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philip

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Dane 🇩🇰 (with Polish 🇵🇱 blood) living in the US 🇺🇸, previously Ireland 🇮🇪 and the UK 🇬🇧.

Technology Consultant, teaching people how best to utilize modern SWE and Ops practices.

Computers are overrated, people are underrated.

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@louie@pdx.social avatar louie , to random

Just how it’s uncool to post AI-generated images or text, especially without disclosing that you did up front, it is super uncool to publish an AI-generated app—again— especially without disclosing it up front.

I don’t care if it “works.” I don’t care if people “can’t tell.” I think it’s irresponsible and deceptive. And if you don’t want to admit that you used AI to generate an app, then you know that people would react poorly to that information, which makes it pretty obviously uncool.

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@louie @stroughtonsmith @nileane I for one would find it very valuable to be able to suss out the apps (Even if they’re few, even if it’s less than 0.01% of all future created software) that are human made.

@TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar TomF , (edited ) to random

Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2". Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.

A Combine soldier threatening with a baton, in front of a door. Which one is a greater menace in gamedev?
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@TomF Great lesson in all of those subtle assumptions sometimes made around dependencies.

@stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

When you launch something on expect a flood on mails from "streamers" who want a free game key for a "review"

Chances are big those keys end up on marketplaces for "cheap games" and such

If these super popular streamers cannot pay the 0,99 cents and 4,99 for my game I'd rather they do not review it

It would be fun if one of my games got popular but it's not a requirement :nkoShrug:

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@stux What’s the game?!

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@stux Exciting, best of luck with the launch.

@stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , (edited ) to random

I wonder..

Have you been taught in-depth about the First & Second World War in school?

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@stux I would say both yes, and not enough.

It’s hard to know what you weren’t taught, because you don’t know it (unknown unknown).

I suspect many Europeans like myself were taught, and believe they know everything important, and are probably blind to important nuance.

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    @Binder Door? In this office we’re so open we don’t even have walls.

    @evan@cosocial.ca avatar evan , to random

    It's weird when politicians return a campaign donation from a particular donor. It's like giving someone a refund when the product they bought is defective.

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    @evan Better still, earmark it specifically for bullfrog conservation.

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    @JessTheUnstill There’s a second part to this:

    Try to convince your emergency contacts to ever pick up if you were to call them from an unknown number 😅

    If I ever called my wife from a jail phone, I have zero hope she’d pick up.

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    @Binder You can never take PTO again, obviously.

    @louie@pdx.social avatar louie , to random

    Let’s say you attend a religious ceremony or religious gathering place that is not a religion you subscribe to in your life. (If you’re atheist or agnostic, that’s all of them.)

    To what level do you participate? Do you go through any of the motions? Do you do it out of respect, not sticking out, or to just temporarily surrender to it? Do you abstain from that? How do you handle it?

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    @louie So, depending on context, I think I have three different answers:

    #1 for better and worse, the Protestant Christian church has, over centuries, managed to interweave itself with Danish culture.

    So even though I don’t have any faith, I would gladly and with no reservations participate in something like Christmas mass. I’ve even been to one at the Nordic house here in Portland, because it was the closest thing to celebrating my traditions I could find.

    @philip@mallegolhansen.com avatar philip , to random

    I don't know who needs to hear this, but the very idea of Open Source was always a radical left leaning ideological stance.

    You're GIVING AWAY labor to the tune of millions of dollars because of some notion that we'd all be better off together if we didn't have to re-write the same dang components over and over again.

    Of course members of the Open Source community are going to get political. We always have been.

    @louie@pdx.social avatar louie , to random

    So many posts on here where people say, “AI doesn’t even work!”

    Yes, we know. It feels like there’s been so many people that said it before, that I have to assume everyone’s heard it by now. How is it that people still seem surprised by this?

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    @louie @stephanie I suspect many find catharsis in preaching to the choir.

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    @louie I respect that, I’m aware of your opinions on parasocial relationships and the use of social media. I hope people aren’t explicitly tagging you to… I won’t even finish that though, someone probably is.

    Simultaneously it can be true that there are people out there who need some sort of outlet for their frustrations, and for whatever reason, this is that place for them.

    @stephanie

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    @louie Agreed.

    I typed a lot more words here… but really, just agreed will do.

