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outofcontrol

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PHP tinkerer, Laravel mostly, JS trouble-maker, Server holder-upper, Woodworking procrastinator, old house renovator, raised on an Apple orchard, living around Québec #php #laravel #tailwindcss #livewire #alpinejs #guitar #farming #gardening

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mattbrowndev, to random
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(I work at Slack, opinions my own) A bunch of people are sharing viral social media posts saying that we train LLMs on customer data. It's a story that slots neatly into the hype/doom narrative around AI.

But it's not true — we even wrote a whole blog post about it last month: https://slack.engineering/how-we-built-slack-ai-to-be-secure-and-private/

Not discounting the other concerns around LLMs (e.g. hallucinations, environmental impact) that are totally legitimate.

cc @sebastian @derickr

outofcontrol,
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@mattbrowndev @sebastian @derickr People are deservedly annoyed, partly because all these AIs are opt-out not opt in. And to make it more difficult, owners have to email you to opt out, instead of simply flicking a switch in their profile. I suspect you do this because you know most people don’t want to be a part of your AI in the first place, and this is the only way you can get enough users sucked into this AI.

outofcontrol,
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@derickr @mattbrowndev @sebastian In addition, doesn’t their policy state that end-users cannot opt out, only, Customers can opt out. So you work in the EU remotely for a company in the USA, and that company doesn’t want to opt out because of freedumb of speech, then your screwed. Is someone who has a free tier slack group considered a customer? I will test this Tuesday when I start opting all my clients out. But alas, I assume the damage is already done for past messages.

outofcontrol, to random
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Any quality paid replacement for Apple Music app on the desktop? Only use it for my own music, not the Apple Music service. A bit tired of the app randomly losing/deleting songs :(

outofcontrol, to random
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Love Obsidian, but for the past 2-3 weeks it would freeze and get slow.
TIL

  1. Themes and plugins must be upgraded separately from core
  2. iCloud appears to not automatically download all files, or quietly reverts some files to cloud only, making indexing and search in obsidian super slow
    3.Pages with large markdown table with broken formatting can cause Obsidian to become unresponsive for over a minute each time you try to open that page. Suspect this is a bug?

#obsidian

outofcontrol,
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@sylumer I was always under the impression that Obsidian didn’t play nice with other cloud providers for syncing data. Would you have any advice on better cloud sync platforms? Will look at that plugin, thank you.

outofcontrol,
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@sylumer Prefer not paying for Obsidians sync if possible, and using my own. Git isn’t really an option unless I get all fancy, as I have 3 machines to keep in sync. A dilemma still perhaps. Running NextCloud locally on a NAS which is nice, but requires being VPN’d into the house at all times when away. Not impossible, just another step to remember. Perhaps this is the way?

outofcontrol,
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@sylumer All good advice, thanks. Just a time challenge now :)

chris, to random
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    outofcontrol,
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    @chris Would be nice to see more sessions like this in local NA pubs. A great way to spend a Saturday afternoon!

    tek, to random
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    I am not exaggerating this:

    I created a new hostname in DNS, then added it to my existing webserver config.

    It was online for 3 seconds -- 3! -- before getting a 404 request for /.git/config.

    If you're relying on obscurity to protect your services, get that right out your fool head today. You have about 3 seconds to get your act together.

    outofcontrol,
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    @rasur @tek You will make OpenGL fans happy 😃

    outofcontrol, to random
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    This morning, looking at my custom Claudebot rule:

    • Actions
      |- Currently banned: 696
      |- Total banned: 696

    That’s 696 IP addresses banned in the last 24 hours. Hitting hard and fast brings a small 4GB RAM VM to its knees.

    nixCraft, to linux
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    Hey everyone, out of curiosity, how much do you spend on a , , (or Windows) cloud instance for your side project? Also, please state the provider.

    outofcontrol,
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    @nixCraft DigitalOcean $7/m

    outofcontrol, to random
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    Today started with a text from my son travelling in Japan: “Help, stuck, credit card blocked a again.” Unable to call the bank from where he was, and since the card was on our family account, I was able to call. Bottom line: RBC gave super horrible customer service. Second call for unrelated task with Desjardin insurnace… made my day, best customer service ever... as usual.

    RBC is also invests heavily in Fossil Fuels, this clinched the decision to fully leave RBC.

