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I agree with everything Scott Hanselman writes in this post.

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#crowdstrike #microsoft #dei #softwaredevelopment

Context - someone on the birdside are blaming #crowdstrike on DEl hiring Here's the thing folks. I've been coding 32 years. When something like this happens it's an organizational failure. Yes, some human wrote a bad line. Someone can "git blame" and point to a human and it's awful. But it's the testing, the CI/CD, the A/B testing, the metered rollouts, an oh shit button to roll it back, the code coverage, the static analysis tools, the code reviews, the organizational health, and on and on. It's always one line of code but it's NEVER one person. Implying inclusion policies caused a bug is simplistic, reductive, and racist.
Engineering is a team sport. Inclusion makes for good teams. Good engineering practices makes for good software. Engineering practices failed to find a bug multiple times, regardless of the seniority of the human who checked that code in. Solving the larger system thinking SDLC matters more than the null pointer check. This isn't a "git gud C++ is hard" issue and it damn well isn't an DEl one. 口参O 12,698 417

Scott Hanselman on LinkedIn: #crowdstrike | 452 comments

Context - someone on the birdside are blaming #crowdstrike on DEI hiring Here’s the thing folks. I’ve been coding 32 years. When something like this happens… | 452 comments on LinkedIn
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#microsoft #softwaredevelopment #DEI #crowdstrike

Perfect. As a web #developer, no notes.

#webdev #memes

Two panels from Simpsons where Homer is holding a picture of a perfectly built firepit ("localhost") and the next panel is reality - a mess ("production").
#webdev #developer #memes

GUADEC talks are complete but BoFs and Workshops start tomorrow 15:00 UTC, check the schedule for more details and links:
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#GUADEC #GUADEC2024
#GUADEC #guadec2024

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Hugging Face’s SmolLM models bring powerful AI to your phone, no cloud required

Hugging Face's SmolLM transforms AI with compact, powerful language models that outperform tech giants, bringing advanced capabilities to personal devices without compromising privacy or performance.
Michael Nuñez (VentureBeat)

We're excited to share that GUADEC 2025 will take place in Brescia, Italy! We look forward to working with the local team and we hope to see you all in Brescia next year!

#GUADEC #GUADEC2025 #GNOME

GUADEC 2025 in Brescia, Italy
#gnome #GUADEC #guadec2025

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Cloud68.co 👩‍💻👨‍💻
Cloud68.co 👩‍💻👨‍💻
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awessome. Some of our team members are thinking to join. Are there any dates yet?

#GUADEC2024 talks are complete, join us for the conference closing in Track 1! youtube.com/live/2-hTw0bx6Sc?f…

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In case you missed it, #BookWyrm is the Fediverse's alternative to Amazon's Goodreads.

BookWyrm lets you keep track of what you're reading, publish book reviews and discover new books from other people's recommendations. It's part of the Fediverse, so you can follow BookWyrm accounts from Mastodon etc. More info at:

➡️ joinbookwyrm.com

There are BookWyrm servers where you can sign up at:

➡️ joinbookwyrm.com/instances

You can also follow BookWyrm news at @bookwyrm

#Fediverse #Goodreads

Join Bookwyrm

BookWyrm is a decentralized social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next.
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#fediverse #Bookwyrm #goodreads @BookWyrm

I'm helping an open source project by stepping in for a bit, as the Interim Executive Director for GNOME. Looking forward to helping GNOME grow.

foundation.gnome.org/2024/07/1…

GNOME Foundation Announces Transition of Executive Director – The GNOME Foundation

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If this doesn’t energize the party, literally nothing will. We need to be running this ad non-stop on every available screen in the country.

#usPol #harris

#uspol #harris
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Can we put this on Youtube to make it easier to distribute? Or is the video already there?

This is epic. Apparently, in 2011 Donald Trump donated to Harris's campaign. Here is the post with an image of the check! :). x.com/rpsagainsttrump/status/1…
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Newsflash: other people exist!

For the love of God, don’t block the sidewalk for wheelchair users and people with strollers or suitcases or whatever. Some massive main character syndrome on display here.

