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Edent

@Edent@mastodon.social

Longer hair than you.
Got the โป 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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hryggrbyr, to Blog
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Fresh on my : when was the last time blew your mind?

thomasrigby.com/posts/when-was-the-last-time-tech-blew-your-mind/

Edent,
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@hryggrbyr
I think the last time was a decade ago playing the Portal demo on the Oculus Rift(?). I'd never seen room sized VR before and the experience was beautifully directed.
But, since then, it has all been incremental gains.

thelinuxcast, to random
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Is this what the Nextcloud app for Linux is supposed to look like?

Edent,
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@thelinuxcast
Sadly, yes.
Well, at least, that's how it looks for me.

cazmockett, to LEGO
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Here are a few more detail shots from my Moonbase MOC ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

A view a ross the landing pads towards the fuel depot
Custom spaceship MOC on one of the landing pads
Benny stuck in a sticky situation

Edent,
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@cazmockett
OMG! They are incredible!

Tattooed_Mummy, to random
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TM's Blog: The making of a tiny pond.
Finally I'm explaining how I made the pond with links to all the stuff I bought/used.
https://www.tattooedmummy.co.uk/2024/05/the-making-of-tiny-pond.html

Edent,
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@Tattooed_Mummy that's lovely!

Edent,
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@Tattooed_Mummy We dug up our garden and found an old (and very large) pond. We've since filled it with clover and flowers.

But now I'm thinking a tiny pond in there might be nice.

(The previous water feature was a hideous metal pump that filled and emptied a bucket.)

Edent, to random
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The blog post I wrote for @mozilla is mentioned at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/mdn-blog-one-year-on/

Edent, to random
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๐Ÿ†• blog! โ€œBook Review: The Glass Hotel - Emily St. John Mandelโ€
โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†

This book didn't really resonate with me. I enjoyed both Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquillity, so I think I was expecting something in a similar vein. Instead of ethereal sci-fi, this is a tangled tale which feels like a mish-mash of half a dozen movies. The central premise of a Ponzi scheme which warps โ€ฆ

๐Ÿ‘€ Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/book-review-the-glass-hotel-emily-st-john-mandel/
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mrpjevans, to random
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One for fellow software devs out there.

I thought 'Oh, a silly grammar cock-up that makes for a fun local news story'. Then I read the first line. I won't spoil the surprise but maybe make sure there's no-one close when you yell 'OH FOR FU...'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321

Edent,
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@mrpjevans
BS7666 my shiny metal arse!

tommorris, to random
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: looking for a PC. Mostly for headless home serverโ€”Linux w/containers. Currently using a Pi4โ€”but RAM/CPU/mini-SD doesn't quite cut it.

Desiderata: not a full tower if poss (prefer Mac Mini form factor), mainstream architecture, reasonable price, efficient power use.

May wish to add gfx card later for gaming. (eGPU on mini PCsโ€”doable?)

Have built boxes in the distant past, but I value my time.

(Reply guy pre-emptingโ€”actual experiences please, avoid "you ACTUALLY want Y not X" etc.)

Edent,
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@tommorris
I use an HP Proliant Gen8
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/04/building-a-new-microserver/
Cheap 2nd hand. Shorter than a full tower. Runs Linux. Lots of space for disks. Has a PCie 16x slot for a GPU (although I've never used it).
Seems efficient, but can be a bit noisy depending on the disks you get.
Very expandable.

Edent, to wordpress
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I'm being a bit thick with .

Given an arbitrary URl on my blog - how can I get the query which it would execute?

If you've a mind to help - https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/425043/equivalent-of-url-to-postid-for-non-post-urls - much appreciated!

Edent,
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@gadgetoid maybe that's where I'm going wrong? I'm trying to use a sub-template which doesn't receive any information about the page which is rendering it.
I may well do doing something very stupid ๐Ÿ˜†

Edent,
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@gadgetoid yeah. I'm hacking together something abhorrent ๐Ÿ™‚

Edent,
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@otto42 ah, I see. I'll take a look. Thanks.

Edent,
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@otto42
If someone requests /blog/post123_ABC I want to get the data for /blog/post123

That is, if the request 404s in a very specific way - I'm going to trim the end off, and get the page without the extra _ABC.

Edent,
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@otto42 No.
Basically, if someone requests a page with .xml or .md or .txt at the end, I want to serve up that page with in that format.

I have it working for individual posts, but not for tags, categories, dates, etc.

Edent,
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@mattround @otto42
That's probably the sensible way to do it.

But I've found something much more convoluted ๐Ÿ˜†

Edent, to Theatre
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๐Ÿ†• blog! โ€œTheatre Review: Pippin - 50th Anniversary Concertโ€
โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…

This has to be the campest, most ludicrously sequinned, joyous shows I've seen in quite some time. I knew nothing about Pippin, but my dad saw it back in the 1970s and loved it - so I snagged us a couple of tickets. The story itself is fun enough; an over-privileged princeling goes off to [โ€ฆ]

๐Ÿ‘€ Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/theatre-review-pippin-50th-anniversary-concert/
โธป

Edent, to vegetarian
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I really want to visit China again soon.

I had a fantastic time being in Beijing.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/05/a-vegetarian-in-beijing/

Edent, to random
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Hey! Everyone! Can we please normalise doing [thing which is entirely unremarkable but I have somehow built up in my head as being extremely shameful]?

THANKS!

Edent, to random
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Mastodon is wild.

You can write something like "Imagine you had a cat - and one day it started speaking to you in Spanish. What would you do?"

And fully 75% of the replies will be "I'm allergic to cats so it would never happen."

Edent,
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@skylar irony is dead!

dan, to random
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In response to @adactio's provocation "A blog post doesn't need a title", @Edent argues that, as a HTML document, it necessarily does (even if it's blank).

But does a blog have to be HTML? I'd say: no - https://danq.me/does-a-blog-have-to-be-html

Edent,
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@dan
I've gone a little overboard!
You can now add .txt the end of most URls on my blog and get a plaintext version of the page.

Edent, (edited ) to random
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You receive a call on your phone.
The caller says they're from your bank and they're calling about a suspected fraud.

"Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right?

The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank."

Your phone buzzes. You tap the notification This is what you see.

Still think it is a scam?
1/3

Edent,
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@guiltmanager I'm in the UK. Read the rest of the thread to see how they did it.

Edent,
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@guiltmanager no worries. I also wrote it as a blog if that's easier for you?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/bank-scammers-using-genuine-push-notifications-to-trick-their-victims/

Edent,
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I've written up the above scam in more detail.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/bank-scammers-using-genuine-push-notifications-to-trick-their-victims/

Remember, no matter how clever and security-conscious you think you are, these criminals are highly sophisticated.

You have to be lucky every single time. They only have to be lucky once.

Edent, to random
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๐Ÿ†• blog! โ€œGadget Review: Mokin USB-C to USB-C & USB-C & USB-C & USB-C & USB-Cโ€
โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โฏช

You can never have too many USB-C ports, right? It's rubbish having a cheap laptop with only a single USB-C port. So, the good folks at Mokin have sent me a gadget which turns your single and lonely USB-C port into FIVE USB-C ports. Along the side you get 4 USB-C 3.1 portโ€ฆ

๐Ÿ‘€ Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/gadget-review-mokin-usb-c-to-usb-c-usb-c-usb-c-usb-c-usb-c/
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-c

Edent,
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@darkling yup, mine is also in the May batch. Looking forward to it!

Glad the hub is working out well for you.

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