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by ryukoposting | 2025-12-16 14:04:10+00:00
Yep. Lately I've been getting dozens of scam ads for pulse oximeters being sold as Glucose meters, with a big ol' FDA logo plastered over the top of the video. A flagrant violation of regulations around medical device marketing.

Here's Google's response:

We understand you are concerned about the content in question, but please note that Google's services host third-party content. Google is not a creator or mediator of that content. We encourage you to resolve any disputes directly with the individual who posted the content.

...which is a lie, among other things.
by imtringued | 2025-12-16 14:04:15+00:00
Pick-up trucks aren't meant for work. Like, at all. They are inherently grocery/family vehicles.

Europeans don't use pick-up trucks even for cargo that is suitable for pickup trucks, because small flatbed trucks [0] let you open the bed from the side, making pickup trucks mostly an obsolete concept for work purposes.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=sm7pMHTu_m0
by habosa | 2025-12-16 14:04:20+00:00
I’m trying to leave the Kindle world. I’ve already stopped buying books on Amazon, instead getting them elsewhere and using Calibre to strip the DRM and sideload them.

What I really want is a physical eink reader that can load books from the bookshop.org ebook store. Then I can support both authors and bookstores.

Their website claims that they have an integration with Kobo on the way, but it’s said this for about a year now with no progress.
by lrvick | 2025-12-16 14:04:54+00:00
Purchasing things online I sometimes use anonymized bitcoin, or prepaid credit cards purchased with cash. Most of the time I use bank cards like anyone else. Almost everything but appliances is shipped to a P.O. box.

IRL I only use cash which makes my movements around the real world mostly invisible digitally speaking. What I buy at the pharmacy etc is not tracked or sold to insurance companies, etc.

Never seen contactless payment be a hard requirement. Everyone takes cash eventually if there is a human to talk to, though I do sometimes end up using a frequently rotating prepaid credit card for things like parking.
by colejohnson66 | 2025-12-16 14:05:50+00:00
Somewhat. Stallman claims to have tried to make it modular,[0] but also that he wants to avoid "misuse of [the] front ends".[1]

The idea is that you should link the front and back ends, to prevent out-of-process GPL runarounds. But because of that, the mingling of the front and back ends ended up winning out over attempts to stay modular.

[0]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00...

[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-01/msg00...
by okushigue | 2025-12-16 14:05:52+00:00
This paper presents MARS-SHIELD-NE, an enhanced nuclear-electric version of the integrated propulsion and radiation protection system for crewed Mars missions. The system employs six hydrogen-fueled magnetoplasma thrusters arranged in a hexagonal configuration, powered by a 100 kWe space nuclear reactor with water electrolysis for in-situ hydrogen production. The hexagonal architecture creates a 6-fold symmetric mini-magnetosphere providing simultaneous efficient propulsion and active radiation shielding. Performance analysis demonstrates operational specific impulse of 5,000-8,000 seconds, continuous thrust of 2-5 N, radiation dose reduction of 65%, and total launch mass of 45 metric tons. The nuclear-electric architecture enables 180-day Earth-Mars transits, overcoming solar power limitations while maintaining the integrated radiation protection benefits. Comparisons with VASIMR, NEXT ion thrusters, and chemical systems like Starship demonstrate significant advantages in mass efficiency, transit time, and mission sustainability. Keywords: Nuclear-Electric Propulsion, Magnetoplasma Thruster, Hydrogen Propellant, Water Electrolysis, Space Nuclear Reactor, Active Radiation Protection, Mars ISRU, Mini-Magnetosphere, Crewed Mars Missions.
by eudamoniac | 2025-12-16 14:05:54+00:00
I don't know why literature has the unique property among the arts that it must be puréed into rapidly digestible slush. Many here have already defended merits of connotative precision, so I shan't, but what of artistic precision? Language can innervate the soul with beauty, lilt with the lyrical pleasure of song, or revolt the senses. Shall the painter lock away his varied pigments? Shall the blue notes never sound? Limpid prose lacks those tongue-delighting tannins. I mourn each word ferried across the river Archaic.
by ArkhamMirror | 2025-12-16 14:06:00+00:00
Well, based on the evidence provided against our competing hypotheses, The least problematic hypothesis is that we landed on the moon in 1969. Second least problematic hypothesis was "The Apollo 11 mission was a hoax staged by NASA and the U.S. government for public relations and Cold War propaganda, but the moon landing itself was real — only the public narrative was fabricated." Third least problematic was "The Apollo 11 mission was a real event, but the moon landing was not achieved by humans — it was an automated robotic mission that was misinterpreted or falsely attributed to astronauts due to technical errors or media misreporting." - The winning hypothesis had a score of 0 (lower is better), second place had a score of 6 (out of possible 10 for our evidence set), and third place had a score of 8. There was also a tie for 4th place "It was just a government coverup to protect the firmament. There is no "outer space."" and "The Apollo 11 mission never occurred; all evidence — including photos, video, and lunar rocks — was fabricated in secret laboratories using early 20th-century special effects and staged experiments, possibly by a small group of scientists and engineers working under government contract." - both of these scored 10 out of 10, making them the most problematic. Sorry guys.
by pointlessone | 2025-12-16 14:06:38+00:00
> Without entering (and winning) some kind of major conflict, this was always going to happen.

