https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/diff/?id=d5cf50dafc9dd5faa1e61e7021e3496ddf7fd61e

Which company looks like X at 10pm on a Saturday night? #Xdeveloperchallenge pic.twitter.com/BWUmCiCkqS

— John Ji (@johnji_) April 21, 2024

cracker foids: ❌

American Citizens: ❌

non-autists: ❌

they/thems: ❌

Elon won

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1cdqd3m/lessons_learned_after_3_years_of_fulltime_rust/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1cdqdsi/lessons_learned_after_3_years_of_fulltime_rust/?sort=controversial

Article is too long to copy & paste, so here's the link https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/.

!codecels

This whole thread is so peak HN, it even has a couple of idiots arguing "Bayesian priors" over whether another HNcel is a genuine chomo or not

https://www.engadget.com/fcc-votes-to-restore-net-neutrality-protections-161350168.html

Here's some dude saying that's horrible

https://twitter.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/1783559014950854704

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/google-lays-hundreds-core-employees-moves-positions-india-mexico-rcna150297

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40247604

Don't ever use Reddit again. pic.twitter.com/ynSlWFt844

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) April 23, 2024

I use Bluebubbles to sync my texts between all my Android devices and my iPhone. Uses my Mac server as a imessage forwarding relay. I have 6 phone numbers and keep the main number in the iPhone, call forward to my primary Galaxy Fold 5.

My main girlfriend turns 21 Tuesday. I'm taking leave from work for it, but sleeping in before taking her out. She sent me a text for my birthday at like 1am saying she wanted to be the first to tell me happy birthday.

I go to bed early, not staying up to send a text. Just scheduled that shit to send from my server. Automating thoughtful gestures, lmao.

I'm beginning to .... nootice.... please .... make it stop

@X weights in

https://twitter.com/d_feldman/status/1779194821812367363

Pdf

https://t.co/V1fZUpOJcZ

!codecels

Current and former Google employees held sit-ins this week at company offices to protest the tech giant's work with the Israeli military, part of the @NoTechApartheid campaign.

We speak with three workers speaking out against Big Tech's "complicity with the Israeli occupation." pic.twitter.com/ObwCBrbgGM

— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) April 17, 2024

There's a whole load of flagged comments talking about how society is degenerating. As ever, make an account and enable "show dead" to see them.

One such fellow is Steve76:

No one likes a drunk engineer, surgeon, pilot, or roofer.

Go to the poor part of town and look closely. Same houses but the people make them poor.

There's no fixing them. von Mises, Cowperthwaite, the Asian miracle really does have pain underneath all that sudden prosperity. Those harmed seek it. Their drunkeness is a decades long suicide.

Life gets harsh quick. "If only ..." is a teenage denial.

One brings down many. I do not retaliate. Instead I leave them behind to a very extreme degree. What a convenience the riots occur so close to medical research labs.

Their collateral damage from my personal medicine means less and less. They go up in a full on nuclear exchange? Oh no, the drunks. Oh no, the rioters.

Okay that seems a bit , let's see what else this guy talks about. His account was made in 2018 and he's been shadowbanned. All of his comments going back months are dead.

I own the world. Not from the law but because I'm better than everyone. Anyone who wants it is free to try to take it.

Drunk. Sober. Dealer. User. None of it matters. All that matters is I win.

If my political opposition sides with commies by shooting dope, guess what? Those people die.

If Asia gets its butt on its shoulders again through hard work and austerity? Guess what? I'm hitting that continent with an asteroid load of dope, drugs you wouldn't believe. Those people die.

They fashion themselves better, beyond conventional morality. They're not the savage. I am. I am the ghost in the darkness. I am the demon of the jungle.

Uhh based I guess?

Wherever authoritarians go people flee like an ogre is attacking their village. They are completely incapable. All they do is erupt in occasional animal violence and leave the world barren. All for their endless quest for a world without rules.

Other people live here, not just me. It's their country too, not just mine. I walk away from power. That gives me the ability not to accept everyone else's problems. It's a much stronger leadership position than some ignorant foreigner getting hard at bossing everyone else around. Whether tyrants did the crime or not, they are guilty. Everyone's problem is there problem now and they will never solve it. They are a pathetic measly gang, truly standing against a brutal world which will devour them.

The day isn't work for me. I do things like space launch and genetic research because I like to do it. I work better and more dedicated than anyone else in the world. They can't. They hate each other. They hate themselves. They spoiled great hope for the world because they are diseased moronic bullies. Dealing with them is cleaning with filth. You just spread it around and make a bigger mess.

