Posts by sil@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AcNcK9kCoC6UCfW8Dg by sil@mastodon.social
2023-12-01T22:48:41Z
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@mjg59 electric blanket
(DIR) Post #AcztMpAToYdGCHF85I by sil@mastodon.social
2023-12-20T09:58:45Z
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@mjg59 new personal goal: become someone who can say "OK, the timezone for this place is now different. Why? Because I say so. Yes." Like a boss.Fun thread!
(DIR) Post #AdBQKJV2oWIRyNC2Ay by sil@mastodon.social
2023-12-25T23:29:41Z
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@simon https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=opXFR6ab214 was very interesting on how on point the production is in most ways!
(DIR) Post #AdQl9HhCj1Y5jY67M0 by sil@mastodon.social
2024-01-02T09:03:43Z
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@simon yup. This is why I am loath to buy domains for small projects; I killed soonsnap, and put farmbound on kryogenix.org because (among other things) I don't want to be on the hook to pay for domains for them every year for all eternity.On the other hand, what are the chances that some company reliant on VC money won't get bought or bored in the next ten years? Low.So neither situation is good.
(DIR) Post #AdQlio8e61tCUJs7qC by sil@mastodon.social
2024-01-02T09:06:54Z
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@simon My new-internet-thing rules are, I think, these:1. if you have a personal domain already then you're likely to keep it. Host things there, not on their own domain.2. if you don't, then you have no pre-existing inclination toward internet permanence. Decide whether you or VC-funded companies are likely to have more staying power2a. if you think it's you, buy a domain and host your thing on it2b. if it's not you, pick a company with a good record (github, wordpress &c) and put it there
(DIR) Post #AdQlis99C6fQv28aB6 by sil@mastodon.social
2024-01-02T09:09:20Z
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@simon key point: whichever way you choose to host your new internet thing, be sure that archive.org indexes it. Ping them so they know about it and keep good indexes of it, and re-ping them from time to time. That way, if your chosen host pivots, or if you get bored, the content will still exist in a place where people can find it.
(DIR) Post #AdQmHG8qUHDtBUORhg by sil@mastodon.social
2024-01-02T09:10:39Z
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@simon me too :) and for the same reasons!
(DIR) Post #Ai04t7WvrQ9R2Khm1Q by sil@mastodon.social
2024-04-22T19:07:39Z
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At the weekend I was sitting on the train and I thought, hang on, my leg’s going numb. That’s not ideal. After briefly contemplating that maybe I was about to have some sort of gargantuan heart attack or something, I realised that I was in fact sitting on my wallet. Not for the first time, either.Now, it has occurred to me before that I maybe don’t need every card I’ve ever owned to be on my person at all times. And if I can’t be slimmer, maybe my gentleman’s accessories can be.
(DIR) Post #Ai04tAjRxKwky1aJRw by sil@mastodon.social
2024-04-23T07:20:15Z
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@popey I thought about a metal one, but it lives in my back pocket and so I feel like it'll hurt? Also, unsure if my door fob will work through metal. They do look cool, though. And yours is impressively weathered
(DIR) Post #Ai04tBM5dfr4trfAg4 by sil@mastodon.social
2024-04-22T19:11:50Z
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So, I thought to myself, I should get a new wallet.You may be thinking, ok grandad, why do you carry a wallet at all? Everyone pays with their phone now. And I would agree, and I do too. But:1. I feel profoundly uncomfortable relying on the phone. A card never runs out of batteries.2. I need my credit card for emergencies. My credit limit is considerably higher than my savings.3. My door fob lives in it.4. A gentleman should have a wallet.I am unsure which I consider most important.
