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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 DoctorWho
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Absolutely stunning fortune-telling from RTD to have 73 Yards shown just after an election was called.

Edent, to DoctorWho
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Very important question:

Will there be anywhere to watch the new on Saturday evening?

(Or earlier if someone has an American Disney+ and a non-blocked VPN 😄)

Edent, to privacy
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🆕 blog! “Book Review: Understanding Privacy - Heather Burns”
★★★★★

Heather Burns has an absolutely deft way of turning the sometimes-dull world of digital privacy into entertaining, informative, and actionable prose. Too many of these sorts of books end up being a list of woes and end with "someone should do something, I guess?". Understanding Privacy is different. A…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/book-review-understanding-privacy-heather-burns/
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Edent, to books
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I'm trying to read "Soul of a New Machine".

Two chapters in and it just feels… dull.

A fairly bland corporate biography - almost a hagiography.

Does it get better / more interesting?

#books #bookstodon

hanno, to random
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I told you I wasn't done with BIMI yet. Part of the BIMI spec is that the SVG logos have to be compliant with a Relax NG schema that defines a secure subset of SVG. This does not look like a bad idea. You can easily validate SVGs against this profile with existing XML tools. Yet... if you don't do it, it doesn't help. I noticed that many BIMI certificates contained non-compliant SVGs https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/bimi/xzYRH72V2HE9xeUfXK_zUgYSI7k/

Edent,
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@hanno that's interesting! Did any of them contain JavaScript? I appreciate it can't manipulate anything outside of the image itself - but I like the idea of BIMI presenting a different image depending on who is viewing it!

TheBreadmonkey, to random
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Oh dear

It's another photo from the same situation. Although the woman has been replaced by a smart Jason Statham and the Morrisons sign in the background, partially obscured by Sunaks head, reads Moron. I understand this image may have been doctored by HappyToast. But it's still funny.

Edent,
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@TheBreadmonkey That 2nd one is so blatantly manipulated. Just look at the letters on the wall in relation to the grain of the wood. Why does the knot above the N move to be above the O?

bill, to random
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Son is working his way through packing list for . Two first timers heading up on Thursday. He's bouncing off the walls with excitement. Me, I'm looking forward to him being old enough to carry everything he wants to bring.

See any of you there?

Edent,
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@bill 👋

Edent,
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@bill
Yup! Sunday morning.
https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/16-lessons-learned-open-sourcing-the-uks-covid-tracing-app

Edent,
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@bill I did 🙂
Talk should be recorded if you want to watch it on catch up.
If not, come find me for a natter.
I think my phone number there will be 7475.

leymoo, to random
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Some bloke announced an UK election this week so guess who now has to rejig these slides?

Edent,
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@leymoo
Me too!

bazcurtis, to random
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I have written up our heat pump planning permission journey here https://www.bazmac.me/blog/my-heat-pump-journey-with-octopus-energy-part-2-planning-permission

Installation date is the 22nd July.

@EarthOrgUK

Edent,
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@bazcurtis that's really useful, thanks.

We had an engineer from Octopus out who spent a lovely hour explaining all the different ways our home would fail a planning application.

We've moved to electric heating for one of our taps as an experiment for an eventual move away from gas.

Edent, to random
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I'm planning on bringing some cameras to .

Would anyone be interested in participating in thermal photography?
I was thinking of taking photos and videos of people & infrastructure. That sort of thing.

Edent,
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@robintw
OK, I'll bring a spare to lend out 😃

Edent,
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@Dtl
Yup!

gadgetoid, to random
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God f&*%£king damn it, everyone is going to EMF

Edent,
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@gadgetoid there are still tickets 🙂
We're hiring a camper-van rather than using a tent.

Edent, to Bloomscrolling
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A random packet of flower seeds has turned our patch of garden into this riot of colour.

Edent, to FIRE
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🆕 blog! “The Telegraph is wrong about FIRE”

Everyone's favourite tabloid, The Daily Telegraph, contains an article decrying the Financial Independence Retire Early philosophy1 I have a mixed relationship with the FIRE movement. It basically boils down to "spend less, save more, then you can retire once you've save 25x your annual spend". That's it. As Michael Taylor writes, some people f…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/the-telegraph-is-wrong-about-fire/
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Edent, to DoctorWho
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Holy shit! I found an Easter Egg in the latest !

(No spoilers for 73 Yards)

There's a QR code on the table. But it has been damaged so it can't be scanned.

If you repair it, it goes to the website of one of the production designers 😆

Edent,
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@xgebi oooh! He's redirected it 🙂
If you look at the original URl, you can see his portfolio stuff.

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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