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acdha

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Software developer at a big library

(Note: if you followed @acdha this account is more related to my work interests and https://thepit.social/@acdha is more personal)

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paulmcaleer, to random
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Kia is killing it with EVs. This feels like a successor to the Niro, unless that little guy lives on as a cheaper model, but: 372-mile range, chunky good looks, seats 5. Honestly, I may wait to see this one. Coming to the US in 2025 or 2026.

In contrast, US manufacturers are sticking with overpriced EV SUVs with features like Has No CarPlay and Does Crab Walk You'll Never Actually Use.

https://www.motor1.com/news/720615/kia-ev3-coming-to-us/

acdha,
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@paulmcaleer what about “costs more than the U.S. household median income”? Everyone seems to be competing on that feature.

acdha, to random
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"Five years on, the Sprint / T-Mobile 4-to-3 mobile merger made the US one of the most expensive mobile markets in the world. While monthly prices were falling and continue to fall across mobile markets and while the same was true in the US mobile market prior to the merger, after the merger prices in the US either stopped falling altogether or fell at a much slower rate. The 4-to-3 mobile merger in the US led to higher prices and consumer harm."
https://www.lightreading.com/operations/us-mobile-prices-sky-high-after-t-mobile-s-sprint-buy-report

mistersql, to random
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Regarding MS Recall, I've been running on my machines for ages and - I think MS needs to ask people if they want to turn it on, people are either going to really like it or want to leave no trail (and boy do we leave trails, in browser and file system w/o Recall). Other than that, this doesn't seem to warrant the drama people are tweeting.

https://timesnapper.com/

acdha,
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@mistersql I think it’s coming against the backdrop of various Windows features you can’t turn off and corporate spyware on the rise. This kind of thing needs to be highly trustworthy but I think a lot of people are jumping to the end game where it’s not possible to disable in Windows 14. Those little metrics-juicing games they play cost more in trust than they generate in profits.

mjibrower, to random
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Just gonna keep boosting “Linux on the desktop” jokes

acdha, (edited )
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@mjibrower I soooo want to make jokes about it being the “Year of Linux on the cooktop” jokes but sadly the Thermador line runs OpenBSD(!) instead:

https://media3.bsh-group.com/Documents/9001276698_B.pdf

NotTheLBCGuy, to random
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Three years from now, when vendors are ripping their hugely expensive and utterly failed AI bullshit out of their products, their Product Owners will be laughing and shaking their heads and saying “what WERE they thinking?” And then rushing to implement the next digital panic to dogshit their products because they can’t let their competitors get a lead on the brand new dogshit.

acdha,
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@NotTheLBCGuy @tweedge I guess at least the silver lining to it costing so much is that they won’t pull a Google and just leaving it unmaintained for a decade before removing it after something finally breaks.

cstross, (edited ) to random
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Can anyone recommend a decent iTerm2 replacement for macOS now that iTerm2 has jumped the shark and is pushing ChatGPT integration down my throat? (Preferably one that is (a) free and (b) doesn't require hand-editing JSON files to change the font size and typeface.)

EDIT: hint: point (b) is crucial—if I have to hand-edit a config file that's an automatic fail. Life is too short to be forced to futz around to configure a basic tool.

acdha,
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@cstross what are you looking for which Terminal.app doesn’t do? That could narrow down the options.

acdha, to random
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Interesting to contrast https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112479276509113651 with:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-01/google-trims-jobs-in-trust-and-safety-while-others-work-around-the-clock

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-17/openai-dissolves-key-safety-team-after-chief-scientist-ilya-sutskever-s-exit

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23638823/microsoft-ethics-society-team-responsible-ai-layoffs

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/18/facebook-parent-meta-breaks-up-its-responsible-ai-team.html

acdha, to random
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Another entry in the “even high-profile teams struggle to use C safely” file:
https://www.tenable.com/blog/linguistic-lumberjack-attacking-cloud-services-via-logging-endpoints-fluent-bit-cve-2024-4323

sdether, to random
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If you're going to use a date picker with no manual entry for birthday, don't default it to today. It's highly unlikely I use your website on the day or even the year I was born

acdha,
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@sdether I especially like when they have some obtrusive validation nag when you start to fill it out in the natural control order and get two warnings before you get to the year. It’s such a harsh “nobody who works on this cares” reminder.

petrillic, to random
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You know what this company needs? More ticketing systems.

acdha,
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@petrillic Good idea - you should put in a ticket!

acdha,
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@petrillic hey dawg, I hear you like TASKs in your RITMs in your REQs!

