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Di4na

@Di4na@hachyderm.io

SRE. Elixir Dev. Learner in Resiliency. French.
All Opinions are my own. And i have a lot.

Co-Founder and President Haruspex.dev

dom. He/him.

Blog: Softwaremaxims.com

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SpamapS, to random
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I always felt like "Site Reliability Engineer" was inadequate to describe what I do... https://medium.com/@Spamaps/the-sociotechnical-reality-engineer-8a51e31c841b

sue, to random
@sue@glasgow.social avatar

Not linking directly because I don't want to shit on projects I believe are genuinely trying to make the web better, but every time I see a post about "the small web" or a more "humane" web or whatever that includes phrases like this about content: "created without the motivation of financial gain" I sigh so deeply lol

I am begging ethical web enthusiasts to understand what an extreme privilege it is to spend time working on something without worrying about money

sue,
@sue@glasgow.social avatar

In my experience the folk who get most upset at the suggestion that they are in some way privileged are approx 100% white 🤡

whitequark, to random
@whitequark@mastodon.social avatar

me: "i like it how the entire LLVM project is one monorepo"
her: "when are you going to compile the entirety of LLVM to WebAssembly?"
me: "yes."
her: "... I said that as a joke"

whitequark,
@whitequark@mastodon.social avatar

afaict the compiler driver calls wasm-opt unconditionally if:

  • it is on PATH
  • you pass -On with n>0 to the linker

so to make it not spend 10 minutes of real time in wasm-opt you need to pass -O0 to the linker. i only figured this out by reading the sources of the compiler driver.

nobody should be figuring out compiler options by reading the sources of the compiler driver. nobody!

diana, to random
@diana@hachyderm.io avatar

@yvonnezlam Made famous in the NewCrafts closing keynote … was a perfect moment set up by other talks here.

yvonnezlam,
@yvonnezlam@mastodon.social avatar

@r343l @diana It is such a struggle. The tech work ethos of "everything must be a project" makes it even harder to deal with the equivalent of "people are not putting their dirty dishes in the dishwasher" until it's become "we've run out of dishes AND the counters are piled high AND by the way, people are not putting their dirty dishes in the dishwasher."

brainwane, to random
@brainwane@social.coop avatar

Revisiting and appreciating @HeyChelseaTroy 's https://chelseatroy.com/2023/04/21/whats-the-point-of-tech-conferences/

"concentrate the right groups of people into a space to catalyze conversations that lead to Big Things"

"Cons become worth it from the conversations that happen between folks who otherwise might not have met, that endure beyond the event itself"

"I (and you) have almost certainly benefited from cons we’ve never been to and never heard of."

brainwane,
@brainwane@social.coop avatar

The "Cons are not industry newsletters" part is particularly interesting, as I also think about it through the lens of public professional recognition and public mastery validation, and how culturally discouraged it is in our subculture to say "I am seeking the professional respect of my profession."

https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2018/the-ambition-taboo-as-dark-matter/
@HeyChelseaTroy

danielpunkass, to random
@danielpunkass@mastodon.social avatar

I go to fix one bug and pretty soon I'm revamping an entire interface. It's the story of my life. This is what happens when indie developers don't have product managers telling them what to do. The agony and the ecstasy.

CSLee, to random
@CSLee@mastodon.social avatar

THE CODE REVIEW ANXIETY WORKBOOK IS OUT

https://developer-success-lab.gitbook.io/code-review-anxiety-workbook-1

This workbook takes the code review anxiety intervention that we designed and tested in our empirical research (https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8k5a4) & distills it into a self-paced workbook for you. It's designed for you to read & work through as many times as you wish and provides you with the tools you need to mitigate & manage your anxiety about giving or receiving code reviews.

@seresearchers

1/3

baldur, to random
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Making a note of all the “expert” commentators who seem genuinely surprised at the resistance “AI” is getting from the public and regulators. You don’t have to agree with the reasons, but they’re generally obvious with a basic analysis. Anybody surprised probably isn’t worth much as an analyst

evacide, to random
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When I talk about digital privacy, there is always some smug genius who shrugs and tells me, "Who cares? We all know we don't have any privacy anyway." Nothing could be more wrong. Convincing you that the fight is already over to the way people in power get you to stop resisting.

grimalkina, to random
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"Each assemblage gains emergent properties produced from interactions between its components and relies on those interactions to continue existing. For instance, a tight- knit neighbourhood can build a collective memory about the reputation of all of its members and develop norms to promote prosocial behaviour. "

(still reading this paper https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/112440065311802043 )

grimalkina,
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"Rather than thinking of categories as what people are or possess, they can be conceptualized as environments that people inherit, inhabit and change"

SCREAMS FOREVER not nature vs nurture but a secret third thing!!!! damn are we allowed to be phenomenologists in psychology again

jessamyn, to random
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Drop-In Time toots! I made a few little social media posts (thanks Canva!) about the fact that drop-in time exists and it was busy today.

