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chris

@chris@suncoast.dev

Dad, Web Engineer, and Cyclist, I typically post about Life, Science Fiction, Science Fact, Web Technology, Politics, and Beer. Not necessarily in that order.

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ross, to random
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So. Yay! I finished an epic book.

It was GREAT! But I gotta be honest, I wish I’d spent 35 hours reading a book that had some kind of conclusion.

I know it was part 1 of many, but I still wished things were more wrapped up.

Also, there’s too much detail in battle scenes.

But what a great read. I was totally into it for most of the time and I’m not a big fiction reader.

chris,
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@ross this is increasingly my annoyance. How books assume the full trilogy would be read from the outset. I feel that books should be pretty self-contained for the main arcs. Tease at bigger narratives, sure, but don’t make the book feel incomplete.

chris,
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@ross haven’t seen Across the Spiderverse yet so thanks for the heads up! 😆

ross, to random
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People with publicly visible tattoos… how do you feel about people asking about them? Is it annoying? Or do you like it … is that the point?

chris,
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@ross mixed. Depends on how they ask about them, I guess. I don’t mind them asking, but also, in some ways it’s like asking about a birthmark. Phrasing and attitude matters?

chris,
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@ross I’d say it would also depend on if you still like your tattoo or not lol.

ross, to random
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Stream of consciousness on efficient URL encoding of a Scrabble game…

The board is 15x15, so 225 spaces. We’ll need the “bag”, so 100 tiles but only actually 86 once game starts. 2 “racks” of 7 letters. And the score.

Each space can be empty, letter, blank tile with associated letter.

So all tiles/spaces can fit in 5 bits (up to 32 combos).

It would be good to represent plays as row/col/tile. But I THINK that’s harder to decode. Though row+col fits in 8 bits. Hmm…

chris,
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@ross 271 characters isn’t unreasonable in terms of URL limits, no?

imtheq, to random
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Wow. I did not enjoy My Neighbor Totoro.

chris,
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@imtheq @surroundedbyidioms my wife felt similar. She kept waiting for some “actual” premise or climax. Totoro is all she’s seen so far, though.

shawnhooper, (edited ) to wordpress
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It's official - The first WordCamp Canada is happening! Hope to see you in Ottawa, the nation's capital, in July for all things WordPress!

https://canada.wordcamp.org/2024/welcome-to-wordcamp-canada-2024/

WordCamp Canada's official home on the Fediverse is @WordCampCanada

chris,
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@shawnhooper @WordCampCanada Woo! Already have a topic in mind that fits your goals. Looking forward to hearing more information about the Call for Speakers, etc!

shawnhooper, to wordpress
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If you're running the "Better Search Replace" plugin, update it now!

There's a critical security vulnerability that has been fixed last week in version 1.4.5.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-target-wordpress-database-plugin-active-on-1-million-sites/

chris,
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@shawnhooper jeez so many security vulnerabilities the last 2 weeks. Are all of these related? ACF Pro and WPforms both released patches, too.

seldo, to random
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TIL Ron DeSantis is still running.

chris,
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@seldo well it’s. It like he’s governing.

seldo, to random
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The difference between bad drivers in Boston and California is that while Californian drivers seem to drive badly because they don't know any better, Bostonians know they are driving like assholes and are doing it on purpose.

chris,
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@seldo I mean, you’re not wrong about Boston.

shawnhooper, to random
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Went to grab a coffee at Starbucks this morning. They’ve got all their holiday drinks out now.

Is it Christmas already? Sigh.

Wish everyone would wait until at least after Remembrance Day is over.

chris,
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@scottkeckwarren @shawnhooper if the November holidays involved decorating the house, it might've managed to hold off from expanding all the way to Halloween.

Even Thanksgiving in the US doesn't involve enough decorating to stave off the expansion.

syntaxseed, to security
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What's the current state of the art in terms of identity verification?

With Twitter blue checks pointless now, we don't have much awareness of what is useful for average individuals to publish their own identity or verify that of others. And with LLMs flooding the web with fake info, I think this is going to become more & more important.

