Posts by uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za
(DIR) Post #AWmvPZBfsHfWZO3P8a by uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za
2023-06-17T16:39:23Z
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@wogan In hindsight, yes 🤣
(DIR) Post #AWyyXT6qykkcZtixn6 by uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za
2023-06-23T11:48:31Z
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@xerz MySQL is currently a revenue stream for them, as is Java (Current employer pays for MySQL support, previous paid for Java). There were other smaller products they wanted to absorb into their existing enterprise range - I was personally affected by OpenSSO suddenly changing it's licensing and all documentation suddenly vanishing behind the paywall.I think Oracle didn't anticipate the Open Source nature of all that software being a problem because they wanted the brands, and the teams who did the bulk of the dev work. They did not anticipate mass resignations, entire teams leaving to start their own company and forking their product and continuing dev under a new name 😂 So OpenSSO became OpenAM, MariaDB was born, and probably a whole bunch of others that I don't remember because they didn't affect anything I used personally.
(DIR) Post #AX4s7zv1QL1s5X5yJk by uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za
2023-06-26T08:21:59Z
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I'm struggling to change my logging level. According to the docs on joinmastodon.org, I should be adding RAILS_LOG_LEVEL=$loglevel to my environment, where $loglevel is one of info, warn, error, fatal or unknown.I've added export RAILS_LOG_LEVEL=warn to my init script but it's still pumping out info level stuff. Any suggestions?#mastoadmin
(DIR) Post #AXLtwk2FdlhvEkYWmG by uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za
2023-07-04T13:37:48Z
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@mansr @OutOnTheMoors I always enjoyed this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaAq4Yc5o4g
(DIR) Post #AXmzpMKPsoKCH9upxw by uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za
2023-07-17T15:20:58Z
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@wogan I used to have to do this sort of thing on an almost weekly basis at a former day job.I ended up just manually writing PCL commands and pumping them directly to whatever port the printer was plugged into.Of course, that was back when you could actually talk directly to the printer and didn't have to deal with a soft printer that put all the image processing logic into a 250MB driver which talks to a virtual port over TCP...
(DIR) Post #AYRwUctM1UQeUKuaye by uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za
2023-08-06T09:26:38Z
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@strypey Any idea why? Maybe it's about security ("No cash on premises, not worth trying to rob us"), or a cost ("Banks charge so much for cash deposits that we lose money on cash transactions")?
(DIR) Post #AYjRVnJPAOltMUS7QO by uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za
2023-08-14T20:04:23Z
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@tilvids it's very simple: the day i can't use YouTube without an adblocker us the day i stop using YouTube. If only because they won't let me.
(DIR) Post #AZlJNQZBc8tNRGOJVI by uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za
2023-09-14T12:33:50Z
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@Suig The fashion police are real?!
(DIR) Post #AaALbAVszbaXqT12h6 by uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za
2023-09-26T17:23:16Z
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@grammargirl No no, I agree completely. I know when I publish episodes, I individualise cover art for episodes in the web view, but keep it constant in the RSS feed, for exactly this reason. So people finding an episode by google on the show website, or who subscribed by email or something, get to see the covert art (usually a nice photo of the person I'm interviewing). But in your podcasting app, where my episodes are mixed up with all your other subscriptions, you see the show logo.
(DIR) Post #AaASf2svzmtL1Yamhs by uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za
2023-09-26T18:46:30Z
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@grammargirl I like that approach. I think it's what I would do, if I had the budget to have it done properly.
(DIR) Post #AbUUTOB5lwzubxjXYO by uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za
2023-11-05T08:31:38Z
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@textfiles I do love the little disclaimer at the end. It'll cure you, but only "if the humours are not very venomous"
(DIR) Post #Abgye26RW2UPr14N0K by uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za
2023-11-11T09:06:29Z
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Please don't laugh, but when exactly is Black Friday? So many adverts pushing so many variants on the theme (Black November, Black October, a whole rainbow thing where each day gets a colour with it's own deals) that I've forgotten how it's supposed to work.
