Human folly for 02023-06-12

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• Teching the tech (whatever.scalzi.com):

  Scalzi and Stross attack Star-Trek-style “science” fiction where the writers are just "teching the tech"

• 82 killing community (marginalia.nu):

  how #Reddit is ceasing to be a “village” due to the business imperative of growth and getting revenue. #enshittification

• (news.un.org):

  The #WHO recommends against #sweeteners because they “cause premature death among adults” and “do not help control body mass or reduce the risk of weight-related illnesses” #health #food-additives

• (who.int):

  actual #WHO guideline against #sweeteners. #CC BY-NC-SA #food-additives #health

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  discussion of new #WHO guideline against #sweeteners includes discussion of #nicotine, vaping, etc. Apparently Ribena, etc., also include artificial sweeteners now! #food-additives #health

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  discussion of #Microsoft installing #malware with #Edge

• Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft here is how to disable that (neowin.net):

  report of #Microsoft making #Edge into #malware that sends them every image you view so they can substitute a falsified “superresolution” version

• 9319 DIY pick and place (hackaday.io):

  Anthony Webb's DIY pick-and-place #fabrication project.

• Gccgo vs go calling overhead with C few questions (old.reddit.com):

  the gccgo #golang compiler has much lower overhead to call C code with cgo. #ffi

• To5F9Wwnpu8J (groups.google.com):

  #Golang (the non-gccgo version) uses segmented stacks, which means it has to switch stacks to call C code with cgo. #ffi

• Gccgo (go.dev):

  gccgo's #ffi. #golang

• Introducing the Zorchpad display demo (blog.za3k.com):

  #Za3k's post on the Zorchpad, his version of the #Zorzpad

• Heatshrink (github.com):

  "Heatshrink" LZSS data #compression library in C for memory-constrained embedded systems, by silentbicycle, though in some simple tests it seems to be 20 times slower than LZF at compressing (and slower than gzip too). Still, looks easy to use.