"Vibe coding isn't real engineering." Cool. I just did a 2 hour CDN overhaul that cut bandwidth by 99%, dropped costs from $12K to $200/month at scale, and required zero backend changes. While you're gatekeeping, we're shipping. Stay skeptical. It's a competitive advantage for us. W @Cloudflare

Today I had to go the Netherlands Embassy to renew my passport and had to print a form I was wondering why my new Brother printer kept printing everything double sided? So I tried to disable it in the printer's own display menu where it's hidden 6 levels deep: > Settings -> All Settings -> Printer -> 2-sided -> 2-sided Print -> Off But it still printed everything double-sided, then I Googled and discovered it's a forced default by the European Union, of course for 🍃 Eco reasons: "To comply with EU ecolabel, the default setting is expected to be duplex (double-sided) in new printers sold in the EU since 2022” I then discovered it's defaulted at both levels, AGAIN in the printer's drivers too, where you have to disable double-sided too on MacOS, again hidden 6 levels deep: > System Settings -> Printers & Scanners -> Brother -> Options & Supplies -> Driver -> Disable duplex Realistically few people will go 2 menus 6 levels deep to disable this and are just stuck with printers that print double-sided in the European Union This is another example of their famous "nudging", they don't make it impossible to print like a normal printer, they just make it highly annoying and difficult for most people to change the defaults Thank you @vonderleyen, very cool!

The organizer of the effort to kick out the founder of Ruby on Rails is sad because people have overwhelmingly responded in support of the targeted founder (@dhh). The protest organizer, James Smith, stated: “So far though, my experience has been that there are many more negative responses than positive.” “That makes me sad. 😢” James Smith also stated that the petition is getting angry comments. “Looks like it’s pissing off the right people,” he stated. A sample of those “angry comments” is in the screenshots.

Building a business model that scales with FOSS adoption is really quite hard for most popular works in our ecosystem. It means building totally separate products / platforms / marketplaces / labor-intensive services IN ADDITION to the demands of running a popular OSS project

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Looks like the team at Microsoft which has been pushing most of the performance improvements in the last few Python releases has also been laid off. These included changes like the specialising interpreter, the JIT compiler, improvements to the GC, stackrefs, all of which has significantly improved the performance of Python.

on deep research, chatgpt is still undeniably the best, 52 minutes of research and close to a book of information skimming through it, it seems all accurate genuinely a mind-blowing product