i feel like most of distributed systems design can be summed up by: put things on a queue before processing, shard by consistent hashing, and maybe use a mem-cache somewhere to speed up reads in a hot path?

do we really need those cute twinky hour long systems designs interviews to prove u can take basic computer science concepts and split them by consistent hashing?

do they actually demonstrate anything about anything?

yt-dlp getting hacked would be very sad for us datahoarders (r-slurs)

Apple released a hearing aids feature for the AirPods Pro a while ago. I bought a pair for grandma, but then realized that the feature was geoblocked in India

So we at @_lagrangepoint decided to unblock it. It ended up involving a leaky microwave and building a Faraday cage: pic.twitter.com/G7E3Bl6f7W

— Rithwik Jayasimha (@thel3l) November 12, 2024

What the fuck? https://t.co/dHJmutIVnf pic.twitter.com/e4djQYuSlc

— Thorsten Ball (@thorstenball) November 12, 2024

I've always just called it 'jot' and never really thought much about it. It's fewer syllables than jay-w-tee or JSON web token, which now that I've thought about it for 10 seconds are the same number of syllables. So what's the point of even using an abbreviation if it's not in fact abbreviative?

I guess when that election needle still worked the strikers realized how little leverage they had.

or where i could look to hire one? need some programming help.

With help from Cailliau he published a more formal proposal on 12 November 1990 to build a "hypertext project" called World Wide Web (abbreviated "W3") as a "web" of "hypertext documents" to be viewed by "browsers" using a client–server architecture.

official proposal was today

She used to work in IT pic.twitter.com/U5ERaV5bBs

— Why you should have a cat (@ShouldHaveCat) November 11, 2024

If she figures out how to reset passwords and unlock accounts it is so over bros

Last Wednesday, the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program, formerly General Image Manipulation Program) team finally announced that the long-awaited release of GIMP 3.0 is finally imminent— a release candidate version of GIMP 3.0 has arrived. This software version is close enough to finalization to be released to the community for testing and ironing out any final bugs.

Per the original blog post, "If user feedback reveals only small and easy to fix bugs, we will solve those problems and issue the result as GIMP 3.0. However, [...] If larger bugs and regressions are uncovered that require more substantial code changes, we may need to publish a second release candidate for further testing."

For those who have been using GIMP for a long while or have been aware of it, it may be a shock to hear that GIMP took this long to make it to 3.0. But as open source software and by far the most popular free image editing software available on the market, GIMP has had literal decades of iteration from dozens if not hundreds of open source software contributors.

Following the history of stable releases, GIMP has been on GIMP 2.0 or some iteration since 2004— then 2.4X from 2007, 2.6X in 2007, 2.8X in 2012, and has finally been on 2.10X from 2018 through to now, the final quarter of 2024. If all goes according to plan, the full stable release of GIMP will be GIMP 3.0 either by the end of this year or early 2025. Overall, the original version of GIMP lasted from '95 through 2003, marking 8 years for GIMP 1 and a whopping 20 years for GIMP 2.

So, what has changed with the debut of GIMP 3? The new interface is still quite recognizable to classic GIMP users but has been considerably smoothed out and is far more scalable to high-resolution displays than it used to be. Several familiar icons have been carefully converted to SVGs or Scalable Vector Graphics, enabling supremely high-quality, scalable assets.

While PNGs, or Portable Network Graphics, are also known to be high-quality due to their lack of compression, they are still suboptimal compared to SVGs when SVGs are applicable. The work of converting GIMP's tool icons to SVG is still in progress per the original blog post, but it's good that developer Denis Rangelov has already started on the work.

Many aspects of the GIMP 3.0 update are almost wholly on the backend for ensuring project and plugin compatibility with past projects made with previous versions of GIMP. To summarize: a public GIMP API is being stabilized to make it easier to port GIMP 2.10-based plugins and scripts to GIMP 3.0. Several bugs related to color accuracy have been fixed to improve color management while still maintaining compatibility with past GIMP projects.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/205096866764

!linuxchads do u think this can run NetBSD

Another one: https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/women_in_tech

Xhe self-posted these to Orange Site and they got flagged to death and I can't find anyone else who reads them, even on Mastodon

Maybe we can be xer friends?

!birdposters

I want to download a NPS from shady site that send me to an megaup site, I start downloading my provider notice it and block the download by stopping the internet.

I set vpn on and download the file

Megaup says I can't download 2nd part of the file for 300 minute.

I change VPN country and continue the download

I want to watch some burgers news or daily show, it tells me nooo you europoorian

VPN on

I want to check RussiaToday but it won't open and says the site is fake.

VPN on

I want to play some obscure Japan only mmo but it gives me some wired moonsigns?

VPN on

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KDEchads it's happening

!linuxchads

Meet Narhem, a hacker news user claiming to be an ex-googler that is having their life ruined due to harassment in the form of downmarseys, and has been threatening to become an active shooter for months over it (the account is 7 years old, I only looked at the comments from the past few months).

All the relevant comments have been "killed" so you will probably need to have showdead on to see them on HN

Easy posted on hacker news and they just downmarsey me. The kind of response which makes me feel extremely reasonable being an active shooter. Thanks assclowns.