If only there was a conflict somewhere with a perieved superpower, maybe a nuclear country or something that would be relatively easy to win without even entering into a direct altercation. Oh, wait!

America could’ve easily won the war in Ukraine by just ging away a bit more weapons, specifically long range missiles. It could even just tell European countries to give their long rhange missiles in exchange for a resupply for some plausible deniability.It could’ve been a bit more generous with intelligence.

Unfortunately, America elected Trump. A person who doesn’t believe in anything that doesn’t directly concern him. If it doesn’t benefit (or hurt) him personally it might as well not exist. Which make it easy to sway his foreign policy. Russia is actively trying to buy him and he thinks it’s great. It’s going to be a very fast decline of American influence as more and more countries around the world will see that it takes very little to buy an american president, allegedly the most powerful person in the world. And if any petty dictator can buy him, what worth is his power?
by ncallaway | 2025-12-16 14:06:47+00:00
> It's a plugin that I'm not using, don't care about using, and cannot see any conceivable use for.

> No-one wants this.

So, fun fact about earth: there are lots of people on it, and some of those people aren't you, and some of those people who aren't you actually have desires that are different from yours.

I think it makes the planet a pretty fun and interesting place, but it also does mean generalizing from "I don't want this" (totally fine! Awesome! Makes sense!) to "no one wants this" is usually not very productive.
by ClawsOnPaws | 2025-12-16 14:07:45+00:00
And sadly it is also not accessible to screen readers. VS Code for all its flaws is really, really good for screen reader accessibility. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that it's not only one of the most accessible code editors we have, but one of the most accessible electron apps overall. So losing it to this Microsoft stuff would be a huge deal to anyone who relies on screen reader or accessibility tools. :(
by okushigue | 2025-12-16 14:07:49+00:00
Other projects: https://zenodo.org/records/17943985 https://zenodo.org/records/17929227 https://zenodo.org/records/17927718 https://zenodo.org/records/17919592 https://zenodo.org/records/17909751 https://zenodo.org/records/17896284 https://zenodo.org/records/17885100 https://zenodo.org/records/17870334 https://zenodo.org/records/17809868
by program_whiz | 2025-12-16 14:08:15+00:00
This sentiment is constantly echoed on this site -- "just look at past times where tech removed jobs, this is no different". But the difference now is that we will soon have super-humans in terms of intelligence, dexterity (robots), and cost (cheaper, no healthcare, etc.).

I put the onus on the yay-sayers, can you name a job that a human can do that this new AI / robot cannot (or will not soon) do? Otherwise, I think its time to stop drawing false equivalence with agriculture, luddites, etc. Those were "narrow" machines, incapable of coding, writing a symphony, or working in a factory. In the next decade we're talking about building a better human.

