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Edent

@Edent@mastodon.social

Longer hair than you.
Got the ⏻ symbol into #Unicode.
Open Standards / Source / Data geek.
Known as https://mastodon.social/@Edent on most social platforms.
Did an MSc in using the Metaverse for analytics.
Bit obsessed with #SolarPower but not quite a #SolarPunk.

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Edent, to business
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🆕 blog! “Is it rude to make a profit from your friends?”

You're in a restaurant with a group of friends. The waiter won't let you split the bill, so you offer to pay for it on your card and have your friends send you their share. How much would you charge them for that service? That sounds absurd, right? OK, you might agree to split the […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/is-it-rude-to-make-a-profit-from-your-friends/
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Edent,
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@bob very true!

bensmithuk, to random
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UK politics nerds: AIUI most government advertising except 'essentials' should be paused in the pre-election period. Does this include arms-length bodies?

OFGEM is advertising an energy price cap on social media and that feels like a bigger impact than stuff we've been asked to stop.

Edent,
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@bensmithuk I thought it does apply to them. This says it does - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/election-guidance-for-civil-servants/general-election-guidance-2024-guidance-for-civil-servants-html

Although, if an advertising campaign has already "gone to press" it might be too late to stop it?

dracos, to random
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For anyone coming to @emf this coming weekend who may already have downloaded a schedule (@Edent, I know you did) – my Post Office Inquiry talk has moved (and perhaps others), I’m now at 3.20pm on the Saturday, Stage C, perhaps see you there :)

Edent,
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@dracos oh! That's slightly annoying. I volunteered for a herald spot so I could announce you on stage.

Time to do some rejiggling.

sil, to random
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Disappointed to discover that there is no “telephone box” emoji. A blue telephone box emoji would be even better, but any port in a storm. I’d recruit @Edent as consultant on Convincing The Unicode Consortium, but the power symbol is rather more justified…

Edent,
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@sil I'm just disappointed Mastodon.Social doesn't have a :tardis: custom emoji.

(On a boring, practical note, the closest emoji is ✆)

Edent,
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@sil ⌛

Edent, to Matrix
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Those of you who use - should I be using the Android app Element, or Element X?

I just want text based comms in the channel. I'm not fussed about anything else.

The Element website recommends Element. But their GitHub seems to recommend Element X. And, frankly, I don't understand why I'd want one over the other.

Edent,
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@frankmorrow you don't need to keep me in this thread, thanks.

Edent, to php
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🆕 blog! “Rewriting OpenBenches in Symfony”

I once described my ideal coding environment to a colleague as "telneting directly into prod and damn the consequences!" I jest. But only a little. When I build for myself I treat best practices and coding styles as harmful. Chaotic evil but, hey, it's only myself I'm hurting. Anyway, my wife and I run a […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/05/rewriting-openbenches-in-symfony/
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Edent,
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@eljorgeabides How's the burrito project?

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