Dave Fisher @wave4dave.bsky.social · 01/04/2025COBOL was designed for penny precision on billions of dollars on fundamental data types. Other older and modern computer languages not so much. 010
Dave Fisher @wave4dave.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Talk to me! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlOV...youtube.comPretenders - Message Of Love (Official Music Video)YouTube video by Pretenders 010
Dave Fisher @wave4dave.bsky.social · 24/03/2025What do Spinal Tap’s drummers and Teslas have in common? 010
Dave Fisher @wave4dave.bsky.social · 22/03/2025My guess is scrapper training and/or hackathons. It’s not like the wiki has changed much in a decade. 000
Dave Fisher @wave4dave.bsky.social · 22/03/2025That’s excellent. I spent many hours over many days on 1000x normal traffic from scrappers hitting wiki.openoffice.org and forum.openoffice.org. The measures needed were extreme and I’ve likely blocked real people. I do this work for free. If you crawl it’s one request a second for all of your botswiki.openoffice.orgApache OpenOffice Wiki 100
Dave Fisher @wave4dave.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Does he realize that failure to pay is the moral equivalent to negligent homicide? 000
Reposted by Dave FisherApache Software Foundation (The ASF) @apache.org · 04/03/2025🚨 Calling sysadmins located in Europe 🚨 The ASF is seeking an Infrastructure Systems Administrator located in Europe. The position is full-time and 100% remote. Full job description can be found here: buff.ly/41k456T #opensource 0910
Reposted by Dave FisherApache Software Foundation (The ASF) @apache.org · 01/03/2025The ASF Infrastructure team is hiring two experienced #sysadmin contractors in Europe or the UK. Candidates should demonstrate strong sysadmin skills in diverse environments, proven experience w/ #opensource tools and methodologies & deep understanding of #FOSS project dynamics.buff.ly 0811
Dave Fisher @wave4dave.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Shiner Bock tastes the same out of a keg today as 45 years ago. 010
Dave Fisher @wave4dave.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Dark lord, robber baron, chief pirate, miss stater, etcetera 000
Reposted by Dave FisherGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 20/02/2025It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank. I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history. Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it. 1134697479362
Dave Fisher @wave4dave.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Reminds me of the Fugitive Slave Act and that eventually led to The Civil War. 000
Dave Fisher @wave4dave.bsky.social · 16/02/2025It’s possible to test how much an LLM hallucinates. You have to test your AI tool chain with known questions and answers. Will they do it, I’m doubtful. Why because it slows velocity and increases development costs. Those throwing out hundreds of years of procedure won’t do it right. 000
Dave Fisher @wave4dave.bsky.social · 16/02/2025In case you missed it, if someone is against “woke” they are telling you they are a bigot / racist. 020
Reposted by Dave FisherCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Musk now “just wow”-ing initiatives started under Trump 1.0. 14512154
Reposted by Dave FisherAmanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Good point by @pkrugman.bsky.social. Musk keeps making up lies about "fraud" in the government because they literally have not found a single true example they can point to. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...paulkrugman.substack.comElon Musk Is Faking ItThe fraudster who cried “fraud” 20652240
Dave Fisher @wave4dave.bsky.social · 14/02/2025With all the savings from cutting USAID the State Department is going to need those armored Cybertrucks. 030
Reposted by Dave FisherSteven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social · 12/02/202598% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule 4935241261
Reposted by Dave FisherPhil Steitz @psteitz.bsky.social · 13/02/2025www.schneier.com/blog/archive... Security is not “red tape”schneier.comDOGE as a National Cyberattack - Schneier on SecurityIn the span of just weeks, the US government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history—not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, b... 141
Dave Fisher @wave4dave.bsky.social · 13/02/2025There are methods you can use to measure which parts of your chatbot are incorrect and how much comes from giving the LLM irrelevant data and how much is hallucination. You need a set of known answers. There are papers. 010
Dave Fisher @wave4dave.bsky.social · 13/02/2025The first ASF project I contributed to about 20 years ago. 020
Dave Fisher @wave4dave.bsky.social · 12/02/2025If there were truly more important things then they would have moved on already!!! 000
Dave Fisher @wave4dave.bsky.social · 12/02/2025this is baseline wrong. Keep it open and verifiable! 000
Reposted by Dave FisherHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 11/02/2025February 10, 2025open.substack.comFebruary 10, 2025As soon as President Donald Trump took office, his administration froze great swaths of government funding, apparently to test the theory popular with Project 2025 authors that the 1974 law forbidding... 471914473
Reposted by Dave FisherApache Software Foundation (The ASF) @apache.org · 10/02/2025📅 Save the Date 📅 Community Over Code North America 2025 has been announced! Where: Minneapolis, MN (USA) When: September 11-14, 2025 Read more about #CommunityOverCode --> buff.ly/4jQx36S 058
Dave Fisher @wave4dave.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Modern Portfolio Theory tells me to Diversify my Equity portfolio to be Inclusive of stocks on every exchange! 000
Dave Fisher @wave4dave.bsky.social · 27/01/2025I just bought 18 for $17.99. Here in Sonoma we have major egg production. Bird flu has been ravaging flocks for several months. I’ll buy them at any price. 000
Dave Fisher @wave4dave.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Help Democrats market themselves! Oh please please please! Second advantage is stop the continual shilling for $. More than one a week is weak. 000
Dave Fisher @wave4dave.bsky.social · 24/01/2025There is no loop hole, why is that in the headline? Why hedge? What’s Forbes afraid of? 010
Dave Fisher @wave4dave.bsky.social · 22/01/2025The Document Foundation’s LibreOffice was a fork of OpenOffice.org. Oracle donated that to The Apache Software Foundation and it became Apache OpenOffice. IBM donated features from Symphony. TDF then copied all that code to LibreOffice in 2014.openoffice.orgApache OpenOffice - Official Site - The Free and Open Productivity SuiteThe official home page of the Apache OpenOffice open source project, home of OpenOffice Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw and Base. 010
Dave Fisher @wave4dave.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Both exist. Take your pick. I’m currently VP, Apache OpenOffice and a sysadmin of forum.openoffice.org which gives advice on both.forum.openoffice.orgApache OpenOffice - OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity SuiteApache OpenOffice Community Forums. The Free, Open Source Office Suite. 000
Dave Fisher @wave4dave.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Proud to have helped pull XMLBeans out of the Apache Attic several years ago to support Apache POI. 000
Dave Fisher @wave4dave.bsky.social · 17/01/2025OpenOffice has no plans or desire to make those type of changes. 030
