Notices by Jan Lehnardt :couchdb: (janl@narrativ.es)

@mattly what do you respond?

How to disable Google Gemini in your Google Workspace #Google #AIisGoingGreat #AI

https://writing.jan.io/2025/01/17/how-to-disable-google-gemini-in-your-workspace.html

If tech is supposed* to be “not politicial” why all the bootlicking all of a sudden?

*It never was.

@vaurora thanks for the docs review, that was my main selling point until now.

Cool cool cool, no way to opt out of Google Gemini and its associated 17% price hike for business users? Fanfuckingtastic.

A great time for Proton to go MAGA, otherwise I’d have checked them out as an alternative. 🙃

I honestly don’t understand* the brouhaha about notification summaries. The only way to deal with notifications is turning them off, with fire of need be, except for meetings about to begin. I get like two notifications a day, three if it’s a meeting heavy Tuesday.

Try it. Turn them off.

*I understand that summaries are shit, but the solution is not lossy compression, it’s less input.

@Infoseepage you need to factor in land, electrical infra and battery storage to get to similar behaviour, that will reduce the multiplier by quite a bit, but it will still be substantial :)

The amount of renewables we could deploy for that budget and in less time is staggering, just saying :)
https://mas.to/@bascule/113764790364149831

The only* reason GraphQL exists is that Facebook’s frontend devs don’t have to talk to their backend devs.

*it accidentally has some nice use-cases, but those are not the reason for its existence. https://mastodon.social/@programming_discussions/113749076006663513

@annika nobody can drink this much coffee. It must be a scam.

@b0rk from online tutorials and the php documentation in ~2000.

Farewell Lower Decks! You were wonderful and you will be missed. 💖🖖

@cwebber a global trans strike day would probably stop the internet, so we should maybe start planning that.

> The ASF is Hiring a Senior Engineer, Tooling to develop important foundation tools to improve the secure supply chain for ASF releases, along with delivering software systems to help streamline foundation operations, such as the Board Agenda tool.

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You’ll be hard pressed to find a more impactful position that is paid and open source. Please come and help us :)

https://www.indeed.com/job/senior-software-engineer-tooling-001ef6abb5b7639b

Had a git workflow epiphany this morning because it went (mildly) badly for the second or third time and I’m finally seeing the pattern:

Very early on in a project, when folder structure, naming conventions and little test-spike-code are all being tried out, a PR based workflow is worse because the nature of the changes will likely make the PRs long running, because lots has to be nailed down before it is “good”…

… but it will definitely make integrating all PRs take forever because they touch so much structure.

The alternative is everyone committing to main/trunk and forbidding force pushes. The trade-off is that everybody has to deal with everybody else’s changes, but it will be a net benefit because those integration decisions happen closer to the changes and and committers likely working time overlapping for out of band coordination.

@mattly this probably mainly to get some safety on cheap gadgets, but of a hammer tho

This one I fully read. The best collection of time zone oddities that I’ve ever seen. The first three highlights are already very fun:

“- Asia/Kathmandu has a weird offset from UTC

- Africa/Casablanca doesn’t fit into the timezone model cleanly, so it’s hard-coded

- America/Nuuk does daylight savings at -01:00 (yes, with a negative)”

https://ssoready.com/blog/engineering/truths-programmers-timezones/

confession time: I never used Google Reader.