ruffsl

ruffsl, 7 months ago

That was really cool and got me inspired! Thanks for cross posting.

ruffsl, 9 months ago

Private Eye - essential for staying online 24/7

What was that device, an early cellular modem or 802.11 wireless bridge? The thing ontop of the briefcase looks like a head visor with an antenna. Google search keywords are just noise.

ruffsl, 9 months ago

Do we have a community for computer architectures or computer science on this instance or anywhere else?

ruffsl, 10 months ago

Related: programming.dev/post/1851005

ruffsl, 10 months ago

I don’t know of many recorded audio books, but you could also use a Text to Speech engine to listen to any technical blogs or articles. I use Android apps like Pocket or T2S to queue up a backlog of TODO read items, then when I’m out for a long walk, I can just press play and let the TTS do it’s thing. Of course, I curate this list for longer pure text reads, devoid of code snippets, equations, or visual graphics that TTS would have a tough time conveying over audio.

Looks like I may need to find a successor to pocket. They do a great job scraping connect via readable mode, but I’d like to find a shelf hosted or mobile+offline app equivalent for queuing up web articles, just in case pocket gets cut from further development by Mozilla management.

ruffsl, 10 months ago

I’m surprised there isn’t a community on this intense for this language already.
I’d suggest those who interested to make a post over on !community_request .

ruffsl, 10 months ago

This was a funny talk wasn’t it! Any others of his you’d recommend?

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Think I posted this with the short code, so Limmy didn’t match the cross post, but here are a couple more old comments here too:

• programming.dev/post/435948

I should open a ticket about fuzzy domain matching for cross posts on Lemmy. Should be useful for other things like stack overflow or other social media links.

ruffsl, 10 months ago

I think the comment that the_lego is replying to also highlights the false equivalency of calling the anti-WEI crowd as criminals, as was not a good look for Google.

They have apologized for using the word criminals & bullies in a broader context and I appreciate that. However, the initial part of the comment is very telling of how they view those who oppose.

• news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36916991

ruffsl, 10 months ago

Yeah, I found the discussions on HN and the debates in the Google group mailing list (“Intent to Prototype: Web environment integrity API”) much more interesting, but didn’t hot link the latter in the OP post to limit brigading. Although that mail list archive is made publicly accessable.

ruffsl, 10 months ago

scrambling to lock their doors

From a consumer perspective, it seems like all the FANG conglomerates are trying to shut the stable door after the AI horse has bolted, but perhaps from an industry perspective, their just trying to pull up the ladder behind themselves to curb competition, or stall any emerging upstarts, just like most FANGs where themselves only decades ago.

ruffsl, 10 months ago

They can try and reinvent themselves all they’d like, but I can’t be bothered to keep up with their rebrandings if they can’t be bothered to commit and sell off the domain name. Something something sacrifice, something, law of Equivalent exchange. /s

ruffsl, 10 months ago

I think if the local and remote instances are federated - for posts submitted to remote communities that have subscribers from the local instance - posts to the local instance can be annotated with cross-posted to: links, whenever the local instance is aware of other federated posts that have a matching URL in other OP posts.

A single OP can manually cross post to other communities using the cross-post button next to the title of a post, although that will auto populate the body text of the new post with quoted text from the original, as well as an embedded hyperlink to the original.

So coss-posts can be both auto detected by Lemmy, or manually created by OP(s).

ruffsl, 10 months ago

My phone keyboard spelling aside, when the acronym was first coined, correct, but it seems to have sence devolved into more of a colloquialism for large scale tech related corporations, outliving the precise corporate restructuring that once comprised the old acronym. At least that’s what I’ve experienced in my workplaces, as well as the comments here:

• programming.dev/comment/1451760

Was there a equivalent house hold colloquialism for IBM, HP, Xerox, Bell System, etc. back in the day?

ruffsl, 10 months ago

Language is inherently messy, localized, and ephemeral, so it could be unwise to expect that kind of conformity on the global internet. It can be jarring, for example tech folk here in the EU seem to use corporate slang a lot differently than when I was working near SFO or DFW, we’re I’d suspect the greater non-homogeneity of native speakers, as compared to the US, had a lot to do with it.

That aside, I think we merely disagree on the colloquial use of FAANG in 2023, as (from my anecdotal perspective) it seems to have semantically shifted into a categorical noun in common vernacular, rather than a once precise acronym from a decade ago, given most of the conglomerates behind the initial spelling have either re-branded, fallen in stock valuation, declined in labor desirability, or whatever else that had originally garnered acclaim and publicity. In that respect, pluralization of such a noun seems mundane, if not a little odd looking for typographical formatting.

• programming.dev/comment/1448032

Perhaps this could be coined as another stage of acronymization, or “acronym drift”; the process by which an acronym’s original expansion and meaning become less relevant or obscured over time, and the acronym itself is treated and used as a regular word, independent of its original expansion. This can happen when the original meaning of the acronym is no longer relevant, but the acronym continues to be used and recognized based on its familiarity. An example that comes to mind is Google’s original acronym for the QUIC protocol, which is no longer used to mean “Quick UDP Internet Connections”, as was initially proposed.

ruffsl, 10 months ago

Fair enough. I just wanted to point out why you may see others, or news outlets, refer to tech giants, such as Microsoft, as FANGs or FAANGs given the historical context, regardless of how one may prefer to grammatically re-phrase such nonsensical statements. E.g:

So, who are the FAANGs?

• www.fool.com/investing/…/faang-stocks/
• www.wealthify.com/blog/what-are-faang-stocks

ruffsl, 11 months ago

Related:

• Is Web Environment Integrity a risk to the accessibility of the Internet?
  • programming.dev/post/831937
• Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
  • programming.dev/post/916235
• Mozilla opposes Web Integrity API proposal
  • programming.dev/post/929260

ruffsl, 11 months ago

Related:

• Is Web Environment Integrity a risk to the accessibility of the Internet?
  • programming.dev/post/831937
• Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
  • programming.dev/post/916235
• Mozilla opposes Web Integrity API proposal
  • programming.dev/post/929260

ruffsl, 11 months ago

Please only post programming memes to !programmer_humor .

ruffsl, 11 months ago

Cool! Could you share that link with the !cobol community?

ruffsl, 11 months ago

BTW, I recently found this Lemmy community !audiogamers . @MostlyBlindGamer , have you seen this one?