I miss running
I’ve talked about this a few times and posted some of the pictures OneDrive shows me every day. Photos taken on the same day, week or month in previous years. It always gives me a “throwback” and I think about the situation at the time I took the photo. ⌘ Read more

I deleted my Twitter account a long time ago, but sometimes I still used Nitter to search Twitter or we linked tweets. I decided to stop that and removed Nitter from my home server and added “twitter.com” to the deny list at NextDNS. There are too many reasons to list here. ⌘ Read more

QOA Benchmark Results and File Format Specification
The specification for the Quite OK Audio Format,
announced in a previous blog post,
is now finalized. QOA is a lossy audio compression format. Typical audio
signals (44100hz, stereo) are encoded into 278 kbits/s, or more precisely 3.2
bits per sample – exactly 1/5 of the bits needed for an uncompressed WAV.

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@prologic@twtxt.net @carsten@yarn.zn80.net

There is (I assure you there will be, don’t know what it is yet…) a price to be paid for this convenience.

Exactly prologic, and that’s why I’m negative about these sorts of things. I’m almost 50, I’ve been around this tech hype cycle a bunch of times. Look at what happened with Facebook. When it first appeared, people loved it and signed up and shared incredibly detailed information about themselves on it. Facebook made it very easy and convenient for almost anyone, even people who had limited understanding of the internet or computers, to get connected with their friends and family. And now here we are today, where 80% of people in surveys say they don’t trust Facebook with their private data, where they think Facebook commits crimes and should be broken up or at least taken to task in a big way, etc etc etc. Facebook has been fined many billions of dollars and faces endless federal lawsuits in the US alone for its horrible practices. Yet Facebook is still exploitative. It’s a societal cancer.

All signs suggest this generative AI stuff is going to go exactly the same way. That is the inevitable course of these things in the present climate, because the tech sector is largely run by sociopathic billionaires, because the tech sector is not regulated in any meaningful way, and because the tech press / tech media has no scruples. Some new tech thing generates hype, people get excited and sign up to use it, then when the people who own the tech think they have a critical mass of users, they clamp everything down and start doing whatever it is they wanted to do from the start. They’ll break laws, steal your shit, cause mass suffering, who knows what. They won’t stop until they are stopped by mass protest from us, and the government action that follows.

That’s a huge price to pay for a little bit of convenience, a price we pay and continue to pay for decades. We all know better by now. Why do we keep doing this to ourselves? It doesn’t make sense. It’s insane.

@carsten@yarn.zn80.net

I have to write so many emails to so many idiots who have no idea what they are doing

So it sounds to me like the pressure is to reduce how much time you waste on idiots, which to my mind is a very good reason to use a text generator! I guess in that case you don’t mind too much whether the company making the AI owns your prompt text?

I’d really like to see tools like this that you can run on your desktop or phone, so they don’t send your hard work off to someone else and give a company a chance to take it from you.

Tillitis TKey
The Tillitis TKey, which I first wrote about in September last year,
is now available for sale at the the Tillitis webshop.

The TKey is a small bare-bones RISC-V computer in a USB stick form
factor with no persistent storage that measures apps uploaded to it
and derives a deterministic secret every time the same app is started.
You can use it, for instance, as a security token to keep your private
key and do signing operations. Everyt … ⌘ Read more

Man wakes from 2 year coma to find Gentoo stage 2 install still going
“It cut my total time spent waiting for this Gentoo install to complete by almost half!” ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m a bit of a GPU junkie (😳) and I have 3, 2019-era GPUs lying around. One of these days when I have Free Time™ I’ll put those together into some kind of cluster….

ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.04
This new ejabberd 23.04 release includes many improvements and bug fixes, as well as some new features.

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• Many SQL database improvements
  
• mod_mam support for XEP-0425: Message Moderation
  
• Newmod_muc_rtbl, Real-Time Block List for MUC rooms
  
• Binaries useErlang/OTP 25.3, and changes in containers
  

A more detailed explanatio … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.04
This new ejabberd 23.04 release includes many improvements and bug fixes, as well as some new features.

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• Many SQL database improvements
  
• mod_mam support for XEP-0425: Message Moderation
  
• Newmod_muc_rtbl, Real-Time Block List for MUC rooms
  
• Binaries useErlang/OTP 25.3, and changes in containers
  

A more detailed explanatio … ⌘ Read more

On LinkedIn I see a lot of posts aimed at software developers along the lines of “If you’re not using these AI tools (X,Y,Z) you’re going to be left behind.”

