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demiurg

@demiurg@fosstodon.org

14yrs+ in sw development in different roles. Now consulting. Founded start-ups. Interested in dev and tech trends, science and kind people.

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mcc, to random
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Somebody should make an OS-agnostic program that searches the hard drive and returns a count of how many versions of Python you have installed

demiurg,
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@mcc pyenv FTW \m/

https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv

demiurg, to fediverse
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I have the feeling that Activity Pub and other new 'protocols' have a different meaning of the term 'protocol'. I mean these APIs and services would not be handled by the IETF. Or do I miss something?
#Fediverse #ActivityPub

demiurg, to random
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Believe it or not, but developing good software has nothing to do with the language you use!

demiurg, to python
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You should go and try pydantic logfire from @samuelcolvin right now. It is amazing!

https://pydantic.dev/

#Python #pydantic #fastapi

bagder, to random
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#libcurl has proudly served as the HTTP(S) engine in #git for nineteen years now.

demiurg,
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@bagder So I can blame you now for every single commit any developer has ever made? 😜

demiurg,
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@ondrejkolin @bagder you mean like git push origin main to a remote? Like with Github or GitLab or Gitea or Bitbucket or Codeberg ;)

joeyh, to random
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Lasse Collin has started making some commits to #xz, interesting starting point here.

https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=commitdiff;h=f9cf4c05edd14dedfe63833f8ccbe41b55823b00

demiurg,
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@jamescooke @joeyh Thank you...I didn't see it the umpteenth time I read it and was about to lose my mind over people talking about dots.

simon, to random
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... and I'm back! An unfortunate sequence of events (involving ancient account details) lead to me failing to renew my personal domain, so it broke DNS... which broke my self-hosted Mastodon as well

demiurg,
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@JsonCulverhouse @clifff @simon May I ask why you add a jitter?

jamescooke, to python
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So Mypy didn’t save us from this test error 😔. But it seems that calling quantize() with a bool exp isn’t "wrong" in #Python stdlib - I wish it was though.

demiurg,
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@jamescooke Oh it seems there was quite some discussion about this ^^

https://peps.python.org/pep-0285/

mariatta, to random
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My bookkeeping for 2023 was much simpler than usual due to the fact that for half of the year I was pretty much a jobless loser 🙃

demiurg,
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@mariatta Being jobless doesn't make you a loser, imho. You are not what you do for work. 🤗

inthehands, to random
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I respect Schneier’s way of calmly punching straight for the throat:

“The only way Microsoft or OpenAI would know this would be to spy on chatbot sessions.”

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/02/microsoft-is-spying-on-users-of-its-ai-tools.html

demiurg,
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@inthehands He writes he didn't read the terms of use. It's clearly stated there.

https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use

mike, to random
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I'm on call for another 10 hours at my day job, and so far I've been working most of the weekend. The really frustrating part is none of the issues we've experienced this weekend have been with my systems, but with systems that I interact with. We have a TON of monitoring on our tools, and it appears that our monitoring is far in excess of the monitoring done by other departments. I shouldn't be the one telling other groups their stuff is down.

demiurg,
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@mike Happens to us also on a regular basis. Perhaps you could teach them to monitor properly... 🤔
Btw I love our Grafana dashboards. ^^

JoshuaKGoldberg, to random
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🙋 Does anyone have good resources around onboarding new maintainers to an existing open source project?

Ways to communicate existing practices & preferences, growing their confidence in reviewing PRs, "unknown unknowns" - anything is helpful please!

