differences, has nothing to do with being retarded. That's reserved for the willful stupidity, authoritarians, and otherwise those politically active while being divorced from reality.

  • Mayor Mamdani said he won't accept raise after New York City Council approves pay hike

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  • Oh I was about to reply in earnest about how fucking retarded that statement is but I spotted the .ml just in time and saved us both the trouble. My condolences.

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    Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer'

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  • I'm gonna guess you replied to the wrong post on accident. It happens

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    Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer'

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  • Never mind not being a fork – Poseidon's kernel isn't even really a port of Linux. It's a rewrite, and a rewrite of a very early version. It's based on Linux kernel 0.11

    I hope at least two people step on Lego for 1) writing that headline and 2) posting it verbatim

    Like come the fuck on

  • Sen. John Fetterman says he’ll leave the Democratic Party if it ‘officially’ becomes ‘anti-Israel’

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  • And his voting patterns wouldn't change at all

  • Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster. A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project.

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  • ~1 token per second (storage bound gen4 nvme)... Some of us have places to be.

    Don't get me wrong. Its impressive that it can run at all, but honestly the usecase is exceedingly narrow. You'd have better results with a structured quantized gpu-only gemma or qwen workflow. Quality over quantity, rely on validation and a structured process: lots of cross-model review and iteration loops with spec and test driven dev. You could probably get a working alpha by the time colibri set up the environment.

  • Sometimes I wonder if I should call and help troubleshoot…

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  • As a mod dev, this is why I set my steam to invisible...

  • Pete Hegseth launches joint task force to crack down on information leaks

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  • "We'll stop at nothing to find him" the man says, standing in front of his own wanted poster.