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by happymellon | 2026-01-27 17:39:15+00:00
> running XFCE on Wayland is going to make it slower

Citation. None of the other desktops have slowed with Wayland, and gaming is as fast as, if not marginally faster on KDE/Gnome with Wayland vs LXDE on X.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2504-x11-gaming
by BizarroLand | 2026-01-27 17:39:23+00:00
I have to use Win 11 for work. It's terrible.

I have to run several windows debloat tools and powershell scripts to both remove AI and spyware, apps that I do not want or need, and to also force windows 11 to not reinstall the apps and spyware that I have removed.

It's fine as long as you don't mind Microsoft recording everything you do, every game you play, every keystroke you make, all for the purpose of selling to other businesses so they can invade your life and sell things to you, and for them shoving their terrible microsoft software and their microsoft preferred way of doing things, not taking no for an answer, and even when you forcibly pry their invasive shitty fingers out of your hardware they just force them right back in on an update or a random reboot.

Fuck Windows 11. 10 was pretty shit, too but at least once you ran scripts to remove the microsoft bs from it it stayed out.
by ajross | 2026-01-27 17:39:26+00:00
> Your comment is longer nonsense.

Sigh, here we go.

> Individual data points in a population cannot be biased.

Indeed they[1] cannot! By the first definition I listed.

Conversely, the term "tea party" is a "biased" political term by the second, as it connotes a particular political perspective.

I didn't make this stuff up, check definition 1a in M-W: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bias#h1

[1] The discussion is about search terms, btw. Not "data points", which sort of confounds your analysis.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-27 17:39:27+00:00
It's an MoU to "discuss" mobility with no commitment to actually deciding anything: "[a]dopted as a memorandum of understanding in parallel with the finalisation of the FTA, offers an excellent opportunity for us to cooperate on facilitating labour mobility, supporting skills development and capacity building, and working on skills and qualification frameworks" [0].

Immigration remains under the purview of individual EU member states.

Notice how this entire thread got derailed by low karma and newish accounts dogwhistling immigration instead of discussing how the deal expanded European industrial and chemical exports to India by giving them a tariff rate under that which is Chinese trans-shipped products via ASEAN get and now includes India as part of ReArm Europe [1] - the EU's defense fund for European and Ukrainian rearmament [2].

Who needs Russian backed farmer disinfo networks [3] when you have anonymous "software engineer" social media accounts stirring $hit to try and undermine the EU-India relationship [4]. That said, the deal will go through because the right businesses and unions were mollified over the past 2-3 years building up to this.

[0] - https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_...

[1] - https://theprint.in/diplomacy/india-eu-sign-security-defence...

[2] - https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2025/7695...

[3] - https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/2025/12/01/putin-permafr...

[4] - https://www.defense.gouv.fr/desinformation/nos-analyses-froi...
by schmookeeg | 2026-01-27 17:39:35+00:00
I don't know how you can claim to love technology but hate AI so much -- it's a technological achievement. Yeah it's disruptive and that makes it dangerous if not managed, and I'm not exactly optimistic we'll manage it, but why aren't you curious about how it works? How to make it integrate with society better? How to deal with the myriad issues surrounding IP, rights, likeness stuff... there is a lot of fascinating work being done around AI to figure this all out.

Were you only interested in technology so you could be one of the chosen elders holding a rare and valuable skill? Bummer if so, I think that ship has sailed. If not sunk altogether.

Otherwise? I guess learn plumbing? I think we're still a few years away from Claude telling me "You're absolutely right! Let me unclog that toilet for you" :D
by PKop | 2026-01-27 17:39:35+00:00
Aside from the magic dying, which I agree with, another commenter in this thread says there could be false positives (whether from Indians or AI doesn't matter) you'd have to 1) notice by studying your bill later and 2) resolve by requesting refunds online.

