Notices by Larry Garfield (crell@phpc.social)

Don't do this in Postgres, according to Postgres.

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This

#postgresql

Sadly accurate...

"If your business model requires doing something unethical, you don't have a business model." --Me

Some thoughtful and hopeful insights from @pluralistic, as is often the case.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fracture-lines/#disassembly-manual

#TrumpFascist #uspol #project2025

"X is no longer a social-media site with a white-supremacy problem, but a white-supremacist site with a social-media problem."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/11/x-white-supremacist-site/680538/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0T8uB7iimO1-elCapdzG8XE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Bloody cowards. Carter was important enough to make an endorsement, but endorsing the not-fascist candidate would violate independence? What kind of asinine logic is that?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/25/washington-post-endorsement/

#uspol

Oh of course, that's why. Herr Bezos doesn't want to piss off the fascist, in case he wins.

This is why rich people owning the media is not OK!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/10/25/washington-post-endorsement-president/

#uspol

Remember when everyone (in VC) thought the #metaverse was going to be the next big thing that changes everything and poured money into it?

Remember when everyone (in VC) thought #NFTs were going to be the next big thing that changes everything and poured money into it?

Remember when everyone (in VC) thought #Web3/#blockchain was going to be the next big thing that changes everything and poured money into it?

Anyway, how are #LLMs going?

@paul_ipv6 @ryanc @jerry If only the GPG chain wasn't such a mess for mere mortals to use...

@Rickd6 @ryanc @jerry "My gang is bigger than your gang" is the approach used in a failed society.

@ryanc @jerry Yeah, the onboarding experience is definitely still a sore point. Like, I'd like to get my brother or the NFP I work with onto Mastodon, but I don't know what server to send them to. Mine isn't appropriate for them, mastodon.social isn't a good answer, and the alternative is... *citation needed*

@ryanc @jerry True dat.

@ryanc @jerry The spam analogy is very apt, I think, given Fediverse is often analogized to email.

And the wild-west-anyone-runs-anything approach is largely a failure there, too. I also used to run a personal mail server. It only worked if I proxied every message through my ISP's mail server.

A similar network-of-trust seems the only option here, give or take details.

@ryanc @jerry In the abstract sense, we're dealing with the scaling problems of the tit-for-tat experiment dynamics. Reputation-building approaches to social behavior only work when the # of actors is small enough that repeated interactions can build reputation. The Internet is vastly too big for that, just like society at large.

@jerry Sadly, I think the preponderance of evidence suggests that a "wild west libertarian self-organizing environment" (the dream of the early-90s Internet) will devolve into a Nazi troll farm 100% of the time with absolute certainty.

It's a wonderful idea, but doomed.

The barrier to the accept-list could be low (eg, do they have a halfway decent TOS/CoC), but I don't think we have an alternative.

cf: https://peakd.com/community/@crell/why-you-can-t-just-ignore-them

This is sadly entirely accurate, and the whole problem...

Career goals. Absolute programming badasses.

#NASA #programming #Voyager

@deadsuperhero It's uncommon these days, but that used to be quite common in PHP. It was era 2 in PHP history. (Era 1 was mostly using PHP itself as a template engine, which is how it began. Era 3 is using a dedicated template engine, which is where we are today.)

Its not something I recommend doing most of the time, but there are edge cases where it is at least reasonable.

The most important question to ask yourself when deciding how to structure code is "how will I *unit* test this?"

Not integration test, not system test, unit test. Make the code easy to unit test. Most other "good code" attributes will result naturally from that.

#Programming #PHP

I'm trying to setup a #Python app in a container.

It requires gcc...

gcc is giving compile errors on C code when I try to pip install my dependencies.

This is why #PHP is still the most widely used server-side language by a wide margin. 😕