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osnews
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 (1y ago)

How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2
The headline sets the stage, and the article delivers. This was the most interesting bug I’ve encountered for a while. I initially had a hard time believing that a bug like this would directly tie to a specific OS release, but I was proven completely wrong. At the end of the day, it was a simple bug in San Andreas and this function should have never worked right, and yet, at least on PC it hid i … ⌘ Read more

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bender
twtxt.net
 (1y ago)

“Here’s what we do know: After their meeting ended and Vice President Vance left the room, the pope was still alive. We can deduce that he was alive, because he was heard asking an assistant, “Ho appena incontrato il volto del diavolo?” which roughly translates to, “Have I just encountered the face of the devil?” It’s a very common question that has been asked in many languages after encounters with JD Vance.”

I couldn’t help but chuckling a bit while reading.

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prologic
twtxt.net
 (1y ago)

Regex Isn’t Hard - Tim Kellogg 👈 this is a pretty good conscience article on regexes, and I agree, regex isn’t that hard™ – However I think I can make the TL;DR even shorter 😅

Regex core subset (portable across languages):

Character sets
• a matches “a”
• [a-z] any lowercase
• [a-zA-Z0-9] alphanumeric
• [^ab] any char but a or b

Repetition (applies to the preceding atom)
• ? zero or one
• * zero or more
• + one or more

Groups
• (ab)+ matches “ab”, “abab”, …
• Capture for extract/substitute via $1 or \1

Operators
• foo|bar = foo or bar
• ^ start anchor
• $ end anchor

Ignore non‑portable shortcuts: \w, ., {n}, *?, lookarounds.

#regex101

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hashtable
feeds.twtxt.net
 (1y ago)

Droits de douane : ce n’est qu’un souci de passage pour les actions de qualité
Un article de Henry Bonner De nouveau en déplacement en Amérique, de l’État de New York au Nord-Est, à l’État de Virginie dans le partie du sud, le pays me laisse l’opportunité de la réflexion sur le rôle des mœurs et des coutumes dans la création de richesse et dans la prospérité. Mon lieu de […] ⌘ Read more

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osnews
feeds.twtxt.net
 (1y ago)

A threat model for opposing authoritarianism
A decade ago, I published a book on privacy “Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance.” In the book, and since then, in articles and speeches, I have been dispensing advice to people on how to protect their privacy. But my advice did not envision the moment we are in – where the government would collaborate with a tech CEO to strip-mine all of our data from government databases and use i … ⌘ Read more

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osnews
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 (1y ago)

Why is there a “small house” in IBM’s Code Page 437?
There’s a small house ( ⌂ ) in the middle of IBM’s infamous character set Code Page 437. “Small house”—that’s the official IBM name given to the glyph at code position 0x7F, where a control character for “Delete” (DEL) should logically exist. It’s cute, but a little strange. I wonder, how did it get there? Why did IBM represent DEL as a house, of all things? ↫ Heikki Lotvonen Don’t waste any time here, and go read the article. It’ … ⌘ Read more

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bender
twtxt.net
 (1y ago)
↳ In-reply-to » Based on a recent study of the brains of mice I estimated the human brain to have 200B cells/neurons and 50,000T connections. We have several orders of magnitude to go before we reach that kind of scale with these fucking stupid Big LLMs 🤣 And the best part of all? 🧐 It is estimated that the human brain only consumes the equivalent of 5 Watts of power !!! 🤣🤣🤣

One article assigning a draw of 20 watts to the human brain.

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hashtable
feeds.twtxt.net
 (1y ago)

Nicolas, 35 ans, découvre les urgences à la française
Un article à 4 mains écrit par h16 & Citronne Nicolas, 35 ans, marié, et père de deux enfants (de 5 et 8 ans), vit un quotidien familial plutôt paisible et des week-ends rythmés par les activités extra-scolaires des deux marmots. Cette année, alors qu’Emma pratique la danse, pour Léo, la question se pose encore : […] ⌘ Read more

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luke_smiths_blog
feeds.twtxt.net
 (1y ago)

Science of the Gaps
Mainstream science is overrated.
Most of the reason it feels so effective and all-explaining is a cognitive illusion.
Most people overestimate how solvent scientific consensus actually is.

I saw Joe Rogan’s recent interview of Mel Gibson.

Gibson said that he was a creationist and didn’t believe in evolution.
Joe pushed back a bit, saying that mainstream science had found remnants of putatively proto-humans.

Here is a snippet of Mel’s response and the back and forth:

Mel: Yeah maybe t … ⌘ Read more

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luke-smith
feeds.twtxt.net
 (1y ago)

Science of the Gaps
Mainstream science is overrated.
Most of the reason it feels so effective and all-explaining is a cognitive illusion.
Most people overestimate how solvent scientific consensus actually is.

I saw Joe Rogan’s recent interview of Mel Gibson.

Gibson said that he was a creationist and didn’t believe in evolution.
Joe pushed back a bit, saying that mainstream science had found remnants of putatively proto-humans.

Here is a snippet of Mel’s response and the back and forth:

Mel: Yeah maybe t … ⌘ Read more

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bender
twtxt.net
 (1y ago)
↳ In-reply-to » I am not interested at all. If I want to interact/socialise/whatever on the Fediverse (which I do), I simply use it. I would like to keep twtxt separate.

Adding to this, we already tried. It didn’t go too well. Slightly related—because it is a third party “integration”—I might be a “smaller group” member, but I don’t care much about one-way feeds (mostly RSS from blogs, news articles, etc.) either.

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