Knowing this, it was over before it ever started. Beyond the masses of people already having aversion to the oddness of how it worked and likely never wanting to try it, these and others would swear off the store forever the first time they ever got charged for something they didn't take. No one wants to monitor and fix erroneous purchase errors.
by lelandfe | 2026-01-27 17:39:47+00:00
> operated at a loss as a business tactic to force out competition and kill off local grocery stores

Wouldn't surprise me. I know a guy who invented a device for truckers that became ubiquitous in truck stops across the US. This would've been like 2014.

He refused to sell on Amazon, so Amazon duped his product and sold it at something crazy, like half price, until he agreed to list (at which point they dropped their competing product)
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-27 17:39:50+00:00
The industry cares about reasonable results not perfection.

If vibe coding delivers in one day, + an additional 2 days to solve stupid bugs, what you deliver with utter perfection in 3 months, then the industry doesn't give a shit about slop.

Is it maintainable? Well it's AI that's going to maintain it.

I think the future will turn into one where source code is like assembly code. Do you care about how your automated compiler system is spitting out assembly? Is the assembly code, neat and organized and maintainable? No. You don't care about assembly code. The industry is shifting in the direction where they don't care about ALL source code.
by nathan_compton | 2026-01-27 17:40:05+00:00
I don't think its any sort of "grand struggle" in any sense other than the human condition is a grand struggle for peace in a world which perhaps fundamentally encourages conflict, but it doesn't have to be a grand struggle to appreciate the fact that people are dying and being treated inhumanely.

I really do think you're fundamental warning is spot on: people really should consider how power is going to be used against them when calculating how much of it to give up in the pursuit of a goal. I also happen to think its sort of ridiculous (and impossible) for us all to wail and gnash our teeth each time a person dies unjustly. But I also think its probably wrong to be amused by it, even if it is commonplace in human affairs.
by amiga386 | 2026-01-27 17:40:17+00:00
Would you believe me if I said the police aren't worried about it because even if they put in the effort and catch thieves, they won't be prosecuted very hard. Since 2014, "low-value shoplifting" (under £200) in England and Wales can only be tried in the Magistrate's court and have a maximum sentence of 6 months (now ~1 year since 2024), no matter how many summary offenses you're convicted of. So if you steal under £200 of stuff, hundreds of times over, it's the same outcome. You'll be back on the street very soon.

The government is currently seeking to amend that:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/crime-and-policin...

> The bill will remove the perceived immunity granted to shop theft of goods to the value of £200 or less, by repealing Section 22A of the Magistrates’ Court Act 1980 and the legislation that inserted it (section 176 of Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014).

> This will ensure that all offences are tried as ‘general theft’ (an either way offence with a maximum custodial sentence of seven years), instead of summarily in the magistrates’ court, unless the defendant elects for jury trial

"Either-way" here means that the offence can be tried either as a summary or indictable offence; an indictable offence can carry much more serious penalties.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/12/section/176

> 22A (1) Low-value shoplifting is triable only summarily.
by dyingkneepad | 2026-01-27 17:40:27+00:00
To me the most painful switch was Gnome 2 to Gnome 3. I still miss Gnome 2.

I left Gnome 3 for other WMs (eventually settled on cinnamon), but every once in a while I decided to give Gnome 3 a try, just to be disappointed again. I felt like those people in abusive romantic relationships that keep coming back and divorcing over and over again. "Oh, Gnome has really changed now, he won't beat me again this time!".
by linkregister | 2026-01-27 17:40:54+00:00
You're most likely correct; I originally started writing this comment to refute your statement, but found that my assumptions appear to be wrong.

Americans have the nearly the highest nominal and PPP income of OECD countries as of 2024, only behind Luxembourg, Iceland, and Switzerland [1].

India experiences substantially higher shelter and food insecurity and poverty rates than the United States.

However, tech workers in Bangalore are paid an order of magnitude higher than prevailing local wages in other sectors, at around ₹2M (₹20 lakh) [2]. Median annual rents for 2BHK (2 bedroom) apartments appear to be around 1/10th of that figure at ₹3 lahk in desirable neighborhoods [3].

