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We're highly competitive
Or even: lots of free snacks! But a voice in company decisions, or notice before termination? No no, that doesn't increase ROI.
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We're highly competitive
Or even: lots of free snacks! But a voice in company decisions, or notice before termination? No no, that doesn't increase ROI.
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Meta strikes deal with Zuckerberg to help him foot billionaire tax bill
Zuckerberg, worth $239bn according to Forbes, told Meta he was considering moving his primary residence elsewhere because Prop 40 could expose him to a massive tax liability, potentially forcing him to sell voting shares to pay it. In response, Meta is creating a new class of non-voting shares via a two-for-one stock split for all existing shareholders. This will allow Zuckerberg to sell some of this new class C shares to pay a potential tax bill, without diluting his control of the company.
How scummy.
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Self-hosting Doesn't Actually Save You Money, And The People Who Promise It Does Are Setting Beginners Up To Quit
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Exactly — money is not the only cost nor benefit. It's fun, it gives me control, it's not going to get acquired and trashed, etc.
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‘This Is Not a Drill’: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the Internet on Fire
Sounds like a reminder to (a) migrate off PHP wherever possible, and,
“The vulnerabilities can allow unauthenticated attackers to execute code on affected servers or read sensitive process memory,” Wiz writes in its research. “That memory may contain passwords, authentication tokens, API keys and certificates belonging to other requests or the server itself.”
Keep your server processes sandboxed / running as a dedicated user.
And if you don't actually need dynamic rendering (looking at most WordPress installations), use a static site generator (Jekyll, Hugo, etc).
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Linus Torvalds posts his first AI-assisted patch to the Linux kernel, synthetic test clocks 23x performance leap — the bossman makes use of AI tooling himself after issuing clear pro-AI directives
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Human review of AI is sufficient in theory, but in practice it's never as thorough as the understanding you get writing it yourself. It's hard to avoid AI, but it is a constant invitation to laziness.
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Linus Torvalds posts his first AI-assisted patch to the Linux kernel, synthetic test clocks 23x performance leap — the bossman makes use of AI tooling himself after issuing clear pro-AI directives
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The auto-generated memories I've seen it create are pretty inane: "always name variables container_ when in MySpecificClass". Not really learning engineering principles.
Similar, I've found AGENT.md files might nudge it in the right direction, but as always it's a fuzzy matcher, not a learning engineer.
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Where there's a will...
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I would be delighted for my Volvo to stop popping up a full-screen "try Gemini" page while I'm driving.
But yes, I would rather not brick the infotainment.
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Made some sourdough loaves for my Dungeons and Dragons group.
Impressive consistency!
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A5 is a geospatial index that partitions the world into pentagonal cells. The cells are available at 31 resolution levels, from a handful covering the whole world down to less than 30mm²
Don't we have a bunch of these already, not least lat/lon rounded down to some precision? Why another?
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Canadian man shot, killed on U.S. golf trip while walking to hotel
That's horrible.
Also, why would anyone visit the US at this point?
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Air Force major risks everything with public call to impeach Trump and Vance
Newsweek has an image, credited to YouTube/Jessica Denson:
There's a Spotfund by "DOOR LLC", I'm not familiar with the platform or the sponsor.
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Wahiawa dam failure in progress or expected! Do not wait if you are in Haleiwa or Wahiawa. Get to higher ground now!
Affected folks probably know, but: near Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Wikimedia Foundation refuses voluntary union recognition, hires union-busting law firm
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I think I'll stop my donations. Nothing gets executives' attention like dropping revenue. I read a lot of exec responses to employee dissatisfaction at other big tech companies that basically said 'too bad if a bunch of you are unhappy, the company is doing great so we're right, you can leave.'
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Sanders Says 'Not Another Penny' for ICE Until Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller Are Gone
I was with you until "until." Abolish ICE.
Though that may be the most incremental progress Bernie expects to be possible.
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stages of mitosis
The hair clips are a nice detail.
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Guntron (2008-04-23)
Green guy does not look thrilled to be next.
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Hugging Face: We Used AI to Catch the First Confirmed AI Agent Breach of a Major AI Platform
Many of the most practical uses I've heard for AI are cleaning up messes AI caused.
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Big Tech slapped with $3.5bn in fines for using your personal data to train AI — and 'it could be only the beginning,' warns Surfshark
While these fines may seem exorbitant, it is worrying that the financial impact of such punishments rarely acts as a deterrent to these large technology companies, whose market capitalisation runs into the hundreds of billions of dollars.
Yeah. We need the equivalent of the giant "stop work" stickers that get plastered on a building's front door when construction doesn't have a permit. Otherwise it's just another operating cost to pass along to VCs/users.
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House Democrats ensure funding of Trump’s global military rampage and domestic dictatorship
Twenty-one Republicans—primarily from the fascistic House Freedom Caucus—voted against the bill. The Democrats responded by supplying the exact number of votes needed to offset Republican defections.
Were the Republicans just unwilling to accept the reduced ICE budget, or actually against it?
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U.S. farmers face $31 billion in losses as Iran war drives diesel and fertilizer costs up
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A clear case of