I have an “innovation award” trophy from my last job sitting on my office bookshelf.
The alleged innovation was rolling out git to track the DB schema backing mission-critical operations, in the year 2021.
(It was a government job btw.)
Nah, it’s not trying to compete on that front.
True E2EE isn’t compatible with a Discord-like UX due to backward secrecy issues, and it’s a bit of a moot point given that self-hosting mostly sidesteps the core problem E2EE solves.
In case you missed it, there’s a worthy discord competitor now, and it can be self-hosted: https://fluxer.app/.
Switched over with a group of friends months ago, and it’s been seamless.
I’m happy to see the Chinese labs start competing on SOTA… but hot damn that price is a turnoff.
Anyone tried Kimi 2.7 Coding out in practice yet? Curious to know how it fares against Deepseek 4 and similar budget options.
I’m 100% going to drop this on a non-technical recruiter next job hop.
Thank you for your service 🫡.
How we supposed to read this one?
Shoutout to Charles Mann’s 1493, which contains a remarkably insightful survey of potato biology and indigenous Andean cultivation. Highly recommend for anyone interested in the topic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1493:_Uncovering_the_New_World_Columbus_Created
Navidrome might be up your alley.
It’s this feature-length video the music group Jungle did for one of their albums but never publicized: https://player.vimeo.com/video/846974200?h=d7fad03b63
Feels like it was some weird Kubrick side-project; just insane.
This is just normal in modern academia, tragically. The system is rotten to the core due to “publish or perish” and the players involved all know it.
The fact it got retracted is the surprising part.
Starbucks, Tim Hortons, Dunkin, etc.
Like, why? Life is too short.
See also: Anheuser-Busch products
My two personal GOATs are A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge. Both won Hugos, so they shouldn’t be tough to find.
To give the quick pitch without spoilers, they’re hard scifi space operas, but heavily character-driven and focused on a high degree of grounded physical realism. On top of being a competent writer, the author (recently deceased) was an active compsci and math professor, so the books have this wonderful feeling of rootedness — in that the technology reflects creations that humans might realistically invent in the next few centuries if we don’t nuke ourselves up first. Also captures the vibe of how we ordinary humans would react and adapt to the consequences of our future tech.
It’s the fun adventure-narrative of Star Wars Episode 4 blended with the political intrigue and attention to space physics that The Expanse series leans into.
Might already be on your radar, but I’ll also toss out Vonnegut as a great choice for soft scifi… ignoring Timequake.
Not quite fair to call it hogwash, but pretty much every professional historian and academic I’ve heard talk about this book considers it a bad introductory source with dubious credibility. It’s not a good rec.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Humankind#Scholarly_reception
You’re sweeping a lot under the rug with that first sentence: Society will adapt. Yeah sure, barring global catastrophe, it will. Doesn’t mean people won’t die and suffer in the process.
I’m making no claims about good vs. bad jobs here; people can self-actualize however they like in my book. Nor was I making any specific point about epidemiology of deaths of despair in the recent past, but I think that trend serves to illustrate the overall point.
Not really.
It’s all about the rate of change: neoliberal globalization has brought down wages across industries, so fewer good jobs are left, and the not-so-good ones barely keep up the same standard of living.
From a neutral historical perspective, some serious pearl-clutching about jobs is not ill-founded.
As you say, people in the past facing these circumstances didn’t all commit suicide. Yet some did it explicitly, some did it indirectly with alcohol or other vices, others just lived less fulfilling lives than they otherwise would have. Nonetheless, we are very much encouraging deaths of despair en masse with our current societal outlook.
Sure, but it’s much easier to get some form of RCE on public hosts in order to make practical use of the LPE.
Lemmy has many servers, with varying levels of uptime, load, and performance.
Sopuli tends to fare much better than lemmy.world.
Yet you said that without framing it in context of the article the thread was about — so you didn’t contribute anything of value while adding noise.
Your remark was lazy and ill-considered.
The best resource on this front is Michael Bazzell’s Extreme Privacy Guide, written for dealing with exactly the sort of situation you’re facing.
https://inteltechniques.com/book7.html