#frustration #antisocial #ableism #accessibility

Picture of a grey Vespa blocking the sidewalk in between parked cars and buildings.
#Accessibility #ableism #antisocial #frustration
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This is selfless leadership. We’ve seen leaders put themselves over the country for too long. Trump is doing that right now. Now it’s time to find the candidate who can end Trump’s political career. nytimes.com/2024/07/21/us/poli…

Joe Biden will go down historically as an extremely underrated president, especially if Trump is defeated again in November

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Joe Biden's underrated presidency

He's achieved a lot — with the notable exception of popularity.
davidrlurie (Public Notice)

Once you choose hope, anything's possible.
— Christopher Reeve

Ok, so I know Biden just resigned and all, but are you looking at the exciting stuff the GNOME design team has worked on this year?? youtube.com/live/2-hTw0bx6Sc

#GNOME


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I know this is obvious, but I still decided to run through the following exercise. I asked OpenAI to analyze its own description of a photo. Here is what we came up with: The logical pattern of the description primarily follows a "concrete to generic" approach. Here's a breakdown of how this pattern unfolds:

1. **Concrete Details about the Main Subject**:
- The description begins with specific details about the man: his appearance and attire. (1/5)

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- "The photo shows a man sitting at an outdoor café. He has short, light brown hair and is wearing a pink T-shirt with a black shoulder strap across his chest."

2. **Concrete Details about the Immediate Surroundings**:
- It then moves to the specific details of what is immediately around the man: the table and the coffee. (2/5)

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This progression from specific, concrete details to more general, contextual information helps build a vivid and complete picture of the scene, starting with what is most immediately noticeable and expanding outward to give a fuller sense of the environment and setting.
this is a really nice pattern. I think this is why these descriptions sound so palatable:) And here is the picture itself! :) ! (5/5)

Zahrajte si #FlappyBird bez instalace v prohlížeči!😎

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#opensource #gaming

Zahrajte si Flappy Bird bez instalace v prohlížeči! – Infoek.cz

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#opensource #gaming #flappybird

Politically, Biden's dropping out creates all sorts of uncertainty.

Procedurally, however, what happens how is extremely clear: The DNC will use its convention to officially designate its nominees for president and vice president, and those people will appear on the ballot in all 50 states, DC, etc.

A summary of state ballot access laws, from the officials who run the elections, is at nass.org/sites/default/files/r…

It would have been much more complicated if this had occurred after the convention.

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Do Democrats have enough time to find a different path to victory?

It's actually not an unusual concept.

Until 1968, presidential candidates were always picked by party conventions.

And that process, though providing less public input, also produced some great nominees.

theconversation.com/until-1968…

#Biden #Election2024 #USPolitics #Histodons @histodons

Until 1968, presidential candidates were picked by party conventions – a process revived by Biden’s withdrawal from race

With President Joe Biden out of the presidential race, the Democratic Party will have to find another nominee. Past methods of choosing have had their flaws, but also their successes.
The Conversation
#histodons #uspolitics #biden #Election2024 @histodons group

I believe we will win.

(If we all work for it.)

I believe will will win.

IF WE ALL WORK FOR IT.

gregpak.net/2024/07/02/theres-…


There’s Always Something We Can Do

Tough week, huh? Hard not to feel a little overwhelmed with what feels like relentless, catastrophic political news. But I’ve volunteered for political campaigns for literally 40 years —…
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hey stop doomscrolling and check this out
Black kitten sitting back-to-back against a large fluffy tuxedo tomcat.

smutná lampa

If the rumors are true, this week could be another exciting week for opensource LLMS! Meta may release Llama-3-405b on this Tuesday. Also there could be updates to 8b and 70b models distilled from 405B. Joe Spisak, a product director at Meta says they were initially going to call Llama 3 8b and 70b a prerelease or preview because these models didn't have all the things they planned to release.
Sources:
theinformation.com/briefings/m…
x.com/AlpinDale/status/1814814…
youtu.be/r3DC_gjFCSA?feature=s…
#LLM #AI #ML

Meta Announces Llama 3 at Weights & Biases’ conference

In an engaging presentation at Weights & Biases’ Fully Connected conference, Joe Spisak, Product Director of GenAI at Meta, unveiled the latest family of Lla...
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#AI #ML #llm
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@vick21 No, it doesn't work. I lost faith in multimodal on llama.cpp, which Ollama relies on. Llama.cpp dropped multimodal support on March 7 (supposedly temporarily), but there is no momentum or interest among the devs to bring it back. They all seem preoccupied with providing immediate next day support for new text-only LLMs being released constantly.
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Interesting. I'm sort of getting tired of all these models being released every day. It increasingly looks more and more like a gaming exercise! :)

