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cryptocurrency bullshit, kind of hilariously bad 

Imagine lending out $4 billion to companies to buy Bitcoin miners, and accepting the mining hardware as collateral.

Hardware that devalues the moment it gets shipped, has no resale or reuse value, and is almost certainly unprofitable in those exact same circumstances where the loan recipient would go bankrupt (namely, a cryptobunk economy downturn).

How on earth does one survive in the financial industry without realizing that it's completely impossible to recoup *any* losses here? I've seen literal small children make better financial decisions.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

non-binary people will spend thousands of hours coding a social media server and then use it to post stuff like 'goodness gracious, great balls'

Had to take the bus into town today, and wore a kilt. Some Delores decided to take issue; which sadly I'm used to. "Why are you wearing a skirt?!" and so on. As I said, used to it (and big scary white dude, so I have some privilege to wield), so I'm calmly addressing it with her

But then she said "well how am I supposed to explain that to my kid?!", and friends, I didn't have to say a thing, because the most awesome Black lady jumped in. She turned to her kid (I'd guess roughly 13 years old) and said "hey, why is he allowed to wear a skirt?"

Kid: "he's grown enough to wear whatever the fuck he wants"

Mom: "see?! Ain't hard ma'am"

Delores huffed but that was pretty much the end 🤣

cheaply print processors onto materials like plastic and paper

#^PlasticArm: Get Your Next CPU, Made Without Silicon



Known for its core design IP that ends up in everything from IoT to smartphones to servers, Arm is now presenting that it has enabled one of its key microcontrollers in a new form factor: rather than using silicon as a base, the company has enabled a processor core in plastic. The technology has been in the works for almost a decade, but Arm has...

you're not even allowed to develop a sense of self before the age of 20. it's a happy accident if you do. before that, you're expected to be a bundle of nerves jumping to the cruel whims of random adults.

and these people want to increase that to age 25. actually disgusting.

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tech companies be like "here are tools to monitor your child's private conversations, social media posts, bank accounts, diaries, browsing history, class attendance, GPS location, and deepest inner thoughts" with parents going "why child not trust me???? ?????"

This is cursed, but frankly also a genuinely impressive technical achievement

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I just realized that I haven't graced the fediverse yet with knowledge of the amazingly cursed software that is pMusic: a music player from the Puppy Linux project that is built entirely in Bash(!), yet has a GUI with fully-featured playlist management and advanced features like discography management and automatic YouTube searching and streaming!

- syuilo making a PR that adds (non-configurable, permanent) logging of IP addresses to misskey
- syuilo made a PR about AI image classification as NSFW that can be used as upload filter
- the google integration was a big point of contention in the past
- syuilo claims in the contribution guide that he is the best person that has an overview of the code base and is therefore the only person allowed to merge things. yet merging takes forever. even for very simple changes that have been reviewed by multiple other people on the misskey-dev team

i really wonder how much more it will take so i will actually fork misskey. but if i'm alone i'll not end up much better either.

Violate one license and you’re a criminal. Violate every license and you’re an AI.

#microsoft #copilot

RT @ChrisGr93091552@twitter.com

Explored github copilot,a paid service, to see if it encodes code from repositories w/ restrictive licenses.

I checked if it had code I had written at my previous employer that has a license allowing its use only for free games and requiring attaching the license.
yeah it does

twitter.com/ChrisGr93091552/st

Nsfw 

Unions are good actually

i'm not even a front end dev I do both about equally but even the language i do backend in will just get lumped in with "frontend language bad"

lol i absolutely do not 'have to get covid at some point'

git barely works because my adhd makes me work on 1984104812 things at the same time, in the same codebase, usually depending on each other too

nl pol, police violence 

@StroomAfwaarts @joepie91 Actually, Code Rood / Shell Must Fall did that in May 2021. Renting a truck with a wrecking ball (see photo) when protesting at the Shell HQ in The Hague. The police didn't do anything, so I think you are on to something. 😉

nl pol, police violence 

Update: farmers are blocking the highways *again*. Cops still refusing the do anything about it. Instead, they arrested 22 climate activists doing a peaceful sit-in at a tax authority office.

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