1942 political cartoon by Dr. Seuss. original drawing ℅ U.C. San Diego Library. At left, a doorway with a turnstile reads "Pay your income tax here." At right, the ultra-wealthy avoid paying taxes by climbing into a "Tax-Empt Securities Loop Hole for rich." A little man representing the American taxpayer waits to climb into the escape hatch, but a large man representing the House Ways and Means Committee blocks his way. The large man says, "G'wan, small fry. You pay at the turnstile!" Meanwhile, a wealthy man in fine clothes has climbed onto the committee man's back, using him as a step stool to climb into the escape hatch.

Happy Wednesday, Bluesky.

The first release candidate for Expert is out!

You can read the announcement here: expert-lsp.org/the-first-re...

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Don’t take my word for it. I am not a scientist, scholar and I don’t have PhD. I just try reading the papers people throw at me, if they claim something suspicious (in my opinion).

Yea. The moment you begin to dig deeper, everything falls apart.

A friend send that article, stating that Elixir scored the best during research. It was a post on Dashbit.

I decided to actually read the paper it was referring to. The study is flawed. One LLM coded, another LLM reviewed that. Human reviewers didn’t know Elixir so they never checked AI output.

Olympic Games in Berlin, 1936

FIFA World Cup 2026

Federal agents in Minneapolis wrestled Alex Pretti to the ground and secured the handgun he was carrying moments before shooting him multiple times, according to a Washington Post analysis of video footage.

Read more: https://wapo.st/4qGOx8M

Switching from 🇺🇸 #Claude to 🇫🇷 #Mistral for a month. I want to see the progress they made, since last time I’ve bedn testing it (about 7-8 months ago)

It's a known recipe for disaster. Why do we keep giving these narcissistic living deviations all they want?

It's been known that Elon Mask is an awful person for a very long time. For me - since the moment he stole Tesla (the company, and technology) for inventors through court, being idiomatic "Edison" in this case. But many people kept praising him since then, both socially but also on TV.

With Catholic Church refusing to get rid of child molesting priests, USA refusing to deal with know revealed pedophiles on top government positions, now governments failing to finally ban X, while it makes money on undressing kids and woman.

Why all assholes end up at some point at the same place - violence against women and children in one form or another? Is it nature revealing to us what a terrible mistake it had made? Or is it, so we will know it's a dead branch of evolution and move on?

ievgenpyrogov.com/an-ode-to-ma...

wrote about end-to-end testing of sending emails in Elixir using Mailpit

#ElixirLang

ievgenpyrogov.com/requests-wit...

Wrote a few words on why instrumenting execution of an HTTP request in Elixir web application* can be a tricky, and how it can be done

* without modifying original code

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Very odd article. Or rather some personal thoughts. So much hate, but really no value. Still, fly.io can’t make a stable hosting platform even after so many years. With that attitude - I now understand why.

Jornal Nacional showing the truth.

We tried electrisql and it’s a pain to implement besides their toy app examples. Write examples even for toy apps are complex enough. And you still need client to be JS - not LV.

In this regard so far only zero.rocicorp.dev worked out of the box as expected. It does mean going away from LV though

We solved first one partially with Web Components, but the second one is looking nearly impossible.

4/4

- Offline Mode - this is a big problem. I don't see any solution so far, that's why we thinking researching writing whole frontend client using Sveltekit + some Local-First stuff (like Zero Cache) for data replication.

3/4

- Server has no idea about the client even though it is doing work for the client. This means DOM environment - viewport stuff, portals, all the APIs you need to build complex UI components.

2/4

We're writing complex ERP with LiveView and we've been through all stages of hell initially, but it's settling down now. We started really eraly adopting LV, and now ended up building all components as Web Components with LV wrappers and hooks.

But the 2 main pain points are always the same:

1/4

Bad news.

ProtonMail is officially a Trump administration supporter.

archive.ph/2025.01.15-1...

Somehow it does not make it better in any way...

Reddit - Dive into anything

Andy Yen’s playing damage control on Reddit, and it’s not going well.

It’s also not clear whether he’s speaking on behalf of the entire group or not, and he hasn’t clarified.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/s/4JxXuQH0a1

#AndyYen #Proton #ProtonPrivacy

#TIL append /rss to any @bsky.app profile and you have RSS feed.

example: bsky.app/profile/arat...

openrss.org/blog/bluesky...

A screenshot of a social media post that states a Florida woman was arrested this week after allegedly threatening a health insurance provider. Lakeland Police said the woman became increasingly upset during the call which she ended with delay denied depose you people are next. On the left is a mugshot of Briana Boston, the middle aged white woman with blonde hair and a blue shirt. On the left is the mugshot of Luigi mangioni, He is a white man in his twenties with dark curly hair and thick eyebrows.

When I had a violent stalker who would graphically describe how he would have me gang raped, puncture my organs and and break all my bones, I was told the police "couldn't do anything".

Consider this a reminder that they absolutely ✨can✨ do something.

They just don't care about YOU.

We switched to Neon now, and really happy about it. It’s cheaper to Supabase (supabase PITR costs $100 alone) and feels faster. Also autoscaling is really nice and reliable.

To be fair, their support is good and helpful. Everything basically is great, except reliability.

Yeah, it was their postgresql service. They warn it’s not managed db, but still. It doesn’t mean it can just disconnect. While I waiting for support answer I set up new cluster and migrated db, because prod can’t wait. We never figured what happened. Also, it was just one of many incidents.

Once prod db just got disconnected, and we could not connect it back. I see the pg service in admin, but fly machines don’t. After that I said enough is enough. I love the system they built - it’s amazing. It just unreliable as hell.