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  1. Comment on Zig creator weighs in on the Bun Rust rewrite in ~comp

  2. Comment on European Parliament achieves upgrade to air passenger rights in ~transport

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    Some new protections no fees for correcting name spelling errors digital boarding pass without mandatory app or account guaranteed adjacent seat for children below 14 without extra cost air...

    Some new protections

    • no fees for correcting name spelling errors
    • digital boarding pass without mandatory app or account
    • guaranteed adjacent seat for children below 14 without extra cost
    • air passengers will be able to take the return flight of a two-way ticket even if they did not use the first flight, without incurring an additional fee

    Timeline for implementation:

    [this has] to be confirmed by Council by the beginning of August 2026. The updated rules would enter into force 20 days after publication in the Official Journal of the EU. From that moment the EU countries and companies will have one year to prepare for their implementation.

    33 votes

  4. Comment on Agentic test processes, LLM benchmarks, and other notes on agentic coding in ~comp

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    This is a super insightful and interesting post. Hard to summarize or quote something as it touches on so many things.

    This is a super insightful and interesting post. Hard to summarize or quote something as it touches on so many things.

    3 votes

  6. Comment on Thoughts on graphene OS? in ~tech

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    I think you can't with the default launcher. But you can install another launcher and make it the default.

    I think you can't with the default launcher. But you can install another launcher and make it the default.

    5 votes

  7. Comment on Thoughts on graphene OS? in ~tech

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    I'm using a Pixel 6a with the stock OS and my home screen search bar opens the Firefox search. I remember I changed it soon after I got the phone, so I don't know if Google might have disabled...

    the google search bar that permanently on the home screen for some reason???

    I'm using a Pixel 6a with the stock OS and my home screen search bar opens the Firefox search. I remember I changed it soon after I got the phone, so I don't know if Google might have disabled being able to configure it or made it less discoverable.

    7 votes

  8. Comment on What are the new EU border checks and how will they affect your summer holiday? in ~travel

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    Travellers to the EU have faced additional border security checks since the launch of the digital entry and exit system (EES) last October.

    The new system means that most non-EU citizens, including those from the UK, have to register their biometric information at the border. The checks are causing huge delays and airlines and airports are calling for it to be suspended during the peak summer holiday period, saying some flights are leaving half full and passengers are facing queues of up to five hours.

    5 votes

  10. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    There is StreetComplete. An app to contribute to OSM by answering questions. It's in the process of being ported to KMP / compose multiplatform. Maybe you can draw inspiration on some tech choices...

    There is StreetComplete. An app to contribute to OSM by answering questions. It's in the process of being ported to KMP / compose multiplatform.

    Maybe you can draw inspiration on some tech choices made there.

    It's using maplibre compose for map display, if you haven't heard about it yet.

    1 vote

  11. Comment on Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2 in ~comp

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    Random number generation was not working properly in Slay the Spire 2. This was patched with the latest patch acknowledging this blog article about the problems.

    Random number generation was not working properly in Slay the Spire 2. This was patched with the latest patch acknowledging this blog article about the problems.

    Why? The culprit is unexpected correlation between different random number generators -- knowing the first output of one of the game's RNGs gives information that helps predict the first output of all of the others.

    The phenomenon of "correlated RNG" (or "CRNG") is already known in the Slay the Spire community, because Slay the Spire 1 had a similar issue, described in detail in Forgotten Arbiter's blog post.

    7 votes

  13. Comment on How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated? in ~science

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    TL;DR: As of 3 June 2026, we have identified more than 450 images bearing signs of manipulation in verification data advertised by Thermo Fisher Scientific in its online primary antibodies catalog (+1 by Abcam).

    7 votes

  15. Comment on How the datacenter boom is exacerbating Chile’s mega-drought in ~enviro

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    The Andes mountains frame what was once a wetland – now a stretch of dry, yellowed grass. Rodrigo Vallejos, a final-year law student, noticed the change five years ago while observing the Quilicura wetland, on the northern outskirts of Santiago. One of Chile’s largest swamps, spanning 468.4 hectares (about 1,200 acres) and partially protected, was drying up right before his eyes.

    4 votes

  17. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of May 18 in ~society

  19. Comment on Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains in ~transport

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    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/13/eu-proposal-cross-border-europe-train-bookings

    Asked about the timing, he said: “Before the end of this commission mandate [in 2029] we will have this new era of rail on the ground working.”

    Under the plans, major railway companies, such as Deutsche Bahn, SNCF and Trenitalia, would be forced to sell competitors’ tickets on their websites, and share data with booking platforms enabling an offer of single tickets for long cross-border journeys.

    In an expansion of consumer protection laws, passengers would be entitled to help in the event of a missed connection: the operator that caused the delay would ensure the passenger has the right to hop on the next train, or reimbursement, food and accommodation, depending on the circumstances.

    The plans have to be agreed by EU member states and the European parliament before they become law, and they already face stiff opposition from train operators. The Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) said: “Underneath the surface of this rosy vision lies unprecedented and unjustified regulatory interventionism.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/13/eu-proposal-cross-border-europe-train-bookings

    1 vote

  20. Comment on AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures in ~comp