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• Post #4275279

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116999336819924979 This is probably not gonna go this bloke’s way, legal-wise. But I admire him, especially since my guess is that he will deploy the “plums” defence, i.e., when he’s told using a duress password to wipe your phone is unlawful, he’ll say: suck my plums

• Post #4275278

  awh. I just looked up Juju's Cafe in Brum. I used to live very close to it and had quite a few very excellent breakfasts in there: it was the sort of place that did a slightly frou-frou fry-up (wild boar sausage rather than a greasy spoon; I like both) but I was up that way a few weeks ago and it was a building site. I thought I'd see when it might re-open and... https://www.jujuscafe.co.uk says that Jules died! I didn't know that. That sucks. Sorry to hear that, Jules&am...

• Post #4275277

  in other news, if anybody has up-to-date recommendations for a good Sunday roast in Birmingham city, I'd be happy to hear them. It's hard to buy a good roast dinner in a restaurant; my mum's is better. Nobody gets the potatoes right, for one thing. Places I have tried: the Wolf (overrated), the Church (used to be good, got bought), the Red Lion (used to be good, got redone, dunno if still good). 1000 Trades is expensive and posh. More suggestions are welcomed!

• Post #4275276

  things that are a tragedy: there was only one Le Crunch Bunch advert for golden delicious apples and not a whole series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCXW3pm1zCs

• Post #4275275

  hey nice, a series of interviews with Laravel people by Dan at Jump24. https://www.youtube.com/@jumptwenty4

• Post #4239896

  do the people who build HMRC's phone maze feel guilty about how much effort they put into making the phone maze route you to a "haha we hung up without you ever talking to a person" end point, or do they feel happy about having done it?

• Post #3964786

  you thought it was difficult talking someone through doing things on a computer when you're on the phone and can't see what they're doing? the turbo level is talking someone through setting up an in-car entertainment system the same way, especially when you can't actually talk on the phone and do things at the same time because then the car's bluetooth takes over the call and only displays the phone call and not the entertainment system

• Post #3866966

  Can’t decide whether this is a good place to go in

• Post #2210730

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@danyork/116511753802210926 What killed Google Glass the first time around was calling the wearers “glassholes”. Someone needs to do the same thing for Facebook glasses.

• Post #1719718

  Do I know anyone who works on the Royal Mail web team? If so, why is the parcel tracker so terrible? It doesn’t seem even possible for someone to create a link which shows you tracking for a tracking number. It uses #/hash/navigation like it’s 2011. You can’t refresh results to update them. Maybe there are good reasons for this. Maybe it’s just not been touched for 15 years. I’m happy to listen. But please make it better.

• Post #1719717

  You know what I fancy? Bread pudding. Nobody sells it any more.

• Post #1719716

  There are people who think that #DnD DMs who want to inflict their lore on players should stop doing that, and they have a good point and I partially agree. I'm not talking to those people, here. So, my sisters and brothers of #DnD DMs who like to lore dump. I see you. And I ask: why is the legend lore spell so expensive? It is a gift to us as DMs! It's the players literally asking for a lore dump, which is what we want to do anyway! Why should it require expensive components? Ca...

• Post #1719715

  switched my desktop back to light mode a couple of days ago because of sun position, and... it's actually nice and I'm keeping it. Not sure why I stuck in dark mode for so long. Just 'cos it was trendy? have I actually changed my opinion on which I like? faint worry that the answer is "it's easier to read and your eyes are rubbish now", mind

• Post #1719714

  woo, I have a ticket to see Game of Thrones: The Mad King at the RSC! Hooray! Rather looking forward to this; I've never been to the RSC. Many thanks to my secret web of contacts for helping. And I presumably get to find out what actually happened at the Whents' tourney at Harrenhal, which as far as I can tell was the bloody omphalos for literally everything that has happened in Westeros for the last twenty years https://www.rsc.org.uk/game-of-thrones-the-mad-king/

• Post #1719713

  I hate timezone code SO much. It confuses me like nothing else

• Post #1719712

  Apparently now three people in my #DnD party have horses and they can all talk to those horses. So now I get to embody three horse NPCs. They never told me about this at DM college.

