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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Really manning that steel bro. It must have taken a lot of effort not to put the echo symbols on (((DEI shibboleths))). Out of spite, I'll now proceed to somehow incorporate the idea that white people cause earthquakes into my worldview.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I dunno, how's the "I'm not Donald Trump" platform been working out so far?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

the hawk tuah teapot is actually hysterical which is how I knew the poster was taking the piss

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh, but you see the axis powers only ever wanted to conquer most of Europe, North Africa, a bunch of islands in the Pacific, most of Southeast Asia, Korea and large parts of mainland China, which the allies would have been completely fine with. Nothing suggests they would actually go for full conquest victory. What is a "Lebensraum"? Is it a type of cheese?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Unusually shit take on WW2 but not an unusually shit take from Moldbug. Just the usual level of shit.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What kind of a cost is low enough that eight billion people can pay it for their legitimate communications without burning the planet too much, but also high enough that a spammer with a botnet won't bother to let other people's machines pay the cost?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't think that simile quite lands. Hindenburg worked as expected until its sudden catastrophic demise and hydrogen caused both the function and the failure. Zero knowledge proofs neither make cryptocoins work nor are they the reason why they don't work.

A more apt comparison is something like saying levers are the technology behind this perpetual motion machine.

The design incorporates levers that fail to make the device function, but it's not like levers are useless because of that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You gotta be careful not to joke in a way that's indistinguishable from real shitcoin spam 🙃

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

She Licking my County till I back away is this anything?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I just bought a humanoid robot servant! I also got a machine that lets her do chores in my house.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

And as the same channel demonstrates, there are ways to fly without any wings at all

spoiler…as well as with them!

Man, it's really true what they say: the West can't meme.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

baking a Hear Me Out Cake for Reachy 2

 

Now that AI got involved it's on topic for TechTakes I guess. Making a containment thread because there might be a lot to sneer about this.

Train wreck at Montparnasse Station, at Place de Rennes side (now Place du 18 Juin 1940), Paris, France, 1895.

Boring version of of the main story: https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5345802

Skynet declares trade war on penguins: https://archive.is/Nn5MC

Reactionary news outlet celebrates 77% drop in stock price by taking everyone else down with them: https://bsky.app/profile/brianmfloyd.bsky.social/post/3lluybov3i22o

 

I'm noticing an issue where the posts on the front page have been the same for a few days now, excluding the pinned Stubsack post. The default "Active" sorting mode seemingly fails to update its ranking of the posts. I see new posts when switching to "New" mode, but "Active" and "Hot" just show stuff from 5 or 6 days ago.

The comment ordering seems similarly static, and I feel like the default "Hot" algorithm isn't prioritizing new comments like it used to, but it's harder to tell if it's bugged or not since older comments tend to have more upvotes, as do the higher up sorted comments.

The same thing happens on mobile and desktop. Is this just my end or are others noticing the same?

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OpenBSD 7.5 (www.openbsd.org)
 

Safari, Chrome and Firefox on iOS (AKA three different Safari skins) keep logging me out when doing things like refreshing the page. Possible cache issues again? I hope I don't have to do a full browsing history reset yet again.

 

Someone ported this 8-bit miniature Unix-like from Commodore to Nintendo.

The YouTube title is a little bit clickbaity, but the project is cool so I don't mind.

 

Edward Snowden [blue checkmark] @snowden
Unpopular but true: Bitcoin is the most significant monetary advance since the creation of coinage.

If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.

Ed pls.

 

Also a bunch of somewhat less heinous cringe shit.

 

A follow-up to this TechTakes post

Saw this live at the congress. The presentation was great and the hall was packed. It was hard to find a seat in a huge auditorium even 15 minutes ahead of the talk.

 

It was only a matter of time that we saw a TechTake from this guy. I'm sorry to inflict Peterson on y'all, but this was too funny not to post.

 

Global outage on fetching posts. Funny enough, some features are still working as evidenced by the fact #TwitterDown is trending.

Two HN threads about this now, looking forward to some excellent takes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717326

 

Direct link to the video

B-b-but he didn't cite his sources!!

 

A RISC-V assembly cracking board game. Can't comment on the gameplay experience, but what a cool idea.

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