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by sunaookami | 2025-08-14 08:38:09+00:00
As someone working in fintech (in Europe): I agree. People always say "well at least it's tested and works!" but fintech is pure bullshittery. We wrap shiny new apps over 30 year old legacy systems written in C++ and bank employees need to constantly correct data manually. I know from a bank that has only one employee that knows about the whole system and nobody knows what happens when they retire (is already aged >50). Generally, banks rely on a very small number of (overworked) people that prevent the whole system from collapsing and they will all retire in a few years. Neo-banks and Neo-broker have their own disadvantages (like bad support, etc.) but at least they are forward-thinking.

Everything is also constantly regulated to death (and not the good kind) and banks wait until the very last day (even when regulations were passed at EU-level 6 years (!!) ago) and you then need to rush implementing it in the last month.

After working there for a few years now it's hard to trust any bank. Better not think too hard about it...
by zozbot234 | 2025-08-14 08:38:16+00:00
If your card is that old, shouldn't the nouveau drivers be quite full-featured anyway? Regardless, you may also want to run a Bookworm kernel with a full Trixie userspace. It should install cleanly once you add the Bookworm repos, and you'd be fully supported for quite some time thanks to LTS. It would technically be a FrankenDebian, but one that might be quite acceptable nonetheless.
by sunshine-o | 2025-08-14 08:39:42+00:00
> The UK has had an insane number of CCTV cameras for as long as I can remember.

By the way, do anybody care what would happen (at least psychologically) in case of a massive blackout or cyber-incident?

Just imagine something akin to what happened to the Iberian peninsula a few months ago, the country goes into flame quickly preventing recovery and then it's on. Most of the systems the UK has to control its population are inoperable.

I am pretty sure it is in the back of the mind of the UK leaders when they negotiate with Russia and China....
by rapnie | 2025-08-14 08:39:50+00:00
There are a couple more among public Forgejo instances [0]. For instance, though it is not very clear what they offer exactly, CodeFloe [1] mentions priced tiers in their FAQ.

> The priced tiers only exist to cover additional hardware costs of individual users which require extended resources for storage and CI/CD (CPU/Mem) in a transparent manner.

[0] https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-forgejo/#public-...

[1] https://codefloe.com/
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-14 08:40:46+00:00
>What I find truly insane is how we're "wasting" the hardware.

Only if you ignore the business economic realities of the world we live in. Unless you work at hyperscaleres of MS/google/meta where every fraction of percent optimization save millions of dollars, nobody is pays SW engineers to optimize SW for old consumer devices because it's money wasted you won't recoup so you offload it on the customer to buy better HW. Rinse and repeat.

>I had a Pentium 3 w/1GB of RAM, and it was a supremely capable laptop.

Why isn't it supremely capable anymore? It will still be just as capable if you run the same software from 1999 on it. Or do you expect to run 2025 SW on it?
by graemep | 2025-08-14 08:41:10+00:00
Interesting. In the UK it tends to be right wing ideas people find icky about the alternative. Maybe one party on the left but it is really small.

The problem here is that society and culture in general has got more authoritarian so it cut across the left-right divide (which IMO has got meaningless anyway since it no longer reflects a consistent difference in economic policy) but leaving the non-authoritarians practically without politically representation.
by lazyasciiart | 2025-08-14 08:41:34+00:00
Someone who takes no actions based on their beliefs effectively doesn’t hold those beliefs, as far as anyone else knows, and doesn’t get shunned for them. So you’re trying to define some level of advertising your beliefs as “not acting on them”. What’s that level? An op-ed on the problem of gay people, or just a casual remark that of course gay marriage is a sin?
by up-n-atom | 2025-08-14 08:42:03+00:00
I kinda question the validity of the NSFW explanation news articles are bringing up because it’s signalling out foreign assets more than anything. Maybe a ploy in trying to keep the reign of the US currency, G7, and debt holders over BRICS plus outspoken critics? Just a quick look at the nations and currencies it seems more plausible. As a bank you don’t want that target on your back nor do you want to be excluded from SWIFT. But I guess this is way over the heads of the average gamer so blame corn.
by viccis | 2025-08-14 08:42:15+00:00
They have changed a lot of their DLT (not even called that anymore lol, it's Lakeflow Pipelines now I think) syntax. I tried asking ChatGPT to convert a very simple Python one to Spark SQL, and it gave me a bunch of outdated SQL syntax.

Aside from that, if you use their Python connector package, it's a shit show to put it mildly. For example, 15.4 works with serverless but tells you (via deprecation warning) it doesn't and that you need to use 15.1 (which lacks a lot of variant stuff). So then you decide screw it I'm gonna just update to 16, except that serverless (which works on 15.4) doesn't work on 16.0 or 17.0.
by oersted | 2025-08-14 08:42:27+00:00
I really liked the Circles feature in Google+: you defined groups of friends, and you could make your posts visible to particular groups.

