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jbqueru

@jbqueru@fosstodon.org

I'm JBQ / Djaybee, Husband, Immigrant, Veteran, Highly Sensitive Person #HSP. He/Him. I write about tech and other things. I'm fluent in French and English.

I like: #skiing, #hiking, #biking, #games, #photography, visual #astronomy. #PixelArt, #painting, #knitting, #weaving, #crochet. #bead weaving, #CrossStitch and #BlackWork embroidery.

I am in the year-long process of moving from Spokane, WA, USA to Preveza, Greece.

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jbqueru, (edited ) to random
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Well, I just ordered my first new desktop PC in at least 22 years (!!!). 13900K + RTX 3060 (Edit: I've had other machines in the meantime, either used desktops or new laptops, but no new desktop).

Now, it comes with basic RAM (2x8GB), but I'm going to ugprade that myself.

4x32GB DDR5-5200 CL36, or am I going overkill and should I therefore only get 4x16GB?

plaguepoems, to random
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I keep hearing people say
that they cannot believe
they caught COVID in 2023
and while I wish them
a safe and swift recovery
I cannot help but think
that it is precisely because
they could not believe
they could get COVID in 2023
that they wound up
getting COVID in 2023.

jbqueru, (edited )
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@plaguepoems
Me: Oh cool, the local covid numbers in wastewater are the lowest they've been in a year.
Also, me: Oh, they're still 7 times as high as during the last month when we had the broad mask mandates, and I was super-careful at the time, so I need to be at least 7x as super-careful.

jbqueru, to opensource
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I wrote a quick something about the draft EU Cyber Resilience Act and its interaction with the practice of publishing source code history: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jbqueru_cyber-resilience-act-activity-7059571610034339840-dh3w

#OpenSource #CyberSecurity #CyberResilienceAct #DigitalEU #CyberSecEU

jimmyjamesuk, to random

Just got a reply to a radar I filed in…2006. It asked if I still needed the requested feature as the original request was “quite old now”. Yeah, no shit.

jbqueru,
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@jimmyjamesuk I used to manage the public issue tracker for a large product, and that was a source of constant debate: if we keep old issues forever, most issues eventually before irrelevant and it takes more and more effort to find an issue that's still current. If we arbitrarily close old issues, there's a risk of closing a relevant one that has no duplicate, and of losing it forever. There's no right answer, though I would tend to keep feature requests longer than bug reports.

DeliaChristina, to random
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Him: when can i see you again?
Me: where have you been?
Him: I'm in France.
Me: dude, this is why we don't see each other.

I am officially too old for transatlantic dating. I can barely date anyone who lives in SF. That's a whole transbay tube ride!

jbqueru,
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@DeliaChristina I did the transatlantic dating thing when I met my wife. We'd see each other every 2 months. The bonus is that we had an incentive to get married quickly so that she could get a visa to live with me. That was 22 years ago, and it's been awesome together.

Is the transbay tube still as noisy as it used to be? That used to kill me every time I rode through it.

jbqueru,
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@DeliaChristina Amusingly, my wife was 27 years old when we did that. And it was exhausting. SFO / LGW / CDG plus the connections, every 2 months or so for either of us.

dimi, to random
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We should get this person to write all the synopses!

jbqueru,
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@dimi That's right up there with "All your base are belong to us".

timbray, to photography
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2023/04/26

For photo-nerds: Taken through the Samyang 135mm/F2, a big honkin’ hunk of glass and metal. Manual focus, insanely hard to work with but makes things look cool.

#photography

jbqueru,
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@timbray I have one of those, it's awesome. Its 85/1.4 counterpart is super-good as well. And they both cover my GFX sensor.

jbqueru,
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@timbray GFX 100. The heavy one.

jbqueru,
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@timbray The thing is, I can't see myself as GFX-only, even if I got a small body. Yes, the 35-70 and the 50 are not as big, but those are exceptions. I also have an X-S10 for small+light, and a Canon R6 for speed.

jbqueru, to random
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Having gotten used to Amazon rarely delivering in less than a week, and to shipments from China typically taking 10 to 20 days, I was happily susprised that a lens ordered from Hong Kong took less than 48 hours to reach me. Well, done, FedEx!

dberkholz, to random

I am really not a fan of all the managers & leaders posting "Oh, it was so hard today because I had to lay people off."

