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ldodds

@ldodds@mastodon.me.uk

Currently CTO at EnergySparks (https://energysparks.uk) a UK charity helping schools be more energy efficient.

Freelancing part time (my background is in open data, data standards, infrastructure and sharing)

Ex. Director of Delivery at the Open Data Institute.

Proud dad of two kids. Likely posting about data, tech, energy, books, cooking, ttrpgs, comics and other nerdery.

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coldclimate, to random
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"he doesn't believe in space"...
HE DOESN'T BELIEVE IN SPACE.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2024/02/29/texas-tech-tyler-owens-doesnt-believe-in-space/72792066007/

ldodds,
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@coldclimate there's no real proof that Tyler Owens exists. This is more likely.

ldodds, to climate
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So Exxon are blaming consumers for not tackling climate change

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4494543-exxon-ceo-blames-public-for-failure-to-fix-climate-change/

...whilst suing its own shareholders who aren't happy about its progress on net zero.

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/29/1234358133/exxon-climate-change-oil-fossil-fuels-shareholders-investors-lawsuit

ldodds, to random
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Leigh in the '90s would have been all over the Coach Party album. Also Leigh today, tbf

ldodds,
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@Floppy he loves it, but his favourite Linda Lindas song is this absolute banger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-YDFrUCv6A

ldodds, to opensource
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This is shame. Foundation for Public Code shuttering its EU operations:

https://blog.publiccode.net/news/2024/02/28/changes-at-the-europe-office.html

The post has some useful reflections on the challenges they faced with achieving sustainability.

ldodds, to random
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Kind of sad that there's only a single Open Data Day event in the UK next month.

https://opendataday.org/

ldodds, to DOOM
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If we're sending copies of Earth culture into space, lets do this galactic shareware properly.

DOOM can be freely distributed to all carbon based life-forms.

ldodds,
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Tracked down a B800 text editor on Sourceforge and fired up a windows box just to knock that out.

ldodds, to random
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It was obviously vital to include "David Copperfield's Magic Secrets" amongst this billion year archive of civilization on Earth

https://medium.com/arch-mission-foundation/third-times-a-charm-lunar-library-successfully-lands-on-the-moon-backup-of-human-civilization-1ef424ebe4f2

ldodds,
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Archives of Earth civilisation* littering the solar system like AOL CDs

  • for some definition of that
ldodds,
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Aliens finally making contact because they've finished the shareware version of Doom.

coldclimate, to random
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Interesting property up for sale. Click though the photos. Thank my later https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/138659213#/media?channel=RES_BUY&id=media13&ref=photoCollage

ldodds,
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@coldclimate that link goes directly to the photo :)

ldodds, to books
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If you like sci-fi megastructures then you too might like this kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/artofsoulburn/megastructures-the-visual-encyclopedia-book-2nd-printing

I'm shilling it because I've backed it and I want a copy.

ldodds, to random
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Has the Signal username feature not arrived on Android or am I missing something?

ldodds, to random
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Not now new side-project idea

ldodds,
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@Floppy it was your earlier reply that made it pop into my head!

Must. not. pay. it. attention.

ldodds,
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Bot account pending

ldodds,
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Just a quick one https://botsin.space/@marvin

ldodds, to random
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Turns out it helps the tests to complete successfully if you actually commit the code its testing

ldodds, to random
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Some exciting improvements coming to openstreetmap.org. Vector maps!
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/02/11/2024-announcing-the-year-of-the-openstreetmap-vector-maps/

ldodds, to random
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@cheesoid and a time check too please

ldodds,
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@cheesoid I asked what time is it?

ldodds,
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@Floppy oh, I only just noticed that

ldodds, to random
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Are we doing enough to explore how AI can replace the monarchy?

ldodds, to random
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I enjoyed Killers of the Flower Moon but it didn't need 3.5 hours to tell that story.

ldodds,
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@danieldurrans yeah, mini series would have been better, tbh. And after 3.5 hours it still ended with a lengthy bit of narration to tell end of the story rather than showing it. 🤯

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