chx

@chx@hachyderm.io

I used to contribute a lot to Drupal core. I still work as a Drupal consultant. If you need help debugging tricky Drupal backend problems, reach out.

I love this kind of music: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvL3SharHGKut2spUcOB0zvHW0zYLadhd

And while I didn't add the letters ADHD to the end of the music playlits, I do have ADHD. Unmanaged RSD caused a lot of problems in my life: working on it.

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anildash, to random
@anildash@me.dm avatar

BEHOLD @cabel VICTORIOUS https://cabel.com/2023/03/27/apple-passwords-deserve-an-app/

chx,

@anildash @cabel nah, despite your weak assurances an Apple password app would likely monopolize password managers (and leave Windows users without a good one as a side effect).

Just use Bitwarden.

chx, to random

I went to vote today for local and EU representatives. And while you might think, I know nothing about Maltese politics, that is certainly true but what I vote for is democratically elected representatives to work together, even on a European scale. That we pool our resources together to keep systemic poverty away because we know where that leads. I vote for the beach to be for children playing and not soldiers landing as they did eighty years ago. I vote to refuse Russia meddling in democracy.

chx, to random

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/7/24173499/microsoft-windows-recall-response-security-concerns

Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all — unless you opt in

Yes, abusive husbands will opt in. Where's the answer to that?

chx, to random

Something for the "falsehoods programmers believe about addresses" list: the UPU has complete rules per country. They don't. When I looked up the postcode for my apartment in Malta, the Maltese Post shows an address which contains more info than the UPU uses. The apartment deed uses even more lines for the address, mind you.

chx, to random

How did those men, many barely more than boys find the courage to do what they did. I can't even imagine. Yet, I wouldn't be here if not for them -- both of my grandmothers were concentration camp survivors.

Quinnypig, to random
@Quinnypig@awscommunity.social avatar

No matter how hard you work, you're a lazy piece of crap compared to how hard "simply" is working in this sentence.

If you suggest an AWS region migration is simple, you should be caught with a net.

chx,

@alper @Quinnypig the Easter Bunny is working hard on that and Santa Claus will deliver it.

chx, to ChatGPT

Surprise! OpenAI was lying about #chatgpt bar exam performance. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10506-024-09396-9

augieray, to random
@augieray@mastodon.social avatar

People can tell themselves whatever lie they want about not voting for Biden. It still amounts to a lack of maturity in thinking opting out sends a message, of empathy for those who will suffer under Trump, and of logic for the stakes in 2024.

Read about Project 2025 and decide if you want to vote to unleash that on the nation and world. Because not voting is still a vote--a vote that says the world can burn unless you get everything you want. Decide which side you're on.

chx,

@augieray I think people need to emphasize more: yes, it's a mistake, more, an error to run Biden but this is the hand we are dealt and there's no choice. Not voting for Biden means the end of the United States as we know it.

chx,

@augieray I think people need to emphasize more: neither party can win at this point. Let me explain. The voters are already decided whether the one they would vote for is Trump or Biden. There's not a single soul who will sit down to watch the presidential debates with a mindset of "I do not know which one to pick, I will decide based on this show". The only question is, which side loses more voters from here to November.

chx, to random

It is so hard to decide whom to vote for next weekend for the EU.

One party platform has the politician who has ushered in the unified USB C charger in the EU, two former union leaders, a former head of green projects who oversaw €700M on €81000 salary.

The other party fields a corrupt politician who built a villa pretending to be a sheep farm, another who dismissed European attempts to enshrine abortion as a fundamental right as “bollocks”...

Choices, choices.

chx, to random

Australia leads the way: Jail time for those caught distributing deepfake porn under new Australian laws

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/01/creating-or-sharing-deepfake-porn-without-consent-to-be-under-proposed-new-australian-laws

Now make it a crime to do election interference and also to make/distribute any misinformation which causes economic or human harm with AI and we are in business.

mcc, to random
@mcc@mastodon.social avatar

I think my favorite program in the entire linux/unix toolchain is "file". Did you even know about this program? It's on every system including MacOS and it's magic. You run it on any file and it just tells you what it is. Any file. I don't know who keeps this updated but it supports surprising things. Like it knows Windows file formats. If it's a executable it tells you if it's 32- or 64- bit. If it's an image it tells you the size and channels. If the file extension lies it just figures it out.

chx,

@mcc https://www.darwinsys.com/file/ now you know who keeps it updated. There's a bunch of contributors but the commits are done by Christos Zoulas of NetBSD fame: he is part of the NetBSD Core Group and the NetBSD Foundation leadership.

b0rk, to random
@b0rk@jvns.ca avatar

so far "How Git Works" has sold more on its first day than any other zine except "The Pocket Guide to Debugging" and it's only been 3 hours https://wizardzines.com/zines/git/

appreciate you all, hope the zine helps with your git woes ❤

chx,

@b0rk you are an excellent explainer and git desperately needs a good explanation. Desperately.

