hankg

@hankg@friendica.myportal.social

Software developer and (sometimes) blogger trying to figure out secret to living a healthy and content life into his 100's.

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parismarx, to tech
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dreading the media cycle that will accompany a bill gates memoir, but fascinated to see how he twists his history

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Source-Code

#tech #billgates #books #memoir

hankg,

@parismarx The picture looks like the young Forest Gump.

dnc, to Bread
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This morning’s beauty https://www.diningandcooking.com/1440343/this-mornings-beauty/ #Bread #Sourdough #SourdoughBread

hankg,

@dnc Perfection!

jeffjarvis, to random
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At last, The Times covers the stakes of a Trump victory. Now keep going with the perils to women's control of their health, race, the courts, the environment, education, freedom of speech....
Gift link:
If Trump Wins
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/07/us/politics/trump-policy-list-2025.html?smid=url-share

hankg,

@jeffjarvis ...and keep putting out front page stuff like this over and over and over again. One time doesn't cut it. It's the drumbeat. I'll settle for half of the "But her emails" intensity if they can't muster up that level because reasons...

baldur, to random
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“Anti Trust in Tech – Pixel Envy”

https://pxlnv.com/blog/anti-trust-in-tech/

> These product introductions all look like hubris. Arrogance, really — recognition of the significant power these corporations wield and the lack of competition they face.

hankg,

@baldur "These product introductions all look like hubris. Arrogance, really — recognition of the significant power these corporations wield and the lack of competition they face." Exactly!

popey, to random
@popey@mastodon.social avatar

Microphone ready!
Laptop precariously balanced on books!
It must be @linuxmatters recording night!

hankg,

@popey @linuxmatters That Digital Retro book looks interesting!

hankg, to food

I finally found Meati Steaks (made of mycelium protein) and I really liked them. Aroma and flavor is spot on. Texture is not, just somewhere between meat loaf and real steaks. I'm definitely going to add it to my regular rotation.

meati.com/

rootwyrm, to random
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"Absolutely no reasonable org will allow this Microsoft Recall shit! It's a security nightmare!"

I just saw an organization that is planning to use it to "measure employee productivity" and search for "policy violations." (Not naming names.)

Remember: there are more than a few large orgs out there that gleefully install keyloggers on the same bogus pretense. (And absolutely will not tell you, the employee.)
They already see Recall as a goldmine for abusing their employees.

hankg,

@rootwyrm I was pitched helping to create a startup that was going to use keylogging/tracking and AI to “help workers be more efficient to make their job easier.” I responded, “When was the last time major gains in efficiencies primarily benefited the workers rather than the owners?” It is so transparent what is going on. After back and forth about that is truly their intention I ended with whether it is the intention or not to fuck over the workers that is where that will inevitably end. No, me passing on it wasn’t going to stop it from happening, as they pointed out, but I want nothing to do with it either way.

b0rk, to random
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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 ❤

hankg,

@b0rk I absolutely love it!

hankg, to rant

I'm not even an Agile evangelist. I've used Agile in the past. I think it has great uses when done right but often it is not. That's not a No True Scotsman fallacy either. It's about understanding why aspects of Agile Methodologies work and exist and adapting them to your particular scenario. For example, the whole "no requirements" at the start thing. Does that literally mean it breaks Agile rules to not have starting requirements? First off, if you think there are universal etched in stone rules of Agile you already are probably off to a bad start. Second, it really depends on what you are building. Are you building something from scratch that you have no idea what is and will do? Probably need to be light on the hard R requirements on day 1, if you have any at all. Are you replacing a tried and true system with a new stack or deployment environment? Then you'll probably end up having a good number of hard R requirements but still want to err on the lighter side since a lot of legacy systems build up a lot of cruft that actually can be jettisoned. Being Agile is not setting out to build a car and saying, "Well according to 'the rules of Agile' we can't presume how many wheels this thing will have or if it has wheels at all!"

hankg, to rant

I have seen how Agile Development, the term as well as some practices, can be abused or misapplied. So I get being down on Agile. But the speed at which the tech media is catapulting a sham study by a group that has some properietary thing that they say is better shows how useless they've become. I'm not going to link to it because its already been shared so pervasively.

hankg, to history

When I saw the title I assumed this was some failed 1980s/1990s IBM project but apparently engineers have tried making superconductor computers back in the 1950s! Fascinating! #history #computers #science
Why IBM's Superconductor Computer Failed

hankg, to Humor

If you want proof that how people act on the internet is pretty much the same as it's ever been, back to ARPANET in 1984 no less...

