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How to Save Your Application Data in WPF Apps Using a Database

https://www.advancedinstaller.com/save-application-data-in-wpf-with-database.html

#dotnet #windowsdev #wpf #csharp #windev #oracle

It's time to register!

Registrations for Linux App Summit 2026 are now open.
LAS 2026 will take place from May 16–17 in Berlin, Germany.

Register here: https://linuxappsummit.org/register/

We're looking forward to seeing you there.

#Linux #opensource #Apps #kde #gnome

아니 진짜로 요즘 모니터에 썬더볼트도 달렸잖아 걍 썬더볼트 하나만 띡 꽂으면 돌아가는 스틱PC 어케 안 되냐

マーッチッチ！マーッチ！燃えてるんだろうか​​

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#냥스토돈 #catstodon #catsofmastodon #고양이 #야옹이 #cat #cats #kitten #kittens #neko #gata #animal #feline

소학관, 주간문춘 보도에 대한 설명. 거래처 직원한테 갑질로 성적인 행위를 요구하였고 형사 고발을 당했다고. *다른 사건입니다!!! 그러나 2025년까지 근무하다가 또 다른 부적절한 행위가 밝혀져 퇴사. "또한 해당 전직 직원을 비롯해 당사 직원 및 관계자에 대한 비방이나 사생활 침해 행위는 삼가해 주실 것을 간곡히 부탁드립니다." 파도파도 괴담 정도가 아니잖아? www.shogakukan.co.jp/news/477346

「週刊文春」の弊社に関する報道について | 小学館

オレの95mmフィルターをみなよ(ﾎﾞﾛﾝ
その40.5mmフィルター仕舞いなよ

Good news, gospel and glad tidings, for Odin is real

#dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

Dew Drop – March 12, 2026 (#4623)

https://www.alvinashcraft.com/2026/03/12/dew-drop-march-12-2026-4623/

#dotnet #webdev #ai #vscode #csharp #windowsdev #xbox #visualstudio #mobiledev #cloud #dewdrop

女の子

I'm writing this in English.

Not because English is my first language—it isn't. I'm writing this in English because if I wrote it in Korean, the people I'm addressing would run it through an outdated translator, misread it, and respond to something I never said. The responsibility for that mistranslation would fall on me. It always does.

This is the thing Eugen Rochko's post misses, despite its good intentions.

@GargronEugen Rochko argues that LLMs are no substitute for human translators, and that people who think otherwise don't actually rely on translation. He's right about some of this. A machine-translated novel is not the same as one rendered by a skilled human translator. But the argument rests on a premise that only makes sense from a certain position: that translation is primarily about quality, about the aesthetic experience of reading literature in another language.

For many of us, translation is first about access.

The professional translation market doesn't scale to cover everything. It never has. What gets translated—and into which languages—follows the logic of cultural hegemony. Works from dominant Western languages flow outward, translated into everything. Works from East Asian languages trickle in, selectively, slowly, on someone else's schedule. The asymmetry isn't incidental; it's structural.

@GargronEugen Rochko notes, fairly, that machine translation existed decades before LLMs. But this is only half the story, and which half matters depends entirely on which languages you're talking about. European language pairs were reasonably serviceable with older tools. Korean–English, Japanese–English, Chinese–English? Genuinely usable translation for these pairs arrived with the LLM era. Treating “machine translation” as a monolithic technology with a uniform history erases the experience of everyone whose language sits far from the Indo-European center.

There's also something uncomfortable in the framing of the button-press thought experiment: “I would erase LLMs even if it took machine translation with it.” For someone whose language has always been peripheral, that button looks very different. It's not an abstract philosophical position; it's a statement about whose access to information is expendable.

I want to be clear: none of this is an argument that LLMs are good, or that the harms @GargronEugen Rochko describes aren't real. They are. But a critique of AI doesn't become more universal by ignoring whose languages have always been on the margins. If anything, a serious critique of AI's political economy should be more attentive to those asymmetries, not less.

The fact that I'm writing this in English, carefully, so it won't be misread—that's not incidental to my argument. That is my argument.

女の子

> Turns out (Q)SPI Flash command sets are very similar to CPU ISAs. (Everyone disliked that.)

— @whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧, Glasgow Interface Explorer project, 2026

맥북 네오가 나왔으니 맥 네오도 나오면 좋겠는데

Flight attendants had to move my giant yoshi plush to an empty seat in the back because it was taking too much room in the ceiling compartment, look at what they did to him 😭😭

​​ #唐突ですが貴方の自信作を見せてください

裏側を見せてくれてありがとう(ほたる♀) #北きつね牧場

Bester Tag, um sich für linke Buchhandlungen und linke Verlage zu positionieren: 14. März #indiebookday! Kauft ihnen die Regale leer, füllt eure Reading List-Stapel und verschenkt guten Lesestoff an eure Liebsten. Gesellschaftliche Veränderung beginnt damit, dass wir die Zukunft neu denken – als eine kollektive, gerechte und verantwortungsvolle. Linke Bücher öffnen die Räume dafür!