    #notphp #customerservice

    outofcontrol,
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    @jay The last few times we called to warn them ahead of time about travel plans, we were told we didn’t need to do that anymore. So we stopped doing that. One of todays issues was being disconnected after being on hold for 10 minutes. Calling back resulted in starting over and being told there was nothing wrong and they could not do anything. Best we can tell is that the first people fixed the issue.

    outofcontrol,
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    @jay One of those things in life. We will have good success again one day when needed :)

    outofcontrol, to random
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    Does anyone know if there is a Discord or Slack server for #expressionengine? I know there used to be one for Slack, but entering my username/email into the 5 year old blog post about this isn't producing any results.

    outofcontrol, to random
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    This is an awesome video. Worth watching if you do any level of maker stuff. Funny to boot! https://mastodon.me.uk/@Stubbs/112427329822126564

    statisticsworld, to random
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    👮‍♂️ Hours of police training required by country:

    🇺🇸 USA: 652 hours
    🇨🇦 Canada: 1,040 hrs
    🇬🇧 UK: 2,250 hrs
    🇦🇺 Australia: 3,500 hrs
    🇩🇪 Germany: 4,050 hrs

    Killings by law enforcement in 2020:

    🇺🇸 USA: 1,021
    🇨🇦 Canada: 52
    🇦🇺 Australia: 16
    🇩🇪 Germany: 9
    🇬🇧 UK: 5

    According to The Institute for Criminal Justice Training Reform, Police shootings database

    outofcontrol,
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    @statisticsworld IMO this data would be a lot more useful if it showed law enforcement killings per year per million people:

    🇺🇸 USA: 3
    🇨🇦 Canada: 1.3
    🇦🇺 Australia: 0.6
    🇩🇪 Germany: 0.11
    🇬🇧 UK: 0.07

    Still suggests more training could help, but I suspect there is a lot more involved than only training. Point taken none the less.

    outofcontrol, to music
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    Music question today: does anyone remember the concert that was aired on TV and featured Ricky Martin singing Livin la Vida Loca, and also featured Shania Twain singing a song I can’t remember? Ricky has on stage with 2 or more of those giant inflatable tube fancy guys. I think it was 1999, but I can’t find video of it online. Maybe princes trust concert? Not the in the park one.

    #music #shaniatwain #rickymartin #notphp

    outofcontrol, to random
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    The @MonaApp now appears tp ignore the MUTE feature after 1-2 days even if I set a user to mute for 30 days. :(

    outofcontrol,
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    @MonaApp It is on. Oddly it is only some people. For example, one person I mute I still see occasional messages because they use tags I follow, and I expect that. But others, like George Takei, I sometimes block for 30 days for too many political posts, and then after 2-10 days his posts reappear. I always block for 30 days. A bit odd. I’ll keep tracking to see if something else is afoot.

    outofcontrol,
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    @MonaApp Maybe this will help? You can see I muted George 3 times. But his posts randomly still show up, and I mute again. Shouldn’t a mute only appear once in that list? Another user I see his mute no longer appears in the list despite purposefully having added it twice, at least. Both time for 30 days.

    statamic, to random
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    Statamic 5 is here! Major performance and DX improvements as well as official support for Laravel 11 and Laravel Reverb 🚀

    Get all the details in our announcement blog post: https://statamic.com/blog/statamic-5-is-here

    outofcontrol,
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    @statamic @doefom Sadly, still no built-in 2FA, which today is more or less considered mandatory on a site with login capability.

    outofcontrol,
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    @emd @statamic @doefom Away of the add-on, thanks, but it should really be in core. Seems odd to have to buy the CMS and then pay extra for modern security. Definitely not opposed to paying for add-ons, it’s a smart thing to have.

    outofcontrol,
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    @emd @statamic @doefom Agree, doing right is better than quickly. Good to hear they are considering it. Thanks!

    sebobo, to php
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    Been having problems with 2 local #PHP projects on my Mac closing the connection when using PHP-FPM. Finally after almost 1 year (since Sonoma apparently) I found the solution:

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77554102/php-pg-connect-does-not-return-in-php-fpm-after-macos-sonoma-upgrade

    The 2 projects were the only ones using PostgreSQL.
    I was able to work on them with the PHP Server, so I only tried debugging the issue once in a while.

    #WebDev #MacOS

    outofcontrol,
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    @sebobo Thank you for sharing. I’ve been shying away from PostgreSQL after hearing a few stories of frustration on macOS. Perhaps time to try again.

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