Thankfully I switched locations. Not sure whether this is an rdrama or cloudflare thing.

Breaking news, so no effortpost.

See TheBloke's Groomercord (General) for people trying to work out if this is real:

https://groomercord.com/invite/theblokeai

Edit: Update, it does appear to be real.

I am uncovering what seems to be a massive widespread malware attack on @github.

- Currently over 35k repositories are infected
- So far found in projects including: crypto, golang, python, js, bash, docker, k8s
- It is added to npm scripts, docker images and install docs pic.twitter.com/rq3CBDw3r9

— Stephen Lacy (@stephenlacy) August 3, 2022

I hate patent trolls

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39687755

https://old.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/1bdbzr4/audi_is_making_dual_zone_climate_a_subscription/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1bdfctr/the_new_audi_a3_is_amess_with_incar_subscriptions/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1bdhuma/the_new_audi_a3_is_amess_with_incar_subscriptions/?sort=controversial

The Audi A3 is a survivor. The compact luxury car has been around in one form or another since 1996, and an updated version is coming to the US for the 2025 model year. But it's loaded with annoying in-car subscriptions.

At first glance, this new A3 looks a lot like the car it replaces. The hexagonal Singleframe grille—in line with Audi's latest designs—is its biggest change, joined by bigger air intakes at the base of the bumper, an Audi logo high on the nose, and refreshed LED and matrix LED headlights with four customizable daytime lighting signatures. The rear bumper design, inspired by the RS3, has a new LED taillight treatment, a black accent piece, and a mesh insert at the base.

Inside is where things get interesting. The same 10.1-inch touchscreen and 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster from last year carry over, but now you'll have to pay an in-car subscription fee for basic features like high-beam assist, dual-zone climate control, adaptive cruise control, and smartphone integration.

Only by upgrading to the MMI navigation system do you get access to the app store. From there, Audi forces you into add-ons like adaptive cruise control or Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for a one-month, six-month, one-year, or three-year subscription. Or you can just purchase any of those features permanently—although Audi doesn't say for how much.

It should be noted that this subscriptions-for-features model applies to the European-spec A3. An Audi spokesperson declined to comment on whether these in-car subscriptions will also make it to the US when the car goes on sale for 2025.

Visually, the cabin looks mostly the same, but there are some subtle changes. The already-tiny gear shifter from the previous A3 is now slimmer and blends into the center console, new fabric inserts with lightning elements cover the door panels, and the decorative cabin lighting now has 30 color options.

Audi doesn't offer specifics on engines for the US market, but the base Audi A3 in Europe will come with a 1.5-liter four-cylinder mild-hybrid engine making 148 horsepower with either a seven-speed automatic or a six-speed manual transmission. A 35 TDI diesel model will have the same 148 hp, and a plug-in-hybrid model will be available at the end of the year.

Also for Europe is a nifty new trim called the A3 Allstreet. Meant to look like a crossover, the five-door hatchback comes with a matte black grille, front and rear grooves mimicking skid plates, and plastic trim around the wheel wells. The Allstreet is 1.2 inches higher than the standard A3 and has a softer ride. A set of 17-inch wheels come standard, but 18- and 19-inch shoes are also available.

Both the Allstreet and the standard A3 Sportback have 13.4 cubic feet of space behind the rear seats, with up to 42.4 cubes of space with the rear seats folded flat. An electric tailgate is available as an option.

Audi hasn't released A3 pricing for the US, but the Sportback starts at €35,650 (around $39,000) and the sedan is an extra €800 ($875). The funky new A3 Allstreet costs €37,450 ( $41,000).

!fellas !oldstrags you better hang on that shitbox.

Might be useful for some of you fellow dramanauts and slackers who want to block specific websites from showing up on Google.

Orange site discussion

They targeted traders.

Traders.

We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.

We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.

We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same metrics over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such trader nirvana that they can literally win these trades blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many beers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and evidence destroyed infrustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our high frequency trading? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Traders aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the tech our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, r*pe apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by our upper management. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Traders are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challenge us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another SEC investigation.

Di

Empress is so unhinged it's unreal lmao bussy

Great to see /r/programming giving valuable input on this, these comments are so high quality!

What is it about Rust that causes commenters in the subreddit to turn their brain off?

When you use Rust, it implies that you do not trust programmers to handle memory safety correctly.. I guess for some people that comes across as a personal attack.

There is a weird pattern in lots of domains where people see things like this as a threat or a comment on themselves. You get the same weird response in completely unrelated things like games losing console exclusivity. For somebody who is a C programmer, Rust in the Linux kernel is a very strong signal that Rust is growing and C is losing its exclusiveness in these spaces. It probably doesn't help that Linus famously hates C++ and his resistance to C++ in the kernel has been a major point of pride for the "C is awesome" crowd.

What is it about Rust that causes commenters in the subreddit to turn their brain off?

So because Rust doesn't get unanimous praise it means other programmers are brain dead?

It's a terrible language designed for people who aren't confident in their code.

downvoted threads:

basically hacker news went down yesterday and in this screenshot someone chimes in talking about it saying that they had a batch of SSDs manufactured by SanDisk all get bricked after exactly 40,000 hours (4.5 years) uptime because it overflowed an internal counter and corrupted the SSD's internal state.

someone from hackernews replies and says that the SSDs HN was hosted on were in fact SanDisk Optimus Lightning IIs and almost exactly 4.5 years old.

never trust a firmware

In the settings, there is an option to enable a spider pet. There is a shit award, which makes flies swarm the post. The spider pet should run after spiders and kill them

@murdervan

Appletards are some of the most fragile white redditors around. Look at which comments have been upvoted and which are downvoted

HN

I didn't watch the video, so don't ask for a TLDW.