It appears to be reasonable for a technology worker to be able to perform a sustained strike. I have never personally traveled to Bangalore, though I have lived in places where cost of living is under a tenth of median American income.

I invite correction by people with first hand knowledge about cost of living in Bangalore.

1. https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/average-annual-wages...

2. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/median-te...

3. https://www.birlaevara.org.in/best-areas-in-bangalore-for-re...
by pacoWebConsult | 2026-01-27 17:41:00+00:00
WPF was full of footguns and rigid organization to alleviate said footguns. MVVM (Model, View, Viewmodel) architecture was so much boilerplate and toil to work with. It feels like the advent of Electron-based desktop apps caused MS to simply give up on the space.

I don't have too much experience with MAUI so I can't comment on that.

Blazor's initial bundle sizes made it quite difficult to consider as an option for web applications, despite the ability to share code between frontend and backend.

I still feel like the ASP.NET + Frontend SPA story has a long way to go compared to what is available in the fullstack typescript ecosystem right now. Shared typings between the frontend and backend via tools like tRPC/ oRPC, or full RSC/SSR frameworks like Next and TanStack start are just so much more ergonomic, but the backend TS story, especially in data access and ORMs is so much worse compared to Entity Framework. Prisma is abysmally slow, and Drizzle is getting there but IMO nothing right now compares to the power and DX of EF Core + Linq methods.
by plingamp | 2026-01-27 17:41:06+00:00
For what it's worth, everything was in a locked truck with no visible way of seeing any items.

From what I heard from others, apparently the thieves have a device that allows them to detect electronics (I had two laptops, cellphone, and a few other devices). I'm not sure how accurate this is, but i'm not sure why my car was the only one on the street that was targeted as there were no visible signs of valuables in the car (nothing visible from windows etc.) Funny part is a few weeks later nothing was found except for my Kindle which a kind citizen found and returned to me. Apparently thieves don't like to read?
by deskamess | 2026-01-27 17:41:23+00:00
I think there is a book (Chip War) about how the USSR did not effectively participate in staying at the edge of the semiconductor revolution. And they have suffered for it.

China has decided they are going to participate in the LLM/AGI/etc revolution at any cost. So it is a sunk cost, and the models are just an end product and any revenue is validation and great, but not essential. The cheaper price points keep their models used and relevant. It challenges the other (US, EU) models to innovate and keep ahead to justify their higher valuations (both monthly plan, and investor). Once those advances are made, it can be bought back to their own models. In effect, the currently leading models are running from a second place candidate who never gets tired and eventually does what they do at a lower price point.
by ryandrake | 2026-01-27 17:41:26+00:00
I'm waiting in morbid anticipation of the obvious next broken layer: They'll rename Windows to CopilotOS, and 90% of how you interact with the OS is through a LLM chat box. Of course, as is historically the case with Windows, there will be that 10% not brought into the new way, so you'll need to launch a traditional windows desktop+start menu to access that stuff. Just like 90% of the system today uses modern UI, but there's still that 10% using the legacy Windows look and feel, like the Run dialog and the Disk/Device manager.
by TonyStr | 2026-01-27 17:41:49+00:00
> ...based on a combination of the modification timestamp and if the filesize has changed

Oh that is interesting. I feel like the only way to get a better and more reliable solution to this would be to have the OS generate a hash each time the file changes, and store that in file metadata. This seems like a reasonable feature for an OS to me, but I don't think any OS does this. Also, it would force programs to rely on whichever hashing algorithm the OS uses.
by mrguyorama | 2026-01-27 17:41:49+00:00
Russia did not start this war after a rational and accurate assessment of reality.

Why do you believe they would rationally and accurately assess nuclear war probabilities?

The entire problem is that these leaders are fucking nuts, and surrounded by people who cannot defect from sycophancy to burst the stupidity bubble and bring people back to reality.

What would have saved Ukraine is actual support.

