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C++ Software Engineer Big interest in OpenSource communities for years now. 20+ years linux user. But a newbies in fediverse, had heard about it before but needed the help of twitter (for mastodon) and reddit changes to give a real try. Also a fan of Stephen King books. Was fievel@vlemmy.net

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  • Just finished Let Me In, by Claire McGowan. I found it very nicely written, a good page turner for my vacation week.

    Now started something completely different, a non-fiction science popularization book: How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch, by Harry Cliff. Popularization on particle physics. As of now, I find it very nice with large historical background and clear explanations.

  • Yep was one of these kids... From the very same period, removing 10base2 BNC terminators was also a fun thing to do. Both had the effect to infuriate the computer science teacher...

    Thanks for the collection of all this...

    (later it was the deadly loop on network hubs and tcpkill... all this is impossible now)

  • Personnally, I started never answering to any unknown number (masked caller id or even just numbers not in my contacts). When it's legit, caller leave a message on voicemail. Scammer, direct marketing,... never leave messages. Ok I still get the call and have to ignore or reject it (but it's better than answering and having a commercial starting his speech).

  • Somehow related, I have also questions as an European (Belgian) who then observe what is happening right now in the USA with curiosity (and fear to be honest). Please don't take any offense in this question, the purpose is, for me, to understand, not criticize Americans at all. I work with plenty of them who don't look stupid at all (but I'll never dare to speak politics with colleagues, a bit of a "touchy" topic with people you don't know well).

    In my country, we have got a new government almost at the same time Trump was inaugurated. They plan to do some changes to the way some aspects of our society is, changes that are a bit difficult for some categories of the population but really nothing like in the USA. Anyway, since January, there have been strikes, protests, people going in the streets,...

    Why are we not seeing such things in the USA? I would have thought that there will be millions of people in the streets protesting against the F-gesture done to democracy, LGBT rights, women rights, nonsense with economy (tarriff, that at the end the "middle class workers" will have to pay) and foreign politics but, as far as we are aware here in Europe, I seen no such protests. The only action I seen is some boycott of Tesla.

    • Is it a cultural difference with Europe (and other parts of the world) to not go in the streets?
    • Are those occurring but the medias do not inform us on it?
    • Are people scared to protest?
    • Or, people just don't care or are even, in majority, happy with what happens now?
  • Same in Belgium, no scale involved, just a handled scanner you bring in the shop. At checkout you give (or put back depending on the supermarket) the scanner, then an algorithm tell you if you're elected to a partial control (in which case a cashier scan some of the articles, again there are some rules depending on the brand of supermarket - some ask rescan 5 random products, some 10, some explicitly list most valuable items, some require the cashier to count items,...). I say an algorithm because experience show it's not just random (for example in the supermarket brand I most often go, if you cancel an item on the scanner, you're 100% sure to have a control).

  • This is fair, as long as you still allow to add own search engine it's good enough (I re-added qwant but I'm testing out alternatives a bit (searxng (public instance first), startpage and re-give a go to ddg to see if it improved a bit for local results)

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    fievel @lemm.ee

    Is Qwant still good privacy wise?

    I use Qwant as my default search engine because I thought it was more respectful of my privacy than Google or Bing and DuckDuckGo is not giving so good results in my country (for localization related searches).

    I noticed that the engine was removed from the default engines for URL bar in latest IronFox version. So I searched a bit about why so, and found this issue in their tracker : https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/issues/47.

    What to think about this ? The message from ironfox dev seems clear but qwant seems to claim that the shared data are anonymized.

  • Ok done a bit the reverse as many here: came from Heliboard and tested out FUTO (thanks to this post and some others telling it was great). And indeed, it works pretty well, better than Heliboard, especially in English (~40% of my use on Android - I'm French native speaker so most messaging is in French and I use English for some search, lemmy,...). So that's say in French, futo is not as good as in English (suggestions are often less accurate than in English) but it's still better than Heliboard. The swipe works better too (and doesn't require an external (proprietary) library). The only drawbacks I see until now is the limitation to 3 suggestions in the suggestions bar, with Heliboard there was a 3 dot menu giving more suggestions and the lack of spellchecker.

