Fabio Manganiello

:platypush: Creator and #developer @ platypush.tech
:booking: Senior #software engineer @ booking.com
⚙ #Automation addict
🤖 #AI builder
:linux: #Linux user since 2001
🔓 #FOSS contributor
:arch: Prone to unsolicited "btw I use #Arch" statements
🏡 #SelfHost all #tech!
🔬 Open #science and open #data advocate
🎶 #Music geek
🎸 #Guitarist + occasional composer
🛹️ #Skater
🏄 #Surfer
👪 #Dad of a small geek
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2024-10-28 09:55:27

Today I’ve learned that there’s a manufacturer of Linux laptops that indefinitely stops shipping its products to entire geographical regions whenever they have an argument with somebody from that region (Colorado and Maryland are already on the list).
And for as much as I agree in principle with some of their arguments, and for as much as I agree with them with the issue of poor documentation of open-source projects, I’m also appalled from childish reactions like these:
System76’s Principal Engineer decided to chime in and make a fool of himself, so we banned the entire state of Colorado for life.
I’ll remind myself never to get a laptop from #Malibal. A company that may stop supporting or shipping items to all of their customers in a whole region whenever they have an argument with someone isn’t a company that can be trusted with anything, no matter how principled and well-intentioned.
It’s a shame because it seems like they build good Linux laptops that are 100% open, but someone who’s so unprofessional and undependable doesn’t deserve to stay in business for long.
p.s. To all their potential customers in the Netherlands: I’m sorry if this post ends up with them banning shipments here.

2024-10-13 08:43:59

On one hand, I’ve always been skeptical of professors pushing for insane reading schedules. If you expect your students to read Pride and Prejudice today, Crime and Punishment the week after and War and Peace by the end of the quarter, then you have unrealistic expectations. Besides showing no respect for the free time of your students. Most of the students will end up skimming through pages just to meet the deadline, and they won’t have time to absorb the meaning of such important novels. Assign less books and give students more time to read them, otherwise your students won’t learn anything more about the book that they can’t read from the first paragraph of the Wikipedia page.
On the other hand, the volume of reading assigned by some professors seems to be the last of the problems. The biggest problem that also starts affecting top-level colleges apparently isn’t that students struggle to read War and Peace in a month, but that they also struggle to read a Shakespeare’s sonnet without getting distracted halfway. And high school has simply given up trying to keep students focused and read, so when then land in college most of them have literally read zero books in their lives - and their writing skills are also quite primitive and childish as a result.
This is a big problem. We’ve forged a generation too easily distracted to function properly, and with too many instant gratifications preventing focus time. And technologies like ChatGPT that amplify the illusion of knowledge at your fingertips are doomed to make things even worse. And that also applies to the kids who eventually end up in Yale or Cambridge. We have to undo this mess before it’s too late. If the solution is not to give a phone to your kid until he/she is of age, then it’s time to go for it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/the-elite-college-students-who-cant-read-books/679945/

2024-10-11 07:44:51

The #Nobel prize in #physics went to the seminal work on neural networks.
The Nobel prize in #chemistry went to the application of AI to predict proteins folding.
I guess that the Fields medal may go to some kid who asked ChatGPT to prove Riemann’s hypothesis.
We as computer scientists may not have our own Nobel prize category, but we’re apparently learning how to take over the others.
https://s3.nl-ams.scw.cloud/manganiello-social-media/accd16e4aeec6451666283ad6be312f27e60d8b8a47681be9dc323d803f4db0e.jpg

2024-10-05 14:32:55

The banality of evil always manifests through the unnecessary harassment of the weakest in society.
Imagine crossing the desert, being harassed and beaten up by thughs from the Sahel all the way to Libya, being detained for an undefined period of time in a cell in the lybian desert, crossing the Mediterranean on board of inflatables that are barely supposed to take you on a guided coastal tour, bouncing from a EU country to another to submit your asylum request, finally landing in the Netherlands, and being welcomed by a big sign saying "We are working hard to send you back home".
A quarter of the Dutch population actually had the guts to vote for such revolting human beings at last year's elections. #PVV
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/10/fabers-go-home-sign-would-be-bullying-refugees-says-bbb-boss/

2024-10-02 12:08:30

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@npub1k06…zyu9 capitalism doesn’t necessarily have to get to the extremes where all basic necessities are privatized and prices free to fluctuate up to a point where basic needs become a luxury for increasingly large segments of the population.
I mean, sure that’s the natural outcome when you let capitalism free of mutating until it devours everything around it, but it doesn’t have to be like that. And I’d argue that it wasn’t like that in Europe until the past decade or so.
In the Netherlands at least it’s been since Rutte and his ultraliberal gang that checks and balances, public participation in the economy and safety nets have been gradually eroded to a point where I see late capitalism issues here (public infrastructure falling apart, rampant homelessness, families that can’t afford to pay for public transport, food, healthcare or childcare etc.) that were completely alien to me as a European until a few years ago, and I had only seen in the States before.

