Developing States are at the center of the development of central bank–issued digital currency. Their governments' efforts to capitalize on digital currencies—as well as the accompanying discourse of fast-tracked economic development and democratization of the financial system promoted by the states and the technology and political entrepreneurs who court them—reaffirm the role of islands as sites of experimentation, this time as fintech laboratories.

!chuds bros?

Summary for those just joining us:

Advent of Code is an annual Christmas themed coding challenge that runs from December 1st until christmas. Each day the coding problems get progressively harder. We have a leaderboard and pretty good turnout, so feel free to hop in at any time and show your stuff!

Whether you have a single line monstrosity or a beautiful phone book sized stack of OOP code, you can export it in a nice little image for sharing at https://carbon.vercel.app

What did you think about today's problem?

https://adventofcode.com/2023

Our Code is 2416137-393b284c (No need to share your profile, you have the option to join anonymously if you don't want us to see your github)

https://2goback-cute twink.reddit.com

https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients/issues/362

https://github.com/simple-login/app/issues/1955

Honestly, the more these one time accounts try to convince me to remove protonmail and simplelogin, the more I see how much it's needed to block them. It's like the marketing team is desperately trying to keep their services from being rightfully flagged and it just makes me want to block them even more. I do hope they won't cloud your judgement @7c , as these services are used for temp emails by all definitions. If you have any questions you may always ask me from the conversation we have started :)

https://github.com/7c/fakefilter/issues/73#issuecomment-183761101

Owner decides against adding protonmail but the drama continues as he doubles down

More Github drama:

OP argues with ProtonMail maintainer

OP pings repo owner

lol

lemmy world thread

Sick of sites requiring an account, email or phone number. Makes the web even more unfriendly. I hope temporary emails can always get around filters, as if you play stupid games you should win stupid prices.

https://lemmy.world/comment/5786168

the discussion is happening here: https://github.com/7c/fakefilter/issues/73

Someone working at Proton has commented on the issue, the list maintainer wanted to take the discussion with proton private so we have only a few posts from them.

If you want my personal take:

It's very clear how the list maintainer opposes anonymity in the internet in any form, which I see as an attack on freedom, journ*lism and activism.

I'm not a fan of Protonmail of any sort and in fact I consider that their privacy is lacking… but I really hope they can talk some sense into this guy. This block list seems to be used by a lot of webs that will start blocking virtually every private email provider.

(Edit: I assumed the person that posted the email list was a maintainer, but they don't seem to have a “contributor” or “owner” badge, so idk. Maybe they are just very angry at privacy and anonymity on the internet)

https://lemmy.world/comment/5784189

Orange Site discussion (nobody knows what is going on yet but they're taking sides anyway)

The gist includes this though:

anger directed at me for trying to hold Hans accountable for blocking protecting marginalised community members from abuse and making F-Droid unnecessarily unwelcoming

Which marginalized community members will she be concerned about?

as a programmer - how many apples do you count? pic.twitter.com/koAeU0bFB6

— gbae the app developer (@daboigbae) December 2, 2023

Kill AI ethicists. Behead AI ethicists. Roundhouse kick AI ethicists into the concrete. Etc.

Summary for those just joining us:

Advent of Code is an annual Christmas themed coding challenge that runs from December 1st until christmas. Each day the coding problems get progressively harder. We have a leaderboard and pretty good turnout, so feel free to hop in at any time and show your stuff!

Whether you have a single line monstrosity or a beautiful phone book sized stack of OOP code, you can export it in a nice little image for sharing at https://carbon.vercel.app

What did you think about today's problem?

https://adventofcode.com/2023

Our Code is 2416137-393b284c (No need to share your profile, you have the option to join anonymously if you don't want us to see your github)

The UE-1 is one of my favorite projects to date, but there's no denying that it's weird as far as computers go. So weird in fact, nearly everyone who got hands on with it at the last event I had it at was completely lost as to what it was or how it worked. That got me thinking that a little handheld vacuum tube computer built using the same core concepts as the UE-1 would be great for introducing people to the concept of 1-bit computing. In this episode, I build up exactly that, with a little help from my friends at PCBWay!

