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cawhitworth

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In another life, I am an erudite, fascinating, witty, sexy libertine. As it stands, I am mainly a disappointment.

Profile pic: me and a grumpy owl. I’m the one on the left.

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cawhitworth, to random
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So yeah I work for Microsoft. The product I work on is a Linux-derived platform and all my personal devices are Apple. Just sayin’.

cawhitworth,
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(I’m not able to comment on the record about anything specific my employer are doing. Microsoft is a big company and it doesn’t act monolithically.)

Jyoti, to ElectronicMusic
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If you're involved in electronic music-making and you're not white, please DM me on here.

I've just been watching loads of footage and was aghast at how overwhelmingly white the whole thing is. I've seen more diversity at EDL marches.

So, I'm gonna try and do something about it. And the first thing is organising.

cawhitworth,
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@RobW @Jyoti Mary-Anne Hobbes show on 6Music does a lot to centre female, trans and non-binary artists, and especially those of colour. People like Sherelle, Nia Archives and Loraine James worth checking out if you like the junglist end of things. Also Jamz Supernova on the same station - lots of broken beat, house and r’n’b from a very diverse array of producers.

simontatham, to random
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How is it supposed to work, when you get one of those emails whose body reads 'Sender Name would like to recall the message, "Subject Line"'?

I assume some mail system like Exchange is supposed to find the matching previous message and delete both. And my normal Unix mail system doesn't.

But how does it decide on the matching message? I can't find any header that unambiguously identifies it. No 'Recalled-message-id:' or similar. How does a system supporting this feature make it work?

cawhitworth,
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@simontatham I assume that, for systems that support it, there's an proprietary non-SMTP way of doing it that identifies the exact message but, when interacting with SMTP-based mailservers, they just did the absolute minimum and fall back to sending a simple message because shrug what else can you do?

cawhitworth,
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@simontatham Oh totally.

Anyway, uh, I work for the company that makes Exchange so I had a dig around. I found a dev spec for message recall in OWA and while the transport is proprietary, there's definitely an identifier in the recall message payload you could put in the SMTP headers too.

(I suspect the reason why they didn't is somewhere between "did the bare minimum for interop" and "if you want this to work properly, pay for Exchange")

Jyoti, to random
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We all know it's true.

cawhitworth,
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@Jyoti I run my synths through a pedalboard. I am the worst of all worlds.

cawhitworth, to Birds
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The Skomer Island Puffin Cam is even better than I could possibly have hoped

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBIeSFm62wA

A perfect idiot flying in to land directly in front of the camera, legs and wings everywhere, extremely dignified, definitely a real birb that can do proper birb things

cawhitworth, to random
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Happy March 0th

cawhitworth, to random
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You know what maybe I’ll just not get on another plane for a bit

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/24/delta-air-lines-plane-nose-wheel-falls-off

llamasoft_ox, to random
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It strikes me that I have never squatted pissed in the tubehole at Tottenham Court Road.

I have, however, come out of the Ship after having drunk several pints of lager.

cawhitworth,
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@llamasoft_ox so many things to see and do on the tube home

Mega mega

cawhitworth, to random
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Can't help feeling like a bit of a lede is being buried here: lots of handwringing about electric car sales stalling but you have to get to nearly the end of the article before it says that the most popular category of car in the UK is the supermini (Fiesta, Corsa, etc) - a category that functionally doesn't exist in the electric car market (beyond the nonsense 'mild hybrid' segment).

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/05/electric-car-sales-in-uk-flatline-prompting-calls-for-vat-cut

cawhitworth, to wildlife
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Barn owl at Rutland Water, England

Canon R7, Sigma 150-600, 1.4TC

cawhitworth, to random
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Sorry I can’t come to work this morning, I’m not allowed

cawhitworth, to random
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12 years ago I hacked up a little BBC Micro/6502 emulator in Python as a hobby project. I got it booting and, after intercepting OSWRCH, writing text to the terminal. A little while later I threw it up on GitHub and more-or-less forgot about it.

Yesterday I got a PR from broadly refactoring the entire thing to make it reusable and pluggable, and expanding it way beyond what I’d originally done.

And I’m not entirely sure what to do with it.

cawhitworth, to random
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To be fair my mental health was extremely poor before and during the lockdowns too, but

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/21/people-who-stuck-by-uk-covid-rules-have-worst-mental-health-says-survey

cawhitworth, to random
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Jesus that Sam Altman getting fired from OpenAI thing is absolutely wild. What on earth is going on there.

cawhitworth,
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Of all the explanations for this, the one I least expected was "the board absolutely shat the bed, completely fucked it, totally destroyed the company without thinking things through at all"

cawhitworth,
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@dickon It's quite the thing if Sam "Worldcoin" Altman was the sane one on that board

cawhitworth, to random
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If I'm reading this right, Mike Lynch's defense is "Not all of the billions HP lost on the Autonomy deal were down to my doing a big fraud, some of it was just that Autonomy was rubbish" which is certainly a position to take about your own company https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/15/hp-lynch-autonomy-writedown

cawhitworth,
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@penguin42 I mean, I'm not saying HP's due-diligence wasn't deeply flawed because it was very apparent to anyone who cast an even slightly critical eye over Autonomy that they seemed to be selling snake-oil bullshit, but also the quibbling here is about how much fraud, not whether there was any at all. Multiple things can be true at once - it can be true that HP massively fucked this, and Autonomy also cooked their books. Allegedly etc etc

cawhitworth, to random
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Slade? Already? Fucksakes

cawhitworth,
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@penguin42 It’s bloody not though

cawhitworth,
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@penguin42 There is my mum, brother and wife’s birthday to get out the way before Christmas is allowed to start.

cawhitworth, to random
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Dave the Diver is a lovely game and perfectly suited to the Switch, but the load times are brutal. What's it doing that means the load times are in Animal Crossing territory, and far more frequent?

cawhitworth, to random
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v glad about the sheep

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