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  1. Abject 0.4.14 has been released.

    This release brings persistent browser profiles. So if you authenticated to some site, Abjects can visit the site without having to re-auth.

    This makes it easier to integrate your digital life in one place.

    It's free and open source: abject.world

  2. If war with Iran is Trump's way of distracting us from the Epstien files, that's like shitting your pants and then kicking a puppy to distract everyone.

  3. The biggest lesson from the Epstien files will be the same lesson learned after the great financial crisis in 2008. Nobody will be held accountable because the people in charge are not going to hold themselves accountable.

    Trump isn't putting himself or any of his friends in jail.

  4. Given the recent Epstien and Chomsky revelations I'm convinced Chomsky was controlled opposition.

  5. We are in the "Papers Please" stage. They don't even know who they are grabbing.

  6. Trump said "It's hard to believe he is alive" about the ICE agent that murdered Renee Good. Here he is walking calmly to his car un-injured. He thinks we are fucking idiots.

  7. Those who thought Trump is a war dove, where are you now?

  8. Rust does seem to have a lot of nice features. My biggest blocker for me going to Rust from C++ is that C++ has much better support for generic programming. And now that Concepts have landed, I'm not aware of any language that can compete in this area.

  9. I'm seeing a lot of people saying "C++ is not a safe language and CrowdStrike would have not happened if they used Rust".

    Why doesn't anyone remember leftpad? Why did a simple Javascript library (Javascript being a safe language) cause so much havoc? Maybe it's the scalability of central software distribution that is the real risk and not pointers. Pointers are wonderful things and it's sad to me that modern programmers are afraid of them.

  10. OpenAI had a bug in ChatGPT and someone shared a hilarious conversation with Chaz. Sad they fixed it.

    chat.openai.com/share/74bd7c02

  11. Nomad Capitalist is a consultancy that helps rich people with offshore tax havens and investments.

    They just published a video called "Where to Move to Escape World War III". This is not a joke video.

    youtube.com/watch?v=0HPw-hZ0h70

    Good luck plebs!

  12. Just watched George Hotz's stream.

    It's telling that Hotz never read Donella Meadows's work on Limits to Growth and considers leftists elites.

    He said there is no science about how government works. Bullshit, there is tons. Go read some David Graeber (Dawn of Everything, Debt the first 5000 years, Bullshit Jobs). Actual science of how things work from anthropologists and archeologists.

    youtube.com/watch?v=mEoiQ_PZNTE

  13. time! In my first tech role straight out of college, the company owner would buy giant cans of Folgers coffee from Costco. We hated it! So we would dump out the Folgers and put a better brand in the can.

    One day he comes into the kitchen, brews himself a cup of coffee and says "This coffee is really good, I don't understand why everyone keeps complaining about it!". He obviously kept buying the Folgers.

    Lesson is, don't be too clever. Not in code, or in life.

  14. CW: Russia/Ukraine war and free speech in the US

    While it is known to everyone that Russia has jailed people who are against the Russia/Ukraine war, it is less known that the U.S. has accused people of being foreign agents who are also against the war on the other side. We may see anti-war people in the US jailed soon. It's all fun and games until it happens here too. See the Uhuru movement.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhuru_Mo

  15. This is your brain on . Fascinating article about a study of how our brain works when looking at code.

    The findings seem to show the mathematical/logical part of our brain is activated more than language. Also different things like loops and branches are encoded differently.

    Seems programmers can't escape mathematical thinking!

    news.mit.edu/2022/your-brain-y