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cabbey

@cabbey@phpc.social

sourcerer @ SmugMug, photo geek, dad, licensed rocket scientist (L2 w/ NAR and Tripoli).

This is MY stream of consciousness. I don’t speak for my employer, club, or hobby.

Fiscally conservative, socially liberal; he/him

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andrewfeeney, to php
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I'm not sure if people outside the community realise just how much it is powered by sheer bloody-minded oppositionalism in response to those who claim PHP is not a good language.

cabbey,
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@andrewfeeney I was mostly thinking of the chorus.

cabbey,
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@andrewfeeney I have proposed chumbawumba’s “tub thumping” as our community’s theme song for just that reason.

ramsey, (edited ) to random
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Can someone explain how Vocaloid words? I’m trying to figure out who did the vocals/speaking on several Porter Robinson tracks, and he apparently used the Avanna voice from Vocaloid 3. So, is he the one providing the vocals, and his voice goes through the synthesizer, or is it fully generated by the synthesizer?

cabbey,
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@ramsey Vocaloid is a full text to audio system. For speaking you enter the text (with optional phonetic markers iirc). For singing you input the lyrics as text and the tune to sing it to as a basic sheet music like notation. There are many voices to choose from and I seem to recall most of them support a few adjustable values.

cabbey,
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@ramsey as I understand it, yes. I don’t own a copy, but have been adjacent to its use a few years back.

ramsey, to random
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I just discovered a Mexican/Chinese fusion restaurant nearby, and I know what’s for dinner tonight!

cabbey,
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@ramsey @kboyd I did one time have a Mexican fried rice dish. It was really good. Chinese style rice, fried with some tomatoes, onions and chilies in place of the traditional peas and carrots, with bits of chorizo and eggs.

cabbey, to random
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Sad day in my mastodon usage. I finally broke down and figured out how to block an individual.

🤦 only to then find out it doesn’t do what I want and I also need to mute them?

🤬 only to then find out that because they are spamming several tags I follow I still see their inane crap.

cabbey,
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@derickr correct. On a mainstream instance with thousands of users.

kevbob, to portland
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    cabbey,
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    @kevbob it was a glorious two days.

    kboyd, to random
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    So the media has decided to run with "Discord is a great coordination tool; Here's why that is bad for Mastodon".

    When what they should focus on is actually "Discord is absolutely terrible at stopping its platform from being used as a cyberattack vector".

    cabbey,
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    @ian @kboyd see this thread: https://phpc.social/@thisismissem@hachyderm.io/111955176369563956

    ramsey, to random
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    YouTube likes to show me bra ads for “women of a certain age.” I’m not sure what that says about me.

    cabbey,
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    @ramsey for a long time they kept showing me ones for flat chested women. I used it as a standing example of how bad their data science was at categorizing viewers. (For those that don’t know me personally, I’m a bit overweight, even my moobs aren’t that small, and my wife certainly isn’t.)

    thisismissem, (edited ) to random
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    That's something I'd love a reporter covering this spam wave to know: Discord is being used to coordinate illegal activity, and discord has no mechanisms for people to report abuse.

    abuse@ and support@ emails are dead ends, and their contact form has no "report abuse" option that works. Reporting it via the child safety team also didn't work.

    Update: TechCrunch covered it: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/21/discord-took-no-action-against-server-that-coordinated-costly-mastodon-spam-attacks/

    cabbey,
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    @ian Discord's. (whatever ISP is providing connectivity to that discord server in question.)

    cabbey,
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    @ian ugh. I hadn't done the looking to see who was their upstream. :/

    cabbey,
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    @thisismissem @illumi241 @verge @404mediaco @theregister @BNetzA time to go upstream to their service provider then?

    jwz, to random
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    Harassing botnets with zipbombs.

    The idea is this: instead of just blocking IP addresses that hit honeypot URLs, feed them a compressed document that massively expands on their end, making them run out of memory and crash.

    This is extremely...
    https://jwz.org/b/ykMS

    cabbey,
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    @evilcookies98 yes. Very real.

    cabbey, to random
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    What in the hell is this supposed to show?

    cabbey,
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    @kboyd @maccath ugh. I assumed the chat feature in MAX was powered by farting cats, didn’t know they were using it elsewhere. That actually may explain some of the bizarre sentences we’ve been seeing.

    cabbey,
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    @kboyd @maccath ugh. Their what now?

    kevbob, to random
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    As your vengeful yet benevolent ruler, I have ordered all online recipes to remove the folksy stories and affiliate links, and the “jump to recipe” button to be replaced by the recipe.

    cabbey,
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    @kevbob https://theblower.au/@Maxton/111745940675289530

    thgs, (edited ) to php
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    What error level are you running psalm ?

    cabbey,
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    @thgs depends on the package/repo. I think we have a bunch at 1, a couple are 2-3, there’s an 8 (or maybe 7 now?) and one where I don’t think we bother because even at the highest you can go there’s just too much output to be useful.

    cabbey, to portland
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    Finally a bit of snow to be seen drifting down in CN85oh. Not sticking, so no accumulation… but some small whisps scampering around in the eddies of the wind contrasting on the damp black streets.

    cabbey,
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    @kevbob a more accurate question would be where is CN85oh. :) it’s a Maidenhead grid coordinate, a system the PDX Twitter Storm Team over here on masto seem to have adopted from the HAM community. I’m sure because of the overlap between the two. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead_Locator_System

    simonhamp, to php
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    Hey folks 👋🏼 got a little twisty thing to noodle on:

    If a class and an enum can equally implement an interface, does that mean it's safe to use them interchangeably when your method type-hints the interface that they both implement?

    🤔

    cabbey,
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    @dantleech @Crell @simonhamp couldn’t you just put the pretty print version as the backing value? Or did you have something else there?

    cabbey,
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    @simonhamp @Crell I would wager that any such use, with a class or an enum, would be a violation of the interface. The contract in the interface is all you are promised. Nothing more.

    queenofnewyork, to php
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    Don't learn , they say. It's a dead language, they say. There are no jobs, they add. Learn instead. It's much better. Jobs are plentiful.

    I don't know if it's because of this or some other reason, but we have had great success with finding PHP developers and have had an awful time trying to find JS developers. Not that we don't get applicants, but when you get to the interviews, it's like ... not good.

    So go ahead and learn PHP.

    cabbey,
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    @ramsey @queenofnewyork based on what I’m seeing in my network I would venture to say it’s the “very senior” part of that that is the problem more so than the part. :(

    ramsey, to random
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    I’ve never used LinkedIn Learning. Is its UI normally horribly unresponsive, or does it just not work well in Safari?

    cabbey,
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    @ramsey that ui being trash jives well with my recollection of it from a couple years back. Devtools revealed a ton of xhr calls that were timing out iirc.

    cabbey, to random
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    In 1994 I was an assistant help desk staffer for a short period. Part of the perks of that was that I was added to the lpadmin group and could control print queues and printers. Tonight I solved a home IT request by adding my son to the _lpadmin Open Directory group on his laptop so he can add a printer at school. 30 years. Nothing has changed.

    cabbey,
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    @kevbob not only did he not, he pulled a (stereotypical bad) manager and told me about it verbally late in the day late in the week before I took off for the holidays. Promptly failed to say anything through break, then as he was getting ready for bed the night before going back to school he asked if I was done with it yet. And of course his solution was to just give him full admin. Yeah... no.

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    cabbey,
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    @kevbob that’s the one out on 26 near tannesborne, right?

    kboyd, to random
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    How does a xenomorph use a water fountain? Big mouth or little mouth?

    cabbey,
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    @kboyd why not both?

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