I'd like to look into ensuring my own online identity is as authenticated as possible.

chris,
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@syntaxseed the best I saw was Keybase’s implementation of the blockchain, posting across accounts to verify, via pgp, a tweet with a hash, etc.

Shame they got bought by Zoom and were basically abandoned afaik.

mia, (edited ) to random
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Oops I started playing with Obsidian – all hope is lost, you go on without me

chris,
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@mia I started self-hosting Bookstack. I was looking for an open-sourced notion, basically. It’s decent.

shawnhooper, to wordpress
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Having a moment of annoyance with Mastodon. I know WordCamp Atlanta is going on today, and yet I can find nobody posting about it. Searched on Nitter and there are lots of posts. Leaving Twitter/X has disconnected me from an important professional community.

For those who follow me from one of the more WordPress focused instances, are there good WordCamp posts in your local feeds ?

#WCATL #WordPress #WordCamp

chris,
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@shawnhooper very similar for me. Between leaving FB and Twitter, and even Reddit, I have no connections anymore and miss out on a LOT. Didn’t even realize WCATL was this weekend.

Glad you recently chose to follow me, we’re slowly rebuilding community here.

seldo, to random
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Weird to think I spent 15 years writing PHP and now it's been 10 years since I've even looked at it.

chris,
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@seldo what do you code in these days, if anything?

seldo, to random
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It took the world like 0.3 seconds to stop calling Meta "formerly Facebook" but we are several months in and everyone is either still calling X "formerly twitter" or mostly not bothering calling it X at all. A disastrous brand.

chris,
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@seldo it’s easier to say “Meta” instead of “Facebook and Instagram” and Facebook still exists, as a product.

Also, X is dumb. It’s too short, too weird to type (keyboard doesn’t know if you’re just typing the letter or the company name and therefore capitalize it), and they got rid of the product name.

You could/can still interchangeably say Meta or Facebook and you’re only wrong in legal contexts.

seldo, to random
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Okay I'm bored of 30% of the people I used to follow being on one social network each, everybody pick the same one, experiment time is over.

chris,
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@DavidDarnes @seldo I despise the cross-posting. It’s cold and unfriendly, imo.

seldo, to random
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Yes please https://www.axios.com/2023/09/10/politicians-age-limits-joe-biden-mitch-mcconnell

chris,
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@seldo honestly even tying it to say… average life expectancy in the country would be a great baseline. Want to stay in power longer? Pass legislation that improves our health.

seldo, to random
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Today I learned there is no independent nation whose name starts with "W".

chris,
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@seldo Wyoming is as free as they come

andy, to random

One of my neighbours has installed wind chimes in their garden so we are now, sworn enemies

chris,
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@andy I can't imagine how challenging it is when your kids get hiccups, then.

georgetakei, to random

More great news on the war against inflation! The Consumer Price Index increased just 0.2% in July, or 2.4% per year. Last spring inflation was running at over 9%. The markets are rising on the news, and so should our spirits!

chris,
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@georgetakei @Myerman my spirits should not give two shits about the market. The market doesn't save my wallet. Less corporate greed and fair wages, combined with universal healthcare, etc, does.

andy, to random

I wrote about our experience of the Rhodes wildfires to get it out of my head while it’s fresh and we are safe https://andy-bell.co.uk/rhodes-wildfires/

chris,
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@andy I made this map on Google Maps to help me visualize the fire and your story... https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/edit?mid=1Z6nWvu6s0jbxCCloYONI-TPAoCQvzWY&usp=sharing (hope that's okay)

Glad you'er safe, and oof, what a journey.

seldo, to random
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Strange New Worlds remains wall-to-wall fan service and, as a fan, I'm here for it.

chris,
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@seldo and yet it works for even those who don’t know trek that well.

seldo, to random
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The NYT has discovered that rich people are more likely to get into college: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/24/upshot/ivy-league-elite-college-admissions.html

chris,
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@seldo next they'll discover rich people are more likely to have money.

mia, to random
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I'm one year older than I was an hour ago. It's the oldest I've ever been.

I guess I'll try and sleep it off?

chris,
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@mia Huzzah! Did you get your clocks all reconfigured in order to ring in your birthday ten-fold?

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