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mrchrisadams

@mrchrisadams@mastodon.social

Science & justice. Also: coffee, cities, UX & code. Aghast at all the typos in my tweets. I'm an organiser at climateAction.tech, and I work at the greenwebfoundation.org. He/Him.
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mrchrisadams, to random
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Dear - is there a central repo of branding and media asset information for the django project? I'm looking for high quality versions of the django logo, the django pony , colour swatches and the like, and I couldn't find one when looking at the website.

I'm aware of the django pony site,
https://djangopony.com/

…and that I can buy a license of the original pony to edit if need be:

https://www.istockphoto.com/fr/vectoriel/vecteurs-de-conte-de-f%C3%A9es-gm91230581-3355498?st=3eb57c4

mrchrisadams,
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@andywood Thanks Andy, this is very helpful!

I was less clear about the much-loved pony, and I'm waiting to hear back, but this gives me loads to work with til then. Danke!

inquiline, to random
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Mastodon: land of low quality replies

mrchrisadams,
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@inquiline I feel like this is a trap.

I agree with this, but by agreeing I become part of the problem.

I legit get more useful replies on LinkedIn in my very narrow niche interest, but every now and then there’s a reply that makes it feel worth speculatively posting the way I do here - like the climate friendly unions paper you shared a while back 👍

mrchrisadams, to random
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Arrived in Madrid on this vaguely ridiculous journey to Vigo for @djangoconeurope

Wow, the ticket machines in Madrid are so well designed, after the below par experience in Paris.

You can buy a card for 2.50EUR and load it for a single journey costing 1.50, and it was all so easy and fast.

Must have been 2 minutes tops, from having no experience of Madrid at all to getting on my way to Sol station.

Why can’t every city be like this?

(Rhetorical question: I kinda know why in many cases)

mrchrisadams, to random
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I have seen this post shared by a number of people, but I cannot find the source nor how people define “AI industry”here or even what counts as AI revenue here.

If you have seen how this 3 billion figure was worked out, would you share a link?

I have looked on Horace Didiu’s website, and there is no further information on that other cursed site we used to use.

Note: It’s okay to not reply with your hot take about AI - I am not asking for that.
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mrchrisadams, to random
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So begins my journey from Berlin to Vigo for , sans planes.

Berlin to Paris, to see @gauthier , and the Boavizta gang (http://boavizta.org).

Then to Barcelona to catch up with @rossf7 and the CNCF TAG ENV crew (https://tag-env-sustainability.cncf.io/) and @mistertim.

Then picking up @carlton in Madrid, and finally to Vigo for @djangoconeurope itself, for this:

https://pretalx.evolutio.pt/djangocon-europe-2024/talk/review/W3RUZKC7LT9EKPKYECNZR8H7EN3CHK8M

If a surface journey is gonna take ages, you might as well make it fun, right?

inquiline, (edited ) to random
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Does anyone have a recommendation for an affordable, user-friendly chatter environment a la Slack where it's possible to have, say, up to 500 accounts? Asking for a campus AAUP chapter.

We're willing to spend some $ but don't want to break the bank, and don't need a lot of bells & whistles. We do need it to be easy to use.

Update: Thanks to everyone who offered ideas! We approached @zulip & they generously sponsored a noncommercial/educational free account for us. Super awesome 😊

mrchrisadams,
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@inquiline We use Zulip at the Green Web Foundation, and there are many case studies of it being used in communities. I'm a fan.

This page outlines the key reasons it different from other chat (it's designed to support remote and part time folks well too)
https://zulip.com/why-zulip/

Here's a directory of existing open communities using it if you want to dip your toes in first
https://zulip.com/communities/

Also, clear statement of values and priorities
https://zulip.com/values/

mrchrisadams, to random
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Dear Mac nerds: What’s everyone using for site specific browsers these days, if that's still a thing? I have a few sites I'd like to have as not in my normal browser, so it's easy cmd+tab to them

mrchrisadams, to random
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Dear Internet friends who use Linux. I use Mac OS X, and I expect to for a while yet, but it's sensible to look for a plan B, and the alternatives are getting better over time.

What is the closest thing to https://www.alfredapp.com with similar attention to detail with regards to stellar UX and the like?

I value my time, and don't mind paying for stuff - I'd totally buy into something like https://setapp.com for Linux apps if it existed. I haven't found anything similar yet though.

mrchrisadams, to random
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Motorised rotary clothes dryer feels a bit Chindogu, and I’m a little skeptical of “recouping your costs in one year”, but if nothing else this looks pretty entertainingm and if it really saves 99% percent of the energy vs a tumble dryer, I can see the appeal. It'd still be many times more efficient than a heat pump tumble dryer if you have one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsQ1HXJrTv0&t=4s

mrchrisadams,
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@janl yeah, I should have shared the link to the site I found this on. There's a bit more context - it's from a Dutch inventor, Ans Clements, and its a tiny dutch company. It's fun story tho

https://www.trendwatching.com/innovations/shrinking-laundrys-co2-footprint-a-motorized-rotary-clothesline-for-indoor-use

mrchrisadams, to random
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Wow, I was wondering why DDG was playing up this morning. If you come across a good write up, would you share a link when it's live?