Here's my awful brute-forced C++ solution. Probably could've been done better but hey it works.

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What did you think about today's problem?

I get out of my certification exam and there's only one thread and they put the wrong day so the admins couldn't find it.

This is why we can't have anything nice. I'll just copy yesterday's OP

Summary for those just joining us:

Advent of Code is an annual Christmas themed coding challenge that runs from December 1st until christmas. Each day the coding problems get progressively harder. We have a leaderboard and pretty good turnout, so feel free to hop in at any time and show your stuff!

Whether you have a single line monstrosity or a beautiful phone book sized stack of OOP code, you can export it in a nice little image for sharing at https://carbon.vercel.app

What did you think about today's problem?

https://adventofcode.com/2023

Our Code is 2416137-393b284c (No need to share your profile, you have the option to join anonymously if you don't want us to see your github)

Besides the fact that Jai’s lead developer (Johnathan Blow) is a transphobic and racist asshole—

Jai is also, in my opinion, a really ugly language. I’d not develop a game in it personally. I don’t see Jai code being all that maintainable for me at scale.

— Luna 🦊🇩🇰 // nullptr::live (@LunaFoxgirlVT) December 2, 2023

Right now it is in private beta; You have to send him a heartfelt email demonstrating you are a based programmer and only then he'll ship you an exe of the compiler.

Summary for those just joining us:

Advent of Code is an annual Christmas themed coding challenge that runs from December 1st until christmas. Each day the coding problems get progressively harder. We have a leaderboard and pretty good turnout, so feel free to hop in at any time and show your stuff!

Whether you have a single line monstrosity or a beautiful phone book sized stack of OOP code, you can export it in a nice little image for sharing at https://carbon.vercel.app

What did you think about today's problem?

https://adventofcode.com/2023

Our Code is 2416137-393b284c (No need to share your profile, you have the option to join anonymously if you don't want us to see your github)

Bluetooth statement: https://www.bluetooth.com/learn-about-bluetooth/key-attributes/bluetooth-security/bluffs-vulnerability

Research paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3576915.3623066

Github: https://github.com/francozappa/bluffs

CVE: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-24023

Orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38479401

Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/187tul5/duke_libraries_drop_basecamp

We at Duke University Libraries have decided to stop using the project management platform, Basecamp, to which we have subscribed for almost a decade. We came to this decision after weighing the level of its use in our organization, which is considerable, against the harms that we see perpetuated by the leadership of Basecamp's parent company, 37signals. As a result of our discussions, we will not renew our current subscription when it ends in December. In the meantime, a small group of our staff have committed to help colleagues export their Basecamp content so it can be archived, and we will move to using other productivity platforms.

In July of this year, in a team chat, one of our colleagues shared a link to a blog post authored by one of the founders and owners of 37signals, and commented, "We really might want to rethink our usage of Basecamp."

It jogged our memories of events some 26 months earlier, when another colleague shared an article published on The Verge, "Breaking Camp." As reported, internal conflict regarding a culturally-insensitive list of "funny" customer names led Basecamp's leadership to ban employees from holding "societal and political discussions," ignoring that the conflict focused on workplace dynamics. Mass resignations resulted, and the experiences of the employees interviewed paints a picture of company leaders who initially supported Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) activities but eventually placed severe restrictions on how those activities could play out at work. In a playbook for the ages, those in power failed to acknowledge the complicated interconnectedness and nuance of the issues under discussion, and set policies that shut down discussions challenging the company culture.

The discussions we had in 2021 identified concerns about both the culture at Basecamp and the impact a decision to leave it would have on our daily work. Staff reflected on the ease of using the platform, the large number of projects that rely on it, and the complication of a decision that would impact groups across in the Libraries in such a direct way. While we talked about how we might respond to the values of third-party companies, we eventually decided not to pursue a cancellation.

