Per Buer

An interesting article about "How Memory Maps (mmap) Deliver 25x Faster File Access in Go" #golang info.varnish-software.com/blog/how-me...

If your state needs to kill thousands of children each month, in order to maintain it's security, there is something wrong with your state.

The American left's newfound interest in due process almost 25 years starting the war on terror is great and all, but jeez, it could have come earlier.

…but I repeat myself. www.theregister.com/2025/04/17/z...

Say you're in the US, and you need a new laptop. Can you get one still? Aren't all of these products produced just-in-time?

Comparing @lastpass.bsky.social and @1password.bsky.social - Lastpass has a pretty horrible track record and is a US company. 1password on the other hand, has a good track record and is a Canadian company. Just sayin'.

if you think Americans have access to free and unrestricted AI models, try asking Google Gemini about Putin. Google apparently considers Putin to be an important figure in American politics and as such, has banned discussions of his figure and politics.

Everyone should watch this video. @vladvexler.bsky.social highlights aspects of narcissism that I think most people are not aware of, and how it explains Trump’s submissive attitude towards Putin.

US defense stock seem to be down quite a bit. Non-US defense seems up quite a bit. FAFO, lol.

Can we get the money, the money we spent on backing the US in their endless, stupid wars over the last 40 years, back?

Maybe Europe should have a closer relationship with China. Relying on the US seems dumb and a stronger China could perhaps help keep the US in check. There is something attractive about China's straightforwardness.

I am probably on some government lists now but at least I am in good company.

i scrolled through all of the replies looking to see whether anyone pointed out the fairly obvious reason this is actually an interesting test and didn’t see any, just people raging impotently at a hated object

I am no longer accepting the argument "there are bigger problems than this!" unless you are personally working to stop the ultimate Heat Death of the Universe.

if a computer made it, it ain't art.

Can I get Spotify to not show or play anything AI-generated? I often listen to lofi while I work and sometimes it will drift into AI-generated slop.

Raptors fans boo the hell out of the Star-Spangled Banner (video via the Toronto Star)

Mind viruses are a bit like the Dunning Kruger effect. You can never know if you or the other party is the one that has it. Pretty ironic.

you wouldn't steal an AI

if I search for porn in the mac appstore, I get 20 porn blockers and whatsapp. 🤔

I have a hard time coughing up sympathy for OpenAI having their APIs abused by Deepseek training their model. This is more or less how the rest of the world has been feeling the last 2 years.

true innovation

Outside Europe, most of the world is really looking forward to the Trump presidency. 82% of Indians think it'll be a good thing. South Koreans are skeptical, however. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/don...

I've been away from C and C development for 8 years. Can't say I've missed autotools. Just getting the master branch of varnish-cache to configure took me a couple of hours.

not many developers know this but REST actually stands for HTTP

Europe had its warmest Fall (Sep-Nov) on record (since 1940). 🔥

I'm confused. One group wants to deport illegal aliens, the other group wants to make them stay. nobody is talking about making them legal residents.

"unionized" is read differently depending on you being a leftist or chemist.🤪

Has Meta come up with an idea of their own the last 10 years?

I've heard Putin has been threatening with nuclear war again, but he's done so so many times that it doesn't get any coverage anymore.

💡 Not only is my little errutil.Find function more efficient and type-safe than Go's errors.As, it's also more intuitive: compare var pathError *fs.PathError if errors.As(err, &pathError) { //... to if pathError, ok := errutil.Find[*fs.PathError](err); ok { //... pkg.go.dev/github.com/j...

TIL; First rule of tinnitus. Do not think about tinnitus. When you think about it, it becomes worse. If you can truly ignore it, it will go away.

HRW issues a warning to the IDF; www.hrw.org/news/2024/06...

A record number of S&P 500 companies mentioned “AI” on their Q1 2024 earnings calls: 201, up from 131 in the same period last year. sherwood.news/busine...

The graph shows the frequency of "delve" in ArXiv, which seems to indicate quite a bit of ChatGPT use in academia.

The US is doing impossibly well on nearly every economic metric. Yet populism thrives. Can you image what will happen during the next proper downturn?