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Rentlar

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  • CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back

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  • I wish him very little success in his future endeavours.

  • Trump’s justice department arrests expert on far right as part of SPLC crackdown

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  • We've already had several cases where the Justice Department are desperately trying to walk back and drop their cases as quickly as possible before their called bluff results in worse consequences for them... (1) [2] [3]

  • Trump administration declares brass instruments a national security threat

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  • A group of national security problems declares yet another thing as a national security threat.

  • Google's classic Search button is gone in a new AI-first homepage

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  • You've probably done it already, but a quick howto for anyone else (on Firefox Mobile):

    • Three dot menu -> Settings -> Search -> Default search engine
    • Scroll to the bottom, press + Add search engine, put what you like in the Name box
    • in the search string URL box put this: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s
    • Press Save, then select your newly named option for normal and private tabs as you like.

  • "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers

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  • I guess when compared to FAANG/Silicon Valley salaries you are probably right.

  • "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers

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  • Very few people need to code in assembly, or COBOL

    But those who do are paid the big bux, that's for sure. Many big banks still have their backend off of COBOL code originally written in the 90s, only with flowery UI updates over the years.

  • Chinese CXMT to Match Micron's DRAM Manufacturing Capacity This Year

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  • They aren't in it for me, but Micron nor SK Hynix give any shits about me either.

  • Chinese CXMT to Match Micron's DRAM Manufacturing Capacity This Year

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  • I don't think so, domestic electronics manufacturers have an enormous need for memory that is performant but doesn't necessarily need the top-of-the-line, and probably China's government is pushing to reduce the need for imported memory components from Korea or Taiwan as well, so demand for production is there coming from both the private and public sector.

  • Chinese CXMT to Match Micron's DRAM Manufacturing Capacity This Year

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  • Micron doesn't seem interested in competing for consumer memory anyway, since they exited the consumer memory market. Latent demand exists for memory at not-outrageous prices so good for CXMT for filling that niche.

  • US military asks troops for ‘creative and unconventional’ ideas to punish Iran

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  • Witness the peak of meritocracy...

  • Trump sued himself into having to pay other people's legal bills as a 'sanction,' now his lawyers claim the judge's 'wrongful invitation' cannot stand

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  • Double his sanctions everytime Trump's lawyers put forward another frivolous "expedited" motion.

  • PSA Huggingface is scraping GitHub

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  • Woo! My crappy code and group projects are in there too!

    May all AI generated code be in one giant main loop thanks to my influence 😈

  • Why I stopped talking about my feelings

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  • Thanks, that is helpful.

  • Why I stopped talking about my feelings

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  • What else could I do for you, besides saying, "that sucks, friend"? Asking seriously.

    • I can offer you advice based on my own experience, that may or may not work for you.
    • I can refer you to talk to someone who has a professional degree in studying feelings, who may be able to help you with better advice than me or prescribe drugs.
    • I can sit, nod, pat you on the back through words.

    If it is someone I know in person, I'd try to send them care package based on what I would think they liked.

  • Tesseract hides any post containing the phrase "censoring me"

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  • Following best practice would be ideal, I agree with you, but for FOSS projects I can settle for best effort, and ability to configure/correct any serious errors if it is brought up constructively. Every dev has their own biases and they make tools to fit their needs, not necessarily everyones. Like if it was by accident that a personal filter was pushed to all instances, and then immediately fixed when made public, personally, I could forgive the dev for the mistake. But available evidence shows this was not a mistake, and intentionally hiding things this dev didn't like, pushing the upstream changes without telling anyone.

  • Tesseract hides any post containing the phrase "censoring me"

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  • Interesting choice to give the developer who already violated user trust by imposing a secret blacklist the benefit of the doubt on their bigotry.

    I never did that, sorry I kind of suggested I did in my last reply, when I meant in general to devs that don’t break peoples' trust. In a vacuum, a configurable blocklist with biased defaults is acceptable, even if I wouldn't set it myself that way. Their work, their choice. However, it is specifically the concealment of the biased defaults that is the breach of trust which calls into question the dev's motivations.

    Requiring users to enable "toxic mode" in order to access queer spaces isn't evidence of bigotry to you?

    Alone, no, that would be mere speculation, if combined with the shady practice or if you have antiLGBTQ quotes then yes, I could say that fact potentially supports that conclusion. Consider that blahaj.zone is not the only LBGTQ+ safe space on Lemmy (see beehaw !lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org). Any admin or dev could have beef with Ada, not with queer folks, that could be motivation to block blahaj.zone. I never gave the tesseract dev that grace, because that blocklist with blahaj was never publicized, until the clandestine filter list was discovered and decoded.

  • Tesseract hides any post containing the phrase "censoring me"

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  • If they come out and say they don't like blahaj.zone for bigoted reasons, let them, don't support their project, done. I'll defend blahaj.zone's strictly enforced any pronoun policy as much as a dev who clearly chooses to include or exclude certain instances by default, as long as the intentions are clear, not hidden away and easily rectifiable for your needs. What I am saying is a breach of trust is worse than bigotry, which itself is worse than mere ideological disagreements. A < B < C.

    You can read into how you like the presence of certain instances/words/users on the blocklist, but putting BZ on a blocklist = bigot seems to me like a jump to conclusion.

    you are being far too charitable with an obviously bad faith actor.

    Like I said, I afford FOSS devs lots of grace and benefit of doubt, that's just me, if the issue was solely over the choice of instances being blocked by default, I'd excuse it, but that isn't the main issue. Call me too charitable, sure, it's in my nature and you don't have to be me.

    The issue is the blocklist was hidden away in base64, not documented anywhere, while constantly being updated, without any justification (like pulling from a public spamlist), and was secretly affecting every server's Tesseract frontend. It was the trust that the so-called "Toxic mode" could remove all filtering, but it didn't, and the trust that connection errors were simply configuration problems and not intentionally obfuscated filtering routines, these formed the trust that was broken.

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    Maine Democrats Replace Platner with conservative corporate Democrat

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  • Colour the article with your assessment of Troy Jackson in the post body if you like, but you shouldn't editorialize the article headline that significantly.

    I would like Jackson to be loudly progressive like Platner, which so far I have not heard too much on, and he used to be a Republican, but even in those years, he was arguing for stronger states' rights for labour. He is far from a conservative corporate Democrat, he supported Sanders over the DNC favourites and campaigned plenty with Platner.

  • Tesseract hides any post containing the phrase "censoring me"

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  • One note/minor correction, it is in the git repo: https://github.com/db0/tesseract/commits/main/static/data/policy.dat

    You can see when asimons04 changed the static base64 filter .dat file. The changes happen in completely unrelated or nondescript commits. Looking at the commit when it was implemented, it does say filter, but the error messages and code comments creating the folder indicate "cache" folder creation, when the variable name and function is for the policy, which might technically be correct, is misleading and is quite suspect to me.

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Have you or someone close to you converted to Linux recently (with Windows 10's end of support)?

  • Reddit @lemmy.world
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    Reddit is being spammed by AI bots, and it's all Reddit's fault - 9to5Mac

    9to5mac.com /2025/06/26/reddit-is-being-spammed-by-ai-bots-and-its-all-reddits-fault/
  • Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca
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    Noticing some lag spikes (13 May 2025)

  • Meshtastic @mander.xyz
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    CN Tower repeater expected to go live today

    www.reddit.com /r/meshtasticToronto/s/qzYIkfMGpX
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Mastodon Follow Packs

    mastodonmigration.wordpress.com /2024/11/18/mastodon-follow-packs/