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calliope

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  • Review: Abxylute E1 - A $70/£52 Dual-OS Handheld That Sadly Fails To Impress

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  • The brand name “Abxylute” sure doesn’t sound promising. I would have been quite surprised if it was great.

    It sounds like a cheap knock-off Amazon brand.

  • Video game removes gender icons, and right-wingers are raging

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  • I like this quote from the article

    Responding to the ongoing furore, fans of the game brought up incredibly valid questions, such as: “Who f****** cares?”

  • Meet the Vitalists: the hardcore longevity enthusiasts who believe death is “wrong”

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  • I’ve never seen a single person who wanted to live forever that wasn’t obsessed with themselves.

    He literally thinks he should be able to live forever at the expense of others, including his own children. That kind of experimentation is selfish by definition.

    That’s awful.

    Oh good his son is as bad as him! Sign me up. Nothing shitty about that.

  • An AI Toy Exposed 50,000 Logs of Its Chats With Kids to Anyone With a Gmail Account

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  • Literally anyone could log in to the company’s Admin portal by OAuth authentication with a Google account. Bondu fixed the problem quickly, but yikes.

    That doesn’t bode well for the quality of their developers.

    Here is info from the researcher’s article, which is linked from the Wired article:

    About 30 minutes in, he spotted something interesting in the Content Security Policy headers. It was a domain that piqued his interest (console.bondu.com). He navigated to it and was met with a button that simply said: “Login with Google”. By itself, there’s nothing weird about that as it was probably just a parent portal. But instead upon logging in, he found this wasn’t a parent portal; it was the Bondu core admin panel. We had just logged into their admin dashboard despite [us not] having any special accounts or affiliations with Bondu themselves.

    This is why authentication and authorization are both important, not just authentication.

  • Meet the Vitalists: the hardcore longevity enthusiasts who believe death is “wrong”

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  • They really bury the lede, which is that the same anti-aging dingleberry you’ve probably already heard of was the main speaker. He’s always the main speaker.

    I was told that around 300 people had signed up for that day’s events, which was more than had attended the previous week. That might have been because arguably the world’s most famous longevity enthusiast, Bryan Johnson, was about to make an appearance.

    He’s awful.

    On October 13, 2021, Johnson announced an anti-aging attempt called "Project Blueprint." Johnson underwent a series of six monthly 1-liter plasma transfusions with his son as the donor for one of the transfusions, but he says he will not repeat the transfusions due to lack of benefits.

    Gimme your blood, kid!

    The FDA has stated that transfusions such as the kind Johnson had are without benefit and may be harmful.

    His pallor from Vitalist Cult 2025 looks so healthy too.

  • I can't stop eating dry cornflakes

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  • That’s the rumor but historically it’s not really true.

    The creation of corn flakes was part of J.H. Kellogg's broader advocacy for a plain, bland diet. Without referring to corn flakes in particular, Kellogg elsewhere recommended a plain, bland diet as one of several methods to discourage masturbation.

    According to the available evidence, corn flakes were primarily created as an easy-to-digest, pre-prepared and healthy breakfast food, in particular for patients at the Kellogg sanitarium in Michigan. The product was never advertised as an "anti-masturbatory morning meal."

    Quoting Snopes

  • Not your traditional lunatic but more in the "humblebrag" department...

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  • One of my little hobbies when LinkedInLunatics comes up is to immediately look at their title.

    It relates to AI more often than not.

  • Isocity, an open source city-builder in the vein of Simcity 3000/Simcity 4, is available to play in your browser.

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  • A.I. Was Supposed to “Revolutionize” Work. In Many Offices, It’s Only Creating Chaos

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  • It’s insane that Slate thinks anyone would pay for this.

    The entire article is just people who submitted complaints. Having it behind a paywall is insulting.

    https://archive.is/wW9iF

  • 25 EVs Were Range-Tested In Extreme Cold. It Didn’t Go Well

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  • It’s clickbait.

    The majority of the cars traveled well over 300km in these freezing temperatures, which in real-world conditions is more than most people will drive in -30° with no chargers.

    Lying about the practicality of extreme temperatures are just another way to discount EVs as reliable transportation.

  • 2026-01-27

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  • Absolutely, and I would add that the whole thing is silly on purpose.

