The Lunduke Journal of Technology Podcast - May 12, 2023
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Web Summit Rio 2023: Building an app in 18 minutes with GitHub Copilot X
GitHub CEO Thomas Domke demonstrated the power of GitHub Copilot X live on stage. ⌘ Read more

An early bird & night owl swap lives for a week ⌘ Read more

Do they legitimately believe that end users will encounter videos of gruesome murders, live streams of school shootings, etc etc etc, and be like “oh, tee hee hee, that’s not what I want to see! I’d better block that!” and go about their business as usual?

No, they can’t possibly be that foolish. They are going to be doing some amount of content moderation. Just not of Nazis, fascists, or far right reactionaries. Which to me means they want that content on there.

Lunduke Journal April Wrap-up
A commitment to no ads, live streaming on the way, & April PDF Magazine. ⌘ Read more

There is a “right” way to make something like GitHub CoPilot, but Microsoft did not choose that way. They chose one of the most exploitative options available to them. For that reason, I hope they face significant consequences, though I doubt they will in the current climate. I also hope that CoPilot is shut down, though I’m pretty certain it will not be.

Other than access to the data behind it, Microsoft has nothing special that allows it to create something like CoPilot. The technology behind it has been around for at least a decade. There could be a “public” version of this same tool made by a cooperating group of people volunteering, “leasing”, or selling their source code into it. There could likewise be an ethically-created corporate version. Such a thing would give individual developers or organizations the choice to include their code in the tool, possibly for a fee if that’s something they want or require. The creators of the tool would have to acknowledge that they have suppliers–the people who create the code that makes their tool possible–instead of simply stealing what they need and pretending that’s fine.

This era we’re living through, with large companies stomping over all laws and regulations, blatantly stealing other people’s work for their own profit, cannot come to an end soon enough. It is destroying innovation, and we all suffer for that. Having one nifty tool like CoPilot that gives a bit of convenience is nowhere near worth the tremendous loss that Microsoft’s actions in this instace are creating for everyone.

@carsten@yarn.zn80.net Animals have inner lives. Computers do not.

Are you really so desperate to make this point thst you’re citing Quora??? Believe what you want to believe.

RT by @mind_booster: No âmbito do 20º aniversário da Convenção de Salvaguarda do Património Cultural Imaterial, é amanhã lançada a campanha Wiki Loves Living Heritage. Vejam como assistir ao lançamento no link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage_launch_event #Patrimonioimaterial #Portugal @cultura_pt
No âmbito do 20º aniversário da Convenção de Salvaguarda do Património Cultural Imaterial, é amanhã lançada a campanha Wiki Loves Living Heritage. Vejam … ⌘ Read more

Lucy has barely bought fruit in 12 years. As rate hikes hit hard, here’s how she keeps her pantry full
As the cost of living soars, some people are growing their own fruit and vegetables as a community to help keep grocery bills down. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Can’t Live with It, Can’t Live without It
I’d like to share some thoughts about Elixir’s with keyword.  with is a wonderful tool, but in my experience it is a bit overused.  To use it best, we must understand how it behaves in all cases.  So, let’s briefly cover the basics, starting with pipes in Elixir.

But like all tools, you should think about when it is best used…

Pipes are at their best when you expect your function … ⌘ Read more

hitler having been a furry makes kabbalistic sense: adolf (noble wolf) hitler (one who lives in a hut)

Sam Whited: Smyrna Parks: Rose Garden and Jonquil

I live in a suburb of Atlanta called Smyrna 1.
Though Smyrna has been ranked favorably compared to other towns in the U.S.2, it
suffers from many of the same problems as other suburbs:
wide, fast, roads that aren’t very pedestrian or bicycle (or even car) friendly
and a lack of public transit make it [hard to get a … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net #ratchet #lives

Nice to see that there is such a variety of MicroPub clients, next to Quill, Micropublish and the mobile app Indigenous, there’s also sparkles. But on the desktop, I mostly just use GoBlog’s editor nowadays. It has live sync and and a live preview, which is sometimes very helpful. But flexibility is the key, use what fits you and the situation the best. ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: 1/ 🧵What if ‘living with Covid’ literally means living with it inside you for a long time? 🦠🤔

This year has produced several studies around viral persistence that really have not had enough airtime.
These could have far reaching consequences
I will summarise..**
1/ 🧵What if ‘living with Covid’ literally means living with it inside you for a long time? 🦠🤔

This year has produced several studies around viral persistence that really have not had enough airtime.