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    @Binder Those appear to be controls, with issues.

    Toot certified accurate 🏷️

    @panic@panic.com avatar panic , to random

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    @panic Any chance you’re planning on doing a sale on renewals?

    @fanden@helvede.net avatar fanden , to random Danish

    Får en email fra en studerende: "Hej, nu skal vi jo til at bruge tofaktorsautentifikation for at logge ind på kursusplatformen, men, æh... jeg har ikke, og vil ikke have en smartphone, som IT-afdelingen kræver for at bruge 2FA. Kan universitetet kræve at jeg bruger en smartphone?"

    Og nu har jeg lyst til at sløjfe hele kurset og danne en privatlivsguerilla på jobbet i stedet.

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    @fanden Perfekt 👌🏼

    @louie@pdx.social avatar louie , to random

    How did this ship? Amateur hour in Cupertino.

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    @louie I see it all over the UI… Infuriating.

    @louie@pdx.social avatar louie , to random

    Yo! Without looking anything up, reply below with what you think each of these symbols mean. Don’t just tell me what they’re called. Tell me what you think they signify.

    © ™ ®

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    @louie

    ©️: I’m mistakenly under the impression that the date attached to this thing should be updated every Jan 1st, despite the work being from sometime in the past.

    ™️: I came up with a really clever word/phrase and I’d hate for you to use it.

    ®️: I’m a pompous corporation and my lawyers tell me to put this everywhere I go.

    @louie@pdx.social avatar louie , to random

    Is there no limit to what the American public can tolerate?

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    @louie Only the loss of comfort, it would seem.

    Shelves that aren’t stocked with our favorite snacks? Riots.

    Anything else, meh.

    @louie@pdx.social avatar louie , (edited ) to random

    You stand in front of a button which takes all the guns away from everyone who has guns, and gives guns to everyone who doesn’t have guns. (Of course, this includes cops, military, etc.)

    It is irreversible. Take as much time as you need to think about it.

    Do you push it?

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    @louie I… I think I’d need a long time to make that decision.

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    @louie Haha, I appreciate that.

    It’s a good question. My mind immediately wants to answer all the ones you didn’t ask (Taking guns away from everyone, getting to pick and choose who gets them, etc.)

    But the question as (purposefully I’m sure) posed, is a tough one.

    @faab64@freefree.ps avatar faab64 , to random

    Just bought 2 first class tickets for my daughter and my wife going from Copenhagen in Denmark to Gothenburg in Sweden for 109 euros.

    They will be traveling with the next generation of the train I worked on building from design to full production in my first 5 years of career in back in Sweden.

    Feeling a bit nostalgic. That job was the best job I ever had, but the salary was so low, I had to change (got an 80% increase when moved to Ericsson after that).

    Oresund train going between Sweden and Denmark
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    @faab64 That’s awesome. I always loved the iconic rubber ring design.

    The IC2 ran on my little local railway in southern Denmark, my first love (for trains anyway).

    @louie@pdx.social avatar louie , to random

    Making a list of my favorite places. (It’s mostly food.)
    🔗 https://lmnt.me/favorites/places.html

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    @louie Love Enoteca Nostrana. There’s a few PDX places on your list I haven’t checked out yet, looking forward to getting around to those.

    @philip@mallegolhansen.com avatar philip , to random

    It’s easy to forget that these days we may have colleagues in the software industry for whom an iPad was their first ever computing device.

    So just to remind you: The idea that software should come from a central authority is new, it’s radical, and it’s wrong.
    https://guild.pmdcollab.org/@StaticR/115098597647157516

    @louie@pdx.social avatar louie , to random

    I expect zero responses but if you have a moment and are familiar with my work—

    I’m trying to pick out the icons and wallpapers that are “fan favorites” for the front page. Is something missing from this selection? Something that shouldn’t be here? I’m curious!
    🔗 https://lmnt.me

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    @louie I quite like the alternate finder icons you did. But hey, I’m just one stranger on the internet.

    @jerry@infosec.exchange avatar jerry , to random

    Here we are at Friday again. Time to push that code to prod while you listen to this song: https://suno.com/song/a5c7cffc-8325-42f7-bb94-5a0246d7e23c

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    @jerry Better yet, I pushed the code yesterday so they think they’re safe.

    Today we enable the feature flag.

