Ha! It does work... I was looking in the wrong folder. 😂 I now have a Python script that can parse GPX files and set the date created/date modified to the time in the file. Had to do a little hack because XML is always confusing, but it's much much better than it was.

@davep Do you have a link?

@gamingonlinux gee, thanks, microsoft

@remixtures 7. Covid was a natural experiment in what happens when everyone’s sent home with a check and nothing to do. Weed, sports gambling, riots, conspiracy. Our culture has been built on the structure and meaning of work. It’ll take more than UBI to cure this kind of rot.No. Covid is a natural illness, a virus. I worked 'during covid' and it was not an experiement.

@grumpasaurus I was set up a LONG time ago, and I've just been letting them move me from instance type to instance type and they change products. Apparently I was on a dev instance without scaling. So I fixed that. Let's see if it is better.

@Sempf that's how they getcha

@grumpasaurus Yeah, I guess I'm doing this. Can't live this way.

Oh yeah, my site is whacked. Deader'n a doornail.

@Sempf shut the front door

@grumpasaurus It's a web app - they want me to use Front Door. No database, just JSON. (Well, no DBMS I guess).

@Sempf is it your app server or a database that's getting hosed? Like your web app may have a local caching option too

@grumpasaurus I'm on Azure, so they have something I just don't know if I am allowed to use it.

@Sempf for edge (vs your own server cache) cloudflare is the cheapest and easiest to use imo

@grumpasaurus I think I maybe should see if I have some caching available ot me on the cheap tier.

@Sempf it's dumb how cdns are newrly essential now

Oh wow, I have figured out why my site stops every time I post. Every single Mastodon instance reaches out for a preview copy. It's just SLAUGHTERING my little instance.Wondered what was causing that.

@remixtures I really don't get it. Would you mind telling me in simple language what all this means? Sorry. I'm not a developer. I hear all sorts of things about GPT-5 but I can't udnerstand what's new or different about it.

@serge That said, your other post about XMPP and Pidgin and such, you should probably check out Matrix bridges.I actually use Beeper for my messaging, which is just a branded matrix server with a lot of bridges available.

@serge If you're suggesting writing them whole cloth, that's "vibe coding" and is basically always a train wreck waiting to happen. If you're talking about LLM assisted coding, when that applies equally everywhere.

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@serge Interesting, when I am doing any kind of coding, I consider the running and testing bit the work part. I guess some people would try to avoid that and assume their “math” works for all cases without testing. Actually, I’m certain that’s what it is. I have seen it happen repeatedly in various workplaces (coding or not). Invariably, something does change at some point, but not always with the intended results in mind.P.S. - I also firmly believe that the standards applied within a business, the engineers amongst themselves, and without, the customer-facing aspects are very different. There are all sorts of useful little programs for inside a business that an engineer can easily navigate or repair, but it’s never polished in the same way as something we would expect our closest technically inept relative would understand. The Reddit post seems to really touch on this reality.

A good documentation person is a gift to any project and you and your kind do the lord’s work.
Unfortunately, your kind have been ignored as an “unnecessary expense” for decades. This is nothing new from management, just a new excuse for the same old bad decisions

@burnitdown@beige.party Exactly!

@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org computers don't know what the software they run does, they just execute the instructions.

"I would never suggest that LLMs can be used to generate documentation beyond carefully delimited scenarios, such as API docs or code snippets, that is, cases where documentation is produced from clear and concise sources, in almost programmatic ways. Echoing the thoughts in Get the hell out of the LLM as soon as possible, you should limit LLM output to tasks where they truly excel.

On the other hand, when you let LLMs generate entire documentation sets, problems arise. “Oh, you can’t do serious programming, but you can still use LLMs for docs” is a naïve, reckless statement that not only overlooks what goes into crafting excellent documentation but also shows disregard for user experience (because docs are a product, too)."

https://passo.uno/whats-wrong-ai-generated-docs/