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eldamir

@eldamir@hachyderm.io

Software Developer, Tech lead.
Python, C#, Dotnet, Unity, Godot, and all things Web.
Occasionally blog about software, gaming, and other interests.
Would like to one day find time to develop some small games 🕹️🎮

🇩🇰 Denmark

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benjojo, to random
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Ha! The Discord GDPR/Data Export thing reveals that it's running models to figure out what gender you are. If you go to /activity/analytics/events-*.json and grep for predicted_gender you get something like:

<span class="st">{</span>
  <span class="st">"user_id"</span><span class="op">:</span> <span class="st">"282657081457115136"</span><span class="op">,</span>
  <span class="st">"predicted_gender"</span><span class="op">:</span> <span class="st">"male"</span><span class="op">,</span>
  <span class="st">"probability"</span><span class="op">:</span> <span class="nm">0</span><span class="op">.</span><span class="nm">8413839340209961</span><span class="op">,</span>
  <span class="st">"prob_male"</span><span class="op">:</span> <span class="nm">0</span><span class="op">.</span><span class="nm">8413839340209961</span><span class="op">,</span>
  <span class="st">"prob_female"</span><span class="op">:</span> <span class="nm">0</span><span class="op">.</span><span class="nm">11650349199771881</span><span class="op">,</span>
  <span class="st">"prob_non_binary_gender_expansive"</span><span class="op">:</span> <span class="nm">0</span><span class="op">.</span><span class="nm">04211260750889778</span><span class="op">,</span>
  <span class="st">"model_version"</span><span class="op">:</span> <span class="st">"2024-05-08T00:00:00.000000Z"</span><span class="op">,</span>
  <span class="st">"day_pt"</span><span class="op">:</span> <span class="st">"2024-05-15 00:00:00 UTC"</span>
<span class="st">}</span>

Anyway, they seem to have this datapoint over time! Meaning you can make a graph of how male/female/NB you are according to discord, here is mine:

GossiTheDog, to random
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Slack have decided to start training AI on enterprise customer data, including DMs, private workspaces and files. You have to have admin opt out via email. HT @Quinnypig

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

sarah, to random
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My mantra in software development is "exciting things, boring tech."

Some folks seem to think this means you can never use anything new. That's not true. It just means using battle-tested components that you can rely on.

Every dependency you add to a project means having to maintain that dependency, even if the maintainer goes away.

So make sure you carefully vet what goes in your project, and make it as boring and ordinary as possible.

cory, to tech
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📝: Against the commercial internet #Tech #AI #SocialMedia https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/against-the-commercial-web/

nixCraft, to random
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This is funny. OpenAI, who scraped the entire internet to build its product, is now enforcing copyright via notices. They still don’t give credit for stealing content from everyone, yet now acting like holier-than-thou https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1cnvyzp/

kim_harding, to random
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The creepy sound of online trackers https://axbom.com/the-creepy-sound-of-online-trackers/

This is rather disturbing

delegatevoid, to godot
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Here's some good news:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYt6uDr-PHQ

sos, to infosec
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So, Microsoft is silently installing Copilot onto Windows Server 2022 systems and this is a disaster.

How can you push a tool that siphons data to a third party onto a security-critical system?

What privileges does it have upon install? Who thought this is a good idea? And most importantly, who needs this?

indu, to random
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I've been talking about App & Architecture Modernization, Service Blueprints, etc, but I've not been very good at writing about it. Thanks to my good friends @crichardson and @diana I plan to!

Here’s my first post:

https://domainanalysis.io/p/application-and-architecture-modernization

modernization

orion, to random
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I made an HTML/DOM viewer you can paste into your console to view or debug any website in 3D. Choose from random/gradient/clear colors or whether layers have sides.

You can save it as a bookmarklet so it's 1 click away. It's just a tiny IIFE JS function.
https://gist.github.com/OrionReed/4c3778ebc2b5026d2354359ca49077ca

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SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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frans,
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat

jimray, to random
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Me, an idiot: “So, kids, by setting the thermostat a little lower and eating less meat, we’re doing our part to make the world more sustainable”

VCs, very smart: “We just raised $100 billion dollars from the sovereign wealth funds of three petrostates to build the world’s largest AI supercomputer. It uses as much power and water as Guatemala and the primary use case is for management consultants to autogenerate powerpoints for justifying mass layoffs.”

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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rustyshelf, to random
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China: “Remove all VPNs”
Apple: “Sure thing”

China: “…and podcast apps”
Apple: “Can do boss!”

China: “…and also hand over all iCloud data for our citizens”
Apple: “I mean why wouldn’t we? Here you go!”

EU: “Allow alternate app stores, and do it fairly”
Apple: “Ahhh hell no! This is so unfair you guys are bullies! Malware! Privacy! We have standards! Unlike you we care about our users!”

bagder, to random
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"The issue was detected by our new AI-powered vulnerability scanner" ...

AAAAAAA

https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/12983

moutansos, to random
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College Prof: HATEOAS is how you should build on the web

Me in College: That’s lame and outdated. Frontend frameworks are the future.

Me now: He wasn’t wrong. He had it right all along.

I wasn’t able to see it then. It took writing complex frontend apps and managing tons of state on the client for me to realize that he was right. Always consider the point of view. Even if it seems dumb at first, upon reflection it might not be that dumb. The crowd isn’t always right.

shanselman, to apple
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Apple trying to break the Open Web by removing PWA functionality from iphone https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/its-official-apple-kills-web-apps-in-the-eu/

maartenballiauw, to dotnet
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Excited about the new Collections Visualizer in debugger!

Puts exploring arrays, lists, dictionaries, and other enumerable types while debugging on par with querying a database. Can even plot values on a chart 🤯

https://rideride.net/collections-visualizer

jimniels, to random
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📝 @davatron5000 wrote about how easy it is to go from zero to unmaintainable real quick which got me thinking.

You know the saying “the two best days in a boat owner’s life are the day they buy it and the day they sell it”?

Well the best two days in a web developer’s life are the day they scaffold a new website with the latest and greatest and the day they rewrite it.

lol

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/zero-to-unmaintainable/

owa, to random
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“While legal experts expect the EU to challenge Apple's insincere compliance with the DMA, developers should take this opportunity to rethink their native app serfdom. They should push web apps to their limits and then demand further platform improvement.”

“The web doesn't require commission payments, technology fees based on usage, or permission from platform rentseekers. The web can set the iPhone free, even if Apple won't.”

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/27/apple_europe_ios_analysis/

anthonywilliams, to random

New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure on Code Quality' -- Visual Studio Magazine

https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2024/01/25/copilot-research.aspx

> 'We find disconcerting trends for maintainability.'

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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devleader, to CSharp
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Hey, #csharp and #dotnet developers! This is SUPER exciting for me to be able to do...

#JetBrains has provided me with dotUltimate licenses to give away! You can literally win an entire full-year single-seat license of dotUltimate, which is nearly $500 USD 😱

Steps to enter:

  • tropee.com/t/gfkZTNF3
  • Like & boost this
  • Tag a friend that wants to win!

Best of luck! Make sure to follow me for future opportunities at this!

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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changelog, to golang
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A simple, powerful library for building interactive forms and prompts in the terminal

🔗 https://github.com/charmbracelet/huh

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