It's 100x harder for the people who got laid off. Yeah you made some decisions and had some conversations. But you aren't the one who suddenly lost their job, who may not be able to make their mortgage or provide for themselves and their family, who is wondering if their career and experience is valid.

Stop with the "woe is me" as a leader. It's a bad look.

jbqueru,
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@dberkholz Bad managers don't realize how bad things might get for their folks, so they say nothing. Exceptionally good managers do realize, but they know that their own stress is nothing compared to that of the employees losing their job, so they keep it hidden. That leaves the middle of the pack, the managers who are good enough to understand the implications of what they're doing, but who don't realize that this is not the time to be an open book.

ravens, to random

Back in 2014-2015 when looking more at security I surprised myself by finding out that light bulbs on a car were running on the CAN network, providing somehow a simple physical access to it. Turns out such scheme is actually real https://kentindell.github.io/2023/04/03/can-injection/

jbqueru,
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@ravens I think that's an excellent illustration of the need for zero-trust security.

jbqueru,
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@ravens This discussion just made me realize how the EU's proposed Cyber Resilience Act might be very disruptive for the car industry.

lauren, to random
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Bluesky is saying that torture and self-harm posts are acceptable. That's the end of Bluesky as far as I'm concerned. They don't have a clue what they're letting themselves in for.

jbqueru,
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@lauren What's worse than discovering that those are big problems once they start to happen? Knowing ahead of time that they'll happen and implicitly encouraging them.

rbreich, to random
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RT @rbreich
Do I have this right…the same Republicans in Congress who want a national abortion ban don't support paid maternity leave? Or universal childcare? Or universal healthcare?

jbqueru,
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@rbreich "What's the best way to control women and prevent them from being independent and successful?"

Annalee, to random
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Read an article today about why Americans think alcohol has health benefits and it's apparently another "well the French are healthy and they do X so it's healthy to do X."

So here's your periodic reminder that France (and Italy, and Sweden, and Japan, and basically every country you've seen in a "this country is so healthy, what's their secret?" headline) has universal health care.

The secret is access to health care. It's always access to health care.

jbqueru,
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@Annalee Well, Greeks live old because of the Mediterranean diet... and because they have tons of doctors (3rd per capita after Cuba and Monaco).

jbqueru, to random
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I would get AR glasses that can work as ad blockers.

andybaio, to random
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Today's my birthday, and all I want is YOUR CLIPBOARD! Hit reply and paste—NO EDITING! ✂️📋🎉

jbqueru,
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@andybaio St. Francis of Assisi Cathedral, Rhodes

hub, to random

It's Friday and I was wondering why my code changes didn't work.

It happen that I was editing the code in the wrong Emacs....

jbqueru,
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@hub "Making sure that my code changes actually get executed" remains a problem to this day.

daim, to random

I think we are safe, for now at least.

jbqueru,
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@daim It's an autocomplete. A bullshit generator. A tool optimized to pass Turing tests. A parrot that has read the entire Internet. It can't handle facts, and numbers are fundamentally facts.

jbqueru,
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@daim I actually think that the approach is fundamentally flawed, it passes the Turing test too well and tricks humans into believing that it has actual knowledge.

I think it also speaks to human biases, where we attribute credibility to people who speak a language well, i.e. where we exclude people whose approach is language isn't the most prevalent one, e.g. AAVE.

jbqueru, to random
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I've been away from desktop PCs for so long that I don't have a good instinct for what's reasonable any more (my current desktop PC is from 2010!!!).

Is this a reasonable configuration for photo editing and light coding? i7-13700 w/ 64GB + RTX 3050 8GB, 512GB SSD (+ 8TB HDD for large files, + optical drive). Looking at ~$1500 (US).

jbqueru,
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@rushvora I'm hesitating. I might not get one for myself, but my wife is considering a new PC (hers is 8 years old), and we might need to go custom as we have some very specific requirements (intel build-in graphics for now, ability to add a high-end nvidia card once they have good h.265 decoders). In the past, I would have built myself, but I'm a bit intimidated by the modern process to put a case together, I was used to buying cases ready to use.

jbqueru,
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@rushvora We've been looking at a NUC 13 extreme, for the reasons you mention. It has what we want pre-build, gives us flexibility where we need... and is a bit pricy for a machine that only has 2 RAM slots and is known to overheat a bit.

jbqueru,
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@rushvora That's really good information, it helps me better frame what I'm seeing around.

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