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steely_glint

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I write secure opensource niche realtime social apps
and provide End-to-End IoT security for +2bn endpoints using #webRTC.
I read sci-fi, watch films and try to learn new things.
I Co-host of the “Distributed Future” podcast where we try and figure out what the future at the intersection of tech and society looks like by asking people who might know and listening to what they say.
I play the flute badly.
Find me in Berlin, Manchester, Nowhere
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penwing, to random
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Oooh.... Sat 6th April I could do Luca (the oh-very-much-not-a-queer-film-the-creators-said-so film, not a guy) and Speed (the Keanu Reeves film, not the drug) at the local cinema...

And then Sunday will be Mika...

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@penwing Ah 'Speed' the runner up in the "best bus in a supporting role" category 1994 ;-)

jenniferplusplus, to random
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Okay, sure, let's do this. "nomadic identity"

  1. No one has ever even come close to explaining how using a did: uri is supposed to work
  2. Even assuming it works, no one can explain how it's different than oidc
  3. Even assuming it was different, what happens when I need to find a responsible adult to come collect an asshole in my mentions?
steely_glint,
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@mikedev Have you looked at the previous attempt to do this - the .tel domain ? I don't recall exactly why it failed (obsession with e164s I think) - but there may be lessons there.

steely_glint, to random
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High time for a break, I just tried to bite my iPhone and put a hobnob on to charge.

steely_glint,
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@sammachin I wonder if one could infuse something into stroopwaffels so they warmed on an inductive charger?

steely_glint, to random
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Reading @Patricia 's recent small rant on corporate security made me think about how lucky we were with the people we got to talk on https://distributedfutu.re .

I'm very proud of what we did there, even if it didn't fit the commercial podcast model.

Have a listen to literally any episode and I promise you will learn something - every one contained an 'aah haa' moment for me.

steely_glint,
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I keep wondering if I should do something to repackage the archive to make it more accessible - highlights or editing or something - but I still feel it works as is. Thoughts welcome....

mw1cgg, to random
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Just been up in the loft. As expected all of my old interesting computer kit has gone but...

steely_glint,
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@mw1cgg I happened on my old Atari 520 the other day, I had forgotten how chunky power bricks used to be.

mcc, to random
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Today is my birthday!

If you'd like to do something for me for my birthday, would you please reply to this with—or by other means send me— something with colors you liked? Like an image or a video or a link. Music would also be acceptable if it gives you a strong synesthesiac association with color.

If this request confuses you, here are some examples of images with colors I found striking [Artists: Laurie Barmore, Vian Borchert, Erica Aurahack]. But your reply can be whatever colors you like.

Abstract art by Vian Borchert
Abstract art by Vian Borchert

steely_glint,
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@mcc Too late I'm sure, but the stained glass at Liege station is amazing.

carnage4life, to random
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Zuck is on Threads cooking Apple Vision Pro fanboys.

steely_glint,
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@carnage4life This is problematic for me. Both of these folks are on my 'people who are always wrong' list - Although Ben is in a different category from Zuck.

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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Oh HELLO new Count of Monte Cristo movie. Wonder if this one will have the bonkers Haydee arc and the opium-use overtones? WE CAN HOPE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJPyF8i0y1U

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@lilithsaintcrow At what point does he go too far (if at all)?

sundogplanets, to random
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Watch this satellite obliterate the Kuiper Belt object moving through this set of images.

The dumb satellite is so bright that our auto-detect software threw out the whole stack, because it destroyed the average brightness.

It pisses me off to no end that my taxpayer-funded telescope time is now less and less effective because of one for-profit private company.

(P.S. software dudes: please don't try to mansplain workarounds, believe me, a LOT of astronomers are working hard on this)

A gif of a Kuiper Belt object slowly moving across a set of images. It just looks like a fuzzy dot. Toward the end of the sequence, there's a super bright diagonal line that covers up the moving dot - that was a satellite.

steely_glint,
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If you want to know more about this topic in a podcast format, have a listen to a conversation @sundogplanets was kind enough to have with me a while back...

https://distributedfutu.re/episode83.html

ErickaSimone, to random
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Name a television theme song that is better than 1984 Night Court. I will patiently wait.