Keep being "off" and your heads are going to be responsible for your children getting murdered by another school shooters.

Like when companies harass me and label me a part after hospitalizing me.

Y'all better be right because I'm going to shoot up the presidents. Final officer. Touch me down vote me and I will murder people and the buttholes associated with the pleasing will be murdered.

Is this the news trying to make me feel like I didn't get screwed over by racist white people who have to realize that in another 5 years I can own a gun. And will shoot up the near by university because of what I've had to deal with. Especially considering every time I complain it gets worse.

As an extrovert who has been effectively isolated I feel sick that companies literally make a game out of isolating people in order to make corporate slaves.

Worse than actual slavery.

Completely unrelated but I'm pretty tired of companies grouping up to harass me, and most importantly excited to hang their employees.

As someone who has had my computers hacked by what I assumed was a google employee then harassed by numerous other companies, the US should have a panic button.

Bother me or any kids again and whatever organization you work for should be punished. It's not okay for people to sabotage relationships with autocorrect.

Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against an individual who repeatedly streamed pirated Nintendo Switch games before they were released, taunted Nintendo's legal team when they asked him to stop, and even solicited viewers for donationshttps://t.co/Sjib2eTJ9S pic.twitter.com/8aeD6HzyNP

— Nintendeal (@Nintendeal) November 8, 2024

Choice replies:

Taunting nintendo makes you a chud:

Waiting for the chuds to comment in support of this guy

— Starry ⭐✨🌟 Team future (@SkyStarrying) November 8, 2024

"Nintendo derangment syndrome":

This is extreme Nintendo Derangement Syndrome.
A rare illness that causes a weird hate obsesion with a company, to the point they would literally ruind their own lives.
Many people suffer from this rare condition.

— solomeo (@solomeo823) November 8, 2024

https://venturebeat.com/ai/openais-data-scraping-wins-big-as-raw-storys-copyright-lawsuit-dismissed-by-ny-court/

!schizos should I cop it?

They have a realistic elephant sweatshirt, too

Every fricking time you want to download something, there's the ritual of pretending that you probably want the source code to compile it on your own system. Do any of you r-slurs even know where this comes from?

In the 1970s-1980s you'd be working on all kinds of hardware, and this is gonna blow your fricking toddler minds, but it wasn't ARM, it wasn't even x86. Actual businesses were using mainframes through this era, not using Apple IIs to do bank transactions and control manufacturing equipment like the latest Netflix "documentary" might have told you. Again zoomer, the weren't using mainframes because they were cave men. These were extremely sophisticated with multiple processors running multiple tape drives and hard disk platters carefully synchronized for maximum utilization. My dad probably did more work at CDC than you'll ever do in a lifetime.

They came in many kinds. You had HP (they were the good ones), Unisys, Sperry and Burroughs before they merged into Unisys, DEC, etc.. You had workstations (a concept a zoomer will never understand) running weird proprietary versions of UNIX. It was the fricking wild west. Everyone had a legitimate need for the source code to adapt it to their hardware and their operating system.

So back then you would download the source code and tweak it to fit your own system. In 2024 this is not an issue. But they still go through this ritual of offering you the source code and giving you dead links to people who might have compiled it once. You fricking butthole, delivering the product to the customer is your job. If you can't (or don't believe in ) doing that, then please announce that the world that FOSS is something you use sometimes but you rely on proprietary software.

I cannot tell you how fricking enraged I am when I see "source" as the first choice on the download page. This is like somebody saying they were on LRRPs, in Vietnam, they were the first Egyptian/Israeli to cross the canal in 1973. It's stolen valor from people you've never met who did this before you were born. This was way way way before you were even born.

I'm anticipating a lot of "but Linux can do that!" I just want to cut a few seconds out of a fricking video file but apparently there is no free front end to FFMPEG. So I go to get FFMPEG to do it from the command line . It's fricking insane, this should have been available 20 years ago. I go to these individuals' website and they offer me the source code. So that in 20 FRICKING 24 I can compile it and then figure out how to get it actually available on my command line. It should be easy, right? Getting Java classpathes straightened out is easy.

Maybe I come from a different background. My dad and I were trained in the "get shit done as fast as possible because time is money" mindset. Every time you midgetdicks make people click on something, or teach them click on something, that costs time which costs money. You think it doesn't? Go to the girlboss running IBM HQ in Manila with hundreds of staff. Making really shit software that wastes peoples' time adds up to pissing her off really fast which adds up to your company losing contracts. Which... Oh yeah, I guess in your generation you don't fired. You get an additional therapist to help you navigate the challenges of managing a huge corporation when you're totally unqualified and don't really give a shit.

Anyway, frick you. At this point I just want to fish with my old man.

From the article:

Elwood Edwards died Tuesday at the age of 74 following a long illness. He worked at 3News for many years as graphics guru, camera operator, and general jack-of-all-trades, yet it was a somewhat random opportunity in 1989 that earned him international fame.

That year, Elwood received $200 from the then-unknown America Online, merely because his wife worked at a predecessor company. He was asked to simply record four voiceover lines:

"Welcome"

"You've Got Mail"

"Files done"

"Goodbye"