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Coding is being positioned as place where generative AI is going to have a huge impact.

But a new study of 800 developers found GitHub Copilot did little to improve productivity, while introducing 41% more bugs into the code.

https://www.cio.com/article/3540579/devs-gaining-little-if-anything-from-ai-coding-assistants.html

#tech #ai #genai #coding

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Alan Turing didn't have our modern boolean circuit notations, so he described circuits by the minimum number of high input lines required to trigger an output. You can almost see it as a neural net rather than logical gates, except when the ≢ sign appears for XOR. The lines with zeroes written over the node outlines are inhibitors.

The semicircles are delays measured in bits, which (as this was a serial machine) can achieve all sorts of shifting and rotation operations. The rectangles are delay lines (mercury tanks designed by Tommy Flowers at the Post Office research centre in Dollis Hill), and the number inside indicates the number of bits cycling around (although in some pages it's the number of 32-bit words, confusingly). Smaller delay lines could buffer a word for combination in a future operation.

The image here is a page from The Logical Design of the Pilot Model ACE, by J.H. Wilkinson,Sept 1951. https://www.alanturing.net/turing_archive/archive/l/l22/l22.php #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #Turing #PilotACE

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So, TCP/IP at 1200 baud and 128 MTU is a thing I have now experienced. I'm downloading a 37K file at 70 bytes per second ...
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@grs cause this was the speed it actually ran at back at the day.

(also, until very recently, there was legal limits on how fast I could transmit data over amateur radio in the US)

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Hamnet news:

New 35 mile link and repeater brought up on the regional network thanks to involved parties.
I'm implementing dark mode on our dashboard so our users with browsers in their car can display the call log without being hindered by light in the night. A few nuts and bolts need to be adjusted with the map, but we're almost there.


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Working on a way to subdivide blog post content into a format that should comfortably translate into ActivityPub Notes.

Changing my content to run on an intermediary language last summer has allowed for so much flexibility in post-processing.

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cryptographically agile software


This is a brand new sentence I have ever heard.

in reply to Foxarc

@Foxarc in the PQC discussion, it is about switching key agreement and key signing (a lower priority) away from weaker cryptographic technologies (which today are computationally-hard, but in a post quantum world are no longer considered computationally-hard) in less than 10-20 years.

If you can call a software transition over 10 years agile..

It is also about making things easier to switch, should the newer tech introduced suddenly have weaknesses that were previously unknown, such as SIDH.

While at a high level it sounds like "great, I can just swap parts" as better ones come, the truth is that these PQC technologies have different protocol level requirements, storage and communication sizes, as well as computational overhead far different than what we have today, and change is fundamentally difficult to have backwards compatibility for.


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New rental car challenge just dropped:

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Content warning: lewd, computer aided design software

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who called it DXVK and not IndirectX?

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in reply to Scarlet ✨

See, they wanted to call the DirectX -> Vulkan layer "IndirectX" but found out the term was already used for something else!

Specifically, for Indirect X Rendering over the GLX/Xorg pipeline using the LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 Mesa flag to use the older indirect OpenGL renderer for remote X connections

"We have IndirectX at home" :p

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ME: Hello computer! Please show me what I was doing recently

COMPUTER IN THE 1980's: l cease to exist when I am powered off. Please start whatever you were doing from scratch

COMPUTER IN THE 2000's: Yep here you go champ

COMPUTER IN THE 2020's: I stored 10,000 identical copies of what you were doing in 500 different global datacentres at a carbon footprint equivalent to leaving a semi-trailer idling 24/7 and also sent a copy to the FBI just to be safe. Let me know which one you want and I'll do my best to figure it out. By the way here are 10 things which are similar to what you were doing and 9 of them are ads. Do you like this? Please select "I love this very much" or "I'll be in love with this later" to continue

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Please take a moment to familiarise yourself with your environments safety features and procedures.

- safety exit
- fire extinguisher, hose, alarm
- aed
- first aid kit
- intercom / communication devices
- isolators and emergency stops
- safety wardens
- union rep

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how is that list going to help, seriously what we should do to all the oil executives car companies politicians that is in this mess I can't say, they sold the future of humanity for money


Lynn Conway has passed away https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-06-11/lynn-conway-leading-computer-scientist-and-transgender-pioneer-dies-at-85

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WE DID IT. My new zine “How Git Works" is out now!

You can get it here for $12: https://wizardzines.com/zines/git

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Microsoft wants to lock your #DNS resolution to Microsoft-only and Microsoft-approved systems. https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/microsoft-plans-to-lock-down-windows-dns-like-never-before-heres-how/
#dns

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> "By default, the firewall will deny resolutions to all domains except those enumerated in allow lists. A separate allow list will contain IP address subnets that clients need to run authorized software."

