Christiano Anderson

Christiano Anderson

@christiano.dev

Data plumber. I talk about Python, Scala, Spark, datalakes, open source and random topics. Coffee lover. Data Privacy enthusiast. INTJ. Posts in 🇬🇧, 🇧🇷 and 🇩🇪 openpgp4fpr:D0A1E76B3CCB312F675A77C33FADE605262CE09E

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Replying to @justinhendrix.bsky.social

Here's the related story. "Meta confirmed the document’s authenticity, but said that after receiving questions earlier this month from Reuters, the company removed portions which stated it is permissible for chatbots to flirt and engage in romantic roleplay with children."

reuters.comMeta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with childrenAn internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.

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Yesterday DuckDB Labs announced DuckLake, a new Open data and catalog format. Here is a bit about why it is so awesome, how it solves some key problems with existing technologies, and why we're excited to host it in the cloud at MotherDuck.

MotherDuck@motherduck.com

S3 isn’t a database. But what if your lakehouse finally acted like one? @jrdntgn.bsky.social shares why the current generation of lakehouse formats like Iceberg and Delta Lake might be missing the point—and how DuckLake, a new table format, changes the game. motherduck.com/blog/ducklak...

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Finalmente me acertei com um News reader, desde os tempos do Google Reader, não tinha encontrado outro tão satisfatório. Estou hospedando meu próprio Miniflux, a experiência tem sido ótima! Tem um jeitão de Lobsters e Hacker News, super fácil de gerenciar e integra com diversos outros serviços.

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#UnplugTrump: 30 Tipps für digitale Unabhängigkeit! Die Serie von Mike Kuketz zeigt Alternativen zu Big Tech. Alle Tipps jetzt im Blog entdecken: www.kuketz-blog.de/unplugtrump-... #DigitaleUnabhängigkeit #Datenschutz #Privatsphäre #FreieSoftware #Videokonferenz #Digitalisierung

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Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

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📣 Plataformas da Meta estão infestadas de anúncios de fraude. Por que a Meta não faz nada para impedi-los??? Bom, eles não fazem nada porque estão lucrando MILHÕES com esses anúncios. Um monitoramento de apenas três meses, feito pelo UOL, descobriu que a Meta lucrou pelo menos R$ 4,5 milhões. [+]

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Activists, as part of a campaign by StopElon.eu, are handing out “boycott Tesla” flyers to customers outside Tesla stores in Paris. The leaflet claims Elon Musk uses X (formerly Twitter) to promote anti-EU parties, and urges people not to buy Teslas so as not to support his efforts.

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Junior: Writes a lot of comments to explain what the code is doing Mid Level: Avoid comments to avoid judgment Senior: Avoid comments, code is enough Senior+: Writes a lot of comments, ask others to write more comments, rejects uncommented code, because their memory is not so good anymore.

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OpenAI acusa DeepSeek de destilar conteúdo do ChatGPT, que chupou conteúdo de toda a Web e também livros como o meu sem permissão. Fluent Python está num corpus chamado book3 que a comunidade de LLM passa de mãos em mãos sorrateiramente. Esse corpus tem 20.000 livros publicados desde o ano 2000.

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📢 Zuckerberg, em sua guinada à extrema direita, anunciou que irá acabar com o sistema de checagem de fatos nas plataformas da Meta. O bilionário afirmou que adotará o modelo de "notas da comunidade", usado no X, e ainda confessou que isso diminuirá a identificação de conteúdos problemáticos [+]

Or /etc/hosts on Linux

Hexacorn@hexacorn.bsky.social

my gift to humanity c:\windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts ------- x-8 ------- 127.0.0.1 x.com 127.0.0.1 www.x.com 127.0.0.1 twitter.com 127.0.0.1 www.twitter.com ------- x-8 ------- (reposted to remove preview)

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Buckle up because we're banging into the new year with my annual retrospective of the last year in databases! Highlights include license change blowback, Databricks vs. Snowflake gangwar, @duckdb.org's shotgun weddings, and buying a quarterback to impress your lover: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...

cs.cmu.eduDatabases in 2024: A Year in ReviewAndy rises from the ashes of his dead startup and discusses what happened in 2024 in the database game.