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Software engineer: Python, Linux, Nix, Vim Creator of sarcasm South Africa
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Got love the title on this vid: youtu.be/2-hsqNv0Za8
Really enjoyed this talk: * Coding vs software engineering * Brain rot caused by AI agent over reliance * Interactive programming www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHBE...
The abandonment of github.com/nix-communit... makes me sad on a regular basis. I tried jupyevn today which also seem heavily unmaintained and one of the low hanging fruit bug fixes is that poetry2nix used cython 0.29.34 as a dependency for PyYaml, but the new PyYaml and python versions require
Would be a dismal future if their is a direct correlation between model performance and dishonesty/cheating. andonlabs.com/blog/opus-4-...
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The future is software writing its own software. Which is why I'm so in love with Pi: a coding agent that can extend itself :) lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/31/pi/
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Disconnect From All These Mobile Networks, Google Warns
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The transformation of ICE into a type of national police force, backed, in some cases, by soldiers from the National Guard, has been covered as immigration story—but these forces are reshaping democracy for all of us. Listen to 'Autocracy in America' here: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
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It can be hard to imagine how to defend oneself against an overwhelming force like ICE. But a few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter-surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Does digital information feel permanent to you? Well, it isn't. A 2023 study found that in just 10 years' time, 38% of pages from 2013 went missing and 23% of news articles linked to a dead URL. Learn more by clicking this functioning link ➡️ w.wiki/hrU
I have no idea what's happening but the FOMO is real. @googleballs.com #googleballs
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I don't think I can live like this www.androidauthority.com/youtube-larg...
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“something i don’t like happened on signal, so therefore signal shouldn’t be trusted and is bad” im not surprised but still find it hard to believe this is what many people are taking away from this lol use signal
Signal is awesome. Probably not for classified information but it's the gold standard in private communication for ordinary citizens.
Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/
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If you damage the businesses of the richest man in the world, his friend the President wants to put you in indentured servitude in another country. If you trash the Capitol to overturn the election, its pardons and praise.
Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador
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The good news is that there *are* people meeting the moment. youtu.be/EJxRtjma7lc
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The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Really neat new blog from Planetscale that includes explanations and interactive visualizations of kinds of storage media and how writes/reads and sequential/random performance is based on physics constraints. Reminds me of A Bartosz Ciechanowski blog a little bit. planetscale.com/blog/io-devi...
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Google has removed its pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance. They have been, and continue to be, on the wrong side of history.
We train our LLM with only high quality data. The data: www.reddit.com/r/microwaveg...