2024-10-02 08:34:16

What happens when you let prices of services float in a free market fashion?
That those who have interest in prices going up will inevitably push the prices up, until common people can no longer afford those services.
It’s been happening in the Netherlands for housing (median income can’t afford a house in any of the major cities, as most of housing supply in Amsterdam and The Hague is controlled by private businesses that have interest in pushing prices up), it already happened with childcare (the scandal that brought down the previous Rutte government), it’s happening with healthcare (the cartel of insurances increases prices every year in a synchronized way at rates that are much higher than the average salary increase), and it’s now happening for public transport too.
The “americanization” of the Dutch economy is doing permanent damage to the fabric of our society.
When you have people in a supposedly advanced country who can no longer afford housing, nor childcare, nor healthcare, nor transport, all while inflation remains higher than the EU average and many can’t even afford food, all while you get more and more aggressive homeless people on the street who have been kicked out from the economy, you have the perfect recipe for political grudge, polarization, extremism and chaos.
And we know already how it ends up. When you start those races to the bottom, it’s rarely the progressive left that wants to boost equal opportunities for everyone that gets a shot at running things. It’s usually the ugliest identity politics that wins on the promise of giving you the things you need by taking them away from someone else - me-first, me-vs-them, urban-vs-rural, local-vs-migrant etc.
The triumph of a populist imbecile like Wilders at the past elections is probably just the beginning of a long-standing trend.
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/10/middle-incomes-also-struggling-to-pay-for-transport/

2024-09-20 10:34:40

A word or two about #Palestine
https://s3.nl-ams.scw.cloud/manganiello-social-media/a766ed59f4127d491f85f4a5a590d583e971017ba95b04476b4e80554160da6a.mp4

2024-09-16 08:22:42

Summarizing technological enshittification in a single picture.
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2024-09-11 07:51:07

A country that keeps shutting down the Internet for everyone every time a major protest occurs can never expect to become competitive, modern, nor it should be considered a reliable business partner.
https://www.dw.com/en/indian-state-shuts-down-manipur-internet-and-imposes-curfew/a-70182884

2024-06-12 10:06:44

Two Dutch cities lead the 2024 sustainability index - and the whole top 10 is composed only of European cities.
Amsterdam 🇳🇱
Rotterdam 🇳🇱
Copenhagen 🇩🇰
Frankfurt 🇩🇪
Munich 🇩🇪
Oslo 🇳🇴
Hamburg 🇩🇪
Berlin 🇩🇪
Warsaw 🇵🇱
London 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
https://dutchreview.com/news/rotterdam-amsterdam-most-sustainable-cities-in-the-world/

2024-05-24 10:20:27

Those who kill a man are accountable for murder.
Those who burn books are accountable for murdering the whole mankind.
https://s3.nl-ams.scw.cloud/manganiello-social-media/4bc62591a93d676c54cef03d3a6e0ec63f43296f48023135068b37aaaf8dda8a.jpg

2024-03-23 22:47:38

In today’s episode of “#Javascript never returns you what you’d expect from it”: numeric sorting.
❯ [1, 11, 4, 3, 2].sort()
Array(5) [ 1, 11, 2, 3, 4 ]
@npub1lhn…s0mj

2024-03-23 00:37:42

I wish text/markdown or application/rtf where part of the RFC 5322 (email format).
Everybody hates HTML emails, for a good variety of reasons. But text emails with a text width of 80 characters feel so much 1980s.
Why not support Markdown/RTF as native formats, and let the client render them however the user pleases using any converters (which are usually much cheaper than a browser’s rendering engine)?

2024-03-20 07:03:22

Banning China from accessing advanced silicon meant only one thing: that China is now at the frontline of innovation on an open architecture like #RiscV, while America is throwing its money at a dead body like #Intel.
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/20/alibaba_c930_riscv/

2024-03-19 22:30:02

21st-century colonialism unfolding in its most shameless shape.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev

2024-03-19 11:14:22

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@npub1tl0…q252 @npub1qew…jery that could be interesting - unlike a VM the published serial number may probably be the same if the right volumes are mounted. But it’d probably be cumbersome to say the least to reroute all the host connectivity through a container that runs GlobalProtect, while making GlobalProtect believe that what it sees is actually the full image of the OS. But it could be an interested weekend project…

2024-03-19 08:48:21

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@npub1qew…jery well the only effect achieved by this forced migration in my company so far has been several Linux users giving in their Dell laptop and asking for a MacBook 😆
And a part of me keep believing that this was the end goal all along…

