Posts by prlzx@hostux.social
(DIR) Post #AmTpcdjSYHHdpUD52O by prlzx@hostux.social
2024-09-29T01:28:39Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Generally I won't trial alpha releases on principle because it may not represent well the actual experience until beta or release candidate.Indeed I suppose some alpha releases may have additional debug code and debug symbols enabled in compilation to assist the troubleshooting.But I do appreciate the coverage to see the direction it is taking, and makes most sense when reviewed by people who can demonstrate the types of workflow it enables.
(DIR) Post #AnhTNGHK5VrQni6PsO by prlzx@hostux.social
2024-11-04T13:17:25Z
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@BrodieOnLinux I remember struggling, particularly around database work.It took me a while to learn that, unless you know why a different approach is needed in a particular case, store as UTC but display as a local date/time should be the go-to method.Closely followed by learning what built-in data types / objects / functions your language and database have for date/time handling.That said I'm sure we still pretend that the Julian→Gregorian transition and other calendars aren't a thing.
(DIR) Post #AnhTl34uojM4oMdpom by prlzx@hostux.social
2024-11-04T13:21:43Z
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@BrodieOnLinux It's also wild that the question "so what day is it" always has 2 (or 3*) different answers on earth depending on what timezone you are in.(*) since timezones are allowed to have offsets > ±12.
(DIR) Post #AnsswDr4743nPC5FMu by prlzx@hostux.social
2024-11-10T01:25:41Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Have to be honest I thought you were just winding us up when you were previously saying Mir like it was one of the gifts of the 3 wise men that I didn't want to be the one be posting corrections, and meantime the subtitles are often like that - is it just automated speech recognition transcription?
(DIR) Post #AoQ0kXXfalL87E7oOW by prlzx@hostux.social
2024-11-26T00:58:41Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Brodie "I want to make a video now"Mic_Stand "Don't even breathe on me".
(DIR) Post #AqxTR21vUMNDY2Lksy by prlzx@hostux.social
2025-02-10T00:09:45Z
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@BrodieOnLinux If it's anything like with functions, new thing gets defined alongside with the revised property or behaviour (a literal inversion of the bool in this example) and documentation updated to recommend start using this.Next release you start emitting warnings that the old bool will be deprecated in a future release.Then [a few years] later you actually deprecate.For functions with a variable number of arguments you can add an optional argument which selects newer behaviour.
(DIR) Post #ArE2gleSky4cJEyNAO by prlzx@hostux.social
2023-04-28T16:06:18Z
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@verybritishproblems I don'r remember giving you access to my laptop/webcam?
(DIR) Post #ArE65iE6vZJ6myEVPc by prlzx@hostux.social
2025-02-18T00:38:18Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Was thinking about demoscene coding (with the Revision 2025 invite being published).Groups and individuals spending weeks or even months on programming shaders, tracked music and other things into executables, especially for the size-coding (e.g. 64KB / 4KB / 256B) such that textures might not exist in the source and visuals generated in real-time when run on the computer at the compo. Tech, art and style. And even they debated whether "badapple playback on x" qualifies.
(DIR) Post #ArRScicdCZhDcOKDWi by prlzx@hostux.social
2025-02-24T11:22:00Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Bit of a mixed bag, some standard practice but other stuff is subjective personal preference. But then it is an option piece.Personally no problem with www if you ever want to run other types of server on your domain.No issue with .html if retrieving an actual file with that name, apart from index.html or index.php where your DirectoryIndex should be taking care of it.IDs ok if for accessing a database record. URLs should not change just because a post title was edited.
(DIR) Post #ArSMHEHIQ7HSrLfwTg by prlzx@hostux.social
2025-02-24T21:45:37Z
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@BrodieOnLinux I've not worked in Marketing for some years but it's bad sign that they were unable to adapt a stock formulation of "Leverage the immense power of FFmpeg. We know complexity can be daunting but our tooling lets you focus on your content & projects and scales with you."I'm imagining if Zabbix said the same about SNMP, fping, apache2 / nginxor if Cockpit were saying don't use OpenSSH, PackageKit, udisks2, mdadm, libvirtand it's both ludicrous and unnecessary.