Two things about that:

1. No you’re not. If you have good soft skills (good communication, show up on time, general time management) then you’re already in excellent shape. No AI can do that stuff, and for that alone no AI can replace people
   
2. This rhetoric is coming directly from the billionaires who are laying off tech people by the 100s of thousands as part of the class war they’ve been conducting against all working people since the 1940s. They want you to believe that you have to scramble and claw over one another to learn the “AI” that they’re forcing onto the world, so that you stop honing the skills that matter (see #1) and are easier to obsolete later. Don’t fall for it. It’s far from clear how this will shake out once governments get off their asses and start regulating this stuff, by the way–most of these “AI” tools are blatantly breaking copyright and other IP laws, and some day that’ll catch up with them.
   

That said, it is helpful to know thy enemy.

Hayden Pedigo – Elsewhere
Amarillo’s own Hayden Pedigo shares a soothing, gorgeously meditative low-key stunner from his new album The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored, coming June 30th on Mexican Summer. Fittingly cinematic and transportive video direction / Wim Wenders vibes courtesy of **Matt … ⌘ Read more

💭 While some people like to jump between blogging software all the time, or go back to Hugo from a custom one, I don’t really miss Hugo after switching to GoBlog in 2020, but enjoy having my own system quite a bit. Not that Hugo, WordPress, etc. are bad blogging systems, but I really enjoy being able to quickly code a fix without having to research docs, StackOverflow, or the source on GitHub. And when I have an idea for a new feature, it would often not be easy to implement in the existing systems. ⌘ Read more

Linguistics Gossip
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Linguistics Gossip
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Too lazy or too ambitious?
Today was the second day of my “Hell Week”. Not because my week is so bad, it is after all holidays and time off, no, because I have arrived in the last week of the “Training Journey” at Freeletics. At the end of the Journey, the “coach” requires training every day, usually a so-called “god workout” in addition to warm-up and cool-down. ⌘ Read more

George Clanton – I Been Young
George Clanton is back with one of his best tracks to date, which he says is “stylistically indebted to 90s adult oriented artists like Savage Garden and Seal”, with a spot-on ‘90s nostalgia trip/time capsule of a video… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more

Building GitHub with Ruby and Rails
Since the beginning, GitHub.com has been a Ruby on Rails monolith. Today, the application is nearly two million lines of code and more than 1,000 engineers collaborate on it daily. We deploy as often as 20 times a day, and nearly every week one of those deploys is a Rails upgrade. Upgrading Rails weekly Every […] ⌘ Read more

My Favorite Things
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My Favorite Things
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Jess Williamson – Hunter
Jess Williamson shares the beautiful first single from her new album Time Ain’t Accidental, coming in June on Mexican Summer. Video by Rocco Rivetti + Gilles O’Kane… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more

Hot chips back on the menu as potato shortage eases, but for how long?
Wet weather and fewer potato imports are creating trying times for fish and chips shops, but growers say the start of the potato harvest across Tasmania and Victoria should ease demand. ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Release v1.1.0 of the MUC Real-Time Block List plugin for Openfire
We are happy to announce the immediate availability of a new version of the MUC Real-Time Block List plugin for Openfire, our cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP protocol! This plugin can help you moderate your chat rooms, especially when your service is part of a larger network of federate … ⌘ Read more

❤️ 🎶: Time to Go by DooRi

Ignite Realtime Blog: Developing Openfire Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) functionality
We am excited to announce that a new plugin for the Openfire real time collaboration server is in the works! This plugin implements Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) functionality and provides an XMPP implementation of EXI as defined in XEP-0322.

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This time I’m doing my commute (to my second flat) with this new 70L travel backpack from Decathlon. It’s already full with just my work stuff (notebook, keyboard, mouse) and some other stuff (personal notebook, smaller backpack, toiletries, 2L water bottle). How am I supposed to fit 14 days of vacation stuff in there? 🤔 Good that I can take a vacation without having to take the work stuff with me. 😅 ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Creating a simple weather application with Phoenix LiveView

In this article we will discuss our experience building an online weather application in Elixir using Phoenix LiveView. We created a real-time weather application that allows users to see the past, current, and forecast temperature and precipitation data for any UK postcode. The goals of building this app were:

• to further familiarise ourselves with[Phoenix LiveView](https:/ … ⌘ Read more

Application security orchestration with GitHub Advanced Security
Learn how teams can leverage the power of GitHub Advanced Security’s code scanning and GitHub Actions to integrate the right security testing tools at the right time. ⌘ Read more

Presents for Biologists
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Presents for Biologists
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File editing on GitHub Mobile keeps leveling up
Commit an update to a pull request, or start a new branch to squash a bug at any time, wherever you are using the GitHub Mobile apps. ⌘ Read more

Bringing the bugs back to this winery has saved time, money — and insects
The global population of insects has declined by 41 per cent in the past 40 years, with researchers saying the overuse of chemicals in agriculture is a key reason. ⌘ Read more

JMP: Cheogram Android: Stickers
One feature people ask about from time to time is stickers.  Now, “stickers” isn’t really a feature, nor is it even universally agreed what it means, but we’ve been working on some improvements to Cheogram Android (and the Cheogram service) to make some sticker workflows better, released today in 2.12.1-3.  This post will mostly talk about those changes and the technical implications; if you just want to see a demo of som … ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: New: Openfire MUC Real-Time Block List plugin!
A new plugin has been made available for Openfire, our cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP protocol. We have named this new plugin the MUC Real-Time Block List plugin.

