Posts by OpinionatedGeek@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #APbESjLR9HJesDDd9E by OpinionatedGeek@mastodon.social
2022-11-14T13:54:00Z
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Programming in #Rust makes me feel like a wizard.A not very good wizard.A not very good wizard who is uttering incantations with no actual understanding, which may bring about the end of the world.
(DIR) Post #AQAD2rbQULWuSSE6TI by OpinionatedGeek@mastodon.social
2022-12-01T11:59:40Z
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#Rust has flipped me from "I know what type that variable is but the compiler doesn't" to "the compiler knows what type that variable is but I don't".I'm finding this a bit weird.
(DIR) Post #AQpqRU6Irrp8V6l01w by OpinionatedGeek@mastodon.social
2022-12-21T11:28:31Z
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@darnell @atomicpoet @bullivant I worry a bit about the 'inserting adverts'. It's pretty easy to insert adverts into someone's timeline when you're running the server they use, and maybe that's a fair enough trade off for those users. (I'd hate it.)But we've seen stupid decisions before, and if they're running the server it'd be a small conceptual step for them to insert adverts into remote users timelines by boosting the adverts on behalf of their users. And that'd be nasty.
(DIR) Post #AS8KG8oSkFvVtjNvNI by OpinionatedGeek@mastodon.social
2023-01-29T11:06:07Z
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@vik It amazes me that people put in charge of some accounts don't grasp the purpose of those accounts. There used to be a Met Office Alerts (UK) account on Twitter and, if it had no alerts to tweet, it would tweet blog posts from the CEO.I've repeatedly failed to persuade some accounts that less is sometimes better, like speaking more quietly instead of shouting can make people listen more.
(DIR) Post #AUlnnHqVrTKAmDJkhc by OpinionatedGeek@mastodon.social
2023-04-18T07:55:02Z
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@vik Can't help but I do have another data point. I neglected to switch from Signal before it dropped support and missed an SMS (carrier said it couldn't be delivered or something). I set up the default SMS app and SMS just started working without problems. The undeliverable SMS wasn't retried but new messages came through as normal.
(DIR) Post #AY5jcLqJXVJEo59cuG by OpinionatedGeek@mastodon.social
2023-07-26T16:07:35Z
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@tchambers @activitypubtestsuite @steveThere were 2 kinds of changes.The good changes, @steve has already merged into the source code at: https://github.com/steve-bate/rocks-testsuite.gitThe bad changes, @steve was kind enough to help me understand and fix some bad assumptions in my code.Yay for test suites!
(DIR) Post #AaccdlT63z1x31XJWC by OpinionatedGeek@mastodon.social
2023-10-10T08:50:22Z
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@vik I use Nextcloud like some others here, but it'd be a whole heap of pain to set it up just for this. Glad you have a possible solution in syncthing.
(DIR) Post #Aj3fWI1t9Tfi4I72TA by OpinionatedGeek@mastodon.social
2024-06-17T18:37:23Z
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@vik Hi - I'm thinking about getting some solar stuff installed, and I'd like it to use open APIs and maybe integrated with Home Assistant. I'm the other side of the world to you, but do you have any advice or good sources of information? I'm not sure where to start and I don't want to just accept anything a vendor tells me.
(DIR) Post #Az8XQNidGhAQeFXzuK by OpinionatedGeek@mastodon.social
2025-10-12T15:13:02Z
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@publicvoit Funnily enough, I'm moving away from Silverbullet towards Org. Silverbullet v2 doesn't work for me as well as v1 did, so I'm trying to bring across all my markdown files and put a web UI on it.I'm having fun right now trying to put together a simple Orgdown parser so I can have a web editor UI that works the way I want. Thanks for your Orgdown1-Syntax-Examples!
(DIR) Post #AzQkKguXnOK8gR0xm4 by OpinionatedGeek@mastodon.social
2025-10-21T10:02:31Z
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@vik I love these updates, but I really hope you're all doing OK over there.