And Track 2 talks on the livestream here: youtube.com/live/X0nUMyQxkLA?f…
#GUADEC2024

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GUADEC day 3 will be back from the break soon. Catch Track 1 talks in 15 mins on the livestream here:
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chodím po Obchodnej, tak, asociácie

Z-Library: More Domains Seized Than Any Other Pirate Site in History * TorrentFreak torrentfreak.com/z-library-mor…

Z-Library: More Domains Seized Than Any Other Pirate Site in History

No other pirate site in history has had more of its domains seized by law enforcement than Z-Library, and it's not over yet.
Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)

Joe Biden just announced on Twitter that he would not be seeking reelection.
"Why am I posting about this", you didn't ask? Well, he announced it in a letter, contained in an image, with the alt text of "A letter from president Biden". So for anyone curious what that letter actually said, here's a transcription. I had GPT transcribe it since Windows OCR was mangling parts of it, and OneStep Reader was even worse, but Aira verified the accuracy of it.
slj.io/biden.txt
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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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That's a lot of fun chaos when you look at it from the other side of the world where the government is not even a thing. Laughs.

Slow Fourier Transform en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide-Pre…
This photo shows the largest of the three sections of Tide Predicting Machine No. 2, a special purpose mechanical analog computer for predicting the height and time of high and low tides. The gears on the left transmit power from the hand crank.
Contron panel of the machine, with a mechanical pen plotter and three mechanical dias showing day, hour and minute.
Clockwork of the machine.

special-purpose mechanical analog computer used by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey to compute the height and time of high and low tides for specific locations

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)

Wow maybe they are onto something!
A photo of a news article saying « IKEA solved its “unhappy worker crisis” with higher pay, flexibility and subsidised childcare. »
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 9.5 updated and 1 added apps:

* ShikiApp: an unofficial Shikimori mobile app

The .5 update is, urn, Update.Me which forgot to increase the versionCode. So if you use this app, you might wish to manually update by simply installing it again as if it were not yet there 🙈

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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Chernobeer - Etheric Circles 11° - 1,0 litr (Wheat Ale) | PivkoDomu.cz

Etheric Circles 11° je pšeničný ejl s chutí citrusů a květin, inspirován tajemnými kruhy v obilí, ideální pro sdílení i chvíle samoty.
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osemnásť vpravo krížom, a naspäť
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Jieshuo’s Voice Assistant Feature and Spark Chatbot Support accessibleandroid.com/jieshuos…

Jieshuo's Voice Assistant Feature and Spark Chatbot Support - Accessible Android

AI chatbots are the new trend. Following this trend, the Jieshuo screen reader developer has added support for an online AI chatbot to the screen reader,
Kareen Kiwan (Accessible Android)

Trump’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein is well documented, but this part is not:

The newly released 175 pages from the first case against Jeffrey Epstein show, the young female witnesses were attacked and intimidated by the very prosecutors, whose job it was to protect them.

Why would that happen?

According to TYT — and this is mind-boggling — the lead prosecutor in the case, Alexander Acosta, moved on to a new, well-paid job in 2017…

… in the Trump administration.

youtu.be/DkHxBwUyuZg?si=ez1ZjL…


Secret Jeffrey Epstein Docs Released

A prosecutor in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation reportedly treated minor victims of the pedophile like young criminals. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discus...
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🚗 :android: Passando a utilizar este aplicativo para gerenciar despesas do automóvel com a tornozeleira eletrônica de bolso #Android: Autu Mandu é #SoftwareLivre (licença Apache 2.0) e está disponível, entre outros, no repositório do @IzzyOnDroid para #FDroid.

github.com/juanro49/autu-mandu

Vamos ver como se sai, mas parece ótimo. Usei por muitos anos outros privativos de liberdade, então aproveito para iniciar a gestão de novo veículo finalmente dando basta nessa privação.

Mais alguém o conhece?

Captura de tela do aplicativo Autu Mandu em Android, com "Sobre o Autu Mandu", exibindo um ícone que mistura a silhueta de um carro na forma de um gráfico. Versão 4.0.2. Seguem-se dados de autoria e agradecimentos.

