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acdha

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Software developer at a big library

(Note: if you followed @acdha this account is more related to my work interests and https://thepit.social/@acdha is more personal)

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acdha, to random
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Guess we're seeing a general stress test on Mastodon…

acdha, to random
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I'm glad someone collected all of the problems with in one convenient location:

https://bessey.dev/blog/2024/05/24/why-im-over-graphql/

joni, to random
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I have this older guy following me around at the park. Completely uninvited, he changes his walking direction to follow me around and slows me down and keeps me from my pace and podcasts. I have no interest to talking to him about himself for an hour.

Due to the layout of the park I cannot always avoid him. Today I told him directly I was late for work and couldn't talk. I picked up my pace and he CHASED ME. I'm so tired of this and would like to avoid changing my walking time. What the hell?

acdha,
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@joni I’m sorry. You shouldn’t have to deal with his poor decisions.

acdha, to random
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It’s really telling what these enormously profitable companies consider unnecessary expenses:
https://www.404media.co/google-legal-investigations-team-layoffs/

petrillic, to random
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Upside? We might find out who they’ve been laundering billions for in the fine art market. https://infosec.exchange/@patrickcmiller/112521007680683305

acdha,
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@petrillic see who preemptively says hackers are trying to frame them?

peter, to random
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pretty funny watching it dawn on the software community that they are, in fact, labor.
https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/112519917905563262

acdha,
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@hakamadare @peter @adriano A ton of people did get better jobs because their open source projects got them past first round screening or developed a social network they didn’t have because they weren’t part of the Berkeley/MIT/Stanford community. Better than the unpaid exposure exploitation but feels a lot like a postdoc doing useful work for industry where most of the money isn’t made by the author.

pnh, to random

Well. Over the last week and a half, what started as mysterious unprecedented lower back pain accelerated into complete immobility and more pain than I’ve ever experienced in my life. Now being admitted to hospital overnight. New experiences woo yay.

acdha,
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@pnh oh, that’s terrible. I hope you have a speedy recovery!

acdha, to random
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“A lot of the work to stem misinformation within non-English speaking communities falls on the shoulders of the very same community members who are most impacted by the misinformation, said Nguyễn. ‘That shouldn’t be the case.’”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/the-inside-story-of-the-youtube-influencer-who-peddles-misinformation-to-vietnamese-communities

foo, to random
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Today me: "Web browsers are modern marvels. They can do almost literally anything you could do with an OS 'native' application."

90s me: "Awesome, so all apps have shifted to web sites now?"

"Uh, so, most apps are a transparent embedded web browser displaying a web site which you can't get to through a normal web browser, and the concept of complex 'web sites' are shunned in favor of these apps."

"What, why?"

"Still not sure why."

"Is there any benefit to this madness?"

"No."

acdha,
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@foo the huge financial inertia of the ad-tech industry factors in, too. Companies pushed apps hard because they could get so much more data than a browser-based app would let them, which also meant that the platform vendors had a competing incentives since they get a cut of app sales. I increasingly view the last couple of decades as the industry selling out users.

acdha, to climate
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“The model estimates that, without interventions, 24%–75% of California's beaches may be completely eroded by 2100 due to future sea-level rise”

#ClimateChange
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JF006936

acdha, to random
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I wonder how often someone being turned down as a poor “culture fit” meant that the recruiter remembered to remove that part of the instructions
https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2024/05/after-whites-only-job-posting-va-tech-company-hit-with-fine-from-the-justice-department/

kjhealy, to random
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The horror twist of course is that it turns out the skeleton is also me

acdha,
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@jessamyn @kjhealy there are least 4 other people with my name who work in overlapping areas. I have multiple times found a post answering a question I had where I had to pause and check that I hadn’t somehow figured out something deeply obscure and forgotten about it entirely.

acdha,
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@becomingwisest I don't think people appreciate just how hard it is to maintain an alternate career as a weather-forecasting WWF star.

acdha, to random
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“When an AI system starts giving itself theoretical kids, you begin to see the problems that can happen when you start summarizing web content en masse”
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/googles-ai-overview-can-give-false-misleading-and-dangerous-answers/

acdha, to random
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This machine kills hornets:
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/electric-harps-protect-honey-bees-from-asian-hornets/

paulmcaleer, to random
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Kia is killing it with EVs. This feels like a successor to the Niro, unless that little guy lives on as a cheaper model, but: 372-mile range, chunky good looks, seats 5. Honestly, I may wait to see this one. Coming to the US in 2025 or 2026.

