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What I’m saying is that’s actually very hard unless you run a super sterile account on purpose. Even just your writing style is a pretty good fingerprint. Your IP. Any pictures you’ve posted. It’s a rough world out there for privacy

It’s not that hard to identify people online. My account is definitely not private

It’s occasionally worth calling out that votes are also public. I think twice before hitting those buttons

Well how you gonna buy a new Mac if you could get security patches for your old device

Literally anywhere on Google. But it also makes sense when you think about ChromeOS & non-us aligned countries - what else are they gonna use?

You’re telling me this is on purpose? Oh my God it’s on purpose

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My favorite part is that their site has a drawing of a cock as the background and reads “this sucks” but it’s some kinda venture capitalist org. For some reason only when the site is reloaded

It’s ok I sent them an email about it

Tesla sunset two of their models, three still for sale and being built. Definitely not giving up on AI or FSD, they are doubling down on cybercab, and elons pay package is tied to FSD subscriptions. If anything, the messaging is they are ramping up AI investment. Humans crash and burn regularly too. Brilliant engineers have definitely not given up, I’m not sure why anyone would think that. AI has continued to improve pretty steadily in all areas (see benchmarks)

I evaluated matrix a few years ago to try to add chat to my video game. I also evaluated everything else. Sendbird (proprietary, what reddit uses) is crazy expensive. Matrix is complicated and didn’t have a good simple web frontend. XMPP is still pretty good. In the end, I ended up going with IRC v3 which fixes many of the legacy problems of IRC, and that was the best option. I am still scratching my head as to how that’s the state of the art for sending little bits of text back and forth. Don’t get me started on WebRTC, I spent a whole year trying to make a stable video chat app for another project

Love that the entire justification is that Linus doesn’t know how to count higher than 20. Lucky for us that he’ll probably retire before we get to version 20.20 because otherwise he’d probably have to just shut the whole project down

Weird take. Typical playbook in SV is to push a free product to gain market dominance for a few years. Also 2% is a common paying user percentage for almost every freemium biz model, and 3%+ is actually considered pretty good

What?! You can run whole Linux apps on Windows

I still think these guys are lunatics, who loves windows coding so much as to do this? Hahaha very impressive

I think this is true to some degree, but not exclusively true; new grads still get jobs. However, I think it’ll take some time for universities to catch up with the changes they need to make to refocus on architecture, systems design & skilled use of LLMs

My opinion is that the demand for software is still dramatically higher than what can be achieved by hiring every single senior dev + LLM. I.e. there will need to be more people doing it in the future regardless of efficiency gains

Argument doesn’t check out. You can still manage people, and they can use whatever tools make them productive. Good understanding of the code & ability to pass PR reviews isn’t going anywhere, nor is programmer skill

Huh I guess it’s “normal” but I hadn’t heard of Linux OSes tracking active user telemetry. Turns out this is a fedora / rpm mechanism that tracks the ip addresses of people updating their system. Something to think about. Archlinux for example does not do any form of this tracking as far as I can tell

I don’t really see a market need for this, just use signal. C++ is also a weird language to use in the modern era, pretty much totally eclipsed by Go or Rust, not that you need performance anyway. Or just use webrtc for p2p connections with a standard TURN/STUN relay for network layouts that prevent direct p2p, this can be done pure web or via apps. Already has audio/video and encryption. XMPP and Matrix are also fine. But as a learning exercise, great project

It’s interesting that signal was partially funded by the American govt international propaganda wing (radio free Asia parent) early on. So I mean, not totally wrong. Though of course I’m a big fan of signal and it’s developers

Do a philosophy minor if you have any affinity for it. Do a major in something that pays. Use that set of big picture critical thinking + a decent fallback plan to secure yourself. Then decide later in life what you love to do