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  • You can always get the Pi Zero 2 W, which is still more capable than the orignal Pi was, and costs even less, even after all these years.

    Or the 1 GB version of the Pi 4. For many projects, even that is overkill. Not everyone needs the stuff Pi 5 brings, like dual 4k60 monitors or the PCIe slot.

    Just buy whatever your use case requires. The "zero" line has kind of filled that very low cost niche for now.

  • and god forbid letting the designated "enemy countries" voice their side of the story

    But they could still do that. The only difference is, more people knew who the story was coming from.

    Why do you want them to be able to obfuscate the source?

  • That's not what the word predatory means.

    Usually that has to do with things like pricing (both initially and any future increases), handling of maintenance, problems, and of things like late payments, etc.

    You're looking at it once again purely through the lens of how it affects the existing owners. For example an existing long term owner in the area would not be considered predatory based on your criteria no matter how much price gouging they engage in.

  • At first glance, this just sounds like a "keep renters out because they're bad for the existing owners' property values" (as well as being on average younger, less wealthy, etc.) policy.

    The same kind of reasoning is often used as a pretense to block construction and perpetuate the existing shortage. Pure self-interest masquerading as a good cause.

  • Another moment in A Dream of Spring involved Bran receiving a vision that The Wall was not just a physical barrier, but a mystical shield holding back the Night King's power. "This twist fits well within the universe and raises tension for the remainder of the story," Swayne remarks.

    That's just a popular fan theory that has been discussed countless times on various forums.

    I guess we can conclude that ChatGPT has been reading a lot of reddit.

  • Clickbait title.

    The packages were collectively downloaded 963 times before they were removed. The rogue packages include names like "noblox.js-vps," "noblox.js-ssh," and "noblox.js-secure," and they were distributed across specific version ranges

    Is there any indication that anyone actually installed these, other than some bots that auto download all packages and such?

    You would have to really go out of your way to get infected by stuff like this.

    That being said, there are things npm could do to try to auto-detect "risky" packages (new, similar name to existing projects, few downloads, etc.) and require an additional layer of confirmation, or something like that.

  • This is exactly the point made in this 2010 article that's probably one of the things I link to most often in online discussions.

    https://whatheco.de/2010/12/07/function-hell/

    Also, the real problem with code on the right in OP is all the state mutations made to the arguments passed into the functions.

    Not too familiar with golang, but this really could use some sort of builder pattern or something, if you're going to mutate the object. Or a more functional style with just a pure function mapping an input "order" to output "toppings", etc.

    There are plenty of ways to make the bad design on the right better without stuffing everything into a single function, so the whole premise is a bit of a false dichotomy.

  • it represents decentralization and digital democracy. No more concerns about privacy breaches, identity exposures, or data leaks

    It doesn't, and it does absolutely nothing to address those issues.

    E2EE is mainly a client-side matter, makes no difference how "centralized" or not the server part it.

  • And ironically Python (with Pygame which they also used) is a terrible choice for this kind of game - they ended up making a desktop game that the user would have to download. Not playable on the web, not usable for a mobile app.

    More interestingly, if decisions like these are going to be made even more based on memes and random blogposts, that creates some worrying incentives for even more spambots. Influence the training data, and you're influencing the decision making. It kind of works like that for people too, but with AI, it's supercharged to the next level.