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jtonline

@jtonline@mastodon.me.uk

Likes: Cake
Dislikes: Addison's disease

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jtonline, to random
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The shed preheat automation failed this morning! ⛄

jtonline,
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Hmmm, it seems to be a Mosquitto MQTT broker addon issue. The shed message service is down. Sad times.
https://github.com/home-assistant/addons/issues/3264

jtonline, to random
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If I have to return to the office, commuting on Mondays seems much less annoying.

jtonline,
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@andypiper sadly we're not immune to the current obsession with returning to the office :(

jtonline,
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@andypiper my wecam is broken at the moment so all I need is a robot to badge in for me at the office

jtonline,
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@pavsmith @andypiper I wonder if I could surreptitiously mount a flipper zero close enough to a suitable badge reader...

jtonline, to random
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"Do you have a license for that tent?"

jtonline,
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@kentindell the Conservative party has done more to undermine the UK than anyone else in my lifetime, but I guess that's not what they mean 🤬

andypiper, to random
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Well, I’m feeling utterly angry and frustrated tonight. Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of a huge layoff at Twitter (which was executed illegally in the UK, but would have taken far longer to go through court processes), and the stupid PM is sucking up to a man who is certainly not a genius.

jtonline,
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@andypiper it's so cringeworthy. Really hope all the twitter alumni have gone on to greater things in the last year :omya_twitter:

craiggrannell, to random
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Mini-G friend’s parents both have Covid. Mini-G’s friend is at school and “coughing a lot”. Mini-G’s friend is currently Mini-G’s table partner.

Cool, cool.

jtonline,
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@craiggrannell 😬

jtonline, to random
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Who needs a ':' in a URI anyway :omya_cloud:

jtonline, to random
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The minion is doing research. More than a little afraid!

janl, (edited ) to random
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Networking nerds: I’m in the market for a UniFi router. I think within the next two years, I would like to upgrade to a Dream Machine (DM) type thing. But right now, all I really need is a Dream Router (DR) at ~1/2 the price.

Should I…

…and why?

jtonline,
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@janl I recently got a Dream Router and have been regretting it ever since. It works ok but it has a fan in which makes a racket running all the time. I had hoped to put it in the living room to replace three older unifi devices but it's just too loud. Now it's in the spare room where it can only replace two of the previous devices, and the fan still annoys me every time I go in there. Gah, why couldn't they have just put more ventilation in the thing? Apologies for the rant!

andypiper, to random
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Just did a playthrough on @mmasnick and team's Trust & Safety game. Really good. As someone who worked closely with that team at Twitter, I know first-hand just how complicated and nuanced this space is, and the game reflects the complexity nicely.

(I had to leave Yapper before the end of the second year, FWIW).

https://trustandsafety.fun/

jtonline,
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@andypiper @mmasnick Wait, I know this film,— is the only way to win not to play?

Floppy, to random
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Was looking for something completely different in my office and found this 23-year-old copy of Edge, which contains a review of the work @wamonite and I did for a Millenium Dome exhibit under the headline “Valid reason to visit Millennium Dome found” 😂

Valid reason to visit Millennium Dome found BT and technology company AvatarMe have provided gamers with a reason of sorts to visit the Millennium Dome. Visitors to BT's Talk Zone will be able to enter one of three AvatarBooths and generate a 3D image of themselves, which can then be downloaded from www.bt.com/ takzone or www.avatarme.com. Initially avatars will consist of 2,500 polygons, but from this month users will be able to download avatars that feature vaniable levels of detail - from 600 polygons up to 40,000. BT envisages a wide range of uses for these avatars, from purchasing clothes over the Net to online dating, but the most rewarding will undoubtedly be multiplayer gaming. Avatar files can currently be converted for use in Quake III Arena and The Sims, but AvatarMe plans to support a wide range of genres in the future, both by offering a conversion service on its site and by sending out dev kits that will enable games to be designed for use with the file format. The big advantage that this technology has over competitors like Digimask and CyberExtruder is that the whole body is captured, and, as Edge can testify, this makes all the difference. Image: a low-poly but realistically textured avatar of a man named “Taurus” holding a large gun in the game Unreal Tournament. Image caption: The results AvatarMe can come up with can be shockingly realistic, as the Taurus model (above) attests. It's the full body that does it.

jtonline,
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@Floppy @wamonite wow, working on a millennium dome exhibit is quite a claim to fame! I even got scanned- now I'm wondering where the avatar I downloaded is!

jtonline, to random
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'"In line with the preferences of the UK fusion sector, the UK has decided to pursue a domestic fusion energy strategy instead of associating with the EU's Euratom programme," the government said.' 🤦‍♂️

A world-beating domestic fusion strategy obvs. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67101176

jtonline,
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@Floppy we must have switched from a Singapore-on-Thames to a North-Korea-on-Thames strategy.

jtonline, to random
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Second day hanging out in Southampton General. A reassuring number of people seem to know about though which is nice.

jtonline,
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@andypiper I hear rumours of a newsletter as well!

jtonline, to random
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TIL they stick wires on your ankles for an ECG

jtonline,
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@kentindell can I get a smart watch that does blood tests yet?

jtonline,
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@kentindell blood sugar monitoring is there with a patch I think- I would love a cortisol/acth monitor!

craiggrannell, to random
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Current status:

X: cesspit. Hold nose while visiting to deal with DMs and then RUN LIKE HELL away from.

LinkedIn: work. Ish. Sometimes.

Bluesky: comics Twitter and increasingly posts from other folks hoping it’s the new Twitter. (It isn’t. It’ll be something else.)

Threads: random feed from people who refused to join anywhere else. Except EU folks, because they’re still blocked.

Mastodon. home. Geeks. Devs. Academics. A lot of friends. And, increasingly, my online no-mow advice centre.

jtonline,
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@craiggrannell + T2/Pebble: I kind of prefer it to Bluesky but no sign of anyone there so 🤷‍♀️

At least this mastodon instance is awesome :)

joelanman, to random
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Haven't seen Moon for a while. What would you like to rewatch?

jtonline,
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@joelanman Brazil has popped up on <well known streaming service> which is tempting.

jtonline, to random
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"Short-term Bigotry for a Bleaker Future"! 💯🤣😂
https://youtu.be/9jsaSjaTJ2Q?si=Y_wSZ2HF4Ow8txb4

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