brisk

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[–] brisk@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Cotton bud, cotton swab, ear bud

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] brisk@aussie.zone 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

The article title (now?) has a second line which IMO is important to include in the headline. The whole title is currently:

Trump Named Delcy Rodríguez Venezuela’s Interim President and a US Partner in Governing the Country

Two Hours Later, She Publicly Rejected Washington, Called It an Aggressor, and Reaffirmed Loyalty to Nicolás Maduro

From the article:

US president Donald Trump said that Delcy Rodriguez had been sworn in as Venezuela’s interim president and had agreed to act in partnership with Washington—effectively allowing the United States to run the country.

“In essence, she is prepared to do what we believe is necessary to make Venezuela great again,” Trump said.

Less than two hours later, Rodriguez, who had previously served as vice-president under Nicolas Maduro, delivered a televised address to Venezuelans in which she made clear that she regarded the United States as an illegal occupier whose actions must be rejected.

“We are determined to be free,” she said. “What is being done to Venezuela is barbarism.”

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Straight up theft, then

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago

This article I came across convincingly disputes the idea that JIS is meaningfully different from other cross head standards. I do not have access to the standards myself to corroborate.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wikipedia disputes the claim of cam out being deliberate

The design is often criticized for its tendency to cam out at lower torque levels than other "cross head" designs. There has long been a popular belief that this was a deliberate feature of the design, to assemble aluminium aircraft without overtightening the fasteners.[15]: 85 [16] There is no good evidence for this suggestion, and the property is not mentioned in the original patents.[17]

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Looks like it was accurate at its peak in 2008

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

I've recently started a handful of projects exploring the rust gui ecosystem and the experience has been... disappointing.

  • The most mature native library I've seen is Druid, which is deprecated in favour of Xilem. Xilem is highly experimental.

  • Slint is somehow used by several industry partners, yet is incapable of rendering flowing text documents, and only just brought in text formatting (via Xilem's text library oddly enough).

  • Egui seems a bit more capable, but it has the usual downsides of immediate mode gui without any of the typical upsides (you can't intermingle gui elements with logic, the gui has to all go in one place).

  • Dioxus is reasonably capable but is absolutely webtech focused, which seems likely anathema to Op.

  • Iced I haven't used beyond hello world, and I didn't enjoy that experience.

AFAICT the most mature rust gui libraries are the rust bindings for C's GTK and C++'s Qt.

I also - somewhat controversially - disagree with "very well documented". Rust projects consistently have published API references - which is great! The actual quality of the API references is mixed. Actual documentation - such as intended usage, common patterns, design intent - are much more sparse. Of the GUI libraries I listed, only Dioxus and Slint come close.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've used GTK and WxWidgets for C programs. GTK is more powerful but takes longer to get used to its idioms as I recall

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Website violates GDPR by requiring a subscription to reject cookies.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What on earth is "share.google"?

 

If you’ve been around, you might’ve noticed that our relationships with programs have changed.

Older programs were all about what you need: you can do this, that, whatever you want, just let me know. You were in control, you were giving orders, and programs obeyed.

But recently (a decade, more or less), this relationship has subtly changed. Newer programs (which are called apps now, yes, I know) started to want things from you.

 

There is an ongoing trend in the industry to move people away from username and password towards passkeys. The intentions here are good, and I would assume that this has a significant net benefit for the average consumer. At the same time, the underlying standard has some peculiarities. These enable behaviors by large corporations, employers, and governments that are worth thinking about.

 
 

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices. Not only is the company reintroducing new versions of old features which would allow police to request footage directly from Ring users, it is also introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices.

 

The GSM Association announced that the latest RCS standard includes E2EE based on the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol, enabling interoperable encryption between different platform providers for the first time.

 

Highlights:

Krishnan told Ars that "Meta is trying to have it both ways, but its assertion that Unfollow Everything 2.0 would violate its terms effectively concedes that Zuckerman faces what the company says he does not—a real threat of legal action."

For users wanting to take a break from endless scrolling, it could potentially meaningfully impact mental health—eliminating temptation to scroll content they did not choose to see, while allowing them to remain connected to their networks and still able to visit individual pages to access content they want to see.

According to Meta, its terms of use prohibit automated access to users' personal information not just by third parties but by individual users, as a means of protecting user privacy. Meta urged the court to reject Zuckerman's claim that Meta's terms violate California privacy laws by making it hard for users to control their data. Instead, Meta said the court should agree with a prior court that "rejected the argument that California law 'espous[es] a principle of user control of data sufficient to invalidate' Facebook’s prohibition on automated access."

Much more in article

 

Verge editor laments the perverse incentives of SEO rankings.

 
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