Paxxi

carnage4life, 23 days ago to random

With all of the layoffs and transfer of core technology jobs to cheaper countries, I’m convinced Google management doesn’t think their engineering teams matter.

They simply need to cut Apple a bigger check each year to ensure they maintain default status and profits roll in.

The search product has gotten objectively worse year over year but profits are better than ever. It implies the quality of engineering is irrelevant to their business success. So why value engineering teams?

TehPenguin, 24 days ago to llvm

Glad sanity prevailed with this one https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/90520

Just a reminder that loading dlls from the application directory is not a security vulnerability.

But restricting the search path to System32 for well know dlls is not a bad idea...

#llvm #windows #infosec

whack, 24 days ago to random

All my Ubiquiti APs are stuck in “adopting” and I can’t wait to have nuke everything, factory reset by hand, and start from scratch 🫠

(This is not a call for help, I already made mistakes by operating a wifi network at home)

textfiles, 24 days ago to random

Windows: We have miraculously slammed AI into your operating system, against your will, because we are technical wizards and amazing and you will love our new guessing game software being always sitting there on the toolbar

Also Windows: oh, gee, your operating system is out of date and useless, pay up to upgrade to something that works better than this dogshit

Paxxi, 24 days ago to random

Chickens got a bit of leftover buns, never seen them this excited by food before 😀

Chickens sitting on a board eating buns

Loukas, 24 days ago to random

Sweden's Christian Democrats (KD) will lose their seat in the EU parliament, suggests a survey by Swedish Radio News showing them polling just a quarter of their 2019 vote.

Meanwhile the Social Democrats are up by ten points in this poll on their 2019 result.

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/kristdemokraterna-hamnar-under-sparren-i-europaparlamentet-i-ny-matning-infor-valet

Paxxi, 25 days ago to Eurovision

Exciting, I think the Netherlands have sent their first ever good song to #Eurovision this year 😀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT2wY0DjYGo

Kierkegaanks, 25 days ago to random

Vegan medicine student took an ethical stand and refused to dissect a lamb’s heart because there should be cruelty free options. There isn’t at this time and he was kicked out of the program.

It’s apparently a growing trend among healthcare students to feel entitled to choose to not take part in selected segments of their education, like animal tests or abortion

vitaut, 26 days ago to random

"The native encoding of an ordinary character string is the operating system dependent current encoding for pathnames"

baldur, 26 days ago to random

Google laid off their python lang team. This is a bad idea:

Google is all-in on “AI” and python is integral to ML
Other lang teams should be worried. If something as core to ML like python gets axed in an AI Bubble, what hope do other langs have?

https://social.coop/@Yhg1s/112332127058328855

J12t, 28 days ago to random

“I am in shock that a lawyer stood in the U.S. Supreme Court and said that a president could assassinate his political opponent and it would be immune as ‘an official act.’ I am in despair that several Justices seemed to think this answer made perfect sense.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/181032/supreme-court-trump-immunity-sealed-fate

vitaut, 28 days ago to random

Wait, what? {fmt} and vulkan-hpp are the only two modularized projects? https://arewemodulesyet.org/

vitaut, 29 days ago to random

Really proud of this paper title
("what encoding")

grimalkina, 1 month ago to random

I want to see absolutely no sensible and practical advice here. What programming language should I start vaguely and in a chill way teaching myself if I just want to experience something fun or elegant or interesting in and of itself, assuming I have no goal for using it to do anything really (outside of learning)

DeliaChristina, 1 month ago to ai

once again Chad the Intern🤖 saved me some time upgrading a bunch of job descriptions.

yeah, i know. I'm contributing to the downfall of the written word and probably teaching it how to destroy mankind.

I'm also teaching it how to assemble a strategic communications team.

so there.

#AI #ChatGPT

icing, 1 month ago to random

I‘ll never visit the US again: if you make it past the cavity searchers at immigration, you can meet the legal owners of flame-throwing robot dogs, after which medical services will try to bankrupt you.🙈

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/you-can-now-buy-a-flame-throwing-robot-dog-for-under-10000/

Paxxi, 1 month ago to random

I realized I didn't want to deal with contractors and need a bit of excersice so this year's project is drainage, cellar insulation and replacing the outside part of the plumbing by hand 😀

randahl, 1 month ago to random

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer says, the Senate will vote on aid to Ukraine Tuesday.

This could allow Biden to sign the Ukraine aid package later this coming week.

Awesome! 🙌🏻

Paxxi, 1 month ago to random

Chickens aren't happy about being forced out of their separated area. Found them like this twice today.

GossiTheDog, 1 month ago to random

Microsoft say they accidentally installed Copilot on Windows Server via Edge update process, say it has “no spy function” https://borncity.com/win/2024/04/18/windows-edge-123-0-2420-65-update-from-march-2024-unintentionally-brings-co-pilot-app-no-spy-function/

waldoj, 1 month ago to random

I'm trying to pay my Virginia income taxes online, and they have disabled paste in any field of consequence. Paste in a password? Nope. Your bank's routing number? You're gonna have to hand-key that. Your bank account number? You better believe you're typing that in.

If you wanted to force people to create crappy passwords and cause them to accidentally siphon money out of strangers' bank accounts, this is how you'd do it. And somebody went to extra effort to make it be like this!

ErikJonker, 1 month ago to Ukraine

Heartbreaking.
Zelensky: ""The Tripilska power plant, electricity in the Kiev region depends on it. Eleven missiles were headed towards it. The first seven we took down. Four destroyed Tripilska. Why? Because we had zero missiles. We ran out of all missiles."
#Ukraine