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Jayjader

@ Jayjader @jlai.lu

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  • Modern Full Stack: what to learn and what to ignore

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  • It definitely comes off as LLM-generated, though "Half-understood Kubernetes is more dangerous than no Kubernetes" feels human-wrought.

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    Containers Aren’t Just Linux Processes

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    Programming Still Sucks

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  • You have all my sympathies. Someone in another post/thread brought up the idea of a support group for burned out devs/tech workers in general. I definitely think there's something between that and unionization that is both needed and starting to be possible. Heck, even in the hackernews comments for this article there was at least one person telling another "welcome to luddism!" as both resonated with the spirit of the article itself.

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  • That's wild. Your managers' reaction to "the project made by AI has created 2-4 years of work by experienced engineers, perhaps up to 6 of them, before it's ready" was "why don't you use more AI??"?

    I'm starting to think Mao had a point when he sent the business owners to do farm work. Barring a revolution, I can only hope the effective cost of inference rises du much as to make these dipshits back off from wanting it to do all the labor ever.

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    The First Modern Car Without Hydraulic Brakes Is Headed to Production

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  • I don't know about heavier vehicles like vans or trucks, but in my parent's Renault Zoé the Regen braking is strong enough to slow the car down from like 50km/h to 30km/h when going downhill. It might be enough to bring the car to a standstill, I've never actually tried letting it be - usually there's a car behind me or I need to get somewhere in time so I can't afford to experiment.

    Brakes are still important for emergency/manual speed adjustments, of course. Just wanted to share my experience with "how well does regen braking work downhill?"

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  • Have you seen the size of the average butt plug? If the seed stays smooth and slimy in transit (debatable), I don't think it would be too difficult to pass. I'd be most worried about getting it through some of the kinks in the intestine.

  • AI Is Already Changing Porn. Is It for Better or Worse?

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  • Vic Lagina, who was a lead producer and director for the porn production company Brazzers for 16 years and is the author of Filthy!: The Rise and (Pending) Death of Vic Lagina, welcomes it. “As a former business owner in porn, the prospect of completely eliminating humans from the equation in porn production would be extremely enticing,” he wrote in an email to Playboy, celebrating an end to “self-serving attitudes of performers, … questions about revoked consent despite whatever rigid protocols are in place, … bad hygiene, … and waiting for wood from a shaky male performer” before concluding: “It sounds like a dream.”

    huh.

  • just think of the optimizations!

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  • As much as Factorio's map gen algorithm is great for ensuring balanced access to resources and (functionally) infinite sprawl, I would love some handcrafted maps that involve feature scale and fractality (fractalness?) approaching real life. The default map gen is too samey after a certain point and size reached.

  • "AI" audit of rust stdlib

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  • Can someone explain how/confirm/deny that the proposed fix for this issue actually solves the problem? I think I understand the problem statement but I *fail to see how constructing a Some(&...) is in any way different than using iter::slice in terms of falsely guaranteeing immutability of user-space-backed memory.

  • Mastodon will get end-to-end encryption for private messages thanks to Sovereign Tech Agency

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  • Ah, so it's more like Imgur for the fediverse. I imagine it would be possible for multiple servers to share a picts-rs instance, even if in practice it never happens.

  • Mastodon will get end-to-end encryption for private messages thanks to Sovereign Tech Agency

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  • It reads like they're basically making an alternative to picts-rs, or am I missing some key difference?

  • Mastodon will get end-to-end encryption for private messages thanks to Sovereign Tech Agency

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  • I didn't read any mention of the Public Key Directory server approach/proposal (c.f. https://soatok.blog/2025/12/15/announcing-key-transparency-fediverse/) in the post nor the two pages it links to. I think overall E2EE is important for messages, full stop, but I do hope that it won't be as user - opaque as Signal and WhatsApp nor as rough of a user experience as how matrix was when I used it back in 2019.

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  • IMPOSTER

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  • I just tried vibe coding with Claude

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  • I haven't tried any Anthropic models personally.

    So far, between the free online chats by OpenAI and DeepSeek, and the smaller models I've run on my own machine, the most useful things I have gotten from it were to treat it as an overeager student that lacks the first-hand experience needed to see the big picture, asking it questions that I'm pretty sure I already know the answer to and seeing if 1) it "understands" what I'm getting at and 2) it can surprise me with a viewpoint I hadn't thought of before.

    Using them to double-check my own ideas seems to be marginally useful, especially when there's no qualified human being whose attention I can borrow. Using them as a sort of semantic web search can sometimes get me what I'm looking for faster than Google. If anything, they're an opportunity to exercise critical thinking; if I can tell where it's getting things wrong I can be fairly confident that my own understanding of the problem/subject is pretty solid.

    Vibe coding, though? I have yet to see it work out. Maybe as some starting slop so that I can get to work refactoring code (and get the ideas flowing) instead of staring at a blank file.

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  • On a similar note, washing my hands in warm water after after they were chilled by the morning air felt fuckin' magical.

  • Flipboard just launched Surf, its new social app and feed reader

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  • That's great to hear!

  • Flipboard just launched Surf, its new social app and feed reader

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  • I'm disappointed there's no threadiverse integration.

    The basic grunt work of bringing together bluesky and mastodon feeds is pretty decently done, if a bit opinionated.

    I like the concept and presentation of their feed "packages", but for most of the feeds I've been proposed in the app I'm not interested in the entire package. It's nice that you can still directly follow the actors packaged into a feed from that feed's page.

    It's very annoying that Surf wants their/my Surf account to act as the intermediary for my mastodon account. From what I can see, this means I need to exit the app to take some action with my mastodon account. Maybe I just haven't found the option, but if there isn't one then it's a hard blocker for me to use it as my main fediverse browser.

  • Rubber Ducking

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  • positively dripping!

  • Whatcha all working on?

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  • A small gui to automate generating some pdfs from some CSV files.

    There's a small non-profit in my area helping people operate localized energy distribution (as producers and consumers). Each month, they receive a zip file containing the raw kiloWatt-hours produced and consumed by each participant over the past month as CSV files. So far the non-profit has been manually importing these CSVs into LibreOffice to generate graphs and tables and export the whole thing as an individualized PDF file for each participant. Now that they're starting to help more than 2-3 operations, it's become useful to try to automate that process.

    I've been writing it in rust for a few reasons. First of all I wanted cross-compilation to be sure to work and at this point I'm more familiar with rust than go, secondly I read a blog post recently that evaluated rust gui solutions in terms of accessibility and IME-compatibility on windows. I started off looking for a "direct" pdf-writing library but eventually switched to using typst to generate the pdfs from templates I write. typst being written in rust has enabled me to bundle its engine into the program in a pretty-straightforward way.

    I'm currently working on allowing the import of multiple sets of data so that the generated PDFs can show line plots of the electricity production and consumption over several months.