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Soft serve, uh I mean, software engineeress from Germany. 👩‍💻 (In case you don’t know, software is that fluffy stuff in your puter.)<br /><br />My interests are fairly diverse. I love pretty much everything related to cyberspace. Whether that&#039;s server infrastructure, algorithms, compsci or hardware design. Music is another big passion of mine. I listen to practically every genre, and I used to be a drummer playing classical stuff, jazz and pop. Regarding narrative media, I particularly enjoy escapist fiction in movies, anime and books - I&#039;ve been reading a lot of isekai light-novels lately.<br /><br />Besides my main interests, I post about cool or interesting things I find online, random thoughts and hot-takes, but also little nuggets from my real life.<br /><br />I&#039;m always

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    Hot take: The problem with using HTTP as a transport for everything is that any new-ish version of HTTP brings so much complexity (especially on the server side) that it’s just unreasonable to implement it when a raw TCP connection would do. And sure, you could just use a library. But do you really want to pull in an HTTP server library into your embedded application that’s larger than the actual application code, just for transport?

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    IKEA is Lego for adults.

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    When I have a picture in JPEG, I decode it to raw, and then reencode it to JPEG using the same settings, the image quality should not decrease (by my understanding anyway). The high frequency content is already lost, so there is nothing more to be lost. However, if I modify the raw version by displacing all pixels a distance that’s not a multiple of 8, there should be a quality loss even with the same settings, because we are distributing the quantization noice to neighboring blocks. Now here’s...

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    I wonder if the first person has a different meaning for an AI. Like: For an LLM fundamentally everything is text. The user input, tool results, system prompt and also its own output. So without context (as in &amp;quot;this is what the user said&amp;quot;), the word &amp;quot;I&amp;quot; could mean either the model identity or the user.

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    Interesting short by Robert Miles about why even &amp;quot;fancy autocomplete&amp;quot; can be intelligent. https://youtube.com/shorts/nc8KPtnBK38

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    &amp;quot;NoSQL is like negative one normal form.&amp;quot;

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    Something

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    I do not understand why Google is such a popular search engine... It just seems buggy to me.

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    So you all are hackers? Here’s my IP: 127.241.85.189 Come and get me!

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    Hot take: Flatpak solves a legitimate problem. Multiple in fact. The sandbox aspect is honestly the least interesting to me.

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    I hate everything.

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    Random question: Which smart TV OS is the least... well... smart? I&#39;m looking for a decent TV around 55&quot;-60&quot; with as little ads and surveillance in it as possible. Any pointers?

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    Apparently my NAS crashed. Interestingly though, the computer instance that mounts it via NFS was still online - though nothing was working. Brought the NAS back online and restarted the important VMs and everything went back to working. I’m positively surprised how well my systems tolerated a disappearing storage server. 😅

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    Hot Take: SNI in its current form is bad… The server name should not be transmitted in plain text. At least put it behind DH, so passive MITM sniffing doesn’t work anymore…

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    Soo, I just found a mosquito in my room. It was unusually big, but I didn’t make the connection. So I just squished it on the wall. The issue: Apparently I was the main course last night, so when I squished it it exploded my blood all over the wall…

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    Wait what. Why did nobody tell me that 2+2=4 ??

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    Kinda tempted to get a thermal camera.

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    Random thought: Anger is a very low-effort emotion…

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    This morning I was watching a Fern video on YouTube. Google managed to show me 5 (five) ads on a 20 minute video. So I decided to not watch YouTube for a while - as a sort of feedback, you know? Kinda regretting it right now. I feel the need to distract myself…

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    That one actually kinda inspired me. 😅 RE: https://mas.to/users/skeletor/statuses/116432103216858572

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    Going to bed on time: Difficulty-Impossible.

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    I ordered a print from the USA. According to the courier the customs office raised some issues regarding the package. … I’m sorry. They what? It’s a f*cking piece of paper. I don&amp;#039;t see the artist wrongly declaring the contents either. What could possibly be the issue here?

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    TIL: There is an Arch mirror on cutie.dating.

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    &amp;quot;quick code review&amp;quot;… &amp;quot;1.5k LoC&amp;quot;… I’m getting flashbacks to a rather negative discussion I recently had with an “AI first&amp;quot; fanatic who said (and I quote): &amp;quot;Do we really need code reviews?&amp;quot; leaving me and the other developers in the room stunned…

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    @ZebKing@mastodon.online 1-3 generally for the broader fediverse. Mastodon specifically I don&#39;t know.

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    Oof, I don’t remember when I last slept this badly…

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    Git repos that only consist of md files make me nervous…

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    Okay, I&amp;#039;ve never heard the German term &amp;quot;Durchlauferhitzer&amp;quot; (tank-less water heater) being used for a security-related reverse-proxy before. But I love it! 😄

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    Back on Twitter I had this automated account that posted a song each day with links to a bunch of streaming providers and a description of the song and artist. Would you be interested if I build something like that on fedi as well?