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Fun Twitter search of the day: parsejson credits
Guess what ChatGPT bots emit when they run out of credit: https://x.com/search?q=parsejson%20credits&src=typed_query&f=top
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systemd-tmpfiles, deleting /home
Quote> TIL (thankfully second hand) that running “systemd-tmpfiles –purge” will delete /home in systemd 256 [1]. Apparently if you think linux is mainly for running cloud services, this seems reasonable to you. Or something. Fun thread at: https://mathstodon.xyz/@bremner/112615591101488528
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Does anyone else feel suddenly disenfranchised from podcasts?
The first three months of this year I was really enjoying podcasts, but recently it all seems to have gotten boring. I don’t feel it’s necessarily the wall to wall election coverage, because even the non-political podcasts seem to have “sameness” quality about them for the past ~7..8 weeks? Possibly it’s because that which is
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I’m beginning to wonder whether all of these people who complain about “dunking” or QT-without-tagging on Twitter simply don’t Kiboze themselves?
I mean: THERE IS A WHOLE SEARCH FUNCTION THERE AND ARE YOU REALLY TELLING US THAT YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO USE IT? So many people misspell my name so often that I’ve set up a full-on search which I just run sporadically, I find the results, and it’s fine. Is that supposed to be
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Retired engineer discovers 55-year-old bug in Lunar Lander computer game code | Ars Technica
“many eyes makes all bugs shallow” is a crapshoot https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/retired-engineer-discovers-55-year-old-bug-in-lunar-lander-computer-game-code/
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Fifty Years Of Diff | blarg
mhoye> …this month marks the fiftieth anniversary of a core piece of free software technology that would quickly become a seminal piece of collaborative software, the bedrock under every version control system and arguably the single most important piece of social software ever created. Written by Douglas McIlroy and James Hunt and released with the
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When ‘Nerd Harder’ meets International Standards: @profmusgrave tells us how ISO “screwed the pooch” with ISO8601
A story in six acts, and it somehow encapsulates every single one of the “I am a politician and the nerds are clearly doing it the wrong way” debates of the last 20 years:
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Husband pursues Apple after wife finds ‘deleted’ messages to prostitute
Messaging platforms already have a hard time offering coherent, comprehensible data management features like “disappearing messages”, and users have a hard enough time comprehending them. I’ve little sympathy for the user, not for what he did but I’m not convinced there is (nor should be) a standard for what “deleted” means; but it’s interesting to
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If you’re living in the EU you should read this & urgently contact your representative TODAY to combat this invasion of your privacy
Chat Control: The EU’s CSEM scanner proposal | Patrick Breyer https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/
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The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled
I’m surprisingly ambivalent regarding this. Net neutral. It’s great to have teaching and research but I see benefit in such organisations being churned to create fresh ideas and prevent stagnation into reactionary safetyism. https://www.platformer.news/stanford-internet-observatory-shutdown-stamos-diresta-sio/
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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
At least something good is going to come out of this year:
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On the new Dutch Intelligence and Security Law | Bert Hubert’s writings
So apparently the Dutch government decided to pass oversight of their surveillance to a new committee and then failed to hire anybody onto it: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/dutch-intelligence-and-security-law/