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France bids to suspend Shein over childlike sex dolls

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Calm down dude, not everyone expressing an opinion is automatically a pedo. I also get enraged to a thought of a child getting hurt, but don't lose your brain. Like you could have argued that the doll is not where a pedo would stop, it would encourage him to move on, or that a doll like that existing is normalizing pedophilia, but instead you raged out. Censoring exchange of opinion does the opposite of preventing pedophilia. Instead, I'd be interested in a study that would explore whether having dolls/cartoons etc would do anything to decrease the number of child molestation in any meaningful way. If not - I'm on board for banning stuff like this. This argument against banning dolls, though not being particularly strong, does express some logic. Your comment actually does more harm than good by jumping the gun so hard, IMO.

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Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they worked hard for it(including waiting 24 hours)

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It would affect a lot of users, then it will indirectly affect you too, as a lot of devs won't be as interested in maintaining their apps for so few users. But I hope it will at least give a bit of a push to developing postmarket os. I personally am sure going to get a second hand phone to install postmarketos too and hope I can contribute at least a little bit. I am prepared to suffer, at least a little bit for the right cause.

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Do you host your own AI?

I do, but I am becoming increasingly more disappointed as time goes on. Not just self hosted, llms in general. They sometimes help, but they mislead so many times and waste time that you don't even notice. I think that's the trap. When you succeed at a task, you become impressed but don't notice how many times it failed doing a simple task. And as soon as you scratch the surface, you see how you would have done it differently and perhaps in a better way. Even just googling is bad. It does research for you, but it has no critical thinking and can't decide what is better from the results it gets (other than google ranking) so it often leads you to think it did as good as you would, when it's nowhere near as good. Every time I did the googling myself after it did, I did it much better. And I mean MUCH better. Ask it to find the app, it misses the most important ones, hallucinates a bunch, for ex. I found this to be the case with frontier models as well.

Self hosting has its benefits, but seeing how the ecosystem looks right now, concluding this is a huge bubble is inevitable. It reminds me of crypto so much. It looks rich and plentiful, but as soon as you dig a mm under the surface - nobody has tested it, it's got a critical bug, it is overblown and there are issues with no response. No docs, no info, no nothing. For the biggest thing in technology in history, it is awfully hollow. I don't mean it in a condescending way, in fact community is enthusiastic and very helpful, it's just that it doesn't live up to what most would expect.

A caveat I need to mention is I have not used it for coding - I have an irrational fear and resistance towards it, being a programmer. I just won't touch it, even if it means the end of my career. I'm trying to be grown-up about it, but so far, I dont want to use it, for good and bad reasons.

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Surge in Systemd forks after the latest changes

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That is not the point. If it was so logical to add, why add it now, when you know it is controversial? The devs are aware of the controversy, they have made a political decision to do it this way. At the very least, they could've handled it with more care - as sensitive matters should. Turning a blind eye and pretending this is business as usual is very insulting. To me at least, and I'm sure to most who care. If you do this during "the surveillance state paranoia", you have to be aware you are contributing to more of it.

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What causes this type of surface defects

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This might be thermistor losing contact with the block or wires losing contact. It can also be the heater wires losing contact somewhere. To diagnose, you can try and wiggle the wires when you preheat the hotend and watch the temps. Then you will know what needs replacing. I once had a thermistor that was faulty, I replaced it, the problem went away.

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Where Rust Has the Edge Over Go

Is it just me or does comparing go and rust make very little sense? Other than being popular and relatively new, they have almost nothing else in common. Rust is multi domain language design to be as versatile as possible, very intentionally limited with a set of carefully chosen constraints. Not intended to be particularly easy or quick to use, by design. Go is very clearly web-biased, centered for backend, microservices, not universal by design. Syntax very C like, verbose, feels low level, but actually batteries included. Really, the only thing in common with rust is that it is very popular with developers, but again for very different reasons. People who like rust often hate go and vice versa. You can tell by the comments in this thread too.