yeroc @yeroc@qoto.org

Found this Canadian educational software mag from 1996. Very interesting to see the prices and ads!
Also tagging @vga256 😁)

Ongoing discussion, but it looks like Bitwarden may be starting to make moves towards no longer being open source:

https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/11611

Previous issues opened against the SDK have been met with replies that suggest they have no intention of reconsidering the licensing decision:

https://github.com/bitwarden/sdk/issues/898

From Facebook .....

I just learned the professional way to say "I told you so":

"This was identified early on as a likely outcome."

Put together some notes on the Gemini terms-of-service: it looks like their paid API tier doesn't train on your inputs to the model, but the free API tier does:

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/17/gemini-terms-of-service/

Data used to create fine-tuned models, even on the free tier (they have a free tier!) won't be used for training. I hadn't realized you could fine-tune a model there for free, that's pretty wild: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/model-tuning

On this day in 1893, silent superstar Lillian Gish was born in Springfield, Ohio. In 1988, I wrote to her asking if silent films had actual dialogue written out in the scripts or if there was just a general description of what was being said. This was her remarkable reply.

@StoliarSteve #Silentmovies #LillianGish #letters

Canadian Thanksgiving is this weekend.
It corresponds to the European harvest festival which has been ongoing since pagan times.

the end of the .io domain: https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain
unexpected consequences from territory changes…

I was confused why Google has to (further) open Android to other app stores while Apple can leave iOS totally closed. After reading 400 comments, I found one (and 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 one) that seemed to hint at why. Any lawyers know if this is correct?

Some of us are aware that -40° Celsius is also -40° Fahrenheit. It's the only point where the two scales agree.

But did you know there are palindrome temperatures and they're very useful also!

16° Celsius = 61° Fahrenheit
28° Celsius = 82° Fahrenheit

There’s nothing quite like tight kerning to make a design look dean and modem.

Always have a comma in your password, that way if it is part of a leak it will break the CSV file.

This is the UK Government "Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework" for Software Developer.

It is an attempt to define expectations for staff in different IT jobs and compares the same role at Junior, Senior, Lead levels.

https://ddat-capability-framework.service.gov.uk/role/software-developer

They have Data Engineer, Data Scientist and others, too.

Following up on #RSECon24. #SoftwareEngineering #DataScience #dataengineering

48 years ago, on Sept. 17, 1976, NASA rolled out its first space shuttle, named Enterprise, from its manufacturing plant in Palmdale, CA.

The shuttle was planned to be named the Constitution, but thanks to a massive write-in campaign by Star Trek fans, President Ford relented and advised NASA to change the name to Enterprise.

Star Trek creator Roddenberry and many of the show’s cast members attended the Shuttle rollout ceremony.

https://www.nasa.gov/history/45-years-ago-space-shuttle-enterprise-makes-its-public-debut/
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In her prime, Ellen McIlwaine had up-and-comers like Bruce Springsteen open for her... but eventually, her career took a turn, and she began driving a bus in Calgary. Her story is being told on film at CIFF. #yyc #calgary

https://livewirecalgary.com/2024/09/10/bruce-springsteen-opened-for-her-but-she-ended-life-in-obscurity-the-forgotten-story-of-ellen-mcilwaine-to-play-at-ciff/

This is the sort of madness I absolutely love to see in the world. Marvellous.

Man builds £30,000 canal in his garden to house his barge
https://metro.co.uk/2024/08/20/man-builds-30-000-canal-garden-house-barge-21458913/

"Whenever I, or someone else, posts a link to this blog on Mastodon, it DDoS's me and brings the site down for a couple minutes."

https://kevquirk.com/blog/mastodon-is-ddosing-me

Grace Hopper famously said that the most dangerous phrase in the language is "we've always done it this way."

We traveled through the Canadian Rocky Mountains yesterday. Some amazing views from The Canadian.

The frontend community is in crisis. I know, because I could spend every waking hour helping e-commerce and productivity apps fix the *unbelievably* bad performance that is now the hallmark of contemporary, JavaScript-first web development.

But it's worse than that. This stuff has infected public services; the sorts of sites that have to serve *everyone*, iPhone or no.

Part 2 of this series is the hardest to watch, but essential to understand how far we've fallen:

https://infrequently.org/2024/08/object-lesson/

@slightlyoff I’ve wanted to get back to you for a while because you were a big reason for our e-commerce website being the way it was, technically speaking.

We took your earlier publications to heart, and we applied every kind of optimization we could think of, just to try and stay a little bit ahead of the competition. I think we did all right in that respect.

When the company was shut down at the end of 2018, I finally put together a document outlining our techniques. It’s not a tutorial and lots of things aren’t perfect, but I think a lot of this can still be used.

I was weirdly proud of the server-side cached pre-renders for several cohorts (at FRONTEND > web server > httpd in the link below), which we were continuously building for the 5 most viewed pages. These on disk static pages didn’t have a long TTL but this allowed us to reevaluate the need for a pricy CDN.

These Apache2 rules allow for high throughput of the pages that are cached in this way. Because of this, we have been able to withstand traffic generated through TV mentions and other publicity without the help of a CDN or any autoscaling.

Of course we eventually placed nginx in front of httpd and these rules became somewhat redundant, but not if you include brotli and other CPU-heavy compression.

Anyway I’m geeking out on a dead website. Here’s the doc:

https://github.com/GuillaumeRossolini/il