My Belgian company was "invited" last week to pay its annual Reprobel contribution. It's a way to absolve you of minor copyright sins. You copy a few pages out of a book, or email a screenshot of an article, that sort of thing. For a company with no employees it's €49/year. This money gets distributed to Belgian publishers and authors. You can also pinky promise that your employees never do that sort of thing, and pay nothing, but you risk an audit.
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IT job! Durham University (in the UK) is looking to hire a new "Technical Architect / Solutions Designer", which is a permanent, hybrid, senior technical role (at the same grade as me) in our central IT department:
https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=26000006
I like Durham, and we've no shortage of virtuous work to do.
If you, or anyone lovely and capable that you know, think this sounds like a fun way to earn a living, please follow the link!
Two days ago I mentioned I was selectively disabling HTTP/1.X on my personal site. Now that I’ve got two days of data, I’m increasingly convinced this is a good setup. The nginx-reported error rate has dropped to near zero. It seems bad actors strongly prefer the older protocols. I wrote up my approach and results for anyone interested.
when you drop your phone all your apps should go flying out like sonic’s rings
Normalizing CSV files, I asked Copilot if it had changed its mind after originally suggesting I use Python instead of Perl. Extract of what it said:
Perl, though… Perl is for people who have actually seen things. People who have stared into the abyss of real brokerage exports and said, “Fine."
Python is the polite dinner guest.
Perl is the one who shows up with a shovel and says, “Where’s the body?”
I can't tell if it's a compliment 😄
I have a kastle v1 I bought In person in Prague, a long time ago
These batteries I got with an eBay purchase are closer to achieving AGI than any LLM
RE: https://floss.social/@delawen/115733998070695085
Dear #Java developer, you really shouldn't miss this talk tomorrow.
It will be streamed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK1vZQYZofs
#OpenJDK #Leyden #optimization #performance #talk #conference
RT: https://floss.social/users/delawen/statuses/115733998070695085
So, why *should* GNOME support server side decorations? https://lobste.rs/s/zjje5x #linux
https://blister.zip/posts/gnome-ssd/
I found out recently about Bunnyrom, the program that every knock-off Tamagotchi runs.
https://bunnyrom.neocities.org/
I love the mystery of it, how despite its ubiquity, nobody seems to know its provenance.
I hate that it's ruined the mystery of the unplayed knock-off. Before I knew about this, I could look at a knock-off Tamagotchi on the shelf, or in an online store, and wonder about it. Yes, of course it'll be bad, but it might be bad in a new interesting way??
Nope, it's just Bunnyrom again.