Longer hair than you. Got the ⏻ symbol into #Unicode. Open Standards / Source / Data geek. Known as @Edent on most social platforms. Did an MSc in using the Metaverse for analytics. Bit obsessed with #SolarPower but not quite a #SolarPunk.
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Last Notes npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1xzx…j6fs that's an excellent explanation. Thank you. Do you think it'll ever get so transactions are essentially free? npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1kut…c7av But why is that useful to me, the user? Compared to fiat, it is a worse experience. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1w7a…tpn3 Different banks. In the UK, interbank transfers are free and instant. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1qwk…8gvk I have an undying love for OCR-A - although only really useful for a subset of characters. Unifont is brilliant if you want something spartant and comprehensive. I love working with it. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Decided to build it myself. Using an `<input type="datetime-local"/>` to schedule #WordPress posts in the classic editor. MVP works in a few dozen lines of code. Currently only saves the title, content, and date. I need to grab all the other elements as well. Also doesn't return any proper data, so just relying on alert(). https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/040/724/815/062/863/original/00d9aa37db89191d.png npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub18xe…6pcl I will do it - but didn't see the need to do public facing screenshots before designs were finalised. Thanks for the feedback. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Have you ever seen or used a dict:// URl? (I don't need you to explain to me what they are. I'm just curious if people actually still use them.) npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden I've written a short story! It's sort of about solar panels, but also sort of not. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/11/chapter-30-music-of-the-spheres/ Enjoy! npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Looks like this #WordPress bug is a decade old. https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/27350 Still, nice to know it wasn't my fault. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1q09…4s0l thanks. I assume you're using the block editor? Gives me something to work on. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Hey you! Yes! *YOU!* Come to #OggCamp in Manchester - October 12-13. It's a delightfully nerdy open source / open culture conference. Meet new friends, give new talks, learn new things. Tickets available now - https://oggcamp.org/ npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Odd Mastodon question. My server gives me a link to embed a post in a different site. But the server the post is hosted on doesn't allow embedding. Is it possible for my server to know that embedding doesn't work and then refuse to offer me the option? https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/948/404/621/108/112/original/d2fc33b0af7d55a5.png npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Hmmm. Every once in a while my #OpenWRT box randomly reboots. There's no persistent log file, so I've no idea what's causing it. Do I attempt to set up logging to an external server, or buy a new bit of kit? If you have personal experience with debugging OpenWRT (not just a quick Google) please let me know! npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub12qn…ld33 it doesn't get pushed there automatically, no. We've signed an agreement with OSM so they can use our API to add it is they want. But the OSM inclusion requirements are somewhat stricter than ours. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub17ge…hgsu ta! I considered deleting - but I was worried about squatters. I hold out (slight) hope that one day the site can be redeemed. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden I *think* this is our first bench with a #Braille inscription. https://openbenches.org/bench/33630 npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Spite-Driven-Development continues. I now have a scrap of semantic HTML which adequately replicates an embedded Tweet. TODO: * Add images * Add entities (hashtags, mentions, links) * Add parent of thread * Add quoted tweet * Add ... whatever else Should be able to hijack the embed API to get most metadata (no number or replies / retweets though). https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/936/550/436/439/765/original/94c17ede19ed42fc.png npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1kg2…ckz0 true! But the problem is, their CSS relies on this DIV soup! https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/934/072/086/502/270/original/7fec85bca2f5a1af.png npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1wn9…07fm you are wise beyond your years. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden 🆕 blog! “Book Review: Somewhere To Be - Laurie Mather” ★★★★⯪ My friend has published their first novel - and it is a cracker! After a calamitous accident, the Fairy realm is cut off from the mundane world. Only one trickster remains, a sprite by the name of Mainder who is now trapped on our side. All seems to be going well in his little corner […] 👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/08/book-review-somewhere-to-be-laurie-mather/ ⸻ #BookReview #fantasy npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub12vy…a494 Good shout, but it didn't. Tried 1, 1.5, and 2. The browser looks crisp on my screen when run non headless, but the screenshots look blurred to me. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Bah! No obvious way to pipe the downloaded data straight to /dev/null Tried copying the curl command in Firefox, but it didn't work. