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lewiscowles1986

@lewiscowles1986@phpc.social

Polyglot, using PHP since version 3, currently leading technical delivery and change in a Python, backend team.

I Love Linux, NodeJS, TypeScript, Python, PHP, Ruby, Golang, C.

Can be a snark, especially if stressed.

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nixCraft, to random
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Me: People are the worst. I hate em.

Me on LinkedIn: outgoing team player who thrives in collaborative environments.

Me also when applying for jobs: i love working with people and i am very sociable.

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@nixCraft
I Bet you are with the right people.

ChrisMayLA6, to Economics
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You'll be unsurprised to see that the UK's standard of living has improved (on average) less than many developed countries (exceptions being we're doing better than France, Greece & Spain).... so while over the period 2007-2019 living standards have risen (just) other countries have done better.

And real (average) earnings were only 3.5% higher than 2009 in 2023.

More evidence of the lack of economic rewards the country has gained from voting in a Tory Govt.

#inequality #economics

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@ChrisMayLA6 poor Greece

lewiscowles1986, to random
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WSGI and ASGI are such pains in the backside; like FCGI and CGI; that I'm often left wondering why anyone ever abstracted them in the first place.

HTTP, at least until folks started modifying to run binary, was so simple to keep in your head.

HTTP3

> there is no plain-text implementation of HTTP/3 as QUIC doesn't allow it

Most folks are not even meaningfully using HTTP2 at the moment; it's a weird spec defined for giant corporate interests.

Maybe we just stick with plain-text HTTP

foosel, to random
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Ah, the joy of waking up to entitled rude comments on the issue tracker.

Do open source they said, it will be fun they said.

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@foosel
is it this? https://github.com/OctoPrint/OctoPrint/issues/5025

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@foosel ah all caps... not nice.

Love the reply.

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@foosel
> I also want to point out that to contribute to Open Source projects, it doesn't require that you contribute code. I myself contribute endless supplies of bug reports, feature requests, and more, where I exhaustively test many different suites of FOSS and report as useful info as I can (often with deep insights).

How you avoided:

Okay, please provide deep insights not relating to code elsewhere 😂🤣

GeePawHill, to random
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If you were a "natural" at pair programming, at pairing, let me ask you a question.

How many years into pairing were you before you began to understand that pairing was an actual skill, requiring technique, and practice, and learning, and not a universal attribute of all human programmers?

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@GeePawHill
The second you pair with someone who is not good, and they reject steers.

Ironically I don't think that natural exists, just "vibes with how I pair".

I've met plenty of folks who I hate pairing with, that pair with each-other.

A Great facet of this is delaying frustration unless it comes up over multiple hours or sessions.

Another is exploring ideas, and being willing to go somewhere besides where you thought we'd go.

lewiscowles1986,
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@GeePawHill
A Guy Ryan, who I work with is amazing at pairing.

Patient, curious; enthusiastic! Always a joy pairing with Ryan.

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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I have a lot of sympathy for students who see themselves getting bad value from their degrees & find trying to balance staying financially solvent & studying a sometimes impossible challenge;

But I also have sympathy with university staff trying to encourage in-person attendance (knowing as I do how degraded on-line learning can be).

Sadly, this crisis in higher education is driven by external forces that are pitting students & staff against each other.

#university

https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/28/i-see-little-point-uk-university-students-on-why-attendance-has-plummeted

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@ChrisMayLA6
Definitely subjects where a degree is now not useful as a means to the end of earning money.

Original scholars, became monks, or served madmen (Leonardo DaVinci).

They just wanted to learn, which are the roots from which university sprung.

If you're going to blame folks; blame the generation of educators telling kids:

university = more cash
university = credibility

Blame businesses who cope just fine without university educated staff; advertising jobs demanding a degree.

malarkey, to random
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Boys from the Black Stuff is back on iPlayer. Watch it, even if you have to use a VPN. And, send it to anyone stupid enough to be thinking about voting Tory.

lewiscowles1986,
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@malarkey
The black stuff movie featuring Yosser (king Theodan of Rohan) headbutting 😂

aral, to linux
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Just installing Fedora Silverblue and realised that if you boot into the USB disk in legacy mode, it does a legacy install. If you boot into it in UEFI, it does a UEFI install.

