Daniel Quinn @ danielquinn @lemmy.ca

Canadian software engineer living in Europe.

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Ah yeah, I remember a moment like that in DS9, where Sisko is lamenting the crew's interest in a holosuite program set in the 50s because of how "our people" were treated back then. It always felt out of place for me, though DS9 is still my favourite Star Trek.

Can you give some examples of this? Admittedly I didn't much care for Discovery and didn't pay a lot of attention through it as a result, but I'm not picking up what you're laying down ;-)

Can we really call it a "spill" if they dump it deliberately?

It's a different kind of world. You need a different kind of software.

Yeah I share your issue with their stance on Nuclear as well (though having worked in the industry for a few years now, I'm coming to realise it's a moot point). I'll push back a bit on your other points though. I've always found their proposals to be well thought out and fully costed.

The reason I've long supported them (even when the leadership was chaotic) was that they were the only party with a platform that shared my priority: a world not on fire. the Conservatives muzzled climate scientists, the Liberals literally bought a pipeline and the NDP keeps cozying up to oil in Alberta and loggers in BC.

Sure we've got crystal-clutching anti-nuclear loonies in the Greens, but at least I can trust they actually believe the IPCC enough to want to do something about it.

What's wrong with the Greens?

A lot of places don't have buses and the roads aren't safe for kids to cycle anymore. The assumption is that if you're a parent, you just have to "make time" some-crazy-how.

We don't use X, and we don't use Facebook, and I'm not even close to feeling sorry."

Love it. Subscribed!

You may want to promote this in /c/solarpunk.

Honestly, this is so much better than those cases when the codebase is an absolute fucking nightmare are the senior dev doesn't see it. Instead they gaslight you into thinking that this is actually best practice.

This might be fun to write actually. Basically you need a central server you connect to via a websocket that would plot points out on a map (maybe with leaflet?) on receipt of notifications pushed via said socket.

The trouble of course is that with a central server, you tend to incur costs, so you'd have to pay, unless some sort of P2P mesh could be established between participating parties. That'd be a fun problem to solve for sure.

Don't these dipshits have anything better to do?

The minute you automate someone's job, you do necessarily admit that society doesn't need that person's work to get by. The only reason they shouldn't get to put their feet up and take it easy is political. And politically, we have decided instead what happens is they die.

I have been trying for years to put this into words when discussing capitalism & technology, but I've never come across something so succinct. Thank you.

Could he now sue the people that beat him (or even Sainsbury's)?

Honestly, after having served on a Very Large Project with Mypy everywhere, I can categorically say that I hate it. Types are great, type checking is great, but applying it to a language designed without types in mind is a recipe for pain.

Very cool trick. I've never been comfortable with how Python package installation is effectively arbitrary code execution. It's also a nice reminder that installing packages into a Docker environment is generally safer than going bare back metal.

Very slick. It looks like a thin wrapper around some pretty powerful tools, and I'm impressed that they're still useful on such a low-power device.

I wrote an assistant a while back before Whisper was a thing, but now that I see what you've done, I'm going to have to go back and refactor.

What the fuck is with this immigrant blaming? We're supposed to be better than this.

That's an interesting thought. There's a lot of cases you see where people have stripped a comic's name from the bottom of the image, but that's not really what this project was designed for. Aletheia will guarantee you that the person/company sharing the media is who they say they are, but critically it won't prevent infringement.

The example I give in my talk is that InfoWars could take a BBC news story and say "we made this", but it wouldn't let them modify that story and claim that "the BBC made this". The goal is to be able to re-connect what someone is saying with the reputation of the person saying it, with the hope that we can start delegating our trust to individuals and organisations again.

I wrote a version of this in Python a few years ago, but it depended on external tools like ffmpeg to work, limiting its portability. The Python requirement was also a major factor for adoption.

If it were ported to Rust, doing the (de)serialisation internally, I believe that it could have far-reaching implications on how we share and consume news:

https://danielquinn.github.io/aletheia/

If you're interested, I presented the Python version at PyCon UK a while back.