In contrast, US manufacturers are sticking with overpriced EV SUVs with features like Has No CarPlay and Does Crab Walk You'll Never Actually Use.

https://www.motor1.com/news/720615/kia-ev3-coming-to-us/

acdha,
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@paulmcaleer what about “costs more than the U.S. household median income”? Everyone seems to be competing on that feature.

acdha, to random
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"Five years on, the Sprint / T-Mobile 4-to-3 mobile merger made the US one of the most expensive mobile markets in the world. While monthly prices were falling and continue to fall across mobile markets and while the same was true in the US mobile market prior to the merger, after the merger prices in the US either stopped falling altogether or fell at a much slower rate. The 4-to-3 mobile merger in the US led to higher prices and consumer harm."
https://www.lightreading.com/operations/us-mobile-prices-sky-high-after-t-mobile-s-sprint-buy-report

mistersql, to random
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Regarding MS Recall, I've been running #timesnapper on my machines for ages and #rescuetime - I think MS needs to ask people if they want to turn it on, people are either going to really like it or want to leave no trail (and boy do we leave trails, in browser and file system w/o Recall). Other than that, this doesn't seem to warrant the drama people are tweeting.

https://timesnapper.com/

acdha,
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@mistersql I think it’s coming against the backdrop of various Windows features you can’t turn off and corporate spyware on the rise. This kind of thing needs to be highly trustworthy but I think a lot of people are jumping to the end game where it’s not possible to disable in Windows 14. Those little metrics-juicing games they play cost more in trust than they generate in profits.

mjibrower, to random
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Just gonna keep boosting “Linux on the desktop” jokes

acdha, (edited )
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@mjibrower I soooo want to make jokes about it being the “Year of Linux on the cooktop” jokes but sadly the Thermador line runs OpenBSD(!) instead:

https://media3.bsh-group.com/Documents/9001276698_B.pdf

NotTheLBCGuy, to random
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Three years from now, when vendors are ripping their hugely expensive and utterly failed AI bullshit out of their products, their Product Owners will be laughing and shaking their heads and saying “what WERE they thinking?” And then rushing to implement the next digital panic to dogshit their products because they can’t let their competitors get a lead on the brand new dogshit.

acdha,
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@NotTheLBCGuy @tweedge I guess at least the silver lining to it costing so much is that they won’t pull a Google and just leaving it unmaintained for a decade before removing it after something finally breaks.

cstross, (edited ) to random
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Can anyone recommend a decent iTerm2 replacement for macOS now that iTerm2 has jumped the shark and is pushing ChatGPT integration down my throat? (Preferably one that is (a) free and (b) doesn't require hand-editing JSON files to change the font size and typeface.)

EDIT: hint: point (b) is crucial—if I have to hand-edit a config file that's an automatic fail. Life is too short to be forced to futz around to configure a basic tool.

acdha,
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@cstross what are you looking for which Terminal.app doesn’t do? That could narrow down the options.

acdha, to random
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Interesting to contrast https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112479276509113651 with:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-01/google-trims-jobs-in-trust-and-safety-while-others-work-around-the-clock

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-17/openai-dissolves-key-safety-team-after-chief-scientist-ilya-sutskever-s-exit

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23638823/microsoft-ethics-society-team-responsible-ai-layoffs

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/18/facebook-parent-meta-breaks-up-its-responsible-ai-team.html

acdha, to random
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Another entry in the “even high-profile teams struggle to use C safely” file:
https://www.tenable.com/blog/linguistic-lumberjack-attacking-cloud-services-via-logging-endpoints-fluent-bit-cve-2024-4323

sdether, to random
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If you're going to use a date picker with no manual entry for birthday, don't default it to today. It's highly unlikely I use your website on the day or even the year I was born

acdha,
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@sdether I especially like when they have some obtrusive validation nag when you start to fill it out in the natural control order and get two warnings before you get to the year. It’s such a harsh “nobody who works on this cares” reminder.

petrillic, to random
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You know what this company needs? More ticketing systems.

acdha,
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@petrillic hey dawg, I hear you like TASKs in your RITMs in your REQs!

Bonus points: SN implemented most of their validation in the front end so if you use the API you used to constantly worry about making tickets which aren’t usable.

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