One wonders if Bluesky's approach to usernames might one day inspire a future package manager in this direction: a GUID that is then aliased to a friendly (sub)domain through proof of ownership, with a default fallback domain for those without a domain (i.e. mypkg.crates.io vs mypkg.philpax.me)

The bots pay monthly for a blue checkmark so that they're promoted to the top of the replies. A small cost does not appear to have been a meaningful disincentive, especially when scammers can easily make that money back and political operatives can easily bankroll that.

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DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview is live: o1-preview-level performance on AIME and MATH

I wonder where we'd be if we'd stopped relying on system packages to provide dependencies for C / C++. It is positively miserable to have to pollute your system when a codebase written in Go / Rust / your favourite modern language Just Works out of the box.