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danieldurrans

@danieldurrans@mastodon.me.uk

Tech leader working in automotive financing and fleet management.

Street & documentary photographer, exploring the urban environment and human world.

Bristolian who is generally disappointed at the state of local politics.

Grumpy about national and world politics. Trying to be part of the tofu eating wokerati, but without actually having to eat tofu.

Occasional cat pictures & toots about home life.

#fedi22 #Bristol #StreetPhotography #DocumentaryPhotography #ProtestPhotography

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neil, to random

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    danieldurrans,
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    @neil Ask Jeeves.

    Actually I am surprised that is still around in one form or another.

    The real answer is duck duck go.

    danieldurrans, to random
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    Another fine brought to you by Starbuck.

    slowe, to random
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    I get so frustrated by middle class British people (that doesn't mean all middle class British people) who constantly refuse to consider better systems and instead will only consider tiny, reluctant,half-hearted tweaks to what exists. The constant "oh no, we can't do that" in the face of examples from elsewhere of how things could be better.

    danieldurrans,
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    @slowe If you don't change anything else then I think it could work as long as there were carparks within walking distance that had electricity at consumer rates (for EV charging), water for a quick car wash, etc. Take away the need for a driveway, while understanding that everything else is designed around driving (which can be changed, but can we do everything all at once everywhere?)

    danieldurrans,
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    We had a wonderful opportunity to change where the middle classes worked. We could have kept working from home, invested in co-working spaces within housing estates, built housing estates as you describe with co-working in mind.

    But oh no, we are all heading back to the office again. Hybrid 1 day a week becomes 2, becomes 3 days.

    danieldurrans,
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    And where does all this hybrid working take place? On office parks on the edge of towns and cities... only accessible by car or if you are very lucky bus.

    snaptophobic, to random
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    It’s the monthly Catch The Cat For Flea Treatment day.

    Pass the bandaid.

    danieldurrans,
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    @snaptophobic Good luck!

    solderandchaos, to random
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    The co-op having a completely normal one when it comes to sensible substitutions.

    danieldurrans,
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    @solderandchaos mange tout, Rodney, mange tout.

    mcc, to random
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    As I attempt to de-mothball my webdev stack, I encounter new fractal horrors, new ways at each turn that something I set up three years ago could break in the intervening three.

    I have this website http://dryad.technology. It's a real simple site. Cloudflare fronting AWS. Static pages only. I set this up because I thought it would be easier than running my own web server. It wasn't. My own web server is working fine. This isn't.

    Loading Dryad, today, I get this error in Chrome. Only in Chrome.

    danieldurrans,
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    @mcc Safari works perfectly. Chrome I am getting too many redirects.

    danieldurrans,
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    @mcc curl --head gives me a 301 from https:// , and a 200 from http://

    I tried with and without the trailing slash, with and without some query string parameters.

    The only way I could get it to 301 was to do a https:// request

    revk, (edited ) to random
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    I miss my dad...
    Fuck COVID
    Sorry

    danieldurrans,
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    @revk 😔I miss my mum. I don't think about her for ages and then blam I'm sad.

    derivadow, to random

    One of life’s mysteries: what you’re suppose to do with your arms while you sleep?

    danieldurrans,
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    @derivadow I pretend I am directing aircraft around a runway.

    jwab, to random

    You've got one biscuit to achieve the maximum 'dunk time' in tea before it dissolves. What do you choose?

    danieldurrans,
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    @jwab Hobnob.

    danieldurrans,
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    @jwab I think a digestive would become too saturated with water too quickly.

    I am changing my answer to Farleys Rusk (original).

    danieldurrans,
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    @jwab There has to be a website about this. If geocities was still a thing there would be an entire geocities site about this.

    danieldurrans,
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    @jwab Well here we go: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-ultimate-biscuit-dunk-test

    revk, to random
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    Stupid question time.

    Energy companies seem to be scarily incompetent and often have differing handover readings (e.g. leaving British gas 51485, starting Bulb 09796). Seems to happen a lot.

    How do these companies pay for their power - it has to use meter readings surely, so they report meter readings to power distribution companies, do they?

    So surely every single handover error is visible to power distribution company, every single time.

    Why is this not used to fix things?

    Or am I wrong?

    danieldurrans,
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    @revk Now, where did I put that rabbit hole?

    neil, to random

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    @neil I would go with becoming Tricky. He put out some bangin' tunes and he is likey to be friends with Banksy.

    danieldurrans, to random
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    Happy Ed Balls day!

    pauljrobinson, to random
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    There should be an ISO standard for labour practices. One that states (for example) that the Company will not make redundancies whilst it’s making any sort of profit. A standard that requires investment in training, zero pay gaps, and recognition and bargaining arrangements with organised unions.

    Basically an internationally recognised list of good employers.

    danieldurrans,
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    @pauljrobinson What's the incentive for companies to adopt the standard?

    For 27001, 9001, 14001, etc it is because their customers, shareholders, insurers, or regulators demand it. Would those same groups demand an ISO for labour practices?

    Would potential employees have the leverage to demand it?

    danieldurrans,
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    @pauljrobinson I guess you could have it spread virally if government contracts demanded it of their suppliers and anyone that forms part of that supply chain. But that would very much depend on the executive having the appetite for that - would the UK's conservative government do so? Probably not.

    ianbetteridge, to random

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    @ianbetteridge I am not there but I imagine it is like a lot of things - there is value in being the first on a platform, and for those who are first there is therefore value in hyping that platform to the point it reaches critical mass where you can leverage that 'being first' value.

    atomicpoet, to random
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    There's no Mastodon slump.

    Sign-ups continue to increase -- albeit, not at the same rate as in November -- November was a spike.

    While Monthly Average Users (MAUs) decreased since November, it's increased again this month (according to @Gargron).

    But what's more interesting is that Half Year Average Users (HYAUs) is at a peak.

    And we're very close to breaking 1 billion posts per month!

    See chart.

    https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/stats

    danieldurrans,
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    @atomicpoet I have begun to feel annoyed when we put the tech label on things that use tech but aren't driven by tech. Is it the tech press, or is it the tech investment press?

    Is it Silicon Valley Tech Bros or is it Silicon Valley Tech Investment Bros?

    barsteward, to random

    What (if any) systems do people have in place to allow access to your and online accounts in the event of your death or incapacity?
    I’m thinking of using Shamir’s Secret Sharing to distribute weighted shares of a key to various people (family, friends, ) to allow a variety of combinations to recover a password to a vault containing all the info about finances and online accounts.
    ( already in place between myself & Mrs @barsteward)

    Do you have any better ideas?

    danieldurrans,
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    @barsteward I am not overly concerned if my websites shut down, or my flickr account stops working, or the countless other things that are not really that important.

    But knowing that my wife's digital life might be impacted is actually quite a horrific thought.

    danieldurrans,
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    @barsteward I was close to moving from Google, but when they issued their reprieve for personal use I stuck with them. I realise I'll need to move sometime, although I wasn't overly keen on the alternatives.

    I am still stuck on the "who will help my wife figure all this out" part of the digital death problem. She won't be able to reconfigure things on her own, so who will be that trusted party. A lawyer can help you sort out probate but do I need to appoint a digital death engineer?

    danieldurrans,
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    @tpuddle @barsteward my 2FA authentication is done by my password manager which syncs between my devices, so as long as I can get to another one of my devices I am good. I have a few yubikey that keeps the password manager secure.

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