Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/14
Some 7 years ago, I missed the [Wayback/Archive] Technic 40 year anniversary model | Brickset: LEGO set guide and database.
Hopefully by now I have had time to get the various underlying boxes and build it, together with reviving the 8860 I still have from my child-hood time.
Pictures from Brickset:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/13
Using generative AI for your work can very likely result into your work not being copyrightable, at least in the USA: [Wayback/Archive] Famous AI Artist Says He’s Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work
The guy who used Midjourney to create an award-winning piece of AI art demands copyright protections.
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Now, in an ironic twist, Allen is upset that his work—which was created via a platform that’s been accused of ripping off countless copyrighted works—cannot, itself, be copyrighted, and is thus getting ripped off. In March of last year, the U.S. Copyright Office ruled that work derived from AI platforms “contained no human authorship” and therefore could not be extended copyright protections. Allen has been trying, since late 2022, to register his painting as a copyrighted work.
Links from the above quote:
Via [Wayback/Archive] Fefes Blog: Not the Onion.
Wikipedia:
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/13
Lot’s of interesting tech blogs: [Wayback/Archive] Florian Haas on Twitter: “Let’s do something we should do every once in a while: if you have a personal web site with an RSS or Atom feed, drop it in the replies so people can add it to their feed aggregator. Signal boosts appreciated.”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/12
[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – src-d/hercules: Gaining advanced insights from Git repository history.
This project, with the command-line tools hercules and labours is on my research list as it can get pretty good long-term insights on project health (the tool is programming language independent).
Especially the half-life of code is a good measurement, as well as the existence of code bursts (hello major version increments!).
This research part is important: [Wayback/Archive] Change Bursts as Defect Predictors – Publications – Software Engineering Chair (Prof. Zeller), by Nachiappan Nagappan, Andreas Zeller, Thomas Zimmermann, Kim Herzig, Brendan Murphy
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/12
I totally missed this back in 2019 when having the first belly surgery (that eventually would lead up into discovering I had already had rectum cancer at that time) [Wayback/Archive] How to Weaponize the Yubikey – Black Hills Information Security.
Luckily I got a reminder: [Wayback/Archive] jilles.com on Twitter: “/me the asshole that spoils the magic trick …” after [Wayback/Archive] yan on Twitter: “who’s excited for defcon next week”
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/11
Copied in full as the Wayback Machine archival of toots are broken: [Wayback/Archive] Kris (@isotopp): “Im Juli werden wir nicht mehr …” – chaos.social
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/11
About 2 years after Google switched every Google Hangouts user over to Google Chat, I still wonder about [Wayback/Archive] Will the new Google Chat PWA for Chrome ever have system tray support? : gsuite:
Chrome _right now_ can be sustained as a background process with the Chrome-ball in the system tray. This is the vehicle with which Hangouts remains open at all time, so why not Chat, too?
I’m left with no option but to have Chat running on a mobile device so I have always on access. Perhaps this is the angle. I nunno.
Your support page link I’ve seen already and it doesn’t answer the Why question.
It is absolutely a bizzarotown implementation.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/08
Dit is zoooooo handig: [Wayback/Archive] Ontbrekende puzzelstukjes
Teruggaand tot 2018 heeft het een mooie geschiedenis en bijzondere manier van werken, beide opgetekend in [Wayback/Archive] Over ons | Ontbrekende puzzelstukjes.
Kijk voor het aanvragen het [Wayback/Archive] Instructiefilmpje | Ontbrekende puzzelstukjes (het staat ook op [Wayback/Archive] JvH instructie – YouTube en hieronder).
Heb je (andere) vragen, reageer dan via [Wayback/Archive] Contact | Ontbrekende puzzelstukjes.
Via [Wayback/Archive] Gemiva on Twitter: “Hoe leuk is dat, je bestelt een puzzel bij Ontbrekende Stukjes en ontvangt een bonuspuzzel van onze eigen Jan! 🧩 Jan maakt deze kleine puzzeltjes helemaal zelf. Na al die leuke reacties zullen er zeker meer volgen!”:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/08
10 years ago, I decided to step out of my comfort zone and attend the [Wayback/Archive] GDG DevFest Netherlands 2014.
Until then, on the mobile front, I only had deep experience with the .NET Compact Framework, on the cloud framework I had no real experience: my experience were (sometimes huge) systems running in private data centers communicating with various protocols over SNA and TCP/IP (and way before that: UUCP and dial-up) and on the programming front my strengths were .NET and Delphi (with truckloads of scripting) and no experience in Go or Dart (Rust was invented a year later).
So I was really happy with the [Wayback/Archive] TL;DR Thank you! You’re awesome! Let’s do it again! • GDG DevFest Netherlands
I think this comment by Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on a G+ post is one of the best complements we’ve got:“Thanks for organizing this. It was a great conference! A great mix of things outside my comfort zone and things I could relate to from a very different perspective: wonderful and inspiring.”
G+ plus is gone, but this memory will last forever as this was a start widening my horizon learning about GDG like I knew about SDN*, Borland/Inprise/Codegear/Embarcadero DevRel and Microsoft DevRel.
Related links (they repeated the DevFest in 2015 as well):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/07
This one is clear and concise. [Wayback/Archive] liburing/CONTRIBUTING.md at master · axboe/liburing · GitHub of which some highlights:
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The main reasons for the rules are:
- Keep the code consistent
- Keep the git repository consistent
- Maintain bisectability
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No fixup commits! Sometimes people post a change and errors are pointed out in the commit, and the author then does a followup fix for that error. This isn’t acceptable, please squash fixup commits into the commit that introduced the problem in the first place. This is done by amending the fix into the original commit that caused the issue. You can do that with
git rebase -iand arrange the commit order such that the fixup is right after the original commit, and then use ‘s‘ (for squash) to squash the fixup into the original commit. Don’t forget to edit the commit message while doing that, as git will combine the two commit messages into one. Or you can do it manually. Once done, force push your rewritten git history. See reasons 1-3 in the introduction series for why that is.…
A good commit explains the WHY of a commit – explain the reason for this commit to exist. Don’t explain what the code in commit does, that should be readily apparent from just reading the code. liburing commits follow the following format:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 