Fosdem (europen open source)
Everything from the ccc (german hacker org): every year they have a congress called <number>c3 (we are at 38: 38c3; Every 4 year the ccc camp.
Strangloops
Defcon
Edit:
Kubecon (if you do k8s)
Readit NewsJust a small notice that Big Brother is disappointed in you :)
I wonder how do they detect it, maybe there is no LocalStorage on incognito mode, but TBH it should not be visible to a webpage
"Chrome's FileSystem API is disabled in Incognito Mode to avoid leaving traces of activity on someone's device. Sites can check for the availability of the FileSystem API and, if they receive an error message, determine that a private session is occurring and give the user a different experience."
Nice little game.
Unfortunate my company already declined my request for Google I/O :(
KLejmooo commented on Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right hugo.blog/2024/03/11/visi... · Posted by u/wolverine876
Great article. It's so long, the four-part title is deserved and necessary to understand what's here.
I found this part somewhat funny or perhaps disingenuous:
> "I admit Vision Pro is the ultimate tech toy, but since I’m not an active developer I can’t justify the $4,049.78 price tag (512GB model + California sales tax) simply for keeping up with the VR market, so I returned my Vision Pro for a full refund inside the 14-day return window."
Mr Barra has held VP positions at companies like Google, Xiaomi and Meta since 2008. He's obviously a multimillionaire just from stock awards. Surely he can afford a $4k toy...
He wrote "can't justify".
I need to call myself also 'rich' (because of values i hold but can't liquify and i earn enough that i could buy more expensive toys without thinking too much about it) but this doesn't mean my mindset changed.
I have to remind myself that i can afford certain things or i'm wasting too much thought about prices of products.
This probably shows a more realistic, less material and proper upbringing of Mr Barra than 'not being able to afford it'
From asking LLMs to solve a highly difficult async C++ parallelism problem, to german language specifics, it just fucks up at a fundamental level. I understand that LLMs cannot solve these issues and why, but then I do not understand the heavy focus on AI by so many tech people.
Is day to day programming job so trivial that LLMs do a good job, while at the same time being too difficult for you to do it yourself? I really, really want to know exactly what the use case is.
Do people just throw simple problems at it to validate their own preconceived notion of how cool and useful LLMs are? Whats the deal?
LLMs english skills are much better than mine.
And when i do a little bit of go coding once a week (i'm a java developer by trade), i don't have the time to learn go well enough to just type stuff down without looking things up. Instead of googling, i tell it "I need a struct with the following attributes..." and it doesn't just ell me how i do structs in go, it also creates them for me.
Also: There are a TON of issues were i would write a short script to do something (formatting text into a table, searching for specific lines etc.) were a normal person doesn't even have those tools at hand.
For companies overall: Its not just what an LLM can do, LLM can do things for you but its also a very very good interface to your application. The demos i saw in my company are really good and totally make sense and do reduce the entry barrier for people.
I know a friend whos job is to create reports with sql. She doesn't do anything else just reports across the whole datawarehouse. Why? Because every normal non dev person can't just write SQL or automate things.
The gap between tech people and management is huge.