2024-03-19 08:21:02

“We like #Ubuntu LTS / #Debian stable because they make your system stable, predictable and easy to maintain, while #Arch and friends make it too easy to break”.
If I had a penny every time I heard this argument, I’d probably be a millionaire by now.
In the meantime, I’ve been forced to migrate from Arch to Ubuntu LTS on my work laptop because the Palo Alto endpoint security crapware (calling it a piece of software would be an offense to anyone who takes software development seriously) is only compatible with Ubuntu LTS. And, without that endpoint security crapware, you are not compliant™.
My Arch system worked flawlessly. Some stuff installed via pacman, some installed via AUR, one system upgrade a week, and everything worked well together.
A few months into my adventure with Ubuntu LTS, and I feel already like it’s a castle of matchsticks just one step away from crumbling.
The packages on apt are ancient because the distro is ancient (almost two years old). Want to get reasonably recent versions of Neovim, Node.js, Docker, Firefox or Wayland? Well, are you ok with just forgetting about it?
So I’ve already ended up with a mix of apt, PPAs, backports, Snaps, and just compiling a lot of software from source because (like in the case of Neovim, foot or i3) all the solutions currently supported on Ubuntu LTS are either outdated, broken or incompatible with the rest of the system.
To be clear, I can’t recall the last time that I had to build some popular piece of software from sources on Arch because I was provided with no alternative.
Do people really use this crap and convince themselves that it’s easier than Arch?

2024-03-16 17:12:21

We can discuss for a while about the headscarf and its historical and religious meaning when it comes to women's rights and subjugation.
But "my body my choice" should really means what it says, whether it's abortion or hijab.
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-france-abortion-rights-hijab-highlight.html

2024-03-15 23:23:51

If you are a public elected official, can you block people who criticize you on social media?
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/15/1238907249/supreme-court-social-media

2024-03-15 13:04:39

EU approach to tech #regulation: “We don’t like what you do, it harms consumers, here are some laws that you need to comply to in order to address our concerns”.
US approach to tech regulation: “We don’t like what you do, it harms our undisputed supremacy, either you sell your business to us or we’ll ban it out of our country”.
#TikTok
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/14/mnuchin-investors-buy-tiktok

2024-03-13 15:57:57

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@npub1qew…jery @npub1lhn…s0mj Linus Torvalds entered the chat 😆

2024-03-13 15:28:52

Time to change this #xkcd I guess. In 2024, the #1 excuse for slacking off is no longer “it’s compiling” - it’s “the PR is still waiting for approval”. Closely followed by “the pipeline is running”, I guess.
https://xkcd.com/303/

2024-03-13 14:39:10

If your software needs customer/dev/user support, it means that it was either poorly developed or poorly documented, and you’re charging your users for your shortcuts and bad decisions.
Change my mind.
@npub1lhn…s0mj

2024-02-16 15:52:49

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@npub1z49…xzcg @npub1l3g…vu48 @npub100c…gkwp you may want to give SurfingKeys a try. Granted, it takes quite some fiddling to configure properly, but there are many good out-of-the-box configurations on the web too. I've been using it for years and I've even forgotten what the default browser bar is. In exchange, I've got a scriptable floating omnibar that I can tweak to show me whatever I want depending on the keybinding I want.

2024-02-08 22:01:20

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@npub1vlw…xkpy We learned how to use a hammer, now we're entitled to assume that the whole world is made of nails.

2024-02-08 11:53:50

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@npub1g3u…4u2g Circular dependencies are allowed only when they are allowed.

2024-02-07 20:59:58

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@npub1urf…n7l3 thanks for the response. I wasn't aware of the context (i.e. that picamera was maintained by a 3rd-party developer who dropped the support). All I saw was that with the Bullseye release picamera was suddenly out with no alternatives.
Maybe outsourcing the development of the software the the camera wasn't a wise decision in the first place?
I guess that I'll do a bit more testing/reporting/contributing to get picamera2 to properly work on Arch and Ubuntu too then.

2024-01-31 10:36:10

"What happens if someone in the EU runs into a bug that isn’t happening in other browsers? How do we troubleshoot it?"
Just test your stuff in multiple browsers to ensure cross-compatibility, maybe? It's not like there's 34 web engines out there. There's only 3. You lazy arses.
Apple has spoiled a whole generation of developers who have now become nothing more than IDE-jockey who oppose any decision that would break Apple's immoral closed garden with "but then we have to test our things on more things!"
They currently build their thing only once, test it only on one type of device, only with one type of web engine, and that's it.
It's time for them to finally learn that testing your software against multiple devices and browsers isn't the exception, it's the norm.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/31/web_developers_worry_apple_ios/

2024-01-29 12:52:19

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@npub1q37…k2ta @npub1kw7…mwjd I thought that the problem of visibility and discoverability had already been solved two decades ago with syndacation.
If I bump on an article I like on somebody's website, and I like other articles on that website too, I instinctively look for a feed to subscribe to.
If there is, then I add it to the monitored feeds on my Miniflux instance. And I can even set rules on new feed items to automatically tag them, mark them as read or notify me through other means.
If the author doesn't write anything for a while, they'll still be there on my feed list. As soon as they publish something new, I'll see it regardless of any algorithmic black boxes.
Algorithmic timelines and the silent damnatio memoriae placed on RSS/Atom feeds have created a false problem of "discoverability and visibility" that didn't exist before.