Posts by lewiscowles1986@phpc.social
(DIR) Post #AdQV9bXlKjHO1WoPWC by lewiscowles1986@phpc.social
2024-01-02T06:04:27Z
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@simon We fundamentally disagree it seems on software ethics, and how we process sales and marketing materials.I Have and always will have, zero trust in any commercial business. I'm not aware of a single commercial entity that ever existed, where trust was not misplaced.Newsrooms, especially modern ones, are businesses and should pay.Newsrooms could absolutely upload their little interactive to github, if they want it preserved forever; or use archive.org; or whatever hosts their site!
(DIR) Post #AdQVWkJsrzpVu2M5c8 by lewiscowles1986@phpc.social
2024-01-02T06:07:01Z
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@simon This bit> It wasn't presented (or internally thought of) as a limited-time preview offer, it was a core part of their offeringMakes me very sad for the engineering and product teams at Salesforce.Nobody [save the tax man] has any rights to someone else profits.Again, I think this might be a division in our personal ethics, but I thought I'd communicate it, to be clear and offer contrasting view.Imagine cutting back on staff, because you're spending that $$$ on a free-tier.
(DIR) Post #AdQYBrvlg1mPHzoOPo by lewiscowles1986@phpc.social
2024-01-02T06:37:20Z
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@simon As a former software architect, I can tell you, people like that are why I won't work under that title any more. It's short-sighted to the point of negligence. They were lucky to get 10 years from "the marketing copy said it will be okay".Companies try like the plague, to operate on trust; sometimes refusing to negotiate legal agreements. If someone's "trust" means they won't put it in binding writing, then they are not to be trusted. And it's not trust if you use a contract.
(DIR) Post #AdQYj4Rq9uGJfQe480 by lewiscowles1986@phpc.social
2024-01-02T06:39:59Z
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@simon my comments about charging orgs is not about an org not paying at all. It's that as a commercial enterprise, they should have to pay for every single thing. No line-item amortized.If the person on the street cannot setup a competitor without millions in funding, it's straight anti-competition that we've come to accept, to allow businesses to offer these tailored deals.For education, it's skeezy, but makes sense. Train them to think in your lanaguge / tech.
(DIR) Post #AiK62uJ9rRNe2YgvOy by lewiscowles1986@phpc.social
2024-05-27T17:16:35Z
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@aral feels like it belongs under "expert install" as most folks don't know how to troubleshoot failed EFI
(DIR) Post #AiUY9kQNPyVBHLc1mS by lewiscowles1986@phpc.social
2024-06-01T18:18:45Z
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@futurebird LLMS are orders of magnitude less efficient than your brain; but also nowhere near as good. Imagine if you will, a soup of information, but few connections between them.LLMS are the middle-class and upper-class kids, who need a lot of support, with basic life decisions.
(DIR) Post #AjLMuh1NTLF1HCNG4W by lewiscowles1986@phpc.social
2024-06-27T05:51:34Z
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@foone check-out dxwnd; an amazing wrapper tool I've used for getting old games to work;Folks are doing the work, but it is incredibly rare and specialised compared to commodity engineering.Love that you are calling this out.
(DIR) Post #Akrrl6grXZWS3jASlE by lewiscowles1986@phpc.social
2024-08-11T20:00:11Z
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@foone NT4 no. But 2000, XP, 98 SE, Server 2003 & 2008. Yes.Is the following why you're running NT 4?> Windows NT 4.0 was the last public release of Windows for the Alpha, MIPS, and PowerPC architectures.
(DIR) Post #AlU44pw280DlLFuoE4 by lewiscowles1986@phpc.social
2024-08-30T06:17:36Z
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@foone it's 44 pins to be sure. I Bet the latency was horrid.
(DIR) Post #AlU4Er051RRfXdaJFY by lewiscowles1986@phpc.social
2024-08-30T06:18:00Z
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@foone never
(DIR) Post #Alxa3zZHetoN2ukliC by lewiscowles1986@phpc.social
2024-09-13T12:03:04Z
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@aral if the EU systems, fund creating these people, I don't see an issue with them moving to the USA, because the starter pipeline is healthy.Let the USA drown itself in VC backed debt.There are of course lots of EU companies who don't care about VC nightmares, and are quite happy.
(DIR) Post #AlzJz1wMCZJU0M4sSW by lewiscowles1986@phpc.social
2024-09-14T04:00:27Z
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@onepict @aral To be clear, I was not suggesting Aral personally takes money from EU funding projects.I think (and I re-read my post) I suggested folks moving to USA that start successful ventures are only adding to their nation increasing debt burden. Even when "successful", they collectively couldn't wipe out that debt burden.I went on to suggest VC money isn't the only model.I Agree the EU should fund Libre software (as an ideal) and Open software where there are no Libre alternatives.
(DIR) Post #AlzJz42oNXfGWx73nU by lewiscowles1986@phpc.social
2024-09-14T04:01:47Z
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@onepict @aral Whats more, I pay for (I wouldn't be so bold as to call it funding) Libre software and promote it, and have contributed to more than one Libre and Open Source project.
(DIR) Post #AmK0XFHhB1lCTOFqgS by lewiscowles1986@phpc.social
2024-09-24T05:35:39Z
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@ChrisMayLA6 @h4890 @bookstodon I've used Abe, Hive, World of books. But nothing compares to trawling a local charity shop.
(DIR) Post #AmK0XGwV0nzfcELwvI by lewiscowles1986@phpc.social
2024-09-24T05:41:43Z
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@ChrisMayLA6 @h4890 @bookstodon Sadly it will miss the smell, the touch and the natural browsing of a physical space.But unlike one of your commenters, I have nothing ideologically against Oxfam (that was so strange for me to read)
(DIR) Post #An3F82ZIVuO5bgOMsK by lewiscowles1986@phpc.social
2024-10-16T03:27:33Z
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@internetarchive @brewsterkahle Is a clear motive or target of interest to the archive?Someone else I know of had an attack on a french property website of all things.There has to be motivation for this kind of nonsense. I Just wonder and slightly worry about what it is fuelling these chaos buffoons.
(DIR) Post #An3zslllNwQr0XRWKm by lewiscowles1986@phpc.social
2024-10-16T07:17:30Z
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@alexskunz This is actually how I code and show people how to code systems for talking to websites. Step 1, pretend to be a browser. Internally I know it should be a browser folks are frightened to cut off due to being current and modern 😂 This might be my fault, even though I don't work with or near AI hype.And if you make web services without an API... It's kinda your fault too.If your garden has Apples... IDK, call me Eve
(DIR) Post #AnHonqcNYGrjJZwWRs by lewiscowles1986@phpc.social
2024-10-23T04:14:38Z
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@foone if replacing the heatsink, can you clip one of those pipes? I think it's literally screws turned upside down
(DIR) Post #AnHp4vUAhuXXKnFQBM by lewiscowles1986@phpc.social
2024-10-23T04:17:44Z
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@foone Are they mad enough to have code on it?Like here is our proprietary...
(DIR) Post #AnHu50yimj8S8mOmOm by lewiscowles1986@phpc.social
2024-10-23T05:13:47Z
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@foone are you sure this is mb and not GB. Just asking because of multiple live-streams and 500mb not being very large.