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  • Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH

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  • Arch apparently doesn't want his money. I don't have any actual sources, just internet hearsay, but still, I can still very much understand not wanting to take his money.

  • Better vape and fap

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  • Mmm, bottle fermentation.

    But I think the main point is more along the lines of expectations for alcohol and general tastes: I find overly sweet stuff a turn-off, and generally need to temper sweet stuff with something sour or bitter.

    Also, mixing juice and alcohol can very often result in what a lot of us drank as teenagers, and may have rather negative associations to. Like I don't have problems with gimlets and micheladas or radlers, but I think I prefer them all on the boozier side, and stuff like rum & coke is just … not for me.

    So if I go to a restaurant and get what I interpret as more or less teenager drinking swill full of artificial flavouring, Black Tower and general goon sack swill, I'm going to have a bad time, and be left wondering if this stuff is actually representative of what they consider alcohol for adults, or if the people at the restaurant are being weird.

  • Better vape and fap

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  • Yeah, same. Was struck by it at a korean restaurant that had the equivalent of a wine pairing, and their selection was just … something for children, only children can't drink. As in, I like straight soju and makgeolli, but I'd rather get some craft makgeolli without sweeteners than something flavoured like chemical blueberry replica.

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

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    Alexis King: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Constructive Data Modeling

  • The Cost of Scattered Validation Logic | The frustrated developer

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  • Was expecting it to reference parse, don't validate but now seems like the author might be one of today's lucky 10000 (if they read lemmy comments)

  • ænyøne with me?

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  • W is a double-v for us, so our alphabet goes uvw (u ve dobbel-ve), rather than uwv (ju dabbel-ju vi).

    Germanic languages vary a bit in their attitude towards w; we Norwegians use it pretty much just as a fancy old-timey v and could frankly drop w from our alphabet without missing anything (just like q is practically never used).

    Germans use w the way we use v, and then use v pretty much like f.

    The anglo w sound is something we have to learn in English class, and even then a lot of people start to hypercorrect and pronounce even the "v"s in English as their w. It can be wery funny to listen to, or wery frustrating.

  • OpenAI's AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B

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  • Imagine if that money had been spent on building out renewables instead

  • ænyøne with me?

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  • Us nords have nine vowel letters:

    • a e i
    • o u y
    • æ ø å

    and they all are just themselves for a name. Like e isn't "c with a line" any more than q is "o with a leg".

    They're also all monophthongs, which is hard to communicate to anglophones who pronounce their vowel letters overwhelmingly as diphthongs. E.g. anglos probably read the vowel letters as

    • ey i ay
    • åo ju way
    • ??? ??? ???

    There's an æøå song which might help.

  • You expect me to talk? [Rae The Doe]

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  • It's cow tools from a Gary Larson comic

  • Microsoft Goes Nostalgic In Newest Open-Source Drop: Comic Chat Open-Sourced After 30 Years

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  • Oh man, I used to have my irssi claim it was Comic Chat. Fun times.

    Like other MS tech of the era it was at least lightly into EEE territory, as the client would add stuff to messages that just looked like crap to users of normal IRC clients, similarly to how Outlook users would have seemingly random Js in their text, because Outlook rendered that as a smiley through the power of a Windings font.

    But it sure did spawn some memes.

  • 'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C, according to Greg Kroah-Hartman

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  • OCaml should transfer pretty well to Rust. Rust can feel like an ML dressed up in C's braces.

    Similarly, if you can write in Haskell without having to reach for IO, then you can probably satisfy Rust's borrow checker with no more effort.

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  • Isn't rather "meme" the refinement from "gene" (seeing as it was chosen to rhyme with gene)

  • Wine 11.10 Released with Bundled VKD3D 2.0

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  • Nice to see libxml2 dropped I guess, after that ordeal with it becoming unmaintained last year. But curious what the replacement is, and if others are finding replacements as well.

  • What do you want out of a coding monospace font?

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  • Not that big on ligatures in monospace, really. I think I just go with what seems to look kinda nice and has a big enough amount of symbols to not look weird once a few of them are needed.

    Also generally prefer dotted zero, or an inverse Ø. Fonts that make 0 and Ø look the same might as well just drop the slash altogether.

    In spite of that I've been using Fantasque Sans Mono for years. At least the slash in its 0 doesn't extend beyond the circle like in an Ø.

  • Systemd reverted userdb and birthdate

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  • Especially given that a lot of us are interested in content filtering, just that we want to be in control of what we're subjected to, cf adblockers.

    I'd be super fine with it if I could tune, say, the YouTube app on our TV to not subject me to ads for illegal gambling sites, fossil fuels, vacations in authoritarian regimes, etc.

    But that's exactly what they don't want us to have control over, because that means lost income.

  • C++26 Safety Features Won’t Save You (And the Committee Knows It)

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  • The article has some good points, but it read as pure LLM slop to me.

    Was reminded of the meme: Heartbreaking: The worst person you know just made a great point.

  • Rust Coreutils 0.5 Released - Inching Toward Full GNU Compatibility

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  • Yeah, the usual argument for not picking GPL with Rust is based on how it applies to static linking, which is how Rust works by default. But the coreutils are executables, not libraries.

    Even for the libraries I think it'd be nice with some stronger guarantees. Allegedly the EUPL is copyleft but allows static linking, so probably something to look into.

    Ah well. At least it's also possible for orgs like GNU to re-release forks of MIT stuff as GPL. The MIT licensing doesn't only work for the proprietary-preferring orgs.

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    RFC 3339 vs ISO 8601

    ijmacd.github.io /rfc3339-iso8601/

  • Everybody's so Creative! (about library abstraction design)

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  • Also doesn't help that the grammar reeks of LLM.

  • Brendan Gregg's special collection of freeware tools for system administration

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  • I'm also a fan of baud. I really should alias cat to baud -400 cat or thereabouts.

    Bonus: run baud -800 bat --color=always and you get that wonderful old dot matrix printer feeling of the cursor just stopping whenever the color codes are being processed.

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Brendan Gregg's special collection of freeware tools for system administration

    www.brendangregg.com /specials.html
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    The Jetbrains 2025 survey results are out

    devecosystem-2025.jetbrains.com
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    Canonical releases Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka

    canonical.com /blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka
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    The challenge of maintaining curl

    lwn.net /Articles/1034966/
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    Parse, Don’t Validate AKA Some C Safety Tips

    www.lelanthran.com /chap13/content.html
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    Dyn you have idea for dyn?

    smallcultfollowing.com /babysteps/blog/2025/03/25/dyn-you-have-idea-for-dyn/
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    It’s Not As Simple As “Use A Memory Safe Language"