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derickr

@derickr@phpc.social

Hi, I'm Derick.

I work on PHP as part of the PHP Foundation.
I am the author of https://phpc.social/@Xdebug.

I like #walking, #languages, #photography, #astronomy, and #space, and will post about these topics alongside #PHP.

#fedi22

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sundogplanets, to random
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Here comes a thread on light pollution from satellites, with a concrete action that you all can take to help push for regulation of satellites in orbit!

Astronomers have been worried about light pollution from satellites (if you've been following me for more than 24 hours, you've perhaps heard a bit about this). Astronomers spent SO much time and effort begging and pleading with Starlink to make their satellites fainter, with mixed results.

sundogplanets,
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A group of concerned astronomers, artists, and policy experts have come together and formed Kessler Rebellion. Our goal is to educate the public about what's happening in orbit and advocate for regulatory changes that will avoid Kessler Syndrome, which would destroy our ability to use satellites in Low Earth Orbit for decades to centuries.

grmpyprogrammer, to random
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Seeing that Slack is gonna slurp up all their customer’s data to train ChatGepetto systems and making you opt out via email is :chef’s kiss:

IRC never betrayed me like that

ocramius, to random
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It's time to stop even following links to it:

ottermiemuis, to random Dutch
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Scherp gezien.

mastodonmigration, (edited ) to random
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So, over in the astronomy world there is some consternation about a tweet from eminent satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell.

Apparently "Starlink Precipitation" is now a thing. And yes, you got that right, Starlink precipitation is pieces of Elon Musk's fucking internet satellites raining down from space.

See also this post from @carlysagan: https://mastodon.social/@carlysagan/112448150797509408

davidallengreen, to random
@davidallengreen@mastodon.green avatar

How the Good Friday Agreement checks and balances the UK government

With the disapplication of the Rwanda policy in Northern Ireland, we can see how the 1998 treaty practically limits the power of the UK executive

New, by me

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/66236/how-the-good-friday-agreement-checks-and-balances-the-uk-government

carlysagan, to random
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“Starlink precipitation” should not be allowable as a term - I’m sorry, what?!

netbsd, to random
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New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.

https://www.NetBSD.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

phpday, to community
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"What's new in PHP 8.3" is Derick Rethans' talk.
@derickr is an independent contractor and consultant on PHP projects.

saramg, to random
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Friends in the UK, please sign this petition. Everyone deserves health care, even if you don't like them, they're still people

Though, like, wtf is with not liking trans people? That's fucked up. What is wrong with you?

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/661601

adambienkov, to random
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Rishi Sunak is accusing his opponents of 'emboldening' Vladimir Putin.

Since entering Government Sunak's party has

  • Taken millions from Russia-linked donors
  • Ennobled the son of a former KGB agent
  • Covered up details of Russian interference in Britain

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/05/15/rishi-sunak-conservative-party-russia-vladimir-putin/

grusp, to php Italian
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📣 Less than 24 hours to the 21st edition of @phpday ! It is the oldest php conference in Europe!

:elephpant: Last chance to get your ticket, online or in-presence!

➡️ https://2024.phpday.it/tickets/

🇮🇹 See you tomorrow in Verona, Italy and online!

lowqualityfacts, to random
@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar

2024: OpenAI releases a free virtual assistant with a weirdly flirty voice.

2025: Millions of men become emotionally attached to the AI.

2026: OpenAI threatens to delete your virtual girlfriend if you don't pay a monthly subscription. You must also buy her digital flowers or she will hate you.

thomas, to random
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Also, whoever added that Larry AI bullshit to Laracasts that just posts bad info on every question, please know that I almost completely ignore anything from that site now because of how worthless those bot responses have made it.

katiefenn, to random
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An encouraging argument for generative AI peaking and plateauing.

TLDR: Because generative AI models are trained by data, and the size of the training data sets is not continuing to grow at a consistent pace, we may not continue to see big advances in terms of what generative AI can do.

Good. Then we can get back to paying artists, writers, composers, photographers, designers…

https://youtu.be/dDUC-LqVrPU

HonkHase, to ChatGPT German
@HonkHase@chaos.social avatar

Shtfck 😳🔥😔

consumes 25 times more than

"Energy consumption by Artificial Intelligence () is rising rapidly: AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030, according to some calculations."
https://www.brusselstimes.com/world-all-news/1042696/chatgpt-consumes-25-times-more-energy-than-google

ciaran, to random
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A UI bugbear of mine is stuff like this.

Accept the input and regex the letters away!

Same thing when phone numbers aren't accepted with hyphens, or financial numbers aren't allowed to contain commas

tsadiq, to random French
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Quand tu postes une vidéo rigolote sur le fait que les AI c'est de la merde sur le slack du co-working et que personne n'a rien répondu une semaine plus tard 🤭🤭🤭

tsadiq,
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Pourtant elle est très didactique cette vidéo, mais bon quand on veut pas regarder la réalité en face... 🤷‍♂️

Vidéo tirée de tiktok de l'utilisateur @alex_falcone qui explique pourquoi l'AI est une technologie qui produit de mauvais résultats à des coûts astronomiques, basée sur le vol de propriété intellectuelle et utilisée de façon irresponsable

sean, to random
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201x: user clicks link; browser blanks; new HTML loads; browser displays rendered HTML + JS + CSS + images.

2024: user clicks link; main work area blanks; browser displays “loading” spinner; new HTML never loads; user clicks “reload”; browser blanks; HTML loads; browser displays rendered HTML etc.; user is at a different page than before they clicked reload; user clicks X to close 4 on-page CTA prompts to join mailing lists, pay for content, chat with “support”, and opt out of tracking.

Julf, to random
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"Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk. The goal seems to be to get activists to switch away from encrypted Signal to mostly-unencrypted Telegram."

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1789687898863792453

teezeh, to random German
@teezeh@digitalcourage.social avatar

Musk verbreitet Known-Vulnerabilities-FUD zu Signal, das er früher™ mal gut fand.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-encrypted-messenger-app-wars-telegram-signal-2024-5

teezeh,
@teezeh@digitalcourage.social avatar

Siehe auch

https://alecmuffett.com/article/109809

jess, to Eurovision
@jess@blop.social avatar

In the meantime here’s a plan of how the Eurovision Year goes.

Look after your Eurovision Fan pals, PED will be kicking in early this week…

Veza85UE,
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@jess EU fans can avoid withdrawal by joining the fandom. 26 days to go, 27 countries, lots of far-right villains to defeat, 6 to 9 of June you get to give 0 points to fash trash, and LOADS of

ramones, to Eurovision Dutch
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De Nederlandse televoting gaf 12 punten aan Israel. Dat zijn al die mensen met alufoilhoedjes op, al die antiprikidioten en ander volk op x.com dat zei "ik kijk niet maar stem wel op Israel". Fuck you.

JamesBaker, to twitter
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I rarely look at Twitter these days but logged in on an account and got instantly met with Musk, Fox and Rowling. I am so very glad Mastodon exists…

thatdamnqa, to Eurovision
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You know, it means so much to hear Graham Norton use the 'they' pronoun so effortlessly

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