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mattb

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Computers, cycling, active travel, random brain farts.

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jwildeboer, to opensource
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To me is about the empowerment of the individual to be informed and in control on the use of data concerning that individual using and .

To others it is about some weird form of data patriotism based on „us versus THEM“. I remember those arguments from the times of „we must create national clouds“.

This typically resulted in a grab for taxpayers money that got distributed with no real results. Let’s not go there again.

mattb,
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@jwildeboer When the paid development is done we can always fork it and change the license to copyleft.

The MIT license is weird. I don't understand why anybody uses it.

mattb,
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@jwildeboer The copyleft version can continue to merge changes from the MIT version, but not vice versa. Probably a bit of a pita.

mattb, to random
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Support: My customer wants to frobnicate their foobars. Can they do that?

Me: No, but if you explain what they're trying to do, maybe they can do it some other way.

Support: Well, they've got some foobars. And what they're trying to do is... frobnicate them.

Me: As I said, they can't do that. But if you can explain WHY they want to do that, maybe I can help.

Support: They want to do it so their foobars become frobnicated.

Me: ...

mattb, to Cats
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Help, I can't find Harry! Also this box is making a strange noise like an engine.

mattb, to random
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The concept of performant Python is weird to me: if you needed it to be fast you wouldn't have written it in Python. PEP 734 is an attempt to spit shine a turd. I hope they don't spend too much complexity on it.

coldclimate, to random
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Any friends Octapus Energy customers and have a £50 referal bonus link handy? Loads online, would happy use yours instead.

mattb,
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@coldclimate Not quick enough, but https://share.octopus.energy/cute-dove-315

mattb, to random
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Bubble tea is... a thing that I have now tried.

I think that's the best I can say.

mattb,
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@deshipu It was more about the quantity of sugar. I'm going to be tripping balls for a week.

mattb, to random
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I am offended 🇬🇧

mattb,
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@elmiko English(traditional) vs English (simplified)

mattb, to random
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I have often wondered why France and particularly Spain (which is due south of us) use GMT+1 instead of GMT. Thanks to Tim Traveller I now know the answer: the Nazis did it! (Literally)

https://youtu.be/TTQJ5jOTJJA

mattb, to random
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just completely reset the Chinese course while I was doing it. It 'migrated' my progress to the new structure, but the vocabulary is completely different. I'm supposedly still on the fourth module, but I now don't know most of the vocabulary from the first module, and it won't let me retake it. I've reset my progress, starting again 😞

mattb, to random
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Good morning, Fediverse!

mattb,
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@moira Despite having visited a couple of times I had never come across the word Cascadia until today, and I had to look it up. Thanks for the new word!

jwildeboer, (edited ) to random
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PSA: Dear @snarfed.org@snarfed.org @snarfed - I hereby request that you remove my account @jwildeboer and any other account at social.wildeboer.net from your bridge. Please confirm. Thx. (not sent as DM, as I wish to make it public that I do not agree to your opt-out approach but have to do it this way.)

EDIT: context at https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/111921365604965429 and https://snarfed.org/2024-02-12_52106 also: I have now fediblocked everything brid.gy

mattb,
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@kobold @jwildeboer @snarfed.org@snarfed.org This is the same as any other fedi server: folks on that server can follow you unless you block them.

mattb,
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@kobold @jwildeboer @snarfed.org@snarfed.org This is a fedi server, not a scraper. You are only federated if somebody follows you there.

mattb, to random
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Chariots of Fire: a bunch of unlikeable toffs fanny about at sports.

It's a mystery to me why this film is famous. Watch the first 2 minutes: it has the well known theme tune over the famous scene running on the beach. Spare yourself the rest of this tedious movie.

mattb,
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Apparently it won an Oscar for Best Picture! It can't have been a good year for movies.

xahteiwi, (edited ) to random
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“I just finished my slides”, ”I did my talk on the flight over, it's a little rough around the edges”, “I forgot all about this conference and then whipped this up in a panic two days ago”, or something of the sort said casually at the beginning of a talk, is

mattb,
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@xahteiwi d) Extraneous information. If the talk's good I don't care either way.

xahteiwi, to random German
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Der Wien-Brüssel hält übrigens um etwa halb elf außerplanmäßig in Freilassing. Damit die Bundespolizei den gesamten Zug nochmal aufweckt, um Reisedokumente zu kontrollieren.

Schengen? Was war noch mal Schengen? Ach so ja, das liegt nicht in Bayern.

mattb,
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@creepy_owlet @kurr @xahteiwi What's the context here? Are there really internal borders in Europe again?

mattb, to random
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I'm a sucker for a good beat and a euphoric cord progression.

mattb,
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@coldclimate Probably fond associations with being much younger.

coldclimate, to random
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With the addition of a monitor arm and a ring light, this morning my desk entered the "top tier wanker" setup grade

mattb,
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@coldclimate Have you got a fancy mic on a boom arm?

xahteiwi, to random
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If communicating with other people is not your thing then that's okay but FFS don't become a manager.

mattb,
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@xahteiwi No subtext! I don't do subtext, which is probably one reason I've steered away from management.

mattb,
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@xahteiwi I was interested in what motivated the observation.

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