Piatro

@Piatro@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actual Budget is a fantastic FOSS budgeting tool that you can self-host⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The self-contained electron app works better for most people I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enemies of glory have no honor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also chromosome tests aren’t a foolproof indication of sex anyway. People can have one set or another while still having the properties associated with the other sex, so it doesn’t really work as a definitive measure. The question is reasonable until you examine it and it’s motives.

  The question subtly suggests that if she had a Y chromosome then she has some biological advantage and therefore doesn’t deserve the medal she earned. Does she actually have an advantage from the Y chromosome? Are we going to ensure through DNA testing that all competitors are going to be exactly equal by genetics? If so, we’re going to have 8 clones of Usain Bolt competing for the 100m sprint. Michael Phelps arguably had a biological advantage by having hyper flexible shoulders, are we disqualifying those biological advantages? Of course not, so what do they actually mean when asking those questions about the chromosome? They don’t have meaningful answers to the questions I raise, they just want to add fuel to the fires of the culture war for their own political means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two in five not saving enough in pension for even basic retirement⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes I should have said “employed full-time” probably. This also doesn’t account for the self-employed who have to manage it themselves too rather than having their employer do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two in five not saving enough in pension for even basic retirement⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re British and employed your employer is legally required to provide a private pension I believe. You also get a state pension if you’ve been paying national insurance (most people will get this taken out of pay cheques before you ever see the money, same as income tax). Some employers offer “matching contributions” up to a certain amount. For example if you decide you want to send £100 per month into your private pension, your employer will also do the same, so your pension gets £200. These contributions are tax free so it’s a tax-efficient way to save money when compared to privately investing where you’d have to invest from your income, which has already been taxed and then potentially have to pay capital gains tax on profits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SGE, ChatGPT and the likes are the stupidest thing to come from AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My specific point here was about how this friend doesn’t trust the results AND still goes to Google/others to verify, so he’s effectively doubled his workload for every search.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SGE, ChatGPT and the likes are the stupidest thing to come from AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had this argument with friends a lot recently.

  Them: it’s so cool that I can just ask chatgpt to summarise something and I can get a concise answer rather than googling a lot for the same thing.

  Me: But it gets things wrong all the time.

  Them: Oh I know so I Google it anyway.

  Doesn’t make sense to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes I was wrong to say that this an implementation detail rather than a protocol problem as the OpenSSH release notes to prevent this vulnerability include extensions to the SSH Transport Protocol, however I still believe that the headline is sensationalist at best since it can and has been protected against by patching ssh clients and servers. It would be entirely unreasonable in the majority of cases to simply stop using SSH on the basis of this vulnerability and that’s why I think the headline exaggerates the problem. The Register has a much more measured take on this including comments from the paper’s authors that people shouldn’t panic and try to fix immediately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bit of an alarmist headline here. The vulnerability has been patched in the most common clients (openssh) and it was because the protocol wasn’t being implemented correctly. To say that the SSH protocol “just got a lot weaker” is just not true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The "Cheap" Web⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree with the $ per hour framing (it’s more about the value the entertainment provides than the amount of time it takes to consume) but yes you should pay for your entertainment. I got far too used to paying nothing or close to nothing as a student that it took me a while to readjust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub Desktop or Git CLI?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think for most people it’s whatever you got used to first. I agree the hatred the GUIs get is overblown. I would always recommend people learn the command line but if you want to use a GUI, go for it, doesn’t affect me unless your commits are bad, in which case the CLI wouldn’t have helped anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux has higher share than MacOS among software developers⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait are you talking about macos or Linux?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typing is not a programming bottleneck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard the argument as a positive of learning vim and while it did finally force me to touch type I can’t say that it had any impact on my programming speed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do y'all think about mailing lists and IRC as sole communication channels?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with those saying mailing lists are intimidating. I don’t know if others are using dedicated tools or something but I find web based mailing list UIs just incomprehensibly bad and difficult to navigate.