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Alex R
@alex@tech.lgbt
mastodon 4.7.2+glitch.techlgbtTech lead pretending I know what I’m doing, currently using #Svelte, #Golang, and a bit of #Ruby and #Angular. Into bicycles and urbanism (I just want some better bike lanes, please!). My brain is approximately 63% Nintendo games by weight. Partner to the sweet @antainemacaoidh@mastodon.ie 🏳️🌈
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@aegir@toot.wales I have a Kaleido 3-based notebook, and it's okay for highlighting stuff and pretty rubbish at showing any actual colour content most of the time
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Inside you get to play find-the-drive, plus free storage for up to 215 more
Subject: [Action Required] Important AWS Account Notice
As previously communicated on 2025-09-30 in an email we sent at 23:45 UTC while you were on annual leave, AWS will be sunsetting all Amazon ElasticJizzWailer (EJW) nodes, starting yesterday. Please migrate your workloads to Amazon CloudFunk™, which is conceptually and morally incompatible with the legacy YAML-based EJW configuration language.
Please use the CloudFunk Pricing Confabulator[1] briefly and unsuccessfully, then hit the button and hope that your budget alerts catch anything egregious. Please also stare hopelessly at the Required IAM Roles[2] documentation before granting wildly over-broad permissions in the hope that the API calls start working.
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OP: I’m enjoying using Signal for messaging!
flossdingus at fosstodon dot social: You fool. You utter incompetent. I can’t believe you’d use Signal when LibreSquirt is right there.
It'd be nice as an industry to have something in between 'vibe coding' and 'artisanal burnout'
Triumphantly played my seat reservation only to walk straight into the train seating trap card: an elderly person sitting there already
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@dalias every single engineer I've seen talking about this has immediately identified this attack, so it's guaranteed that this will be exploited right away if it goes ahead (and also that Amazon absolutely knows about it)
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@dalias exactly. They could also have trivially made wishlists with that setting private, which would at least limit the immediate harm, but that doesn't goose the wishlist metrics
I think this gets at the idea that a decent chunk of the popularity of LLMs among many software engineers is in some way a reaction to how terrible our tools are. We largely code like we're still using punched cards, so having something that'll handle the mechanics of making holes with minimal setup is always going to be attractive.
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@michael_w_busch basically half of everything Diana Wynne Jones wrote (and both halves are excellent)
Not Zork making @YouAreCarrying@mastodon.gamedev.place get all political
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@mia@cathode.church this was also me until I saw this post (and I'm not at all pleased to discover that it's actually from the same guy who came up with that one book about the woman who wants to whip everyone in the galaxy to death)
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@billzismyname@queer.cool nah, her son looked like he could deck me, plus, y'know, I'm a gentleman 😘
One interesting thing about cross-border rail travel is getting an IMSI catcher notification pretty much directly on the border between each pair of Germany, Belgium, France, and the UK. But maybe there's an innocent explanation for that?
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@alice as a queer person, I've never knowingly sat in a chair when I could instead drape myself sideways over it somehow
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@jamesthomson I know it's often said that Apple is usually not first to a technology, but this one might take the cake for lateness to market: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/womens-tie-pockets
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@jorge@hachyderm.io Congrats on the release! I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but does 'goodbye to ostree' mean it won't be possible to layer packages any more?
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Particularly enhanced by all the landside toilets now being in the car park
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@mmokhi@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu @nikola@kotur.eu Norway, Iceland, and Turkey are also in Erasmus, though – it's not exclusive to EU members
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@Philsturgeon@mastodon.green Lincolnshire of all counties should be very hot on preventing as much climate change as possible
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@yesjohn hey there, pal! Are any of these still open? No worries if not, I'll go for the next round after you smash this one
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@cyningstan Thanks! I did try searching for compatibility info, but I suppose running third-party software was a fairly niche thing on top of an already niche platform (until it became Symbian). Still, I'll have to try it in the emulator!
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@Fiona@blahaj.zone @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange I thought the regulations require it to be as easy to decline as to accept, but only that changing your mind later should be straightforward – that includes deciding to accept non-essential cookies later. I’ve not seen many decisions from regulators about what making changing your mind ‘straightforward’ is, but generally footer links on all pages and communication, or contact details on other communication, seems to be enough.
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@dazzr@social.tchncs.de @brian_greenberg@infosec.exchange I do use a different provider (that I pay for), but it's deeply naive to think that they're somehow immune to the same sort of thing. There will be exploitable gaps in their processes, too
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@mmokhi@mastodon.social No worries! I was also disappointed by the way everything happened and all the unnecessary damage to EU–UK relations during Brexit. I hope the improvements continue from here!
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@Gargron@mastodon.social Thank you for all the hard yards making Mastodon, Eugen! It takes a huge amount of courage and confidence in what you've helped build to step away and let someone else take the tiller.
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@taber@woof.group this look would be a great way to support your local pollinators, though
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@taber@woof.group we demand fifteen-minute cities that include 👏🏻 walkable 👏🏻 thirst 👏🏻 traps
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange curious that it’s so blandly described now that people have been murdered over it
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@Brian@veganism.social @Sfwmson@universeodon.com @webhat@infosec.exchange Do we just throw out the wool shorn from these rescue sheep, though? Given that, as domestic sheep, they need regular shearing to remove excess wool.
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@jorge@hachyderm.io ah, fair enough! I'll have to play around with that a bit more, since my Bluefin stable desktop is very much dependent on layered packages for 1Password and Niri right now
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@renchap@oisaur.com @vite@m.webtoo.ls @chaosexanima@tech.lgbt Congrats! I'm a big fan of Vite, it's been a big improvement at my workplace
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@cadey@pony.social Glad to hear you came through it all okay! Post-anaesthesia sleep and dreams are wild ime
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@Ninji@wuffs.org also frustrating that the designer of this layout could have just swapped the bike lane and the parking bays and made this much less of a problem
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@tuftyindigo@meow.social I agree that other fields are often in a much worse way, tooling-wise! I guess I was more thinking about the fact that the standard text editor and terminal emulator combo has stayed fairly static for decades. And where there have been features layered on top, I watch many software engineers completely bypass them, either because they require an upfront time investment to set up and they don't feel capable of taking that time, or just because they've learnt one way to do something and now don't want to change it. Asking Claude if the tests pass is probably going to be slower than just having them auto run on save, but it doesn't have the upfront hurdle of having to figure out how to make that happen
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@cyningstan This is really cool! Do you happen to know off the top of your head if it'd work on a Series 5? I have one lying around somewhere, but I can't remember if there was any backwards compatibility or not
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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social It's unclear if they're doing this for UK users too, but UK users can opt out under UK GDPR at the same link in the same way – probably doesn't hurt to make sure either way