Iain Collins
iaincollins@mastodon.social
<p>Mostly post about games and software and people stuff.</p><p>Recovering from news, media, civic tech and that one time I started a popular FOSS project. I sometimes relapse and post about these.</p><p>Still making FOSS but mostly just fun stuff now.</p><p>🏴🏳️🌈⬜️ ⬛️</p>
Posts
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Post #1970863
Spray painted the HeroQuest tiles with a black undercoat today. Immediately happy with the results. It&#39;s much darker than these pics suggest. The matt coat really takes the shine off the black PLA - which I still appreciate as that hides a lot of sins. It is very helpful on such a large set, where there is a lot to do, detail to avoid obscuring as well as print artifacts to minimise and recesses to avoid clogging up.
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Post #1970862
So, there was one of those threads on Reddit that seems to be a frequent cause of transatlantic confusion. It was about the use of they/them/their for single person pronouns, which has been normal in written and spoken English for hundreds of years. It&#39;s very much normal in the UK and I was taught when I was taught to write in school over 40 years ago as the correctly approach if you do not know, or do not wish to assign gender.
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Post #1970861
@mike_k Europe knows where it&#39;s at with lunch times. We have yet to catch on the UK and many of us still practice the art of sad desk sandwiches, during which you have to endure responding to at least one work related conversation that &quot;cannot wait&quot;.
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Post #1970860
Impressed at the nighttime astronomical images you capture with a phone camera and no other equipment. Context: I took this on the beach tonight with a Google Pixel 8 from 2023 (not a new or particularly fancy phone) and min/maxed the contrast and brightness using the built-in photo app so the edges are hard, but no image enhancements.
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Post #1970859
I complained to Google Gemini about Google services and Android both incorrectly identifying / not respecting my localisation preferences and it told me to use Duck Duck Go and to wipe Android for GrapheneOS instead. Which is not wrong (lol).