Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

Architectural elements that are actually interesting are not hard to find in Barcelona, though they may be interspersed with the same newer boring cubes as we have everywhere in the US

I ask this relatively regularly because I want to keep an eye on the landscape.

I'm a software engineer with a PhD in international criminal law. I am on the lookout for (open source?) projects that are useful to human rights researchers/activists/defenders. I am hoping to contribute as a volunteer software engineer.

If you know of a project like this, please get in touch. If you don't, please boost if you'd like!

#opensource #humanrights #tech

i never thought about whether my selves from parallel universes might be better than me. Thanks for the new complex, Apple TV

@hazelweakly this blew my mind a bit. I've spent a lot of my career working in the financial industry, and the situation is almost inverted there. The first department-wide e-mail I got on my first job out of university was the CFO celebrating the successful decommissioning of 300 Excel sheets 😅. Some of them were chonky multi-100 mb things on a shared drive, that took minutes to open.
So what you're telling me is that people just hate Excel on some BS nerd-cred grounds? Honestly should have known, but stupidly assumed they had more practical reasons 🫤

@spoltier yup! There are absolutely times when you should use a real database, but so many people out there are building massive complicated databases in order to handle a system that does 100 queries per second. If that. On .... 6000 rows of data

That is well into "this could probably just be one table in Excel if not entirely one JSON fuckin object" territory

But no, multi year project, tons of engineering effort. For no reason

Cactuc garden is allllmost as insane as the one on Catalina. Pretty funny to come all the way here to see cacti from TX, AZ, CA, and MX 😂 none from Colorado that I spotted though, claret cups apparently are for us alone

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month y’all!

#pride #climbing

cursed idea: it might be possible to hack the firmware of a normal, off the shelf micro SD card such that it wirelessly leaks files to a distant server using LoRaWAN

Custom FW on uSDs: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/on-microsd-problems/on-hacking-microsd-cards/
Transmitting LoRa 250m by toggling GPIOs on various uCs (without using a "real" antenna): https://youtu.be/eIdHBDSQHyw

*deep breath continues*

Low code isn't trash, you're just bad at building tools your coworkers can use

"Technical user" doesn't mean "I use vim". The people from $NOT_ENGINEERING are fuckin awesome, stop refusing to acknowledge they exist

Your ETL pipeline could've been an excel spreadsheet if you weren't elitist about it

Your whole startup could've been a pivot table + some visual basic, honestly

Algorithms™ aren't all bad, you just hate being reminded that you're susceptible to feelings

@grimalkina You may be interested in the Volts newsletter and podcast from David Roberts. Interconnection queues, reconductoring, grid storage (including his favorite, "hot rocks"), and other stuff https://www.volts.wtf/podcast

*deeper breath*

The amount of "I think logically without emotion" tone policing that goes on is absolutely outrageous. Especially when it's targeted at women and not all the people that fork every single OSS project at the slightest hint of disagreement

"Communication skills are useless" says person who just spent 12 days reading the documentation wrong because they feel less manly if they ask for help

"Irreplaceable" and loud toxic people suppress invaluable and quiet brilliance

Vaguely remembered learning juice as zumo a million years ago in Spanish class but have mainly heard it as jugo, with all other jugos than naranja being jugo de <something>.

Today I learned that the secondary streets close to cars and become open to café seating on saturdays in “my” neighborhood 💖 And I also learned in Spain orange juice isn’t jugo, it’s only ever zumo de naranja y de dónde eres, México, chica?

Once again: folks should probably consider switching to Firefox. Especially if you, I don't know, rely on ad-blocking to navigate our glutted-as-shit modern internet, for instance?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-starts-deprecating-older-more-capable-chrome-extensions-next-week/

Signal strongly opposes the newest #ChatControl proposal in Europe.

Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees.

This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice.

It's surveillance wine in safety bottles.

See more: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/majority-for-chat-control-possible-users-who-refuse-scanning-to-be-prevented-from-sharing-photos-and-links/ @echo_pbreyer

"In Berlin-Mitte gibt es eine Veteranenstraße. Sie führt 300 Meter steil bergab. Daran schließt sich die Invalidenstraße an. Sie ist fast zehn Mal so lang. Das ist wenigstens eine ehrliche Straßenführung." - #taz zum geplanten Veteranentag https://www.taz.de/!5969381

Bikeshedding time: Which is the better hex colour representation format?

Caps or no caps?

#RStats

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration

@kaoudis the % prefix in FF helped me with this a lot