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davecb

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Dave Collier-Brown, once of the (late, lamented) Sun Microsystems, now of Index Exchange

Gentleman adventurer, which means I travel the world, get into trouble and write about it. Also nerd.

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glynmoody, to internet
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Surveillance And : Eu Court Buries Online Anonymity A Little Further - https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2024/04/30/surveillance-and-hadopi-eu-court-buries-online-anonymity-a-little-further/ "access to IP addresses is no longer considered a serious interference with fundamental rights by default. As a result, the Court allows the possibility of mass of the ."

davecb,
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@glynmoody
Amusing, since the Supreme Court of Canada just ruled the opposite, that police would need a warrant if they wanted to get IP addresses.

josh, (edited ) to privacy
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Does your public library use Overdrive/Libby for ebooks or audiobooks? ⚠️

In the US and Canada, the answer is probably yes. And you should speak to your library staff and commission about it.

Libby is now owned by a private equity firm & making sketchy changes: https://buttondown.email/ninelives/archive/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries/

The latest development is that their overbroad privacy policy allows them to sell your borrowing history to advertisers: https://infosec.exchange/@longobord/112243098104196246

Thank you @karawynn and @longobord!

#Privacy #Libraries

davecb,
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@danilo @josh Our librarians in Canada are very sensitive to privacy: years ago they guided my university computing services department to understand privacy and confidentiality

robpike, to random
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The way a bank refuses to let you put a comma in a value, subverting an an attempt to cut-and-paste the correct amount, yet in the confirmation screen for the transfer formats the value with the comma reinstated.

Most software is just so shitty now. Was it ever better? I dunno, but I blame the vast open source packaging ecosystem for outsourcing quality.

davecb,
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@robpike It was definitely better, even in the CP/M erra with people swapping home-made software via BBSs.

The fall in quality was coincident with MS starting to semi-publicly say "let the customer debug it"... though to be fair, Bill wasn't the only person shipping startlingly bad programs.

I fear it was a fast-spreading disease of that era (-()

Green_Footballs, to random
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If you’re on Threads, please give this post a boost!

https://www.threads.net/

davecb,
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@shoq @Green_Footballs @marisakabas
Have a lawyer write a letter to the chief counsel at meta, pointing out their error. If they don't reply in a reasonable period, a cease-and-desist letter

sjvn, to opensource
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Software vendors dump open source, go for the cash grab https://www.computerworld.com/article/3714821/software-vendors-dump-open-source-go-for-the-cash-grab.html by @sjvn

When companies--I'm looking at you, Redis, Hashicorp, MongoDB, and Elastic--turn bad.

davecb,
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@sjvn A variant on enshittification

shortridge, to random
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OH: “None of these galactic fuckheads seem to realize YAML’s a goddamn data exchange format, not the fuckin’ language of the spheres, forged by the seraphim at the dawn of time, held securely in its place of honor in this one directory that’s checked into git”

👀 hello stans

davecb,
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@shortridge I posed it as a business risk to my employer, 6 years ago.

karlauerbach, to random
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There is nothing in the laws of nature that require our national procedures or national institutions to be as they are.

They are human creations and we, the people, can change them.

We can change SCOTUS. We can change our laws.

As Shakespeare wrote in The Tempest:

Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come
In yours and my discharge.

It is my sense that if we get past the TFG disease that our nation is in great need of serious and deep reconstruction.

davecb,
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@courtcan @GhostOnTheHalfShell @karlauerbach

It's trying to deal with factions, which the derogatory name that the US founders called parties, and hoped to avoid.

What it is doing is broken, and need to be fixed. Just like Canada expected parties, but did not expect extremists who wanted to do a hostile takeover of parties and thereby become government.

I'm talking about you, "Reform". I'm talking about you "MAGA".

molly0xfff, to random
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fuck i love blogs. if i had nothing but time i would just read blogs all day.

davecb, (edited )
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@molly0xfff

https://leaflessca.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/a-boring-cowboy-company/

b0rk, to random
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there was SO MANY great responses to my question the other day about what annoying git mistakes people make and I compiled them here: https://gist.github.com/jvns/f7d2db163298423751a9d1a823d7c7c1 (original post: https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/111783285691213015)

follow up question: are there any of these mistakes where you USED to make them but found a trick to avoid making the mistake that worked? what was the trick, and which mistake did it help you avoid?

(as usual, only interested in tricks that you have personally used successfully)

davecb,
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@b0rk I used to miss steps in rebases, just like I did in batch jobs, like I did in cluster compute, etc, etc, ite ad infinitum.

So I invented a toy language to address just that https://leaflessca.wordpress.com/2018/09/20/try-try-again-without-catch/

hazelweakly, to random
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One of the biggest things that's made a difference as I've gotten more experienced as an engineer is learning the difference between solving problems and implementing solutions.

I don't solve obvious problems anymore, I implement obvious solutions

and it changes everything

davecb,
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@hazelweakly can you expand on that a bit? It made my little ears prick up...

robpike, to random
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Maybe I need a little guidance. I've been trying out the Samsung Z Flip 5 for the last few months, after 15 years on iPhone (other than a few curious toe-wettings in Android).

I love the hardware. I do not understand the software. In particular, the interfaces (if I can call it that) around settings, privacy, and app dates are impenetrable and a little scary.

I do not want voice assistance.

... more

davecb,
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@robpike I remember an interop conference in which Microsoft and a round dozen of other network vendors each said "migrate to us, we import email from the other folks. We send only to our customers".

I have a flip 5 too: I avoid using anything that does not swear to interoperate. In public.

I have 13 apps that work: I don't need the other 65 that Giggle and Uncle Samsung "gifted" me with.

As my legal friends say, "not suitable for the purpose sold" , (qv)

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