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  1. Comment on Ukraine takes out six Russian Su-34M bombers with a single airbase strike, navy says in ~society

  2. Comment on Ukraine accuses SpaceX of crippling drone missions as ties with US worsen in ~society

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    Zelensky turns on Trump (The Telegraph)

    Zelensky turns on Trump (The Telegraph)

    Volodymyr Zelensky has turned on Donald Trump, launching a personal attack on the US president and pledging to resume strikes on Russian oil refineries.

    “The block [on attacking refineries] is out. We’re done,” the Ukrainian president said, defying a ceasefire declared by the US president.

    13 votes

  4. Comment on SpaceXAI joins Omacom and gives $1.5m Grok tokens for Omarchy in ~tech

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    First I hear of this OS, so the hype seems to have passed me by, until now. "If the application you need doesn't exist, have your OS create it for you" is a pretty cool approach. Will it work?...

    First I hear of this OS, so the hype seems to have passed me by, until now. "If the application you need doesn't exist, have your OS create it for you" is a pretty cool approach. Will it work? Probably somewhat? Just never look under the hood! In any case, it's nice that it's Linux and not Windows that might be the first big vibe-first OS. Maybe it will make a dent in the market share of Windows. Personally I'll never use anything powered by Grok.

    Grok 4.7 and beyond will be helping power our automated agents, like Omabot, who’s been reviewing the flood of PRs that keep pouring in. And it has its work cut out. We’re closing in on 7,000 pull requests from more than 550 contributors, and every one of them deserves a proper look. That’s not a job for mere humans!

    On my project at work we're currently 4 backend developers. Of those, only me is actually hired by the company, while the three others are consultants. AI has made all of them more productive, but as the person who's going to maintain this software for possibly the rest of my life, I do my best to keep an overview of how the software actually does and what new code is added, and that means sooooo many pull requests. Pull requests are 100% a job for mere humans! Unless we want it all to turn into a black box no-one knows what actually does.

    (Some days it feels like all I do is pull requests, and on those days I consider moving to the Arctic to become a turnip farmer.)

    And given where they’re headed, there’s a real chance we’ll soon be consuming tokens beamed down from data centers in space.

    lol

    Maybe Musk can use all that space AI to make his self driving cars work.

    10 votes

  5. Comment on Recommend me music similar to that of Tool? in ~music

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    Give Haken a try. I listen to them at work for more or less the same criteria you have. Fauna is proably their most Tool-like album.

    Give Haken a try. I listen to them at work for more or less the same criteria you have. Fauna is proably their most Tool-like album.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Unofficial Linux app for music streaming service Qobuz QBZ shut down after receiving cease and desist letter in ~music

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    I switched from Spotify to Qobuz recently. Higher artist compensation was part of the reason, but I probably wouldn't have made the switch if I hadn't found a native Linux application (QBZ) in the...

    The use of the unoffical app unfortunately leads to streams not being counted with us and thus the artists end up empty-handed.

    I switched from Spotify to Qobuz recently. Higher artist compensation was part of the reason, but I probably wouldn't have made the switch if I hadn't found a native Linux application (QBZ) in the software centre. Got to use it for just a few weeks before it disappered.

    There's another client on Flathub named Qobine, but if it's true that artists don't get paid when using third-party clients (which is indeed strange) I may start using the web player instead. It's what I do at work, and it works well enough.

    3 votes

  8. Comment on What do you listen to while you’re reading? in ~books

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    Prog rock/metal for me as well, same as when I need to focus at work. Doesn't really matter to me if it has lyrics or not, as long as I can't move along with the rhythm or sing along to the...

    Prog rock/metal for me as well, same as when I need to focus at work. Doesn't really matter to me if it has lyrics or not, as long as I can't move along with the rhythm or sing along to the chorus.

    These days Moron Police's latest album gets a lot of plays.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on Ukraine uses Pelican ballistic missile for first time in strikes on Russia in ~society

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    Been a while, yeah. Life's been busy, I guess. I'll keep posting them now and then. And I'll keep not tagging them "politics" to keep mycketforvirrad busy.

    Been a while, yeah. Life's been busy, I guess. I'll keep posting them now and then. And I'll keep not tagging them "politics" to keep mycketforvirrad busy.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on I'm addicted to Slay the Spire and am looking for a new game in ~games

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    Skogdal is pretty cool. Basically Slay the Spire in rural Norway in the 90's. Not sure how good the controller support is though.

    Skogdal is pretty cool. Basically Slay the Spire in rural Norway in the 90's. Not sure how good the controller support is though.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on German company launches rocket as Europe enters satellite race in ~space

  16. Comment on Deadly flash flood wipes away villages in Nepal, Tibet in ~enviro

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    One of the pictures is described as "the moment a wall of mud hit the Nepal-China border", and I was thinking that was clearly an exaggeration, until I saw the video, and yes, that is absolutely a...

    One of the pictures is described as "the moment a wall of mud hit the Nepal-China border", and I was thinking that was clearly an exaggeration, until I saw the video, and yes, that is absolutely a wall of mud completely out of nowhere smashing everything to pieces. I've never seen anything like this before.

    6 votes

  17. Comment on Humankind 2 | Announcement trailer in ~games

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    There are some things Humankind does a lot better than Civ, in my opinion. They solved the one-unit-per-tile problem, and improved combat a lot (including making attacking cities actually fun). I...

    There are some things Humankind does a lot better than Civ, in my opinion. They solved the one-unit-per-tile problem, and improved combat a lot (including making attacking cities actually fun). I love the concept of changing culture every era (which was incorporated into Civ 7), and the endgame isn't as much of a horrible slog as in Civ. Their take on barbarians and minor civilizations is interesting, and I like the way trading and diplomacy works. But they didn't quite crack the just-one-more-turn addictiveness of Civ.

    Humankind was also very buggy at launch, and I do hope the sequel will be more polished by the time they release it.

    2 votes

  18. Comment on Humankind 2 | Announcement trailer in ~games

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    Can you elaborate?

    floundered with the randomization

    Can you elaborate?

    1 vote