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kboyd

@kboyd@phpc.social

Software Developer, Photographer, Sailing Enthusiast.

I talk about #photography, #sailing, #ebikes, reading, writing, watching TV, cooking, politics, climate, EVs, more sailing, programming, the open and sustainable web, php, sailing again, and more. Ask me about sailing co-operatives. (he/him)

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marcoarment, to random
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My favorite thing about tethering is

nothing

nothing is my favorite thing about tethering

Please, cellular Macs already!

(Today's anti-favorite: if the phone loses reception for even a moment — common on trains! — it disconnects tethering and never reconnects. You're just offline until you notice. Then you need to reconnect from the Mac's Wi-Fi menu again, after waiting for the option to become available, a process that's almost as slow as dialing up your ISP with a modem in the 1900s.)

tambourineman,
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@amr @marcoarment a kid complained to me the other day that he didn’t like movies from the 1000s. My childhood was thrown in the same bag as the Middle Ages.

donni, to random
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A bad metaphor is like a wet carrot

sarah, to php
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If you haven't picked up a free copy of my book, Mastering Object-Oriented PHP, make sure you head over to https://masteringobjectorientedphp.com and get your copy today! Free is my way of giving back to the PHP community.

#php #oop #opensource #software #development #free

cammerman, to random
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Slack is crucial for scaling and for organizational health in general.

People with slack have headspace and time to improve things, to think ahead, to sweep out the corners, to prepare for what's coming next. And they will see these needs before management does.

"Running lean" eliminates slack. This only works for a while, and only if you have a flat org of highly self-actualized people who you give autonomy. And you'll still burn people out eventually.

sarah, to random
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Sarah-Savage.com: The danger of boolean flags in object methods https://sarah-savage.com/the-danger-of-boolean-flags-in-object-methods/

kepano, to random
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If you're a student or faculty, there's a 40% discount for #Obsidian Sync — $29 per year instead of $48.

This isn't new but I am realizing that many students don't know about it. You can apply for it in your account settings.

asmartbear, to random
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Copying a song off the radio onto a tape doesn’t cost the music industry anything. Copying songs at perfect clarity, ten million times, does.

Taking a photo in a public space isn’t a major privacy concern. Storing continuous video of all public spaces, is.

A person reading everything you’ve written, gives them a sense of who you are. AI reading everything ever written by anyone, isn’t the same thing.

Many things are acceptable at single-human scale, but not at tech-scale.

thatkatharine, to random
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Them: ”You can mask if you want to”

My brain: 🎵 We can leave your friends behind
‘Cause your friends don’t mask and if they don’t mask
Well, they’re no friends of mine 🎵

Cdespinosa, to random
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dr. pepper was the scientist who invented the strangely-flavored beverage, the beverage itself was pepper’s monster

bootblacksubwoofer, to random
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You're walking in the desert. There's no one around and your shield is dead
Out of the corner of your eye you spot him: Shai-Hulud

He's following you, about 30 miles back. He crests over a dune and breaks into a sprint
He's gaining on you: Shai-Hulud

You’re looking for your camp but you're all turned around. He's almost upon you now
and you can see there's teeth in his face. My God, there's teeth everywhere!

bootblacksubwoofer,
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Running for your life (from Shai-Hulud)
His teeth can be a knife (it's Shai-Hulud)
Lurking in the Spice fields
Giant-Ass Sand Worm Shai-Hulud

Living in the wasteland (Shai-Hulud)
Killing for water (Shai-Hulud)
Eating all the miners
Actual Worm God Shai-Hulud

GoodAaron, to random
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Thank you to everyone streaming today, making fanart, and sending kind words.

It warms the depths of our cold, calculating Vulcan hearts!

Julie, to ai
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Wow. Yes. #AI

skye, to random
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my body is a machine that turns 2 months to do something important into 1 day to do something important

iangriffin, to random
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Just for fun. I added together all of the images I took of Comet Pons Brooks a few weeks ago. The session was just after astronomical twilight and every single frame I took (68) had at least one satellite trail. To really piss me off, a whole train of freshly launched Starlink satellites joined the "party". This, friends, is the price we pay for "progress". #notostarlink #savethesky

mcc, to random
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The problem with udm14* is that Google Calculator is legitimately one of my favorite pieces of software (the natural language unit conversion is so good), and I expect udm14 is going to kill Google Calculator because that's the point

Maybe I should just make my own js calculator with builtin unit conversion.

  • See https://mastodon.online/ ; it's great, although since similar "give me the old version" flags on YouTube have sometimes stopped working without warning, I wonder how long it will last
ravindra,
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@mcc it turns out that the Star Trek computer's most valuable and technologically complicated responses are "Unknown." and "Unable to comply."

jake4480, to microsoft
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With the impending doom of ICQ in June and the new crappy version of Teams coming in July, I would like to post this meme one final time

#ICQ #Teams #Microsoft #MicrosoftTeams

peter, to random
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damn, that is brutal. https://infosec.exchange/@chrismerkel/112495797916386580

theluddite, to random
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The point of solar panels is not to ensure "solar profitability," but to make for a greener, better world. Its profitability is only justified insofar as it moves us towards that goal. If we want to switch to renewables, then sometimes we're going to have surplus, because of how renewables work. This is well known and discussed ad nauseam. If that makes power markets unstable, then the problem is with markets, not with there being too many solar panels.

raganwald, to random
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Those who describe moving all of an automobile’s controls behind a touch screen as “minimalist design,” don’t understand either word.

TheNeedling, to random
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You can read more about this 2022 study here: https://theneedling.com/2022/03/06/geologists-mount-rainier-will-not-erupt-during-your-lifetime-with-possible-exception-of-very-end/

jackdaw_ruiz, to random
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periodic reminder the Oregon Zoo has a beaver named Filbert that the let carry sticks and shit through the offices and they post videos calling him "the branch manager."

grmpyprogrammer, to random
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Given how my head feels I understand why people started trying out trepanning

benroyce, to ai
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this is not

this is not a scene from a movie

this is simply a one in a billion video shot at the right time at the right angle by a teenager in a few days ago, may 18/ 19

fucking amazing! positively biblical

experts say it was a fragment, a few feet wide

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/blue-meteor-falls-through-the-sky-over-spain-and-portugal/news-story/7bd39d794d6a5e79feade5723e4d4787

amazing meteor video

BrentToderian, to Vienna
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This Vienna street isn’t “closed” because cars have been removed. It has successfully been “opened” to everything else, to a diverse and invigorated civic life, because cars have been replaced by a multitude of wonderful things.

Language matters.

HT @dmoser for pic
#urbanism #OpenStreets #Vienna

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