These could have far reac … ⌘ Read more

**Have you decided how will you be celebrating this year’s Winter Solstice yet?

@tidalclub is organizing a 24 hours long online festival, and I’ll be playing there! More info:

https://merankorii.blogspot.com/2022/12/live-at-club-tidals-night-stream.html**
Have you decided how will you be celebrating this year’s Winter Solstice yet?

@tidalclub is organizing a 24 hours long online festival, and I’ll be playing there! More info:

[merankorii.blogspot.com/2022…](https … ⌘ Read more

performed qiudanz tag on the Hybrid Live Coding Interfaces Workshop 2022 | gemini://compudanzas.net/qiudanz_tag.gmi

wrote guiding notes for the qiudanz tag exploration that we will be showcasing on the Hybrid Live Coding Interfaces 2022 workshop. | gemini://compudanzas.net/qiudanz_tag.gmi

TempleOS lives on… in a very weird way.
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accepted in the Hybrid Live Coding Interfaces 2022 workshop with our qiudanz technique proposal | gemini://compudanzas.net/qiudanz_devlog.gmi

13 tiny, terrific, and terrifying games to hack, slay, and play this Halloween 🧛🏻‍♀️
Some seriously spooktacular open source games for the web, Windows, macOS, and Linux with all sorts of fun hacks for infinite lives, invulnerability, and playing with time. ⌘ Read more

The GitHub Universe 2022 agenda is live
Explore 80+ content sessions delivered by over 120 different speakers, across two days and four content tracks, all designed to level up your skills. ⌘ Read more

applied to the Hybrid Live Coding Interfaces 2022 workshop | gemini://compudanzas.net/qiudanz_devlog.gmi

Applications for micro-mentoring at GitHub Universe 2022 are now live
Students have the opportunity to connect with GitHub employees at GitHub Universe 2022 through Micro-Mentoring sessions hosted by GitHub Social Impact. ⌘ Read more

The “Live in DOS for a Week” Challenge!
7 Days of DOS. As a community. DOS games. DOS productivity. Absolutely glorious. ⌘ Read more

Join us for OctogatosConf 2022
Live on September 15, 2022, with talks by industry experts in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, on topics including software development, security, technical project management, community, open source, professional development and best practices. ⌘ Read more

Integrated Terminal for Running Containers, Extended Integration with Containerd, and More in Docker Desktop 4.12
Docker Desktop 4.12 is now live! This release brings some key quality-of-life improvements to the Docker Dashboard. We’ve also made some changes to our container image management and added it as an experimental feature. Finally, we’ve made it easier to find useful Extensions. Let’s dive in. Execute commands in a runn … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de From my limited experiences in two companies I can anedoctic tell you, that what we developers told our support work mates after analyzing things and what they replied back to the enquirers was not always the same. That also happend when we gave them answers in written form. Always super nice support folks, no a single doubt, but their basic technical knowledge was pretty much non-existent. And plenty of them didn’t even really know the softwares they’re supposed to support. Granted, those were not easy programs, one was indeed super complex. But if they use them on a daily basis for years one would expect that they know them quite well. At least the main features and workflows. We also often had to tell them basic stuff several times, which was quite a bit frustrating for both sides.

But, I was super glad, that we had them in the front row. You wouldn’t believe what crap queries they had to deal with and what utter bullshit they kept off our shoulders. Sometimes people wrote really offensive e-mails for no reason. Holy moly. I wouldn’t want to trade with them, not in a hundred years. Lots of my developer work mates, however, didn’t value our first level support at all. I mean, I totally understand, that after telling the same things over and over and over and over again it pisses you off, but treating them in a way they feel like shit, doesn’t help either. It only makes things worse. I had the impression that there was a slight war between development and support.

One thing that was totally stupid, is that the POs didn’t listen to improvements and suggestions on how to make things easier for the support team and also all our users. I mean, support has to deal with this software all day long and also get the same questions about workflows and stuff that’s too complicated or unintuitive. So a lot of things were really low hanging fruit to improve everybody’s live. But when they suggested anything, the POs always declined it, nah, it’s the support’s job. Period. A few times I teamed up with the support work mates and told the POs the same, the support team was suggesting and then it was accepted without hesitation. So that clearly shows there really was a two-tier society.