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden 🆕 blog! “Game Review - World of Goo 2 for Linux” ★★★★⯪ Remember World of Goo? The hit game that you loved on the Nintendo Wii? It was all the rage in 2009: Fifteen years later... and I spent all night playing the sequel! Yup! World of Goo is back, baby! And it is just as good as you remember it. In truth, there's nothing much which […] 👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/08/game-review-world-of-goo-2-for-linux/ ⸻ #GameReview #linux npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1kg2…ckz0 Yeah. I read her biography - which was excellent and on Archive.org https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/book-review-the-doors-of-opportunity/ Prompted me to look for this one. The quest continues! npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Hey #Bookstodon! Where can I *buy* a copy of "Problems Have No Sex" by Dame Caroline Haslett? There are a few libraries in the UK which have a copy, but I can't find any bookshops with it. Copyright in the UK doesn't expire until 2047. Any help? npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub12d7…0v79 Enjoy it! I am blissfully independent right now. Which is fun and scary at the same time. Glad you're doing well. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub12d7…0v79 suffering the effects of dental surgery. Medicating myself with unwise eBay purchases and the new World of Goo game. How's tricks with you? npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden 🆕 blog! “Book Review: Lifehouse - Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire by Adam Greenfield” ★★★⯪☆ I want to live in the world where this book is true. But I think I'm too cynical. Adam Greenfield has expertly diagnosed the problem we're all about to face. With ecological collapse comes societal breakdown. This "failure cascade" will … 👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/08/book-review-lifehouse-taking-care-of-ourselves-in-a-world-on-fire-by-adam-greenfield/ ⸻ #BookReview npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub198t…hasj ooh, ta. I had their Watch, which I hated, so I'll skip for now. Unless the longing takes over! npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1erx…7j05 Do you think I'm posting about the merits of buying paper - or about the screenshot of a photo of poorly formatted text with a decade old joke? npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden 🆕 blog! “Retropost: Politicians Aren't The Characters They Play On TV” This is a retropost. Mostly written in August 2020 but published long after I left the Civil Service. It is, although I don't quite realise it, the depths of the pandemic. Everyone is relegated to working from home. Thousands of Civil Servants trying to keep things running from their k… 👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/08/retropost-politicians-arent-the-characters-they-play-on-tv/ ⸻ #politics #retropost npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1nal…awcv Why? npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Here's a link to the official announcement https://nic.ss/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ssNIC-Registry-Sunrise-Registration-Policy-July-2024.pdf I haven't seen any news about this, which is surprising. #Africa #SouthSudan #TLD #Internet https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/880/448/817/282/302/original/bb8a5f8e59dbe6cc.png npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Looks like the .ss ccTLD is going to be open for registration at the 2nd level! €110 for .ss and €60 for .co.ss after landrush. For reference, .me.ss is about €25. More info soon, I hope, on https://nic.ss/ #TLD #DNS #DomainNames #ICANN https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/880/334/814/672/823/original/8dd457e328f7aecf.png npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden BORING ADULT CONVERSATION! We need a new food waste caddy for our kitchen. A small thing to collect scraps before going in the garden compost. Last one was a plastic bucket that broke easily. Is there a thing that you use that you recommend? npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden This is the *key* thing people don't understand about social media adoption. Companies like Twitter / Facebook / SnapChat have *vast* teams of sales people. They offer support in setting up accounts, priority support lines, branding and moderation expertise. Individuals mostly don't see that. So it appears that your local council just decided one day to join Twitter. They didn't - they were sold a product. Mastodon's growth is (mostly) organic - and that has a limit. https://mas.to/@natureworks/112866010008657148 npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub13ru…67kn I use https://fedilab.app/ on Android. Handles multiple accounts from multiple servers. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Doing some maths on our solar panels and battery. Last month, we only paid for 10% of our electricity! I'm now crunching the numbers to see just how much the 4.8kWh battery has saved us. 🌞 + 🔋 = 🥰 #Solar #SolarPower https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/863/541/937/103/079/original/95a8c9599d7ec1d6.png npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden About the cheapest non-customisable USB-C headphones I can find are £2.90ea. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/176450421173 Almost cheap enough to hand out to people on public transport who play their music out loud for everyone to enjoy. Still trying to find a bulk supplier who will let me print a logo on the case. If you know of a company which does cheap custom USB-C headphones and can ship to the UK, please tell me! npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1f5t…r8ft I'm seeing funding to find out! npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden "For the most part, the experiences of adults without children and the reasons they give for not having them **don’t vary much by gender**. " https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2024/07/25/the-experiences-of-u-s-adults-who-dont-have-children/ npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Farting around with #WikiData tonight. For some reason, this produces a partial list of *fictional* MPs. https://w.wiki/AkcF npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub155u…namm OK. Who do you recommend for buying branded DACs from? npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub168r…e8cu I wish it did! I'd write a little Python script to alter its height 🙂 npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Oooh! Another mystery box for me to review! What could it be? (This box art significantly less mysterious than the previous one!) https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/842/454/009/144/706/original/9991446699dbc810.jpg npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Any clever #PHP developers know the cause of this #JetPack warning with #WordPress? https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-warning-automatticjetpackextensionssocial_previewsfeature_name/ I can't find anything in my code or other plugins which would cause that const to be redefined. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden 🆕 blog! “Remove unnecessary closing slash on get_the_post_thumbnail() in WordPress” I am a pedant. I like it when validators say "nothing to report". No errors, no warnings, no information messages. My blog is plagued with messages on the HTML validator saying Info: Trailing slash on void elements has no effect and interacts badly with unquoted attribu… 👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/07/remove-unnecessary-closing-slash-on-get_the_post_thumbnail-in-wordpress/ ⸻ #WordPress npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden The first episode of the #Acolyte is just trope after trope. While it's nice that they're not in the "normal" #StarWars timeframe, it was pretty disappointing to see how clichéd it was. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden It has everyone's *favourite* warning label 😎 https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/837/332/220/369/323/original/0734e19e2d0dcdc4.jpg npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Woo! New review unit. Can you guess what it is from the box art? More clues incoming! https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/837/311/080/171/928/original/c1a25d538b3b3045.jpg npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Years ago, I used to run a fun little tumblr. Today was the day that made me dig out the old password. https://www.tumblr.com/windowsisbroken/756443095198056448/lol #CrowdStrike npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1shv…dw3y I mean... meh? If it points to internal.example.com/worlddomination/nukestrike.pdf so what? There's no way to view and no way to determine the authenticity. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden I am *so* pleased that I don't work on Fridays! Spent this morning at my first Pilates class. Might even have a cheeky glass of wine with lunch ☺️ npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden You wouldn't get this problem with Linux 😊 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/19/microsoft-windows-pcs-outage-blue-screen-of-death You would of course, get many other problems 🙃 npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden 🆕 blog! “Cybersecurity and Shakespeare - a brief look at how technology can prevent tragedy” Shakespeare, famously, shunned computers. Like some sort of retro hipster, he didn't write his plays on a laptop, refused to use spellcheck, and didn't register his copyright on the blockchain. Lord, what fools these mortals be! What w… 👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/07/cybersecurity-and-shakespeare-a-brief-look-at-how-technology-can-prevent-tragedy/ ⸻ #CyberSecurity #shakespeare npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden This is what my #WordPress sites looked like last night. There's no way to bulk delete this many users in the interface. I had to go into MySQL and do `DELETE from wp_users WHERE ID > 1` (Or whatever the highest ID is of legitimate users) https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/807/110/422/679/271/original/a05a02aa1dde7316.jpeg npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Looks like it pulls in a script from `94.156.79.8` and does a bunch of other shady shit. I see it discussed at https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2024/06/an-inside-look-at-the-malware-and-techniques-used-in-the-wordpress-org-supply-chain-attack/ But I don't have any of those plugins. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/804/205/116/749/144/original/0fbd9b1134d18fcb.png npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Here at @npub1qqf…p2p2 Subtly altered my name badge 😄 We don't need no stinkin' Twitter! #lwsjuly2024 https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/803/397/970/917/641/original/457e74f38bdaed56.jpg npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden OMG! A change I proposed to #WordPress has been included in v6.6. It is *incredibly* nerdy, and I doubt many people will notice. But I think it is important 😄 A shiny +5 Internet points to anyone who can work out what it is. Full blog post tomorrow. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden So… err… found ourselves at a Gordon Ramsay restaurant preview event. If anything, the cocktails are *too* delicious. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/797/624/666/852/782/original/4fe2c7246af4fa37.jpg npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1hap…j5mp https://pvoutput.org/outputs.jsp npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden As a general reminder to programmers - if you use negative numbers for error codes, your users won't easily be able to search for solutions to their problems. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/07/dont-use-negative-numbers-for-error-codes/ npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden 🆕 blog! “Book Review: The Pursuit of Purpose - Ken Banks” ★★★★☆ I've bumped in to Ken Banks a few times over my career - and he has always been a kind, inspiring, and dedicated chap. How did he get that way? This book is part autobiography and part an explanation about how people can find purpose in life. It is refreshingly secular on the latter, and […] 👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/07/book-review-the-pursuit-of-purpose-ken-banks/ ⸻ #autobiography #BookReview npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden I've just requested the MRI records of my full entire head and brains. I'm eventually going to 3D print replacement parts for every bit of me! npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1c49…wavy The problem is, you're the 10th person to make the exact same comment. At which point, it feels less like a conversation and more like a sustained complaint. Perhaps I'm being overly sensitive. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1xgx…4t7k Huh! I wonder if that's new? I couldn't find it a couple of weeks ago when I wrote that. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1vu7…nmuv Never! npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Buy new laptop and plan out stickers! 3/2 https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/757/176/511/529/969/original/5b46e0ebbbe70b57.jpg npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1g04…fr6f I can point you to some of the things we wrote on .gov.uk if that helps? More focussed on large & small government departments rather than companies though. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1g8n…xq74 I've made a start on it at - https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/29002 But I think it is also about more than X metres. I might want to chat to everyone inside a specific building, for example. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden I wish something like YikYak still existed. Several times over the last few months, I've wanted to chat with people in the same physical area / event as me. The barriers for getting everyone on to the same Slack / Discord / Matrix / Social Media channel is just too high. I'd love to go "I'm in physical space X, for event Y, how do I ask people nearby about Z?" (Anyone replying with XKCD 927 will be fired out of a cannon.) npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden I will also accept links to Shenzen rip-offs at half the price - as long as they can ship quickly! npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Hello friends. I'm interested in the Sol eInk Glasses - but they only appear to be available in the USA. https://solreader.com/ Do you know anyone in the UK with a pair I could try / buy? THANKS! 😎 #eBook #eReader #eInk #Gadgets npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Amazing. Someone has filed a #DMCA notice against my blog. Apparently, one of my posts is ripping off an OnlyFans account! Allegation - https://lumendatabase.org/notices/42788513# Want to know the post that they're claiming infringes? https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/04/this-blog-strips-off-for-css-naked-day/ FFS! (Do not reply to tell me DMCA is broken. I know. I am also aware of how to file a counter notice.) npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Five years ago today, I was unexpectedly called in for a meeting in the Houses of Parliament. As it was a last minute thing, I was in my usual attire of scruffy jeans & t-shirt. I was asked *very* politely if I was lost from a tour group. More than once. I also bumped into Jeremy Corbyn. Much taller than I expected. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/721/397/136/604/342/original/d0ee6450d8142e8c.jpg npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1ql3…a0kk do it! If they want you, they'll find a way to accommodate. If not, it's always good to practice interview techniques. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden 🆕 blog! “Password Resets in an Age of MFA” Recently, WordPress got in contact with me to say they suspect that my password was exposed in some sort of data breach. Well, it's a day ending with a "y" - so of course some scumbag has pilfered my digital identity. WordPress mandated that I change my password. But was that really necessary? Firstly, the […] 👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/07/password-resets-in-an-age-of-mfa/ ⸻ #2fa #CyberSecurity #MFA #passwords #totp npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden 🆕 blog! “The Bite” A glistening pool of blood gently wept from the body. Crimson gore sparkled under rapid flash photography as it loosely clung to the wounds. So many wounds. Too many for this to have been an accident. "Bite marks," said the forensics officer. "A lot of bite marks." The detective peered at the ragged corpse. It […] 👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/06/the-bite/ ⸻ #MicroFiction #SciFi #TalesOfTheAlgorithm #teeth npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1ty7…nunz What's IDS and which one do you recommend? npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden I wonder if there's any way to look through #WordPress to see *what* these admin users changed (if anything)? I suppose I could roll back the DB to yesterday, although that feels a bit extreme. Anyone have good tips for auditing a WordPress blog or tracking changes to it? (Please don't bother responding with your galaxy-brain takes on how I should choose a better blogging platform, thanks.) npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Ah fuck. The WordPress plugin I was using for my old PodCast was compromised. Kudos to #WordPress for alerting me and giving clear instructions on how to fix it. #PodCast #PowerPress https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/694/397/344/841/625/original/fe3ea664566cefc1.png npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1vu7…nmuv screenshot of the error? Which