kittylyst

kittylyst, 10 days ago to random

kittylyst, 12 days ago to random

Just saw some numpty complaining that Israel getting criticized is unfair when Russia, China, "African warlords", "authoritarian Muslim leaders" kill civilians every day.

Mate, the fact that you can't even see the extent to which you're telling on yourself is breathtaking.

kittylyst, 12 days ago to random

Unironically heard on just a call right now: "The platform is global, so the amounts will always be shown in US Dollars".

kittylyst, 16 days ago to Java

Xcode cannot find metal for some godforsaken reason, so no #OpenJDK build on the Mac today.

Over to the work Linux box, then I suppose. #Java

I don't have any #Mac experts among my followers who can help me figure out WTF is wrong with metal, do I?

kittylyst, 17 days ago to Java

I wrote about the latest #Java Ecosystem report from New Relic: https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/05/new-relic-java-2024/ - some interesting takeaways. In particular:

1.) Yes, you should definitely be thinking of Java 8 as a legacy version now

2.) #Oracle continue to lose ground as a #JVM vendor (from 75% market share in 2020, to 34.5% in 2022 to 20.8% in 2024) - now just a couple of points clear of Eclipse's Adoptium distribution and Amazon's Corretto,

kittylyst, 23 days ago to random

Basically this.

kittylyst, 28 days ago to DoctorWho

OK, super random thought - but what if The Devil's Chord was not originally intended to be the 3rd episode of the season (as there is, per dialogue, a 6-month gap between the end of Space Babies and TDC) but that the season was rearranged after filming to air TDC on the same day as Eurovision?

So, we may, in fact, be seeing the season out of order. It would make some of Ruby's dialogue in TDC make a bit more sense. #DoctorWho

kittylyst, 29 days ago to DoctorWho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJxaW-lrDqY - Nucti being a cutie and describing past Doctors

But - his first memory of the show being The Christmas Invasion? Ouch, now I feel really old. #doctorwho #scifi

kittylyst, 1 month ago to space

There is a decent chance of seeing the #aurora tonight, over a huge chunk of Northern Europe (perhaps as far south as Switzerland) - https://www.space.com/solar-storm-coronal-mass-ejections-mothers-day-weekend-storm-watch - the sun is having a major geomagnetic event. #space #science

kittylyst, 1 month ago to random

As you might know, I have no academic training in computing of any kind. My training was in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

It is, therefore, often a surprise when I encounter a CS paper (often a vintage one) and realize just how beautifully it is written and what it expresses.

kittylyst, 1 month ago to ai

CAPTCHA's are now being AI-generated. This is a plan with no possible flaw whatsoever, as this morning's example neatly demonstrates. #ai

kittylyst, 1 month ago to random

You will likely need a strong stomach, but I think it is quite important that you read this piece: https://prospect.org/power/2024-04-24-my-dinner-with-andreessen/

kittylyst, 1 month ago to random

Two great "burying the lede" examples in one day - https://archive.is/WyKMh - this is actually a ludicrous puff piece for an NFT company (NFTs? In 2024? Really?) cc/ @davidgerard

kittylyst, 1 month ago to opensource

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." - I wonder what Adam Smith would have made of #opensource

kittylyst, 1 month ago to random

Sound familiar?

kittylyst, 1 month ago to Cats

No, you just moved the sous vide with tonights dinner in it into your study because the cat doesn't like the high-pitched noise it makes. #cats

kittylyst, 1 month ago to random

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_with_the_Handbag - be the middle-aged woman hitting fascists with your handbag that you wish to see in the world. #antifascist

kittylyst, 1 month ago to random

In the last week or so, I've noticed that mastodon.social has started hiding the profiles of basically harmless #scottish #independence accounts, whilst leaving what are obviously pro-Putin disinfo accounts visible.

Does anyone know what's going on with the admin, and who do I talk to?

In not-unrelated news, it may finally be time for me to get off my arse and move to a smaller server. Does anyone have a good guide on how to do that as of early 2024?

kittylyst, 2 months ago to opensource

F/OSS Friends, the @commonhaus_fdn is now officially open, aiming to provide a long-term, stable home for projects / communities that are frequently of critical importance to their users. https://github.com/commonhaus

The focus is on libraries & components, rather than standards or language runtimes. The key aims are Stability, Low-Overhead Governance & Access To Funding in a way that preserves project / community individuality and identity.

#opensource #freesoftware #programming #software

kittylyst, 2 months ago to random

This has been a largely dreadful week, in which I have lost a vast amount of respect for a large number of people that I previously held in quite high regard.

Should it have entered your mind that you might want to tone-police me about, well, literally fucking anything, then I recommend that you take a deep breath and reconsider your life choices.

If, after that, you still want to go, then, oh boy, am I ready to go.

kittylyst, 2 months ago to python

Congrats to the #Python folks for merging the first patches to disable / remove the GIL.

An excellent reminder that making deep-level changes of mature programming environments takes time, patience and a lot of very diligent work by smart and conscientious people.

In this case, I think it's taken just under 20 years. A fact I'll keep in my back pocket for the next time anyone wants to complain about how long major changes take in #Java and the #JVM

kittylyst, 3 months ago to random

The front page of my union newsletter today. Happy International Women’s Day. #iwd2024 #Catalonia

kittylyst, 3 months ago to random

Just fash being pash.

Parenthetically, I find it helps to think of him as a iddy biddy porg. Jorgon Porgonson.

kittylyst, 3 months ago to ai

The point of automation is to do tedious shite for creative people.

Every time you see it failing to do creative things for deeply tedious people, you know it's nonsense. #AI #LLM

kittylyst, 3 months ago to science

Billions of miles away at the edge of the Solar System, Voyager 1 has gone mad and has begun to die - https://crookedtimber.org/2024/02/19/death-lonely-death/ #science #astronomy