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damieng

@damieng@mastodon.social

• Engineered @Auth0 (SDKs), @GitHub (Atom), @microsoft (EF), @Xbox (Web/Sec), @Netflix (Players), https://mastodon.social/@MongoDB (C#)
• Font designer, dad, 8/16-bit fanatic

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TCMuffin, to random
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Having given up on Facebook years ago because of my concerns about privacy, I rarely login now.

This is a heads up about Meta, privacy, and your data.

From 26 June 2024, Facebook will use your photos, posts, and other info to train its AI.

You can opt out...but Meta has intentionally made it complicated!

Here is a detailed “How to opt out” with screenshots.

On the next page, select "Information about objections and how you can object on Facebook and hit the "Enter" key. Scroll down to "How can I submit an objection?" and click on the link to "here" in the first sentence of this section "You can submit an objection by following the instructions here..." On the next page, entitled "Managing your information and submitting objections” click on the radio button next to “Yes”. When you click on the radio button for “Yes”, you will finally be taken to the form where you can object “Object to your information being used for Al at Meta”. Complete your “Country of residence” and “Email address” fields and move on to the “Please tell us how this processing impacts you.” field. Obviously how you complete this is your personal preference, but I have written this: "My photos are personal and contain images of my face associated with my IRL name. This data could be used to generate “deep fake” images using my likeness, if it is included in Al training. I further object to captions being used as these may contain personal information some of which may be associated with children.
“Meta processing my posts, photos and their captions, the messages I send to Al, and whatever other data Meta decides to scrape, invades my privacy as a private citizen and feeds into a technology which threatens the future of our planet by its insatiable appetite for limited resources, e.g. energy and water.” I have not completed the section entitled "Please provide any additional information that could help us review your objection.”
You will then be asked to confirm your email address via an OTP. Almost immediately, I received a response from Facebook, honouring my request: Support message. Today at 16:17. Our reply Hi Jayne, We've reviewed your request and will honor your objection. This means your request will be applied going forward. If you want to learn more about generative Al, and our privacy work in this new space, please review the information we have in Privacy Center. facebook.com/privacy/genai This inbox cannot accept incoming messages. If you send us a reply, it won't be received. Thanks, Privacy Operations We may use your data for personalisation, innovation, research and other purposes described in our Privacy Policy.

damieng,
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@TCMuffin Went through all that a week or two ago, got a pretty quick accepted response to not use my data and now every time I do an initial page load/refresh I get this. Yay (on any FB page)

foone, to random
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Getting movies in Pan & Scan is annoyingly hard. I'm just gonna have to buy a bunch of VHS tapes and digitize them, I guess.

Maybe some occasional early "full-screen" DVDs on ebay. Those'd be easier to rip.

damieng,
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@foone A bunch of my earliest DVDs have widescreen on one side and pan & scan on the other.

damieng, to random
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Okay, so my wife's business site stopped building on Cloudflare Pages because one of the Nuxt generated files - a JSON file - exceeded 25MB.

Just what was this file and why was it so big?

Was it even needed?

The full exhilarating story and investigation at https://damieng.com/blog/2024/05/14/nuxt-content-db-and-size/

#nuxt #cloudflare

damieng,
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@georgeharito Spoiler alert!

damieng, to random
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I admit I'm quite new to vulnerability reporting but is it quite common for the vendor to insist on you configuring an entire test environment step-by-step as if they don't know their own product just to prove something that's readily apparent elsewhere in their offering?

It honestly feels like they're just trying to get me to decide it's not worth my effort given the likelihood of a small (if any) payout.

damieng, to random
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Yes .NET and C# are doing just fine.

But if Microsoft wants bigger adoption then they need to decide if it's:

.NET adoption for it's own sake
.NET adoption only to drive Visual Studio sales

Because the community and devs act like it's the former. But Microsoft's product strategy and investments skew to the latter.

damieng, to random
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So I've spent a couple of days a week for the past year working on an official Entity Framework Core Provider for MongoDB and we finally announced the first full release today.

https://www.mongodb.com/developer/languages/csharp/ef-core-ga-updates/

damieng, to Fonts
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New font, who dis?

#fonts

damieng,
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So this is the Berkeley Mono font from https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono/ (Yeah I paid for a copy) but I tweaked three glyphs (l, i & r) for my editor. Wonder if they'd be open to alternates...