  • Optical Illusions @feddit.nl
    fievel @lemm.ee

    Bird optical illusions made from toys

    Ask Android @lemdro.id
    fievel @lemm.ee

    Best FOSS note app with NextCloud sync

    I currently use Joplin but I find it's a bit too over-engineered with many features I don't use. For me the best note taking app would:

    • Be FOSS
    • Sync over NextCloud / webDAV
    • Support kind of formatting (markdown for example)
    • Have ability to create check box lists
    • Be lightweight and fast to open
    • Have ability to set remainders and alarms (if possible)
    • [if possible] as either a windows desktop client or a web client or interface to access notes from work

    Now depending on how I like the software, I may change a bit my habits and drop some of those requirements if the soft please me and I find workaround or drop the feature (for example an automated backup can replace NextCloud stuff and I don't use that much the work computer to access notes, so if it's good and I can share the note manually by mail or so, I can live with it).

    So feel free to share what you use.

  • I think a bit the opposite: I'm really worried about the trend to give people only information they care about. I think it's essential to be able to have information about everything. Of course there will always be stuff you don't care about but having it automatically filtered out is dangerous in my opinion. In GAFA-powered social networks, you are only given pieces of information about your own opinion, you never have something that make you question yourself about your opinion. The power of independent and open media like Lemmy is to not rely on such biasing algorithms.

  • Indeed just issuing a warning at connection or so "keep in mind to drive safely and keep an eye on the road" would be more appropriate IMHO. There is the same kind of restrictions with Waze, you cannot access the keyboard when driving and are forced to use the speech recognition which is often difficult (especially in foreign countries where street names are in foreign language).

  • Optical Illusions @feddit.nl
    fievel @lemm.ee

    3D illusion

    While this is just a static 2d image, it looks like blue is above the screen (for me, for some others it's below, or red is above).

    Thanks to comments, here some explanations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromostereopsis

    Edited: added Wikipedia link

    Photon @lemdro.id
    fievel @lemm.ee

    Fewer than 15% of Lemmy Apps display posts accurately

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18159531

    UPDATE! Fewer than 15% of Lemmy Apps display posts accurately

    Updated! Updates are shown in quote text like this.

    An Apps Experiment

    Introduction

    This is an experiment I performed out of curiosity, and I have a few big disclaimers at the bottom. Basically, I've seen a lot of comments recently about one app or another not displaying something right. Lemmy has been around for a while now and can no longer be considered an experimental platform.

    Lemmy and the apps that people use to access the platform have become an important part of people’s lives. Whether you are checking the app weekly or daily, and whether you use it to stay up on the news or to stay connected to your hobby, it’s important that it works. I hope that this helps people to see the extent of the challenge, and encourages developers to improve their apps, too.

    How I did it

    I wanted to investigate objectively how accur

    Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    fievel @lemm.ee

    Boredom

    Thought that if we are so easily bored in our modern society, much more than were our grandparents for example, it's because of technology that simplify all our daily activities. When it was necessary to do the laundry in a basin, it took a lot more time than just pushing on a button to launch the washing machine, then there was no time for boredom. What do you think?

    Photon @lemdro.id
    fievel @lemm.ee

    Everforest (green accent) like theme for Photon

    Based on the awesome job of WFH@lemm.ee documenting the stuff and applying it to solarized, I tried to do the same with my vim favorite theme: everforest. It's far from perfect (I'm not at all a designer), feel free to improve your way (and share updates in comments). The zinc theme is probably more refined because I use only this one, I tried to make slate match the palette but as I'm not using it it's more difficult.

    A screenshot:

     undefined
        
    {
      "other":   {
        "white": "#FDF6E3",
        "black": "#002b36"
      },
      "primary": {
        "100":   "#A7C080",
        "900":   "#8DA101"
      },
      "zinc":    {
        "50":    "#D3C6AA", 
        "100":   "#A7C080",
        "200":   "#DBBC7F",
        "300":   "#D3C6AA",
        "400":   "#D3C6AA",
        "500":   "#D3C6AA",
        "600":   "#4F585E",
        "700":   "#4F585E",
        "800":   "#425047",
        "900":   "#232A2E",
        "925":   "#2D353B",
        "950":   "#2D353B"
      
      
    Today I learned @lemmy.ml
    fievel @lemm.ee

    TIL the etymology of british isles names

    cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/25160716

    Pretty interesting video ...

    Today I Learned @lemmy.world
    fievel @lemm.ee

    TIL the etymology of british isles names

    Pretty interesting video ...

    Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    fievel @lemm.ee

    Am I the only software engineer greatly worried and disturbed by AI ?

