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finally after like a year or so of flirting I have a project where it makes sense to start playing with #rust. Send me ur favorite crates for reading from USB and from webcams and whatnot ❤️

how many Steam Client Updates do you think it's going to take Valve to stop calling CS2 CS:GO?

i will be so happy when the adtech bubble pops

It bears mentioning that Songtradr is a music licensing and digital rights management company. So the first thing users can expect to go out the window are DRM-free downloads, signaling a push towards platform lock-in.

They’ll probably keep #BandcampFriday for a time, but slightly increase their cut off the top the rest of the time, framing it as a compromise. That cut will continue to increase in a frog-boiling way. Eventually, downloads will only be available at a premium, requiring DRM and their proprietary player. They’ll pivot to being a Spotify competitor.

You’ll pay for the music, the artist will get less, and you won’t have agency over how you can play the music you paid for. They’ll start paying by the stream instead of just offering albums for sale.

And that’s when the ads will start.

18-24 months, roughly. And that’s assuming Songtradr cares about maintaining any good will with the #Bandcamp community.

Hopefully I’m dead wrong about this.

An incomplete map of the surface parking lots in and around downtown St Paul

I can't believe it took me so many years of frustration to discover this, holy shit

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Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, the non-discrimination authority: The Tax Authority is guilty of indirect discrimination in the childcare benefits affair. This emerges from the first three cases of parents investigated by the Institute and tested against the General Equal Treatment Act. The verdict is three times: prohibited indirect discrimination on grounds of ethnicity. mensenrechten.nl/actueel/nieuw #discrimination #bias #law #politics #netherlands

Wow. De 'nieuwe' achtbaan van Hellendoorn is blijkbaar zo'n tweedehands Reverchon-kermisbaantje. Ik kan maar moeilijk begrijpen dat ze daar in deze tijd nog geld aan uit durven te geven...

Reminder: when someone (eg. landlord, company, employer, whatever) tells you that a contract change or renewal is 'needed', always approach it critically and determine what exactly they mean with "needed".

Often what they actually mean is that *they* need the change, not that *you* need the change.

[job interview voice] yes, I’m very personable. I work well with people, great communicator

The thing about aggressive cyclists is that they are absolutely a problem, but they become more of a problem the less bike infrastructure there is, because a) that's the only way to survive among cars, and b) the situation self-selects for those people, as non-aggressive cyclists would not last for very long.

So counterintuitively, to have less issues with aggressive cyclists, you need more cycling infrastructure -> more overall cyclists. Not even *less* of them, like people often claim.

(Inspired by, but *not* a subtoot of, a toot I ran across today)

re: medical, weight loss 

For reference, I used to be 110 - 115kg, and now I'm more like 90kg

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medical, weight loss 

The good: none of my pants are too small for me anymore

The bad: all of them are now too big

One of my favourite (and oh so simple) hacker tricks is to abuse JSON support in APIs and pass TRUE instead of the actual API key. If the code does loose comparison, you don't need the key! 😎 😈 🍿
securinglaravel.com/p/security #PHP #Laravel

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