N’oublions jamais.

www.youtube.com/shorts/FA_rJRQ2N44

I'm sitting my citizenship test straight after the interview next Thursday. Do you think they'll make me skull a can of VB?

Just like having buying and selling things is not necessarily capitalism, an organization that gets and spends money is not necessarily a company.

yes, of course, but it’s not a business model. Which means decisions aren’t driven by profit. The issue isn’t about money, it’s how/why it flows

Wikipedia is proof you are wrong, it is possible to run large-scale services with no profit

@davidgerard granted I haven't read the article yet but I would've thought the problem was the Chinese spy and potential collusion into selling chips to China, rather than the affair, so a second in-house (lol) affair wouldn't mean much.

At the same time, one company I worked at had their CEO step down because he got the head of HR pregnant

@amiserabilist @Shelfie @Shivviness @wendinoakland @julianlawson @huxley @internetsdairy @TwoClownsEating

We might solve all of the world's problems

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

We know… we were there.

Avian Intelligence Agents

Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/078.html#bonus

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

@TheBreadmonkey

@Shelfie could describe how that would go.

actually so could @Shivviness

@wendinoakland @julianlawson @huxley @internetsdairy @TwoClownsEating

My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site

...in their training data. Of course. The agents got left behind, as usual.

#algernonReviewsHackerNews

@dtm I get ya!

✨ c a t ✨ #Cats #MastoCats #catsofmastodon

Weird thought.

I am building a codebase. I am getting *weird* errors. Multiple of them. Errors that don't quite make sense.

I believe I am building with C++17. Some of the errors would be less strange if I were targeting some other C++ standard.

Is there some way to get my code to "leak" the C++ standard? Something like

#error __cplusplus

That doesn't work. I *can* do this

#if __cplusplus == 201703L
#error Success
#endif

This errors success! But if it hadn't, I sure would be lost.

@miffyhelen

Also.......

Bins

Sources: Scott Bessent confronted Howard Lutnick last week over the Commerce Dept. not adding Megaspeed to the Entity List; Commerce denies the confrontation (Axios)

https://www.axios.com/2026/11/11/bessent-lutnick-megaspeed-nvidia-china-chips
http://www.techmeme.com/261111/p45#a261111p45

La Manie Du Cinéma met les points sur les "i" :

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XQ2mVktPZmc