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So in case you aren't aware, the reason why the Import from Instagram feature in @PixelFed is so tricky is for two main reasons:

1) You don't actually upload the archive, it's unzipped and parsed client side, so you only upload the photos/videos and captions that you select

2) Instagram changes the json structure every few months, just to fuck with us

But just to take a step back, when you import, your DMs and other private data is never uploaded

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pixelfed/resources/assets/components/AccountImport.vue at dev · pixelfed/pixelfed

Photo Sharing. For Everyone. Contribute to pixelfed/pixelfed development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Former Kennedy Center president speaks out in first interview since her firing - NPR apple.news/AV5A3FxL1RDyiIPA-bM…

Former Kennedy Center president speaks out in first interview since her firing — NPR

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Deborah Rutter, former head of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in her first interview since the board installed President Trump as its new chair.
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Just listened to this talk by Casey Muratori called "Simple Code, High Performance": youtube.com/watch?v=Ge3aKEmZcq…

It's a case study about a piece of code from the game _The Witness_ (actually, from the art editor for that game) which he rewrote with dramatically better performance.


Simple Code, High Performance

Kickstarter link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/annarettberg/meow-the-infinite-book-twoThis was a presentation I gave to the University of Twente in e...
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My summary is that he addressed the original code's poor performance in three stages:

1. He came up with a new algorithm that didn't get progressively slower like the original, and also produced better output.
2. He found that even the new algorithm's inner loop was calling into code that did lots of unnecessary work, including memory allocation, so he instead wrote code that did something much simpler.
3. While he was doing the rewrite for #2, he went ahead and used SIMD.

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Matt Campbell

He had some provocative things to say about the dangers of code reuse and "modern" C++ about an hour and a half into the talk. And I think we Rust programmers have to watch out for these things as well. It's easy to casually use high-level abstractions that aren't appropriate for the situation. I don't think we have to give up Rust's safety to avoid that problem, though; we just have to be aware of what the functions we're calling are doing.

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The CPC could've chose BUY CANADIAN, OR ANY OTHER TEAM CANADA TYPE SLOGAN to support Canadian businesses, but, NOPE...

Instead Pierre PoiLIEvre is holding a CANADA FIRST rally today in Ottawa... cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre…

REMEMBER: CANADA FIRST IS ALL ABOUT SECURING A WHITE ETHNOSTATE IN CANADA. antihate.ca/canada_first_expos…

I DOUBT Pierre PoiLIEvre chose this racist, xenophobic, antisemitic slogan ACCIDENTALLY.

#cdnpoli #polcan #hate #fear #division


Canada First Exposed: Months Inside One of Canada's Biggest, Youngest, and Newest White Supremacist Chatrooms

Tyler L. Russell is ripping off Nick Fuentes with the aim of securing a white ethnostate in Canada. He's recruiting "an army of nameless, faceless" kids to do it.
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This week we have united with 100+ #privacy fighters calling on the UK to STOP❗

Stop trying to undermine #encryption - the security backbone of the internet that all of us depend on. 🔒

Together we must fight for privacy and against #surveillance 💪

More info: tuta.com/blog/uk-demands-apple…

"Governments must not force tech companies to weaken the security we all depend on - particularly now that cyberthreats are increasing continuously. We fight for our users’ right to privacy with end-to-end encryption, and we will continue to do so, no matter what governments might ask.” MATTHIAS PFAU, CEO TUTA MAIL

Apple to backdoor encryption? Round 2 | Tuta

UK demands Apple to backdoor encryption similar to what the FBI asked ten years ago. Will Apple stay strong?
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Einkaufs-Apps tauschen Rabatte gegen Daten und normalisieren Überwachung. Datenschutz wird zur Ware – mit tiefgreifenden gesellschaftlichen Folgen. 👇

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#app #rewe #penny #lidl #dm #datenschutz #dsgvo #teamdatenschutz


Datenschutz als Ware: Wie Einkaufs-Apps unser Verhalten und unsere Gesellschaft verändern

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Shockingly, ChatGPT doesn't consume as much power as previously thought — A new study reveals the stats were based on "napkin math" with the assumption that OpenAI powers next-gen models with dated GPUs windowscentral.com/software-ap…

Shockingly, ChatGPT doesn't consume as much power as previously thought — A new study reveals the stats were based on "napkin math" with the assumption that OpenAI powers next-gen models with dated GPUs

ChatGPT doesn't consume more power than most of your household appliances as previously thought.
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PSA: Download Your Kindle eBooks Now Before Amazon Removes the Option!

