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This entire comment section is filled with seething webshits, pick any subthread in there and it's glorious. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33056077
Absolute anal apocalypse.
New Pegasus Spyware Abuses Identified in Mexico 
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.webp?h=8 "Cat Ears (wiggly) - MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW")
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I lied about the title actually he doesn't talk about 
s but he fricking goes OFF about Rust in his Kernel being mostly fricking useless. 
Even "safe" rust code in user space will do things like panic when things go wrong (overflows, allocation failures, etc). If you don't realize that that is NOT some kind of true safely, I don't know what to say.
Although I may be wrong, I believe Rust does have compile-time failsafes for overflows
You had a bug. Shit happens. We have a lot of debugging cowtools that will give you a HUGE warning when said shit happens
Probably the best take out of this. Most Rust arguments are completely invalidated by the fact that Rust developers are just fricking lazy and too willing to blame a language than to blame their shitty programming skills
Deal with it.
Or, you know, if you can't deal with the rules that the kernel requires, then just don't do kernel programming.
Polite way to say "Frick off"
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Unironically a great site to make TLDR summaries of an article 
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Someone should post this to /r/antiwork or any other leftoid sub on reddit. Maybe as a screenshot with a juicy title.
s to a Consumer Reports 
investigation stating the obvious about TikTok tracking you 
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Orange Site:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33049774
https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/xsl5gh/tiktok_tracks_you_across_the_web_even_if_you_dont/
Slashdot:
A Consumer Reports investigation finds that TikTok, one of the country's most popular apps, is partnering with a growing number of other companies to hoover up data about people as they travel across the internet. That includes people who don't have TikTok accounts. These companies embed tiny TikTok trackers called "pixels" in their websites. Then TikTok uses the information gathered by all those pixels to help the companies target ads at potential customers, and to measure how well their ads work. To look into TikTok's use of online tracking, CR asked the security firm Disconnect to scan about 20,000 websites for the company's pixels. In our list, we included the 1,000 most popular websites overall, as well as some of the biggest sites with domains ending in ".org," ".edu," and ".gov." We wanted to look at those sites because they often deal with sensitive subjects. We found hundreds of organizations sharing data with TikTok.
If you go to the United Methodist Church's main website, TikTok hears about it. Interested in joining Weight Watchers? TikTok finds that out, too. The Arizona Department of Economic Security tells TikTok when you view pages concerned with domestic violence or food assistance. Even Planned Parenthood uses the trackers, automatically notifying TikTok about every person who goes to its website, though it doesn't share information from the pages where you can book an appointment. (None of those groups responded to requests for comment.) The number of TikTok trackers we saw was just a fraction of those we observed from Google and Meta. However, TikTok's advertising business is exploding, and experts say the data collection will probably grow along with it.
After Disconnect researchers conducted a broad search for TikTok trackers, we asked them to take a close look at what kind of information was being shared by 15 specific websites. We focused on sites where we thought people would have a particular expectation of privacy, such as advocacy organizations and hospitals, along with retailers and other kinds of companies. Disconnect found that data being transmitted to TikTok can include your IP address, a unique ID number, what page you're on, and what you're clicking, typing, or searching for, depending on how the website has been set up. What does TikTok do with all that information? "Like other platforms, the data we receive from advertisers is used to improve the effectiveness of our advertising services," says Melanie Bosselait, a TikTok spokesperson. The data "is not used to group individuals into particular interest categories for other advertisers to target." If TikTok receives data about someone who doesn't have a TikTok account, the company only uses that data for aggregated reports that they send to advertisers about their websites, she says. There's no independent way for consumers or privacy researchers to verify such statements. But TikTok's terms of service say its advertising customers aren't allowed to send the company certain kinds of sensitive information, such as data about children, health conditions, or finances. "We continuously work with our partners to avoid inadvertent transmission of such data," TikTok's Bosselait says.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33052127
An elegy for GNU and RMS | gay robot noises
An elegy for GNU and RMS | gay robot noises
A year or so later, the Language Server Protocol was standardized , and it's led to a revolution in how we think about language editor support. The principles of software freedom aren't tied to any programming language. Another thread that really illustrates my issues is one about Emacs's GC. I won't pretend I know enough about language design and garbage collection to say whether or not Daniel's proposal here is good.
My complaint here is about RMS replying to the thread by saying that it would actually be more important for emacs to be a better word processor, and that improving the GC performance would only «permit some operations on larger problems than now». When told that someone doesn't think word processing in emacs is not a good focus, RMS replies «please stop interfering». The irony here, of course, is that the thread was originally not about word processing, and to the best of my knowledge RMS doesn't contribute much code to Emacs these days . Not only that, but there are some tasks that are so important that the code for them is written in C, not because it's difficult, but purely for performance reasons.
The support for libgccjit that landed in Emacs 28 has been one of the biggest performance improvements I've seen in the decade-plus I've been using Emacs, and before that the support for parsing JSON in C was essential for using LSP servers . Emacs is not an independent project, and it isn't governed by its contributors. Emacs. I leave most technical decisions up to the contributors, including preference of my own.
For those questions, I'm happy with whatever works, and I know the contributors can figure out what works. However, making progress on Emacs as a word processor is one of my specific goals. This is what Emacs needs to do to be useful in all the ways it should be useful. But I think the FSF is absolutely fighting the free software war of the 80s.
Insisting on not adding functionality because someone evil might use it is pointless when the evil people have enough budget to just write their own compiler. And yet, I still use Emacs. And of course, emacs still exists, and is generally usable for modern software development, text authorship, and so on. Emacs is going to have built-in LSP support soon with RMS's approval, and he in fact stated he tried to convince the GCC maintainers to add LSP support.
I said this in the opening, but I don't think RMS is a cranky old man that hates progress because he is compelled to do evil, regardless of its utility. This is something that's been weighing on me for a while, especially as I think about the future of Emacs .
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Peter Thiel at it again. Why isn't there a Peter Thiel marsey?
https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/xsm6s2/silicon_valley_billionaires_square_off_over/
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said that the Intelligence Advanced Projects Activity (IARPA) is working on a program to unmask anonymous writers by using AI to analyze their writing style which is seen as potentially being as unique as a fingerprint.
“Humans and machines produce vast amounts of text content every day. Text contains linguistic features that can reveal author identity,” IARPA said.
If successful, IARPA believes the Human Interpretable Attribution of Text Using Underlying Structure (HIATUS) program could identify a writer’s style from different samples and modify those patterns to further anonymize the writing.
“We have a strong chance of meeting our goals, delivering much-needed capabilities to the Intelligence Community, and substantially expanding our understanding of variation in human language using the latest advances in computational linguistics and deep learning,” said HIATUS program manager Dr. Timothy McKinnon.
IARPA said that it will also develop explainability standards for the program’s AIs.
ODNI said HIATUS could have multiple applications, including combating foreign influence activities, protecting writers whose work may put a target on their backs, and identifying risks to counterintelligence. And according to McKinnon, the program can identify if text was generated by a machine or written by a human being.
But it is not IARPA’s work to turn HIATUS into something usable. The agency’s work is only to develop the technology.
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