(DIR) Post #AcfRVoh2C646L2uYoS by uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za
2023-12-09T11:53:45Z
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@rolle To add: "You have to know the conventions and iconography of a given user interface". It's why people hate switching from windows to Mac, or vice versa (or LOL, Linux). It's not that any of these options is bad, it's that people THINK it is bad because it's different and now they have to update their muscle memory to click the mouse slightly differently in different locations, understand different focus behaviours, all of that.Change means learning, and people only ever want to learn things that interest them, which is why nerds who love tech will change but regular folk who just want to get their work done will not.Anyway, I've drifted off topic. This is what the "Social media should work out the box intuitively" folk don't realise is actually happening. No social media software has EVER been like that, there's only "Stuff I've used for years and can operate in my sleep," and everything else.
(DIR) Post #AdImClh9et1OCUNtb6 by uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za
2023-12-29T07:46:19Z
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Every time SpaceX launches another test flight of Starship (something that happens very rarely by modern standards, because of their self-inflicted licensing problems), Mastodon comes together in a unified display of hand-wringing over all the ways that SpaceX is a ridiculous company that wastes money and kills environments and pollutes space.Possibly the single stupidest comment I read from this noise was a beautifully written emotional screed, asking us to imagine how those early rocket pioneers must feel, having their careful genius memories desecrated by this cowboy yahoo who can't even make a rocket work.So here, for comparison, is what early rocketry looked like:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79K-R7xTFo
(DIR) Post #AdImCmgpxYMTHnF9k0 by uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za
2023-12-29T07:51:25Z
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Say what you like about Elon, he deserves it, but be honest about SpaceX. They are an incredible company who have done what no other rocket builder has ever achieved in over a century: they've made space travel boring. Did you know that a falcon 9 launcher was destroyed a few days ago when high winds toppled it from the barge where it had landed? This particular rocket had put over 800 satellites into orbit, across 15 launches - something that those rockets do so routinely that the news doesn't bother reporting it anymore. They're very good at what they do, and they're very good at managing that boss of theirs and keeping his grubby fingers OUT of their business.
(DIR) Post #AdImCuHxhvDWqxfP4y by uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za
2023-12-29T08:01:52Z
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Oh, when I said it fell off its barge? A barge is a flat, wide, low boat that you normally see floating up and down canals or rivers. But these barges are not only able to sail in the open sea, they're also fully robotic. They're drone ships, and they sail out to wherever the launcher wants to land, then bring it home to be prepared for the next launch.But because Elon owns the place, we collectively decide to deride the whole shebang as a *long list of invectives* because a Starship test flight demonstrated why we have test flights.
(DIR) Post #AdSpdzZSx1UEd9IPnU by uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za
2024-01-03T08:26:59Z
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A recent headline: "Energy experts have been caught off-guard by the sudden return of load shedding"Some experts, we all knew this would happen, Eskom predicted it in their own releases, the respite was mostly due to everybody being on holiday and industry taking a break, OF COURSE there wouldn't be enough power when all the factories went back to work
(DIR) Post #AdWnxs1lHjO1kYioSm by uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za
2024-01-05T07:01:49Z
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My medical aid just sent me a New Year's note to let me know what's happening this month on Panda, and even tells me how to install the Panda app, but somehow forgets to tell me what Panda is, or why I might want it, or what it's for, or whether it's their latest free service partnership or something that I have to pay for.
(DIR) Post #AdWnxuj5FdEE7V0RGa by uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za
2024-01-05T07:03:49Z
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I often complain about companies believing that they can handle their own copy writing tasks, but this here is an example of when you let the ad agency work without supervision: Everything is correct, the layout is great, the copy is perfect, it's a well-produced add, but they didn't QA it past anybody outside the inner circle who might have asked the hard questions like "WTF is panda?"
(DIR) Post #AdcXR2OGp2TkdvcrVg by uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za
2024-01-07T20:05:48Z
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@jubiloMX Yeah, thumbs are just thick stumpy fingers that are attached to the wrist instead of the end of the hand. So they're a different kind if finger.So we've got two types of fingers: Thumbs, which have a special name to differentiate them from the regular type, and regular fingers (which don't have a special name).Although now I think about it, I suppose TECHNICALLY we should really say that fingers and thumbs are different separate things, and they are both a type of digit (in which case, we have 10 digits, of which 8 are fingers and 2 are thumbs), but in practice, in actual daily use of English, we don't do that.