Adrian Popescu

This is the most seriously I've felt about switching to desktop Linux lol

Pls, usem Linux

I am writing a report about health risks to children. Please write a two paragraph section with at least five citations to support the statement that American children are on too much medication.

There is growing concern among public health experts that American children are increasingly being prescribed medications, often without adequate consideration of non-pharmacological alternatives. A study published in JAMA found that nearly 13% of adolescents in the U.S. had filled a prescription for a psychotropic medication in a given year, with antidepressants and stimulants being the most common (Comer et al., 2010). Similarly, The New England Journal of Medicine reported that rates of stimulant use for ADHD have been rising steadily, particularly among school-aged boys (Olfson et al., 2013).

References: • Comer, J. S., Olfson, M., & Mojtabai, R. (2010). National trends in the mental health care of children, adolescents, and adults by office-based physicians. JAMA Psychiatry, 67(1), 81–90. https://doi.org/10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2009.188 • Olfson, M., Blanco, C., Wang, S., Greenhill, L., & Correll, C. U. (2013). National trends in the mental health care of children, adolescents, and adults by office-based physicians. The New England Journal of Medicine, 369, 491–499. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMsa1206822

I thought the (obviously AI-assisted) MAHA report might provide the context for a concrete example of how LLMs fabricate citations. It was even easier than I thought. Neither of the first two citations exist, and even similar papers with that title don’t support the claims made.

It is a little weird to me countries aren’t more aggressively, formally trying to take advantage of the U.S. science brain drain. Once in a lifetime opportunity to buy low on Non-Dumbass Americans with PhDs who just wanna look into microscopes and quietly cure ass cancer as our country eats shit.

Encryption Is Not a Crime Encryption is not a crime, encryption protects all of us. Encryption, and especially end-to-end encryption, is an essential tool to protect everyone online. Attempts to undermine encryption are an attack to our fundamental right to privacy and an attack to our inherent right to security and safety.

Encryption Is Not a Crime Discussion

Pennies are essentially worthless. But if I stole 7 billion of them from Mark Zuckerberg, I think he’d call that theft.

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in busiess — you’re in organized crime.

Less than a day apart.

relatedly:

C# code to add a command using WithHttpCommand.

Aspire 9.2 new dashboard features, day 11:

'WithHttpCommand' is now a first-class citizen, allowing you to invoke HTTP endpoints from the dashboard 🌏

The example below demonstrates a command that calls the '/reset-db' endpoint on a resource.

#dotnet #aspire

sigh

absolutely brilliant, thanks!

silly question: is there an rss feed as well, or just the newsletter?

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.

This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

who asked for this

that answers the question of “will it blend”

unsure if you know or checked it out but there’s a fork of sunshine called apollo which allegedly has more built in features such as virtual monitor or hdr support

I personally couldn’t really see the difference, but many swear by it

@devlead - Mattias Karlsson's Blog - SLNX Finally here📄 The new .NET solution format has evolved from being messy and bloated to being focused and clean

Here's some good news: we can finally start using .slnx files which will dramatically reduce merge conflicts and other pain with your bloated sln files!

www.devlead.se/posts/2025/2...

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I admire President Macron for saying this right to Trump‘s scowling face:

“I support the idea of Ukraine being compensated first.”

“Second of all, those who paid should be compensated, not by Ukraine, by Russia. Because they started the war.”

Fucking glorious.

as long as we don’t sell out our values just to appease american billionaires, think we should all be game

but doubt that new government is quite pro privacy and open choice

Good time for a reminder:

BSI untersucht Open Source Software "Nextcloud" Im Rahmen eines Projektes zur Codeanalyse von Open Source Software (CAOS) hat das BSI die Open Source Kollaborationssoftware "Nextcloud" auf ihre Sicherheitseigenschaften untersucht.

Germany's cybersecurity agency has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Nextcloud cloud file syncing and sharing platform that can be used to bypass 2FA security systems

www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Service-N...

Once You're Laid Off, You'll Never Be the Same Again – Mert Bulan It’s been over a year since one of the most significant turning points in my life, and it’s time to reflect on that.

Once You're Laid Off, You'll Never Be the Same Again Discussion

This one in particular is so cool (especially if you love sci-fi):

pudding.cool/2024/07/scifi/

Never been more relevant.

Build a Tiny Certificate Authority For Your Homelab Let's make a tiny, standalone CA! We'll use a Raspberry Pi 4, YubiKey 5 NFC, and Infinite Noise TRNG.

Build a tiny CA for your homelab with a Raspberry Pi Discussion

It’s pretty much all mismanagement. Adopting new tech prematurely? Mismanagement. Changing creative direction in production? Mismanagement. Iterating on content 3+ times? Mismanagement. Adding major features in production? Mismanagement.

Poor planning, failure to follow plans - all mismanagement.

GitHub - clemensv/messaging: Resource collection for messaging and eventing Resource collection for messaging and eventing. Contribute to clemensv/messaging development by creating an account on GitHub.

I made a substantial update to my "messaging and eventing resources" page, adding the CNCF xRegistry project and related subprojects, pending proposals for Apache Avro, a section on Microsoft Fabric RTI, and a new talk recording. github.com/clemensv/mes...

What are the Magical Clocks for? At Re:Invent last week, AWS announced DSQL, their new serverless SQL database. As a fan of distributed SQL databases I have been enjoying reading about the...

NULL BITMAP: in honour of DSQL's release last week I wrote about what the point of having extremely precise trustworthy clocks is buttondown.com/jaffray/arch...