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vaurora, 14 days ago to random

Excited about the program for #OW2con - lots about funding open source software sustainably. Tickets are free, so if you're near Paris June 10-11, stop by! I'm speaking about anti-plagiarism polices

https://www.ow2con.org/view/2024/Program

vaurora, 18 days ago to random

How Sovereign Do You Want To Be? by @bert_hubert

Nice short review of the major elements of digital sovereignty:

• Confidentiality
• Flexibility
• Resilience

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-sovereign-do-you-want-to-be/

vaurora, 19 days ago to random

When students ran their code through ChatGPT and asked it to identify areas of high coupling, "One student’s ChatGPT answers confidently cited high coupling between a variable and that variable’s setter, and recommended decoupling those two pieces of code at once." -@HeyChelseaTroy

https://chelseatroy.com/2024/05/26/how-does-ai-impact-my-job-as-a-programmer/

vaurora, 20 days ago to random

Woooooo my badass friend @HeyChelseaTroy is teaching a 2 day workshop on technical debt at #DDDEU in Amsterdam starting tomorrow (Monday May 28). She's one of the best teachers I know. I think there might still be tickets available:

https://ddd.academy/technical-debt-chelsea/

vaurora, 25 days ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub Day 20: When did you first know you wanted to be a writer?

It's less that I want to be a writer and more that I get excited about writing specific things and then I write them. I am curious how many other writers have a similar mindset

vaurora, 29 days ago to random

"What OpenAI have presented with GPT-4o is a fresh paint job on a car with a dangerously corroded chassis. A false confidence machine." - @fasterandworse

https://fasterandworse.com/known-purpose-and-trusted-potential/

vaurora, 30 days ago to random

I'm going to Paris in a couple of weeks for #OW2con and trying to get excited about stuff to do in Paris but failing. Any suggestions on how to get hyped about this trip?

Challenges include: being gluten free, not being able stand or walk at museum speed for very long, needing to avoid COVID, not liking superciliousness or disdain, thinking most France-adjacent movies are sexist garbage, and being far too large to buy most French clothes :)

https://www.ow2con.org/view/2024/Program

vaurora, 1 month ago to random

Remember that blog post "I got robbed of my first kernel contribution" where a maintainer slightly rewrote a patch and took credit for it? Well, I decided to do something about it.

I co-authored a guide with Maria Matějka and some other folks on documenting how your project gives credit and otherwise handles contributions. If your project's policy is to lightly rewrite contributions and take credit for them, say so! Subscriber link (free) to the LWN article:

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/971817/ae5fbbbc8cd1cf18/

vaurora, 1 month ago to random

I was looking in my closet and discovered that about ten years ago, I bought a swim shirt with several large logos of the brand name on it.

The brand name is Tesla.

Not sure whether to put it in the used clothes bin or the trash...

vaurora, 1 month ago to random

Test your detection of AI images (I'm about 70%)

https://detectfakes.kellogg.northwestern.edu

vaurora, 1 month ago to random

I love having friends visit, in part because they remind me of how lovely Amsterdam is. This week: I can take a walk along the edge of the water at sunset and all I hear is birds chirping and an occasional gentle murmur as we pass people sitting on benches also watching the sunset. Cities aren't loud, cars are loud.

vaurora, 1 month ago to random

A friend recommended a newsletter for executives in tech and today's issue had a link to a blog post advising tech leaders on how to get better at asking questions. It had this... illustration...

I am confident the author had no idea how much this graphic torpedoed my trust in them. I am realizing that often people who use AI art don't understand how art works

vaurora, 1 month ago to random

Academic journals can price gouge because universities are relieved to be able to outsource performance reviews of PhD students and faculty to them

(From https://profilebooks.com/work/the-unaccountability-machine/ )

vaurora, 1 month ago to random

The neighborhood WhatsApp is full of people counting down to when our new Albert Heijn opens at 11am today. Before that we had to bicycle SEVEN MINUTES to get groceries to put in our tiny fridges. There are plans to buy wijn and have a borrel. I'm mad because I have a doctor appointment at 11 and will miss the exact moment it opens

vaurora, 1 month ago to random

Wow, the Netherlands really goes from "slight alleviation in the darkness for a few hours a day" to "so much light it's difficult to get 8 hours of sleep" in like one month flat

vaurora, 1 month ago to random

I'm such a dork. I went to Keukenhof this week and every time I saw a particularly pretty massing of tulips I would gasp audibly. I'd blame advancing age but I've had old people hobbies since I was a kid

https://keukenhof.nl/en/

vaurora, 1 month ago to random

I am abandoning the unusable WordPress editing experience for some kind of static website generator. I need only a very basic set of web pages and maybe a blog. What's your favorite and why?

vaurora, 1 month ago to random

Have you ever hired a consultant, or been hired as a consultant, to fix a technical problem that turned out to be a non-technical problem? If so, what do you think the early warning signs were?

My (anonymized) stories of being the consultant in this situation are in the replies

vaurora, 1 month ago to random

People living in the Netherlands or nearby: I have found velcro window screens (raamhorren klittenband) to keep the bugs out. But all the ones for sale on the internet have terrible reviews, mostly about the tape coming loose or the screen material being damaged in shipping. Is this just the nature of velcro window screens? Or is there a brand that is better than others?

vaurora, 2 months ago to random

I started wondering where "the bee's knees" came from and if you can make up your own silly animal compliments and immediately came up with "the lizards' gizzards"

vaurora, 2 months ago to random

Just taught a programmer friend that you can download the Libby app, request a library card if you don't already have one, and check out audiobooks for free

vaurora, 2 months ago to random

So how would one prepare a consulting business for the wave of businesses realizing they need someone to fix their incomprehensible unmaintainable AI-damaged code in about a year?

vaurora, 2 months ago to random

My take on the xz supply chain attack is that modern software ecosystems are too complex and have too many individual people involved. The solution is obviously to start a small business employing just enough people to implement an ecosystem from scratch. Everyone at the business should be related by blood or marriage. Quitting or betraying it is punished severely. This is a new idea and no one has ever tried to run a business this way before and it will definitely work

vaurora, 2 months ago to random

Weird #git question: is it possible to make a commit that does not change anything except the authorship of some specific lines of code? I am looking for an easy way to fix errors in credit for commits when you can't just rewrite the repo history

vaurora, 2 months ago to random

Found something I genuinely miss in California and can't get in Europe: hop-flavored fizzy water