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kerfuffle

@kerfuffle@mastodon.online

Musician, storywriter, gamer, software developer and social science enthusiast. Into #java, #kotlin, #metal, #agile, #DDD, #horror, #lovecraft, #quantumtechnology, #softwarearchitecture, #dnd, #pathfinder, #overwatch and #starcraft

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kerfuffle, to SVMetaSearch
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I found too expensive, but seeing how every alternative has just proven to just be is making me reconsider. and / are also down.

kerfuffle,
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@shadowwwind @Mojeek Thnx for the tip. Mojeek looks good.

kerfuffle, to Kotlin
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2.0 is out!

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsnew20.html

jon, to microsoft
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Microsoft Recall:

"As you use your PC, Recall takes snapshots of your screen. Snapshots are taken every five seconds while content on the screen is different from the previous snapshot. "

Part of Copilot. Big brother is watching.

kerfuffle, (edited )
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@jon


Microsoft states the snapshots will be stored locally. They don't say whether they will train models on them, stimulate users to back up the snapshots in One Drive, or analyze the data online besides making snapshots.

And as they state in https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/20/introducing-copilot-pcs/ their SLM's are trained locally, but the NPU is connected to LLM's in Azure Cloud. If we can trust data-hungry Microsoft, the separation serves to address our privacy concerns. I have doubts.

kerfuffle, to Java
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Sometimes, when I talk to frontend developers about how requires you to have more presentation awareness in the projection side of your server application as you generate content in HTML, which in the world is pretty much what we did with , Freemarker and Thymeleaf, I'm met with amazement.

No dis, but be aware: There's a generation of capable professional frontend developers who don't know backend servers can serve HTML just fine, and not just Json over HTTP.

kerfuffle, to random
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Story Points:

  • Doubt between 3 and 5 does not average out to a 4.
  • 3 stories of 5 does not equal 15.
  • 5 stories of 1 does not equal 1 story of 5.
  • As you progress and improve your understanding and ability to deliver, will you deliver more points, lower your estimations, or divide work better?

A velocity, measured in expected estimated unspecified effort, to measure a size in multiple unspecified dimensions, expressed via incomparable numbers, is meaningless.

EUCommission, to random
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Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.

Today, we launched our new Mastodon instance. It will ensure a privacy-focused space to engage with and get the latest from our Commissioners, departments, and the official voices of the Commission.

We want to thank @Mastodon for stewarding us and helping us make this possible.

Fostering European digital players is vital to our strategy for a stronger .

This is a unique opportunity to grow the community even more. Let's get there!

kerfuffle,
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@EUCommission @Mastodon

In your profile you mention this account being verified, but it's still missing a green verification. You can add a rel=me backlink to europa.eu to make that happen.

kerfuffle, to random Dutch
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Hoe gaat de rijksoverheid om met ons belastinggeld? De @rekenkamer maakt het inzichtelijk.

https://onsgeldontcijferd.rekenkamer.nl/

kerfuffle, to architecture
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Too often, what people call technical debt is simply an encounter with the limits of functional anticipation. If you think a system will never need to do X given the foreseeable usecases and then one day it does need to do X, you don't have technical debt.

Technical debt arises when you then try to shoehorn the needed functionality in, instead of asking/making/taking the time and effort to redesign it.

kerfuffle,
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In fact, I've come across more technical debt in systems that tried to anticipate more functionality than reasonably foreseen: overzealous abstraction and open-endedness in a technical implementation can be a nightmare to work with. It's healthier to foster a culture where developers can cooperatively make disciplined adjustments to their software.

AndiMann, to random
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"Did @IBM make a $6.4 billion blunder by buying @HashiCorp?"

Good question and great read!

by @SJVN via @ElReg
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/10/opinion_column_ibm_hashicorp/

kerfuffle,
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@AndiMann
Tbh that BSL move by HashiCorp has been blown a little out of proportion. Unless you're making a direct competitor to their tools by using their sourcode, it doesn't affect you. Anyone that simply uses Terraform for infra automation can keep going.

Now of course if IBM goes and makes that usecase paid-only after all (which may even be the reason for the BSL move pre-acquisition), we'll be happy with the foresight of people making a timely fork.

kerfuffle, to Java
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Who here knows a CDN that offers edge computing capability for the JVM / GraalVM?

AWS Lambda@Edge only supports JavaScript and Python.
Cloudflare only supports JavaScript.
Fastly supports WebAssembly.

kerfuffle,
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Actually, it may be soon that with WASI support as offered by Fastly can be targeted from / . Nice article on the development by @sdeleuze at https://seb.deleuze.fr/introducing-kotlin-wasm/

Would be sweet if I can have a static / website that uses for interaction with a backend written in Kotlin and compiled to running on an edge location using .

