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jpoesen

353 karma · joined February 10, 2010

PHP Developer, Instructional Designer, Drupal trainer.
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jpoesen··on Jeff Bezos Earned His Amazon Fortune
humanprogress.org, brought to you by the libertarian Cato Institute, and the climate science denying Searle Freedom Trust, among others.
jpoesen··on Live map of public transport in Belgium
Great companion to https://irail.be, a minimalist counterpart to this site, also based on open data.
jpoesen··on Live map of public transport in Belgium
There's a "sources" button at the bottom left that seems to appear at certain zoom levels.

> "vlive is an independent app and not an official app of any government, public authority or transport operator. It is not affiliated with, nor does it represent, NMBS/SNCB, De Lijn, STIB-MIVB or TEC. All data comes from their open data; where it matters, the official sources below are authoritative."

jpoesen··on Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
Tout à fait.
jpoesen··on A/I shuts down
Oh sweet summer child, you would be absolutely correct were it not for your unfortunate confounding of NATO with the USA.
jpoesen··on Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
Are you ok? I think you might be having a stroke.
jpoesen··on Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam
Come on. "Thairemin" was right th(e|ai)re.
jpoesen··on Irish man detained by ICE Update – It's not as it seems
Archive link: https://archive.ph/RJjSj
jpoesen··on Tell HN: Archive.is/ph/md/etc. is redirecting me to HTTPS:// rurtnews – com
Noticed the same thing this morning 6AM (CEST).

VPN on and attempting to reach any archive.ph url -> CAPTCHA page -> redirect to RT after about 5 seconds.

jpoesen··on Ask HN: In the age of AI, what's the most important thing a dev should learn?
Ethics.
jpoesen··on Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis
Decades of deregulation. More to come.
jpoesen··on Future-Proof Your Career: Essential Tech Skills for Software Engineers in 2024
HTTP/404.
jpoesen··on Open Collective Foundation dissolving at end of 2024
Here's the full email:

https://daniel-lange.com/archives/186-Opencollective-shuttin...

EDIT: It's the OC Foundation, one of the US-based fiscal hosts, that is dissolving.

OC as a whole remains active, as do other fiscal hosts like the Open Source Collective (US) and OC Europe.

jpoesen··on Open Collective Foundation dissolving at end of 2024
Some info seems to be appearing here: https://docs.opencollective.foundation, which is currently titled "Dissolution FAQ".
jpoesen··on Things software developers should learn about learning
Having trouble retrieving the knowledge does not mean the knowledge is no longer there.
jpoesen··on “Typo leak” exposes millions of US military emails to Mali web operator
Mali's a Daesh hotbed.

Mali has been close to Russia politically, culturally, economically, and militarily since the 1960's.

Mali's welcomed Russian troops, including Wagner's, in the wake of the French pulling out.

"[The Russian involvement in Mali] signals a major expansion of Russia's military interests in Africa and a strategic setback for the West. The deployment of Russian military contractors signals a profound break with France and the West."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58751423

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/un-security-council-end...

https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/12/russias-presence-mali-r...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali%E2%80%93Russia_relations

jpoesen··on Animal meat and milk sales drop in Europe as vegan versions hit record highs
Whataboutism: check.
jpoesen··on Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers
If you use duckduckgo there's the ddg-filter firefox plugin that lets you block domains. I use it to block exactly the low quality domains you mention.

Maybe there are similar plugins for other search engines as well...

jpoesen··on UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k
Sunday, casual racism day.
jpoesen··on Ask HN: Musical archive needs your help - Safety ML filter for 200K+ photos
No experience with any of this, but a quick search turns up stuff like https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/nsfw-detector, which looks affordable and straightforward to implement.

And here's bunch more: https://rapidapi.com/collection/nudity-detection-image-moder...

jpoesen··on WordPlate: WordPress on Composer with sensible defaults
What advantages does WordPlate have over Bedrock[1], some of whose packages WordPlate also uses?

[1] https://roots.io/bedrock/

jpoesen··on Roald Dahl: Original books to be kept in print following criticism
Exactly this.

Similar example: Tintin in Congo is by today's standards absolutely racist, but reflects the era when it was published. The last decade the (Belgian) publisher was sued multiple times to try and force it off the shelves.

Also: calls to remove statues of King Leopold II (who committed horrible atrocities in "his" Congolese colony).

In both cases, why not leave access to the original books/statue/... intact but add an introductory section on why this is no longer appropriate today. Or place a contrasting statue, opposite King Leopold II, that embodies the struggle for independence / the colonial horrors / the blight that is racism / etc.

Overall it feels like there's a drive to remove "inappropriate" materials from society, instead of leaving them accessible as living proof of the mistakes that were made, and to provide backstory, context, and the "appropriate" contemporary view.

jpoesen··on Ask HN: Is it still safe to use Stripe?
New money comes with new strings attached. The more the founders are diluted, the less they have a say in things.
jpoesen··on FUTO Fellows: $20K/person to work on an open source project
"Applications for the Spring 2023 FUTO Fellows class are now OPEN until Jan 1st"
jpoesen··on Ask HN: EU Bank with Good API?
Been on a similar search for a while. Looks like the PSD2 directive is really only a suggestion to EU banks. Sadly.

Maybe https://tink.com/ has a product you can use?

jpoesen··on What will you advise to a struggling programming(webdev) student?
tl:dr: contribute to opensource -> learn tech and tools in the real world, forge relationships and expand your network, all while learning.

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One approach is to pick one (or a handful) of opensource projects that use tech you seem interested in, and start contributing in small ways: correcting typos, testing if patch or merge request X does indeed seem to solve problem Y and report back, etc.

Many projects tag issues that are well-suited for beginners, and many welcome first-time contributions.

Doing this exposes you too a specific set of tools and processes, teaches you collaboration and making things happen, and can create friendship for life.

Also, don't dismiss writing about what you learn. Either as a dev journal blog or helping with documentation, writing tutorial-style forces you to be technically correct and unambiguous, and in turn forces you to learn about things at a level of detail you wouldn't otherwise have bothered to research.

jpoesen··on Opensnitch, application level interactive firewall, heading into Debian
Not sure about opensnitch, but packet inspection on your local network is what Wireshark is all about.

https://www.wireshark.org/

jpoesen··on Ask HN: What's your secret diet tip you can share?
Trust the fundamental physics: spend more calories than you consume.

For the rest:

- Cut alcohol and sugar(-y drinks).

- Prioritize plant-based, whole foods.

- Minimize processed foods.

- Drink water.

jpoesen··on Washington Post is working on its own Mastodon instance
Great news! But please run it on your main domain, as something like social.washingtonpost.com rather than washingtonpost.social.

Running the instance under your own well-known domain equals instant verification and trust, whereas anyone can set up a .social.

jpoesen··on A circuit simulator that doesn't look like it was made in 2003
You're in luck, friend. On the interweb you can learn anything, free of charge.

Case in point: https://www.tinkercad.com/circuits

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