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oliver

@oliver@phpc.social

Earning a living with #PHP since 2005. In love with modernizing legacy codebases, excited by mission critical features.

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wonderofscience, to random
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What happens when galaxies collide? A billion year gravitational waltz.

This computer simulation includes images from Hubble of actual galactic collisions at different stages.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and F. Summers
Source: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=30686

video/mp4

aphyr, to random
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Can we force the companies/engineers who invented LLMs to stand trial for creating vast reams of incomprehensible, time-wasting garbage?

lizardbill, to random
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"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." — Peter Drucker

vicgrinberg, to Astro
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Just in case you want to add some color to your office - some downloadable and printable posters

▶️ https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA_Publications/ESA_Posters

Crell, to random
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Crell, to random
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Technical debt is over-used.

https://peakd.com/hive-168588/@crell/technical-debt-is-over-used

Enalys, to firefox French
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Stop using this piece of shit of Google Chrome or any browser based on it code base like Chromium, Opera, Vivaldi, Brave or Edge !

If you want to see what a Google ruled internet look like, turn off your ads blocker and cry.

Remember that Google isn't your friend and is mainly and advertising company.

Adopt a Firefox today ! :firefox: :redpanda:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

dgoosens, to php
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Remember you can make @Xdebug breakpoints conditional in

saves a lot of time...
and avoids leaving dirty if statements in your code

thunderbird, to opensource
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THUNDERBIRD 115 SUPERNOVA IS HERE! 🎉🍾

With this year’s version, we’re delivering much more than just another yearly release. Supernova represents a modernized overhaul of the software – both visually and technically – while retaining the familiarity and flexibility you expect.

It's your first step into the future of Thunderbird.

Get the details here:
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/07/our-fastest-most-beautiful-release-ever-thunderbird-115-supernova-is-here/

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Email #Supernova

coreyspowell, to science
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If you were stargazing on Mars, you could watch the dance of the Earth & Moon in your evening sky. ESA's Mars Express just made a little sped-up movie of what you'd see. (Both Earth & Moon would be easily visible to the naked eye.) https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Mars_Express/Earth_and_Moon_seen_from_Mars

A sequence of four images taken by ESA’s Mars Express from Mars orbit capturing Earth and the Moon. The images were taken in celebration of the 20-year launch anniversary of Mars Express, which took place on 2 June 2023.

Teal, to random

It's too dignified on Mastodon. Where are my trash goblins at?

Teal,

Coming to Mastodon from Twitter feels like busting in the door loudly brandishing a half drunk bottle of tequila and finding everyone sitting in horrified silence holding cups of tea and academic papers

marcas, to random

HOW TO SPOT A RIP CURRENT:

IT'S WHERE THE WATER LOOKS EASIEST AND SAFEST, with no waves breaking or rolling in.

NEVER ENTER THE SEA HERE.

If you get caught in a rip, DON'T FIGHT IT. You can't swim back to shore against it; you will become exhausted and drown.

Instead, SWIM ACROSS IT, parallel to shore. You'll soon be out of the current and can then easily swim back.

Boost, please, and make sure your friends and family know this when they hit the beach.

gabrielesvelto, to firefox
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On Monday morning we (Mozilla) detected a very large crash spike affecting users on Linux, specifically on an older version of a Debian-based distribution.

It turned out to be an interesting bug involving the kernel and JavaScript code so let me tell you about it.

A thread 🧵

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1839669 1/6

gabrielesvelto,
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A colleague analyzed Firefox' behavior at the point of crash and realized that it happened during stack probing. The JIT touched the area that would hold the variables for the next JavaScript call and somehow hit an overflow.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1839139#c8

This is where things got weird, Google's code was allocating 20000 variables in a single frame. Ouch, that's probably some machine-generated code which went out of hand. Think twice before using ChatGPT to write code. 3/6

veroandi, to programming
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Take Part in the Developer Ecosystem Survey 2023 by JetBrains 💻

The more developers who contribute, the more representative the study will be :)

https://surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/developer-ecosystem-survey-2023-sh?pcode=98759598500130905

HeavenlyPossum, to random
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There was a stretch when Elon Musk took over twitter and started charging for blue checks (lmao) and some of his sycophants started talking about “Veblen goods.”