    @louie@pdx.social avatar louie , to random

    When I lived in the US, I never ever saw any company care about the UN’s “Sustainable Development goals” (SDGs) but ever since moving to Japan, it’s heckin’ everywhere. New building going up, SDG logo on the construction fence. Salaryman on the train? SDG pin on his lapel.

    My question is... are you aware of this? Did you ever see this logo? If so, where are you?

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    @louie I heard about it at least once a year in school growing up (Denmark), it was present, but it doesn’t sound like anywhere near the degree of Japan.

    Agreed that I haven’t seen many (Any?) mentions since moving to the U.S.

    @louie@pdx.social avatar louie , to random

    hi my name is louie and it’s my opinion that text fields should always be super-duper extra frosted or completely opaque, no matter what

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    @louie This is fine.

    @louie@pdx.social avatar louie , to random

    Sometimes I need Javascript. But I don’t like Javascript. Does anyone like Javascript? Like does anyone actually like it and like writing it?

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    @louie I have coworkers who swear they really like it.

    I honestly feel like they must be gaslighting me.

    @louie@pdx.social avatar louie , to random

    If you too are feeling nostalgic lately, you can join me in wearing this classic Aqua shirt.
    🔗 https://cottonbureau.com/p/5KJDNA/shirt/aqua#/20574333/tee-men-premium-lightweight-premium-heather-tri-blend-s

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    @louie So tempted to get it as a onesie for my kid.

    His mother might not approve though 😂

    @louie@pdx.social avatar louie , to random

    Wrote one 1000-word blog post and it’s not done and I don’t want the length to sound like I’m angry.

    I wrote another, at over 2000 words, and now I’m worried I’m going to fall into this trap of writing very long posts that either no one cares about or makes it seem like I’m angry. So much that I just don’t post them.

    Which feels worse than posting them. I don’t know.

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    @louie Post ‘em!

    @louie@pdx.social avatar louie , to random

    What’s something nice that happened recently?

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    @louie I got the LEGO Steamboat that I’ve been enjoying building lately. Reminds me of the lovely times at Disneyland in my younger years. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/river-steamboat-21356

    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

    Discovery: The "copilot" bot user that Microsoft will soon be flooding your github repos with garbage content from is implemented in some sort of special way that exempts it from the "block" feature you would normally be able to block other users/bots with

    https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159749

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    @mcc I entirely agree with your conclusion, but I think there’s one detail where I’d be a bit more charitable in my view as far as their malice simply being incompetence:

    I doubt they’ve explicitly stopped you from “blocking” the bot, and instead I’d bet it’s only sort of a “user” across backend services, but not really. And so it just doesn’t support being blocked.

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    @mcc Yeah, I was referring to the “special cased” mention on your feedback item :)

    @ewen@photog.social avatar ewen , (edited ) to random

    Local bakery has grown over the years. Very fancy now.

    Bakemono does my favourite pastries in Melbourne. Baked croissants with ham n cheese with a little chutney.
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    @ewen The appropriate facial expression for fancy bakery time.

    @louie@pdx.social avatar louie , (edited ) to random

    For four digit numbers (not years), do you use a thousand separator (comma or period or space)? Obviously we all do for five digits and above. But four?

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    @louie Really depends on context, but generally not. Also not for 5 digits or above.

    Maybe that makes me a maniac.

    @stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

    I know it's been said before, but it's pretty cool you can add a link to a Mastodon account on the store developers page!

    As an example, the very own instance I host is even used 😁 :blobhappy:

    Add a link to a Mastodon account to a Steam store product page
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    @stux Interesting choice to hardcode the set of valid instances though.

    @jerry@infosec.exchange avatar jerry , to random

    The US Constitution didn’t have a complete set of test cases written before it was released.

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    @jerry Imagine if legislators practiced TDD.

    @fanden@helvede.net avatar fanden , to random Danish

    Jeg var ved at falde ned af stolen, da der for en gangs skyld var et jobopslag på arbejdsformidlingen, jeg kunne bruge til noget. Universitetsadjunkt i visuel kommunikation, fokus på grafisk design og illustration 🎯

    Men selvfølgelig er der en flue i suppen: "En integreret del af uddannelsen er brugen af ​​generativ AI, hvor studerende får både teknisk og kritisk forståelse af AIs rolle i den kreative industri."

