Ruben De Smet

@rubdos
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Postdoctoral researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Indistinguishable from random. #Privacy enhancing technologies. #Rustacean. #Whisperfish.

Also a weird #coffee person (Aeropress/V60/Flair), bakes his own #bread (Dutch oven and yeast), drives an #EV (Renault Zoe 2017).

bloghttps://www.rubdos.be/
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I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy.

Taken as a whole, there are many bottlenecks in a corporate software development process. The "load-bearing" calendar is a great example!

Speeding up code creation just increases pressure on the bottleneck, which decreases throughput.

https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-have-bigger-problems

If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems | Debugging Leadership

AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it. Writing code was already fast. The bottleneck is everything else: unclear requirements, review queues, terrified deploy cultures, and an org chart that needs six meetings to decide what colour the button should be.

Debugging Leadership

First release of Dee is available via OpenRepos. Few features and many bugs, but hey, it's a start, isn't it?

It’s been interesting using #Rust from a #QtQuick application. There have been plenty of challenges (read "try and error"), especially with the CI (I’m blaming you, qmake). #SailfishOS #Lemmy

Ok, today’s xkcd is glorious!

[edit] I should probably mention you need to visit the site for the full effect, it’s more than just a comic today!

https://xkcd.com/3227/

Creation

xkcd

Are you interested in #SailfishOS? I’ve created a Mastodon Starter Pack to make it easier for you to follow the #SailfishOSCommunity: https://fedidevs.com/s/ODY1/

Enjoy!

(If you are missing from the list contact me…)

Sailfish OS - Mastodon Starter Pack

People tooting about Jolla and Sailfish OS. Sailfish OS is a Linux-based mobile operating system developed by Finnish company Jolla. This mobile OS offers a unique gestural interface, strong privacy focus with encryption/sandboxing, and Android app compatibility through a built-in layer, making it a distinct alternative to Android and iOS.

It's time. The Jolla Phone pre-orders are now ready to complete and we've rolled out the Batch #1 emails to pre-orderers. Choose your colour, complete your order by April 30, and lock in your delivery.

⚡ Day1 spots are limited — hurry up and claim yours before they're gone!

📧 Important: your personal voucher code is in the email — please make sure to use it at checkout! ❤️

#Jolla #SailfishOS #DigitalSovereignty #PrivacyFirst #CommunityPowered #European

Reading @me's AI policy for @buddiesofbudgie

https://docs.buddiesofbudgie.org/organization/ai-policy/

I kinda don't want to adopt a policy. If I had too, it would look a lot like this though.

AI Policy | Buddies of Budgie Docs

Policy and guidelines for using AI tools when contributing to Budgie Desktop.

Updated my #sailfishos port of the #FOSSASIA Badge Magic app to support sending multiple badges. You can either let them play in a slideshow, or cycle through them with the second button on the badge. Rudimentary animation!

https://openrepos.net/content/abranson/badge-magic

It's harbour compliant so hopefully it'll be in the Jolla store at some point.

If you don't have one of their nifty badges, they usually sell them here, though it looks like there are SSL issues over there right now: https://fossasia.com/

Badge Magic | OpenRepos.net — Community Repository System

I don't mind AI for small things but I don't understand people who use it non stop for everything. If my husband says "according to Chat GPT" one more time, I'm going to divorce him.
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