It's time to leave them behind. Go into fusion, microreactors, space, genetics and don't share it this time. The world fooled us. We bailed them out from a horrible famine in the early 90s. Once we saved them, they just used it to attack us. Let them tear each other apart, die, and go away. They ruined my life enough already.

Yeah okay he's just nuts. He has comments going back years that are all like this. Let's see where it all began. Was Steve76 ever normal? Will we witness his slow descent into madness?

And to add to that comment, so much of modern life is due to that. In the problem of Theodicy, I blame the drunken s*x glutton, not nature.

No, he was always nuts

^ Yeah this thing

Truely unsurprising.

{Its basically just a VNC connection to an android VM with Playwright automation scripts for the 5 services it does. Oh and that VM connection is also how you put in your logins to those services, probably scraping your password}

Personally, I fail to see where the issue with this image is. This is clearly an Asian man with his Caucasian (Kalmykian) wife.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40126958

There is a large amount of creators on the platform that live off their content and eCommerce enabled through the platform. So it disappearing overnight would severely impact people who have a majority of their livelihood through the app.

Won't someone think of the poor zoomer influencers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40127055

Banning TikTok will cause an entire generation of Americans to lose all trust in their institutions. Whatever vanishingly small influence China may or may not have through TikTok---still completely unproven innuendo---pales compared to the absolute public relations coup that would win were it banned. If you think cynicism is bad now, there will be zero trust in the democratic process and the rules-based order were this to happen.

Fellas is democracy gonna die because nurses can't twerk on TikTok anymore?

The change

SO are going to let any registered user vote on content. Until now that "privilege" has required 100 points, a near-impossible task for a new user these days because no one ever upvotes questions and powerusers rush to answer all easy questions before anyone else can get to them (and will flag/close any other question as being off-topic).

The reasoning behind this change makes sense:

It's been a while since we last talked about the one-reputation voting change. We are still pursuing this because stagnating participation on the network is a concern for all of us, and we want to think about ways to grow the active community on the network. We have, by design, utilized rep as a threshold to award privileges and prevent bad behavior. While this has been effective in creating the current status quo, it has made participating on the network in some of the most basic ways difficult.

The response

But the post is on -143. Let's see what SO's (unpaid) jannies have to say.

Zoe (before you ask, yes she is):

The company has already been made aware of the many ways this can be abused, and the significant workload increase this will lead to when people notice, and that the tooling we have is nowhere close to capable of dealing with the kinds and volume of abuse this will cause. They have not responded to our concerns, and many mods (including multiple SO mods) have objected to the change from allowing sites to volunteer for the test to shoving it on SO. They did not care about the objections.

This response is ridiculous because:

• Jannies are always welcome to not do it for free and let SO pay someone to do it. No one is giving you more work - you're unpaid, you don't have to do anything.

• Oh and did I mention that Zoe's username is "Zoe is on strike"? That's right, a striking janny is still actually doing it for free and even giving feedback on new features. Good strike!

Someone else (who used to work for SO, left and yet still comments says:

Fraud: your approach is "disable association bonus and hope for the best?" Seriously? Im an r-slur but you've never done fraud before. Go out and sin, and come back when you know how to recognize it.

And a current non-striking mod says:

We did not volunteer for this experiment. It has been opposed by the SO moderators and other sites did step up to volunteer.

You're literally all volunteers lmao

Tooling does not scale for the concerns we have. It's mentioned that this is launching with new tooling, but they aren't being shared "at this junction". For moderators, that means the tooling does not exist at this point then.

Maybe if you were a paid employee then you'd be able to see this tooling.

CM [community manager] time is limited, and with focus split on new initiatives, AI content, and now this, the time they have to allocate to investigate vote fraud will decrease.

Maybe leave fraud investigations up to paid employees, like every other company.

By the way the three users who I've quoted here - all powerusers - haven't answered a single SO question between them in three years.

Stuff like this infuriates me because SO's powerusers and jannies are completely detached from the core purpose of the site yet they spend all their time stinking the place up and squabbling about meta shit. Stack Overflow is almost entirely self-moderating, these people aren't needed. If I worked for SO and had to interact with these idiots every day then I'd . SO needs to start just doing things and stop cucking themselves to the jannies.

Let's end with an r-slurred Jeff Atwood tweet:

Nope, the goal of SO is to answer my question.

Any tips on getting a job right now?

Could you hire me?

So apparently if someone knows / guesses the name of your S3 bucket - even if it's private (!) - they can just bankrupt you by sending infinite PUT requests and there is nothing you can do about it.
> requests get rejected
> but AWS still counts it as a write operation against… pic.twitter.com/oFavRPau2N

— Laura Wendel (@Lauramaywendel) April 29, 2024