browser and ISP are you on? Are you connecting via a VPN / TOR? npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden 🆕 blog! “Review: dbrand skin for FrameWork laptop” ★★★★⯪ I love putting stickers on my laptops. But when it's time to move to a different laptop, what happens to all those cool stickers? After spending too many nights with a scraper and isopropanol, I decided to get a pre-cut dbrand skin. It'll protect the laptop and it will peel off in one piece, allowing […] 👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/06/review-dbrand-skin-for-framework-laptop/ ⸻ #FrameWork #laptop #review npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden What do you use to create presentation slides in Markdown? I'm bored of PPT, GDocs, LibreOffice. I want to know what you *personally* use. Why do you like it? Do you recommend it? Any pitfalls? npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden 🆕 blog! “Book Review: Dystopia X - A.E. Currie” ★★★⯪☆ Another one in the Panopticon series. Bouncy sci-fi which scattershoots its plots all over the place. VR, Mission to Mars, evil AI, underwater cities, eyeless technomages - this has it all. It probably has a little too much crammed in. But, hey, it's a great ride. A cliffhanger every other chapter, vaguely plausi… 👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/06/book-review-dystopia-x-a-e-currie/ ⸻ #BookReview #PanopticonBooks #SciFi npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1cru…avww bad image? It is literally a photo I took of the dbrand skin I received a few days ago. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Now that's interesting. #Threads has proper #WebFinger support - https://threads.net/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:[email protected] But the linked profile gives an error for me. Yet it can still be followed on Mastodon.social. I assume it is on an allow-list? npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Well, that's my postal vote sent. I hope there are no more politics in the next 9 days 😆 #GE2024 npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden The dbrand skin for the #FrameWork laptop is lovely. But it does include stickers to cover the fan holes… Full review coming later - but it is a good (if expensive) covering for a laptop. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/676/380/142/250/597/original/5a76b17524f8f501.jpg npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden 🆕 blog! “Theatre Review: Swan Lake in-the-round” ★★★★☆ I thought I didn't know Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. But, like all truly great cultural phenomena, it had disseminated itself through the cultureweb so thoroughly that I felt completely familiar with it. Performed in the round, from our nosebleed seats we had a stunning view of the action. The full floor of the Royal Albert Hall […… 👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/06/theatre-review-swan-lake-in-the-round/ ⸻ #ballet #review npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1hu7…5ry7 I've never done anything like that before. Have you? npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1hu7…5ry7 If you have the skills to do that, I'll happily buy a nodded board off you 😃 npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Nine years ago, I was interviewed in The Mirror after I disclosed a massive amount of compromised NHS websites. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/hacked-nhs-websites-used-criminals-5935415#ICID=sharebar_twitter Happy to say that things are much improved these days. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden 🆕 blog! “Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - Season 14” Guess who's back, back again! If you're new to the blog series, this is where I attempt to identify all the mobile phones used by The Doctor and their companions. The 2024 series is incredible. Lots of plot, not too much exposition, and a whole bunch of mystery. I love it when Doctor Who goes […] 👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/06/mobile-phones-of-doctor-who-season-14/ ⸻ #DoctorWho #DoctorWhoPhones npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1kg2…ckz0 I'm using WP. So I just stick in a URL and then WP converts it dynamically. Problem is, some tweets are deleted, or sometimes the API doesn't respond. So I want a static image. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1k8l…nzsp wheb you have used it, were you able to get it to show the full Tweet without a user having to interact with your page? npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Is there a good way to convert embedded Tweets into static content? I've got loads of Twitter content embedded on my WordPress blog. For obvious reasons, I'd like to reduce my reliance on Twitter's API. Does anyone have a tool that I can feed a URl and it will give me an image of a Tweet + alt text? (Looking for personal experience. I know how to use a search engine.) npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden @npub1ktc…5seh happy to take a look. I've had solar installed 3 times, so I've a fair idea of what's necessary and not. npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden Very satisfied with that series of #DoctorWho. Full mobile phone review coming tomorrow. Catch up with all the previous entries at: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/doctor-who-phones/?order=asc npub1lh05slh2nk6h5m3jp7qwtjmrmegtah6nj626g8qdg3a7ds3kg0ss9aa5ll Terence Eden 🆕 blog! “How to cope with a broken HDMI port during a presentation” Last week, I was part of the BarCamp London Hackathon. It had all the usual ups and downs of a Hackathon - laptops crashing, APIs failing, and HDMI ports breaking. We had a massive projector for participants to show off their work. The HDMI connection was… shit. Sorry, there's no better way… 👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/06/how-to-cope-with-a-broken-hdmi-port-during-a-presentation/ ⸻ #barcamp #hackathon