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Re:Spotify just hit 300M Premium subscribers on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @01:16PM (#49171875)
Time to switch? I went from spotify to tidal and am very happy. This script basically ported everything for me for free. https://github.com/spotify2tidal/spotify_to_tidal
Re:The AI risk is inside the labs on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @03:47PM (#49088963)
Where did you get those stats? 50 people is way too low, even with the sneaky qualifier of "outside its borders".
Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph on Sunday July 19, 2026 @04:20AM (#48965980)
And what was the alternative to stack overflow before AI?

People were desperate for an alternative, and ran with the first semi-viable one that emerged.

AI is arguably worse than SO for precision. It will hallucinate, and agree with you when you're wrong. But stack overflow is so unwelcoming to newcomers that people switched anyway.

Containers don't even really help that much because they share the host file system. Need a VM, and even then, agents have escaped them!
Re:Reform UK leader 'in real trouble' against Count Binface on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @02:20PM (#48835419)
We have Luke Ming Flanagan in Ireland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_%27Ming%27_Flanagan

AFAIK named after the character "Ming The Merciless"

Started off as a student campaigning against his landlord, and for cannabis legalisation. Now he's in European parliament!

Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars on Sunday June 14, 2026 @02:32PM (#48530881)
Very disappointing.

1. This is a strawman. Mention a startup but not what it does. Wave your hands at growth as much as you want, but it doesn't prove you didn't hurt anyone to make your billion. I think people would find it quite easy to pick apart the actual named companies like AirBnB, Facebook, Apple, Google. Lots of people got hurt by these companies in the name of growth and profit.

2. The distinction between having and earning a billion is irrelevant. You make a billion? Cool, now stop. Give someone else a slice of the supposedly infinite pie. We. Are. Starving.

Re:The Kimwolf Botnet Is Stalking Your Local Network on Saturday January 03, 2026 @01:53AM (#46473412)
Very interesting! A tutorial to check if kimwolf is running on your network would be nice
Re:Roc Camera on Friday October 24, 2025 @02:17AM (#45691426)
My understanding is it can't. The proof is "this photo was taken with this real camera and is unmodified". There's no way to know if the photo subject is another image generated by AI, or a painting made by a human etc.
Re:Jeff Geerling – They stole my voice with AI on Sunday September 22, 2024 @03:11AM (#41615197)
Doesn't this have an obvious edge case for every singer from now on though? If your voice is cloned before you become a singer of renown you have no protection.
Re:Dotfiles: Unofficial Guide to Dotfiles on GitHub on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @05:19PM (#40302816)
I use yadm too but I found the differences between versions a bit tricky. The upgrade scripts didn't quite work, although I did try to jump from v1 to v3
Re:Dotfiles: Unofficial Guide to Dotfiles on GitHub on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @05:18PM (#40302799)
I use yadm too but I found the changes between versions a bit tricky. The upgrade scripts didn't quite work, although I did try to jump from v1 to v3
Re:Meta outage on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @11:28AM (#39605705)
What a poor bunch of overworked human beings, with almost no control over the product they work on. Frantically following the whims of managers, reduced to labour units in this late stage capitalist hellscape.
Re:Money bubble on Sunday March 03, 2024 @04:47AM (#39579734)
What about when the LLM inevitably hallucinates a plausible but incorrect answer?
Re:Netlify just sent me a $104K bill for a simple static site on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @02:47AM (#39521285)
Does this issue only occur if you have billing info on file?

I'm using the free tier and have no billing info set. According to this https://github.com/netlify/ask-netlify/issues/6#issuecomment... > if you have an event that puts you over the free-tier limits, Netlify will ask you to update your billing information and add a CC

Although worryingly > We just had this happen and our site didn't stop working.

Is there any way to ensure if you hit the limit sites just stop working and you don't get billed?

Re:Researchers find signs of intelligence among jumping spiders on Thursday January 25, 2024 @04:47AM (#39127823)
As soon as it mentioned intelligent spiders I was thinking "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25499718-children-of-tim...
Re:The pro-Israel information war on Saturday December 09, 2023 @02:37AM (#38579596)
You seem to ignore the fact that hamas was elected in 2006 and has indefinitely postponed elections since then. Given the demographics most Palestinians weren't even alive when hamas was elected.
Re:Omegle founder shuts down site forever? on Thursday November 09, 2023 @05:05AM (#38203087)
The Doo and Marcus Veltri too. So many world class musicians show up randomly on omegle
Re:Dotfiles Matter on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @04:38AM (#37671826)
I've been working around this using tools built on top of git like [yadm](https://github.com/TheLocehiliosan/yadm) and relying on `ls-files` to list all my tracked dotfiles and their paths.

Still having everything in one place would make things much simpler. Great idea!

Re:Layoffs.fyi on Sunday September 17, 2023 @04:57AM (#37542958)
Site isn't mobile friendly. Graphs overflow without a scrollbar to see all the content. I prefer https://www.trueup.io/layoffs
Re:USPS Isn't Paying 45,000 Rural Postal Workers This Week on Sunday September 03, 2023 @04:55PM (#37374481)
Other engineers don't take direct responsibility either. I've never heard of an individual engineer getting sued because a rocket they worked on exploded, or a bridge they built collapsed.

Plenty of tech companies do post mortems. This is almost certainly a failure of management. If a single engineer caused this, the process is broken.

What the tech industry needs is professional indemnity insurance and competent management.

Re:We Need Scientific Dissidents Now More Than Ever on Saturday August 12, 2023 @04:23AM (#37098169)
Great article but I have a critique:

It's odd to put the introduction of hand washing at hospitals in 1800s Vienna and doubt over mask effectiveness against the spread of covid19 in the same category. They seem like opposites to me.

Sure they're both going against the scientific consensus of the time but there are some key differences.

In both cases, people don't want to change their behavior, but questioning masks is on the side of doing nothing.

There are no downsides to wearing a mask. When there's a new disease and we're not sure how to slow it's progress, but we have something that might help with no downside i.e. mask wearing, might as well try it right? And in retrospect it's pretty clear it was effective.

During the pandemic, I'd rather see scientists coming up with new more effective measures than squabbling over whether the existing measures are effective.

I got this too! For an extension that doesn't even work anymore after manifest v3
Re:My Favorite Vim Oneliners for Text Manipulation on Sunday August 06, 2023 @05:46AM (#37020416)
I also thought this one was weird. I'd just use wc.
Re:Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @02:07PM (#36882196)
I'm writing this on firefox for android. It has 100M+ downloads on the play store.
`git standup` to dump my commits from yesterday, or Friday if today is Monday. https://gist.github.com/ConorSheehan1/f6da062b536c633622e1aa...