Posts by acdha@code4lib.social
(DIR) Post #AaF1K3C5vRDKvg7OWO by acdha@code4lib.social
2023-09-28T23:24:28Z
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Google: “why don’t people buy our enterprise offerings?”Also Google: “that $5k hardware for which you’ve been paying a hefty annual subscription turns into a pumpkin next year” https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/5000-google-jamboard-dies-in-2024-cloud-based-apps-will-stop-working-too/
(DIR) Post #AaF1mjR8Shha3CpVoW by acdha@code4lib.social
2023-09-28T23:39:04Z
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@sensei it’s just staggering: so many talented people and almost unlimited resources but they’re so busy on the promotion treadmill that the market just slips away.
(DIR) Post #AaRdkMlLv6sbIx6Wvo by acdha@code4lib.social
2023-10-05T00:20:13Z
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“Never again!” turns out to matter less than social media metrics. Shameful: https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/04/tech/adl-makes-peace-with-x/index.html
(DIR) Post #AaSuy2aIC6s9DIr4O8 by acdha@code4lib.social
2023-10-05T16:19:03Z
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@meowski if you prefer, https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-ad-revenue-musks-x-declined-each-month-since-takeover-data-2023-10-04/
(DIR) Post #AafuPeV3YXLS1xkkVc by acdha@code4lib.social
2023-10-11T18:21:52Z
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@tmcw yeah, I put that solidly in the “it’s always faster to slow down and think” category. I’ve used that a couple of times to store data from a source which wasn’t normalized (I think @simon has written about doing data cleanup that way, too) but most of the times I’ve seen a JSON column it’s been an attempt to avoid validation & normalization and consumed far more time to fix later when more things depended on it.
(DIR) Post #AbOryWVE0Gm7P8CpEG by acdha@code4lib.social
2023-11-02T15:25:23Z
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@simon Yeah, I reported some bugs in the Signal iOS issue tracker which they helpfully closed without fixing anything so I'd really triple-check as soon as you can.
(DIR) Post #Abvs3H6QM6D6wV0JjU by acdha@code4lib.social
2023-11-18T12:06:36Z
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@mttaggart @Andres do you have a second place to promote? My worry would be that Google’s going to start banning accounts for ad blocking and then you’d have that choice forced without a fallback.
(DIR) Post #Acci8pugbgvrD12qfY by acdha@code4lib.social
2023-12-09T05:35:31Z
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@Wolven you weren’t kidding. This is terrible:
(DIR) Post #AceJjPed5hPTwdnZw0 by acdha@code4lib.social
2023-12-09T13:48:14Z
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@vic @Wolven the problem is that it’s more likely to show black people and not show white people if you add crime terms. “Facebook executives” will usually be pretty white like the one below but adding something like “convicted of bank fraud” causes white people to be far less common and features black men a lot more (I had to reload a neutral prompt multiple times to see a single black man, and the same for a white guy in a prompt with “convicted”).
(DIR) Post #AciWvzVNhTGqe5dmXg by acdha@code4lib.social
2023-12-12T00:57:38Z
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“Epic v. Google turned out to be a very different case. It hinged on secret revenue sharing deals between Google, smartphone makers, and big game developers, ones that Google execs internally believed were designed to keep rival app stores down. It showed that Google was running scared of Epic specifically. And it was all decided by a jury, unlike the Apple ruling.” https://www.theverge.com/23994174/epic-google-trial-jury-verdict-monopoly-google-play
(DIR) Post #AcqDAt2kg1tccR4T32 by acdha@code4lib.social
2023-12-15T17:45:50Z
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@simon @mattblaze I think that’s the most likely answer but the other possibility I was wondering about is that, say, their sister Cox Communications has some data stream from the bundled voice remotes or other devices they offer to customers and the deception was describing it as a general capability (and likely grossly overstating the breadth or quality). It’s definitely a strong enough assertion that someone in government should ask for an explanation.
(DIR) Post #AdNiJqqI1VucIWoZFY by acdha@code4lib.social
2023-12-31T21:03:12Z
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“I think it is healthy to compare historical and modern computing. Let's see how the CPUs contained in recent USB-C wall chargers compare to the power of the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC). The Apollo 11 spacecraft carried 3 humans to the moon and back in 1969.” https://forrestheller.com/Apollo-11-Computer-vs-USB-C-chargers.html?utm_source=labnotes.org
(DIR) Post #AhsZ6lzu9sVxfW0HJ2 by acdha@code4lib.social
2024-05-04T13:20:34Z
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“Those aged 65 in 2010 may receive $333 billion more in benefits than they pay in taxes (see chart), an obligation 17 times larger than that likely to be left by those aged 25.”https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2012/09/29/sponging-boomers
(DIR) Post #AizeRbXHOeBoAi0gK0 by acdha@code4lib.social
2024-06-16T18:04:59Z
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“this month marks the fiftieth anniversary of a core piece of free software technology that would quickly become a seminal piece of collaborative software, the bedrock under every version control system and arguably the single most important piece of social software ever created.Written by Douglas McIlroy and James Hunt and released with the 5th Edition of Unix, on this month in 1974 the world was given diff.”https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2024/06/14/fifty-years-of-diff-and-merge/
(DIR) Post #Alf6HhemYSFg4xfUuG by acdha@code4lib.social
2024-09-04T14:03:46Z
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@hn50 @adr I do note that Civo funded the report and it specifically markets them as an alternative, and it does not interrogate the question of whether the hardware costs might be lower than the operational costs from using Kubernetes to build your own cloud on top of another one. That $100 cost increase isn’t buying an hour of K8S admin time.
(DIR) Post #Am4AFsr1D2DuzpmI0e by acdha@code4lib.social
2024-09-16T14:31:48Z
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The U.S. Library of Congress is hiring a GS-14 #accessibility specialist eligible for remote work:https://www.usajobs.gov/job/809242000#a11y #section508 #wcag #getfedihired cc: @jobs
(DIR) Post #AtuD3CIx34mj0uER16 by acdha@code4lib.social
2025-05-09T01:45:21Z
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House Democrats have disclosed that Trump has told the #LibrarianOfCongress that she’s fired, but there’s no stated reason or clear authority to do so:http://democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-releases/delauro-firing-librarian-congress-dr-carla-hayden
(DIR) Post #AtuD3IFyv1yTTQt9Dk by acdha@code4lib.social
2025-05-09T02:04:49Z
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AP is reporting a possible motivation:“The current #LibrarianOfCongress Carla Hayden is woke, anti-Trump, and promotes trans-ing kids,” the group, American Accountability Foundation, said on its X account earlier Thursday, just hours before the firing was made public. “It’s time to get her OUT and hire a new guy for the job!”https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-library-of-congress-carla-hayden-20a1862ce6d2e0d51a84a37b264ce2ef#LibraryOfCongress
(DIR) Post #AvGOy7v1RmU5FFOPOy by acdha@code4lib.social
2025-06-18T00:47:35Z
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Losing WebAuthn seems bad:https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/cybersecurity-take-a-big-hit-in-new-trump-executive-order/
(DIR) Post #B0myzDvmKuPRCKDMrw by acdha@code4lib.social
2025-12-01T01:22:28Z
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@ricci the other one which reminds me how nice the switch to SSDs was is using Git to manage them. Sure, there are more sophisticated tools but I’ve never lost data this way and that’s not true of some alternatives.