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ananas

@ananas@scicomm.xyz

mastodon 4.7.3

Aesthetics, Physics, WG21

Finnish open-source advocate. Writes code by day, and other kind of code by night. Enjoys beautiful architecture and urbanism.

Wants to visit Taiwan one day.

72 Followers

127 Following

43 Posts

Joined August 14, 2023

ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@skyblitz@mstdn.social @ErikJonker@mastodon.social @tante@tldr.nettime.org @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253/files The entire change was to add: "You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as *Claude*, *OpenAI Codex*). Such projects having an unclear copyright status (see requirements § 2 (1) 1 and § 2 (1) 3) and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code (c.f. § 2 (1) 5)." I think that is pretty clear. You are still allowed to use LLM if you want to as long as your code is not mostly written by one. I find this change quite welcome.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net A bit of an aside, but I think that vote and the blog post are a good indicator that I should join @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de as well. Just submitted my application.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@chatcontrol@mastodon.social Oh ffs. People paying tribute to the largest child porn factory in the world for a blue checkmark pretending this has anything to do with children instead of mass surveillance. Well, round... what is it now? 4?

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 5mo ago

A friend outside fediverse shared this absolute piece of perfection to me. https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp #programming #leadership #ai

Programming Still Sucks. — Writing

Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 4mo ago

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@jani@floss.social @tante@tldr.nettime.org I'd expect it to depend more heavily on how the platform is governed than whether or not it's open-source. If it's built by a bunch of decentralised groups like fediverse was? Of course it's going to be different. If it's built by a single centralised entity? I'd imagine it would end up quite similar, regardless whether or not if it's open-source and European. I'd expect an European for-profit business entity to be pushed towards the exact same business goals as TikTok or any other service is.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 7mo ago

Norwegian Consumer Council is on to something here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ

#norway #enshittification

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 4mo ago

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@jani@floss.social @tante@tldr.nettime.org To be fair, it's pretty hard to see this as a "version of Twitter". It might look like it, and have similar interface, but it serves a different function. I'd say a good part of the similarity is quite superficial. Which I think is a big reason why people don't like it as much as Twitter or Bluesky.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 3mo ago

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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Is that you 24601?

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange I'm doubt even the small systems are biodegradable, but very much agreed.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@afterdawn@mementomori.social Mun on hyvin vaikea uskoa, että näillä on mitään tekemistä lastensuojelun kanssa, enkä todellakaan ole ainoa.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@david_chisnall tbh., IMO any language that forces you to learn a different way of building software makes your C++ code better. Haskell was fun to learn at some point, I've forgotten almost everything I knew by now. Though I'm pretty sure some concepts learnt through Haskell are stuck in my brain with both my own toy language and then the C++ I write.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@rulquh @laurilavanti Toki oikea ratkaisu olisi saada laajemmat standardit pankkisoftille nykyisen PSD2:n lisäksi. Standardoituja pankki-APIja vasten olisi mukava päästä kirjottaan oma käyttöliittymä. Ei tarttis esim. joka pankille enää omaa Appiaan.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@tauon @eloy @dkf C++, PHP is not really in my repertoire. 😅 And well, I want a native program for my email. Though I'd probably write it so it compiles to wasm for browser use.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 8mo ago

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@tauon @eloy @dkf Well I've had plans to write my own email client software to replace roundcube, so I guess I kinda like it too. It's just love-hate relationship at this point.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 8mo ago

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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange To add to this: It's OK if your F/OSS doesn't have significant market share. Once you have enough users that your project is guaranteed to stay alive, and you are happy with it, you don't really get much from the extra market share. You have won, you don't need to work for larger market share, there are no shareholders to please with tbat.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 6mo ago

Yak shaving of this week: There is a path from "Hmm, I want to use Sway instead of GNOME for my work computer's desktop" to "I'm writing a C++26 reflection based wrapper for d-bus messages".

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@menneisyytesi Oon useemmin kun kerran todennu ihmisille jotka tästäkin on osavastuussa, ettei oo ihan hirveen kosher vaatia monikansalliselle korporaatiolle tietojensa antamista entiteetiltä joka ajaa sosialistisia arvoja.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 8mo ago

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@tauon @eloy @dkf To be honest, entire email system is more than a bit of a clusterfuck. And Google and Microsoft didn't help with that.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 14mo ago

Replying to

@bagder@mastodon.social Fortunately @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de exists, along with private git hosts for less open stuff (I'm a masochist and run my own webhost instead of forgejo, like sane people would).

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 4mo ago

If tradition is preservation of fire instead of worship of ashes, why do I see so much more worship than preservation?

Especially in academia.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 4mo ago

I dug up old hard drives and found some of my code from somewhere around 2005-2007.

It's horrible.

It compiles and works once I edited the makefiles a bit.