I think a better example is to draw a parallel to horses. There is nothing left for them to do; we keep a few around for sport and entertainment, as a novelty. At one time, they were indispensible, but there's no rule that any organism (including humans) has infinite economically viable uses. At some point, everything worth doing (economically) might be automated to the point that human labor no longer makes sense (and hence we have high unemployment). There is no cosmic law written that "if jobs are replaced by tech, new jobs shall fill the space!" Just look at areas in the rust belt where literally nothing replaced the lost jobs -- there is just rampant unemployment, black market dealing / drugs, and despair.
by rayiner | 2025-12-16 14:08:57+00:00
I think folks in my home country could at least understand wealth extraction. But what wealth has America extracted from Bangladesh, Vietnam, Iraq, etc? The Chinese got the oil contracts in Iraq.

What’s insane about America’s foreign policy is that it costs huge amounts of money, pisses off most of the third world, and doesn’t even seem to result in any flow of wealth to the U.S.
by tim333 | 2025-12-16 14:09:04+00:00
I'm guessing here but torpedos are normally fired from a boat or sub a few miles away.

I imagine here they've modified one of their naval drones to go on it's own to near the port running on an internal combustion engine, then dive a few feet and go underwater on battery power the last bit.

Or maybe just battery rather than diesel electric? Batteries are quite good these days.
by djfobbz | 2025-12-16 14:09:19+00:00
VS Code feels like nothing but bloat. Sublime Text is still my go-to, as I'm not very well-versed in Neovim yet. I'm also really digging the new C/Lua-based Lite XL - https://lite-xl.com. One of my New Year's resolutions is to learn Neovim properly.
by mattstir | 2025-12-16 14:10:57+00:00
IntelliCode was first released in 2018, well before the current AI landscape. The issue here is taking a free, functioning capability and arbitrarily disabling it in favour of a paid product. Microsoft is currently "updating" its internal adoption goals for the AI features it keeps shoving down consumers throats, but I'm sure that pumping the numbers by removing features is surely just coincidental and not desperate at all.
by gorgoiler | 2025-12-16 14:11:29+00:00
I like the “wasn’t inevitable” list. The fact that two US corporations control 99% of phones is another one that feels about as comfortable as a rock in my boot and I hope this too is not inevitable, in the long run.

Imagine if the 80s and 90s had been PC vs Mac but you had to go to IBM for one or more critical pieces of software or software distribution infrastructure. The Cambrian explosion IBM-PC compatability didn’t happen overnight of course. I don’t think it will be (or ought to be) inevitable that phones remain opaque and locked down forever, but the day when freedom finally comes doesn’t really feel like it’s just around the corner.

Posted, alas for now, from my iPhone
by jchw | 2025-12-16 14:11:39+00:00
I was trying to make the point that "unfree" software is not really useful at all to the "open source" community, and not because of terminology nitpicking but because of the consequences that has.

But anyway, my problem with a license like this is indeed the existence of gray areas. Open source licenses are in some ways clever attempts to make a social contract into a legal obligation. It isn't perfect, but the side effect is that you don't have to take it on faith that people will follow it: people can be sued for violating it, and depending on how that Vizio case goes, it's not just the copyright holders who are eligible.

But that's a two way street. In return, I shouldn't have to take in on faith that my use case is legal according to the copyright license: it should be clear as day with no room for interpretation. If it's not, then my best hope is to simply never get sued. That is not good. Hope is not a strategy here, not for individuals and not for corporate users.

Business/"fair" licenses seem to offer a good compromise, but it's a mirage: the software still has to be treated a bit like toxic waste in Linux packaging, won't be compatible with strong copyleft licenses, and ultimately, presents an uneven playing field for contributors.

There isn't much to be excited about from a hacking PoV.

With projects like these, you're probably already going to be submitting your code under an unconditional CLA, which essentially forfeits your rights as a contributor, then if it's this license, you also are giving the original copyright owner more rights to use your contribution than you even have.

I don't think this is a good or healthy status quo at all.

The only upside of this is that it protects someone's business model from competition. Well good for them.