In my current project we don’t have a support team, so we need to handle all the support queries ourselves. In that regard I miss the old project. But luckily, it’s basically just other developers who are needing our help, so that’s fairly okay.

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - July 23, 2022
Wordperfect for UNIX comes to Linux, Xbox Live 1.0 recreated, & Lego Atari 2600 ⌘ Read more

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net Beautiful! We melted at humid 34°C yesterday, it was awful.

Minimizing Liabilities Is Making It
The default way to look at financial “independence” nowadays is to think that means “making a lot of money.”
That’s understandable.

But then you see stuff like this:

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Or this:

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@off_grid_living@twtxt.net Very nice shots, this makes the size much more visible. Good luck with the rest of the wire netting, don’t break your neck.

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How tropical islands on Indonesia and Thailand are the new working from home
Tourism hotspots Thailand and Indonesia are trying to take advantage of business-leisure travellers – a subset of digital nomads, living and working abroad for longer than a typical holiday without taking up permanent residence. ⌘ Read more

How leaders mingle after Nato meetings: with fine food, art and music at Madrid’s famous Prado Museum
Nato country leaders and European Union heads of state and government got to admire some of the world’s greatest art and listen to a Ukrainian classical orchestra live as they gathered to dine at Madrid’s Prado Museum. ⌘ Read more

South China Sea: Philippines protests over Taiwan’s live-fire drills
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2 Indian women arrested for trying to smuggle more than 100 live animals at Bangkok airport
The creatures, including two armadillos, 35 turtles and 50 chameleons, were found in a pair of bags belonging to the women. ⌘ Read more

Supermarket boss says Britons buying more cheap frozen food as cost of living crisis worsens
Sainsbury’s CEO Simon Roberts said shoppers were visiting stores more often but buying less on each trip as after UK’s inflation reached new highs. ⌘ Read more

Hong Kong star Jackie Chan attracts 5.4 million on Kuaishou as Chinese platforms deploy celebrity live-streams to lure users
In a fierce battle for viewers, Kuaishou, Douyin and WeChat’s Channels platform are making use of star power including Chan, Backstreet Boys, Jay Chou and Andy Lau. ⌘ Read more

This 1.63 million-year-old fossil may have been the first human (hominin) to inhabit China
Scientists used teeth analysis to show that a Homo erectus fossil nicknamed, Lantian Man, likely lived in northwest China and may represent the first known hominin to live there. ⌘ Read more

Biden signs landmark gun control bill into law with bipartisan support ‘to save lives’
President Biden called the legislation the most significant of its kind in decades; measures include restricting gun access for youngest buyers and bolstering mental health support. ⌘ Read more

Roe vs Wade: protesters condemn ‘tragedy’ as several states impose new abortion bans
‘Women died getting abortions……we were trying to protect women’s rights, women’s lives, and now they’ve taken all that away from us’. ⌘ Read more

Hongkongers all: drawn to the city for different reasons, they call it home
Living the expatriate life or struggling to make ends meet, immigrants find reasons to belong. ⌘ Read more

Man in China with no arms shows millions how the disabled can live full lives in videos of cooking, writing and sewing with his feet
A man in China who lost both his arms as a child shows millions that a disability does not mean you can’t have a full life, with videos of him cooking, farming and even sewing with his feet. ⌘ Read more

China’s live-streaming e-commerce offers lifeline to fruit farmers amid Covid restrictions and short season
Local farmers have come to rely more on Big Tech platforms to boost sales in recent years, but a tough season for some produce is proving challenging for some. ⌘ Read more

Hong Kong’s developers step up to fill the shortage in quality pension homes for the golden years in the world’s fastest-ageing population
Hongkongers are living longer than ever before, exerting an increasing burden on the government as the expenditure on elderly services surged 82 per cent in the 12 months ending on March 31, 2023. ⌘ Read more

China’s new live-streaming guidelines set to change the influencer business known for its ‘low threshold, high income’
In the latest crackdown on China’s once-booming live streaming industry, authorities are requiring platforms to check the credentials of influencers in certain fields. ⌘ Read more

The Age of Health Misinformation: From Pandemic to Infodemic
COVID-19 has sadly fuelled a torrent of false or misleading information that has complicated efforts to limit the spread of the virus ⌘ Read more