Posts by bsdphk@fosstodon.org
 (DIR) Post #Atpfy2tP7PXndI7H3w by bsdphk@fosstodon.org
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       @jonathan @cstross Public Service info from the volunteer chief archivist at datamuseum.dk:NEVER use flash-based storage for archival purposes.Not CF, not SD, not USB-sticks, not SSD, not NVME, nor any other flash-technology based storage media.Flash is simply not a stable storage mechanism: Just like Dynamic RAM it will eventually forget your bits.Unfortunately there are no good choices for long term data storage,  but flash is a particular bad choice.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5ELue71sGH9HK14Gu by bsdphk@fosstodon.org
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       I wonder if Guinness Book of World Records is paying attention tonight, because there's going to so much beer rented out, that it may well become a world record.#OrbanOut #ThanksHungary
       
 (DIR) Post #B5O8wFvBQn070UVo2K by bsdphk@fosstodon.org
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       If you program, you should read this piece."Ada's successes — the aircraft that have not crashed, the railway signalling systems that have not failed, the missile guidance software that has not misguided — are invisible precisely because they are successes. The languages that failed visibly, in buffer overflows and null pointer exceptions and data races and security vulnerabilities, generated the discourse. [Ada did not]"https://www.iqiipi.com/the-quiet-colossus.html
       
 (DIR) Post #B5OK2UOHe82t7GIYTY by bsdphk@fosstodon.org
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       @Gargron @EUCommission What makes you think you can trust the so-called "parental-controls" on those devices ?
       
 (DIR) Post #B5U3wcrymAsXME87eK by bsdphk@fosstodon.org
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       @tante I insist on calling it "Digital self-determination" for that and other reasons.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5UCgJ61QP8Wz8zYAK by bsdphk@fosstodon.org
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       @sun @tante They may have uttered it, but where I come from (DK/EU) it's mostly used about provinces and former colonies having had enough.And that, to me, is the perfect analogy of people finally demanding freedom from the enshitifcators.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5YdsjbGBVxy3Taq1Y by bsdphk@fosstodon.org
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       @davidrevoy I truly dig that we have a talented artist who also understand the modern worlds enshitification.Nothing communicates better or stronger than art.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5ekORpdXxogt8aBmq by bsdphk@fosstodon.org
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       @bagder I wonder if it is too early to make pop-corns for when he discovers autocrap ?
       
 (DIR) Post #B6CHjDTforaP9dUw64 by bsdphk@fosstodon.org
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       Just watched some of the videos from the CHERI Alliance conference last week:https://www.youtube.com/@CHERI-AllianceI've loved CHERI from the first time Robert mentioned his idea, and I'm still waiting, patiently, for the day where a FOSS developers can get easily get their hand on an implementation.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6CHjDfj63E9l18Ysq by bsdphk@fosstodon.org
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       By the way, did anybody else go WHAT?!! when Robert mentioned that Chrome, including all dependencies, are 46 BILLION lines of code ?
       
 (DIR) Post #B6SKpVCsDzDyGkghcG by bsdphk@fosstodon.org
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       Damn, Peter Salus is also dead 😠 (Source TUHS)If you have not read his "Casting the Net" and "Quater Centry of UNIX" books, you should.Rest in peace Peter!
       
 (DIR) Post #B6SduvDUqU55VzHEAq by bsdphk@fosstodon.org
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       I think I can finally put words around what truly bothers me about the "AI changes everything" meme, as far as programming goes:Programming is fundamentally hard for our brains, because it requires fractal perfection.(By fractal perfection I mean that each code line must be perfect, but so must the overall architecture and all intermediate levels.)They way your brain gets better at that is training by doing.The oft quoted 10k hours is probably about right, also for programming.1/2
       
 (DIR) Post #B6SduvNmEGIw1s5RCK by bsdphk@fosstodon.org
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       But if you use a LLM to write your code, and only look at it, when it doesn't do what you want, you are not training to become a better programmer, you are training to become a better "incoming code quality inspector".But there is no training-path from incoming code quality inspector to good programmer, because you are (deliberately) not investing the 10k hours.At the core it comes down to passive vs. active vocabulary:  You only grow your active vocabulary by expressing yourself.2/2
       
 (DIR) Post #B6SduvY3c2WmXkteDo by bsdphk@fosstodon.org
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       PS:I really do wish there were more "incoming code quality inspectors" in the world.I hope EU's CRA makes that a thing.And then I hope they drive a stake through the m4-armor of the autocrap monster.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6kOXy6ARTvagjTUxM by bsdphk@fosstodon.org
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       It's always saddening to see the "angling" of US news media:Front page:FBI arrests CIA employee who stole $40M worth of gold bars from CIA.Not mentioned:Why does CIA have so much gold, that they fail to notice $40M has gone missing?