Is Microsoft trying to take the Internet back to Fidonet or straight back to CompuServe? 🙃


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She’s just like me fr fr (exception have no one to cuddle :neocat_cry: )

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If you are aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime. (by Neil Kaye)

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Today in the mail: Frieren Beyond Journey's end Original Soundtrack (THCA-60920)

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mlemcpy: libc routine for duplicating a pupper

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Last orders!!

#Zilog is going to end #Z80 production. 😔

#8Bit #RetroComputing

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Thinking about webrings again, gotta convince my friends to form one

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Not kidding btw, if you're a mutual and interested in this hit me up, if we can get a few people and knock out the details it would be fun,


This may be that I'm living under a rock, but I've found out recently there is an initiative to test DIY HRT sources 🔗HRT Source Testing


Today in the mail 🐱 💿💨
Starship Operators Original Soundtrack, Kenji Kawai (GNCA-1045)
( I wish they did a bluray release for that TV series :3 )

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Sword of Damocles free #knitting pattern by Grace Lindley. This knit tapestry is brilliant. If you ever felt your #WIPs or to-do list were hanging over you like the Sword of Damocles, you can manifest it by knitting this double knit work of art. (This is not my work but a free pattern I found and wanted to share)
Link to free knitting pattern
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sword-of-damocles

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Finally made it to the @connections and woah, there’s a lot happening in there - tons of things to see and noise! Had a lovely tour through their aisles and aisles worth of equipment, and got to say hi to a few of the volunteers there too - we could have spent hours there omg ​:trans_nya:

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no centralised social network could ever produce "the taliban deleted my account". that's a mastodon special.

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This evening I'm reverse engineering my smoke detectors audio status thingy (audiolink). It has information like battery status, dust, power fault count

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is it a fast dtmf? (Can also be called Ademco or ContactID) That’s what I’ve seen in alarm panels and medical alarms.

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@johnvoorhees's breakdown of Apple's response to the DMA on MacStories is a must-read, especially if you've had a hard time understanding all the ramifications of Apple's policy changes in the EU. https://www.macstories.net/stories/understanding-apples-response-to-the-dma/

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Interesting regarding the scoping. I’ve lived in Germany for over a decade though still have a UK Apple ID for purchases so assumed I’d be out, but it sounds like that may not be the case.

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Narrator voice: "When threatened, the lithium-ion battery can expand up to twice its usual size"

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Learn how QR codes work, and how to read them without a computer!

@piko and I just released the interactive explainer that we used in our workshop at #37c3!

https://qr.blinry.org


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New blog post: An update about my Rust implementation of Galileo OSNMA. OSNMA is a protocol, currently in test, used to authenticate cryptographically the data in the Galileo EU GNSS. Two years ago I published a Rust implementation of this protocol.

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In December 2023 there was a public key revocation exercise as part of the system tests. I have recorded and published the data, and report on what happened and how my software processes the scenario correctly.
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Finally, I give an overview of the state of open-source OSNMA implementations. All other implementations I've found are in Python (not suitable for embedded microcontrollers) and under a copyleft license (or no license). So my galileo-osnma implementation in Rust with MIT + Apache license still occupies a singular position.

Read more: https://destevez.net/2024/01/an-update-about-my-rust-implementation-of-galileo-osnma/


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Déjà un an que mon manuel de survie des femmes dans la tech a été publié o
https://www.duchess-france.fr/dossier/women%20in%20tech/alli%C3%A9s/2023/01/15/manuel-survie-femme-tech.html
Il est toujours d'actualité, comme il l'était déjà il y a dix ans. Nous avons tous et toutes une part à jouer dedans.

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Full AACSess: Exposing and exploiting AACSv2 UHD DRM for your viewing pleasure https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12296-full_aacsess_exposing_and_exploiting_aacsv2_uhd_drm_for_your_viewing_pleasure


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technically, an ordinary UART qualifies as a 8b10b line code

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this is my legacy

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Apparently, the Friendica 2FA token issue where you couldn't be logged in on multiple trusted browsers at the same time has finally been fixed (^_^)

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Today's discovery: YUView, a cross-platform YUV player with advanced analysis features 💜

https://github.com/IENT/YUView

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This looks pretty good, although I haven't quite yet figured out how it works.

I used to use Video Analyzer to explain video codecs to students, but it's unmaintained for 7 years, it also doesn't let you load just any video (needs a h265 yuv stream)
https://github.com/gabrieldiego/VideoAnalyzer

I found it slightly easier to get to the parts I want to explain (blocks, motion vectors), maybe it's also interesting to you.

You can see me using it here starting at 15:40 https://docs.claudiuscoenen.de/2022-WS-G1C/docs/2023-02-03-Video/#videocodec (german, sorry)



Wishing all the best for this new year, y'all 🐾✨

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Signal fault on the sushi train lines

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