I had the luck to find a tutorial like a decade ago which helped me tremendously but I have a math degree soooooo that's probably not fit for 99% of the people :)

chx,

@b0rk Ps as an aside: a math degree doesn't mean I understand the sentence "A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors "

chx,

@b0rk as long as long it doesn't call the git repo a directed acyclic graph you are good :) (and it doesn't, I beta read it.)

b0rk, to random
@b0rk@jvns.ca avatar

WE DID IT. My new zine “How Git Works" is out now!

You can get it here for $12: https://wizardzines.com/zines/git

chx,

@b0rk p....rinted copy? We used to do that in the 90s at the magazine I contributed to. How quaint :D

EALS_Director, to random
@EALS_Director@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

Rich people like the Tesla baby keep saying "if it can happen to Trump, it can happen to you." What they really mean is it can happen to them. The rest of us knew it could happen to us long before Trump got indicted. They are just scared now.

chx,

@TMEubanks @EALS_Director prosecuting sex crimes? Like elevating a r@pist to the Supreme Court?

pluralistic, to random
@pluralistic@mamot.fr avatar

I, a total stranger, was thinking of befriending your kid, but before I did, I thought I'd ask you, are they a boring, selfish jerk?

It's fine if they are, I'm just really trying to find quality people to be friends with, so I thought I'd ask you, is your kid a dick?

Wait, don't get offended! How are people supposed to know whether to hang out with your kid if you can't answer a simple question?!

chx,

@nikunashi James Joyce jumps to mind. Finnegan's Wake?

gknauss, to random
@gknauss@mastodon.social avatar

What sadistic bastard put a spell checker in Visual Studio? Like, for variable names?

This is the company that invented Hungarian Notation! Incoherent gibberish is their legacy!

chx,

@gknauss I concur. I have been speaking Hungarian language for near fifty years and it certainly is incoherent gibberish :D

chx,

@ksenzee @gknauss well yes. They should've called it Czech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C4%8D_prst_skrz_krk

hazelweakly, to random
@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io avatar

Love "mandatory training" course questions.

"HEY, bobby has cancer and really hates cake with frosting. Should you give him a cake with frosting?

[ yes ] [ no ]"

hmm, wonder what the answer is

chx,

@hazelweakly they make me do a mandatory security training every year. I was the first security team lead of the Drupal project in 2005 -- and I started dabbling in computer security more than a decade before that. Aaaaaargh.

ricmac, to random
@ricmac@mastodon.social avatar

An increasingly familiar discussion about link rot, this one initiated by Rafe Needleman on LinkedIn (hat-tip @pluralistic and @judell). https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rafeneedleman_pluralistic-linkrot-21-may-2024-activity-7199527942530490368-qRc-?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

chx,

@ricmac @pluralistic @judell I have a USB pen with the entire archive of the Hungarian Chip Magazine. It was the leading magazine in the country for more than a decade and I think it's not available in a searchable format anywhere. However, CHIP Holding GmbH holds the copyright despite I doubt they have the archive either -- the parting between the Hungarian magazine and the German parent was extremely adversarial.

AndresFreundTec, to random
@AndresFreundTec@mastodon.social avatar

Well, color me very confused. In a CPU bound workload two cores on the same socket have substantially different performance (32% slowdown). If I just migrate the running process between the cores, performance changes immediately.

This is on 2x Xeon 5215 system.

I checked that it's not thermals, cpu frequency/boost and the system is idle.

Here's the odd part: The biggest difference evident in perf counters is
a 2.5x difference in icache_64b.iftag_stall, with ~same icache_64b.iftag_miss.

chx,

@bitpirate @duk @GossiTheDog @AndresFreundTec @tomasv Old McDonald fired all his workers as the farm is now automated -- AI, AI, AI, oh!

chx, to random

Pittsburgh had a mask requirement.

Lille didn't.

I am sure there were many other factors but apparently a prominent Drupal company owned by an anti-vaxxer (while he haven't posted much on his views, his wife had been an anti vaxxer many years before covid) put financial pressure on the Drupal Association to drop mask requirements by withdrawing his company from Pittsburgh because of mask mandates. Read this lunacy: https://ryanszrama.com/blog/05-16-2023/how-learn-more-about-drupal-commerce-drupalcon-pittsburgh

His wife's blog: http://eowyns-heir.blogspot.com/search/label/Vaccines

chx, to drupal

Been writing #drupal for some time.

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