holsta

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by holsta 16d ago
> It is kind of shocking to me how TUIs are enjoying a bit of dev tool renaissance right now For me, it's because I can SSH from my wimpy laptop to systems with hundreds of CPU cores and TBs of RAM - and use the same tools and workf
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by holsta 2mo ago
> Not sure GDPR applies to apps though. GDPR applies to we the people and the organizations who hold our data. Doesn't matter if it's morse code on paper strips. If we can dictate warnings on tobacco packages, we can dictate th
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by holsta 3mo ago
If browsers were slightly better at asking users, maybe we'd all have our three favourite fonts and background-, text- and link-colours instead of what someone else prefers we stare at all day.
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by holsta 6mo ago
Oh, you have nothing to hide? Kindly paste all your payment and login credentials that your browser stores. Later we'll need to see all your DMs on Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, Discord, etc. Finally we'll want to know about disputes
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by holsta 8mo ago
> For example, requiring the “vibecoding” tag on all stories about AI even though very few of them are about vibecoding. No? You either use AI or vibecoding, like the tag page says: https://lobste.rs/tags
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by holsta 9mo ago
> It’s a short, specific puzzle. I’d love to know if you think the "Correct" path I designed matches your real-world experience, or if I’m off base. As someone about to step into a C-suite role: I picked the "correct"
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by holsta 10mo ago
I've used this but you might need to use your browser's translate feature: https://kalendersiden.dk/
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by holsta 10mo ago
Many experiments have shown that when you take away people's concerns about money for housing and food, that frees up energy and attention to do other things. Like the famous experiment in Finland where homeless people were given cash
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by holsta 1y ago
> for this price you can get a really nice N100/N150 laptop with a full HD IPS screen Can you think of a name or model by any chance?
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by holsta 1y ago
> Hardly a "roll out across the UK". What's your threshold for when it becomes a problem? Should we wait until it becomes a problem, or should we try to stop this level of facial recognition? You should also assume this is
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by holsta 1y ago
When you start digging past their marketing material, you quickly discover that these organisations are just right-wing fronts, against trans-people, against abortion. Here's a 38 minute video that walks through some of the recent majo
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by holsta 1y ago
There's a gigantic difference between outsourcing your brain to generative AI (LLMs, Stable Diffusion, ..) and pattern recognition that recognises songs, birds, plants or health issues.
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by holsta 1y ago
> It used to be that if you got stuck on a concept, you're basically screwed. We were able to learn before LLMs. Libraries are not a new thing. FidoNet, USENET, IRC, forums, local study/user groups. You have access to all of Wi
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by holsta 1y ago
> In “Irreversible Damage,” Abigail Shrier argues youth are being “fast-tracked” into medical transition — a claim experts say isn’t true and harms trans youth. Anti-trans activities is the fascist agenda. Fascism should always be stoppe
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by holsta 1y ago
> Both extremes want the same thing. Citation needed. The 'extreme' feminism & LGBT tends to revolve around identical pay, being able to walk down the street without getting assaulted or being able to work without being har
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by holsta 1y ago
> Portability is overrated. > GNU Make is [..] itself portable. Sounds like it's not overrated, then. You just prefer that other people write portable C and package GNU Make for all systems instead of you writing POSIX Make.
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by holsta 1y ago
> A couple make flags that are useful [..] But not portable. Please don't use them outside of your own non-distributable toy projects.
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by holsta 1y ago
https://esgnews.com/ai-boom-drives-150-surge-in-indirect-emi... Not to mention the ethical / copyright / misbehaving scrapers.
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by holsta 1y ago
Wild. I evaluate LLMs about once per year, and can't wait for the generative AI bubble to burst. I most recently asked for a privilege-separated JMAP client daemon (dns, fetcher, writer) using pledge() and unveil() that would write to
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by holsta 1y ago
> Who do you think built and maintained the socioeconomic systems that allowed women to focus on creating and raising children? This statement completely ignores how our current world is shaped by white supremacy and the patriarchy. Wome
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by holsta 1y ago
We already tried the whole "not resisting fascist-adjacent people every living second" and it didn't turn out great for a lot of people. Think about it for a moment.
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by holsta 1y ago
Almost everything that has any impact in the world is political: The clothes we wear, the food we eat, where and how our children are schooled, the devices and services we have available, consumer rights for said devices and services, etc.
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by holsta 1y ago
We are not living longer, fewer infants / kids are dying.
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by holsta 1y ago
> you can get houses near major cities for usd 80k. There are 53706 homes for sale today. 2784 of those are actual homes, not empty lots, costing less than 600K DKK. I would not expect to live a healthy, comfortable life in most homes at
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by holsta 1y ago
> I honestly have no idea why the recruiters from these places have such a superiority complex that they need to belittle people like that. Many, many years ago I sat next to HR in an open plan office while on a freelance gig. They treat
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by holsta 2y ago
Fascists chase ideals / purity, so put a lot of effort into their uniforms, for one. Places like Ordensburg Vogelsang, where they trained Nazi officers, explains how they cut themselves to look experienced in battle, among other things
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by holsta 2y ago
Did you try loading this in your own browser and look at the console? I get one warning and five errors: * Cross-Origin Request Blocked. * None of the "sha512" hashes match the content. * Loading 3rd party javascript
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by holsta 2y ago
YouTube Premium still shows ads and they still track users. Most recently, the ?si= tracker on URLs shared are a new low that lets YouTube map out how we interact with other people.
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by holsta 2y ago
> save nature A shocking number of people still don't realize we need to save humans. For all the mis- and disinformation we fight on climate change, I really fear this continued talk about "saving nature" doesn't hel
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by holsta 2y ago
> Vandalism of art treasures is a serious crime in that it degrades society. You'll never believe what our current levels of CO2 does to society.

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