ALAN LAVENDER @lavenderlens@qoto.org
- Employer
- https://stayahead.com
- Big Idea
- http://mindyourself.io/
- Past Life
- http://www.alanlavender.com/
Java & Web Development Trainer, London & virtual. Author: The Frontend Cookbook. https://FrontendCookbook.com 25+ years’ prior in photography, filmmaking, web development & design for print. Someday would like to do something humanitarian with codeforireland.org and codefortheuk.com. 🌐
Joined Nov 2022
Saved by compliance 😂
People tell me they're afraid of AI and computers taking over the world but if it helps: I'm really not. For the last few decades since Terminator ...
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Life hack: It's really bad for your health to stare at a screen all day. Mix it up by staring at different screens over the course of the day.
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If you've noticed Mastodon.social being offline a few evenings this week, it was actually under DDOS those nights. When I asked, I was told the best way to help with Mastosoc's scaling and resiliency-under-pressure issues would be to help them fill this open job posting for a devops position with Mastodon gGMBH:
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/290fd40f-125e-41fc-942d-f4ce59e6bda2
If you know anyone who might be qualified for this position, pass it on!
@freemo David Byrne, with Philip Glass, once wrote a song about a refrigerator (Songs from Liquid Days) - you could ask them.
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This is so distressing. Why was this obviously very ill man not transferred to a mental hospital? Disgraceful and wrong that he was kept in prison and took his own life https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41062820.html
@sinabhfuil there are certainly some tough questions that need to be asked here. Not only did the prison service neglect their duty of care, they must have failed abjectly to address access to means for a person clearly known to be suicidal.
Taking a pee in zero G. Fascinating interview with space shuttle pilot Terry Wurtz. 🚀🛰
@davoloid fair point Dave. At least it wasn’t meant to be present-day. One of my fave “Irish” films is by the English director Ken Loach: The Wind That Shakes The Barley.
Finally someone else shares my views about The Banshees.
“It's as if someone fed every single cartoonish Irish stereotype into an AI website and said: 'Write a film about Ireland in the 1920s.'”
https://extra.ie/2023/02/02/opinion/oscars-lauding-banshees-of-inisherin
Why are there not laws prohibiting or sanctioning this callous conduct? Converting people into shares.
Facebook/Meta laid off 11,000 people and now is doing 40 BILLION in stock buybacks. None of these companies care about cost cutting, they saw an op...
Another one bites the dust. The withdrawal of free API services will only lead to less diversity of purpose and implementation.
Twitter just announced free access to the Twitter API will end on February 9, with unannounced pricing or usage details, effectively killing every ...
Accessibility. Accessibility. Accessibility. Matters. Always spec the alt text image description so that users who use accessibility devices know what it's about.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Multimedia_and_embedding/Images_in_HTML#alternative_text
Latest reactions, thoughts, musings on the #UFoI - United Federation of Instances. Yes it is relevant, potentially affects all of us, and is kind of like being present at the birth of a star...
No, Fediblock Isn’t Better Than The UFOI https://paper.wf/casey-magazine/no-fediblock-isnt-better-than-the-ufoi
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This is your monthly reminder that your instance admin is probably a volunteer paying for this out of his pocket. If you can, make a donation to your Mastodon instance today (we're stronger together)
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Watch why Sweden clears cycle and walk ways before roads
For gender equality
And because ‘Three times as many people are injured while walking in icy conditions in Sweden than while driving. And the cost of those injuries far exceeds the cost of snow clearance.’
#IceIsAFeministIssue
@ianRobinson ah video. Great resource-hogger. I do video on my MBP but not for work, which is coding so only small files there. Getting a new MBP M1. Really looking forward to that.
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This is the kinda thing that gets me real excited!
Heard this through Joss Bland-Hawthorn, this article discusses the need to set up a Lunar timescale.
Time, at the moment, is connected to Earth's clocks - even for spacecraft out in far reaches of the Solar System.
Eventually, we are going to need a timescale that works across the whole Solar System universally.
Steps are being considered for the lunar timescale ...
BUT .... IMHO, we need to think bigger ... (see next toot)
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non-tech person: I don't trust that tech.
tech user: it's fine, I don't even think about it
tech professional: I absolutely don't trust that tech.
- Employer
- https://stayahead.com
- Big Idea
- http://mindyourself.io/
- Past Life
- http://www.alanlavender.com/
Java & Web Development Trainer, London & virtual. Author: The Frontend Cookbook. https://FrontendCookbook.com 25+ years’ prior in photography, filmmaking, web development & design for print. Someday would like to do something humanitarian with codeforireland.org and codefortheuk.com. 🌐
Joined Nov 2022