They were not like group chats or subreddits, the circles were just for you, it was just an easy way to determine which of your followers would see one of your posts.

This kind of interaction was common in early Facebook and Twitter too, where only your friends or followers saw what you posted, often just whitelisted ones. It was not all public all the time. Google+ just made that a bit more granular.

I suppose that these dynamics have been overtaken by messaging apps, but it's not really the same thing. It's too direct, too real-time and all messages mixed-in, I like the more async and distributed nature of posts with comments.

Granted, if you really want a diverse discussion and to talk with everyone in the world at once, indeed that's a different problem and probably fundamentally impossible to make non-toxic, people are people.
by zozbot234 | 2025-08-14 08:42:57+00:00
32-bit userspace packages are still supported, though with increased hardware requirements compared to Bookworm. You may find that you're able to run a more-or-less complete 32-bit Trixie userspace, while staying on Bookworm wrt. the kernel and perhaps a few critical packages.

If 32-bit support gets dropped altogether (which might happen for 'forky' or 'duke') it can probably move to the unofficial Debian Ports infrastructure, provided that people are willing to keep it up-to-date.
by drzhivago | 2025-08-14 08:43:27+00:00
The referenced book was so good until the “considered harmful” sections. As it indicates, GOTO is basically JMP, and I’m sorry if someone is offended by BASIC, but it’s not only the subject of the book but was the promoted language to the masses for early microcomputers, such that people would buy the related BASIC book at the store, along with the computer.
by deanc | 2025-08-14 08:43:52+00:00
Probably use-case. I only really engage with my watch to check the time and my pulse which I can do with a glance, otherwise the screen is permanently off. The other times are when I'm doing some activity (running, swimming) and GPS is on but for example with running the screen still only shows when I glance at it. Apple still has an enormous amount of room to optimise their hardware and software in this space but I've no idea why they haven't done it yet.
by neciudan | 2025-08-14 08:44:51+00:00
Have you ever seen two components display different values for the same state? (typically from a webSocket) That split-second mismatch has a name: tearing.

React 18 quietly added a hook to fix it — useSyncExternalStore. It keeps every component perfectly in sync.

Quick breakdown + example here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYw0sIVPO0Y
by thaumasiotes | 2025-08-14 08:44:55+00:00
No, according to the EU there is no documentation that any of "hundreds of thousands" of users are located in the EU.

In neither case is it relevant to the idea that it is "reasonable" for Deepki to desire to use their mark in coexistence with the mark "Deepkit". Your argument is that they didn't want coexistence because the other mark didn't exist.
by adrian_b | 2025-08-14 08:46:01+00:00
Only extremely old ARM CPUs (i.e. 32-bit CPUs from more than a decade ago) do not have AES hardware. All 64-bit ARM CPUs have it, like also at least the HW for SHA-1 and SHA-256. The more recent ARM CPUs have HW support for more cryptographic algorithms than the majority of the desktop CPUs.

"Lightweight" cryptography is not intended for something as powerful as a smartphone, but only for microcontrollers that are embedded in small appliances, e.g. sensors that transmit wirelessly the acquired data.
by klez | 2025-08-14 08:46:26+00:00
> If your card is that old, shouldn't the nouveau drivers be quite full-featured anyway?

Normally they would probably be, but it looks like my ultra-wide screen is too much to handle for those drivers.

> you may also want to run a Bookworm kernel with a full Trixie userspace.

Good idea indeed. But at this point I'm afraid of borking everything again. I'll just wait for the replacement card I ordered and hope it doesn't make things worse.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-14 08:47:24+00:00
They were never my terms. They were the terms from the people that were having a nice conversation before you interrupted.

You told them they were wrong, that it could go either way.

That's not true.

What they were talking about cannot go either way.

You were never talking about the same thing as them. I gave you the benefit of the doubt by thinking you were trying to talk about the same thing as them. Apparently I shouldn't have.

You can't win this on definitions. They were talking about a thing without using formal definitions, and you replied to them with your own unrelated talk, as if it was what they meant. No. You don't get to change what they meant.

That's why I argued against your definition. Your definition is lovely in some other conversation. Your definition is not what they meant, and cannot override what they meant.
by 4gotunameagain | 2025-08-14 08:47:42+00:00
I have too developed PTSD from nvidia + debian (even worse, nvidia optimus on a laptop).

To the point where I would not upgrade my system for months at a time, when I was in the midst of important work, because I didn't want to spend a day on tty trying to make the DE work again.

In the words of Linus: FUCK NVIDIA
by lukan | 2025-08-14 08:47:46+00:00
"thousands of dollars went to a nice, well-intended family lawyer"

Sounds like it was maybe about custody for children?

