caoilte

@caoilte@mastodon.social

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dangillmor, to random
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On a multi-person video call this morning, we were asked what podcasts we listen to.

I didn't get a chance to chime in but here's my answer:

None regularly. I don't have the time, even at fast playback, to listen to something linear that I could scan much more quickly if it was text.

Podcasters, please post transcripts.

caoilte,

@dangillmor this reeks (potentially accidentally) of privilege.

podcasts are for cleaning, or for waiting in line, or for driving in traffic, or for walking to the subway.

caoilte, to programming

#Scala gets stick for being past the hype peak and yet there are already TWO fantastic speakers lined up for the next London Meetup in January. That and the New Year inspired me to look for upcoming #Kotlin and #Java talks but I couldn't find anything planned or much in the recent past. I didn't realise how fortunate I was. The London #Scala community is blessed with very interesting speakers and amazing volunteers (most particularly Zainab in this case). https://www.meetup.com/london-scala/events/294866415/

caoilte, to android

If you're on and are annoyed that your Mastodon app sometimes skips you straight to the latest post in your timeline (something that I have found to plague every Mastodon app I tried) then I thoroughly recommend trying out the latest release of @pachli. @nikclayton has put various related fixes into @Tusky over the last year but the latest release of @pachli (his fork of @Tusky) finally nails the reverse timeline reading experience I used to take for granted on Twitter.

MyWoolyMastadon, to random
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@PanDaemonium

I'm going back and forth with and . Tusky wins most of the time. I'll need to check out your suggestion.

caoilte,

@nikclayton oooh! You did it! Exciting. The fdroid link is broken for some reason. Gonna try this out now. Exciting. Even after your load more fix last year there are still major timeline bugs in thsky

gsuberland, to random
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Musk unilaterally turning off Starlink to thwart a Ukrainian counter-attack against Russian ships because he thought he knew better is a display of undeserved hubris and self-importance of such magnitude that I can't even begin to process it. Someone needs to fucking stop him. Now.

caoilte,

@gsuberland @matthewskelton the hubris was when he gave them free receivers for civilian use without expecting them to get turned into weapons. He blew a potential military contract payday for a public relations move that continues to back fire.

SecurityWriter, to random

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    caoilte,

    @SecurityWriter I was in the Alps over the summer and all the farmers were driving beat up old FWD estates and hatchbacks and all the tourists were turning up in giant modern SUV AWDs. Not a car expert but I genuinely find the modern need for AWD puzzling and wonder if it is a relatively recent displacement for some other development be it social or technical.

    briankrebs, (edited ) to random

    Are you a top or bottom person? Okay, get your mind out of the gutter. This is about how you typically read your feed here. Thanks for playing!

    caoilte,

    @osma @kallekn @nikclayton @megalodon so many features like this in all the clients for exactly this reason I suspect. Another one is remembering your scroll position if you close the app (instead of assuming you've read every post). Not something the API helps you with but self evidently a useful feature. Trivial for anyone with a non UI background and yet not implemented by any android client.

    Are0h, to random

    The Tusky situation isn't a big deal, but it does expose the level of entitlement many people have in this space because they have a certain background in the industry.

    People are not perfect, and the fedi is still a new frontier where many of us (who were not run off by racist pieces of shit) are here trying to answer some hard questions with no clear solutions.

    A lot of people need to take a breath and calm down.

    caoilte,

    @Are0h @datatitian maybe. If @nikclayton was a random commenter that might be fair. But I'm a casual user and I instantly recognised him from making the app usable for me - https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3000 - he clearly did a lot of work for the app. If admins couldn't find a way to work with someone that committed there is an issue. Surviving the departure of the founder is not guaranteed. there is now an official android app (which hilariously had the same load more bug Tusky used to last time I looked)

    caoilte,

    @nikclayton @Are0h @datatitian fair advice for any project eg the "Being Glue" presentation everyone is sharing. However, if there was any poetic justice the "Redhat guide to opensource governance" would actually explain the best way to make money out of stopping your product being open source...

    mcc, to random
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    Hi. You may have seen a boost from Sunday going around containing allegations from a former contributor about financial mismanagement by the Tusky project.

