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Tommy

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Creative Operations for a gigantic US media conglomerate (sorry). I enjoy #opensource and #design. London, England. 🖖🏻

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verge, to random
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Porsche’s first hybrid 911 ‘deeply’ integrates CarPlay, but not the next-gen kind https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166210/porsche-911-carrera-gts-hybrid-apple-carplay

Tommy,
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@verge still a hybrid? Hard pass.

Edent, to Theatre
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Woo! Just got tickets for https://macbethwestend.co.uk/ with David Tennant and Cush Jumbo!

Reasonably priced tickets still available (albeit some behind pillars).

Tommy,
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@Edent Is this new writing?

mirkobrombin, to vuejs
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I have an absurd concept of fun but working on this is actually very funny.

Tommy,
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@mirkobrombin tell us more! 🔮

simon, to random
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I went to the train station on Saturday. Two ticket windows open and some bored looking staff sitting there waiting. Great, there's no queue, I thought. Can I buy 3 return tickets to Guildford please. The person pointed at the sign "no ticket sales from the counter at weekends.tickets must be purchased from the ticket machine". I refrained from giving them some helpful career advice which entered my mind at that moment.

Tommy,
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@simon presumably you also paid an exorbitant amount for the ticket too, to really round out the terrible experience of travelling by rail in the UK.

sonny, to rust
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Workbench 46 is out! 🛠️

https://flathub.org/apps/re.sonny.Workbench

Actually it was a couple of hours ago before GNOME 46 but I didn't want to steal the show 😎

Here are the highlights 💡

Inline diagnostics for :rust: and :python:

New Library demos: 📚

"Snapshot" to demonstrate one of GTK4 coolest feature.

"Dialog" and "Message Dialogs" to demonstrate libadwaita 1.5 new responsive dialogs.

26 demos ported to Python
5 demos ported to Vala

A screenshot of Workbench demonstrating the "Snapshot" Library demo

A screencast of Workbench demonstrating the "Dialog" demo.

Tommy,
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@sonny I love Workbench and I realise I’m tempting feature creep, but Gnome is crying out for a Libadwaita IDE. I would love to use it for web development, but without broader language support and a file browser pane — it’s quite tricky.

Thanks for all your work, it’s fantastic!

gsuberland, to random
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dug my kindle out and I forgot how tiny the damn thing is.

apparently someone has made open source firmware for the inkplate to turn it into an epub reader, which I am very interested in trying. I've got the 10" which is a very nice size for reading technical books, app notes, and datasheets.

ideally I'd get something like a remarkable 2 but it's a lot of money to drop on an e-reader.

Tommy,
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@gsuberland ooo nice. Is there a repo kicking around?

Edent, to random
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The garbled HTML on this is quite something!

http://motoring.dvla.gov.uk (needs to be the http: version.)

(I know! Not my circus, not my monkeys.)

Tommy,
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@Edent unusual for GDS - they’re usually quite good

Tommy,
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@Edent Curious - the link back to the ‘motoring homepage’ bounces to a gov.uk page

kev, to TeslaMotors
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Land Rover out. New in.

Let's see what this range anxiety is all about then…

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Tommy,
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@kev Have fun! Range anxiety is all make believe… 🚗⚡️

Tommy, to opensource
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Is the last bastion of civilised, untainted Socialism?

Tommy,
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@kaffeeringe You could spin this as being a leveller — making those capitalist behemoths engage in greater amity and shared responsibility.

/yeah/dreams/you-must-be-joking 🥴

Tommy,
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@kaffeeringe And yet the ethos of still remains!

rafa, to random
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I’ve started recording cute things my 2-year-old says, and it melts my heart every time (imagine in a decade) 🥲🥺

video/mp4

Tommy,
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@rafa fantastic - what is the app?

popey, to random
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My beloved Mini EV has been at the body shop for two months since someone smashed into it, requiring repair. The car is clearly in pieces while it's being fixed up. But some of its brain is still alive. Last year, I set up a free and simple "mileage and charge" dashboard using Axiom. The car is still checking in periodically. I've been sadly watching the battery dwindle slowly downward all that while. I hope they charge it back up before they give it back! 😂

The front offside corner of my black car, lookin a bit dented

Tommy,
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@popey does Mini expose an API you can access?

kev, (edited ) to random
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I’ve had a look at the trending/explore page a few times now. Every time I do, it’s like 80% politics, most of which is American politics.

Le sigh…

Tommy,
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@kev @MonaApp mute mute and more mute 🤙🏻

popey, to random
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I love the look of this 'Clicks' physical keyboard for iPhones! While it makes the phone ludicrously long, I love the whole concept.
https://youtu.be/e2n2ftM-MwI?si=VuIyC7WOV-sPFK7p

Tommy,
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@popey didn’t Ryan Seacrest try this 10 years ago?

Tommy,
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@popey if I recall, Blackberry took him to court. Can’t remember the outcome but I found the whole thing amusing… there was so much handwringing about loosing physical keys at the time…

verge, to random
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X once again adds headlines to article links — but with tiny text https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/2/24022563/x-twitter-headlines-article-links-tiny-text?utm_content=buffer56040&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Tommy,
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@verge slow news day huh?

Should I move to Docker?

I’m a retired Unix admin. It was my job from the early '90s until the mid '10s. I’ve kept somewhat current ever since by running various machines at home. So far I’ve managed to avoid using Docker at home even though I have a decent understanding of how it works - I stopped being a sysadmin in the mid '10s, I still worked...

Tommy,
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@EnderMB @NocturnalEngineer

Podman uses the OCI standard — it is a drop-in replacement for Docker

Tommy, to random
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Just bought myself the latest from @pluralistic : The Internet Con — How to Seize the Means of Computation. £6 for the eBook!

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3035-the-internet-con

popey, to random
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Local elections coming up. These three bearded men want me to vote for them.

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Tommy,
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@popey looks like these were designed in Microsoft Word 25 years ago

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