Then it is hard to walk away, I think. What to do, if the other party does not cooperate and you still want to see your children?

Best advice for both sides still is obviously, avoid the need for lawyers in the first place and maintain basic level of communication.
by torlok | 2025-08-14 08:49:52+00:00
Going by the example videos, this is nothing like I'd expect a whiteboard video to look like. It fills the slides in erratically, even text. No human does that. It's distracting more than anything. If a human teacher wants to show cause-and-effect, they'll draw the cause, then an arrow, then the effect to emphasize what they're saying. Your videos resemble printing more than drawing.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-14 08:50:16+00:00
Did you read the comment I was replying to? They said old 32 bit systems can still be kept around to be used as a terminal. I replied saying that Android tablets can also be used as terminals with the right SW if that's what you're after.

Or if you have specific X86 terminal SW, use a PC with a 64 bit CPU if you want to run modern PC SW. They've been making them since 2003. That's 23 years of used 64bit HW on the market that you can literally get for free at this point.

Or keep using your old 32 bit system to run your old 32 bit terminal SW. Nobody's taking away your ability to run your old 32 bit version of the SW when new 64 bit SW comes out.
by godelski | 2025-08-14 08:50:21+00:00
> Because "reality" doesn't have "atomic", certain, etc operations?

That's not a requirement. The axioms are for our modeling, not reality.

> but you can't be certain that you're dealing with a given distribution, not outside the quantum realm.

I guess I'll never understand why non-physicists want to talk so confidently about physics. Especially quantum mechanics[0]. You can get through Griffiths with mostly algebra and some calculus. Group theory is a big plus, but not necessary. I also suggest having a stiff drink on hand. Sometimes you'll need to just shut up and do the math. Don't worry, it'll only be more confusing years later if you get to Messiah.

[0] https://xkcd.com/451/
by 999900000999 | 2025-08-14 08:50:38+00:00
Oh no I'm only speaking about the American context. I guess you're in a magical Utopia where people don't skip essential medicines because they can't come up with the co-pay even if they have insurance.

Or the health insurance company will outright refuse to cover what your doctor prescribes so you need to materialize a spare 1000$.

Too sick to work, time to cut off your medicare because you failed the work requirements.

Even if you find a therapist that works, they can move out if your insurance network. Or you switch to a new job that offers different insurance your therapist can't accept.

I know during my second eviction I didn't have 800$ a month. So what use is it. Do only upper middle class people have problems worthy of consideration?
by lava_pidgeon | 2025-08-14 08:51:59+00:00
The usual explanation is it is more dangerous to live in America e.g. homicides are much spread than in Europe. It is so much more dangerous compared to Europe which always had a war starting every 15 years after 1990.

Also the health system in America is fucked. This isn't a question of socialised vs privatised system as all health systems in Europe have a mix of both. (England is a big outlier here).
by wat10000 | 2025-08-14 08:52:58+00:00
NEMA 6 is limiting because there’s no neutral, so everything in the device has to run on 240V. Your oven and dryer want 120V to run lights and electronics, so they use a 14 (or 10 for older installs) which lets them get 120V between a hot and the neutral.

Oddly, 14-50 has become the most common receptacle for non-hardwired EV charging, which is rather wasteful since EV charging doesn’t need the neutral at all. 6-50 would make more sense there.
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by adrian_b | 2025-08-14 08:53:28+00:00
"Lightweight" cryptography is not intended for smartphones, personal computers and similarly powerful devices.

It is intended only for microcontrollers embedded in various systems, e.g. the microcontrollers from a car or from a robot that automate various low-level functions (not the general system control), or from various sensors or appliances.

It is expected that the data exchanged by such microcontrollers is valuable only if it can be deciphered in real time.

If an attacker would be able to decipher the recorded encrypted data by brute force after a month, or even after a week, it is expected that the data will be useless. Otherwise, standard cryptography must be used.
by ben_w | 2025-08-14 08:54:06+00:00
Sun, all the points are about the same distance from you. They all contribute about equally. Well, all the ones over the horizon, but anyway.

Satellites, well, first, most are below the horizon at any given moment, and unlike with the sun this doesn't just halve the number of sources visible. But let's pretend the earth is transparent. The satellite closest to you is four times brighter than the ones twice as far away as the closest, and the distant ones are about (525km/(12742km + 570km))^2 = 0.00156 times the brightness of the closest.

The point I'm making with the thinned-array curse in response to a comment about their phased array antenna is that the scenario is a thinned array, and that phased arrays, while useful, don't solve everything.

From the shell theorem, the sum of the effect of of all of them at any point inside their orbital shells can be approximated as* a constant value everywhere equal to the effect if you put them all in the middle and measure at the shell radius, so radius = 12742km/2 + 540km = 6911 km, so 8000 * (540km)^2 / (6911km)^2 ~= 48.8 times the brightness of a single satellite. So even all of them is not much.

