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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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grimalkina, to random
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I want to see absolutely no sensible and practical advice here. What programming language should I start vaguely and in a chill way teaching myself if I just want to experience something fun or elegant or interesting in and of itself, assuming I have no goal for using it to do anything really (outside of learning)

Di4na,
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@grimalkina ofc, that is what having to deal with the whole world feels like

Welcome to engineering. I think we have cookies. Somewhere. Hey John, do you know where they are?

luis_in_brief, to random
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BRB, working on an open whimsy license
https://socel.net/@catandgirl/112326756956012057

Di4na,
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@luis_in_brief i feel like I am lacking some cultural point to understand the last 2 cells. Why not go there?

Di4na,
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@luis_in_brief ah i see. Well, that is why I am an engineer I guess. Grim is expected :D

Di4na, to random
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"I keep everything default".

I am sorry @joshbressers , but you just lost your PC gamer card ;)

NGICommons, to AdobePhotoshop
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🔊 Can a digital commons approach reinforce OSS security?

✉️ Please read the opinion blog post from members of the @NGICommons consortium

ℹ️ For more information, please reach out to us

https://commons.ngi.eu/2024/04/24/responding-to-xz-utils-can-a-digital-commons-approach-reinforce-oss-security/

@martelinnovate @OpenForumEurope @openfuture @cnrs @linuxfoundation @EC_NGI @EC_DIGIT @EC_OSPO

Di4na,
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@NGICommons @martelinnovate @OpenForumEurope @openfuture @cnrs @linuxfoundation @EC_NGI @EC_DIGIT @EC_OSPO I mean, I cannot disagree; it is not even wrong. It is just... I mean, I get how you get to that point, but it is so far from the reality of maintainers.

This would be great, and I am pretty sure I would support it. But also, what would it have done for xz? Can you point out the link between xz and what you offer here?

Di4na,
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@jankrewer I mean sure. Who will pay my employer that day, the day before, the day after, my travel and my hotel?

Also nothing you said links to what happened to xz.

Di4na,
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@jankrewer I will respectfully say, that if you actually want a discussion about a Digital Commons where said ressource constrained maintainers are heard, an in person workshop in a different country during their workweek may be a bit problematic?

But it seems that is not on the nose enough for you?

Di4na,
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@jankrewer I have done it in the past and I am doing it here.

The result is that you had nothing of substance to offer. We are used to it. More energy spent for nothing. Consider retrospecting :)

https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/open-source-hobbyists-turf

krakenbuerger, to random German
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Is this a good place to talk about LinkedIn? 🤔 How do you deal with connection requests by people you've never met or talked to before? Are there any "good" reasons to accept those?

Di4na,
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@krakenbuerger Will be hard to answer you, I am the odd one that decided that LI was bringing me nothing, so I just deleted my account a couple years ago :D

grimalkina, to random
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The New Developer research project from the Developer Success Lab + yours truly is now available as a preprint -- we hope this will facilitate easier downloading/sharing/and citing of the work

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/2gej5

In this work we study how beliefs about brilliance & toxic "contest cultures" undermine software teams' capacity to confront the last few years of genAI in software e.g. by fomenting AI Skill Threat. But we also explore the protective effects of learning and belonging cultures

Di4na,
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@grimalkina I find this cool, but I have strong problems with the way the paper seems to embrace the fact that learning to use AI is "upskilling" and something that we need to adapt to.

I am particularly surprised to see no support for this model in the paper. I understand where you come from. And I like a lot of stuff in there. But damn does it make it hard to adapt it to my reality.

Di4na,
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@grimalkina I think deep down, it is the whole talk of "the transition" as if inevitable that feels like this. Our reading around my networks is that there is... Nothing to transition into and that these tools don't impact a lot.

Which makes reading this feel like I am on another planet.

Which tbf. May just be because of the sheer size of the industry.

Di4na,
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@grimalkina yep yep. Just feel strange

grimalkina, to random
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Having a normal one

Di4na,
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@grimalkina definitely not something I keep harking, but from the side of "of you want to change the results, look first at what the tools generate and communicate". Happy to see work on the other side of the coin.

Di4na, to random
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After listening to your podcast on security.txt, i have a use case to mandate it @joshbressers @kurtseifried

If i can easily extract an information of where to contact you, i can validate that you actually read the inbox of that email

Makes it something i can check for compliance.

federicomena, to random
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I am slowly starting to understand how fontconfig's configuration works... and getting this urge to REWRITE ITS FUCKING DOCUMENTATION.

Di4na,
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@federicomena I mean, it would be useful, but also... Have you considered trying something a bit less madness-inducing? Like idk, proving P=NP ?