    Jeg må næsten sende en ansøgning afsted, bare for at give dem fingeren pga det her.

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    @fanden Det er vel nemt nok: Forståelsen løses ved en lektion om hvordan det er en uetisk og sandsynligvis ulovlig måde hvorpå man udregner gennemsnittet af en masse billeder man har stjålet. Og så er det ellers bare derud af med den egentlige lektioner! 🙃

    @briankrebs@infosec.exchange avatar briankrebs , to random

    I've noticed something that I think is worth pointing out: pretty much ALL of the pushback I have gotten on LinkedIn over the past few months over stories critical of this administration has come from men in IT. Many of whom no doubt idolize Musk, who in their minds can walk on water.

    Conversely, the response almost universally I've seen from female non/male people in IT and security professionals on LinkedIn has been a great deal more appropriate, i.e. horror, disgust and revulsion for the way this administration is treating federal employees, veterans, the courts, judges, lawyers, journalists, and important, long-standing U.S. policy interests.

    I guess what I'm saying is nobody should expect the men in IT to lead the resistance. So many of them are like this guy: angry, aggressive, and really excited about the good old US of A going back to the 80s. Like the 1880s.

    A LinkedIn direct message from Stuart Grant, CISSP, CEH, Principal Information Security Architect at Itron Inc. Dear Brian: You suck. Leave your damn politics out of it. This is not a political platform. Me: Hey Stuart. I'm sorry the guy you voted for is a Fascist. You should really start paying attention instead of burying your head in the sand.
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    @briankrebs Appreciate you sticking up for your values.

    @aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar aral , to random

    Who attacks a tiny independent git host?

    Assholes, that’s who.

    Good job being assholes, assholes. https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/113995906071458932

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    @aral Turns out making the international transfer from my US bank account is harder than it should be…

    I’m committing to visiting my bank in person this afternoon to try to make it happen though @Codeberg .

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    happy monday, i hope everyone also enjoyed the SIX STRAIGHT WEEKS of holidays we just had!

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    @molly0xfff I wish.

    @coffeegeek@flipboard.social avatar coffeegeek , to random

    Ai hai. Look at what came today.

    Not sure if I'll do a full review on it or not (should I? let me know in comments below); but I will definitely be posting an intro post about the new AeroPress Premium, on CoffeeGeek. And it won't be a fluff piece, I can promise you that :)

    AeroPress Premium in its box.
    AeroPress Premium box on a counter with espresso gear behind it.

    AeroPress Premium box on a counter with espresso gear behind it.
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    @coffeegeek I’d be interested.

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    sometimes I wonder how people who don’t listen to Critical Role get any housework done

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    @molly0xfff That’s the neat thing, we don’t!

    @kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange avatar kevinrothrock , to random

    To be fair to the Democrats who have treated Russians like cowards for failing to stand up to Putin but are now too sheepish to call for Biden to step aside and give the party a shot in November, that first thing is much easier to do.

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    @kevinrothrock @VirginiaMurr Simultaneously claiming Democrats are sheepish, and that you aren’t interested in the rationale are inconsistent.

    “Sheepish” is by definition a matter of what the rationale is. The same physical action, depending on the rationale behind it, is or is not sheepish.

    Equally true in Russia as in America, for what that’s worth.

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    @gerrymcgovern And is the result even that amazing?

    Maybe I’m just getting grumpy, but to me the point of a photo is to document what we saw. Not what we wished we would have seen instead.

    The ads show photos of popular tourist destinations, where you “erase” the crowd. But to what end? Making it seem like we had the place to ourselves? Why? Why not acknowledge the humanity around us.

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    just realized i've had the mollywhite.net domain for over 10 years(!!)

    related sneak peek into an upcoming piece: i firmly believe that if you're going to spend money on one thing online it should be a domain, particularly as online identity gets more fragmented. as platforms come and go, you can always find me there.

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    @mwl @molly0xfff Yes! And, the beauty of it is that you still can use someone else's platform (MySpace back in the day, Substack or whatever today), but as long as you advertise a domain you own, you can just redirect it later.

    Owning a domain is like the digital equivalent of a forwarding address that never expires. Nobody ever has to worry about which town you live in on any given month, because they'll always get to you no matter what.