There was dudle [1] developed and hosted by a German university. Seems unmaintained, but there is an independent project called BitPoll [2].

[1]: https://github.com/kellerben/dudle [2]: https://github.com/fsinfuhh/BitPoll

I hope that when all online content is entirely AI generated, humanity will put their phone aside and re-discover reality because we realize that the social networks have become entirely worthless.

To some degree there’s something like this happening. The old saying “pics or it didn’t happen” used to mean young people needed to take their phones out for everything.

Now any photo can be faked, so the only photos to take are ones that you want yourself for memories.

That's not what that saying means/meant.

Naww.... people have always taken the easy path and put off confronting difficult feelings and emotions. The vast majority of humanity will 100% spend hours a day swiping through computer generated content in the future. Whats the difference between a tiktok video featuring some vapid real person I will never know vs some vapid machine generated person I will never know. They both serve the same purpose.

What's more likely is that a significant number of people will start having most/all of their meaningful interactions with AI instead of with other people.

What a nice thought :)

lol if they don't put the phone down now, then how can AI generated content specifically optimized to get people to stay be any better.

What if the software is developed and potentially backdoored in the US and deployed by the EU team in the sovereign region? Or did they rewrite the entire AWS stack?

If the EU employees can look around the code, it would then get quite interesting if they were to point out a backdoor. which they would of course raise with an EU based CERT. In a way that protects US customers as well having a set that can't be stopped from doing that.

Assuming EU employees get to see the sources, let alone own their building process.

True, and there's probably a lot of it; still I think they already have some EU devs, but I guess only on some things.

> how realistic it is that the US is forcing Amazon to secretly backdoor its own software for US spying abroad?

probably 100%?

Over 100%, in that I'm sure multiple independent groups are working on it all the time. The spooks regularly place actual agents in foreign governments (the Germans found a big nest of them and nothing much happened in the end). There's no way it would be challenging for them to find an employee willing to cash a giant cheque in exchange for quietly granting their own government access.

Maybe you missed when Microsoft blocked the email account of the chief prosecutor of the international court of justice: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Criminal-Court-Microsoft-s-emai...

Of course these services are backdoored.

How is that a “backdoor”? It was just an (outrageous) administrative decision.

Keep in mind that a train in Germany counts as one-time if it is less than 6 minutes late. In Switzerland, it's 3 minutes.

Also in Germany, a train that did not even arrive does not count as too late.

There is also a concept of the "Pofalla-Wende", which is when a train is so late that it just does a 180 and drives back, to mitigate that the delay doesn't carry over to the train's next route. Of course, that means that it skips the stations at the end of the route.

Experienced that a few months ago. Next time I‘ll be tempted to pull the emergency brake which will cost them at least half an hour to get the train going again. Or so I have been told.

Given that I can dump hundreds of TBs into the private container registry without paying anything I'm pretty surprised that they now charge for what is basically providing log streaming and retention.

MS Office only has icons for the things that matter most. I think MS even had a UI guideline similar to the one that is cited from apple in TFA, but I cannot find it.

The author doesn't ask for _no_ icons at all. So I really don't get this critique.

Intentionally omitting some icons is a really powerful tool to draw attention to the actions that the user wants to do most of the time. I think that pattern went away in some places because it looks more consistent (that doesn't mean that usability is better) and some designers have some kind of OCD. At least that's what I have experienced in that exact case.

GCC also has an extension to support references to other parameters of the function:

    #include <stddef.h>
    void foo(size_t n, int b[static n]);

https://godbolt.org/z/c4o7hGaG1

It is not limited to compile-time constants. Doesn't work in clang, sadly.

Clang is working on a different version with annotations https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3656.pdf

It also only works with that order, not if the size is after the array :(

No, you can predeclare the size; this compiles with no warnings:

    #include <string.h>
    #include <unistd.h>

    void foo(size_t n; const char s[static n], size_t n)
    {
      write(1, s, n);
    }

    int main(int argc, char **argv)
    {
      foo("hello, ", 7);
      if (argc > 1) foo(argv[1], strlen(argv[1]));
      foo("\n", 1);
      return 0;
    }

However, it still compiles with no warnings if you change 7 to 10!

Clang does not support this syntax.

It does warn: https://godbolt.org/z/Gj54f8313

It did not in GCC 13, but I fixed this bug.

Thank you very much! I tested with GCC 12.

I maintain an S3 client that has a test matrix for the commonly used S3 implementations. RustFS regularly breaks it. Last time it did I removed it from the matrix because deleteObject suddenly didn't delete the object any more. It is extremely unstable in its current form. The website states that it is not in a production-ready state, which I can confirm.

I'd take a look at garage (didn't try seaweed yet).

> I maintain an S3 client that has a test matrix for the commonly used S3 implementations.

Is it open to the public? I'd like to check it out

Didn't contribute to MinIO, but if they accepted external contributions without making them sign a CLA, they cannot change the license without asking every external contributor for consent to the license change. As it is AGPL, they still have to provide the source code somewhere.

IANAL, of course

They required a "Community Contribution License" in each PR description, which licensed each contribution under Apache 2 as an inbound license.

Meanwhile, MinIO's own contributions and the distribution itself (outbound license) were AGPL licensed.

It's effectively a CLA, just a bit weaker, since they're still bound by the terms of Apache 2 vs. a full license assignment like most CLAs.

People underestimate the amount of fakeness a lot of these "open-core/source" orgs have. I guarantee from day one of starting the MinIO project, they had eyes on future commercialization, and of course made contributors sign away their rights knowing full well they are going to go closed source.

The "types as comments" proposal has a stated goal to not codify any semantics to the annotations.

This is not only due to implementation complexity, but also to keep TS to be able to change. Or even to build an entire different JS superset. With that proposal, even flow could be natively executed.

That proposal is a practical joke. You haven't got a language at all if the words don't mean anything.

It is an approach that has already seen some success in Python. Languages often have constructs that are reserved for future use or that "parse but don't validate". JS has a lot of reserved keywords (thanks to ES4 and ES5, especially) that "don't mean anything" today but could in the future and still parse even though they'll give a runtime error. Beyond that, almost every language has a syntax for comments. Comments don't mean anything to the parser/compiler either, but they mean a lot to the people writing the source files and they still need syntax to write them.

If you allow arbitrary meaningless data in today, you can never add meaning in the future. That's why the reserved words cannot be used. They need to be safe to add meaning to down the line!