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  • Threadiverse... on ATProto?!

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  • I'm not an ATProto expert either, but broadly speaking, it's more of an aspirationally decentralized service, a lot of it is still centrally run by Blue Sky. Rather than split all responsibilities equally among hundreds of equal peers like ActivityPub, they've broken up the responsibilities themselves into modular parts: one thing stores user data, one thing is a firehose of everything happening everywhere, one thing is providing content moderation, etc., and users can kind of assemble their social network from all the parts they like. Many parts of it were designed with the assumption that the whole thing would have to operate at Twitter scale (that was the original idea, to make something that Twitter could move to) so it's basically impossible for others to run some parts, like the firehose. The theory is that the real big infra stuff will all be so generic and neutral that there won't even a reason for people to run their own anyway, and the more subjective or personal bits like personal data or moderation decisions will be easier to host alternatives for.

  • New Jetbrains Update Dropped

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  • Why isn't "it's informed and you can just opt out" good enough for paid users? They could've developed a single system instead of two if that's a sufficient standard of care for users' data.

  • New Jetbrains Update Dropped

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  • Opt out means "we will be doing this, without permission, unless you tell us not to" and opt in means "if you give us permission we will do this." Codebases can contain important and sensitive information, and sending it off to some server to be shoved into an LLM is something that should be done with care. Getting affirmative consent is the bare minimum.

  • bi rule

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  • Not even femboys. Too much boy, not enough fem. I guess it does start getting fuzzy in the same places gender does, you could get me in a "checkmate, libs" gotcha by asking if I'm attracted to a trans man whose egg only cracked an hour ago.

  • New Jetbrains Update Dropped

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  • The right thing is to make it opt-in for everyone, simple as that. The entire controversy goes away immediately if they do. If they really believe it's a good value proposition for their users, and want to avoid collecting data from people who didn't actually want to give it, they should have faith that their users will agree and affirmatively check the box.

    If free users are really such a drain on them, why have they been offering a free version for so long before it became a conduit to that sweet, sweet data? Because it isn't a drain, it's a win-win. They want people using their IDE, even for free, they don't get money from it but they get market share, broad familiarity with their tool amongst software engineers, a larger user base that can support each other on third party sites and provide free advertising, and more.

  • bi rule

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  • Not me, can't even begin to feel how people find men attractive. But I'm glad they do for my own sake.

  • Code comments should apply to the state of the system at the point the comment “executes”

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  • The best, clearest code in the world will make it perfectly clear exactly what's going on, but not why. "database.fetch(); // Fetch from the database" is a terrible comment, sure, but "// Resource loading is done lazily on first run, so we cannot depend on it being available right away" is something that can't be conveyed through code alone.

  • New Jetbrains Update Dropped

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  • They're doing as much of a bad thing as they think they can get away with. I don't feel a particular duty to carefully acknowledge that in some circumstances they feel obligated to do the right thing instead. If they don't like the "misleading" aspects of that, they're free to just do the right thing completely.

  • New Jetbrains Update Dropped

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  • Well well well.

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  • I only use it when I've royally messed up and the commit I need to get back is no longer referenced anywhere. Accidentally deleted a branch, finished a merge or rebase before realizing I messed up, that kind of thing, just use the reflog to find it again, get a branch pointing to it, then try again.

  • We're raising money for charity by trying to unlock the impossible Garry's Mod achievement: "Yes, I am the real Garry!"

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  • Human em dash users, are you still afraid of being mislabeled as "AI"?

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  • Yes, but most human em dashes are from writing going through relatively professional processes, not, say, writing a comment online. Of course, there are many — like myself — who know how to type them quickly, and choose to use them, but LLMs are definitely a lot more eager to use them than the average person.

  • Ubuntu 25.10's Move To Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage For Some Executables

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  • Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not sure what the worst case scenario is... like, is some company going to get rich off of their proprietary cp and sudo implementation that they forked off of an open one?

  • Sinclair Will Not Air ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Upon ABC Return Tuesday

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  • The FCC regulates all 3, but they have a lot more control over OTA content because the electromagnetic spectrum doesn't have enough room for everyone who wants a TV station to get a channel. As a result, if you do get one, it comes with strings attached and you have to serve the public good as well as whatever else you want to put out there. In addition, a broadcast is out in the open, blasted out in all directions for anyone with a receiver to see and hear, so much like being outside means some of the things you can do in private are not allowed, TV networks can't broadcast some content that is otherwise legal. Those constraints offset some of the first amendment protections that would otherwise exist.

    Cable and internet don't have these properties. They're constrained only by how many lines of cable you can deploy in an area, and physics isn't stopping anyone from running their own. And since it's not being blasted out into the air in all directions, it's closer to private communication. Without those justifications, the full protection of the first amendment still applies.

  • I'm going to fix it! ...someday

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  • That is indeed the right way to do it, unfortunately Plex doesn't handle it well. It'll show all the episodes separately, but each one plays the entire file (fair, it doesn't know for sure where the breaks are, but could be done better), and watching the whole thing marks only the one you selected as watched, so you have to mark all the other "episodes" as watched manually (this is annoying, if it knows you watched the whole file, it should know that you've watched all the episodes it covers).

    Usually if an episode is a 2 parter in one file, I'll just name it for part 1 since you'd watch them together anyway, but for cartoons the two parts are usually entirely unrelated, so it really only works properly if the file's split. It'd be better if the interface at least showed that a range of episodes are combined so you could, say, start it and know that the episode you want needs to be scrubbed through to find it, and also if it marked them all as played when you watch the whole thing.

  • It's 2025: How Have You Personally Dealt With The Loss of Apollo? Any Features From the App That You Wish Mlem had?

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  • I believe this is talking about the original AltStore, which uses the same mechanism that app developers use to test their apps on device as they're developing and works in any country, not just the EU. You run a Mac app on your local network called AltServer, then the AltStore app on your phone can automatically send .ipa files to the server to get signed or re-signed. As they mentioned, with a free Apple account the signed app is good for 7 days before needing a refresh, if you pay Apple for a developer account it's much longer and you can have more things signed at once.

  • Jimmy Kimmel Pulled “Indefinitely” By ABC After Over Charlie Kirk Comments

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  • He's seen that media companies that want to get their mergers approved have to suck up to the dictator first.

  • Leave us out of it rule

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  • If you go even further right than Charlie Kirk, they end up flipping from "yay Israel, help bring about the Book of Revelations and end the world" to "boo Israel, we hate Jews", so as hard as it may be to believe, there is actually room for him to get hated from his right.

  • Comcast Executives Warn Workers To Not Say The Wrong Thing About Charlie Kirk | 404 Media

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  • That "unacceptable and insensitive" comment was, in reality, an entirely reasonable take on how Charlie Kirk directly stoked the fires that ended up taking his life. They're sending a clear message that you are not allowed to speak honestly about any of the context surrounding the event, and can only share an opinion if it shows Kirk in a positive light, since apparently neutral or worse is not allowed.

  • i love ai in my offline foss softwares that are still in beta

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  • For most software, iteration starts getting diminishing returns only if it's approaching feature completeness and no bugs. LLMs are plateauing well before they became super genius job stealers like they were supposed to, and it's going to take a major breakthrough to see any significant improvement.