(DIR) Post #Arl9M2MtxwrlSn594y by prlzx@hostux.social
2025-03-05T23:20:19Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Watching this now - you get very close to saying this outright but appears in order to create a derived game you'd have to make sure none of the text, in-game menus or graphical artwork referred to the game as Command and Conquer or as Electronic Arts and replaced as necessary.If this contains no game assets whatsoever, is this analogous to other products where only the game engine was open-sourced? I'm trying to judge any difference from Doom / id Software for example.
(DIR) Post #As5872yZD8uOD9BcO0 by prlzx@hostux.social
2025-03-15T14:40:36Z
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@BrodieOnLinux That time when you realise trending pages are personalised based on your browsing habits or other factors such as browser language or geolocation /hj
(DIR) Post #AwYjtXaSct3UAEVYqu by prlzx@hostux.social
2025-07-27T12:59:00Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Add 1 to the group"automatically because I was using Ubuntu (LTS) at the time"so whenever their tweaked GNOME changed its LTS defaults (the first time round).The only other factor is that I was using Lubuntu 20.04 (LTS) for 2 years as LXQT had matured with lower resource use.So I was back on Wayland with the point LTS release i.e. 22.04.1I was aware of Wayland and that Intel/Skylake although already old were not have driver issues.
(DIR) Post #AwsSYbHO5EdxTY26Pg by prlzx@hostux.social
2025-08-06T01:18:58Z
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@BrodieOnLinux I already wrote a series of replies on this in other convos, but to briefly clarify:For UK Online Safety Act, the way the law is written brings more than just the obvious sites into scope.In effect any service where the owner cannot guarantee (via authorship or moderation) that content will always be "child-safe"Many services with user-to-user content such as blogs with comments, forums, discussion boards, esp. if users can upload images/video or add links.
(DIR) Post #Ayph2BmlIBMGE3LKj2 by prlzx@hostux.social
2025-10-03T13:01:15Z
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@BrodieOnLinux In retrospect we should have seen the warning signs when people started posting replays of football (soccer) video games trying to pass them off as coverage of recent fixtures.I didn't even know that was a thing until a parent mentioned they would be looking on the TV's YT app for the footy highlights and the top results would have convincing thumbnails but turn out to be "robots" instead.
(DIR) Post #Ayq8znspzBKWESpsiO by prlzx@hostux.social
2025-10-03T18:14:35Z
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@BrodieOnLinux @Endof10 At the very least for me the campaign is serving as a reminder to download a "final" version of Win 10 and/or media creation tool such as may be needed to maintain or re-install for system support or any transitional period if planning to migrate later.Whether for hardware that doesn't meet the requirements or a VM (in my case).
(DIR) Post #AzSF91c8HuUd9fHPWq by prlzx@hostux.social
2025-10-22T03:22:29Z
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@BrodieOnLinux This is going to sound like a fudge, butwhen a developer I wanted to start from the technically correct implementationwith work on improving the UI with regards to intuitiveness, discover-ability or other visible aspects guided by user feedback being ongoing.User-centric design is important to me but in the sense of making the UI better respect expectations (principle of least surprise) and physical world analogies where applicable.
(DIR) Post #AzgYLq6n5izPhy2LRI by prlzx@hostux.social
2025-10-29T01:03:26Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Off the top of my head this was the first question I went with for GrokipediaThe first page of results fails to answer the question and instead suggests unrelated questions.Gemini for comparison correctly answered with info about a mole as the SI unit (symbol "mol").But it likely quotes from the Wikipedia summary anyway.
(DIR) Post #AzgbifSl8aRXDKtCfw by prlzx@hostux.social
2025-10-29T01:41:22Z
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@aproposYeah, but then what is the point in marketing something as an AI-powered improvement on Wikipedia, when it cannot even handle natural language queries (not even AI) that could be used with search engines available in the 90s?Also it clearly made no attempt filter or order "10,000 results" into something vaguely useful.Perhaps you weren't on the web in the 90s pre-Google to have used AltaVista, Lycos, Infoseek, Ask Jeeves, Excite or the DMOZ though to know how poor this looks.
(DIR) Post #AzgcT23fSdeAc4GGDQ by prlzx@hostux.social
2025-10-29T01:49:49Z
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@apropos I mean it quite literally failed to filter out the words "what" "is "a" "in" to limit itself to keywords.