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lewiscowles1986

@lewiscowles1986@phpc.social

Polyglot, using PHP since version 3, currently leading technical delivery and change in a Python, backend team.

I Love Linux, NodeJS, TypeScript, Python, PHP, Ruby, Golang, C.

Can be a snark, especially if stressed.

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aral, to linux
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Just installing Fedora Silverblue and realised that if you boot into the USB disk in legacy mode, it does a legacy install. If you boot into it in UEFI, it does a UEFI install.

Wish this was made clear in the interface and you could actually choose what you wanted. I mean, I really think UEFI should be the default no matter what these days with the option to change it if you really want to, no?

lewiscowles1986,
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@aral feels like it belongs under "expert install" as most folks don't know how to troubleshoot failed EFI

jasongorman, to random
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It sometimes feels like the last 25 years of progress in software development has just been thinking up cool names for the things we were doing in the previous 25 years.

lewiscowles1986,
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@jasongorman
So... What if the progress, was working on explaining things to folks that are not you, and standardising + big-fixing what you knew? Would that make you any happier about the low perceived rate-change?

drandrewv2, to random
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If Nigel Farage is the custodian of ‘British values’, there’s going to be a very, very, very long list of who doesn’t share them. Sign me up right away!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/26/nigel-farage-under-fire-said-muslims-not-share-british-values

lewiscowles1986,
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@drandrewv2 the list can include me

lewiscowles1986, to random
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We need some ability to allow users to disable sharing and replies

https://lmnt.me/blog/antisocial-club.html

I agree that it's not a use case I think is logical, and I'd argue is poorly thought out, but folks keep asking for it, and it offends me less than asking for permission to reply to some numbnut posting publicly in software with a reply button, then complaining because, shock horror. Folks read ui availability and public post as consent

lewiscowles1986, to random
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Pinterest use refspec to speed up builds

lewiscowles1986, to random
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Shopify nears C1M
https://www.shopify.com/news/performance%F0%9F%91%86-complexity%F0%9F%91%87-killer-updates-from-shopify-engineering
Technically impressive

GeePawHill, to random
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Three interesting things about the horizon game franchise. 1) It is graphically stunning. Many of the live-action scenes are fucking beautiful. My favorite is the forest areas.

lewiscowles1986,
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@GeePawHill is days gone the zombie game with hoards? If so. Was terrifying to be in the room while it was played. Even third party audience capture

lewiscowles1986,
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@GeePawHill I have a thing for the lighting effects. A younger me, perhaps not thinking too much chased some rays through a few fields, getting dehydration IRL because I wanted to know what they look like (answer, less impressive) underneath the clouds they shone through.

Having them in-game, although I'd like optional; builds interest for me.

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@GeePawHill
I wish that game had more peaceful modes

obeto, to random
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An undisputed truth.

#BlackMastodon

lewiscowles1986,
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@obeto this feels like an NRA campaign to get funding.

lewiscowles1986,
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@obeto joining NRA, which as others point out is problematic.

lewiscowles1986,
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@Life_is @obeto if you don't provide money, sure, have at it.

And that is my point, not applying itself maybe, but joining or paying into NRA feels like NRA propaganda

Having them disband also sounds far-fetched.

Edit: BTW it says join, not apply. How did you come to your nuanced view?

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@obeto @Life_is
Oh really
https://mas.to/@obeto/112510501044564001

shauna, to random
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If you want to follow along with Ghost's attempts to implement ActivityPub they are surprisingly hilarious

https://activitypub.ghost.org/day2/?ref=building-activitypub-newsletter

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@shauna
I wish this playful honesty could exist elsewhere

lewiscowles1986, to random
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A really annoying example of how wasteful you manufacturers can be. Toys where it's a "surprise" overcoming choice... Such a bad idea!

Shameful to see two popular brands engaging in this

Image of a scam children's toy costing £3 with a "playful" question-mark, meaning there is no way to "know" what is inside.
Image of a scam children's toy costing £3 with a "playful" question-mark, meaning there is no way to "know" what is inside. You can find out all the variants of this one, but which variant you get, we've no idea about.

lewiscowles1986,
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@bobmagicii we can't undo the junk that was. I think the celebration of billionaire vigilantes long before that hasn't helped either

nixCraft, to random
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Support for Windows 10 will end in October 2025. Rip goat. Would you upgrade to Win 11 ? Or something else? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-of-support

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@nixCraft
It came on the volterra Dec kit

AlexGallagher, to politics
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I don't intend to post every bit of Labour election material or for all candidates here, but this is Irene Campbell, my own Labour candidate in North Ayrshire.