• Post #1719711

  I read this yesterday, but https://britishprogress.org/reports/ai-and-the-uk-labour-market-the-evidence-so-far is encouraging. People are using LLMs, but they’re not being fired in favour of them. Obviously the way such things are created is largely with theft, which is why I’m part of the big class action about that. But I would like them to become one more tool in the toolbox for real people, to be used when useful, and made without stealing, and without ceding power to Valley arseholes, and m...

• Post #1719710

  ok real talk the sun is out and I need my sunglasses but I haven't worn them since last year and now I can't find them. where did you all hide them?

• Post #1719709

  I got to go back to Snowshill Manor, which is just as cool as it was last time (https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2017/10/15/charles-paget-wade-and-the-underthing/). Still impressed with the carved ivory ball inside another carved ivory ball.

• Post #1604491

  No voting for me today (there's no election in Birmingham). But for the rest of you, remember to go and vote, remember to take photo ID with you (even though you should not have to do so, you do have to), and remember to not vote for Tories. https://stopthetories.vote/ for who to best tactically vote for in your area, if you don't have a preference yourself.

• Post #1532787

  This is the talk I did at #StateOfTheBrowser. It's about how we set up @owa , how you can do your own open web advocacy, and why that's important. And about poetry and the Lady of Shalott. I'm quite proud of it, actually. Video, transcript, and slides at https://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/the-mazy-web/ -- have a watch, and let me know what you think. And if you'd like to see this talk in person, I'm giving it at #OggCamp this weekend as well, and proba...

• Post #1458046

  OK, the latest HMRC government wheeze for people who work for themselves from home is that I gotta set up a "rental agreement" between Actual Me and Company Me for use of the house. (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/income-tax-removal-of-the-tax-relief-for-additional-homeworking-expenses/removal-of-tax-relief-on-non-reimbursed-homeworking-expenses has all the gory details.) The accountant tells me that such agreements are available online -- I can look, obviously, but...

• Post #1291467

  @janl couch question: how does using JWTs for auth (so no _users entries) interact with couch_peruser? I don't mind manually creating the userdb-(hash) database for a given user who uses JWTs rather than _users to auth, but how do I grant that JWT suer permission to edit the userdb-(hash) database? We're a bit confused over here :-)

• Post #1291465

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@matthiasott/116403112208316082 This is an interesting post, which I need to re-read in a lot more detail to formulate my thoughts about it!

• Post #1291464

  RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/116416058610955950 I’d love to see the Safari team say, we could make our platform the absolute best at web apps. We could lead on that. And people would trust us more than Google. There’s an open goal right there for us; all we would need to do is be allowed to take the shot.

• Post #1291463

  RE: https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/116416228068178118 Mr. Blue Sky Please tell us why You had to hide away for so long

• Post #1112004

  when they invent time travel I'm going to go back and buy Doug Crockford increasingly nicer sandwiches until he defines a multiline syntax in JSON from day one

• Post #1112003

  Wow, trying to find an image of something like a page divider by online search is now completely taken over by sites called something like millionsofstolenpngs.com which presumably just crawl everywhere and steal images and serve them back up for money, isn’t it?

• Post #1112002

  signs you are an old web developer; remembering that <select>s have a value property now only after you've written select.options[select.selectedIndex].value

• Post #1112001

  I have heard it said, occasionally a bit contemptuously, that everyone thinks the music they grew up with is the best. I’m not sure that’s the case, or at least I’m not sure that a lot of people who think this are actually correct. But having just sat in the pub which obviously has some sort of eighties playlist and caught myself singing along to Terence Trent D’Arby, Paula Abdul, AND Hall & Oates and knowing all the words, it might be true about me