Not sure what I should think.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@rolle@mementomori.social Eihän tuo uhkasakko kehittäjiä sinänsä koske, vaan ohjelmistovastaavia. Toi lisäys ei osu vapaaehtoisiin, vaan oikeushenkilöihin tyyliin Red Hat tai Apache, jotka kuratoi niitä asiakasympäristöihin. Oon tosin tän päivän ton miettimisee käyttäny, enkä kyllä silti tiiä tartteeko tota uhkasakkoa yhtään mihinkään järkevään. En nää miks se on oleelline, tai et miksi pitäis olla tiukempi Suomessa ton suhteen verrattuna. Ja onhan toi nyt EU:n tekstien henkee vastaan, vaikkei suoraan CRA:n pykäliä sinänsä riko.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 8mo ago

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@rolle@mementomori.social Jooh, kyllähän tuohon loppujen lopuksi itsekin oman nimensä raapusti. Mää kyl näen pointin että avoimen softan käyttäjät, jotka eivät välttämättä ole teknisesti lahjakkaita saavat vähän tukevamman vakuutuksen siitä että niitten käyttämien projektien perää katotaan, mut taivuin ny lopuks sille kannalle et ehkä tosta kuitenki o enemmä haittaa ku hyötyä. Plus tosiaan et menee kyllä aika suoraan ton EU:n kirjotusten hengen vastasesti.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@rikusilvola@infosec.exchange this would be pretty bloody nice position if my c++ skillset would be of use instead of my lack of php.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@jani@floss.social @tante@tldr.nettime.org Twitter/Bluesky serves more one-sided communication. Not saying that is good or bad, but I'd argue the very structure on which Mastodon operates pushes towards that. Sure, there are accounts like @EC_DIGIT@ec.social-network.europa.eu , and a bunch of other big-institution-accounts that use this exactly the same as they would use Twitter; a one way channel of communication. But that's not how mastodon operates by and large. At least from my anecdotal experience.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 4mo ago

Another long shot, but anyone know anything about HDD repair, or anyone that would?

I've been spending some time trying to do archaeology on my 20+ year old hard disk drives to find out some of the old stuff I've made. This one drive from ~2001 seems to be a mostly dead, and I'm trying to figure out if I can make an image out of it before it's all dead.

I managed to get the read head off the plate to get a drive unstuck, and managed to read partition table before returning to the "nothing seems to work" again. I managed to `dd` 8k off the drive to read at least the partition table, which seems to be intact.

Now the disk spins but the read head seems to be just moving back and forth and clanking into the "idle tray" (I don't know what it's called) without touching the disk when it spins now. Is there something I can do with this?

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@mullvadnet@mastodon.online It's really hard to talk with laypeople about this, since every time somebody will start talking about ZKP as if it already was a thing since the documentation is written in a way that presupposes it.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 6mo ago

Here I was hoping to catch up on stuff I "need" to do on weekend, and at Friday evening, I get @modos@fosstodon.org E-Ink display and glider dropped in mail.

What do I do with it? I have no idea, but from the quick testing, I am going to love this thing.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange While you are at it, what you really need in the UK is a sane voting system instead of FPTP.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 5mo ago

I've been working with D-Bus on-off for a couple of weekends and I have to say, the wtf/s-ratio is not exactly small with this piece of work.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@david_chisnall This is spot on.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@rikusilvola@infosec.exchange Well it definitely would be a change of pace if nothing else, though it's been a while since I last did security stuff directly.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 2mo ago

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@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social If I still remember in 1.5 weeks when I have a bit more time again, I'll give this a try.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@GerhardD @jwildeboer I was centre-left 20 years ago. I am definitely viewed as far left in most online communities where I care to comment about politics, and I certainly haven't really needed to change my views for that to happen either.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@cadey@pony.social Yea, I don't see us eliminating this thing in the next decade at least, if ever. Even if we somehow managed to get rid of the weird UB cases (towards which there is ongoing work), we can't force people to adopt all the changes even if compiler vendors made those default. Which in itself would probably break so much code that it's unlikely to happen, and a lot of the safeties we can and will add probably remain an opt-in, which is not ideal. There is this profiles-thing coming that could finally allow us to finally do some subsetting for the language or enforce coding guidelines with actual compiler errors, but as there isn't a public implementation for the feature it's hard to say how far that can take us.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 5mo ago

Ok, this is probably a long shot, but I found an old HDD disk drive I had when I was kid (the date 13.1.96 is written on the disk), and while USB to IDE adapter did manage to spin up the disk, it didn't manage to allow me to `dd` data out of the disk (it fails with no medium found).

Anyone have any idea how I could access whatever is on that disk?

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 13mo ago

Replying to

@nlnet Don't tempt me, satan.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 11mo ago

Replying to

@dnkl@social.treehouse.systems I guess it's time to give Niri an another spin.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Techaltar@mas.to @notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com I am willing to believe it's more of a outdated opinion in the nuclear side, because at one point, I think it was pretty reasonable argument and people aren't known to update their opinions too often. But I also imagine it's also easy way for anti-renewable grifters to jump in. With transit? I don't think maglevs ever were much else than a research project (though I'd still love for them to get more research priority). And the Shanghai maglev is pretty cool even though it isn't really showing off the best the tech has to offer.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 4mo ago

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@cadey@pony.social Pretty surprised to see it being C++ instead of C. And as a part of C++ committee, I can say with high confidence that we are working on making the language more safe. I'm not sure if we can change the culture enough to stop people using practices that were known to be bad in the language for pretty much as long as it has existed though.

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@leanderlindahl@social.folkdata.se @EC_DIGIT@ec.social-network.europa.eu My account has been pending approval for over a year, so I wouldn't hold my breath...

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ananas @ananas@scicomm.xyz

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@ariadne I would prefer to not have to bother with entire Matrix, but somehow that is what FOSS people now seem to flock towards.

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