Longplay_Games, to random
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"If you only listen to people like you you'll end up in a bubble"

Yes, but have you considered that the people outside this bubble are yelling so loudly I can hear them anyhow, and trying to muffle their voices is the only way to stay sane?

kerfuffle,
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@Longplay_Games Also, the group of people warning of the dangers of bubbles and echochambers seems to have a sizable intersection with the group of people who will gang up screeching and drown out any moderate points of view.

I'm pretty sure I can feed my "I agree so much with this, it'd be a shame if it were unfounded. I wonder what counter arguments I can find" doubts without needing access to that group of people.

Steeph, to random Dutch
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Nog steeds massale protesten in Georgië (kandidaat lid EU). Nog steeds geen nieuws in NL.
Ik snap dat niet.

kerfuffle,
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@Steeph NOS heeft het anders allang gerapporteerd? https://nos.nl/artikel/2520222-georgiers-blijven-protesteren-tegen-russische-schaduw-die-over-land-hangt

blogdiva, to Eurovision
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THANK YOU EUROPEANS FOR EMBRACING THE FEDIVERSE 👍🏾
don't believe the hype about Twitter blowing up thanks to mainstream media journalism.

NOPE.

Twitter exploded in 2010 due to the and . that year alone it broke signup records thanks to Brasil, Argentina & Venezuela.

natural events like the show the power of distributed social media. with and the this summer, the is on its way to make techbro sites irrelevant.

kerfuffle,
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@blogdiva When you write a post, you can select what language it's in. Many people post in more than 1 language and forget to set it appropriately. If I write in Dutch but set my language to English, everyone with English set as their profile language will not see a translation option - at least: depending on your Mastodon client.

kerfuffle, (edited ) to random
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It's baffling how vocally people allow dislike to replace certainty when there is none. Will all the people, eager to involve and blame all sorts of things, and making the wildest speculations regarding at also rectify their posts and invalidate their assumptions once they find out what actually happened?

kerfuffle, to chrome
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You cannot visit a page from a browser without LinkedIn creating an account based on the account info that you're logged in with on that Chrome browser, even if you cancel the account creation process that LinkedIn automatically starts.

Because you didn't actually create that account, you cannot delete it. You have to complete the signup process just so you can then proceed to delete it.

Does no one at challenge this kind of implementation?

mcc, to random
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Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

kerfuffle,
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@mcc
I remember reading @codinghorror 's blog https://blog.codinghorror.com/what-does-stack-overflow-want-to-be-when-it-grows-up/ about SO's future challenges and I really liked how he described its premise (he co-founded SO but left over a decade ago). That future is now here, and it's a sudden and far cry from the community of peers that we all respected: Programmers don't want to be associated with it anymore, and are finding they have no say over their own content and attribution.

ashleycollinge, to python
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Anyone have any web frontend recommendations? I've only ever used HTML/JS, but I'd like to use a framework to maybe make things simpler/quicker(?) I come from a Python background if that helps!

kerfuffle,
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@ashleycollinge

Before picking any framework, I think CSS is most important. After that, I'd go for htmx (and use your Python knowledge for the SSR) as I think that's where the web should go, and for Angular / React if you want to get paid right now.

verge, to random
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Jack Dorsey says he’s no longer on Bluesky’s board https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/5/24149543/jack-dorsey-gone-bluesky-board

kerfuffle,
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@verge @Tweakers

Zearin, to 11ty
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@zachleat Suppose I wanted to run using its own dev server, but I also wanted to tinker with (https://htmx.org) to learn about it.

Q1: Is this possible now?

Q2: Will this be possible in the not-too-distant future?

kerfuffle,
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@eleventy @Zearin @zachleat Combining SSR with a static site generator isn't the first combination I'd be looking for, but according to https://htmx.org/docs/#requests any server that can respond to an AJAX request and send HTML would suffice. HTMX 2 will also support websockets and SSE; not sure if 11ty does?

kerfuffle, to random Dutch
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https://tapas.io/episode/3117097

kerfuffle, to AWS
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People may want to reconsider using for static web hosting, or at the bare minimum come up with convoluted names and treat their S3 bucket name as sensitive information. If your S3 bucket name comes up in any web search (for example because it's literally in a public GitHub repo), that's a potential attack vector.

https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1

kerfuffle,
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It seems have picked up on this, and will be taking measures after all.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeffbarr_how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-activity-7191190505425113088-_mS0

quii, to random

I've been playing around with HTMX for the past 6 months or so and it's flipping fantastic.

Here's a post where I describe why I think you should look into it https://quii.dev/HTMX_is_the_Future

You don't have to go through hell to build great web applications

kerfuffle,
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@quii Just stumbled on your post and found you on Mastodon. Excellent write-up!

I remember visiting frontend conferences where people were struggling to explain the value of progressive enhancement. Then one year, the frontend movement discovered AngularJS and from there every few months a new SPA thing emerged to solve the mess the previous incarnation left behind.

I am so glad is catching on with full stack developers.

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