nilshauk

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by nilshauk 19d ago
The genocide of the Palestinians (as argued by the UN) triggers the genocide convention obligating states and individuals to act. It even comes in the effect at the very probability of genocide occuring. Preventing new armaments being sold
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by nilshauk 22d ago
"just cost of doing business." - some Meta boardroom.
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by nilshauk 2mo ago
Codeberg's paying members can off course vote on policies of their own non-profit. More power to them. You have the freedom to not use their service. There are ample alternatives.
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by nilshauk 8mo ago
What a clever trick to throw more money (governmental subsidies) into a sinking ship (xAI and "AI" in general). Perplexingly this maneuver will probably boost stock prices thus creating more monopoly money to burn resources with.
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by nilshauk 8mo ago
I detest AI on the grounds that it causes an overuse of our planet's resources as well as stealing IP and exploiting underpaid data workers. However, if Mozilla can launch something capable that steals the thunder from all the closed s
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by nilshauk 3y ago
Ok so Google ignores W3C on WEI. But could someone else create a W3C proposal that could counteract WEI? It wouldn't have to implementation-specific but rather one or more principles drawing a line in the sand that shouldn't be cr
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by nilshauk 4y ago
AI progress won't be dead in the water if it respects copyright laws. Yes, being free to just freely grab any data is infinitely easier. But having to rely on properly licensed datasets or asking users for consent should be the norm fo
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by nilshauk 4y ago
So happy to learn of this and I wish them best of luck in their efforts. And I'm surprised to find so many people klinging to Copilot. We shouldn't shed any tears for a megacorporation which shows such blatant disregard for the li
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by nilshauk 4y ago
I love that they included an ortholinear keyboard and open schematics. Definitely keeping my eyes on this.
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by nilshauk 4y ago
I’m not happy about people losing money. However, I’m happy if this means money will be invested in innovation towards saving the planet, rather than finding new ways to burn resources with proof-of-work-based crypto.
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by nilshauk 4y ago
Wow. Thanks for the headsup! I’ll have to look into this.
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by nilshauk 4y ago
Yeah that makes sense. And “nobody got fired for picking technology X from large company Y”, there’s also that type of thinking.
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by nilshauk 4y ago
Very much agree. Though there’s a line between implementing cryptographic algorithms yourself vs. implementing cookie based authentication. Cryptography is something I’d leave to standard libraries. However, when it comes to authentication
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by nilshauk 4y ago
I don't think my article shuts the door on domain specific languages even though it doesn't offer it as an answer. It could be an answer. By relying a bit less on frameworks and writing more code ourselves we have the chance to ma
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by nilshauk 4y ago
That's true we might not have been able to mobilize so much productivity so quickly for business without throwing frameworks at the problem. However, I think also a lot of effort might have been wasted by reinventing wheels and rewriti
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by nilshauk 4y ago
Yes! It's like we've taught people to fish with the new latest in fishing equipment, but we failed to teach them some tried and true fishing principles. Haha, maybe this analogy breaks down. But yeah, I find that we focus almost t
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by nilshauk 4y ago
Your mention of composing dataflows reminded of this project https://nodered.org/ which I haven't tried myself but sounds a bit like what Yahoo Pipes was back in the day. I'm also curious about how simple we can m
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by nilshauk 4y ago
I think one such counter-incentive could be, "whatever tech you choose you'll have to live with the consequences by owning maintenance and future development." However, in our fast-paced industry people can switch roles and j
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by nilshauk 4y ago
Hi everyone! The author here. Happy to discuss the thoughts expressed in the article.
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by nilshauk 4y ago
Some weeks ago I wrote a couple of bookmarklets, one of which was this: javascript:(function(){ location.href = ` https://nitter.net${location.pathname} ` })(); You can take this JavaScript snippet and save it as a clickable b
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by nilshauk 5y ago
I’m actively working to change this as a CTO in a small digital agency. Can’t say that I’ve completely solved it but I’ve started challenging my peers when they use the words hope, belief and especially magic to describe what they’re up aga
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by nilshauk 5y ago
Thanks for the question. Well. I put my AGPLv3-licensed code on GitHub to help other developers. I didn’t do this to help GitHub / Microsoft build a closed-source tool to monopolize the (F)OSS market. It’s interesting how incumbent co
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by nilshauk 5y ago
I used to admire GitHub for being a fully bootstrapped company and free to pursue a path in the world they believed in as a company. Since the Microsoft acquisition it’s becoming painfully obvious how unhealthily centralized the dev world h
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by nilshauk 5y ago
From a distance I think Deno has a lot of promising features going for it. Expressing modules as URLs seems like a small difference but I believe it has big ramifications. With clever use of DNS resolving and caching I wonder how fast new i
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by nilshauk 6y ago
Good concerns though the Hippocratic license relies on the declaration of human rights, which are well defined and broadly accepted. To the second issue, I’d argue that intellectual property doesn’t need to take a will of its own. Creators
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by nilshauk 6y ago
My heart breaks for this engineer. We can’t just file this under “it happens at all large companies” and call it a day. Large companies like Apple should be held to a higher standard. With the rise of evaluating company stocks based on Envi
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by nilshauk 6y ago
As a European citizen I’m hopeful for this regulation. The tech giants would rather police themselves, but they should be subject to oversight to ensure that they don’t abuse their market power. If this goes well I hope to see more competit
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by nilshauk 6y ago
I’m trying to evaluate ethical licensing so that we can have a flourishing Commons of code projects to build on. https://ethicalsource.dev/ The hard problem is multifaceted: I would argue that open source as we know fails t
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by nilshauk 7y ago
Thanks for the reply! I guess I wouldn’t fault Jenkins for poor plugin quality unless those plugins are supposed to be officially supported.
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by nilshauk 7y ago
Great! I recently switched to Gitea from GitLab for my homelab. I think Jenkins + Gitea will combine well. I’m looking forward to trying this out. :)

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