Arguably what would have been Ukraine's best bet is if they had substantial independent oil reserves that they could not tap alone. The USA would have "liberated" them years ago. Hell, Trump is literally going this direction now, demanding "mineral rights" to do what we should be doing already.
by creatonez | 2026-01-27 17:42:05+00:00
> has maybe 15 minutes allotted to getting to know you [...] Then you go again in two weeks with the same thing, it's a different doctor and the context has been reset

This is not how doctors work in most of the world. Not having an actual primary care physician that is able to keep track of each patient over multiple years means they are skipping out on one of their most important duties. You should advocate for a better standard of care rather than resorting to hallucinating chatbots.
by uecker | 2026-01-27 17:42:27+00:00
Wow, this is annoying. I really like Xfce, but there are plenty of minor things which would need improvements. Instead of fixing all these minor things, they waste a lot of their donations on a rewrite for Wayland / Rust - apparently for exactly the same reason as all the other Wayland stuff and Rust reworks. Developers like to write new code more than actually maintaining / improving fixing existing things and finds some excuses to do this.
by diffs | 2026-01-27 17:42:38+00:00
Like I said to the other person here, Netanyahu was acting in a private capacity as a civilian, not a representative or office holder of the government of Israel. It amazes me how you conspiracy nutters can't tell the difference.

You don't have a "theory". You worked backwards from your conclusion that "Israel = bad" and created an entirely false narrative that only sounds plausible in your own deluded head. Furthermore, you have absolutely no proof, obviously, for your conspiratorial ravings, so the most charitable description of your thoughts on the matter would be a "conjecture" not a "theory".

And I'm sorry but I don't care about your predictions.
by figmert | 2026-01-27 17:42:44+00:00
Not to whataboutism this, but I've barely heard pro-Palestinian crowd talk about the stuff Syria did to the Druze, the Alawites, and now to the Kurds.

Multiple of my friends on Instagram still post daily about the atrocities in Gaza, but haven't posted anything about the atrocities in Aleppo or Kobane. Nor did they post anything when the STG was massacring the Alawites or the Druze last year.

So I find it hard to believe that it's about the sanctions or whatnot.
by randusername | 2026-01-27 17:42:54+00:00
I would not be surprised if this started out totally unrelated to explosives. Say that some toddler spilled an entire 3 liters of grape soda all over the plane. Or a hypochondriac brought cleaning agents aboard and gave everyone a headache.

Mostly sarcasm, but man do I see this pattern a lot. The risk mitigation apparatus is called in for something, they see an opportunity to overgeneralize and prevent an entire new category of potential mishaps, and the everyday folk end up really confused trying to reconcile the rules with their intent.

Reminds me of the parable about the bench guards. Is there an aphorism for this?
by augusteo | 2026-01-27 17:42:57+00:00
The limiting factor at work isn't writing code anymore. It's deciding what to build and catching when things go sideways.

We've been running agent workflows for a while now. The pattern that works: treat agents like junior team members. Clear scope, explicit success criteria, checkpoints to review output. The skills that matter are the same ones that make someone a good manager of people.

pglevy is right that many managers aren't good at this. But that's always been true. The difference now is that the feedback loop is faster. Bad delegation to an agent fails in minutes, not weeks. You learn quickly whether your instructions were clear.

The uncomfortable part: if your value was being the person who could grind through tedious work, that's no longer a moat. Orchestration and judgment are what's left.
by FiniteField | 2026-01-27 17:43:00+00:00
US immigration policy was explicitly racist from its founding up until the Hart Cellar act of 1965. Assuming that the 2016 election of Donald Trump is your benchmark for when immigration policy became determined by racists again, then the US's immigration policy was non-racist for 51 of the last 251 (and counting) years, or 20% of its history.

Safe to say that the 1990s "End of History" theory has been proven wrong. It may be that the ~1960s-2010s "post-national" political consensus was actually just a historical aberration that is still in the process of being unwound.
by InsideOutSanta | 2026-01-27 17:43:58+00:00
LLMs made them twice as efficient: with just one release, they're burning tokens and their reputation.