QuietMisdreavus, to random
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love too spend my lunch break calling pharmacies to find stock of my ADHD meds

i swear if i wasn't worried about having feds knock on my door i'd make a fucking dashboard of which pharmacies have which stimulants in stock, like VaccinateCA did back when covid vaccines were hard to find

Di4na,
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@QuietMisdreavus In my case it is easier. They are out for the whole country, no one have them....

romeu, to random
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Me reading this:

“Come ON! Those have different meanings and add precision!”

…

“Oh damn people are using the more precise in a general sense to ‘sound smarter’” this is awful

…

“Do I… do I sound like a TOTAL ass when I speak ?”
https://andersonchris.medium.com/the-nerd-urban-dictionary-abcd55ca7ac4

Di4na,
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@romeu I mean, mostly yes? I am used to it so i stopped really looking at it, too hard to go through modern tech without it. But I appreciate that I barely use the words from that lexicon, except in their precise expert domain for these specific use case.

So who knows. Maybe I am the one that is missing out.

luis_in_brief, to random
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TIL the EU has the formal concept of data altruism and… how did I not know this. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/data-governance-act-explained

Di4na,
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@luis_in_brief :cough: see for example the whole blunder s***show that has been the Pile 2

cstross, to random
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If you're interested in understanding what's wrong with corporations right now, what's driving our global capitalist omnishambles? This is an amazingly insightful (if long, and entertainment-industry focussed) deep dive into the madness of modern management theories:

https://docseuss.medium.com/the-biggest-threat-facing-your-team-whether-youre-a-game-developer-or-a-tech-founder-or-a-ceo-is-8cd1ad359508

Di4na,
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@cstross Something I feel all these pieces miss is how the demographics play into this. The need to grow enormously and the need to spend so much money on everything that there is no real impact of doing it wrong (no nega feedback loop) is intimately linked to the fact the retirement schemes money needs to get invested somewhere. And there was bluntly not enough stuff to invest in.

So we have a whole industry dedicated to finding ways to do this, and modern management is the answer to that.

Di4na, to random
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This is a reminder to everyone who wants a Ferris Plushie to add your email to this so that they know it is worth doing a run.

I definitely do not still feel bad from missing both runs....

https://devswag.com/products/rust-ferris

Di4na,
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And yes, if a follower owns one that may appreciate a new home, slide in my private toots please

CatherineFlick, to random
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This is incredible. The rush to market means they throw everything but front facing functionality out the window. Dreadful.

https://mastodon.social/@kennwhite/112290497758846218

Di4na,
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@CatherineFlick Fun Fact: I know that everyone in my network of experts refuses to work for AI companies, just like they refused to work for crypto stuff before. I wonder if it would be useful for an investor to track that kind of sentiment and trend.

But I mean, my network was also betting on Rust nearly a decade ago, so...

aphyr, to random
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Leatherfolk who speak non-English languages, I wanna hear about how you do Dom/sub titles ("Sir", "boy", etc), diminutives, formality, that sort of thing.

I've spoken to quite a few people who say they switch to English for this, but I feel like there are probably neat cultural/grammatical options in other languages.

Di4na,
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@Xantw0 @aphyr yeah, you have a wildly different cultural context to them, usually a more intentional one.

polotek, to random
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I vividly remember the brief gold rush when the app store first launched. Indie devs were making millions of dollars just by charging a few bucks to download their app. Things have changed of course. The market is over-saturated, and the floor is always zero dollars. But IMO, it's should still be worth the price of a coffee to have a really good app that is valuable to you.
https://alcove.website/@mambocab/112288654684745718

Di4na,
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@polotek there is a lot to it. I pay for multiple of the software i use and i have no problem for that.

Part of the problem for devs is that we are used to being part of a system (Procurement) that made paying for software so hard that we invented a whole ecosystem to not deal with Procurement. We lost the payment aspect too, but it was a sacrifice we accepted.

So now it is how we naturally think of it.

Patricia, to random
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Me trying to explain modern development practices to normies:
Me: yeah, we don’t know how long it will take, or how much it will cost, tbh we don’t really know what we’re going to make. We need to figure that out. Get a feel for the people and the problem, make some stuff that seems useful and see how it goes.
Them: What kind of hippie bullshit is this???
Me: You should’ve seen the crap we made when we thought we knew what we were doing…
Them: Who would go along with this nonsense?
Me: … the people who had to deal with what we made before…?
Them: What part of this even partially resembles Engineering???
Me: so… the thing… that we’ll figure out is the thing we should make?
Them: yeah?
Me: Well, we’ll do that… But At Scale!
Them: what on earth does that even mean??? Gimme my money back!!!

Di4na,
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@Patricia fun fact, this is also how "real engineering" works. I know, i have been one

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