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Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket reached orbit from Norway, a first for a private European company.
Dispute over "first from European soil" given Russia's Plesetsk and ESA's French Guiana launches.
Cloud in a Bottle offers an open-source personal cloud with containerized apps and unified auth.
The thread splits between those who find Docker already simple and those who say it remains inaccessible to non-tech users.
A 60-year-old reflects on life's true luxuries in a list shared by his wife.
Disagreement over whether money enables or is orthogonal to the listed luxuries.
Chrome exempts google.com site data from deletion despite user settings to clear all site data on window close.
Two camps: those blaming corporate intent, those citing bug; one user reproduced it in Chromium on Linux.
Readers can detect and avoid LLM-authored writing, with 78% stopping immediately.
Two camps: those seeking technical solutions to detect AI slop, and those arguing AI text can still have value.
AI incident response tools risk deskilling engineers for complex failures.
Commenters debate whether AI deskilling is inevitable or mitigable with practice.
A veteran recorded a traffic stop; cops then tracked him 100+ times via Flock.
Mass agreement that such abuse was inevitable; blame placed on police impunity and VC funding.
The Netherlands moved 86 tonnes of gold from US and Canada to London citing geopolitical unrest.
Commenters debate England's European identity and London's role as a gold hub for the move.
A $60-$100 PS5 APU mining card becomes a playable Cyberpunk 2077 gaming PC with mods.
The $60 board is now $300+, and builders warn of scam cases sold as full PCs.
Pushin.eu offers EU-hosted Git repos with a pledge to block AI slop and never train on user code.
Commenters urged for trust signals like pricing and privacy policy, but the founder's transparent responses assuaged many concerns.
Isar Aerospace successfully reached orbit on its second flight, becoming Europe's first private orbital launch company.
Celebration mixed with sharp debate over European sovereignty and ITAR dependence.
UN concedes 1.5 C limit will be exceeded, proposes overshoot-and-cool strategy.
Blame splinters between government inaction, corporate profit, and individual consumption.
LLM adoption modeled as a cognitive virus with tipping points and lock-in.
Debate splits over whether the viral model is apt or overblown versus prior technological dependencies.
A former 3M scientist explains how the company concealed PFAS contamination for decades.
Commenters compare PFAS cover-ups to climate change, tobacco, and asbestos, blaming corporate greed and regulatory failure.
A free, openly-licensed book teaches programming using the OCaml language.
The top comment chain questions whether learning new languages is still worth it with LLMs, drawing strong counter-arguments.
GPT-6 Astra beats Claude Fable 5.1 in block bowl task by 95% vs 40%.
Impressed by results, but hardware reliability seen as the true bottleneck for robotics.
Fifth Circuit rules no constitutional right to safe drinking water or truthful information from officials.
Split over whether the ruling is sound and what a right to water would practically entail.
Rust's dyn Trait uses wide pointers with external vtables, unlike C++'s per-object vtables.
Two camps: those explaining ZST identity through ownership, those noting C++'s similar virtual function pitfalls.