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einkorn

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Just a corn on the internet.

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  • The Spelling Bee

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  • Yes and it starts a riot.

  • Politically "neutral" instances?

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  • draw.io no longer free and open source software since August 27, 2024

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  • It is still open source. However, it is not free software anymore.

  • What Gmail did to email

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  • AT MOST 5 a week and there are also weeks where I receive none at all. Interestingly it always seems to be the same type of spam from different adresses so there is probably a bot net somewhere that has my address and every month or so when the owners start a new wave I get a few and thats it.

    On the other hand how many false positives have you had to pick out of the bin?

  • What Gmail did to email

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  • I am using my mail provider's standard filter and at most I get 5 mails per week that make it through. And that's with my mail being publicly available on my personal website. Not sure what sort of sites people sign up for, but spam has never been an issue, even away from Google.

  • China’s infosec leads accuse Intel of NSA backdoor, cite chip security flaws

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  • I guess someone translated a Chinese figure of speech literally.

  • NASA beams home cat video from 19 million miles away

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  • As is tradition. The first image transferred over the internet-precursor was also a cat picture.

  • Hurricane Helene and the ‘Fuck It’ Era of AI-Generated Slop

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  • Loads fine for me.

  • Why I ditched Twitter for Bluesky - and hope you will, too!

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  • I will give bluesky credit for their focus on moderation.

    Watch that focus disappear once the enshittification phase starts.

  • Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants

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  • For me, it is a glorified auto-complete function. Could definitely live without it.

  • Avoiding if-else Hell: The Functional Style

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  • Thank you!

  • Avoiding if-else Hell: The Functional Style

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  • I can't find it right now, but there is some explanation in "Clean Code" why switches shouldn't be used all over the place.

  • Mutual Jade

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  • Don't forget the checks from the devil Georg Soros himself /s

  • DEF CON 32 - Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation - Cory Doctorow

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  • Your head is going to hurt even more if you are a German: The prefix "ent" usually means to lose or get rid of something. I.e. "I got rid of it" -> "Ich habe es entsorgt" so everytime I read "enshittification" I had to remind myself it's the process of making something worse not better.

    So "disenshittification" is a double knot in my brain. I propose "disshittification" as alternative.

  • Oopsie, Visual Studio License expired, so the build server stopped working

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  • Marvel [Tyler Hendrix]

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  • I am not sure why you think I skipped something.

    Their point is, that we can't make super awesome tech X because it requires awesome tech Y, and we can't make Y because it requires cool tech Z.

    My counterpoint to that is that yes, we may not have the technology, YET. But knowing it exists, we can acquire it a lot faster, than having to invent it ourselves. For example, China hasn't started by building world leading electric vehicles, either. They started out as a cheap manufacturer of simple items and gradually accumulated more expertise in more and more advanced fields.

    In case you are talking about raw materials? Let's give Toni Stark a bit more sophisticated equipment than a stack of books to balance his particle accelerator on and I bet you he can fix that problem too.

  • Marvel [Tyler Hendrix]

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  • And nothing really changed. Yeah, Stark Industries doesn't produce weapons anymore. But as we see in Iron Man 2 others are happily trying to fill the gap.

  • Marvel [Tyler Hendrix]

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  • Sure, jumping multiple levels on the technology tree is not easy, but a real world analog would be China, which has turned from a "backwater" to one of the biggest competitors.

  • Marvel [Tyler Hendrix]

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    1. Grounded in the real world really stretches the trope when you consider there to be countless planets of hyper advanced beings and demi gods.

    It's always seemed strange to me that earth never made any sort of meaningfull technological progress despite having access to a galaxy full of new tech. The only progress we see is that the ~~ elites~~ heroes equipment is getting more fancy with each movie.

    Secondly why should a more technological advanced setting be unrecognizable to the viewer? Especially if the progress stretches over as many movies as the MCU contains?

    1. No one is asking for painstaking detail. James Bond defeating a guy who tries to privatize the water supply of a whole country was overall a decent movie IMO, only implying the problem for everyday people that arose from evil guys plan. It's all about the storytelling: Avengers find cool new tech that helps solve some earthly problem. Some people stand to lose a lot of money (think pharma industry becoming obsolete or similar) and plot against it. Avengers snuff out the plot, defeat evil mastermind and implement technology. Progress!
    2. Maybe there are certain problems that can't be solved by punching things? Like for example finding a way to timetravel in order to collect the infinity stones, which Toni Stark seems to be able to do while sipping his afternoon coffee. Individual impact has never been a problem in the MCU. After all we are talking about a superhero movie. And what does Captain America do while Toni Stark eradicates Cancer? Deal with the backlash (see 2.).

    Also, going back to your first remark: Superheroes dealing with poverty and injustice is the whole subplot of Black Panther.