First: a pregame request to track down a fiendishly expensive textbook in a... less expensive form. It's in the 15th edition and I could find the 14th. I respect the rights of authors to make money off of their work but the "No you have to have this edition and we print a new one every year" textbook scene is a racket. Could I find it? Of course I could.

jessamyn,
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Sandy brought a young person who had clearly been through a rough patch, now staying with her. This person had two broken phones with locked-up SIM cards, part of an SSD drive that needed a new enclosure (and a proprietary one?) and a Google account they couldn't access because the recovery number was on one broken phone and the logged in Google account was on the other. The kid had moved, was nowhere near their old IP addresses, had no other devices. Messy. A great argument against passkeys

ludicity, to random
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club avatar

I've just invented a new way to filter out employers that haven't done any diligence:

https://github.com/Nikhil-Suresh/did-you-actually-check-my-github/tree/main

damonism, to random
@damonism@aus.social avatar

This post reminded me of one of my favourite stories from my old job. I was working at a research library and got a call from a librarian at a departmental library. She said, essentially: I know it’s a long shot but I’m looking for this specific document that was used for this one-off event 25 years ago and which never had any official status and which we know exists but doesn’t seem to be mentioned publicly anywhere.

An hour later I called her back: I don’t have a copy of the document but the guy who wrote it is currently driving back from Bunnings and when he gets home he’ll email it to you. Is there anything else I can help you with?

I could hear her jaw hit the floor over the phone.

Sometimes when you’re good at your job it can look like magic. Finding out shit is literally my job, but it’s nice when people appreciate it. https://glammr.us/@jessamyn/112453470424319654

soatok, to random
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One of the Matrix developers saw fit to comment on my gist https://gist.github.com/soatok/8aef6f67fec9c702f510ee24d19ef92b?permalink_comment_id=5058644#gistcomment-5058644

In response, I actually looked at their code, identified two security vulnerabilities, and disclosed them to their security@ email.

This reaffirms the opinion I held previously.

danielnazer, to random
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I wrote a fairly mundane post on Reddit that led to me getting an AI-prompted message with suicide prevention resources.

I was completely mystified but then I realized it was probably because I included the phrase: "I find it hard to manage" (in a context like "I find it hard to manage the crabgrass in my garden ... ").

This is the future isn't it? AI pestering us with context-free misunderstood nonsense. I guess I should just count myself lucky that the AI didn't institutionalize me.

lauren, to google
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I'm being asked why I think is pulling the standard "Undo" function out many Chrome text input right-click context menus, and replacing that menu selection (without any advance warning or explanation) with their AI-based "Help me write".

I don't know, but I can guess. I suspect it was something like this at a team meeting:

"Hey, word is that we really need to up the AI engagement metrics. What haven't we covered yet? [ laughter ]"

"Well, we could get rid of context menus Undo and replace it with an AI selection. Then when users right-click during text input, they'll get the "Help me write" prompt where they've pretty much always expected undo to be."

"I like that. It'll be right in their faces. Do you think there will be any blowback from people not finding Undo in those context menus anymore?"

"Naw, pretty much everyone knows the keyboard shortcut for undo is Control-Z. They can just use the shortcut. Only a fool wouldn't know that. And we don't care about fools!"

"Absolutely. OK, I'm in. Should there be any kind of warning or explanation for this?"

"No way -- let it be a surprise to the users! More impact!"

"Wow, I can feel those AI engagement metrics going up already!"

"Great work, team! All AI, all the time!"

mgattozzi, to random
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Tired: Closing issues with "won't fix"
Wired: Closing issues with "THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT."

garius, to random
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Have had to read a lot of book reviews in academic journals this week for reasons.

Amazing how many of them can be summarised as:

"this book is factually accurate but also makes our area of study seem too interesting to normal people. Not recommended."

davidkaye, to random
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Poland is trying to get to the bottom of the previous government's use of Pegasus & perhaps other kinds of spyware. It's impressive & deserves support & encouragement. Excellent Tim Starks/Cyberscoopl story here.

https://cyberscoop.com/inside-polands-groundbreaking-effort-to-reckon-with-spyware-abuses/

martin, to random
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Our university deployed a mail filter that rewrites URLs in emails to redirect them via a service that checks for bad websites. Somebody clever worked out that PGP-signed emails are exempt from the rewrite rule, so now people are starting their emails with "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE" even though they haven't used PGP at all, just to fool the filter 😂

Anybody sending malware links has probably also worked out that trick by now, thereby rendering the entire filter pointless

Julia, to random
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For more than a year, policy makers have been worried about the consequences of AI getting too powerful.

But it’s time to start worrying about the consequences of AI staying as dumb it currently is.

My latest for NYT Opinion (gift link):

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/opinion/artificial-intelligence-ai-openai-chatgpt-overrated-hype.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sE0.SV0g.r4iVMq0NT6z7&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

cassidy, to random
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Imagine if all the resources that have gone into chasing “AI” were spent paying humans to do interesting, creative things, instead.

1br0wn, to random
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“Doing better means resisting the siren call of one-to-one marketing. Until we jettison that fantasy, all of our industry’s brain power and financial investments will do nothing more than recreate surveillance capitalism, ultimately leading us back to the place we currently find ourselves: facing any citizens and governments demanding that we stop abusing privacy.” 🎯
https://techpolicy.social/@mnot/112438267275173799

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