This is a good example of how much consolidation has happened over the last ten years, when most of the significant search alternatives to Google went down because of being reliant on Bing.

https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/112490675514726805

mrchrisadams,
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@frabcus it turns out there are loads! This post is an extensive overview of the main ones

https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/

mrchrisadams, to random
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Perfect, perfect response to the UK election date announcement https://mastodon.world/@CountBinface/112485661600596055

Floppy, to selfhosted
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Looking for advice: Thinking of binning my home-made Ansible setup of various docker containers in favour of something more off the shelf.

Any recommendations for user-friendly orchestration systems that work well across multiple nodes so that I can cluster my various raspberries pi?

I think Portainer can do it, are there others?

mrchrisadams,
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@Floppy we’ve been using nomad at work and I’m a fan in general, if you want something more dynamic than ansible but simpler than k8s.

This post is a few years old, but gives some useful background, and the documentation for Nomad is stellar

https://mrkaran.dev/posts/home-server-nomad/

mrchrisadams, to random
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Internet friends who use MongoDB: While I've used MongoDB on various projects, many of my opinions are based on using it in the mid-to-late 2010’s, and given it’s the 2020's and MongoDB is a larger, and presumably more mature company, I figure it would publish software with more sane defaults now.

If you've seen a good piece that basically says “we're grown up now, and these are the things people used to complain about that we've fixed”, would you share a link?

mrchrisadams, to random
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Dear internet nerds who use environment variables and Docker more than I do:

have you come across any linting tool explicitly for .env files, to catch the gotchas that await when you them across different platforms?

I learned the hard way last week how Docker takes a dim view of connection strings wrapped in quotes for example, when trying to dockerize and debug a django project, and I’d really like future me to avoid that footgun again in future if possible.

mrchrisadams, to berlin
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Hi folks. I've been with Vodafone since 2017, and after two weeks of a fibre connection being own and being fobbed off three times with support staff saying a technician will call me back to arrange a visit (they didn’t), I'm looking to move find another provider for broadband and mobile.

I've settled for easybell at home.

I have a query about eSim based, no new phone, rolling one-month mobile providers tho. Who do you use?

Fraenk didn't work out for me.

https://fraenk.de/

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mrchrisadams,
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Here's what I'm looking for:

  • eSim support (I have an iphone SE from 2020)
  • good tethering support
  • rolling 1 month contract (no 2yr BS)
  • decent coverage and roaming (probably re-using an existing network, like Voda or Telekom etc)
  • keen pricing
  • 10-20GB data / mo
  • the option to purchase more data if need be

It would nice to not to have to deal with some ridiculous useless TOBI-style chatbot, and easily reach humans too.

I can only think of LIDL. Anyone else?

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mrchrisadams,
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@janl my wife tried it last week, as a stopgap so she had connectivity (her usual contract doesn't have much data)

I have a vodafone contract, and Fraenk was slower, as well as tethering support being patchy.

I had multiple problems connecting to it from my macbook, as did she. This isn't an eSim only problem - as we I was in Thailand recently for my brother's wedding thing, and tethering via a second eSim worked fine there, but not here.

No guidance in their support site either.

mrchrisadams,
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@janl actually, blau.de on the monthly contract thing looked promising. I'll read up a bit on them. Thanks!

mrchrisadams,
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for anyone following along, I wrote this into a post. I'll update with who I ended up going with. TBH, Blau is looking pretty good right now - the main thing stopping me trying them out with an e-SIM Ifor a month is the 30 EUR connection fee.

https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2024/05/what-i-want-from-a-mobile-provider-in-2024/

mrchrisadams,
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@hynek Yeah, that's what turned me on to e-sims in the first place! I used Airalo in Thailand when i went there for my brother's wedding, and it totally changed how I think about phone contracts. It makes switching so much easier, and I can see why incumbent providers were so slow to adopt it.

I'll bear the ref link in mind in future though, danke.

mrchrisadams, to random
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This is an industrial designed exercise bike from Lithuania that can store 2KWh of electricity generated by your own exercise.

The electricity can then be used for loads of stuff - it has a bunch of DC outputs, like USB-C (up to 60W) and USB-A, and AC outputs (can output up to 2KW - enough for an oven!)

It can also be fed from a solar panel, or the mains.

It’s about 3K EUR, so not much more than a high end Peloton , but obvs serving a very different market…

https://www.tukasev.com/en/

mrchrisadams, to random
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This piece about how uncompetitive US and European EVs are compared to what’s being made in China is a real wake up call to anyone not familiar with the standard of cars “over there”.

It’s like the 1970s all over again where incumbents just thought they could get away with focusing on high price, high margin big cars, ignoring what customers wanted, and ended up losing market share to better made, more affordable Japanese cars.
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