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brunogirin

@brunogirin@mastodon.me.uk

Technologist designing software to address the climate change emergency and helping improve diversity in tech.

Some things I enjoy:

  • travelling, by train or tall ship if possible;
  • contributing to my community orchard;
  • reading SF&F;
  • baking cake;
  • eating cheese;
  • cat pictures.

Some things I believe in:

  • trans rights are human rights.

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stavvers, to random
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in my 20s: be gay, do crimes
in my 30s: be gay, go to garden centres as a lil treat

brunogirin,
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@stavvers do crimes in the garden centre?

BeazLouise, to animals
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Sunday morning treat time. Phoebe (calico kitten) has the longest tail yet she's the smallest.

brunogirin,
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@BeazLouise are you sure she's not part spider monkey?

christineburns, to random
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I’m curious: Are there any derelict French chateaux left which aren’t being done up by Brits for YouTube content?

brunogirin,
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@christineburns nope, we've run out of châteaux. Some derelict farmhouses are left but for how long?

kate, to random
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Last night I discovered my christening candle in a box of childhood items my parents gave me. This morning the bathroom lightbulb died while I was having a shower. So now, for the second time in my life, I’m getting washed by the light of a christening candle.

brunogirin,
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@kate I like the candlestick!

RandomYarning, to random
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Teen went off to stay the weekend with some friends who are already in Uni this year, and has returned with renewed excitement for starting uni in September:)

brunogirin,
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@RandomYarning soon they'll be buying yarn!

mekkaokereke, to random
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I unironically learned much of what I knew about eclipses from Bugs Bunny. So any really incorrect things I still believe about eclipses, probably comes from this cartoon. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Bugs Bunny: Release me, or I will blot out the sun!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f_fTCtnpNNw&t=7m41s

(Content warning: old cartoons were racist as hell! And sexist, ableist, and xenophobic).

brunogirin,
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@mekkaokereke as a French person, I got my knowledge from Tintin: https://www.tintin.com/en/albums/prisoners-of-the-sun#
Same content warnings apply, the worst part being the eclipse scene itself: considering it occurs in Inca territory, the local priest would know what's happening and would not be fooled by the theatrics of foreign visitors trying to frighten him with their "superior" knowledge.

SallyChamness, to random
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When your husband just gets you.
I can’t wait to ready this. Thank you so much @Justwes this comic by @JenJen looks f*in amazing.

image/jpeg

brunogirin,
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@SallyChamness @Justwes @JenJen I can confirm: it is amazing!

brucelawson, to random
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Is it safe, or even useful, to upgrade from Ventura to Sonoma yet?

brunogirin,
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@brucelawson based on my experience with my work MacBook Pro: useful, not massively; safe, yes.

brunogirin, to random
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@neil I was saved from your blog post by the YT cookie banner. I'm not sure whether I should be sad or glad about this 🤔

Floppy, to random
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You know what, sod “tracking all the contributions and dependencies”, that way lies shit ideas like “blockchains for paying musician royalties”.

Let’s have a Universal Basic Donation system for open source maintainers. We donate to a central place, and any open source maintainer of a project that’s used by more than X other people/projects can sign up to get a share. Everyone gets the same.

brunogirin,
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@instantiator @Floppy this sounds like means testing to me and it would probably result in unproductive discussions about who "deserves" to be on the list. If it's to be universal, the checks should be minimal and easily verifiable by anyone, such as: does it have an open source license? Is it actively being worked on?

opencage, to random
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🚨🚨 It's time for the April 2024 edition of ! 🚨🚨

This weekend the Christian world celebrates Easter, so our thoughts naturally turn to Easter Island 🗿 a remote territory of Chile 🇨🇱 in the Pacific.

That led to this month's question: name countries/territories (places with ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes) named after Biblical references.

remember:
• 1 answer per toot
• must include hashtag and emoji flag

Full rules on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-march-2024

Map showing the location of Easter Island

brunogirin,
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@opencage Israel? 🇮🇱

CiaraNi, to books Danish
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This book is as captivating as the cover suggests. Sharp. Engrossing. Lots of clear-eyed observations about contemporary life, about capitalism, about the experience of being both an immigrant and an emigrant.



brunogirin,
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@CiaraNi ah yes, this is a perfect summary of Dubai as a whole.

gorplop, to random
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Reminder that if your company is handling credit card data you should update to the new standard

brunogirin,
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@gorplop corollary to this: if you don't have the budget of a financial institution (and even if you do), using a payment processing provider who already follows that standard will save you a lot of grief.

transeignante, to random
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Ce soir je teste pour vous les fuck-ups de la Deutsch Bahn et des transports ferroviaires allemands en général 🚄😬💀

brunogirin,
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@transeignante et comment ça va jusqu'ici ?

brunogirin,
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@capiVara @transeignante c'est de la magie noire 🙂

chrisgerhard, to random
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They really are pathetic. Racist Sue and her tory mates trying to speak panic before the election they have tried to rig.

Tories delete Sadiq Khan attack ad showing New York instead of London
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/25/tories-sadiq-khan-attack-ad-new-york-london?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

brunogirin,
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@chrisgerhard great example of projection: London has indeed become a crime capital, except that it's white collar crime, money laundering and corruption driven by the Tories.

girlonthenet, (edited ) to random
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Where do you have the most sexytime?

brunogirin,
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@nobilis @girlonthenet one office in the City I used to work in, there was a pub next door that would set up a pop up BDSM dungeon in the basement at the weekends. I'm sure they could have accommodated a kitchen table or two.

kdawson, to random
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Way more fun than it ought to be. @aral has created this simple thing.

https://draw-together.small-web.org/

video/mp4

brunogirin,
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@kdawson @aral it works flawlessly on a Samsung S10, which is very cool!

BathysphereHat, to random
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GONNA WATCH ROCKY HORROR WITH THE POLYCULE

brunogirin,
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@BathysphereHat I was baffled the first time I saw it too but it was still a lot of fun. Happy Rocky Horror to your polycule!

girlonthenet, (edited ) to random
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OOOH Doxy are doing a sale - 35% off with the code EASTER35. Here's my affiliate link, please go wild: https://doxymassager.com/?aff=4

brunogirin,
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@girlonthenet @doxy if we combine that with your code, can we get 50% off?

brunogirin,
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@girlonthenet @doxy ah well, it was worth asking. 35% off is a nice discount already. Considering I was reading your posts that explain how you hate your Doxy toys this morning, it feels like perfect timing.

dalehirt, to random

Holeee shit!!! I found it!!!

brunogirin,
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@dalehirt it says milkshakes but it has a coffee stain 🤔
They're obviously in league with Big Coffee!

popey, to random
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What's the protocol when someone emails you asking you to "give up" the domain you've owned for 25 years because "You're only using it for a blog", and they want to use it for a community they want to build, and they don't want to have "JoinFoo" dot com.

Do nothing? Explain that other TLDs are available? Tell them to "Jog on?"

brunogirin,
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@popey well then they can get popey.fr can't they? As a French person, popey means nothing to me so not sure why they want the name. I think it's time to say: "hahaha hahaha!!!! No"

sarahtaber, to random
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Anyone ready for an embarrassingly sincere thread about rural organizing

brunogirin,
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@sarahtaber absolutely 💯!

brunogirin, to random
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@popey in related news: https://geeknews.chat/@theregister/112122841239760212

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