•Taxi does not count. That was a bop when Bob James originally dropped it.

steely_glint,
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@ErickaSimone Hill st blues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je2fGzKiqRM

And perhaps Fame.

steely_glint, to random
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I'm delighted to find another 'usefully wrong' person.

I have a small cadre of people I follow whose opinions are always wrong.

Any issue I'm not sure about I wait for one of these 4 or 5 folks to chime in on it and that helps me clarify my thinking on a tricky topic.

Find yours, they are an absolute godsend in these busy times.

steely_glint,
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@concretedog Ha, unsurprisingly most of the usefully wrong are on linkedin ;-)

steely_glint,
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@concretedog Although my first one has been promoted to political editor of a national newspaper so it isn't just LinkedIn....

steely_glint, to random
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Another 3 capital day yesterday Lunch in London. Tea in Brussels. Bed in Berlin.
The railways behaved themselves and I got quite a bit of work done.
It takes longer than flying, but it is much less stressful and reasonably productive.

I missed out on seeing the hanging railway at Wuppertal
whizz past because of a diversion, "animals on the line". Hopefully not elephants.

Walking to and from the station at the beginning and end is great.

pwaring, to random
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This article is a textbook example of confusing correlation (people in ethnically diverse areas charged more for car insurance) with causation (they're charged more because of their ethnicity).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68349396

I've worked in motor insurance for a long time and the things that have a big effect are:

Age
No claims bonus
Postcode

Other things matter (and gender used to, before it was banned), but those are the main ones.

steely_glint,
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@pwaring @pwaring

A problem comes when you throw 20 years of data and bad practice into training an AI and the resulting model obscures the difference between correlation and causation.

steely_glint, to random
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Well, that's a surprise.
In the last 24 hours our solar panels generated as much electricity as we consumed - and that includes charging the EV.

In February! In the UK !

Admittedly it was an unseasonably sunny day, but I hadn't expected to break even for months.

robpike, to random
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Can someone here explain why heatpumps are the new hotness? (Sorry.) Despite the hype, all I can discern is that they are just air conditioners that can pump in the other direction ("reverse cycle"), and the thermodynamics is poorly explained in the popular literature. Why are they suddenly the thing that can save the world? What am I missing?

My degree is in physics. I can handle the truth.

Thank you.

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@landley @Muellers_Kabinett @parsingphase @robpike although, perhaps ‘warmness’ would be more accurate, since they don’t get to as high a temperature as a gas fired heater, yet.

steely_glint,
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@landley @Muellers_Kabinett @parsingphase @robpike The issue (as I understand it) is that existing houses have heating systems (e.g. radiators in the UK) that are spec'd for hot water at 65c+ which allows for smaller areas and narrower pipes. Current Heatpumps don't hit that so may not be suitable for retrofitting into older houses with high heat losses.

However there are newer ones (using propane as the exchange medium) that hopefully will.

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@Muellers_Kabinett @parsingphase @robpike

Looks like that is changing, which is interesting because my house has small bore pipes to the undersized radiators.
We will try your test over the next few days...

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/03/16/mitsubishi-unveils-propane-heat-pump-for-residential-applications/

steely_glint, to random
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Something for my more security conscious friends:
https://codeberg.org/stagex/stagex

tl;dr build tool to defeat supply chain attacks

steely_glint, to random
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“There were too many participants in the struggle, doing too many illogical things…” Tru dat.

penwing, to random
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Started read Clans of Alphane (Philip K Dick) for ... Oh god... I'm not entirely sure this won't end up joining Diamond Age in being flung across the room...

steely_glint,
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@BloodLitter @penwing if you re-read it by Tuesday eve, you’d be very welcome to join @mcrscifi when we discuss it.
Lord Running Clam earns the book a lot of forgiveness from me.

penwing, to random
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Persuaded friends to watch Jupiter Ascending. Now, I love it, for all its flaws...

We've just been introduced to the scheming siblings - including Eddie Redmayne's whispering Balem

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@penwing and the dragonfly-like ornithopters were perfect.

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