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I haven't agreed with a paragraph this much in a long, long time. https://www.404media.co/the-medias-pivot-to-ai-is-not-real-and-not-going-to-work/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Excerpt from 404 Media's article:

"But pivoting to AI is not a business strategy. Telling journalists they must use AI is not a business strategy. Partnering with AI companies is a business move, but becoming reliant on revenue from tech giants who are creating a machine that duplicates the work you’ve already created is not a smart or sustainable business move, and therefore it is not a smart business strategy. It is true that AI is changing the internet and is threatening journalists and media outlets. But the only AI-related business strategy that makes any sense whatsoever is one where media companies and journalists go to great pains to show their audiences that they are human beings, and that the work they are doing is worth supporting because it is human work that is vital to their audiences. This is something GQ’s editorial director Will Welch recently told New York magazine: 'The good news for any digital publisher is that the new game we all have to play is also a sustainable one: You have to build a direct relationship with your core readers,' he said."

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well hello, I would really like to #getFediHired

I have 7 years of experience at Microsoft in cloud infrastructure, focusing on Kubernetes and devOps with additional experience around databases, front end, algorithm design.

I am a skilled technical communicator and used to working across teams and even across companies. I have experience teaching people new to or experienced with technical topics.

Documentation and maintenance are passions of mine, and I want to ensure that not only do shiny new systems get built, but that they are documented, maintained, and can be monitored.

I've done considerable work in LGBTQ+ and accessibility education and love to find the places where these topics shine a light on technology.

Please reach out with leads. I am happy to send my resume on request.

(US, remote work pls!)

#fediHire #fediHired

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I just want to have fun with computers and I've never cared about "X11 vs Wayland."

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Free and open-source visualization app that transforms various data formats, such as JSON, YAML, XML, CSV and more, into interactive graphs. A must have tool for developers or IT folks. https://github.com/AykutSarac/jsoncrack.com

#opensource

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arch linux users be like ...

A two-panel meme featuring a monkey with big eyes. The top text reads "Windows users: complains about required internet to install Windows 11". The bottom text reads "Arch users:", implying that Arch Linux requires the Internet to install and download various pacakges.

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Ever wondered why car ergonomics have gone down the drain as touch screens replaced buttons to drive down costs? This reader comment on an FT article on the topic says it all.

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I’m an industrial designer and I used to work in the design department at a major car manufacturer. I’m a petrol head, and have been my whole life. By now, I’ve probably driven over a hundred different vehicles across various generations of interface technology.

Here’s the thing: the user experience designers in my team — the ones tasked with designing the digital interfaces now frequently deployed and rightly deplored in this article — had little-to-no interest in cars. In many cases, they were only working for a car maker because they couldn’t get the jobs they really wanted in tech companies. But the kicker was that many of them didn’t have drivers’ licenses, let alone any interest in how cars really work. All they saw was a screen, abstracted from the broader reality of operating a 2-tonne projectile in a world of sometimes moving, sometimes fleshy, and sometimes immovable targets.

@vkc It's so great!! I have a nothing-burger of a forgejo instance to hold code I write for myself, my blog and my clients. Before Anubis, it was running at about 100% CPU load. Afterward, it's between 10-20%.

Screenshot of a proxmox virtual environment summary page for a forgejo instance. There is a graph of CPU load for the last month. Three weeks ago, the load was 100%, then it suddenly drops to between 10 and 20%.

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This is exactly what the internet is for.

three posts telling a story of a Berlin woman who regrets not having bought a certain sweater in Iceland and gets it from a New York man who bought it for his wife, who did not like it.

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Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

— Andy Rooney

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I just bought an HP 9000 712/60 - the PA-RISC PizzaBox that NEXT used to port NEXTSTEP to PA-RISC. I'm going to put NEXTSTEP oon it, obviously.

I found this video, which is about doing exactly that. The production quality is absurdly high.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4hs4K7AEvQ

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@mcc “A compiler is a tool for reporting issues in code. If none are found, it emits an object file as a side effect.”

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Anyone can recommend forgotten books about designing and programming text user interfaces (TUI) for consoles/terminals, also known as screen design back in the 80s?

*Not* curses or using existing libraries, but more like relying directly on ANSI/VT100 control sequences. And *no*, I'm not asking for a list of escape sequences :)

The kind of material I'm thinking of is something close to the 1989 "Programming the User Interface: Principles and Examples" by Judith R. Brown and Steve Cunningham. But focused on TUI exclusively. The more (pseudo-)code, the better.

#ansi #vt100 #terminal #tui #console

front cover of the book mentioned. It's a simples design with a centre image showing elements of user interfaces. One is text-based, another one shows some RGB sine waves, another some gradients, and no idea about the last one :)

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A two panel meme.

Top panel shows a distressed cat's face, and the text reads "Schrödinger puts you in a box".

Bottom panel shows the cat looking contemplative, and reads "on the other hand, it's a pretty good box".

@matt_trentini @xavi yah, that’s fair. I’ve personally had bad luck the the stability of embedded python. It would just crash into the interpreter and never come back. I ended up re-writing in rust to actually deploy

@matt_trentini @xavi I mean, if it were me, I’d do Rust. And there’s is a driver for rust (not that I’ve ever tried it of course) https://crates.io/crates/sh8601-rs

@matt_trentini @xavi dang. Any similar ones?

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@didier I always viewed programming as a form of art, like painting, with the code being my brush and the editor being my canvas. People using AI seem like they are just in it for the money, slapping some colors together and hoping to get paid. And fast.

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One thing the AI craze is showing me is that there really is a generation of ‘programmers’ who actually feel that designing, coding and optimizing is somehow the tedious part of the job and not the fun part we all know it is…

I’m a huge Chris Fleming fan, and his Gayle series hooked me. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6B0B7F79AE5B948B&si=cID3QWmPXsChNmDg

@xavi I think CircuitPython might be a better place to start than MicroPython. https://circuitpython.org also, Adafruit has a repo of tons and tons of python libraries for talking a a bunch of hardware. That should help the the graphics and LCD.

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