waves hands back and forth

“I don’t care”

This is a good quote, but it lives within a context of professional code development.

Everyone in the modern era starts coding by copying functions without understanding what it does, and people go entire careers in all sorts of jobs and industries without understanding things by copying what came before that ‘worked’ without really understanding the underlying mechanisms.

What’s important is having a willingness to learn and putting in the effort to learn. AI code snippets are super useful for learning even when it hallucinates if you test it and make backups first. This all requires responsible IT practices to do safely in a production environment, and thats where corporate management eyeing labor cost reduction loses the plot, thinking AI is a wholesale replacement for a competent human as the tech currently stands.

What a weird downslope of a take that will obviously result in authoritarian government power expansion and futher censorship.

Just stop using it and support alternatives that dont do it. Have some self control.

Reimplement the old WASTE client from the Nullsoft dude, this time with proper encryption and security and let’s call it a day.

I like how we’ve completely erased Vista from our collective memories at this point.

Winsock baby.

modem noises

“Our ads are showing mouse hover metrics, increase the ad spend!”

Narrator: He couldn’t.

https://encode.su/threads/3863-RANS-Microsoft-wins-data-encoding-patent

https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/17/microsoft_ans_patent/

https://avifstudio.com/blogs/faq/avif-patents/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26910515

https://aomedia.org/press releases/the-alliance-for-open-media-statement/

If AVIF was not patent encumbered, AOMedia would not need to have a Patent License to allow open source use.

A majority of the most recent standards are effectively cabal esque private groups of Corporations that hold patents that on the underlying technology and then license the patents among each other as part of the standards org and throw a license bone towards open source. That can all be undone by the patent holders at their whim.

There’s no need to create a standard format that’s patent encumbered especially if they don’t ever intend to monetize that paten,t. It’s all about maintaining control of intellectual property and especially who was allowed and when they are allowed to profit from the standards.

No patent encumbrance. That was the entire point.

Clawing control of patent infected media standards is far more important for a healthy open internet built on open standards that is not subject to the whims and controls of capital investment groups eating up companies to exert control of the entire technology standards pipeline.

Lemmy.world is a community, /c/news is a subcommunity in that context.

It is whatever we collectively decide it is with enough traction at the end of the day, right?

Comms and subcomms?

Look it’s all actually about re-encumberancing image file formats back into corporate controlled patented formats. If we would collectively just spend time and money and development resources expanding and improving PNG and gif formats that are no longer patent encumbered, we’d all live happily ever after.

My first real computer interaction in life was when I used the early version of ws that was a CP/M program rather than DOS (MS or IBM PC).

Frankly, I’d rather have a solid Wordperfect 5.x for DOS over Wordstar any day.

Dear Sydney…

The Upwork Research Institute

Not exactly a panacea of rigorous scientific study.

11 hours of 500mbps bandwidth usage.

This sounds sideways, as FOIA processing is a part of city services, and state services, and federal services.

Treating it otherwise has always seemed to invite abuse.

We also have a rule regarding conversion of electronic data from internal proprietary format to something the requestor can read that allows us to refuse if responding to the request would cause an undue disruption to city services.

How is that a legal workaround against FOIA? Literally every response to FOIA causes a ‘disruption’ to city services in that context. This sounds like a strategy from management that is incompetent or intentionally unethical trying to avoid processing FOIA requests. “Undue disruption” reads as a convenient scapegoat to hide things from the public, a public that the government is there to serve in the first place.

It would have taken about 6 months for a full-time employee, and our city only has 11 staffers, so we were able to tell them “no.”

~165 hours for ever 10k documents to review at 1 min avg per doc. 45k documents = 750 hours = 25 work weeks @ 30hrs.
That’s $11,250 @ $15/hr wages. Call it $16,000 for FTE total costs as a govt employer. You can engage 10 local contracted temp workers to process the data in a under 3 weeks.

Once you have done the review, the dataset to that point has been compiled and can be used for other such requests without additional expenditures towards recompiling data up to that date.

I’m sure budgets are carefully crafted to avoid including FOIA processing.

It’s strange so many comments keep experiencing it, almost like it’s something else entirely, but it couldnt possibly be Candleja