    The Tusky project has just posted a response from the project contributors, written by twelve of us working collaboratively. The post's quite long, and I apologize for that, but the allegations were detailed so our response also needed to be. You can read it here, if you want:

    https://opencollective.com/tusky/updates/tusky-contributor-response-to-nik-clayton

    Or a TL;DR:

    https://mastodon.social/@Tusky/110980432313299809

    caoilte,

    @nikclayton @Sibshops having read the statement in reply now it seems to me that this is primarily a culture clash. Everyone was concerned about the historically poor accounting but it became perceived as a factional weapon rather than a historical nuisance. In that context framing the transactions as potentially fraudulent fostered panic, a circling of horses and unnecessary conflict. I used to see similar teacup storms in local politics all the time.

    caoilte, to random

    Fun fact about cars in London. Major road maintenance in the city is paid for by people travelling on buses and the metro system (it used to be covered by government grant). Cars not using the tiny inner city congestion zone are subsidized by public transport. When the city was bailed out during COVID it was on condition it found new revenue sources. The government suggested expanding the congestion charge zone. The mayor chose to expand instead. As always, follow the money.

    amhardingauthor, to random

    I can't help but see the London system as an attempt to price the poor out of personal transport. If it were genuinely about emissions (and it SHOULD be), you wouldn't be able to pay £12.50 a day to drive a car that belches fumes, the car would simply be banned. It's about money and privilege more than health.
    But maybe that's just me overthinking. 🤷‍♂️

    caoilte,

    @amhardingauthor (just browsing the hashtag) - same argument could and should be made about parking tickets, speeding tickets, car tax, council tax, car insurance, home insurance and so forth. Our entire society is geared to preserve wealth and privilege. Doesn't really make sense to consider the charge in isolation. People with old cars need a way to visit London occasionally and for rich people £12.50 isn't a disincentive. I think Swedish fines increase to match offender wealth.

    TaliaRinger, to random
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    Hey. I was banned from types.pl for having interviewed at the NSA 13 years ago, when I was 20 years old. I'm grateful for a new home on mathstodon.

    I am very unhappy with anyone who is going after the types.pl moderators personally for this and not just respectfully discussing the situation, and I'm personally extremely sorry if my Tweet inspired any of those actions. If I see this at all I will be escalating to SIGPLAN CARES.

    In a recent post I mentioned working with the department of defense as faculty. I mean that in two capacities: (1) receiving DARPA grants for verification work, and (2) organizing a workshop through the department of defense on the security risks of generative AI for code. I am always public about this with students, and I always ask students before funding them on DARPA grants, making it clear I will source funding elsewhere if the student strongly opposes defense funding. This is the kind of thing I wanted to discuss after seeing Oppenheimer; I'm a bit bummed that instead I got banned for a post about something that happened 13 years ago, when I was not in the PL community at all, and basically lived under a rock with respect to everything except math, Dance Dance Revolution, and competitive running.

    Anyways, hi, please help me rebuild my friend network here.

    caoilte,

    @protecttruth I'm all In favour of criticizing government over business. But we absolutely don't know that Google and Facebook are doing worse things. We've got no idea what the NSA is doing now. All we know is they've got better at prosecuting whistleblowers.

    seatsixtyone, to random

    The most accurate & incisive thing you'll read about HS2 all week... https://capx.co/hs2-is-making-britain-an-international-laughing-stock/

    caoilte,

    @craiggrannell @matt2 You could limit UK copyright severely and it still wouldn't expire for decades after the author's death. Surely the only people benefitting are descendents and corporations?

    mcc, to random
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    It will never stop blowing my mind that Windows Professional is a multi hundreds of dollar product that shows you ads on your own computer's lock screen. There is truly no coexisting with capitalism

    caoilte,

    @mcc @samir I'd be amazed if that wasn't also the moment when big tech started making large donations to the Democrats.

    caoilte, to random

    Day4 Day7 (yesterday part 2). Despite the gorgeous landscape around Zireiner See, the 27 degree heat and the 900m+ climbed so far - there was still a really challenging 400m climb to a pass just below Rofanspitz (2200m). Fantastic views of my entire trip so far began to emerge during a painfully steep cabled route. It was an 8hr hike and I was flagging - all sorts of other long distance hikers would later bond over beer at the hut discussing exactly where they passed me.

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    SecurityWriter, (edited ) to random

    The problem with most conspiracy theories is that they’re predicated on the suggestions that the government is somehow organised, competent, and committed, and that the leakiest organisms in the known universe are staying schtum.

    caoilte,

    @SecurityWriter successful para-political conspiracies compartmentalise who knows what so that such a leak isn't possible. They also pollute the information landscape with false leaks and limited hangouts (eg large number of "retired" CIA officers who become conspiracy theorists).

    SecurityWriter, to random

    For those on the fringes thinking Extinction Rebellion are funded by ‘Big Oil’ or conservative think tanks, those concerns certainly wont be assuaged today. Many protests causing traffic disruption on today of all days… Polling Day and in the week that universities typically organise module choice for our future leaders of industry and academia.

    And from where I’m sitting, its either that or they’ve scored an enormous own goal in furthering their cause.

    Absolutely wild.

    caoilte,

    @SecurityWriter neither seem like a particularly big deal (eg local election turnout will be sub 40% regardless). Literally any day can and will have some earth shattering importance attached to it by talk radio. Not that I'm a fan of XR.

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