Context: doing this soon 🥰

demiurg,
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@JoshuaKGoldberg I think Uncurled by
@bagder was an incredible good read :)

https://un.curl.dev/

mike, to random
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Next week for my class there's a whole section on Printer troubleshooting.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU...

demiurg,
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@mike Oh...probably the 'printer is on fire' 😱

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire

baldur, (edited ) to random
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“AI and Lossy Bottlenecks - Schneier on Security”

Two points:

  1. A lot of previously sensible people are being swept up by the AI bubble.

  2. The ideas in this post are literally a mechanism for taking away your right to vote and replace it with a software-mediated plutocracy. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/ai-and-lossy-bottlenecks.html

demiurg,
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@baldur Despite of being a dystopian outlook the article just labels any possible data processing with 'AI'.

jwildeboer, to random
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I guess I am a bit weird. But when you get solar electricity effectively for free, can use it yourself at home, maybe even store it in batteries — didn't you already get enough? Why all this fuss about selling the excess electricity? Just give it away to your neighbours, for free. Whatever gets used locally, reduces the problems on the grid, which is often used an excuse by Big Electricity to refuse to buy solar electricity. 1/n

demiurg,
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@jwildeboer there is the grid in between at least if I don't also want to build the infrastructure for my neighbour. I like the idea absolutely but I am afraid that the net companies will not participate in this shareconomy.

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    demiurg,
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    @Teri_Kanefield This is what I fear the most. Democracy is not dying in the dark but with loud applause.

    "...if a clear majority of voters decide to end democracy by electing leaders who promise to smash democratic institutions, democracy will end."

    clive, to random
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    Excellent @emilymbender essay outlining the difference between thinkers who are studying real, present dangers of AI -- like how it's being used to make horrid, GIGO-fueled decisions about people's lives ...

    ... and the realm of tech folks who ignore that and instead focus on fuzzily-defined, gauzily sci-fi prospects of AI taking over the world, using everything from Bell-Curve-era definitions of IQ to longtermist calculations (i.e. "pulling numbers out of their asses")

    https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/talking-about-a-schism-is-ahistorical-3c454a77220f

    demiurg,
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    @clive @emilymbender I think a topic that gets also not enough attention is the use of ML in the military industry. It is already used for autonomous weapon systems. It helps drones fly and object detection is used for automatic aiming, to name only some. These are also real and pressing issues which literally fly under the radar.

    demiurg,
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    @emilymbender @clive Thank you for sharing. Very interesting discussion! I also refuse to call ML "AI", since the term "intelligence" itself is not defined :)

    GossiTheDog, to random
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    Mastodon has hit 2 million active users today. 🎉

    demiurg,
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    @GossiTheDog Uh, I have to check my crawler ^^ Seems it is less instances but more MAUs.

    grumpygamer, (edited ) to random
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    ok, now the most important part of game dev: variable naming.

    demiurg,
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    @grumpygamer Please, we all have read and inhaled PEP 8 🧐

    https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/#function-and-variable-names

    jwildeboer, to random
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    Can I get some positive vibes for my dad who had to go to the hospital today with unclear symptoms? I love him very much and would like to hear tomorrow that they know what’s wrong and how it will be fixed. Thanks!

    demiurg,
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    @jwildeboer all the best to you and your father!

    65dBnoise, to random
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    There will be no Mars, Venus, Europa or space colonization, no #climateCrisis solution, no Artificial Intelligence excellence, unless a much better, equitable system establishes on Earth. One that will not suck the blood out of people and the environment, one that will reserve resources for the whole of humanity and biosphere.

    We live on a spherical spaceship that, suddenly, is not as big as we thought it was. And a very small minority sucks its resources at an alarming rate.

    #21stCenturySciFi

    demiurg,
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    @65dBnoise and we should add: one where we don't shoot rockets on each other and one which can not be turned into a dictatorship.
    I even think we would need to overcome the whole idea of countries on this small planet...

    dgar, to random
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    Humans!

    Please don't send us any more unsolicited nude pics with instructions on how to get to your house.
    It's creepy.

    Sincerely,

    The Aliens.

    demiurg,
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    @dgar Censoring female genitals but then flexing about Hyperfine transition of neutral hydrogen.

    jerry, to random

    Don’t forget to push your changes to production on your way out the door this afternoon before the long weekend.

    Elmo summoning fire

    demiurg,
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    @jerry Ha, did it already yesterday and answered requests today. 😎 But to admit it: today would have been a day off... 🤦‍♂️

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