bradford-delong.com/2013/07/ho…

hankg, to retrocomputing

It’s not every day I get to play with a Xerox Alto thanks to the people at The Computer Museum in Maryland! I suck at Missile Command BTW. Great exhibit space and worth a visit! #RetroComputing #XeroxAlto

museum.syssrc.com

ahoneybun, to random
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I feel like I'm hitting a milestone here with local music lol. I think my next phone after the Pixel 8 will have to have 256GB instead of 128GB lol.

hankg,

@popey @ahoneybun One of the things I like about Tidal, and Spotify before I switched to Tidal, is generating monthly, annual, and all time "most listened to" playlists. Out of thousands of songs I have in multiple lists I probably listen to the same 100 songs 90% of the time.

jeffjarvis, to random
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India's polls and prognosticators are just as bad as America's
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/4/modis-bjp-loses-majority-in-india-election-shock-needs-allies-for

hankg,

@jeffjarvis Wow! This would be incredibly good news!

hankg, to random

A. Florida Man
B. Not all heroes wear capes

lol

hankg, to random

Six screens at the bar, all with sports channels on. The only sport events, versus news and commentary, on are women’s sports. I love that! Not that I follow sports of any kind but still think that’s a wonderful change of pace.

shoq, to random
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Does this article resonate for you folks with teens? This sounds but really awful to me.

My 15-year-old son has his first girlfriend. Unlike when I was a teen, 'hanging out' often just means talking on the phone at home.

https://www.businessinsider.com/teenage-son-first-girlfriend-2024-6

hankg,

@shoq "I've been surprised to see how much my son's relationships (whether platonic or otherwise) have played out over his phone — texting and memes rule the day...My son and his friends often "hang out" for hours at a time, too, but they do so separately, at their own homes, often over the phone or through an online game. "

Maybe it's just me being a computer geek but this sounds like how most of my friends and I interact as adults and have way way before the pandemic. I mention the pandemic since the author blames it for these behavioral patterns. What they describe sounds like most adult people I know aged 60 and under. Maybe I'm missing something.

thomholwerda, to random
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This is an absolutely insane request, and I can't believe how many people on Fedi of all places are boosting this.

If you're a journalist or a blogger or whatever and you want to write about this stuff, you don't need fucking permission from anyone to do so. I understand that it might be inconvenient for the project involved, but that's just the reality of developing out in the open.

I am obviously not going to write about this because I don't give a shit, but if you do give a shit... Write about it six ways 'till Sunday and assuming you're not making shit up or lying, don't let anyone attack you for it.

hankg,

@thomholwerda Which project is this referring to?

hankg,

@thomholwerda n/m Figured it out...

dominucco, to programming
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JarJar is such an epic coder that he’s monitor is backwards

hankg,

@dominucco …at least they got the fingers right for once, ironically lol…

hankg, to rant

With news The Daily Beast is now going to be run by a Murdoch toady that helmed right wing rags that carry water for MAGA types I'm just thinking about if there are any major outlets not owned and/or run by right wing or right wing people and/or owned by right wing super rich people/hedge funds. The MAGA or at the very least non-MAGA Republican boosters essentially have the run the place. All newspapers, all cable news channels except MSNBC in the evening, the overwhelming majority of local news stations, the overwhelming majority of radio stations, Politico, The Hill, Vox, HuffPost (thanks to Vivek fuckwads new ownership), Substack, Twitter, Truth Social, all the Meta properties, et cetera. I could go on. The best the rest of us get is bothesidism faux balance bullshit that doesn't piss off mega-rich owner types at ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS and small scale operations like Flaming Hydra, 404 media, Ghost, Mastodon/ActivityPub fediverse. Talk about a very narrow space. Grr...

hankg, to random

♲ @christophs@diaspora.glasswings.com:> Why Some Americans Say 'Warsh' Instead of Wash | #shorts youtube.com/shorts/jtDjUAz3WTA…First time I heard about this phenomenon

hankg, to longevity

I was hoping May would be pretty strong except for planned lapses in diet for Memorial Day, family events, etc. Unfortunately I had major faltering in exercise and the return of the mindset why every day is the day not to workout. I successfully fought against it most days but not all. As I’m adding more intensive training with a running trainer I’m deciding how to practically build in full rest days but regain the daily exercise mindset #GoalAccountability #longevity #running
2024 Goal Accountability May Closeout/June Kickoff

hankg, to programming

My further experiments with KVM have been great. VM Performance, especially Windows VMs, seems way better than VirtualBox. There are some UX quirks with setting up shared folders in general. I still haven't gotten them working on Windows VMs. But with half my VMs converted and all working concurrently I think I may be switching over in production soon. #programming #VirtualBox #KVM

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