I open sourced a thing
https://codeberg.org/falken/webshot/src/branch/main/
This lets me take my history on #lastFm - https://www.last.fm/user/tomchiverton - and use it as a auto updating screen lock background
For over a decade Philips Hue offered lights that work without sharing your data to the cloud. This is changing soon and we need your help to make some noise to convince them to revert this decision.
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/09/22/philips-hue-force-users-upload-data-to-cloud/
What I'm listening to today: "Beyond your mind", Reinos
This is a eurodance DOS tracker tune from 2004, with sampled (?) acid synth noises and some fun stuttery violin sounds. Take this into a club in mid-1996 and it would have been the hypest thing.
This was posted on YouTube by the artist, and as the artist does not link the .xm file, and the website advertised in the .xm file on screen appears to be dead, this is probably the only copy of this track on the Internet.
Let's see if Mastodon is any good at selling property 😃
Our lovely 2 bed flat in Woking, UK, is for sale.
* Freehold on a private road
* No cladding issues
* Huge gardens + gardener
* Short walk from Woking train station
* New windows
* 1Gb fibre
* Pet friendly (upstairs have a lovely cat)
* Separate garage
https://www.mannersresidential.com/property-details/5959/surrey/woking-37
Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program
No fees for Personal tier or old/current projects, new 2.5% revenue cap, and more.
Nice work by Full Fact here exposing Sunak's lies
https://fullfact.org/environment/sunak-environment-proposals/
Who cares about how data is used in #GreaterManchester?
In 2020, folks from across sectors joined us to co-create the #Declaration for Responsible and Intelligent Data Practice.
Lots has changed since then, so we want those affected (that's everyone!) to help reboot it.
Do share @itsecbot!
Workshops start next month >> https://www.opendatamanchester.org.uk/declaration-2023-reboot/
@ChrisMayLA6 I rather doubt Sunak or any of his billionaire associates will be donating millions to the UK state education system to raise standards. He donated to an American college for a computer lab, but gave a school in his own constituency a signed bottle of wine for a raffle. #conservatives would prefer the population poor, drunk and uneducated, so they can be not much more than slave labour (see many former colonies).
Can you hear me you peers and privy councillors
I stand before you naked to the eyes
I will destroy any man who dares abuse my trust
I swear that you'll be mine
At the seven bins of lies
#ukpolitics
So I just heard about this through @bonifartius ... maybe im missing some details but let me see if i got this straight.
1) Russel Brand was accursed of some sort of sexually inappropriate activity, not sure what it is yet, but sounds serious. While serious as of yet no evidence has been made public, no trial, and his guilt is unknown.
2) Based on only accusation and rumer the UK parliment decided he should be treated as if he is guilty before a trial
3) the UK parliment has reached out to several platforms asking to deplatform him as punished for something we havent determined if he did yet
4) Platforms like YouTube saw no problem with this and agreed.
Is this seriously where we are at....
QT: https://qoto.org/@bonifartius/111099540273078639
"I should have known better, but I did it anyway" is basically the throughline of my entire career, I guess.
@mcc I'm sometimes reminded that - for years and years - the Adobe Linux team, the team of people who kept Flash working on Linux despite everything, consisted of one dude doing arguably the least thankful job in all of software.
@TheSpaceshipper I do like Donnager, because of aesthetics, but let’s go with those janky shipping containers the belters converted into breaching pods.
Believable industrial electronics ephemera, modified just enough to work, and a an absolutely terrifying scene for the people holed up in them as the PDCs and rail guns just obliterate them.
Just noticed that my simple web app for creating polls to decide on dates for events has ticked over 100 votes (no more info than that, as it auto-deletes 10 days after polls close). I think that means more than 50% of the polls and votes are from events not run by me, which is nice.
Lead dev @extravision for ☁️,📱 & 💻. Views own.
Likes : 🐕, 🧱, 🐧,🚀, sci-fi, whisky, electronic 🎶.
Dislikes : Long bios
He/him