But making the license look like MIT is just a bit of cosplay, yet another attempt to try to push something as being open source when it's not. This cognitive dissonance can't go unnoticed; it really does trick people if they don't fully think through the consequences. You're better off going with a license that makes no attempt to pass itself off as open source.
by colechristensen | 2025-12-16 14:11:40+00:00
Good lord Stallman is such a zealot and hypocrite. It's not open vs. closed it's mine vs. yours and he's openly declaring that he's nerfing software in order to prevent people from using it in a way he doesn't like. And refusing to talk about it in public because normal people hate that shit "misunderstanding" him.

--- From the post:

I let this drop back in March -- please forgive me.

> Maybe that's the issue for GCC, but for Emacs the issue is to get detailed > info out of GCC, which is a different problem. My understanding is that > you're opposed to GCC providing this useful info because that info would > need to be complete enough to be usable as input to a proprietary > compiler backend.

My hope is that we can work out a kind of "detailed output" that is enough for what Emacs wants, but not enough for misuse of GCC front ends.

I don't want to discuss the details on the list, because I think that would mean 50 messages of misunderstanding and tangents for each message that makes progress. Instead, is there anyone here who would like to work on this in detail?
by neutronicus | 2025-12-16 14:11:40+00:00
It definitely seems like Visual Studio is no longer feeling the love.

IMO Visual Studio presented an incredible opportunity to sell Copilot. Implement a MCP server, give the LLMs in Copilot all the tools available to a human developer to analyze and debug a codebase. Instead it's just a shitty autocomplete you have to turn off in order to get the good, IntelliSense autocomplete working.

Our parent company went hilt-deep into Copilot and ... now they're backing off, because nobody likes it!

I just don't get it. They couldn't get the AI people and the Visual Studio people in a room together? I guess, cynically, probably not, because the AI people aren't on the same continent as the Visual Studio people?

Very frustrating.
by 9rx | 2025-12-16 14:11:58+00:00
Trouble is that in an application the pure functions are just implementation details that don't need to be tested. They get tested by virtue of a correct implementation being necessary to correctly run the application. A library can be a little different story, as there the public interface is quite likely to be pure, but I expect most codebases found in the wild are applications. The discussion happening here seems to be directed at applications.

Granted, it appears Rust gets a lot of use as a cross-language library provider, where the application glue is written in other languages. Perhaps that's why?
by majora2007 | 2025-12-16 14:12:28+00:00
There is a brand new plugin for KOReader that offers a richer experience and uses Kavita's API. I don't have a link handy, but it was shared in the Kavita discord (and will be on the wiki once I write a new page for it).

Koreader's OPDS implementation is VERY rough around the edges. It doesn't support much of the metadata and doesn't follow the spec very well. I had to write hacks in Kavita to give users better support for it. (My understanding is Koreader isn't too hot on OPDS in general).
by DannyBee | 2025-12-16 14:12:46+00:00
They deliberately label the not food safe ones as "not food safe" and "not a wood finish". They have to.

So if you are using that as a wood finish, you get what you get?

Also most of it is still food safe when cured anyway, it just does't always fully cure and it's hard to tell when it's cured.

But once the polymerization/etc has actually finished, there are no oxidizing agents or driers or ... left.

If you look at the law suits that lead to it being labeled the way it is, it's not about food safe when cured, it's about the inability to tell when curing actually finished, and final curing taking a very long time.
by nkmnz | 2025-12-16 14:13:02+00:00
lol, not really. First of all, the kind of "heavy lifting" the Soviet Union did was agreeing with Nazi Germany to partition Poland and subsequently raiding it together from both sides (Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact) – never forget they were allies until Hitler turned on them.

The "heave lifting" you refer to was mostly paid for and organized by the Lend-Lease Act. There would have been no eastern front without it.
by Nevermark | 2025-12-16 14:13:13+00:00
> Yes, the butterfly flapping it's wings in Brazil (or whatever) can drastically influence the weather a continent away.

> But I think the true wonder of chaos needs to consider that if that butterfly were turned a few degrees in another direction, the resultant weather can be completely different.

The former is simply a different way of saying the latter.

For balance it’s worth say that chaos can greatly magnify the impact of small variables, while greatly suppressing the impact of others. Which are two reasons that make specific predictions in chaotic systems difficult or impossible.

