Notices by 🇺🇦 Anna Filina (afilina@phpc.social)

I'm now self-hosting Grafana + Prometheus for my monitoring needs. That saves so much money. They're quite overpriced at 19 USD per month for smaller customers. It's almost as much as I pay to store and stream terabytes of video. I've been really optimizing the cost of operating phpc.tv

Whenever automated tests are an afterthought in a codebase, it really shows. My eyes are bleeding today.

What kind of person does it take to regularly text me to ask for the same info over and over, instead of just reading 7 sentences in a doc they have? After 3 years, you'd think they'd have memorized it. Unrelated to work. Just someone I'm not allowed to block.

PeerTube 8.2.0 added a much better filter UI on the admin side. It will make some tasks so much easier. I love it! /cc @peertube

If you're Canadian and don't want mass surveillance or undermining Internet security, fill this form. It will find your MP and e-mail them on your behalf with the text that is shown on the site. I just did.

https://action.openmedia.org/page/188754/action/1

@annika Any idea how can we protect our accounts/instances from abuse by this app?

Blogged "Why I Created phpc.tv"
https://afilina.com/why-phpc-tv

I set up another recurring donation to open source: https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/ (@peertube)

You should too. It's what powers https://phpc.tv

I installed Waterfox on my PC recently and forgot to add uBlock origin. Went to a site and was bombarded with ads so hard that I said "whoa" out loud. It felt like my browser was broken for a minute there :)

I don't remember YouTube ever proposing a PHP-related video to me in decades on the platform, despite there being so many of them. Good PHP content is drowning among billions of unrelated videos.

Ask your favorite PHP YouTuber to sync their content to https://phpc.tv

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I'm watching the series Billions, and then I see this real-world news: "U.S. prosecutors move to drop soccer TV rights corruption case"

The timing of the FIFA participation trophy for a certain president isn't suspicious at all.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-prosecutors-move-to-drop-soccer-tv-rights-corruption-case

Personality tests are about as accurate as horoscopes. Every time I took one, I had a different summary. That's because the answer to most questions would be "it depends".

"A good rule of thumb is that if you can't make yourself carefully read some LLM output that you generated, nobody else wants to read it either."

https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#ai-use-policy-and-guidelines

My personal position is that *any* LLM-generated code is potentially infringing on a license and therefore a liability, regardless of how well one understands the output. I just thought that this contributing guide made some interesting arguments.

This hotel bathroom key is not-put-in-your-pocketable.

This joke comes up now and then in our family. Finally showed the little one where it originally came from. Context: Gretzky did an ad but he didn't actually know French, so this parody was created.
https://youtu.be/fJv83Oh6z8A?si=E4ATolPq6lTX4zkT

Current vibe.

Don't buy Logitech mice. To please shareholders, they enshittified and switched to ultra-cheap components that break after a few months, causing the device to incorrectly double-click. Enough to drive you mad and ruin your work/gameplay. They sent me a replacement and now it's also broken after a few months, because the components are still garbage. So if you don't want to create piles of e-waste, buy something more durable. Please post alternatives below.

Hello Berlin!

Support provided by LLMs is going to be a disaster. After just one follow-up question, it started hallucinating UI options that don't exist. This is sadly a regular occurrence everywhere.

The industry should not go into that direction. There's enough human incompetence in the world. We don't need to make it even worse with Artificial Incompetence.