dentangle

dentangle, 1 year ago to random French

Heard the story of the girl throwing starfish into the ocean? A man watching her says "don't you know there are miles of beach and you can't make a difference?"

The girl bends down and scoops up another starfish and gently throws it into the ocean, turns to the man and says "it made a difference to that one".

I often think of this story when world events make me feel powerless. I can't help everyone, but I can help someone.

So... if anyone needs me to throw them into the sea, I'm here.

dentangle, 1 year ago to random

pet peeve: programs that try to be clever when displaying dates.

eg. "last modified 13 seconds ago"

It's already incorrect as soon as you read it and becomes more so the longer it sits in your terminal / web browser etc.

I'm currently looking at a tab on Codeberg that says it was updated "9 months ago". Which precise date and time? It matters. Just show me the timestamp! I'm trying to compare a ticket to a git commit see which happened first.

Status: no idea.

dentangle, 24 days ago to foss

All Your Base Are Belong to LLM

"The output from an LLM is a derivative work of the data used to train the LLM.

If we fail to recognise this, or are unable to uphold this in law, copyright (and copyleft on which it depends) is dead. Copyright will still be used against us by corporations, but its utility to FOSS to preserve freedom is gone."

https://blog.brettsheffield.com/all-your-base-are-belong-to-llm

#FOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #LLM #AI

dentangle, 3 months ago to random

"Living in fear" has become something of a dogwhistle, used to attack the Covid-cautious and make it somehow their fault for prolonging the Pandemic.

Ironically, the ones saying "Take off your mask - let's see your smile" and asking "How long are you going to live in fear?" seem to be the ones who fear being reminded of a Pandemic they'd rather forget.

#Covidisnotover #WearAMask #LongCovid

dentangle, 6 months ago to random

Any time I hear politicians or journalists use the word "terrorist" I read it as a clear sign of bias and trying to imply that one side is evil and therefore any action is justified.

There are no terrorists, just people, some of whom are (war) criminals.

Replace terrorist with your favorite "evil" race from fantasy. eg. orc.

We can happily listen to Gimli chatting about enjoying hewing orc skulls, because they're not human. "Terrorist" is designed to make us feel that way about other people.

dentangle, 11 months ago to random

As I neither work for an academic institution nor a large corporate, getting access to standards documentation and research papers is a major pain. So much knowledge is paywalled, and I often don't know before hunting down and reading it whether it will be of any use to me.

dentangle, 10 months ago to random

It seems that more than the usual number of people are being wrong on the Internet today.

dentangle, 3 months ago to random

Imagine you are sitting in your favorite café. The food is good, the coffee is better, and you know all the regulars. Sure, you're in public, but it's a public you've chosen.

As you drink your coffee, you hear a rumble and a crash. One of the walls has been knocked thru from the McDonalds next door. The sights, sounds and smells come in, as do the people. A guy wearing a MAGA t-shirt and a mouth full of burger comes over to sit at your table.

Consent matters, even in public.

#BlueskyBridge

dentangle, 3 months ago to random

A trend I'm seeing with conferences is that "masks are recommended, but not required".

Of course, you'd expect that the organisers making that recommendation would set an example by doing the thing they are so "strongly recommending". Unfortunately, this rarely seems to be the case.

Do parents "strongly recommend" their children wear seatbelts while sitting in the same car without wearing theirs?

Such people make neither good parents nor event organisers.

#WearAMask #PublicHealthPledge

dentangle, 10 months ago to random

I phoned Mum. She admitted her and my uncle had both stopped wearing masks, gone out to a shopping centre, and caught #Covid

She'd avoided telling me, because I'd told them both so many times to keep masking. They are wearing masks again now.

They're both "fine", but how many years did that mistake cost? Have we lost 5 years with my mother? 10?

When you choose not to wear a mask in public, you tell other people like my mother it's safe to do the same.

#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne

dentangle, 8 months ago to programming

Dreamt that I accidentally did a git checkout while driving, and I could see all the files appearing in the rear-view mirror scattered on the road behind me. Had to pull over and try to remember the #git incantation to clean up the mess.

🐧 💤

#programming

dentangle, 4 months ago to random

Thanks to @minimoysmagician for his patches to the little #GiveUpGitHub script I wrote last year when @librecast gave up GitHub in response to the campaign by @conservancy

Why not #GiveUpGitHub today?

https://codeberg.org/librecast/giveupgithub.sh

https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/

dentangle, 4 months ago to random

There are state and corporate actors that benefit immensely from the existence of DDoS attacks.