This plugin can help you moderate your chat rooms, especially when your service is part of a larger network of federated XMPP domains. From experience, the XMPP community has learned that bad actors tend to spam a wid … ⌘ Read more

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On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Time Squared https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/16/time-squared.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

Nourished By Time – Quantum Suicide
Fresh off supporting Dry Cleaning on their recent U.S. tour, and a feature on the highly anticipated Yaeji album, Baltimore’s Marcus Brown aka Nourished By Time shares new track “ Quantum Suicide” -- a song “ about fighting depression” -- taken from his new record Erotic Probiotic 2, out in April… [Continue reading…](https://www.gorillavsbear.net/nourishe … ⌘ Read more

Yout amicus: fighting for developers’ right to innovate
Our mission to accelerate human progress through developer collaboration requires us, from time to time, to fight against legal developments that would needlessly impair developers’ right to innovate. That’s why GitHub has filed an amicus brief in the appeal of Yout LLC v. Recording Industry of America, Inc. ⌘ Read more

I needed something to help with a morning schedule for two kiddos. It highlights the current 5-minute block as it goes. I think this was my first time reaching for JavaScript for a personal project. https://sidequest.club/stages.html

**RT by @mind_booster: “We need disruption to end the destruction.
No more excuses.
No more greenwashing.
No more bottomless greed of the fossil fuel industry and its enablers.”

Not our words.
It’s the latest of many strong statements by António Guterres, head of the United Nations.

Time for a 🧵…**
“We need disruption to end the destruction.

No more excuses.

No more greenwashing.

No more bottomless greed of the fossil fuel industry and its enablers.”

Not our words.

It’s the latest of many strong statem … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I get the worry of privacy. But I think there is some value in the data being collected. Do I think that Russ is up there scheming new ways to discover what packages you use in internal projects for targeting ads?? Probably not.

Go has always been driven by usage data. Look at modules. There was need for having repeatable builds so various package tool chains were made and evolved into what we have today. Generics took time and seeing pain points where they would provide value. They weren’t done just so it could be checked off on a box of features. Some languages seem to do that to the extreme.

Whenever changes are made to the language there are extensive searches across public modules for where the change might cause issues or could be improved with the change. The fs embed and strings.Cut come to mind.

I think its good that the language maintainers are using what metrics they have to guide where to focus time and energy. Some of the other languages could use it. So time and effort isn’t wasted in maintaining something that has little impact.

The economics of the “spying” are to improve the product and ecosystem. Is it “spying” when a municipality uses water usage metrics in neighborhoods to forecast need of new water projects? Or is it to discover your shower habits for nefarious reasons?

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Release Radar, Festive Edition · December 2022 – January 2023
Welcome to our special edition of the Release Radar 🎄. Between Christmas festivities, end of the year parties, Chinese New Year, or simply enjoying some time off, almost everyone has been celebrating – us too! Now we’re taking a moment to celebrate these awesome open source projects that shipped major version releases during December and […] ⌘ Read more

❤️ 🎶: Timing by KOYO

Time Domain Audio Compression at 3.2 bits per Sample
Audio formats typically fall into one of three categories: “lossless”,
“complicated” or “bad”. After developing a
simple image format
last year, I tried to come up with an audio format that fits neither of these
categories.

In other words: a format that is lossy, simple and quite ok.
Naturally, it’s called QOA — the Quite OK Audio Format.

![Comparison of Audio Codecs](/content/assets/qoa-comparison-char … ⌘ Read more

yet another website generator!

2023-02-01 00:18

woa, it’s late as fuck. didn’t realize the time. anyway, i’ve been working on
another website generator because my lol project
felt too… “for general use”. i admit this thought was triggered after chatting
with some friends on tilde.town about how they refound that spark of joy you get
when you first start programming, because you’re just trying to get shit to
work, instead of trying to appeal to a large u … ⌘ Read more

Caroline Polachek – Blood and Butter
The dream team Polachek + Harle hook up again with magical results, and this time they brought bagpipes… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more

Magdalena Bay co-produced a new Lil Yachty track
Check Yachty’s “ Running Out of Time”, co-written and co-produced by Mica + Matt of Mag Bay, below… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more

My code is still a mess, but I’m learning
I taught myself Go (and programming in general) by learning by doing. I learned by making a lot of mistakes and after noticing them, doing the necessary research. My Go code is probably a big mess, but it’s so satisfying, after not touching some code for a while, to do a major rewrite and improve the code with everything I’ve learned since the last time. ⌘ Read more