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The issue with people is that we all have very different ideas of what kind and respectful behavior is? Especially relevant when so many different folks from so many places come together online.

Setting the minimum standards helps set expectations for all participants. I don’t see an issue with spelling things out in more concrete terms.

I used to feel frustrated about the flag, having bought an Nvidia GPU for ML, not knowing how badly DRM works on it.

I don’t blame the maintainers of a compositor of struggling with Nvidia holding back a proper API? My Intel built in GPU works fine with sway.

I can see how that can be perceived as abrasive, I think Drew tends to polarize opinions from time to time. But this isn’t about purposefully misgendering a person and various other acts of harassment.

I really appreciate Drew stepping up against harassment in open source communities.

Deciding on a CoC is such a low effort issue, just get it over with!

This is really interesting as I am looking for a route planner that I can use with my old Garmin Edge without having to do 3rd degree API connections in the background every time.

All I want is a route file that I can copy on the device using a file manager.

Can this tool work for me or do you know other bike computers you were able to use this with?

Study finds plant-based straws containing PFAS

https://www.foodpackagingforum.org/news/study-finds-plant-ba...

I’m also interested to hear, as I am using Stripe for my Japanese startup.

If opt in renders it useless then I dare question whether modern open source as a mode of development and operation is feasible at all, if the underlying foundation is snooping based on uninformed consent.

Yes, many tools give you an option to opt out nowadays, but then again do you want to learn how to do that dance every single time? It’s almost like we need some kind of… DNT, but for the console.

And even that misses the point: with the German concept of Datensparsamkeit, there shouldn’t be any data collected at all, unless it is absolutely necessary to conduct your business. Popularity contest in Debian comes to mind when talking about informed consent.

The point is not InfluxDB or GA. That just sounds like good guy with a gun/analytics vs. bad guy with a gun/analytics logic. The point is: the combined genius of the computing world, and all we could come up with even after the 100th iteration is “Analytics go brrr”.

Late to the party, too: I blog on and off at

https://www.justus.pw/

Mostly things I hack on at home, or weird stuff I find online and stuff that I have read about.

On the one hand I see the appeal of staying inside, say, Django the whole time and getting 3x done.

On the other hand I am so pampered by front end component based templating especially with Tailwind.

It would be cool if I could just import my Svelte components from Django.

dump1090 is still very alive, I recently gave FlightAware‘s fork a spin: https://www.justus.pw/posts/2023-05-09-ads-b-aircraft-tracki...

Sorry if I may seem ignorant, but how is this different from Storybook? Is one a finished design system, and the latter one just a tool do document your design system?

While flying itself is quite fun - nothing beats finding weird tchotchkes in the duty free shop - thinking about airport security gives me existential dread.

I think it is great that British airports are relaxing their rules, but until that applies to the whole world, I will still arrive 2-3 hours before departure, knowing how unpredictable the situation at some airport security checkpoint can be.

It is almost as if the whole point is to discourage us to fly. It is great if you live in a country with access to high speed trains. Surely beats walking around in your socks or people with no empathy going through your luggage.

This completes the cycle.

Researchers use GPT to write papers and submit them (can be fully automated)

Journals review using GPT and (potentially) publish (can be fully automated)

GPT will create a borked summary and create fake citations for the next cycle of research. (again, can be fully automated)

Then, left on its own, we will have a bunch of robots worrying for us about impact factor and grant applications and we can get back to doing actual research again. Problem solved.

Looking at the recent Andrew Tate drama, one definitely gets the impression that a huge part of that industry is extremely shady.

I worry though that forcing participants to use obscure payment methods will obscure evidence of human trafficking and rights abuse even more.

I wonder if there is anything to the trope, that when the adult video payment eventually shows up on a married couple’s credit card bill, the spouse who signed up for a heftily expensive subscription will claim that their credit card must have been stolen.

Thus they will demand the charge to be reverted and thus, many charges being disputed simply because of people’s prudishness. And then porn site operators have high fraud rates. I wonder if they are also more liable to become victims of card testing.

Eventually we would have to call ChatGPT to the witness stand, and ask it whether it remembers telling these specific words to that man over there.

Sorry for the disgruntled snark in advance:

Heh, we already have that and it is called Elm.

By me, an Elm user until 0.18.

Is there something like perceptual fingerprinting but for text?

Ironically, that site has a cookie banner. This made me confused as to whether I should accept cookies or not.

I would argue that the path to Japanese citizenship is easier than being seen as Japanese. One is a pre-defined legal process, the other one depends on the complexities of what is cultural identity.

I, the author of the linked article, see the appearance of ever more productive tools as allowing humanity to break through the lie: that much of the labour we perform is necessary and that labour at all is necessary. The concept of your status in society being tied to your job and the idea of full employment for all is what is holding us back to achieve personal and societal fulfillment.

I ask you this: is everyone contributing to a copyleft project ultimately just aiming for financial gain, or are there also true idealists who do it for the sake of doing it?

Doing things is one thing and earning money is another and we come closer and closer to decoupling those too.

Why not reap the benefits and free humanity from the yoke of labour once and for all? If one person does the work of ten (i.e., thanks to the loom, steam engine, or LLM), and we naively assume that the value created is that of ten workers, why can the remaining nine not share the harvest as well? Or, we could all work, just significantly less (a tenth each) and allow everyone to go to bed with a full belly.

No one can predict whether it will be business as usual or not, for anything. Not for the internet, the transistor or LLMs. But we should not hesitate and call out the thumb twiddling lie that is employment through economic coercion.

So many are taken over verbatim from Chinese. There are some very comprehensive Yojijukugo (literally just meaning former character compound word) collections on the net like

https://yoji-jukugo.com/

Sometimes you will have to map between simplified Chinese characters and modern Japanese characters. Easy enough though, since they still look very similar.

It makes for a fun bridging the gap cultural experience when talking to Chinese people about the Chinese idioms you learn in Japanese class. Even the pronunciation is so similar (I mean, of course it is, duh).

My favorite one is 吴越同舟 or 呉越同舟 (Wú Yuè tóng zhōu) meaning people of different backgrounds finding themselves having to work together.

https://www.zdic.net/hans/%E5%90%B4%E8%B6%8A%E5%90%8C%E8%88%...

https://jisho.org/word/%E5%91%89%E8%B6%8A%E5%90%8C%E8%88%9F

If only the two countries were as close diplomatically as they are in their shared culture.

As long as we don’t share ownership in these platforms, nothing will ever truly belong to us. For Docker, the software, a Libre alternative is Podman. Instead of GitHub, use Codeberg, an open organization and service.

Now we need a Docker registry cooperative owned by everyone.

That is the better half of a comp-sci or mathematics degree.

That shows how important it is to control for all variables. I understand it is difficult to match volume/loudness when AB testing speakers, amps or codecs and that might subtly influence someone’s judgement.

The fact that xterm supports Sixel, at least through a build flag, once more confirms my belief that this old and battle tested terminal emulator very much rocks.

That sounds bizarre. So this means that parents are potentially holding back programming language innovation? I hope I don’t have to consult with a lawyer every time I invent a new variation on the for loop. (I anticipate that someone will then tell me that there already is a patent for that…)

If the site is really simple and just runs system() on a VPS, chances are that there is no protection against command injection, server takeovers, and worse. So what comes from good intentions might end up causing a lot of harm.

The problem of shadow IT is very real and should best be countered with a healthy amount of education. And whitelisting instead of black listing as the default approach.

It’s called embrace, extend, extinguish for a reason. Is ActivityPub next? Though given Meta‘s recent lack of output I seriously doubt anything tangible will emerge out of this.