* Approximation will diverge noticeably roughly when you're closer to the shell than the separation of sources in the shell
by squishington | 2025-08-14 08:55:59+00:00
Please don't spread misinformation like this. It can stop people from seeking professional help. When people seek therapy, they are taking ownership over their emotions and actions, because they want to change their internal state in a healthy way (as opposed to escaping negative feelings with substance abuse, for example). Earlier this year I would suffer flight responses in public due to the effects of PTSD. I was able to significantly mitigate this (nearly gone) by seeing a therapist who practises EMDR. And sometimes people do need their feelings validated, which is an important part of healing from abuse. It's about rebuilding trust.
by JaggerJo | 2025-08-14 08:56:35+00:00
DarkLang which was initially written in OCaml eventually switched to F#. From what I remember the main reasons were the library ecosystem and concurrency.

I'm know .NET in and out, so I might be biased. Most of the boring parts have multiple good solutions that I can pick from. I don't have to spend time on things that are not essential to the problem I actually want to solve.

I've used F# professionally for multiple years and maintain a quite popular UI library written in it. But even with .NET there still are gaps because of the smaller F# language ecosystem. Not everything "just works" between CLR languages - sometimes it's a bit more complicated.

The main point I'm trying to make is that going off the beaten path (C#) for example also comes with a cost. That cost might or might not be offset by the more expressive language. It's important to know this so you are not surprised by it.

With OCaml it's similar I'd say. You get a really powerful language, but you're off the beaten path. Sure, there are a few companies using it in production - but their use case might be different than yours. On Jane Streets Threads and Signals podcast they often talk about their really specific use cases.

1: https://blog.darklang.com/new-backend-fsharp/
by skeezyboy | 2025-08-14 08:57:46+00:00
ugh this again.

>Can we identify how to improve social media and create online spaces that are actually living up to those early promises of providing a public sphere where we can deliberate and debate politics in a constructive way?

they really pomp up what is effectively a message board (facebook, twitter) or a video website with a comment/message feature (youtube, tiktok) or an instant messenger with groups (whatsapp). NONE OF THIS IS NEW.
by IshKebab | 2025-08-14 08:58:09+00:00
I agree. If OCaml had solved some of its bigger paper cuts it could have been a real player. Compilation time is much better than Rust too:

* OPAM is quite buggy and extremely confusing.

* Windows support is very bad. If you ever tried to use Perl on Windows back in the day... it's worse than that.

* Documentation is terse to the point of uselessness.

* The syntax style is quite hard to mentally parse and also not very recoverable. If you miss some word or character the error can be "the second half of the file has a syntax error". Not very fun. Rust's more traditional syntax is much easier to deal with.

Rust basically has none of those issues. Really the only advantage I can see with OCaml today is compile time, which is important, but it's definitely not important enough to make me want to use OCaml.
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-14 08:58:12+00:00
It's not a new idea, seeing as Google pretty much announced this years ago. I don't know how much uptake it got (it isn't available in my country) but it's definitely one of the main real-world use cases of LLMs and related AI that I can see surviving the bubble. If you can get enough money out of it to pay for your service costs, that seems like an excellent tool.

That said, my experience with LLMs is that they tend to lie/misrepresent user input and intention, especially when translating text. Doesn't sound like a problem to me if you're just ordering pizza or scheduling a haircut, but when it comes to healthcare, that might become problematic. Furthermore, there are quite a few regulations when it comes to healthcare services that you might need to double check, just to make sure you're avoiding having to comply with difficult and expensive regulation. Not really an issue for a tool built for your parents, but when you're marketing it to people (especially vulnerable groups, like people not speaking the language of the country they're in).

Also, does this bot announce that it's a bot?

Also, how will you prevent scam callcenters from ruining your bot's reputation? Is there some kind of abuse detection in place? Because if you just have a service that will call people and tell them what you instruct it to tell them, I can guarantee that malicious people will flock to it.
by wat10000 | 2025-08-14 08:58:40+00:00
Actual judges on actual courts seem to think DRM is fine. So I’m confused. Do you reject laymen interpreting the law and only accept the evaluation of a judge, as indicated by your first comment? Or do you reject what judges say and go with your own “plain reading”? Seems like you’re confused about who’s qualified to say what constitutes lawbreaking.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-08-14 08:58:54+00:00
Your response feels quite snarky but I understand you're speaking from a place of emotion after your own difficult experiences.

Here in The Netherlands people with less money can get access to therapy with assistance from the state. I've had to do it myself and it cost me around 300 euros per year to see 3 different providers for 3 kinds of therapy; the rest of the costs were covered by the state.

I wouldn't call it a magical utopia as it works via a system of mutual social support, not magic, but it does seem relatively utopic in comparison to what you describe.