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Manfred

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I'm Manfred, read more about me here: http://manfred.github.io/.
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Manfred··on Tangled – We need a federation of forges
It's on the homepage under "Recent updates".
Manfred··on We need a federation of forges
Please don't give your users a nickname like "tanglers", groups come up with their own nicknames. It's not as infuriating as when New Relic started calling everyone "Data Nerd", which is actually offensive to me and weirdly aggressive for a corporate product.
Manfred··on I am building a cloud
Companies buy cloud services because they want to reduce in-house server management and operations, for them it's a trade-off with hiring the right people. But you are right, when you can find the right people doing it yourself can be a lot cheaper.
Manfred··on Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents
Around 2010 I met a friend at a bar in San Francisco and within 10 minutes we were approached by someone with a chocolate bar startup. It may have been vaguely associated with developers or maybe I'm misremembering. We got a free sample and I explained I didn't live in the US and I also wasn't an investor. They left and moved on to the next group of people at the bar.

This has always stuck to me as an example of the pinnacle of collective investment delusion that seems to exist in certain circles. They idea that you can shape the world to your product instead of improving the world with your product. You just have to try hard enough.

Manfred··on Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day
DDoS saturates the network, not the service. Even a box doing nothing would still be unreachable.
Manfred··on Cyber.mil serving file downloads using TLS certificate which expired 3 days ago
To prevent abuse, for example to prevent an old owner of domain to have a valid certificate for the domain indefinitely after transfer.
Manfred··on Mistral AI Releases Forge
I had the same experience. It's even more confusing when you want to create an API key because they are separated by product, maybe?
Manfred··on “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server
Why wouldn’t it be? It’s a mean derivation of their company name.
Manfred··on Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking
Maybe publicly invisible, but a personal network and resume have always been important in a career.
Manfred··on Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia
Seaweed :)
Manfred··on Winapp, the Windows App Development CLI
Even following their own "getting started" tutorials you get stuck at step one trying to find Visual Studio or whatever it's called nowadays.
Manfred··on There is an AI code review bubble
Fuzzy automated reviews should always run in an interactive loop with a developer on their workstation and contain enough context to quickly assess if they are valid or not.

When developers create a PR, they already feel they are "done", and they have likely already shifted their focus on another task. False positive are horrible at this point, especially when they keep changing with each push of commits.

Manfred··on Find 'Abbey Road when type 'Beatles abbey rd': Fuzzy/Semantic search in Postgres
Especially with small datasets it’s more important to be exact at the expense of a user having to fix a typo.
Manfred··on France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
I have also seen situations where sales opted into Microsoft early on. When they grew in relation to engineering forced the rest of the company to standardize to Microsoft products so they could get better rates and “save money”.
Manfred··on Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-back of digital rights
The fight against “left” and “right” is just a narrative to gin up allegiance with certain groups.

The only relevance to the article is that it indicates which parties have sided with the US administration to fight consumer’s digital rights.

Manfred··on Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
It seems more likely that people will buy a digital copy of the book for a few bucks and then run the TTS themselves on devices they already own.
Manfred··on Wind power slashed 4.6B euros off electricity bills in Spain last year
Which is why you put them in the sea or in places with sparse population.
Manfred··on US freezes visas for 75 nations
I guess Denmark is going to be out of the question now.
Manfred··on I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue
A microservice architecture would probably use a message bus because they would also need to broadcast the result.
Manfred··on I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue
> I can definitively see use cases for both

Me too, I was just wondering if you have any real world examples of a project with a large payload.

Manfred··on I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue
In my experience you want job parameters to be one, maybe two ids. Do you have a real world example where that is not the case?
Manfred··on AI coding assistants are getting worse?
I would hope the trillions of dollars sloshing around are used to pay people to make the core of the product better.
Manfred··on US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover
*Danish
Manfred··on Donald E. Knuth and Peter van Emde Boas on priority deques (1977) [pdf]
I wouldn't call it confusing because the rules are very regular. Prepositions and articles are lowercase unless they start the sentence, the same rules apply to spelling in titles (eg. book titles).
Manfred··on AI Bathroom Monitors? Welcome to America's New Surveillance High Schools
As an outsider this feels like they treat these kids like cattle.
Manfred··on Pop_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC desktop environment
I use Pop!_OS for my gaming PC and I generally enjoy it. It could do with less punctuation in the name because it makes it harder to search the internet for distro specific information.
Manfred··on Is your AI system illegal in the EU?
It links to annex 3, and you can find everything at https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/
Manfred··on Bag of words, have mercy on us
This argument would have a lot more weight if it was published in a peer reviewed journal by a party that does not have a stake in the AI market.
Manfred··on Tiger Style: Coding philosophy (2024)
I think they are hinting at the idea that a long running process on a dedicated server should allocate all necessary memory during initialization. That way you never accidentally run out of memory during high loads, a time when you really don't want your service to go down.

You would need so much more physical memory with this approach. For example, you may want to allocate a lot of memory for the browser, but then close the tab. 2 seconds later you want to use it for a compiler. And then you switch to a code editor.

Manfred··on Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
In our case we were working on a Dutch project so we used this; AVG is the GDPR implementation for the Netherlands:

https://ictrecht.shop/en/products/handboek-avg-compliance-in...

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