Obviously, companies like Cloudflare benefit, because they have a product to sell.

By using their DDoS protection service you make all of your traffic subject to US goverment intercept, so US govt agencies like it too.

I would not be astonished to find that some DDoS attacks are performed, funded or otherwise encouraged directly or indirectly by either of these groups.

dentangle, 4 months ago to random

"Two days ago" here refers to a date in 2021, which is when archive.org archived the site.

Seriously, just display the actual date. Trying to be clever and showing a delta just means it will always be wrong. It gets more wrong the longer the browser tab remains open (unless you waste CPU keeping it updated).

dentangle, 4 months ago to random

Today we begin the assault on Monday's previously unclimbed north face. As the sherpas make our final preparations to leave basecamp, I stare across my coffee mug at the distant summit, wrapped in clouds and think back to what brought me here in the first place.

It was a Boeing 737. I'm bloody lucky to be alive.

dentangle, 6 months ago to random

Chatted with a friend earlier on Jitsi. Exhausting, but great to catch up after so long.

They caught #Covid in early 2022. Covid is "over" where they live and no one masks anymore.

I asked if they'd had any health issues post-Covid. A pause... then came the list, including muscle spasms, depression, PTSD, cognitive impairment, worse asthma (needs inhaler now), on blood pressure meds, tired (can only work 20 hrs/wk now) and pre-diabetic.

Their doctor says they do NOT have #LongCovid ... 🤦‍♂️

dentangle, 3 months ago to random

Great to see #EMFCamp has a clear health policy for 2024 and a commitment to not weaken it before the event:

https://www.emfcamp.org/about/health

Some folks in tech are starting to catch on.

#PublicHealthPledge #CovidIsNotOver

dentangle, 3 months ago to random

They're self-justified and they're impatient
And they like to roam the land
They were notified but they're complacent
They just don't understand

All bound for YOLO Land
All bound for YOLO Land
(Hey hey)
(Bring the mask back)

#WearAMask #CovidIsNotOver

dentangle, 8 months ago to random

When I hear that an instance has 60 thousand users or some such number, I remember that I grew up in a town of 25 thousand people.

A town that size had a couple of highschools, restaurants, cafes, a few pubs, a courthouse, police station, hospital and train station.

The mayor had one of those gold chains of office and everything. He cut ribbons to open buildings, kissed babies to get elected and got his picture taken posing next to random objects the way such folk do.

Just pondering, really.

dentangle, 10 months ago to foss

If you are at #FOSSY and haven't yet signed the @phpledge , why not take a moment and do that now?

Show your support for your #FOSS community and the folks who helped organise this great event, and others like it: @northbaypython @SeaGL

by showing that you expect all conferences to take steps to protect you. It took a while for Codes of Conduct to become the norm. Health Policies are on the way - help us get there sooner!

https://publichealthpledge.com/

#PublicHealthPledge #FOSSY #FOSSY2023

dentangle, 1 month ago to programming

Modern Stoneage Debugging

Debuggers are great and they have their place, but never underestimate the power of simply printing "Barney was here" when tracing code.

Barney often needs some help from Wilma and Betty and his mate Fred, but if you have to bring out Dino and Bam Bam it's probably gone wrong. Maybe you should put the Flintstones away and break out that debugger now. 😉

Important: don't forget to remove them before deploying into production.

🦖 + 🧑‍💻 => 😀

#programming #protip

dentangle, 10 months ago to random

FOSSY 2023 - The FOSS Community is Patched and Back in Service

https://blog.brettsheffield.com/fossy-2023

"Every picture of a masked face. Every negative COVID test. Every captioned picture from the event makes a difference. Every single one helps to normalize taking these basic precautions. Thank you. You are my tribe."

#FOSSY #FOSSY2023 #PublicHealthPledge #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask

C19LAP, 1 month ago to random

Are you looking for a safer, collaborative, private community space for #LongCOVID? Please consider joining our main FB group or one of our 60 chapters, all private groups with protections and moderators to ensure a safe, accurate, supportive environment.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JKlXnjp55dxnqqa6ZPjvJTf4oZxLwjv5wC_jdWCIYNY/mobilebasic

w3c, 4 months ago to random

Web technologies that meet the varied needs of society do not happen by chance. They are designed and standardized, not by one company, country, or community, but through the work of the Web Consortium.

Discover the value for organizations to join as Members. #aboutW3C
https://www.w3.org/membership/