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the only difference between the "draw proton"/"draw duke" functions is what base address they draw from.

YOU CAN PASS ADDRESSES TO FUNCTIONS, TODD

todd replogle: look, I know programmers who use function parameters and data-driven design, and they're all cowards

Next Friday is the settlement deadline for the Facebook privacy lawsuit. Without knowing what the net settlement is, it's impossible to know what you might get, but i don't say know to free money. And the longer you had a Facebook account during that time period, the greater your payout will be https://facebookuserprivacysettlement.com/

@arisunz this issue exists in lots of places!! should be talked about more

on Windows, compiling an executable in most languages will probably make the linker embed the absolute path to the pdb inside your executable (which might contain your system username)

with Rust, it will embed the compiler version into your binary: If you’re using rustup then the absolute path to the compiler version is inside your user folder

in C and Cpp, if your build system gives the compiler an absolute path to a compilation unit, the __FILE__ macro will expand to this absolute path (and therefore may end up embedded in the binary in lots of forms). also if you don’t have -no-canonical-prefixes and you use a compiler version inside your home folder, you might end up with your username embedded in paths to compiler-internal headers in the debug symbols (not sure about the binary itself)

definitely something to be aware of if you’re shipping binaries for anything

oh cool, Rust embeds your full username in binaries no matter what flags you use, even in release builds, and even after stripping symbols with strip

the suggested "solution"? build in a docker container or change your username 🤡 🤡

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/mfax64/remove_username_from_binary_for_privacy/?rdt=57488

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/75263

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/40552#issuecomment-809012730

What the Hachette v. Internet Archive decision means for our library: https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/17/what-the-hachette-v-internet-archive-decision-means-for-our-library/ #DigitalRightsForLibraries

@emma It is vastly cheaper to give a benefit to everyone and then tax that amount from rich people than it is to run the massive bureaucracy of means testing.

found this refreshing drink at Lidl, anyone else want one while i’m here?

@0xabad1dea "JSON? That JavaScript thing? Nobody uses that, it's all XML."

The monkey's paw at the heart of the time machine lowers one finger.

The time traveler had started with something so small it couldn’t possibly hurt anything: the spelling of the name of some fictional bears. The timeline held. Next, they tampered with some movies. Still no butterfly effect, so far so good. Now it was time to alter something important, something worthwhile. Something that would improve the world.

The traveler nervously approaches someone in the present after emerging from the machine. “Tell me… does json support comments?”

#microfiction

ingmar bergman's the seventh seal is one of the most underrated episodes of looney tunes ever put to film

This news has caused some people to ask why "women's chess" even exists -- women can compete in the open tournament. The women's competitions were a recognition of just how far behind chess is when it comes to cultivating and welcoming female players.

Not that shocking they are even more far behind when it comes to even knowing what that would mean. (eg not excluding trans women.)

But all this misses the bigger point. They don't want any trans people at all in their games.

This has mostly been reported as "trans women banned from women's chess" but it's much more sinister. (as if it weren't already.)

ALL trans people are targeted by this ruling. Trans men will be stripped of all chess titles won, which can only be returned to them by “changing the gender back to a woman” (from the ICF’s ruling). ALL transgender chess players will be marked as trans in their files.

If you play or know anyone who does take a stand on this. It's ugly.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/international-chess-org-trans-women?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

i love furries we're so funny

[commenting on a nsfw furry tf comic] i really appreciate how you've rendered the protagonist's tits getting bigger by having them increasingly spill out of the panels page by page until the grid is finally enveloped by her mammoth mammaries. not great fap material but the comics is good

Boost if you think trans people are neat 🏳️‍⚧️

Say it with me. Locking a hardware feature your product ships with behind a paywall is neither a "service", nor is it something that entitles you to receive a subscription payment.

Lately, I've seen a lot of publishers/developers using machine translation to localize their store descriptions and/or achievements. This is doing more harm than just leaving them in English! If I saw such a description, I would assume that the whole game looks like this and, therefore, not buy it. And it's particularly annoying for the game's translators, as players may assume they're responsible. Please don't do it. Thanks! 🙏