Yesterday was a big day in the ebook world, and not in a good way. In case you missed the news, Amazon is planning to remove the ability to download purchased ebooks from their website starting February 26th, 2025.
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The lifehistory 'curve of happiness' does not look the same in non-industrialised populations. Interesting comparative study by #MichaelGurven Not really surprising, a bit stunning that there is any assumption Western lifestyles represent some kind of 'universal'?!

'In our study, we found that happiness levels did not consistently follow the U-shaped trajectory commonly observed in industrialized societies. In some cases there was a U-shape. But more often we observed an inverted U-shape, where middle-aged adults reported the highest level of happiness, or no significant age-related trend at all.

Overall, well-being often declined after middle age among resource-poor populations lacking social security and other institutionalized forms of protection. This aligns with prior research among low-income countries and even of wealthy nations during economic crises.

That being said, age itself was a weak predictor of life satisfaction everywhere. Sickness, disability and loss in productivity do a better job of explaining well-being than age. In fact, the few positive effects of age we did find usually disappeared when including measures of these misfortunes in our analysis.'

#anthropology #age #happiness #globalsouth

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Happiness in poorer countries does not follow the typical U-shaped curve − people are often happiest in middle age

In nonindustrialized societies, health, productivity and economic security play much larger roles in determining happiness among aging populations, a new study finds.
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I'm formally stepping down as a nouveau kernel maintainer.

I want to stress out this is only for the kernel side of things and has and will not have any impact on my involvement in mesa.

Don't really want to add too much here, just that things need to change. Recent events (tm) is just another example of the deep disagreement.

I won't be able to convince people I made up my mind on my own here, so I won't bother with it anyway.

Full upstream and public statement here: lists.freedesktop.org/archives…

[PATCH 1/1] MAINTAINERS: Remove myself

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As a non-programmer who works very closely with a programmer, I was doing a bit of reading and found this little piece of text that made me laugh, hard.

"Python and Go pick up your trash for you. C lets you litter everywhere, but throws a fit when it steps on your banana peel. Rust slaps you and demands that you clean up after yourself."

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One Program Written in Python, Go, and Rust

Image differentiation in three languages
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Not quite, IMO. Rust does clean stuff up for you in most cases; if it truly made you clean up after yourself, you'd have to call the drop function all over the place. What it slaps you for is making you prove that only one piece of code at a time owns each resource, so it can insert the cleanup code in one precise place rather than having to either scan all of memory to see what's being used (Go, JavaScript, Java, PyPy) or do reference counting everywhere (CPython, Swift).
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I think my point is more relevant to Rust versus C than Rust versus Python or Go. Rust will clean stuff up for you once you've proven single ownership. C makes you clean up stuff manually and does nothing to verify that you're doing it correctly. And then there's C++, which has the option to do automatic cleanup like Rust (Rust even uses the same confusing term for it as C++), but, like C, C++ doesn't verify single ownership, so you can get double-free or use-after-free like in C.
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OK, I guess I do also have a point compared to Python or Go. Because Rust does cleanup that's both precise and automatic at compile time, versus Python or Go's automatic cleanup that requires runtime overhead due to its lack of precision, *and* Rust verifies that you're doing it correctly, Rust brings efficiency on par with C or C++ within reach of more programmers.
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The thing that brought it back to my attention this week is that the creator of Asahi Linux, the port of Linux to Apple Silicon Macs, resigned. marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as…

Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead

Back in the late 2000s, I was a major contributor to the Wii homebrew scene. At the time, I worked on software (people call them “jailbreaks” these days) to allow users to run their own unofficial apps on the Nintendo Wii.
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@matt Does it bring it within reach of that many more programmers though? One of the reasons I haven't taken the plunge in even trying to learn Rust is that I'm somewhat convinced I'll have to basically rethink all the patterns I'm familiar with and effectively start from scratch, and the Rust folks who effectively say "if it isn't working, it's fundamentally flawed and you need to refactor it coklletely" pretty much reinforce that. So I'd argue it only brings it within reach of a small subset of programmers who have been able to train themselves to think in very specific, pure "safe" ways.
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@jcsteh Interesting perspective. I think it's fair to say that, in cumulative working hours, you've spent more time immersed in C++ than I have. In my Serotek days, I used C and C++ as little as possible, and yes, System Access's performance might have suffered some as a result. I admit that when I joined Microsoft, I was a bit incredulous that Narrator really was written all in C++, and interns even prototyped new features in C++. So maybe I was more open to learning the Rust way?

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@matt @jcsteh I think there is something to that as well, because the programmer I work with attempted to write a boot watcher that was prototyped in Python in Rust. Meanwhile, he has experience with things like Objective C, C#, Java, Xojo, to name a few disparate examples. He found himself tying his brain into knots learning the concepts and had other things he needed to do. Go, on the other hand, he liked for the same project.
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In Brussels, I'll have the opportunity to present in the plenary session how Open Food Facts officially became a #DigitalPublicGood, transforming the food system worldwide in pursuit of United Nations's SDGs goals. After years of lightning talks, @openfoodfacts will also have its first stand at @fosdem this week-end.
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Bývalý švédský premiér přirovnal Trumpův telefonát Putinovi k mnichovské zradě v roce 1938

Evropští politici nesouhlasí se zprávami o komunikaci mezi americkým prezidentem Donaldem Trumpem a ruským prezidentem Vladimirem Putinem o mírovém urovnání na Ukrajině. Carl Bildt, bývalý švédský premiér a spolupředseda Evropské rady pro zahraniční vztahy, identifikoval telefonický rozhovor mez...

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Bývalý švédský premiér přirovnal Trumpův telefonát Putinovi k mnichovské zradě v roce 1938 | 14. 2. 2025 | Britské listy

Evropští politici nesouhlasí se zprávami o komunikaci mezi americkým prezidentem Donaldem Trumpem a ruským prezidentem Vladimirem Putinem o mírovém urovnání...
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Opinion | Rage farmer and Trump mimic Pierre Poilievre seems to be floundering as the world changes around him
Once seen as the man to oust Trudeau, voters are now looking for the best person to take on Trump. And Canadians realize it isn't PeePee...

Pierre Poilievre seems to be floundering as the world changes around him

Once seen as the man to oust Trudeau, voters are now looking for someone to take on Trump.
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I must admit that as a blind trans woman of somewhat elderly years, there's not much I can do to stem this awful tide of anti-trans bs that's being spewed out of a country I once thought was free, so here's my little contribution. If you don't particularly like the music, please listen to the words. #LGBT #LGBTQ #trans #transRights

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(AP) - White House barred a credentialed Associated Press reporter and photographer from boarding the presidential airplane.
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AP journalists barred from Air Force One over style dispute

The Trump administration blocked The Associated Press from traveling with President Trump on Air Force One and also from covering an Oval Office event. It's part of an ongoing terminology dispute over the Gulf of Mexico.
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I heard about this app this morning. Thankfully, they didn't go with their original name: Buy Beaver. I kid you not. They settled on Shop Canadian. Phew! mobilesyrup.com/2025/02/10/edm…

Edmonton-made app helps you shop Canadian-made products

Amid the U.S. trade war with Canada a new app has rocketed up the Canadian App Store charts to make shopping for Canadian goods easier.
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📢 Great News: Walmart Access Pilot Extended!

Explorers, we have exciting news—the Walmart Access Pilot Program has been extended! 🎉 That means you can continue using both location-based and online Walmart offers until further notice. This program has already made a huge impact, helping Explorers across all 50 states shop with greater independence and ease.

Your participation can help shape the future of inclusive programs like this one. Let’s keep the momentum going and show why #AccessForAll matters! 🚀

Partnership Details: bit.ly/airaxwalmart.

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I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.

This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.

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The hardest working font in Manhattan

A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
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