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Floppy

@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk

Generic humanoid carbon unit. ❤️ tech, democracy, environment, society.

Currently building https://3dp.chat/@manyfold and site admin @ https://mastodon.me.uk

Previously: https://dxw.com, https://somethingnew.org.uk, https://openpolitics.org.uk, https://apolitical.co, https://theodi.org, https://www.amee.com and more.

Alignment: Chaotic Whimsy.

#OpenSource #Ruby #Rails #Python

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Floppy, to random
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Went looking for a decentralised search engine, to see what was being worked on. Found "Presearch", and their "try now" button led me to perhaps the stupidest web page I've ever seen in my life.

Fucking crypto-toddlers.

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

Floppy,
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@simonwood ... ad infinitum

Floppy,
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@scribe I'd look that up but I can't bloody search

Floppy,
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@simonwood oh... crap.

I guess we need a federated search engine now, in that case.

psfshr, to random
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Is DuckDuckGo having issues? Not returning results on multiple devices here

Floppy,
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@psfshr yeah, it's an ex-duck. It has temporarily ceased to be.

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

Floppy, to random
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@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?

peteralee, to random
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If there was ever any doubt about him, this should settle any doubts:

Floppy,
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@peteralee he's never been a man for actually backing up his mouth flapping. What a c**t.

solderandchaos, to random
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I am in awe of all the people bringing completed projects to - I am trying to finish one project I brought half finished to emf22, and another I started just after getting back from emf22, thinking I had two years to get it done. And I got distracted by a new one, which is also…. Unfinished.

Floppy,
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@solderandchaos I've been taking the same project to EMF since 2018, and it's not worked properly yet. I think I can't be bothered to carry it there this time.

Floppy, to random
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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.

jonty, to random
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Everyone: Jonty it is too late to be organising more absolute nonsense.

Me: I REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT

Floppy,
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@CatherineFlick @jonty this is an extremely well established patten by now.

boxofrain, to random
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@marcoarment
Have you been keeping something secret?
https://mastodon.me.uk/@Floppy/112480395930414375

Floppy,
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@marcoarment @boxofrain yeah sorry that was bad googling on my part!

❤️ Overcast BTW, thank you 😄

30yrdscreamer, to Halloween
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I'm binge listening to Uncanny - a podcast on BBC Sounds.
If you like a good spooky tale it's worth a listen. Personally, I don't believe a word of it but they're interesting stories nonetheless.

#spooky #uncanny #ghosts #ufo

Floppy,
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@30yrdscreamer have you listened to The Lovecraft Investigations? I strongly recommend that.

pikesley, to random
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What's the good Android podcast player these days?

Floppy, (edited )
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@pikesley I've settled on Overcast on iOS, looks like it's on Android as well. Worth a look maybe?

EDIT: I was wrong, it's iOS only.

Floppy,
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@wukkuan @pikesley ah, that's a pity. My search skills were weak there it seems.

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

Floppy,
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@frabcus it’s somewhat… outside the norm, especially for us serious scientifically-minded folks. There’s a good chance I just look like an idiot. Still, good for a laugh.

Floppy,
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@knotnicky fortunately I'm not afraid of talking... it's just the subject matter 😬

Floppy,
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@knotnicky nah, all good, this is going to be easiest if I just keep it under my hat until it happens, then it'll be too late. I'd better shut up about it too, because otherwise people might come 😄

Floppy,
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@knotnicky NO STOP

Floppy,
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@knotnicky … OK you may continue.

ldodds, to random
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✅ inhabit higher-dimensions
✅ unslakable appetites
✅ uncaring of humanity
✅ dark influences spreading
✅ served by human cultists
✅ invoked by incantations

Yes, LLMs are Elder Gods

Floppy,
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@ldodds well, as @cstross has taught us, sufficiently advanced maths is indistinguishable from magic...

jsbilsbrough, to random
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Great start to the day!

Excel’s beyond a joke collaboration features have meant all of my work yesterday has been wiped out because one of my colleagues saved over the versions.

This is why you don’t use Excel for fault tracking!

Floppy,
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@jae @jsbilsbrough @wamonite ... at least I think it was a Tuesday.

Floppy, to DuckDuckGo
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Well, that's my normal workflow fucked.

Floppy,
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@Strange_Bundle @adrianco @agvbergin yep

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