So far this year there have been 11 Chromium vulnerabilities serious enough to warrant Debian stable patches. Surely there must be a better way to make software so that it doesn't have these bugs in the first place. Not hating because obviously the Chrome people are smarter/more experienced than me, but there are *so many* security updates on the relatively few packages I have on my Debian stable system that I do not think our processes for writing software are coping with software complexity
@nytpu I have never played it but I remember enjoying this playthrough by someone who is legitimately terrified the entire time
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBitIgZ_UvGEx6lLfQRSOalhLJ57D6t0d 
YouTubeThe existence of Silicon Valley guys is one reason why I can't be a "let people enjoy things" person. Like this kind of soulless Rationalist person genuinely needs to be sent to reeducation camps to learn how to be an empathetic human and stop worshipping Bayes' theorem and waiting for the second coming of Skynet
Very funny to see Hacker News people up in arms about the UK removing hereditary peers from Parliament. It quickly spiraled into a discussion about how the U.S. Senate should be unelected and how democracy is a mistake. This is supposed to be a forum for "hacker" types? Anti-authority, anti-establishment? I really should spend less time there it really is full of loathsome people
Update: Found a good C++ bindings generator for GObject-based libraries (
https://gitlab.gnome.org/bugaevc/peel) and things are much better. Smart pointers handle reference counting and you can use a language that actually supports object-oriented programming
Sergey Bugaev / peel · GitLab
Modern C++ bindings for GObject-based libraries, including GTK and GStreamer
Feeling pretty dispirited. Seems like psychopathy, slaughter, and anti-intellectualism are rewarded endlessly, while any resistance gets crushed easily. There is no organized opposition in the U.S. to fascism and the fascists seem determined to obliterate the world for fun. I know I am complicit (being asocial and mostly on the computer all day) but genuinely don't know what to do anymore. Feels like we've missed off ramp after off ramp and are barreling full speed into a brick wall
@nytpu I'm not sure I've ever seen a leftist praise the feudal society in Dune (for obvious ideological reasons). I think some leftists are somewhat jokingly in favor of the anti-thinking-machines taboo specifically (which is also a silly position since it includes every kind of computer no matter how useful and not just "killer robots"). But I don't think anyone with left-wing beliefs wants Dune's political system because it is so obviously in violation of every left-wing belief
@khm I think it might also be LLM-generated code. Has a weird "features" list comment no human would write, and has "(Corrected)" after the title, which smells like "I fed this multiple times through an LLM"
@khm How should non-tech people organize then? All of the methods of mass communication that are accessible to most people fit those criteria
Testing out the YouTube API's live chat message fetching on a Call of Duty stream. Seems to be working!
