Notices by Craig Maloney ☕ (craigmaloney@octodon.social), page 2

@fribbledom still trying to write it 40+ years later

@spacekookie Not sure, honestly, though I thought they had different datasets available for download so you didn't have to scrape? But yeah, not hard to overload OSM.

The phrase "Give me convenience or give me death" seems to ring true for a lot of folks, developers or otherwise. Convenience is what will be our undoing. (I've been with FOSS software for 25+ years, so I speak from experience).

RSS, or why lack of developer imagination will be the end of the open web http://decafbad.net/2020/08/11/rss-or-why-lack-of-developer-imagination-will-be-the-end-of-the-open-web/ #Adayinthelife #Programming #Computers #Rants #misc

Reminder that Bandcamp is giving artists their share of any of today's sales.

Reminder that Bandcamp is also available the rest of the year so if you can't afford it now I'm sure an artist would still enjoy seeing the sale.

@reto @kemonine Oh, you're right. Nevermind then. I'll stop buying music this instant.

You've shown me the light. No middlemen.

(Just curious why you felt the need to point this out?)

@aral Thank you for putting into words what I find imminently frustrating about blockchain. Every time someone explains it to me it feels like "and you're just trading receipts that eventually filter back to some central authority. You've created a bank but with more steps."

(And no, person who will feel the need to elaborate, I do not need you to elaborate. My lack of faith in your belief structure is not a conversion opportunity. Yield, good sir knight).

@aral I think there's a reason for Intel GPUs to have Linux support, because if they didn't then nobody would use these underpowered wastes of silicon.

@aral This is about as useless as a rating for a restaurant that says "5/5 Great".

Forget 10x developer, some days I aspire to be a 1x developer instead of a .1x developer.

#developer #programming

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/06/everyone-at-facebook-is-qwhite-complicit/

"If you work for Facebook, quit. It is morally indefensible for you to use your skills to make that company more powerful. By working there, you are making the world an objectively worse place. I'm sure you can find a job working for a company that you don't have to apologize for all the time.

You can do it. I believe in you."

@aral This mirrors my experience, though I use OBSS on a separate machine.

Fun fact: Jitsi instances use a headless Chrome instance to record, which is then fed to ffmpeg, so if you're feeling really frisky you can spin up your own instance and tweak ffmpeg to make something better.

I'd prefer to pet a porcupine, personally.

@peertube I think moderation is important, which is why I'm hoping to get your funding up over to 20,000 Euro mark.

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#mediocreprogrammer

Sometimes your filter bubble needs a good pin:

http://n-gate.com/hackernews/2020/05/21/0/

#technology

@aral I can't tell you how long it took me before I realized that this was simply octal / binary conversions. I felt both like a great truth was revealed and like an fool for not noticing it sooner.

@aral Welcome to Linux, where installing apps gets reinvented every five years.

(Also Python, Ruby, and Node).

Thank you to the #jitsi folks who have created a platform for people to connect, and a strong alternative to proprietary platforms. You all rock.

@aral @ScottMortimer I'm petitioning for all "roll your own" encryption algorithms to be be "DKA-compliant"

DKA = Dunning Krueger Algorithm.

@fribbledom "Perhaps Acronyms Used Succinctly are Effective"/