It's kinda mindblowing. What even is the purpose of this? It's not like this is some post on the vibecoding subreddit, this is fricken Cloudflare. Like... What the hell is going on in there?
by ksec | 2026-01-27 17:43:59+00:00
>They can each give TSMC $10b now in cash and guarantee themselves wafers in 2-3 years that it takes to bring a new fab online.

This has always been the case. And the article is not well written, but generally speaking everything written about TSMC or any sort of manufacturing has been wrong most of the time.

Just ask Intel on what happen if they overbuilt capacity and their node didn't work. The most expensive Fab isn't the most advance one, but the empty one.

As a matter of fact, if everyone wants it so bad TSMC could bring up a whole new foundry within 18 months. With lots of pre-planning and assuming Taiwan Government in full support. The trouble is not a single big tech company are willing to bet it all by themselves either. Not until now.
by stevekemp | 2026-01-27 17:44:00+00:00
It was only a couple of years ago since I wrote an assembly language program of my own and got hit by branching-limits on the Z80 processor.

I did exactly the same things that were suggested in this article, either inverted conditionals, or had a thunk - essentially "jmp nextJump", where that jumped to the actual location.

I sometimes spent a few hours shuffling code around to remove the longer jumps and re-order code in groups closer together to save individual bytes.
by drob518 | 2026-01-27 17:44:04+00:00
Those are exotic parts that would have to be manufactured specially. You don’t buy them off the shelf. They are costly to procure and difficult to work with. One doesn’t just load up the 3d printer and push Go. To be clear, I’m sure a homemade gun can be passed through a metal detector checkpoint, but that requires some real thought and skill. More than likely, the real weak link at the checkpoint is not the detector “seeing” the gun but the half-asleep agent missing it, given the red-teaming results which show even very traditional firearms have a good chance of slipping through.
by zephen | 2026-01-27 17:44:14+00:00
Sure, it really depends on the use-case.

If people are really technical, then a language subset is fine.

If they're not really technical, then you might need a separate utility to manipulate the config file, and XML is OK if you need a separate utility. There are readers/writers available in every language, and it's human readable enough for debugging, but if a non-technical human mistakenly edits it, it might take some repair to make it usable again.

Even if you've decided on a separate config language, there are a lot of reasons why you might want to use something other than XML. The header/key/value system (e.g. the one that .gitconfig and a lot of /etc files use) remains popular.

I could be wrong, but it always seemed to me that XML was pushed as a doc/interchange format, and its use in config files was driven by "I already have this hammer and I know how to use it."
by bee_rider | 2026-01-27 17:44:36+00:00
If you live in MA the standard options are Star Market and Stop and Shop, right? New England supermarket chains are already perfect.

I think the comment you are replying to is playing up a specific characteristic of, like, deep-in-the-city NYC (it looks like Wegmans has a place in downtown Manhattan?). I also read it as slightly tongue-in-cheek. People in NYC know what grocery stores look like, I think. They just don’t fit in dense areas.
by toyg | 2026-01-27 17:44:55+00:00
I don't disagree, and I would add that the court system is so clogged up that one might not even end up behind bars at all - because by the time the hearing is finally scheduled, the perp might well be on another continent.

Still, the public would appreciate some effort - if anything to actually get some of their stuff back, if not to inconvenience thieves.
by YZF | 2026-01-27 17:45:13+00:00
Most western a world governments don't fund Israel and yet people there seem to "care" a lot. I don't think your argument holds water. Many western governments trade with Iran and support the oppressive regime there in direct. The US also funds Egypt which is another oppressive regime where there's no human rights. It supports Saudi Arabia that chops up journalists.

Your logic doesn't hold because it never held. The reason people "care" about Palestine is that they've been manipulated to care.

The logical thing would be for the American population to stand with Israel when it's being attacked. That would be the normal default. Like the rest of the world supported the US when it was attacked on 9/11. What we're seeing is the collapse of logic and truth and the win of propaganda campaigns and lies.