Notices by Veronica Olsen 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇴🌻 (veronica@mastodon.online), page 2

@woolie @rhelune @liztai It would be last on any list of any length. It is a truly awful tool. So is everything else Atlassian makes.

Oh, and the radio is from 1951, and was given to me by my grandad when I was a kid. I've had it since I was about 6 or 7. I spotted it in my grandad's boat house.

Last time I had it running was some time in the 90s. I've since removed the power cord. I wonder if the tubes still work? Don't really care to try. 😁

I've lived in this apartment for two and a half years now, and yesterday I finally got around to doing something about this white wall space above the end of my kitchen counter. It's an awkward position for just about anything since the counter ends just by the air humidifier at the bottom there.

I was quite happy with the result. I need to move a few more things to these shelves. Maybe some of my cook books.

#Home #Decoration

As far as I can figure out, these were made form 1959 though. But the sticker does say 1951. Maybe the 1959 models I found online are later versions. I can't say.

Ok, I had to open it. The radio license sticker says 9 April 1951, but it isn't readable on the photo.

The radio has four tubes, and I'm pretty sure the four devices on a row on the left are the rectifier diodes. (Edit: nope, they're adjustable capacitors.)

It also seems to have 110V mode. 😊

#Radio #Vintage #VintageRadio #VintageElectronics

Windows C++ devs:

My main project is a Python + Qt GUI application. Distributing that as-is on Linux is easy. On Windows, a little trickier.

What I do now is distribute it with Python embeddable and pure Python code. That's fine, but it makes the launching a little tricky.

I'm currently trying to create a trivial C++ exec that just launches the correct files via CreateProcess().

Does this sound like a good idea? Code linked below.

https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter/tree/windows_launcher/launcher/windows

#Programming #Windows #cpp #Python

@cirrina @pluralistic This has to stretch the definition! It's meat with a hint of lettuce and bread. 😁

@futurebird I mean, I know about this problem with Google. My dad does not. He is 73 and a very reluctant user of the internet and "modern" technology.

Like me, he lovers to learn stuff though, and is curious by nature. He has owned *so* many editions of paper encyclopaedias. These days he mostly uses the default Google search feature on his tablet. I really need to have a conversation with him about what AI is doing to the reliability of the parts of the internet we used to (somewhat) trust.

@amanda @futurebird He's wheelchair-bound and doesn't get out much, so when I visit he always has a lot to talk about. We almost always end up talking about some topic that's been on his mind. Often it involves historical facts, and he sometimes pulls up a search to check some year or other factoid. I tend to double-check on my phone. I'm waiting for a good teaching moment, but there hasn't been enough instances of this yet since AI "took over". It's really hard to change topic with him though.

The Ancients are my favourite Stargate aliens. My least favourite is probably the replicators - to the extent they can be called 'aliens" that is ...

I've reached the "candle light is fire" part of my Stargate rewatch. 🕯

Love this part of the story line 😊

#Stargate #SciFi #TV

Speaking of the Ancients. They do like to mess with time, and I love the episode where they activate one such device and get stuck in a time loop. Perfect chance to do things you wouldn't be allowed to do. Like play golf in the gate room!

Brad Wright, one of the creators of the series, wanted to find an excuse to play golf at the stargate, and this is the episode where they made it happen. 😁

#Stargate #SciFi #TV

This evening I'm hosting the annual meeting for the apartment building I live in. For this, I bought Oreos to go with the coffee.

I have now eaten all the Oreos. 😅

#HomeOffice #CookieMonster #Oops

@konstantin I'm not even remotely a legal expert, but this particular company's privacy policy had an "in case we're acquired" clause that I found highly suspicious. It read to me like "if someone buys us, we promise nothing."

@aaribaud Sure, but at least that's on the company.

It's also good that employees get to consent to recordings and transcription, and I already find the lack of this somewhat problematic, but it's a different topic. I don't discuss personally sensitive information at work meetings.

Someone told me yesterday of a minutes app for meetings they'd found. Knowing how these apps work, I checked the security policy. I got my fears confirmed. It collects data and share it with 8 third parties, including use for ads & analysis.

I showed her this, and said she should probably get consent from others when using the app. Today she told me she'd uninstalled it and thanked me for the warning!

We can't expect people to figure this out. We need better regulation.

#AI #Security #Privacy

It's one thing using transcription services for work meetings where the company has already evaluated the risk. But we can't expect regular people without the technical expertise to do this for private use, and in local level political and organisation meetings.

After having worked a fair but with SQLAlchemy lately, I'm not sure if I like it. It feels very hacky, and "alchemy" is very appropriate because it explodes a lot.

I guess it's still a decent tool, because who likes to deal with databases anyway.

I prefer to work with data processing/analysis or GUI code over backend code, but all of it beats working with web frontend. 😁

#Python #Code

@stux Social engineering in its purest, most basic form 😆

@Patricia Got to admire the naivety of people who thought it wouldn't be a shitshow this time around, like it was last time.

Optimism is good, but come on ...