Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/11
If you ever need a large bunch of Mac minis in a data center, then start reading at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – Uptime-Lab/KVM-rack-stand-for-16-Mac-minis.
The repository by Ivan Kuleshov has all information you need, including scripts for Pi-KVM, and 3D printing STL source files.
It was covered in [Wayback/Archive] The MagPi issue 139 — The MagPi magazine (direct [Wayback/Archive] MagPi139.pdf; it’s too large for [Wayback] Goole Docs on-line viewing).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/11
This is cool and works well (including the portable version) :[Wayback/Archive] webcamoid/webcamoid: Webcamoid is a full featured and multiplatform webcam suite.
Most code is C++ with bits using the QML language of the Qt cross platform UI library.
It reminded me of the Kylix days: the first Linux version of Delphi where the CLX GUI framework was a rework of VCL but based on Qt instead of Win32 GDI.
The downloads are at [Wayback/Archive] Webcamoid, The ultimate webcam suite! with installable and portable versions of 32-bit and 64-bit for Linux, Mac and Windows (I have tried the latter, see below why).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/10
The toxic reactions to [Wayback/Archive] What would be good alternatives to Stack Overflow for questions about software solutions to drive hardware? – Meta Stack Overflow were surely inviting to never ever try and help improving StackOverflow again.
Lesson learned: Stack Overflow won’t ever be the welcoming environment it was 15 years ago and the toxicity will make it slowly become obsolete.
Hopefully the smaller Stack Exchange sites will take a long while to go in that direction.
Via [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “The @StackOverflow toxicity: you start a discussion on meta to get better guidance for the community at large. – 13 downvotes & counting – a bunch of comments of which the majority is not helpful – no answers Deleting 429663. Never trying to help improving the situation again.”
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/10
Cool project for a community driven open source site (written mostly in Ruby): [Wayback/Archive] codidact/qpixel: Q&A-based community knowledge-sharing software
Rails-based version of our core software, powering codidact.com. Currently under active development towards MVP.
There are more related repositories under [Wayback/Archive] Codidact.
The project is explained at [Wayback/Archive] Codidact – Helping each other learn.
The many communities are at [Wayback/Archive] Codidact, including:
Via [Wayback/Archive] User Quasímodo – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/09
I wish my language skills were better: [Wayback/Archive] Duotrigordle
Guess all 32 Duotrigordle words in 37 tries!
Based on
- Hexadecordle by Alfie Rayner
- Octordle by Kenneth Crawford
- Quordle by @fireph
- Dordle by Guilherme S. Töws
- Wordle by Josh Wardle
Source on GitHub: [Wayback/Archive] thesilican/duotrigordle: Play 32 wordles simultaneously (source in TypeScript and CSS)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/04
Bitbucket nuked all Mercurial repositories in 2020 in the midst of my cancer treatment so back then I wrote Sunsetting Mercurial support in Bitbucket – Bitbucket
So I am glad there is [Wayback/Archive] Mercurial Bitbucket Archive | Index
This is the archive of all public Mercurial projects that were hosted on Bitbucket before they [Wayback/Archive] removed Mercurial support on July 1, 2020. Some projects might be unavailable or incomplete because they were deleted or made private before we had a chance to archive them.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/03
A while ago I needed to validate some HTML on-line and found the W3C Markup Validation Service.
There are two versions of it that can take different parameters, so below are some permutations of the URLs.
But first why there are two versions, which is explained in W3C Markup Validation Service – Wikipedia
The Markup Validation Service is a validator by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that allows Internet users to check pre-HTML5 HTML and XHTML documents for well-formed markup against a document type definition. Markup validation is an important step towards ensuring the technical quality of web pages. However, it is not a complete measure of web standards conformance. Though W3C validation is important for browser compatibility and site usability, it has not been confirmed what effect it has on search engine optimization.
As HTML5 has removed the use of DTD in favor of a “Living Standard”, the traditional Markup Validation Service is not applicable to these formats. Validation is instead performed using an open-source “Nu Validator”, an instance of which is provided by W3C.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/02
I will need this one day as keeping resources up for sandbox or test accounts can cost a lot when things do not happen according to plan:
Both have been written in golang.
Warning: these can be abused, wreak havoc when accidentally used in production, or not even delete all (it’s software; there might be bugs).
Via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/31
Starting the 2022-2023 period, more and more generative AI content has entered search engines.
The below queries give you some pointers on how to spot those. They return scholar articles from 2023 and later.
Note the list is in alphabetical order for easier reading, but the number of results (in parenthesis) are very different from that order. I was quite amazed to see “As an AI language model” scoring 45 results.
Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, ChatGPT, Development, GPT-3, GPT-4, LLM, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/30
[Wayback/Archive] FemFM – 〝50% vrouw in je oor, of we zappen door!〞 werd in 2024 gelanceerd vlak voor de Women’s History Month en Internationale Vrouwendag door Felienne Hermans.
Felienne is bekend van bijvoorbeeld haar promotieonderzoek naar de impact van Excel op de samenleving, maar vooral van haar drive te onderzoeken hoe zo veel mogelijk mensen – ongeacht hun achtergrond – kunnen leren programmeren), Joy of Coding, de Hedy programmeertaal (met veel support voor andere alfabetten dan wat we in de westerse wereld gebruiken) en haar boek The Programmer’s Brain: What every programmer needs to know about cognition.
Ze is enorm goed in haar werk, en komt daarmee regelmatig in aanraking met vooringenomenheid over vrouwen. Daar verbaast ze zich terecht over, en ook dat het lastig om content (op allerlei soorten gebieden) te consumeren gemaakt door vrouwen. Dat overkwam haar bijvoorbeeld bij het luisteren naar muziek op de Nederlandse radio: daar kwamen veel meer mannelijke artiesten aan bod dan vrouwelijke.
Vandaar FemFM, en Felienne zou Felienne niet zijn als de source code niet openbaar was, dus hier wat linkjes:
Posted in Audio, Awareness, Development, IceCast, Inclusion / inclusive society, Java, Java Platform, Media, Power User, Python, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »
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