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  • China joins Europe in scrapping Windows for Linux

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  • The problem is comoanys' VBA macros. Many many companies run on excel essentially and have a few spreadsheets using VBA for important things.

    Libreoffice has 1st class python scripting support, unlike Microsoft's shoehorned in environment, so it is much better for scripting.

    Sadly, it makes it more difficult to switch.

  • What are foods that a lot of people dislike but you like?

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  • I cook a lot (not a chef by any means but just a hobby home cook).

    Heat masks a lot of flavor. I always think that if the food that I make tastes bad cold, it was shit food to begin with and the heat just hid it.

    Texture is another thing, but my food goal is that my meals taste as good cold as they do hot.

  • Roblox argues 8-year-old waived rights in wrongful death lawsuit

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  • Do you have any concrete examples of this being enforced in practice?

    All I see:

    • our data still gets collected
    • our phones, TVs, wiretap "assistants" still spy on us and upload all of our information to personal datasets that companies can access
    • "deleting your data" as per GDPR is just a database flag/row that says the data says it is deleted
    • EU just authorized any and all companies to spy on your communications 24/7, 365 days a year
    • freedom of speech/expression doesn't exist here any more than in America, maybe less

    Our right to privacy (freedom right pillar) is literally daily being violeted 1000 times over and the most I have ever seen happen is a slap on the wrist 0.01% of yearly revenue fine that didn't change anything. Companies can fuck you over all they like unless you have a 10million € army of lawyers...

    Also how is it going in Germany with the Palestine protester that had been locked in solitary confinement (known torture) for 23 hours per day for the past almost year after a show trial kangaroo court where they wouldn't allow even any independent record of the trial inside (violation of both dignity and justice pillars)

    There is precious little enforcement of many rights, so we absolutely cannot take them for granted and have to fight for them on every front.

  • Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs

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  • Hopefully since the EU high density desktop/server RAM industry is pretty much nonexistent (as far as I know), they won't tax it to hell.

    China RAM vs US RAM, they are both not EU "allies" now so there should be little reason.

  • Fairphone Is Finally Selling Its Repairable Phone in the US

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  • Oh oh oh I can do this one.

    6 USB-C port failures in my 1.75 years with the phone.

    Fuck HMD Global (then Nokia brand) and their absolute trash USB ports.

  • [AIP] Open CAD Studio

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  • Claude directly has over 1100000 lines of direct code contribution. It has pretty much the same amount of code committed directly as the creator has.

    His entire coding history before Claude consisted of changing readmes or searching and replacing project name text or modifying a dead link to his own link.

    Suddenly in 4 months, without ever producing actual code before, he becomes a very competent coder enough to tackle mCAD, a notoriously difficult coding task that takes many many years with teams to make meaningful progress on?

    That is vibe coding.

    And his co-contributer "gianlucafiore" is exactly the same story. Has literally only made issues until LLM coding got released and then late 2025 (December) switched to making commits that he badly copied from an LLM such that some of the commits are literally one full line (as direct in-file working of the LLM wasn't as accessible then)

    That is vibe coding.

    So the top 3 contributes are

    1. An LLM
    2. Someone that only has committed any code via an LLM
    3. Someone who has only made issues before beginning with an LLM and submits clearly generated code

    There is likely no human-made code in the entire project besides changing a couple links.

  • What's your entirely unimportant and inconsequential hot take?

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  • Most laptops and computer monitors are LCD (by an extremely large margin)

    Dark mode draws MORE power that way because people turn their screen brightnesses up to see anything. Meanwhile I can use light mode on my computer during the day with screen brightness on 5% and see just fine. Less eye strain too with a soft cream background or even beige and black text.

    Plus then my eyes don't get burned up when browsing to an app or website that doesn't have built in dark mode support.

  • Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive Phantom Drive appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data

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  • Do you think TSA/CBP is going to check the flash data lines to see if the MCU is scanning the flash internally?

    This isn't a standard USB flash controller... You would need to break the casing and physically probe it to figure out that something was off as far as I can tell. It's not like the MCU broadcasts that it is scanning to the USB port.

    You would have to be hitting the stick pretty hard, not just a normal file scan to notice the timing being slightly too long in a small portion of the scans. The bigger problem would be that the flash drive would be brand-recognizable if it ends up being mass produced that they might auto-confiscate it, and of course the default file that it searches for being known.

  • Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

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  • Aren't votes meant to be anonymous to avoid retribution?

    Isn't the public ledger identifying information to be used by authoritarian violence on every single voter in that case?

  • Finally done with the distro-hop: My return to Fedora

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  • Tried Fedora Silver blue or universalblue spins? Unless you do serious embedded development work (which takes more setup on atomic distros), then I have experienced that it is less work in general in setup and upkeep.

  • Improve very slow library scans on Jellyfin 10.11 / 12 on spinning media

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  • It is literally a cloudflare tunnel/ tailscale type thing but contained in the app. The only real difference is that it is bundled in the app, so less setup and in exchange, Plex itself is free to harvest all of your data.

  • The GNU Compiler Collection will reject copyright-significant contributions derived from LLM output, with limited exceptions for trivial changes and test cases.

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  • I am far and away not an AI enthusiast but I don't understand specifically the copyright issue with respect to "trained on x data"

    Because we humans who contribute to FOSS are also generally trained on proprietary data (gaining experience with non-foss systems at companies).

    I get the "who owns it" argument since the person didn't create it.

    Fuck LLMs for drying up groundwater and stealing electricity from families though.

  • Immich vs Ente ?

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  • Also, accounts. Long promised for community or lowest tier then integrated only in the expensive tier of photoprism IIRC, which made me switch because that only then works for individuals.

  • Immich vs Ente ?

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  • Except for database versions in 2.7.5->3.0.0

    But one docker compose change and it migrated seamlessly.

  • Spanish government ‘quietly bans use of Palantir’ in critical state systems over fears of national security leaks

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  • There are very different rules. Like worlds different.

    Comparing just Belgium and the Netherlands right next to each other. The Netherlands is quite doable if you find a job. Some automatic work visas and then residence based on that depending on origin country

    In Belgium literally no company in the country outside of IMEC and Deloitte will go through the extremely long visa sponsorship program (only digitalized in 2022 IIRC). It is pretty much only possible if you have family or a partner that already lives there. Even people studying there for 3-8 years have a few months to find a job or they are kicked out (in a bad job market compared to other countries also).

  • How do China and India never qualify for the World Cup?

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  • I don't think Italians could handle a week long game lol.

  • AntennaPod – The Open Podcast Player

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  • The podcast provider themselves use download IP to dynamically grab ads and push them to your player.

    It tags me wrong for some reason so I get French commercials even though I am in the Flemish part of Belgium.

  • Furry monster

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  • But that is why here in Belgium it is mandated that doors have a minimum gap for ventilation while also keeping the door closed and also outside ventilation

  • What 3D printer should I buy?

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  • Snapmaker seems to be Bambu from a few years ago, promises, good hardware, but all proprietary and as locked down as possible hatdware-wise. I am fairly confident they will follow a similar path even though they have made some software source - available.

  • Majority of Android users aren't sold on Gemini Intelligence, survey reveals

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  • The only 2 tasks that have been worth automating for me on my phone is time-based volume/vibration switching and VPN turn-on and off when I am on home internet or away.

    No need to steal people's water to do it.

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Can someone sanity check my NOR memory structure for me?