Bonus points: SN implemented most of their validation in the front end so if you use the API you used to constantly worry about making tickets which aren’t usable.

jimbob, to random
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Me when I can't find a parking space near the school: park half a kilometre away, walk through sleet and snow

Everyone else apparently: park across driveways, park across school crossing, double park, who gives a shit, nothing is real.

acdha,
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@jimbob My favorite is the mom at our school who parks her 3 row SUV blocking the crosswalk, walks her kid into the building, and then backs out through the crosswalk onto a busy road, just daring everyone else to get out of her way. It's like the “I'll cut you!!!” to start the morning.

mhoye, to random
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We really need something better than bike lanes.

They aren't wide enough, they aren't safe enough, they aren't good enough. Now that ebikes and electric motorcycles, electric scooters (two, three or four wheels), electric skateboards and monowheels are common, we need something better.

Even on a regular old acoustic bike, if you can hold 30kph you are moving far too fast for the standard, next-to-a-curb bike lane. People just don't think bikes can move that fast. But everything can, now.

acdha,
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@nev @mhoye My brother-in-law accused me of being pretentious with that term but subsequently has also used it. It lodges in the mind…

acdha, to random
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“Unlike immunity to influenza virus, prior immunity to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, doesn’t inhibit later vaccine responses. Rather, it promotes the development of broadly inhibitory antibodies, the researchers report.”
https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/repeat-covid-19-vaccinations-elicit-antibodies-that-neutralize-variants-other-viruses/

acdha, to random
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“There are reputational costs to those ensnared in the conspiracy theories, who find it nearly impossible to convince the converted they’ve been misled. But in the case of “Telegram vs Signal: a crypto clash”, there is also risk to activists, particularly outside the US, who might switch to the less secure alternative because they’ve been misled by prominent tech heroes.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/18/npr-elon-musk-signal

acdha, to random
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“I have seen the extremely restrictive off-boarding agreement that contains nondisclosure and non-disparagement provisions former OpenAI employees are subject to. It forbids them, for the rest of their lives, from criticizing their former employer. Even acknowledging that the NDA exists is a violation of it.

If a departing employee declines to sign the document, or if they violate it, they can lose all vested equity they earned during their time at the company”
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/17/24158478/openai-departures-sam-altman-employees-chatgpt-release

acdha, to random
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“Digging into the undocumented API calls, Barbour saw something he didn’t think was real: You needed only a registered email address to retrieve information, or change settings, on a connected water heater.”
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/how-i-upgraded-my-water-heater-and-discovered-how-bad-smart-home-security-can-be/

acdha, to random
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For autocomplete and emoji suggestions!
https://awscommunity.social/@Quinnypig/112452921509401306

offby1, to random
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There's someone in the boarding area in Vibram Five fingers. Wanna bet they're on their way to ?

acdha,
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@bitprophet @offby1 @jacob As another Chris, I'm looking over at a dusty pair of five fingers and wishing I was on my way to PyCon

acdha, to random
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“We know the human cost of government’s failure to act; it is a price too-high for anyone to pay.”
https://ggwash.org/view/93660/speed-limiters-for-repeat-offenders-could-have-saved-my-daughter

acdha, to random
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“To celebrate the sixteenth anniversary of this discovery, I am hereby disclosing that many DKIM setups still used keys vulnerable to this bug in 2024. This also affects BIMI due to a poorly designed specification.”
https://16years.secvuln.info/

acdha, (edited ) to random
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If you depend on Google for your income, you need to have a plan B as soon as you can:
https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/

acdha, to random
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Nothing says “alpha male” like shooting your company in the foot because you can’t handle a woman disagreeing with you.

Hopefully the beta version will ship soon. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/inside-story-elon-musks-mass-firings-tesla-supercharger-staff-2024-05-15/

acdha,
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@dabeaz a $56B tool, if you go for his self-assessed value

fasterthanlime, to random
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Ah. I see.

acdha,
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@swelljoe @fasterthanlime as soon as I see that ng prefix I’m reminded of the Angular project where – again for a web form which a 1995 browser could have handled – someone noticed that something was missing after the ~2 minute load time, and the ARCHITECT asked whether it was possible for network connections to fail.

It turns out that turning each element on the page into separate network requests is bad for everything except your server vendor.

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