GitHub - juanro49/autu-mandu: Autu Mandu te permite controlar ingresos y gastos de tus vehículos y mostrarlos en bonitos informes.

Autu Mandu te permite controlar ingresos y gastos de tus vehículos y mostrarlos en bonitos informes. - juanro49/autu-mandu
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#android #fdroid #softwarelivre @IzzyOnDroid ✅
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This dumb password rule is from SecureAccess Washington.

Central authentication for all Washington State services
(DoL, ESD, etc).

Password must have *exactly* 10 characters, but form happily
lets you enter more and only throws errors after submit,
providing no useful feedback.

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#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules


SecureAccess Washington - Dumb Password Rules

Central authentication for all Washington State services (DoL, ESD, etc). Password must have *exactly* 10 characters, but form happily lets you enter more and only throws errors after submit, providing no useful feedback.
dumbpasswordrules.com
#infosec #cybersecurity #passwords #password #dumbpasswordrules

Falls hier wer im Bereich Berlin / Potsdam / Brandenburg zufällig einen kleinen Sidequest für heute sucht: Eine gute Freundin hat einen schwarzen Turnbeutel mit Katzenmotiv (und zwei Paar Heels drin) im RE1 vergessen, der _wahrscheinlich_ gerade als RE 73780 dbf.finalrewind.org/map/2%7C%2… von Brandenburg nach Frankfurt(Oder) zuckelt.

Der Beutel sollte sich auf dieser Fahrt im hinteren Bereich (±2. Zweiersitz) des in Fahrtrichtung ersten Wagens in der Hutablage befinden. Einsammeln und zwecks Weiterleitung melden wäre super, denn Fedi könnte hier ggf. besser klappen als Fundservice.

Als Lohn gibt es ewige Dankbarkeit und (sofern man sich mal irgendwo begegnet) Bananenfranzbrötchen :3

RE 1

Karte für RE 1
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Ian Muir explains the context for the Crowdstrike Microsoft disaster.
Facebook post by Ian Muir 19 July 2024: OK, I will answer here in a group since a lot of non tech friends have asked me. Lots of stuff broke today because a company called Crowdstrike released a bad piece of software that a lot of systems rely on. Here are some answers to common questions people have asked me. Edit: One note for people who think I'm being dramatic here and that this was all just an accident. This whole thing happened before at a smaller scale with McAffee in 2010. The CTO of McAffee at the time was Crowdstrike's current CEO. This isn't a coincidence, it's a pattern. Why wasn't the update tested better? Because tech people are expensive and Crowdstrike laid a bunch of them off over last 2 years to save money including testers. Testing is expensive and it's hard to convince a business leader that testing is important because it doesn't "make them money". Why didn't big tech companies have a way to function without this one piece of software? Because tech people are expensive and big tech comapnies laid a bunch of them off over last 2 years to save money including the people who help make things stable and flexible. Flexibility is expensive and it's hard to convince a business leader that flexibility is important because it doesn't "make them money".
facebook post by Ian Muir text continues: Why didn't airlines, governments, telecom companies, and other business have a backup plan? Because tech people are expensive and many companies laid a bunch of them off over last 2 years to save money including the people who research and implement backup plans. Backup plans are expensive and it's hard to convince a business leader that backup plans are important because they doesn't "make them money". Wait a minute. How many of these critical systems in tech, transportation, government, and infrastructure are short staffed right now? Pretty much all of them. Good luck. Wait a minute, all of these people who laid off all the tech workers said they were replaced by AI. What happened? AI was just a bullshit justification to lay off expensive tech people. AI hasn't really replaced many people in tech because making major changes like shifting to AI is expensive and it's hard to convince a business leader to spend money on making changes when they can just fake it because their compensation is affected more by how many tech people they can lay off than how well the companies actually function. Someday, AI might replace a lot of people in tech, but right now most of the jobs were not replaced by AI and were likely just closed or sent overseas.

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The #GUADEC2024 AGM will start shortly! We're grateful to have our remote group at the GUADEC event in Berlin join in for this talk.

Make sure to join us in Track 1 for updates from the Foundation Board, Interim ED, and Committees. youtube.com/watch?v=2-hTw0bx6S…


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