A Veblen good is something for which demand increases as price increases, in contact to the neoclassical orthodoxy that demand decreases axiomatically with price.

Veblen goods are things that rich people buy to signal their wealth and status. Jewelry, fancy watches, yachts, Ivy League degrees. Things that cost many thousands or millions of dollars.

The idea that an $8 verification on twitter would ever be a status symbol for the rich was fucking ludicrous.

1/8

HeavenlyPossum,
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Sennheiser makes headphones. Some of its models are very pricy, and others are cheaper. This is a common tactic for firms, selling products at multiple “price points” so it can capture revenue from people willing to pay at different levels.

It’s apparently not very cost effective to make all sorts of different models. But then how do you justify selling headphones at different prices? Why would someone pay hundreds more for the same headphones?

Why, just make one version shittier. Turns out Sennheiser was inserting a piece of foam into some of its headphones, to deliberately lower the sound quality, in order to sell the same headphones at different prices to different people.

Once you recognize sabotage for what it is, you can’t help but start to see it in every aspect of your life: a deliberate shittiness imposed on us so someone else can earn a profit.

http://mikebeauchamp.com/misc/sennheiser-hd-555-to-hd-595-mod/

8/8

jaredwhite, to random

"Reddit represents one of the largest data sets of just human beings talking about interesting things," Huffman said. "We are not in the business of giving that away for free."

You and me, we're just data sets. Years of interaction with fellow human beings, building community, sharing insight and creativity…it’s all just data. Data to be mined and monetized.

Huffman's not mad Reddit was scraped for a chatbot. He's mad he wasn't paid for the privilege. It's his data, you see. His. Not yours.

ramsey, (edited ) to random
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That pizza’s probably not going to make it in 30 minutes or less.

(Someone else used my email address when ordering a pizza in Australia. They have the same name as me, but I’m not sure how to contact them, as I don’t have their real email address. This happens all the time.)

ramsey,
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@preinheimer I’ve been able to successfully contact a handful of Ben Ramseys, so we now have a network where we forward messages around, asking, “Is this for you?” But we haven’t been able to identify this person in Australia.

demvoter, to random

Found on @kbin.social 🤣

ElleGray, to random
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    bransonturner,
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    @ElleGray this is how I feel about audiobooks

    atoponce, to random
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    This is truly maddening.

    https://userinyerface.com/

    drahardja, to ai
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    “The entire case for “AI” as a disruptive tool worth trillions of dollars is grounded in the idea that chatbots and image-generators will let bosses fire hundred of thousands or even millions of workers.

    That’s it.”

    Yep. Spot on. This is the fundamental reason that is getting so many billions poured into it. It’s the lure of replacing expensive labor with automation. Corporations have endlessly squeezed blood from lower-cost labor and they are salivating at the prospect of getting rid of high-cost labor.

    This is unfortunate, because AI has actual uses. As models get more specialized and smaller, I can see AI automating a lot of rote work away at reasonable cost. Unfortunately, the corporate hype is so strong right now it’s muddying all the conversations.

    “Google’s AI Hype Circle” by @pluralistic

    https://doctorow.medium.com/googles-ai-hype-circle-6158804d1299

    AstraKernel, to php

    Is PHP dead?

    https://is-php-dead.lol/

    Credits to @ryangjchandler

    mjmbca, to random
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    I had to visit Twitter at work today. Are they really just putting a current bad Musk tweet at the top of the “Explore” tab now? Because wow, that’s deeply pathetic.

    mjmbca,
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    History can and should choose to remember Elon Musk as a man who pledged $6 billion to end world hunger, balked when presented with a plan to do so, and then spent several times that amount to prove that no amount of money can make people think you’re funny and cool.

    afilina, to random
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    Write code in a way where it's impossible for it to be misused by another dev. Prevent instantiating incomplete or incorrect objects, prevent calling methods in the wrong order, prevent putting your objects in an invalid state. This easily quadruples the productivity of my teams.

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