SBCL: A Sanely-Bootstrappable Common Lisp (2008) [pdf]

Link: https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/2336/1/sbcl.pdf
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47347362

アニメ化おめでとうございます！！！！
#ジャンケットバンクfa

뭔데 열차가 안가

AI 상담사 할거면 환불도 AI가 해줘야한다고 봄… 그정도 권한도 없으면서 맨날 AI가 해줄거래…

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7reki7xuobtaq6iuqquznqby/post/3mgtafww2lk2l

偉業がおるがな

Does anyone else look at the Claude icon and think it's a cat's butt?

I read too much Vonnegut when younger https://boingboing.net/2017/07/19/kurt-vonnegut-butt.html

【私のパソコン履歴書】草野貴之さん(元ASAHIネット社長) PC-6001からASAHIネット社長へ。技術への好奇心が人生を切り拓く
https://retropcnews.com/archives/2428

普通のインタビュー記事のはずがなんか治安の悪い見覚えのある写真が混ざってますね…

Surrounded by feral Norwegians, about to give a keynote talk called "How to unfuck the web"

@bot 검색해야 되는데 핸폰에선 검색창을 못 찾겠네

女の子

Selective Ironing Adds Designs To 3D Prints

https://hackaday.com/2026/03/12/selective-ironing-adds-designs-to-3d-prints/

판불

On the fediverse we also see a lot of accusations of Bluesky being owned by Jack Dorsey, and this isn't true. My understanding is that Jay performed an impressive amount of negotiation to allow Bluesky to receive funding independently.

These days Jack Dorsey is instead focusing on Nostr, which I can only describe as "a sequel to Secure Scuttlebutt with extremely bad vibes where bitcoin people talk about bitcoin"

There is also something which Bluesky gets right which the fediverse does not. I mentioned that Bluesky uses decentralization *techniques*, and the most important of those is content-addressing. This allows content to exist even when a server goes down.

This is a great decision and I have advocated that the fediverse do so as well. In fact several years ago I wrote a demo in @spritelyThe Spritely Institute's early days showing off how one could build a content-addressed ActivityPub in a spec-compatible way.

@Cameopilot @davidgerard: "average person has 3 friends" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person has many friends. Slopjockey Zuck, who lives in bunker & accumulates negative friends, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

영화 ‘왕과 사는 남자’가 관객 수 1200만명을 돌파한 가운데 영화를 만든 장항준 감독이 “빨리 잊혀졌으면 좋겠다”는 뜻밖의 반응을 보였습니다.

‘왕사남 1200만’ 장항준 “막살고 싶어…빨리 잊혀졌...

Jump は Glee バージョンが良い

Glee - Jump (Full Performance) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMjBkGSFvlM

As said, tens of thousands of people are self-hosting *today*. Fediverse software doesn't just scale up, it scales *down*.

GotoSocial is cheap enough on resources where you can run it for family and friends on a raspberry pi or spare laptop you have sitting around.

Now you're hitting the point in this thread where some of you may be thinking "aha! this is where Christine is saying that the fediverse/activitypub are awesome and atproto is terrible!"

you have NO IDEA HOW MUCH I CRITICIZE THE FEDIVERSE ALL THE TIME, I do it all the time, and will later here

ATProto is not designed for the Relay and AppViews to only hold part of the network, not *really*, and ActivityPub is. We'll get to this in a moment.

But Bluesky actually has good justification for this! I will defend it insofar as Bluesky was making a serious *design decision*

The fediverse has a lot of flaws. Oh trust me, we're gonna get to that.

But comparison-wise: what I mean to say is that architectural decisions matter, and scaling up isn't the only thing that's important, *scaling down matters too*.

If you care about decentralization, anyway.

But where was I? Oh yes. We had talked about why PDS'es aren't enough (blog/google analogy), relative costs of hosting things on ATProto vs ActivityPub, etc etc

But we haven't gotten into the really interesting parts which are the structural analysis stuff, so let's move onto that

Now you may be saying, "Christine, this is really unfair, because you're looking at ActivityPub servers which are only dealing with a small amount of the network, what if it were an ActivityPub mega-node? What are the costs THEN huh?" and "What if we hosted just PART of ATProto?"

What then INDEED

Now yes, they are using decentralized techniques. Remember when I said content-addressed storage is a good idea and the fediverse should do it too? IT IS! (And as I also said, it's actually fully possible for the fediverse to do, more on that later.)

But the reality is, it's still *centralized*

Actually all these critiques of the fediverse are TRUE, these are known challenges, and actually it's not really so bad, but it could be better, and at any rate, Bluesky made a major decision to simplify a lot for new users, and they have. Things seem to just work for people! Incredible!

"Message passing" is what ActivityPub uses. It's "like email", people say, and that's true.

Actually it's even a lot like physical mail. You write a letter, you say where it should go, it gets delivered to your house.

Message passing. The world runs on it.

I'll take one more note about federation which is that often time the message passing mechanism of the fediverse is often called "federation", but theoretically another mechanism could exist, but I'm actually not so sure of that.

There's a reason the actor model and the lambda calculus are undying

Now historically, federation has been achieved on the fediverse via "message passing". Actually, this is to the degree where I just always associated message passing with federation, but really, federation is about the distribution of power, creating an abstract whole in a sea of autonomy.