Enjoying it so far will see how it stacks compared to JetBrains Mono and Input Mono which I go back and forth between in Rider.

Envy Code R is still, of course, my terminal font.

juanfr, to zxspectrum Spanish
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#zxspectrum #sinclairuser #retrogaming

damieng,
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@juanfr Wondered if it was still there and found this video. Surprised how small it was - the picture made it look quite grand.

https://youtu.be/cEDWqQ7sURg?feature=shared&t=36

darkkeil, to space German

ISS: Great Britain & Ireland

damieng,
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@darkkeil And Guernsey!

mwichary, to random
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What an absolutely fantastic month for fun, non-pretentious, beautiful typography books!

Here are four that caught my attention. (Hint: each one makes for a great gift for a design-minded person.)

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damieng,
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@mwichary I love the Arcade Game Typography book. Here's a couple of others I enjoy from my shelf.

bradwilson, to random
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When opening a bug in an #OSS (dev-oriented) project, don't simply say "please do X". Tell them what the problem you're trying to solve is, what methods you've tried, and why that isn't working. You can include history of the paths you've gone down and even suggest a possible answer, but without knowing what problem you're actually trying to solve, project maintainers don't even know what problem your solution is for, and when you even have it.

Agree on a problem first, then a solution.

damieng,
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@bradwilson Great advice, I see this all too often and not just in open source.

The person with the issue is the expert on their issue and should let you know all about it and suggest what they'd like to be able to do.

The person receiving the issue is the expert on how the system is implemented. They can offer alternative approaches, workarounds and know the best ways a solution could be added to the system.

mwichary, to random
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What would you consider as the most recognizable bitmap fonts in tech history?

I’m imagining stuff like:

  • the arcade/Atari font
  • Chicago (Mac, then iPod)
  • VCR/video equipment fonts
  • Minecraft font
  • IBM PC fonts (MDA, VGA, stuff like that)
  • perhaps System font from Windows 3.x
  • Commodore 64, just because of the sheer popularity of the machine

What am I missing?

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damieng,
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@mwichary Sinclair Spectrum font.

The Mullard SAA5050 font also - was used for teletext on every TV sold in the UK and many in Europe for a couple of decades. Also found as the default BBC Micro "mode 7" font which used one of these chips.

damieng,
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@mwichary I created a FontStruct of this for TrueType at https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1348246/chicago-12-13

damieng,
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@hisham_hm @mwichary The "Apple ][ font" was in fact just the font built into the Signetics 2513 character generator they used.

damieng,
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@jbqueru @chrisphin @mwichary Probably best not to refer to it as "The Amstrad font" as the CPC, PCW, PC-1514, NC-200 etc. all had different fonts (PCW and CPC were closest but still differences).

damieng,
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@hisham_hm @mwichary TI copied it + tweaked for their TMS9918 and so found on the TI/99, Colecovision etc.

https://damieng.com/blog/2011/02/20/typography-in-8-bits-system-fonts/

damieng,
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@hisham_hm @mwichary Yeah the MSX definitely seems to have taken some cues from the Pet font too.

damieng, to random
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Yeah... they were dead for several months before you even got to air your show...

randahl, to random
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Microsoft wants to add ads to their Windows operating system. The greed just never ends.

This is the worst idea since Samsung forced ads upon users who had the misfortune of buying their TVs.

This is wrong mainly because we consumers payed for the product, we own it, it is NOT their ad space.

If politicians do not regulate this, we will end up in world where our homes are full of devices shouting at us, "Buy, buy, buy!"

May the wrath of the EU strike them down.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128640/microsoft-windows-11-start-menu-ads-app-recommendations

damieng,
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@randahl @peterg75 It starts with first party upsell and I remember iCloud+ was in your face during install.

Maybe enough Mac users buy apps on the store to stave off expansion given they're getting a 30% cut.

damieng, to random
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Err.... Star Wars: Galaxies surely took the title of first-ever open world Star Wars game...?

GrantMeStrength, to random
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My kind of book.

damieng,
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@GrantMeStrength No he can't - I've got my eyes closed.

tubetime, to random
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anyone know what chip this is?

damieng,
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@tubetime How many pins is it? ROM perhaps from a dot matrix printer?

khalidabuhakmeh, to random
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I can’t wait for my Apple personal robot to strangle me in my sleep. https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/112208989150914843

damieng,
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@khalidabuhakmeh Guess they need to do something with all those AI car people they hired that won't be getting to ship.

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