Wish this was made clear in the interface and you could actually choose what you wanted. I mean, I really think UEFI should be the default no matter what these days with the option to change it if you really want to, no?

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@aral feels like it belongs under "expert install" as most folks don't know how to troubleshoot failed EFI

jasongorman, to random
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It sometimes feels like the last 25 years of progress in software development has just been thinking up cool names for the things we were doing in the previous 25 years.

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@jasongorman
So... What if the progress, was working on explaining things to folks that are not you, and standardising + big-fixing what you knew? Would that make you any happier about the low perceived rate-change?

drandrewv2, to random
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If Nigel Farage is the custodian of ‘British values’, there’s going to be a very, very, very long list of who doesn’t share them. Sign me up right away!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/26/nigel-farage-under-fire-said-muslims-not-share-british-values

lewiscowles1986,
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@drandrewv2 the list can include me

lewiscowles1986, to random
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We need some ability to allow users to disable sharing and replies

https://lmnt.me/blog/antisocial-club.html

I agree that it's not a use case I think is logical, and I'd argue is poorly thought out, but folks keep asking for it, and it offends me less than asking for permission to reply to some numbnut posting publicly in software with a reply button, then complaining because, shock horror. Folks read ui availability and public post as consent

lewiscowles1986, to random
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Pinterest use refspec to speed up builds

obeto, to random
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An undisputed truth.

lewiscowles1986,
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@obeto this feels like an NRA campaign to get funding.

lewiscowles1986,
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@obeto joining NRA, which as others point out is problematic.

lewiscowles1986,
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@Life_is @obeto if you don't provide money, sure, have at it.

And that is my point, not applying itself maybe, but joining or paying into NRA feels like NRA propaganda

Having them disband also sounds far-fetched.

Edit: BTW it says join, not apply. How did you come to your nuanced view?

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@obeto @Life_is
Oh really
https://mas.to/@obeto/112510501044564001

simon, to random
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I'm on a flight and the in-flight WiFi blocks all forms of video

Any ideas how it might be doing that, given HTTPS? My best guess is that it could be filtering out known CDN host names that serve video

lewiscowles1986,
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@simon yeah DNS host name poisoning maybe. Can you use tor and find out if the videos work?

ramsey, to random
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This is part of the reason I couldn’t get to a good place (mentally) in order to do a real “Saving Open Source” talk at :

From @geerlingguy: “2024 is the year corporate open source died”

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/corporate-open-source-dead

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@isaacs @ramsey @conservancy

Thank you, this is informative. It's nice that it matches my understanding, but I also thought your experience would be invaluable here.

I finally got the low-down on exactly your impact on node watching the documentary. Nice one again.

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@isaacs @ramsey @conservancy
What do you think of the FUTO movement and their license attempts?

Example https://gitlab.futo.org/alex/voiceinput/-/blob/master/FTL_LICENSE.md

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@isaacs @ramsey
How is ignoring, versus refusal differentiated?

If I refuse to license Ice or the military, which I can easily do with source available proprietary license?

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@isaacs @ramsey

Thanks, I think this is inconsistent with the earlier text:

> If a commercial entity makes a good faith effort to purchase a license, and the copyright owner refuses or does not respond within 30 days (or some explicit timeframe, but a month is probably enough for most situations.)

I also appreciate Isaacs participation, and am sure we won't solve this over mastodon. It's an interesting set of viewpoints.

lewiscowles1986,
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@ramsey FWIW I do find the licenses such as JetBrains license quite fair (except for their differentiation between individuals and businesses); same with Sublime Text.

That said I absolutely loved 90's and early 00's licenses; pay once, own forever, but no free updates, or limited free updates.

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