(DIR) Post #Ai04tD45HadmCbFotE by sil@mastodon.social
2024-04-23T08:00:38Z
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@popey yeah, the back pocket thing is what pushed me away from metal. I am unlikely to change that now, forty years in :)
(DIR) Post #Ai04tE8jHnwzXIR2lk by sil@mastodon.social
2024-04-22T19:18:41Z
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Ten years ago I would have agonised for days about the choice, or asked Twitter for recommendations. But there then and here now I’d probably get a load of replies that contactless is the tool of the devil, or that I should make my own out of gaffer tape to avoid knuckling under to Big Wallet, or some such bollocks. And in truth I am less pretentious about stuff these days. So I got a perfectly nice leather one in TK Maxx, of all places!Of course now I can’t tell if it’s in my pocket at all.
(DIR) Post #AiUseRrgTCpDmHIlfM by sil@mastodon.social
2024-05-26T19:37:36Z
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@tomw @robstyles ah, a slightly different link might be useful, perhaps. Most people whose JavaScript fails aren’t that way because it’s turned off or they’re in Lynx on a green screen terminal in 1992. It’s a temporary failure; their train went into a tunnel, or they’re on hotel WiFi, or something. And sure, you can say “hit refresh”. But if the page does something useful in that situation, then it works for them and they don’t notice. The next load fixes it.https://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/why-availability/ has more.
(DIR) Post #AmfjKTy8R95SEuoolc by sil@mastodon.social
2024-10-04T19:13:03Z
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So, today I had the Covid booster and a flu vaccination, and then I went to the dentist.Fabulous medical day, eh?Well. I am here to tell you that these things, all of which can be a little scary at times, are not actually scary any more. The dentist is not like it was when we were younger. They fixed it! It’s good now!OK, “good” might be a bit of a reach. “Not bad” is perhaps a bit closer. So, a little bit of a thread.
(DIR) Post #AmfjKUam7TzmAktfzk by sil@mastodon.social
2024-10-04T19:13:36Z
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I was due to have two fillings. Now I render fillings. You get an injection, your mouth goes numb leaving you dribbling and struggling to speak for hours, and you can literally feel the bloke cramming the filling stuff into the newly-excavated hole in your head like trying to get the big pillow into the too-small pillowcase.
(DIR) Post #AmfjKVQszjgAmNHIDg by sil@mastodon.social
2024-10-04T19:14:00Z
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Plus the drilling. Oh god the drilling. The bloke is all OK does that hurt and sure it doesn’t technically HURT because your whole jaw is like a block of wood but the vibration is, if not pain, sorta pain-adjacent. But you can’t really SAY anything, through a combination of resigned inevitability to this being how it works, being too British to complain, and miserable certainty that he’ll say something unhelpful like, well, not long to go now.
(DIR) Post #AmfmptzI39ahm5253o by sil@mastodon.social
2024-10-04T19:22:19Z
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@anemone yeah, I had one years back and it was unpleasant. I don’t know if it still is, and I suspect it is, but it was a very nice surprise to discover that the dentist community are actually trying to improve this stuff and it’s better than it used to be!
(DIR) Post #AngZboX7vmLxf4rCbY by sil@mastodon.social
2024-11-04T02:46:13Z
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(DIR) Post #B12UFJdctcx7TwHBXU by sil@mastodon.social
2025-12-08T11:00:50Z
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I wish people would stop saying "JavaScript was written in 10 days" with the subtle implication that this is somehow shoddy or half-arsed. GvR wrote the first version of Python in a month in December 1989; the first bit of C was made out of B and NB in a month or two in ~1970. Every single bit of software you've ever used that isn't some enterprise nightmare was first a proof of concept hacked together in a couple of weeks by whoever first did it. This is entirely normal; it's not a bad thing!
(DIR) Post #B2XfKRuJPq1F1ucqeG by sil@mastodon.social
2026-01-22T08:59:27Z
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I couldn't believe that PC Gamer headline was a proper reflection of what was said, but... it was.The thing which most annoys me is that they seem to believe they have a right to do a damaging thing (which they acknowledge is damaging) in the hope that they might find something impactful to do with it (which they acknowledge they haven't, yet) because there's currently a lot of hype about it, and the only time limit on this is "find something before the hype runs out".