Posts by kimvanwyk@fosstodon.org
 (DIR) Post #AUKYTJ3jJILd5qVtoW by kimvanwyk@fosstodon.org
       2023-04-05T04:23:05Z
       
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       @simon I've done this with a tool I wrote to create zoom meetings on an account shared by the 100 Lions clubs in southern Africa. I use Zoom's API to make the meeting but then produce an email subject and body which pyperclip puts into the clipboard so I can either reply to the email requesting a meeting with the body or make a fresh email with the subject and body without having to consider the logic for that in an API integration.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUjxHhBuhhA1LGyyx6 by kimvanwyk@fosstodon.org
       2023-04-17T10:32:03Z
       
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       @wogan in my software-running-on-servers jobs, no, the few occassions with a problem hotfix has been the answer. On an electronics manufacturing production line, yes, we've had to rollback once or twice and there a hotfix isn't an option because you can't risk setting equipment to a damaging config, it's far safer to revert and start again from a known state.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUjxYmHX1vtU3MkvEe by kimvanwyk@fosstodon.org
       2023-04-17T10:35:10Z
       
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       @wogan in my software-running-on-servers jobs, no, the few ocassions with a problem hotfix has been the answer. On an electronics manufacturing production line, yes, we've had to rollback once or twice and there a hotfix isn't an option because you can't risk setting equipment to a damaging config, it's far safer to revert and start again from a known state.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUjz6RtBSL6mbezEqu by kimvanwyk@fosstodon.org
       2023-04-17T10:51:02Z
       
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       @wogan very much so, yes, especially if you only find out 6 stages down the line that the flash has had a bad image written to it (for a hypothetical example, we did guard against this kind of thing) because you could have made 1000 units by the time you can test the first such unit and realise you've made 1000 doorstops.
       
 (DIR) Post #AW1akeydcdGfO48xmq by kimvanwyk@fosstodon.org
       2023-05-25T20:34:34Z
       
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       @simon @b0rk @matt it also helps explain why many TV shows and films use IPs with a .280 or some other value >255 in them - they look real on screen but aren't valid so can't be visited by curious viewers who end up somewhere unexpected.
       
 (DIR) Post #AX6g4ywHnc8F30Oz5s by kimvanwyk@fosstodon.org
       2023-06-27T05:20:05Z
       
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       @simon thanks for this, it's very handy. I assumed the [x]y = 42andx = {y = 42}formats that are occasionally in the same file ( poetry uses the latter in pyproject.toml for referencing local wheel packages for eg) to be different requirements governed by the part of the file they were in. It has never occurred to me that they just were the same thing written differently.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aco3gSnVIDRX8e7XA8 by kimvanwyk@fosstodon.org
       2023-12-14T16:47:12Z
       
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       @simon you're spot on about the perception of a trust-breaching action being more important than the reality. I don't fully understand what the auto opted-in toggle implied on Dropbox but I now don't trust Dropbox to do the one thing I pay them for - keep my files secure and accessible only to me. Any auto opt-in option would make me just as nervous about Dropbox, but before Dropbox felt they had to keep up with AI I doubt that opting users in to *anything* would have been considered.