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AI Commentators: "OMG, they just cloned Adobe/Autocad/Office - this CHANGES EVERYTHING" Meanwhile - open source projects that have existed for DECADES are sitting there asking "What am I, chopped liver?" My dudes: Libre Office FreeCad Gimp Inkscape etc. etc. This isn't difficult.

the story goes like this

This is me, but with pretty much everything.

🤔🤔🤔

Hey @1password.bsky.social, time to change course.

I was asked recently about the cost of running a #rustlang conference and why the ticket prices are what they are. We figured we can just publicly share the numbers for RustWeek, in the name of #transparency. :) 1/9

U.K. Weighs Social Media Ban Of Everyone Except Old Men Who Grow Big Vegetables https://theonion.com/u-k-weighs-social-media-ban-of-everyone-except-old-men-who-grow-big-vegetables/

Founder and owner of Wikipedia says the Social Media ban is stupid, won't work, and forces people to send their own facial data to the most dangerous companies in the world.

The valuation of SpaceX is based on this page in their filing*. Estimated future market: 28.5 trillion Of that Grok/AI is: 26.5 trillion 93% of the SpaceX valuation is Grok NINTY THREE PERCENT OF THE SPACEX VALUATION IS GROK!!!! * www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Excellent question, certainly people have their rationalizations, but I absolutely have not missed it, personally or professionally, since I left two and a half years ago www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Buying Steam games and playing Steam games really are 2 different hobbies

Same for buying and reading books, at least for me 😅

IT'S HAPPENING!!! 💃 People have asked me for an official @fastapi.tiangolo.com Conference for years. Here we go, let's meet in Amsterdam. ☕️

Step one: DON'T FUCKING GIVE "AI" YOUR CREDIT CARDS JESUS FUCK WHAT ARE YOU THINKING www.wired.com/story/the-ra...

I took the German or Autistic diagnostic. Results: probably autistic - 60% autistic, 29% German, 11% undefined, 100% odd. german.millermanschool.com

HEIST is launching soon, but early readers are already getting the stories. This week in the newsletter: our exclusive report on the people betting on Deutsche Bahn delays. Get early access at heistberlin.com

They’re calling it brain coding

Lazy = I don’t want to do the thing. ADHD = I desperately WANT to do the thing, but I just can’t seem to START doing the thing.

got my adhd upgraded to ad4k

This is 100% infuriating.

fuck off please

Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.

heheheheh

dear lord. these people. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

These dogs were spotted taking a group photo in their Halloween costumes. We're impressed by the dog walker's dedication to getting the shot, but that ghost definitely wishes he could actually disappear. 14/10 for all (TT: franklinbarkzoo)

“A brain the size of a planet and you’re asking me to post a gif” If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers".

Twenty Thousand Cybertrucks under the Sea

😭😫

If you're an indie developer, you should hang this screenshot on your wall and use it as inspiration to never give up

i saw someone point out that the selector for time on iphone alarms is actually just a really long list and not truly circular. everything i’ve known is a lie

“They claim to read the same books” is such a multilayered burn, I LOVE it

This is the way 😑

“Agents” is a boring name. We had the right idea with “daemons”. Why don’t we go with “djinns” or “daevas”?

It's not you, 1.1.1.1 is down www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/28...

Caught the final episode of the first season of Murderbot last night. The whole first season was just lovely, and I'm delighted that it's gotten a second season. Congrats, @marthawells.com, and everyone else involved, both for the season that's wrapped up, and for what is to come.

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PRODUCTIVITY HACK: be mentally ill but in the productive way

Let's Encrypt rolls out free security certs for IP addresses

Today marks a decade since the 1st stable release of #rustlang 🎉 To commemorate this milestone, we asked Karen Tölva (Ferris creator 🦀) to design a celebratory graphic & answer a few questions in our blog. Congrats to EVERYONE who has made Rust what it is today 🧡 rustfoundation.org/media/celebr...

If you’ve sent me a text and I didn’t respond please know that I didn’t forget you, you’ll live on in my subconscious as a vague sense of dread forever

For those not attending in person: You can watch the #RustWeek conference live from anywhere! Check out our free livestream! We start tomorrow at 9:30 CEST! Livestreams: rustweek.org/live Schedule: rustweek.org/schedule