    The names of the gangs, a tomato fight, their hands being tied together for a tomato fight. Totally ridiculous! Even the guy wearing a jacket that says “Parakeets” is funny.

    This kind of comic is my favorite type of Far Side because of how silly they are.

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  • You’ve never heard the term “dress for the job you want to have”?

    That’s what this is. People who interview you are significantly more likely to hire you if you don’t dress poorly.

    Your attitude also really sucks. We can tell you use Reddit and that you’re seriously inexperienced.

    If everywhere you go it smells like shit, check your shoes.

  • After comparing Alex Pretti to the BTK serial killer, Newsmax's Greg Kelly: "I can't just pretend because you're dead, you're like the superior person"

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  • Dennis Rader, the BTK killer, was all those things. Dennis Rader, remember him? He's the beat, bind, torture and kill guy.

    Wouldn’t that be the BBTK killer? Do you stutter?

    Why are you adding more letters? He didn’t beat people. “Bind them. Torture them. Kill them.”

    He also liked wearing Brassieres. BBBTK

  • Git gud

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  • This is seriously great advice!

  • Vibe coding may be hazardous to open source

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  • I don’t really like AI and think “vibe coding” is stupid, but this might be the most disconnected-from-reality academic paper I’ve ever heard of.

    Is the paper written with AI?

    Essentially, the paper argues that AI tools install open source dependencies in a way that comes between software developers and project maintainers, undermining interactions that potentially return value to those doing the work of software maintenance.

    I’m sorry… are you implying that before AI, people were intimately familiar with every dependency in a project?? Come on. This is why everyone ignores academic computer science.

    There is a documented decline in Stack Overflow questions after the launch of ChatGPT

    This is literally not true. The decline of Stack Overflow provably starts years before ChatGPT’s popularity growth. As a developer, I never used Stack Overflow starting in 2020. Other things became more useful, like Reddit, years before ChatGPT became usable.

    Tailwind CSS is an embarrassing example to use as well.

    curl ended their bug bounty program because idiots can’t help themselves with AI and it’s a total waste of time. I actually thought the article was going to be about that, not a few-years-old CSS project that obviously over-hired.

    On their website they list no fewer than FORTY major corporate sponsors of the project.

    Tailwind is supported by incredible partners and sponsors who make it possible for a team of talented designers and engineers to maintain the framework full-time.

    This to me it sounds like Tailwind CSS is actually learning how open source projects are profitable over time. Unsurprisingly, acquiring all of your customers through their passive reading of your documentation has never worked for long. Ask Red Hat.

  • An embarrassment of keyboards

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  • Is that Velcro (or hook-and-loop, or something) tape on the Kinesis?

    I’ve owned 3-4 Kinesis Advantage keyboards! Eventually I realized I needed switches that were a little harder to press so I got an ErgoDox and different switches.

    I still love the layout of the Advantage though. I wish they sold one with replaceable switches. I didn’t like the top buttons (esc, F-keys, etc) but I didn’t use them very often.

  • The USA's biggest island

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  • In the Wikipedia article it talks about some of the ways they used the stuff! Collecting the gases hadn’t occurred to them but it did catch fire a lot.

    Wikipedia quotes The Jungle by Upton Sinclair:

    The packers used to leave the creek that way, till every now and then the surface would catch on fire and burn furiously, and the fire department would have to come and put it out. Once, however, an ingenious stranger came and started to gather this filth in scows, to make lard out of; then the packers took the cue, and got out an injunction to stop him, and afterwards gathered it themselves. The banks of "Bubbly Creek" are plastered thick with hairs, and this also the packers gather and clean.

  • Paramount Reportedly Cancels 'Ren & Stimpy' Reboot

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  • I watched it as a kid as well! I still remember “it’s log” and Powdered Toast Man.

    I watched some recently and I don’t think the original has held up super well.

    Everyone wants a log! You’re gonna love it — log

  • The USA's biggest island

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  • I actually didn’t know about that! Incredible.

    Cities are fascinating. Isn’t a chunk of the waterline built on debris? San Francisco is too. Push it into the water and build, it’s fine.

    Another interesting thing about Chicago is how the stockyards emptied into “bubbly creek,” which is why it’s named that. There’s a few feet of animal fat still bubbling at the bottom.