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• Post #4099106

  What fraction of your net annual income (considered after social security payments and income tax) do you typically spend on vacations? Boosts for reach appreciated!

• Post #4045945

  Got any city trip recommendations for cities that can be reached by train (from Vienna) and that aren't ruined by cars? Boosts for reach appreciated!

• Post #3827967

  English native speakers, help me out please. All of the following sound correct to me: - "This point needs to be clarified." - "This point needs clarifying." - "This point needs clarification." This does not, yet I see it in writing much more often than I used to: - "This point needs clarified." Is the latter phrasing common? If so, in what context? Is there a dialect or sociolect that prefers this? (Boosts for reach appreciated.)

• Post #3549577

  Argentina used to play a very organised game, but now it's messi.

• Post #2176631

  #DidYouKnow that Scapa Flow's name comes from the Old Norse for "long isthmus bay"? I didn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapa_Flow

• Post #2093835

  — "Can you believe how stupid and primitive the ancient Greeks were? When they didn't know something, they asked an oracle, and they believed whatever it said!" — "That's nuts. Where was this oracle?" — "No idea. Let's go ask ChatGPT."

• Post #2054496

  Do you know a note-taking app that - is FOSS, - ships with Ubuntu, - runs with GNOME, - uses Markdown, - stores each note in a file, as opposed to chucking them in a database, - integrates with LanguageTool for spelling and grammar checking, - sorts notes chronologically by default, - supports tagging and categorization? If so, please drop a link below. Thank you! #AskFedi

• Post #2048836

  Clever #OpenStack people, has one of you figured out a way to preserve the complete state of an instance when it's being shelved (`openstack server shelve`)? And by "preserving the complete state", I mean behaving as it would on `openstack server suspend/resume`, i.e. coming back with the same process table and RAM. What this would entail, I think, is some clever systemd/ACPI/suspend-to-disk setup injected via cloud-init. Boosts for reach appreciated. Please, no LLM...

• Post #2027639

  Happy One of The Greatest Concerts Of All Time Anniversary Day to all who celebrate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freddie_Mercury_Tribute_Concert

• Post #1820640

  Question for those of you whose organisations are currently stuck on non-cloud-hosted Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence): What's your plan between now and March 2029? A ­— We'll migrate to Atlassian Cloud B ­— We'll migrate to another cloud platform (preserving our data) C ­— We'll migrate to another self-hosted platform (preserving our data) D — We'll let our data in those silos die, and start over If your answer is B or C, feel free to add a commen...

• Post #1493428

  “All it takes to be a 10x engineer is ignore 90% of the problem” is a brilliant quote and I'd quite like to know who came up with it.

• Post #1389003

  That's an... interesting README. https://github.com/nikelborm/amd-amdgpu-rocm-ollama-gfx90c-ati-radeon-vega-ryzen7-5800H-arch-linux/#upd

• Post #1251418

  Do you want to inform a group of people efficiently, and you're having trouble deciding how much detail to include? Here's your simple ground rule to follow: Include all the information that's available to you that you know to be accurate AND believe to be relevant to at least one of the recipients.

• Post #1251417

  We believe that the San (Bushmen) of Southern Africa and Indigenous Australians are the world's oldest continuous civilisations, with varying estimates of their age — anywhere between 40,000 and 100,000 years. But can somebody explain to me how we can know that they were continuous, considering that we inhabit a civilisation that's a puny 7,000 years old if we're being generous? #AskFedi #Anthropology #History

• Post #1251416

  Days since present Florian thanked past Florian for writing something up, on the remote off-chance that future Florian might need it someday: 0

• Post #1251415

  Kiddo just asked for a small candy bar, which he then proceeded to cut into 10 equal pieces. Questioned on the purpose of this endeavour, he explained that he had 10 maths problems for homework, and was setting up a reward for solving each.

• Post #1251414

  Thesis: Requiring `Assisted-By:` lines in commit messages, or otherwise marking AI assistance in coding, is a double-edged sword: - Good, because it increases transparency about use of agentic coding and the models being used. - Bad, because it contributes to diffusion of responsibility. Discuss.

• Post #1251413

  This sounds crude if you don't know the reference, but if you do, you'll recognise this as the only sensible reply to the OP. https://mastodon.social/@bencurthoys/115304442273256770

• Post #1251412

  Email is the worst form of written communication except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. — Chinston Wurchill

• Post #1048567

  Boy: "Hi, I'm Theodore. No actually I'm Thaddeus. But my dad calls me Edward. My friends say Theodore. Thaddeus is on my birth certificate. And I was baptised Edward. It's quite interesting, really. I'm Theodore Thaddeus Edward." His mum: "Thanks for listening to my Ted talk."

• Post #1001532

  TIL: the athlete in the Apple "1984" commercial and the East German border guard in Elton John's "Nikita" music video from 1985 are the same woman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anya_Major

• Post #1001530

  Yesterday, I asked an LLM to help me solve a JavaScript issue (I am no expert at JavaScript; far from it). It got me 90% of the way there. The remaining 10% were a hallucination that rendered the other 90% useless, so I used a completely different approach (suggested by a human on Stack Overflow, found via a Google search with AI results ignored) and now things work the way I want them to.

• Post #1001529

  I seem to glean that most of you who do use GenAI coding assistants appear to prefer Claude, even those of you who work professionally in free and open source software. How does your organisation look upon this... https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/LICENSE.md

• Post #1001528

  I find it appalling that I'd never heard of this woman before today. What a life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Shirley

• Post #1001527

  What an incredible life story and career. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sf6b

• Post #997873

  Those of you who work in an organisation that makes heavy use of GenAI coding assistants: how did you educate your developers that if they automate sweeping changes to user-facing code, they MUST also automate the corresponding sweeping changes to user-facing documentation? Or have you identified a strong correlation between embracing GenAI coding assistants and not giving a flying fuck about user-facing docs?

• Post #933786

  Don't say "I'm into organic gardening" when you can say "I have composter syndrome"

• Post #913381

  Can someone who happens to know tell me if any part of Google Edu contains any remnants of what used to be the Apache-licensed Google Course Builder (released c. 2012)? (Boosts for reach appreciated.)

• Post #891294

  I am constantly bowled over by the delivery quality that's just par for the course at #PyConAU. I don't think many Aussies and Kiwis realize just how far above the global average any regular talk at their regional conferences is. @pyconau https://youtu.be/wH70Kk5ZUXY

• Post #891289

  Going through some old videos and found this one from @pyconau 2020, which is a talk I'm quite happy with — not least because @daedalus added one of the kindest introductions I've ever had. https://youtu.be/2qDh7tl-wpg