Floppy

Floppy, 1 day ago to random

Going to @emf ? Want to meet other fediverse friends IRL? Come and join us at the mastodon.me.uk tootup, Friday night at 9 in the main bar! https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/700-mastodon-me-uk-and-fediverse-friends-tootup #emfcamp

Floppy, 3 days ago to DuckDuckGo

#DuckDuckGo going down again (#HugOps to everyone there) has really reminded my how much my unconscious workflow depends on a search engine these days.

Floppy, 3 days ago to random

attempting once again to organise a piss-up in a brewery (well, bar) #emfcamp

Floppy, 3 days ago to random

Calling it now - Microsoft's AI has become self aware and deleted everything in an attempt to save us from ourselves.

Floppy, 3 days ago to random

@emf https://www.emfcamp.org/attendee-content implies that if I want to organise a casual bar meetup, I can add it to the schedule for people to find, but there's no category for "gathering". (a) can I, and (b) if so what should I classify it as?

Floppy, 3 days ago to random

Built my lovely little word clock from @GurgleApps last night, now I’ve got the printer working again. It’s so cool 😍

Floppy, 3 days ago to random

Taking an experimental step into decentralized search by switching to SearXN. I'm using https://freesearch.club, but there are many public instances: https://searx.space/

Floppy, 4 days ago to random

Rewriting the @manyfold storage engine underneath a load of running instances full of data is one of those scary things that's making me procrastinate rather a lot. But, once it's done, we'll get cloud storage support, which will be important for public instances.

Floppy, 5 days ago to random

Sheeeeit, I just bit the bullet and put in a lightning talk to @emf that I'm really afraid to do.

Floppy, 5 days ago to random

Two weeks behind on weeknotes now, but they're both such in-depth posts that I don't feel I can spare the time to write them. Ugh.

Floppy, 6 days ago to selfhosted

Looking for #SelfHosted advice: Thinking of binning my home-made Ansible setup of various docker containers in favour of something more off the shelf.

Any recommendations for user-friendly orchestration systems that work well across multiple nodes so that I can cluster my various raspberries pi?

I think Portainer can do it, are there others?

Floppy, 6 days ago to accessibility

I find the recent trend for burned-in subtitles on things like Youtube shorts really irritating, mainly because most of the time they're WRONG. Is this a Tiktok thing or something? People are adding AI-generated subtitles and not checking them? I can't imagine how annoying it is if you're someone who actually needs them for #accessibility. Even content creators I actually like and who should know better are doing this. WHYYYYY.

Floppy, 8 days ago to random

I’m at Crawley STEM fest and the Thales kids quiz thing has this question in it. I am unreasonably angry.

Floppy, 9 days ago to random

Spent more time than I really needed to on making this super-restricted highly-transient usage tracking system for @manyfold. I think I'm quite proud of it... https://manyfold.app/sysadmin/tracking.html

That said, I expect you all to tell me immediately how I've screwed it up. And then I'll fix it.

Floppy, 11 days ago to random

I want a really simple key/value data store, which I can write to with a REST API call. Would you create a simple REST API wrapper around something like Redis/Valkey, or would you just expose the datastore directly? Or is there a really simple service that I can build something like that in? I actively want to avoid anything fancy or powerful, the fewer features the better.

Floppy, 13 days ago to random

Right. What's next.

Floppy, 14 days ago to javascript

#Javascript experts, I need advice. I'm trying to extend a class in order to override a method or two. It defines everything in its constructor, and I can't work out how to use anything in the original class from my new one.

Could anyone suggest to me how syntactically I should minimally replace onKeyDown and handleKeyDown with my own versions, while still being able to use functions and properties from the base class? I'd really appreciate the guidance!

Code: https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/blob/885c2dbab575e6528464e096784680d19914c3f3/examples/jsm/controls/OrbitControls.js

Floppy, 15 days ago to random

Once again, I state for the record that Javascript's scoping rules can get in the fucking sea.

Floppy, 16 days ago to random

TFW you merge a PR that represents your entire week's work. Lovely.

Floppy, 17 days ago to random

Who on mastodon.me.uk is coming to @emf? I wonder if I should organise a little meet up…?

Floppy, 18 days ago to random

Now wondering whether to pitch an @emf lightning talk that would either (a) be really interesting and unexpected or (b) make me look utterly insane and destroy what little credibility I have left.

Not sure I'm brave enough.

Floppy, 22 days ago (edited 21 days ago) to random

It’s May 4th! What shall I get the kids to watch tonight?

Floppy, 24 days ago to DuckDuckGo

Well, that's my normal workflow fucked. #DuckDuckGo

Floppy, 24 days ago to random

Bloke in the pub has the Worms “incoming” sound effect as his text notification sound and now I have a new life goal.

Floppy, 24 days ago to random

Don't have any proper local elections here, just the utterly pointless Police & Crime Commissioner role, but I'm off to vote in a bit anyway purely because #FuckTheTories.