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steely_glint

@steely_glint@chaos.social

I write secure opensource niche realtime social apps
and provide End-to-End IoT security for +2bn endpoints using #webRTC.
I read sci-fi, watch films and try to learn new things.
I Co-host of the “Distributed Future” podcast where we try and figure out what the future at the intersection of tech and society looks like by asking people who might know and listening to what they say.
I play the flute badly.
Find me in Berlin, Manchester, Nowhere
He/Him

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penwing, to random
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Doing the mandatory all-staff every two years training and...

This is not a Podcast... This is a short audio clip developed for the training. Do you even know what a Podcast is?!?

steely_glint,
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@penwing If it doesn't have an RSS feed, it is just sparkling blather.

steely_glint, to random
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"it takes the pencil experience to a whole new level" - Do these folks listen to themselves ?

steely_glint,
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@Tattooed_Mummy In my head I can hear him say that.

steely_glint, to random
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Another new friend in the garden.

steely_glint, to random
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Oooh, I seem to have bought a ticket for @emf now to think about how to get there. Anyone I know going ?

cstross, to random
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Suella Braverman is right.

(Words you never thought you'd see me write.)

Braverman says it would be impossible for alternative leader to revive Tory fortunes before general election

(She is, as usual, wrong about everything else.)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/may/05/local-mayor-elections-results-tories-labour-andy-street-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-latest-politics-news-live-updates?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with:block-663742708f080b5e6ba930ed#block-663742708f080b5e6ba930ed

steely_glint,
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@cstross The obvious corollary (if you think like her) is that the election needs to be delayed until they can figure out how to 'win'. I now await excuses or a manufactured crisis.

penwing, to random
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Surprise surprise, all 3 Labour candidates win in my ward... The Lib Dem is not even at half way, Tories below him all on a whopping 20.88% turnout...

Overall, only one Tory (running as "Local Conservatives"?) on the council, 3 Independents, 12 Lib Dems and 42 Labour

Still waiting on PCC results...

steely_glint,
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@penwing on a 21.7% turnout - which is frankly astonishingly high for a PCC-only election.

steely_glint,
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@penwing Ah, out in the sticks of West Cheshire it was PCC only, which is why I was amazed the turnout was > 20% . That may partly explain how the incumbent con lost so badly - his rural vote won't have shown up.

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@penwing indeed, the Lib Dem said something similar 🙂

steely_glint, to random
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My son's house-cat isn't sure about this travel idea...

steely_glint, to random
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Look who I met having a rest in the garden.

steely_glint,
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@Hellybootwader Thanks, I didn't know what it was, also, quite a descriptive name, the triangle was what caught my eye at first. (yep, in the UK).

futurebird, to random
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“Fluent Python” is an excellent example of a “good programming language book” — it’s not cluttered with “enterprise examples” it’s focused on how python works and goes into detail on edge cases. This lets one write code with real confidence that you know everything it’s doing. It is also written with the aim to justify why python is the way that it is. Which I need or I get irritated.

If you like python you should probably have a pdf or buy a copy.

Now which book on Java is analogous?

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@mcc @futurebird @grrrr_shark

The java folks have woken from their (oracle induced) coma and set about fixing some of the language hurdles...

https://openjdk.org/jeps/445 makes:

void main() {
System.out.println("Hello, World!");
}

a complete program.

The streams, lambdas, lightweight threads etc make it a reasonably productive environment for me.

If you haven't looked at Java since JDK7 - it might be worth a glance.

steely_glint,
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@bogosity @mcc @futurebird @grrrr_shark Well, so some of the lisp-ish stuff has got into Java - Streams and lambdas make quite functional things like:

var len = cap.values()
.stream()
.mapToInt(p -> p.payload.length)
.sum();

valid side effect free java.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is that java hasn't stood still, it is not the java we used 15 years ago, although miraculously that still works, without changes.

mhoye, to random
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Marco Rogers is having an interesting thread about software estimation worth following over here - https://mastodon.social/@polotek@social.polotek.net/112367324284383164 -
but two things I want to note without cluttering up his conversation are:

  • Geez, there's a lot of heuristics and made-up numbers being tossed around. This whole field is pre-scientific.

  • Maybe I haven't been in the right rooms or invited to the right conversations, but I've never, ever seen or heard of a software shop auditing its own time/cost predictions. Not once.

steely_glint,
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@mhoye back in the day, I ran a small software dev shop, we quoted per project milestone based on estimates from the whole team but internally tracked hours with a simple tool. We would review how they matched up at the end of a project. We got quite good at estimating medium size projects, smaller and large ones we problematic.

steely_glint, to random
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So - to recap - Naples to London in 24 hours- all by train and (so far, touch wood) pretty painless. Reasonable breaks for meals exercise etc and a day's work done.

Modern fast trains with decent wifi make long distance travel less of a time suck.

steely_glint, to random
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Today will be a 4 country day. Breakfast in Milan 🇮🇹 lunch in Lausanne 🇨🇭tea in Paris 🇫🇷 - then back to a stationary bed in 🇬🇧 (🤞) I got some work done too, although I don't like the look of some of the data, so I am stopping for the day, I will pick it up tomorrow.

steely_glint, to random
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After a quick Burrito in Lausanne I am now on the upper deck of an almost empty TGV Lyria - to Paris.
The views are pretty.

steely_glint, to random
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Woke up in Milan - a quick walk between stations and now off to Switzerland...

steely_glint, to random
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Phase 3 of my mad has begun - sleeper from Naples to Milan.
It is cheaper than a room for the night in Naples and lets me get a head start on tomorrow's trip to the UK. The only bad part is the blueish lighting which makes it look like a morgue.

steely_glint,
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@f09fa681 it is a bit grey, but I am optimistic I will sleep ok at least.

steely_glint, to random
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Currently learning about AI audio generation tools and deciding it is probably time to retire! I just can't get enthusiastic about any of this stuff.
(Last night's red wine by the bay in Naples might have something to do with this)

lminiero, to random Italian
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It's getting real!

steely_glint,
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(Alt txt : A smiling long haired Italian wearing a 'januscon' shirt stands on the steps of an impressive marble building with a pop up sign saying Janus 10.)

@lminiero opens the doors to JanusCon 10!

steely_glint, to random
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I had a pleasant couple of hours in Bolzano - Italian cooking and German beer is a great combination! Then caught the sleeper train to Rome, which is exactly as I remember it from 50 years ago, except with 90's power sockets. Slept ok-ish and now awake to see the dawn over Rome.

steely_glint, (edited )
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In case you were wondering here is a 90s Italian power socket.

mcc, to random
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For the last year I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening To Today" links in this thread:

https://mastodon.social/@mcc/108199886340178151

The thread is now so long it is increasingly breaking Mastodon, so I am making a new thread, starting here.

To recap, here's the entirety of the year-one thread in the most impractical possible format: A YouTube playlist containing 246 songs and running for just over 47 hours:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DP_GwDs3XuTbiFmHYTwJWa7

steely_glint,
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@mcc I wonder if AV1 would be better - especially if you put it into screenshare mode - it should be expecting straight lines.

Support is a bit patchy on the big sites and encoding is expensive, but it might be worth a shot.

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