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Anathema wrote:

I think someone needs to forcibly take my Path of Exile account away

rust@octodon.social ("Rust tips") wrote:

Do you want io::Read::read_exact(), but read into a Vec instead?

let bytes\_read = reader  
    .by\_ref() // optional: avoids consuming the reader  
    .take(length\_to\_read) // limits number of bytes  
    .read\_to\_end(&mut vec)?; // reads up to the limit  
// the file could have ended sooner, so needs a check  
if bytes\_read != length\_to\_read { return Err("EOF") }

https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=05ac9c2145aa61b3442359921dd0607d

Gargron ("Eugen") wrote:

Watching as my parents go through the iOS app onboarding. The ultimate test

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MatejLach@social.matej-lach.me ("Matej Ľach ✅") wrote:

Something I've been noticing with the whole #Apple scanning your device content fiasco is that a lot of the rhetoric centres around the ability of China/Russia to misuse this.

While true and may serve a rhetorical purpose, this is being rolled out in the U.S. only. Clearly not at the CCP's request.

Americans need to be able and willing to first admit that oftentimes it is just fellow Americans doing unethical shit to their fellow Americans. You'd never improve your own country otherwise.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Grand Theft Autobots

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

TIL Fraggles have a 30 minute work week. Goals.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Optimus Crime

Gargron ("Eugen") wrote:

Last iOS app update added multiple languages like Catalan, French and Spanish, though I don’t think I’ll be able to see how many people are using those languages which is a bit of a shame. I guess we’re also missing localizations for the App Store page itself…

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The University of Minnesota doesn't see a problem with killing children to avoid antagonizing conservatives.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/08/chickenshit-universities-still-oppose-a-vaccine-mandate/

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owl@beach.city wrote:

Hm, the shielding on this iPhone charging cable is deteriorating at the plug and I can peek into it. Never had a cable do that before, and it's only 5 years old.

owl@beach.city wrote:

It's raining. Cat was out for a while and now seems to be enjoying the warm, dry bed very much.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

When a Karen writes a Christian romance novel that opens with the Wounded Knee Massacre…

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/08/whod-have-thought-the-wounded-knee-massacre-was-an-appropriate-setting-for-a-romance/

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owl@beach.city wrote:

"contest" is the superlative of "content"

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

Hey, it works under Wine!

https://files.scene.org/view/parties/2000/mekkasymposium00/in64/h7-final.zip

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

Too early in the morning over here, but I was reminded of this 64k demo I used to keep around on my PC and thought I would share. "Heaven Seven".

"We used to dream. Used to exist..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qw5bavWxBs

owl@beach.city wrote:

My laptop doesn't support USB keyboards in pre-boot when entering the password.
Since it's secret sauce it would be really hard to fix.

You've heard of "just fork it," now get ready for "just create a competing laptop manufacturer which doesn't exhibit that issue, then let the free market decide if USB keyboards should work, and then everyone can buy a new computer instead of fixing the one they have, because competition is much more efficient."

owl@beach.city wrote:

Daruk's 🅱️rotection is now ready to roll

owl@beach.city wrote:

Lolf Wink

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:

Kipchoge won the marathon. Who would've thought :-)

Anathema wrote:

I want to live in a Studio Ghibli movie

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GeoffWozniak@hackers.town ("Geoff Wozniak") wrote:

The takeaway from that talk is that modern hardware is much more involved than Linux makes it seem, and that Linux is not really an operating system on these systems.

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GeoffWozniak@hackers.town ("Geoff Wozniak") wrote:

It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36myc8wQhLo

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

it's the fifth anniversary of the first commit of #fennel and also the release day for version 0.10.0

https://fennel-lang.org/changelog#section

https://git.sr.ht/~technomancy/fennel/commit/9afe433

enjoy!

owl@beach.city wrote:

Silly that some city-toilets are still 🚺 and 🚹 here.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

Our first sunflower of the season.

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Tuning up…la la la laaaa. Join us on YouTube and pester us with questions, comments, insults…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkeIKO6GAyQ

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lawremipsum@mspsocial.net ("§") wrote:

Good thread on the labor-exploiting and local-business destroying economics of restaurant delivery apps.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/106715617471891640

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:

you know what triggers me? Faux-buttons on the web that aren't implemented with a tag. Because I see a form with a default button, and I press [Space], and nothing happens. And even [Enter] doesn't do it of course, because it's a f***ng useless or something…

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Hey! In about an hour, we're going to talk about Freethoughtblogs on YouTube! Watch!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/06/reminder-were-celebrating-our-10th-anniversary-tomorrow/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkeIKO6GAyQ

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Confetti in your TTY, because why not:

https://github.com/maaslalani/confetty

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