Irene is an excellent candidate and will make an very good MP IMO.

In a sense of fairness and equity, I also post a photo of her main rival, Patricia Gibson MP of the SNP.

image/jpeg

lewiscowles1986,
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@AlexGallagher I'm upset, but willing to move past it 😂 (I can't recall why I asked)

simon, to random
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I'm on a flight and the in-flight WiFi blocks all forms of video

Any ideas how it might be doing that, given HTTPS? My best guess is that it could be filtering out known CDN host names that serve video

lewiscowles1986,
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@simon yeah DNS host name poisoning maybe. Can you use tor and find out if the videos work?

KathyReid, to microsoft
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Why does want to implement ? It's not about images. It's about modelling what workers do on Windows, and then replacing them.

The most expensive part of a computer is the fallible feelings-filled unpredictable meat sack that operates it.

Google has YouTube, Google Photos, Maps, and a bucket load of search data, Google Analytics, advertising, as well as it's data (e.g. transcriptions). And a bunch of data from Android services. From this data they can model speech, model videos and model advertising systems, and how humans respond to them.

But they can't model what people do on computers.

Amazon has Prime data, and a bucket load of compute. But no operating system data. They can build models based around e-commerce and advertising systems.

But they can't model what people do on computers.

Meta has waves hands enough analytics to model human behaviour in the Metaverse.

But they can't model what people do on computers.

Microsoft has GitHub.
Microsoft has LinkedIn.
Microsoft has SharePoint.
Microsoft has Teams.
Microsoft has Dynamics.
Microsoft has O365.
Microsoft has Windows telemetry data.

Microsoft can model what people do on (Windows) computers. Like fill out spreadsheets.Write emails. Synthesize web pages of research. Interact with colleagues on Teams. Create and edit documents.

Microsoft wants data so they can model what people do with operating systems.

Then replace them.

Imagine a CoPilot that doesn't just write buggy code. Imagine one that also does spreadsheets. That creates documents on SharePoint. That communicates with colleages on Teams. That has a customer pipeline on Dynamics.

That's what Recall is about - 360 degree surveillance of the worker, to model their functions, make them fungible, replicable - and replaceable.

lewiscowles1986,
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@KitMuse @KathyReid
Thanks. As I'm not using it enough, I'd clearly missed or overlooked.

ramsey, to random
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This is part of the reason I couldn’t get to a good place (mentally) in order to do a real “Saving Open Source” talk at #PHPTek:

From @geerlingguy: “2024 is the year corporate open source died”

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/corporate-open-source-dead

lewiscowles1986,
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@isaacs @ramsey @conservancy

Thank you, this is informative. It's nice that it matches my understanding, but I also thought your experience would be invaluable here.

I finally got the low-down on exactly your impact on node watching the documentary. Nice one again.

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@isaacs @ramsey @conservancy
What do you think of the FUTO movement and their license attempts?

Example https://gitlab.futo.org/alex/voiceinput/-/blob/master/FTL_LICENSE.md

lewiscowles1986,
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@isaacs @ramsey
How is ignoring, versus refusal differentiated?

If I refuse to license Ice or the military, which I can easily do with source available proprietary license?

lewiscowles1986,
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@isaacs @ramsey

Thanks, I think this is inconsistent with the earlier text:

> If a commercial entity makes a good faith effort to purchase a license, and the copyright owner refuses or does not respond within 30 days (or some explicit timeframe, but a month is probably enough for most situations.)

I also appreciate Isaacs participation, and am sure we won't solve this over mastodon. It's an interesting set of viewpoints.

lewiscowles1986,
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@ramsey FWIW I do find the licenses such as JetBrains license quite fair (except for their differentiation between individuals and businesses); same with Sublime Text.

That said I absolutely loved 90's and early 00's licenses; pay once, own forever, but no free updates, or limited free updates.

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