Not a stretch to assume Musk has known all about this and has been taking full advantage for a while

I’ve also noticed the HN community has been on an accelerating train of lower quality discussion since some time before COVID.

Some of the community has always had a bit of a silicon valley libertarian brain rot, but it used to be balanced out by the open source crowd and just normal professional engineers across the world. The latter demographics have mostly evaporated leaving some of the most braindead takes completely unchallenged, until they’ve become the only noise in the room.

It’s a bit of a shame really, because it used to be a pretty good resource for keeping on top of the comings and goings of the software engineering industry. Combined with Reddit shitting the bed just after COVID, I’ve yet to actually find a decent replacement for what I got out of browsing it, really. Here does a fairly decent job, but as with many subjects, the breadth of content and opinions isn’t quite the same.

Perhaps I need to give Mastodon another go despite not really enjoying microblog social media as a format in general (any recs for follows are greatly appreciated)

remote code execution

Welp time to check the server

My terminally online brain initially saw the first image in the thumbnail as a 3d version of the mental gymnastics meme for some reason

I need to go and walk in a park or something

I can’t imagine anyone running server farms is particularly hyped about this

Didn’t a load of them get burned pretty badly by apple killing off the last server line and Steve Jobs just told them to cry more when challenged about it

Whilst not quite the daily mail or telegraph levels of egregiousness, the independent is another paper owned by an ultra wealthy.

A good amount of the wealthy’s wealth is often in oil

It’s in their interest to promote anti environmentalism

It’s therefore in all of our interests to ignore such papers on these issues

It doesn’t have to

Weird headline

“premium users”

It’ll probably work like YouTube premium, a cut of that users sub will go to the artist

Anecdotally, creators seem to make more from premium viewers than ad supported ones

A GDPR style carbon fine needs to be a retroactively applied thing to these hyperscale companies.

Every thousand tonnes of carbon they put into the atmosphere should be taxed at 1% of their year’s revenue, not profit.

You want to put 100,000 tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere in a given year? That should cost you everything you make.

For scale: Elon Musk’s XAi data centres are currently puking 6 million tonnes out a year. That’s double the carbon output of the UK

It’s not every day you get to use a word like dilettante, so I figured I’d make a salad

Flukey dilettante regards stochastic parrot as unfathomable prodigy

Read all about it

Could?

That’s one of the main goals

Hmm assuming the disk isn’t super scratched up, I’m thinking you need to configure the region correctly.

I think if it was a decryption error, you’d have something different to a read error on what looks like one of the first blocks.

I remember there’s a cli utility for setting the region that you should be able to get from your package manager, I can’t remember the name off the top of my head

Edit: reread your post, regionset rings a bell actually. If it’s not available in your package manager, perhaps try building it from source

What is the error that VLC gives you?

GitHub has been around for nearly 2 decades and was largely considered a mostly good thing until maybe the past couple of years. Also important to add that Microsoft seems to mostly have left it alone for the first couple of years (possibly with the exception of Atom, which it left very alone)

In addition to people just generally being slow to change, changing can take quite a bit of effort for some projects for varying reasons. Many of those same projects struggle to keep up with the maintenance workload, so they’re not going to jump at the chance to add more work to their plates.

Finally, some people just don’t care. For instance, the MIT license being popular is pretty hard evidence that FOSS doesn’t necessarily mean anti-corporate, and for many users GitHub still more or less does what it says on the tin.

Though I will say if the service disruptions and ad-injection bullshit continue you’ll only see GitHub competitors grow. GitLab seems to be going after their enterprise customers with some success.

I’m surprised it didn’t go full “the purge”

Black market silicone

That’s a little bit out of his standard wheelhouse

I’m guessing just the bathroom sealant or insulation use cases, he might struggle to not get the video demonetised with the other main one

So vitamin C is bad for you now?

“Naturally occurring ascorbic acid and added ascorbic acid — which may be chemically manufactured — may have different impacts on health,” said Touvier, who is also director of research at France’s National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Paris.

“Thus, the results observed here for these food additives are not true for natural substances found in fruits and vegetables,” she added.

I know this might just be the reporting, but this feels kinda wishy washy. Why? What’s different about it

Gonna have to read the paper when I’m more awake

Stops a 20-something from going into a shop with a bag of cash and walking out with a rolex or a luxury car

I’m sorry, but what exactly is the problem with that

And also I don’t know what world you’re living in where a €10k car is considered luxury (unless you’re saying all cars are luxury, in which case we may have some common ground)

If a 20-something (or any-something, more importantly) has that money and they want to spend it, what’s the problem

Why should someone be made a criminal for selling a car for cash

Stupid law

Money can be changed into something that isn’t money, yet functionally works the same for a single transaction, very easily

Especially if you’re already committing crimes

This is as effective as DRM; it hurts law abiding citizens more than those breaking the law