The productive response is to look for behaviors of a given chaotic system. Which can provide a lot of insight, despite specific unpredictability. (I.e. “this heat is going to generate more storms, even if we can’t place those storms on a calendar.”)
by ashvardanian | 2025-12-16 14:13:21+00:00
This is a very good example! Still, “correct” needs context. You can be 100% “correct with respect to ICU”. It’s definitely not perfect, but it’s the best standard we have. And luckily for me, it also defines the locale-independent rules. I can expand to support locale-specific adjustments in the future, but waiting for the adoption to grow before investing even more engineering effort into this feature. Maybe worth opening a GitHub issue for that :)
by ceejayoz | 2025-12-16 14:13:36+00:00
Pettus won't have planned the route, either.

(Hegseth may've accidentally texted it to a reporter, though. That'd be on brand.)

It's very clear that the upthread comment was referring to the administration - headed by a guy prone to word salad and outright lies - not the folks way, way down the chain doing the flight plans.
by antonymoose | 2025-12-16 14:14:05+00:00
Seems to be a pattern among all products I’ve ever encountered. I’m a heavy sales shopper. My local grocer (Ingles) will do a promo for Sargento cheese or Chobani yoghurt for instance, normal price of 5$ let’s say, then drop it to $2 for a week, then to $4 the next week, then back to full price. This rinses and repeats every 2 or 3 months for most sales products.

Sadly for this RedBull drinker, they never go on sale, at all, ever, anywhere.
by stfp | 2025-12-16 14:14:07+00:00
I don’t know if that’s meaningfully true. When a candidate lies and the information distribution industries are by and large just repeating the lies, on top of decades of voter suppression measures, can we say that the popular vote really represents what people want? I don’t think so. So yeah one candidate will win by a razor-thin margin but I don’t think that actually gives legitimacy to what is happening.
by zamadatix | 2025-12-16 14:14:09+00:00
They only hinder the process if you treat them as demands instead of questions or comments. The questions are generally smart and thoughtful, just often mistimed/misplaced for where most companies decide to have the RFC process (i.e. often after completion rather than before starting main implementation).

It's alright to answer "No, we haven't done estimations for cloud-agnostic architecture as part of this project since it was not part of the approved goals and requirements. If we decide to go multi-cloud at some point in the future, this architecture will need to be reviewed with the rest of the infrastructure as part of the migration plan".

If that kind of answer creates a problem then the issue wasn't really to do with the RFC or the comments, that's just where the other issues in the process became apparent. Namely, the requirements are being set without all relevant stakeholders involved or even aware (which is not the same thing as agreeing).
by withinboredom | 2025-12-16 14:14:17+00:00
In my case, there was no faking urgency. I was pointing out that urgency puts you in a different line that gets priority (basically, cancellations from the longer line).

For some other things, you can travel further away to where there is less demand for what you need, and if you're willing, you don't have to wait as long. These are all different "lines" and they're the ones doing the schedule.
by danaris | 2025-12-16 14:14:22+00:00
> The results of votes are enforced on the losers using the police, who will do so violently if required.

The whims of the dictator are also enforced on the public using police.

All human rules, laws, customs, and edicts are enforced, ultimately, with violence of one sort or another. There is no way to avoid the threat of violence being the bedrock of the power of the state, and in the absence of formal states the strong would use violence to enforce their desires until they became states.

So if you're an anti-statist, just say so. (So we can all dismiss everything you have to say as coming from a place of absolute ignorance of what's needed to live and operate in the real world. If we were to abolish all states tomorrow, and erase the very memory of their existence from every human alive, by Sunday new ones would have arisen to replace them, one way or another, because they are how humans organize themselves.)
by Fiveplus | 2025-12-16 14:14:46+00:00
Does anyone else feel like the "Trust" angle is the only card they have left to play? Technically, Chrome is faster on JS benchmarks. Edge has better OS integration on Windows and comes by default. Safari wins on battery life on Mac. Firefox's only unique selling point is "We aren't a massive data vampire." If they clutter the browser with AI which inherently requires data processing, often in the cloud, they dilute their only true differentiator.