Original post on critters.gay

okay so: omemo sucks?

https://github.com/dino/dino/issues/850

this is basically the same story I've heard everywhere omemo is used: it's extremely hostile towards anyone who wants to back up their messages. forgetful? have multiple computers? fuck you I guess.

I like XMPP overall but I'm […]

Screenshot of Fortune article dated October 18, 2024, showing that the CEO of Amazon Web Services "bluntly told colleagues that if they don't like the controversial [forced return to office] policy, they should leave".

Gee I wonder what could have lead to this #AWSoutage...

#RTO #braindrain #footgun

The clean energy sector grew at a rate three times that of China’s economy overall, according to the report."

That could have been, should have been, and won't be America's story.

#CleanEnergy #China #FootGun

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/climate/china...

Original post on social.coop

"Investment and production in clean energy last year contributed nearly $2 trillion to China’s economy, a figure which the report said was around one-tenth of the country’s economy as a whole, or comparable to Australia’s entire economy. The clean energy sector grew at a rate three times that of […]

Original post on mindly.social

Guess who's about to discover that #microprocessors (and other chips, of course) are in ... well, virtually everything these days?

www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-in...

100% tariff on imported chips will double manufacturers' costs for what is the most expensive […]

A foot gun in ripgrep #ripgrep #tool #footgun I adore ripgrep. It's fast, it's convenient, and I've never wanted a feature and found it missing. But no softw...

I found a footgun in ripgrep

#ripgrep #footgun #rustlang

natknight.xyz/a-foot-gun-i...

OK #golang experts! Without running this code, how many of these modify their parent's data value?

Playground: go.dev/play/p/FThEw...

Mutability of the caller's data is soo important, which is why #rustlang has a `mut` keyword. Without it, and without interior mutability, you can't.

#footgun

buggy golang code snippet

So many #golang #footgun code snippets, so little time. Quick! What does this print?

Playground: go.dev/play/p/cw_HO...

Back on the #golang #footgun express train!

Why doesn't this print "Nothing to see here"? Is my test for nil incorrect?

Playground: go.dev/play/p/uc-wt...

#rustlang FTW here, unless you use unsafe this can't happen.

im not sure why we want to invest in capacity for low-margin industries & commodities.. doesn't seem like a winner when you could invest in higher margin mftg industries... when we tariff mexico and china we're going to increase the prices of commodities we need for high margin mftg... #footgun

Wow. The US has apparently 'blacklisted' CATL, the world's largest battery manufacturer... because they're Chinese-owned.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=mK9AIodJqSs or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK9AIodJqSs

#FootGun #DownwardSlide #EndOfEmpire