    Ok let's give a little bit of context. I will turn 40 yo in a couple of months and I'm a c++ software developer for more than 18 years. I enjoy to code, I enjoy to write "good" code, readable and so.

    However since a few months, I become really afraid of the future of the job I like with the progress of artificial intelligence. Very often I don't sleep at night because of this.

    I fear that my job, while not completely disappearing, become a very boring job consisting in debugging code generated automatically, or that the job disappear.

    For now, I'm not using AI, I have a few colleagues that do it but I do not want to because one, it remove a part of the coding I like and two I have the feeling that using it is cutting the branch I'm sit on, if you see what I mean. I fear that in a near future, ppl not using it will be fired because seen by the management as less productive...

    Am I the only one feeling this way? I have the feeling all tech people are enthusiastic about AI.

    Lemmy @lemmy.ml
    fievel @lemm.ee

    Lemmy (active) users # seems to stabilize

    Number of (active) Lemmy users seems to stabilize and I think this is a great thing. Indeed we got a lot of users when reddit shutdown its API (I was among them despite being a long time oss user), many have left, but the community seems now to stabilize to ~ ½ of the big grow in june '23. I think this is very nice for lemmy, we can be proud of this project.

    The stats come from: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

    Home Automation @lemmy.world
    fievel @lemm.ee

    Dongle recomendations

    I want to get started with home automation, probably based on a raspberry pi (or as of now with my banana pi which is my home server) and either openHAB or home assistant. My goal is, first, to put some temperature/humidity sensors in varous rooms and leak detector in my basement where I had some issues with the main drain. I wonder if you have some recomendations for a usb dongle for zigbee and/or z-wave compatible with linux, not too expensive but good enough if I want to extend the network later. I read about SONOFF-ZB USB Dongle Plus Zigbee 3.0 available on Chinese websites. What do you think?

    Belgium @lemmy.world
    fievel @lemm.ee

    Color photo of Ypres, Belgium, WW1, 1917

    Meta (lemm.ee) @lemm.ee
    fievel @lemm.ee

    Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3804525

    Wow, things have changed since I last posted in /c/fediverse. Here are the top five most active instances based on monthly active users:

    Source: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

    Vim talk @sh.itjust.works
    fievel @lemm.ee

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2712042

    Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed away at the age of 62. The family announced his passing in a heartfelt Google Groups message on August 5, revealing a sudden progression of a medical condition that had afflicted him.

    vim @sopuli.xyz
    fievel @lemm.ee

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2712042

    Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed away at the age of 62. The family announced his passing in a heartfelt Google Groups message on August 5, revealing a sudden progression of a medical condition that had afflicted him.

    Belgium @lemmy.ml
    fievel @lemm.ee

    IRM-RMI forecast data API

    cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/2911046

    Do you know if the IRM-RMI (meteo.be) have a public API to provide forecast data ?

    I seen that some open source application provide data from meteo-france for France which provides much more accurate forecast locally than the global worldwide models. It would be nice to be able to submit a PR with focus on Belgium.

    Belgium @lemmy.world
    fievel @lemm.ee

    IRM-RMI forecast data API

    Do you know if the IRM-RMI (meteo.be) have a public API to provide forecast data ?

    I seen that some open source application provide data from meteo-france for France which provides much more accurate forecast locally than the global worldwide models. It would be nice to be able to submit a PR with focus on Belgium.

    Lemmy App Development @lemm.ee
    fievel @lemm.ee

    I made a script based on plemmy and LemmyHttp API to be able to backup the list of registered communities and user profile (for now, that's just the biography). It output in human-readable format on console and have an option to output in a json file. The next step will be to provide also a script to restore such json backup to another lemmy instance or user.

    I decided to do this small development following the sudden disappearance of vlemmy.net instance which resulted in the lost of all my subscribed communities.

    Lemmy App Development @lemm.ee
    fievel @lemm.ee

    Backup script for Lemmy

    cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/973445

    Hello, do you know about a script or app or so that can backup data from a Lemmy instance as an end-user? At least the list of subscribed communities, settings, profile (bio) should be nice. I've been on VLemmy and lost one full evening trying to figure out what my subscription were (well not completely lost my time I also discovered new communities), but I want to avoid that in the future. If this doesn't exist yet I may develop it but I'm pretty sure I'm not alone and someone did it already...