Sly Gryphon @sgryphon@qoto.org
Lead Consultant @Telstra, doing Internet-of-Things (#IoT), #dotnet, #blockchain, #DevSecOps. Certified Azure IoT Developer, MCSD: ALM, #PRINCE2, Scrum. Tabletop gamer.
Joined Oct 2020
@craigmaloney@octodon.social the company I currently work for (10+ years) didn't have a local office when I joined. Even head office was mostly virtual/remote. It is a consultancy, so a lot of work was at client premises, but I also had some long engagements (up to 12 months at a time) working from home. Now owned by a major telco so has offices available, but rarely a need to go there (a few times a year). At the beginning of the pandemic, before any government rules, they moved to full remote work for all possible staff over a weekend; and are still operating that way. It is nice being mostly back the way it was when I first joined. I prefer it.
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Elasticsearch.Extensions.Logger, a #dotnet #opensource project for #elasticsearch #logging I have been working on for a long time, has finally been released, as part of ECS 1.6 alpha 1: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Elasticsearch.Extensions.Logging/1.6.0-alpha1
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Today’s card is The Chariot, ready to take you places. Whatever you’re planning, it’s time to make a go of it - you got this
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@Inkscape is celebrating the release of Inkscape 1.1! Among the highlights are a Welcome dialog, a Command Palette, a revamped Dialog Docking System, and searchable preference options. https://inkscape.org/news/2021/05/24/welcome-inkscape-11/
@cidney congrats on finishing a campaign!
@Mayana a bunch of the books have been turned into plays and we see them about once a year from a local amateur group, in Brisbane Australia. There are also a few movies, and I put Hogfather on at least once a year.
https://airspeeder.com/ - racing series for flying cars
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I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.
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Check out our final report from our tech intern, Kofi "Rukky" Oghenerukevwe -- she was able to build, test, and publish a CiviCRM extension that will help the FSF receive Bitcoin and Litecoin payments! https://u.fsf.org/3bo
@crasher35 what do you mean by "presence"? Different services can freely interact; that is what federation is meant for.
email masking request
@weirdwriter@dragonscave.space you will need an email provider, like the Gmail you have, or Microsoft Live, or maybe a third party like mail.com (has lots of alias domains).
For cheap email, there are places like mailbox.org. I know they have a temporary email addresses, but not sure which plan.
If you just want to filter spam, places like Gmail, Live, etc support plus (+) addresses, e.g. realemail+alias@gmail.com
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RT @benwerd@twitter.com
I'm really impressed with the stuff @matrixdotorg@twitter.com is building. It's such a flexible platform, and true p2p regardless of internet access will enable lots of new kinds of applications. This is great: https://matrix.org/blog/2021/05/06/introducing-the-pinecone-overlay-network
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necromantic book recommendation
Another recommendation, in case you still did not read it for some reason.
It's about badass lesbian necromancers in space. You can find it by entering "lesbian necromancers in space" into a search engine of your choice.
Its first paragraph is: "IN THE MYRIADIC YEAR OF OUR LORD—the ten thousandth year of the King Undying, the kindly Prince of Death!—Gideon Nav packed her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and she escaped from the House of the Ninth."
Its second: "She didn’t run. Gideon never ran unless she had to. In the absolute darkness before dawn she brushed her teeth without concern and splashed her face with water, and even went so far as to sweep the dust off the floor of her cell. She shook out her big black church robe and hung it from the hook. Having done this every day for over a decade, she no longer needed light to do it by. This late in the equinox no light would make it here for months, in any case; you could tell the season by how hard the heating vents were creaking. She dressed herself from head to toe in polymer and synthetic weave. She combed her hair. Then Gideon whistled through her teeth as she unlocked her security cuff, and arranged it and its stolen key considerately on her pillow, like a chocolate in a fancy hotel."
Its middle paragraph:
“Nonagesimus,” she said slowly, “the only job I’d do for you would be if you wanted someone to hold the sword as you fell on it. The only job I’d do for you would be if you wanted your ass kicked so hard, the Locked Tomb opened and a parade came out to sing, ‘Lo! A destructed ass.’ The only job I’d do would be if you wanted me to spot you while you backflipped off the top tier into Drearburh.” “That’s three jobs,” said Harrowhark.”
re: race & racism in the Broken Earth trilogy
@IngaLovinde @Stoori @ljwrites Vernor Vinge is good, as is Greg Egan.
I also like Cherryh's Chanur series, although I guess they are a bit human-like with fur, but the books do a good job of human-is-the-alien, there are some truly alien species, and the main crew are female.
Lead Consultant @Telstra, doing Internet-of-Things (#IoT), #dotnet, #blockchain, #DevSecOps. Certified Azure IoT Developer, MCSD: ALM, #PRINCE2, Scrum. Tabletop gamer.
Joined Oct 2020
