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29 May 2025 20:25

Having worked for a few weeks on Arduino now, it got ever more present on my mind. The sketches there interface with nothing more than a bootloader. Driving a little OLED panel with them, also raised the issue of driving that display and shutting it down safely. The code stops running when the power is removed, not before that. It's like a calculator with even the stack error non-existent...

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29 May 2025 19:53

Should've at least kept the ?si out...

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29 May 2025 10:38

idk it doesn't sound too bad tbh

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29 May 2025 10:19

wtf... really pinned for all?

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28 May 2025 21:41

At this point, I suppose the user base reached a critical mass. What matters now, is the return on a massive investment that made it so…

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28 May 2025 15:06

Tho we already know which one he favors i guess

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28 May 2025 15:01

Back when he was CEO of vkontakte

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28 May 2025 14:35

Oh my goodness the "pinned for all users" text as if that will be a universally welcomed UI change...

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17 May 2025 00:19

Bit of a weird question I know, but does any of you have the ThönkPad sticker? I had it in a sticker pack a long time ago, but lost it when I deleted my account.

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15 May 2025 19:08

This is something that worries me, as it makes those numbers completely meaningless. It's like monthly active users and whatnot too. If I wanted to be dishonest about how active my Gitea instance is, I could say that I'm the proud admin of about 3k users. But only under 100 of those are real people, and most of them are no longer active. If I had to be honest and swallow my pride, I'd have to admit that the Gitea instance is rather meaningless. It just solved a problem for me (self-hosting a source code forge), and frankly that's good enough. But that doesn't help to compete against those who lie about their numbers... As shameful as that ultimately is.

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15 May 2025 18:47

Same day all reactions on his channel got disabled and the day after he only allowed a positive set of premium emojis

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15 May 2025 18:46

Also funny how they mentioned none of the crypto or gifts shit or whatever as "they didn't copy that yet" cause they fuckin know noone asked for that

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15 May 2025 18:45

Durov's ego is hurt 😢

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15 May 2025 18:44

Right after that, each downvote 👎 to the post t.me/designers/242 seems to also add 2 upvotes 👍 to the post

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15 May 2025 18:44

they could probably infer your carrier from that I would think

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29 May 2025 20:22

Bit of an odd question perhaps, but have any of you ever had to deal with software that "cannot exit" so far? The kind of code that needs an indefinite loop just to serve as an "exit" to that? How do you envision that kind of code? A safe remnant to never run but guaranteed to be able to exit safely? A forgotten artefact to just never run? Something else still?

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29 May 2025 10:38

idc about the pinned for all users thing but the grok integration seems cool

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29 May 2025 10:22

I thought they would've learned from the Stories backlash, but I guess not... Or perhaps that's the shove Elon demanded for that kind of money?

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28 May 2025 22:33

what's with the spam today

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28 May 2025 20:14

This ain't dating app or group

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28 May 2025 15:06

/channel/durov/281
As long as that is still alive, at least I won't have to interact with trash musk

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28 May 2025 14:53

Durov stopped caring for his users years ago

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17 May 2025 00:45

I remember posts on durovs channel getting tons of down votes and they disabled reactions :D

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15 May 2025 20:17

The number of dislikes also doesn't seem to be true.
Or this is a bug, or someone is using multiple bots to send dislikes

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15 May 2025 19:02

Generally in a WiFi network, you have the following requirements to be functional:
- A gateway that can route (e.g. iptables)
- A DHCP server that can assign IP addresses
- A DNS server that can resolve names, or at least relay requests for them to the Internet (doesn't have to be in-network)
- A WiFi access point (e.g. hostapd) that broadcasts wireless access

The DHCP server takes some of your device details (usually MAC address) and leases you an IP address for some amount of time. MAC randomization helps both to prevent that from being a long-term identity token, and from being used as a tracker across larger networks (e.g. some types of public WiFi). But your phone number is never involved.

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15 May 2025 18:47

Reminds me to his first post in his channel about his Web3 connections

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15 May 2025 18:45

Cowards, can't face the truth that some people don't like their shit

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15 May 2025 18:45

so that helps narrow it down

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15 May 2025 18:44

Today at 12:35 (GMT), users reported that more than 2.000 dislikes (👎) were instantly removed from the post:
/channel/designers/242

And more than 1.600 dislikes were removed from the post
/channel/designers/243

(Source)

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15 May 2025 18:44

Better for customers, worse for network administrators