When we revisited the discussion this summer, it took a decidedly different direction. The blog post that our colleague shared in July, titled "The law of the land," by 37signals co-founder, co-owner, and CTO, David Heinemeier Hansson, celebrates the US Supreme Court's ruling ending considerations of race in admission to colleges and universities. In that post, Hansson links to another that drew our attention, "The waning days of DEI's dominance." We also read a third post of his, "Meta goes no politics at work (and nobody cares)." We found there a thread of ugly thought, couched in an overriding intellectual dishonesty, that re-escalated our discussion about continued use of Basecamp.

We're not going to address each of the many falsehoods and distortions in the blog posts by David Heinemeier Hansson. Instead, we will focus on a few emblematic statements that stand in for a pattern of rhetoric that runs counter to our own values.

In the "waning days" piece, Hansson depicts Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as a movement that became entrenched in 2020, a process he characterizes being "accelerated" by a number of factors, including "the riots in the wake of George Floyd." Referring to the protests that followed the murder of George Floyd as "riots" is an offhand gesture as Hansson uses it, but it gets our attention because we know how false, ideological, and ugly it is.

Research and the documentary record show that the protests of 2020 were overwhelmingly peaceful, that incidents of violence were limited and often instigated by counter protestors or provocateurs, and that in many cases the responses of the police and federal authorities provoked and exacerbated the violence. The characterization of these events as "riots" followed as part of a deliberate disinformation campaign by right-wing groups, media's distorting focus on isolated incidents, and biased framing by political campaigns. It plays on a longstanding and shameful tendency in the US of depicting any protest or demands for justice from Black members of our society as innately violent and threatening.

In the same post, Hansson takes glee in the mass layoffs of tech workers in late 2022. He imagines that they were the group "from whom the DEI movement drew its most active and engaged disciples," and seems to be delighted that "hundreds of thousands" of tech workers will be out of work -- "perhaps for quite a while!" -- and therefore "the most fervent ideologues among them" will be unable to find work. The implication is unavoidable, that he and perhaps other tech bosses might blacklist workers who have records of advocating for more diverse and inclusive workplaces.

Hansson certainly is entitled to his opinion, and to publish his own blog. We are not in the habit of running "ideological enforcement" to ensure "quick compliance" from beleaguered corporate executives or whatever it is that he's talking about in his posts. We simply have our own opinions and our own blogs, and in some cases, we have good choices available to us regarding the companies to which we give our business.

After all, we're the libraries. We have plenty of experience with corporate entities that don't reflect our values. We deal with the journal publishers who practice a business model that hoards the world's knowledge and maximizes profit from the research that our university's scholars conduct. When it comes to the academic publishing system, institutions of higher learning have made a deal with the devil, and we, the libraries, are the campus units who pay the bill. We do it every year, often facing steep price increases with flat budgets.

We also know all too well the very worst of what humanity can create, because we collect it. Our shelves hold some of the most god-awful, hateful stuff you can imagine, in the form of explicit hate literature; and the much larger bulk of mainstream materials we hold are pervaded by casual racism and assumptions of white supremacy. Our job is to maintain it all for research, and to provide the context required for responsible inquiry. We know that our collections as a whole are themselves the legacies of systems of oppression in what they do and do not contain. The entire foundation of our organization was developed on assumptions, in the early days of Duke University, that excluded groups would not use the materials we collect or the services we provide. We know about these legacies, and we reckon with them by considering the harm they've caused, and asking what we can do to mitigate it.

We also know the harms that our own workplace practices and culture have caused over the years. We know about it because we listen to each other, both informally and formally, via climate surveys, workshops, and other practices.

The point is not that we're perfect, or a model to emulate. The point is that we are not naive. We have seen (and done) some stuff.

So when we encounter a tech company boss who takes in a nationwide movement of organized protest against police brutalization and systemic racism, led by Black activists, and amplifies the rare incidents of violence, much of it instigated by the police or right-wing counter protestors, using the mendacious language of extremists to refer to it as "riots," we have a good idea what we're looking at.

When we enter into business with a company whose boss takes delight in the mass layoffs of tech workers because it disempowers those who might speak out against their company keeping a list of non-Anglophone names that some members of the team find hilarious, we have a decent sense of who we're dealing with.

We here in the libraries are world-weary and sophisticated. We recognize that it's the nature of our world, so interconnected now. We think all that interconnection makes us stronger, more vibrant; it's wondrous, but it also means that as we encounter difference, we need to "do the work" (as Hansson mocks), be aware, and be open. Not every situation is going to be easy, but bringing "our whole selves" (another phrase that he mocks) to it has an impact, makes it more real, more human.

There are always going to be the free riders -- tech companies, perhaps -- who benefit from the interconnectedness of the world while refusing to do the work. They may even taunt, from their blogs, those who try. Their paths are going to intersect with ours; that's just the way it works. Often, we're not in a position to choose not to deal with them.

But occasionally, we are. Not because we want to eliminate anyone's livelihood, or harry executives, or because we imagine our subscription fee makes much of a difference. But just because we can. In this case, there are other productivity cowtools that can fill the space. In this case, we have options. And we've chosen to end our subscription with Basecamp.

For the strags who didn't know. AutoDesk has a cool forum for DIY projects. I particularly like the competitions they host for specific themes, like wood Pallets!

https://www.instructables.com/Pallet-Projects-1

There's also DIY chemistry projects in there. DO AT YOUR OWN RISK

https://www.instructables.com/search?q=chemistry

Like this strag adding pure caffeine to coffee grounds to save time

Caffeine is a deadly poison, do not exceed a safe dose unless you are prepared to experience shaking, feeling like you are going to die, and/or actually dying. When handling it take appropriate safety precautions and wash your hands afterwards. DO NOT LICK YOUR FINGERS AFTER HANDLING CAFFEINE.

If under 18 undertake this experiment only under the supervision of an intelligent, competent adult.

I ACCEPT NO LIABILITY FOR ANY ACCIDENTS THAT ARISE AS A RESULT OF PERFORMING THIS PROCEDURE.

>ULTRA-MARSEY CRACK CATNIP EXTRACK (((nepetalactone)))

https://www.instructables.com/DIY-Kitty-Crack%3a--ultra-potent-catnip-extract

Ok you Python-using heathens. What did you think for difficulty this time around?

Post your coding atrocities below.

For those of you who missed the early signups. Feel free to join the leaderboard late (though rankings are based on time).

Since I've now listened to one (1) entire talk on AI, I am the world's foremost leading expert.

As such I will be running a localized llama 13B instance. For the first time in over a decade I've bought a PC that wasn't an HP workstation.

Specs:

H110 motherboard w/celeron and 4GB ram alongside Nvidia quadro 5200 8gb

Do you guys think it'll actually run a quantized llama? Is 500W PSU enough?

Is this new?

This is how to turn off Eric Andre startup jumpscare

Go to Opera installation folder, by default it should be at %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Programs\Opera GX, then go to folder 104.0.4944.74 and find opera_gx_splash.exe

Delete the executable file.

I'll be honest. I don't know the purpose of a browser having a starting splash is. On all my M1 Apple products opening any browser is basically instant. Is this what life is like on Microsoft products? Needing fancy graphics to hide loading inefficient software?

A single day has destroyed the entire community work

Just one day brah. Lol.

r/operagx is in shambles

r/firefox is hoping people will trade one shitty browser for the furfricker equivalent

This is apparently apart of a marketing campaign that started around a month ago.

In short for why everyone is mad

Please use a real browser like Brave or Vivaldi. Arc if you like doing things in weirdly specific ways and have an Apple. Safari if you're a homosexual (good king). None of this "I play games so I need a gaming browser!" soy trough eating bullshit.