Ben Daubney :prami:

Oxfordshire, UK • Finds stories in data • Opinions my own, etc • He’s just this guy, you know?

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2024-09-13 12:39:41

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@npub1y9z…3ykm You tried so hard, and got so far.
Hope you get lucky on resale. We did earlier this year for Bruce Springsteen - ended up getting tickets about a third of the price on Twickets

2024-08-18 23:10:27

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@npub12ze…hunm Mate that’s not just any synth either! That’s THE synth, the one that Peter Gabriel used everywhere and got Kate Bush onto as well.

2024-08-16 09:59:02

On my third coffee of the morning. It’s not working quick enough
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2024-06-20 00:07:33

Saw my all-time favourite film in a cinema for the first time since it came out in the UK in March 2000.
Loved it when I was 15, love it now I’m 40. Loved seeing it in a packed cinema with people who’d obviously never seen it and loved how completely indifferent my wife was about the whole experience.
Malkovich?
https://media.social.lol/media_attachments/files/112/645/560/929/670/511/original/589949d050e46f3f.jpeg

2024-06-19 12:34:20

:-O
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2024-06-09 00:08:43

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@npub12ze…hunm I have!
Also nearby are Agatha Christie, CS Lewis, and JRR Tolkien.
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2024-06-08 23:38:49

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@npub12ze…hunm He’s buried about three miles from my house! Under his actual name, as it goes.

2024-06-06 16:09:14

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@npub12ze…hunm On the upside it should be fairly easy to take the hard drive out, whack it in an external enclosure, then access all your old files as an external drive. Nothing lost!

2024-06-06 16:03:57

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@npub12ze…hunm Burst capacitor in it, maybe? Can you tell whether it’s just the internal PSU that’s gone?

2024-06-03 22:20:57

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@npub12ze…hunm Not totally keen on how I look a bit like Shrek from this view
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2024-06-03 22:14:07

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@npub12ze…hunm I have the full collection of scans from multiple angles. It’s kind of fascinating. The sinus is a weird shape in a weird place when you can actually see it.

2024-06-03 19:00:07

This is my skull’s fingerprint.
In 2019 I needed to have a brainscan. My brother mentioned that I could request a digital copy of my scan which has sat on my computer unopened since then.
Turns out that the skull is made out of three plates which join together and create unique fingerprint-like patterns of waves. This is mine across the top of my head; I think I could stitch some other images together to see the two others but that’s trickier!
https://media.social.lol/media_attachments/files/112/553/086/214/051/730/original/7e776b8e79dc82b1.png

2024-05-30 15:04:53

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@npub1y9z…3ykm That’s incredibly kind, thank you!

2024-05-26 21:44:55

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@npub12ze…hunm It was pretty good!
It’s a shame I’m not much of a drinker. There’s a booming small brewery culture in the UK nowadays. All sorts of interesting things being made.

2024-05-26 19:32:38

I don’t drink much anymore but met some family at a brewery earlier and couldn’t resist bringing a few cans home. This one’s especially nice.
https://media.social.lol/media_attachments/files/112/508/584/423/146/497/original/542931a30aaeae2a.jpeg

2024-05-21 17:18:08

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@npub12ze…hunm It’s the best. I’ve seen it so often but only once at a cinema when it was first released.

2024-05-21 17:15:50

Hot take:
AI models in and of themselves: probably good.
AI models trained on copyrighted data without permission or citation, deployed to churn out endless content for SEO or to create meaningless and vacuous responses and descriptions: definitely bad.
AI models generating art in any form: the bleakest future imaginable.

2024-05-21 16:48:51

Absolutely over the moon to learn that my nice local cinema is showing my all-time favourite film next month! And because I’m a member it’s stupidly cheap too!
Which is to say: I’ve just spent £1 booking a ticket to see Being John Malkovich on the big screen in June.
Cannot. Wait!

2024-05-21 16:46:13

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@npub1y9z…3ykm 😬
I’ve known I need to migrate from micro.blog for a good few months. He's been properly all-in on AI for a while now. Need to accellerate my decision.

2024-05-13 18:22:39

Today’s #WeblogPoMo2024 post:
How Japanese children learn multiplication (probably)
https://bendaubney.blog/2024/05/13/how-japanese-children.html
(A lot of alt-text on the image on Mastodon here!)
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2024-05-10 17:59:34

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@npub1m8w…0taz Worth having a look at both http://pika.page and http://scribbles.page. Both fun little projects to start blogs quickly by very small teams.

2024-05-10 16:06:04

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@npub1ewx…y3dm Did you ever have The Simpsons expansion pack for After Dark? It was incredible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYb965ssyFs&list=PLFoORIQe4zILBhzJinEnfyOx2O20tcc1y&index=15

2024-05-06 00:28:15

Bruce was really tremendously good. I’m not particularly a fan of his work but boy the man puts on a show.
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2024-05-06 00:24:31

Went to see Bruce Springsteen this evening. It was phenomenal but boy did I feel young. Here’s an artist’s impression:
https://media.social.lol/media_attachments/files/112/390/823/483/086/896/original/21a860be04bc7c9c.mp4

2024-05-03 10:19:09

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@npub12ze…hunm What it is now is probably fine for that audience, just not for us cantankerous forty-somethings!

2024-05-03 09:49:11

Today’s #WebLogPoMo2024 post:
I used Tumblr the wrong way, and I don't care
https://bendaubney.blog/2024/04/30/youre-doing-tumblr.html

2024-04-21 22:42:54

35 years since the initial release of my favourite console, the #GameBoy
32 years since I got my own one on Christmas Day 1991.
(Wasn’t I adorable?)
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2024-04-20 20:34:06

I own thousands of records including plenty of novelty pressings but I’ve never seen this before.
Picked up Kate Bush’s #RSD24 single ‘Eat The Music'. On one side it's white vinyl. On the other... it's a full colour picture!
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2024-04-20 10:00:30

Happy Record Store Day #RSD24 to all who celebrate.
Back when not much was available on vinyl I used to love RSD. Sadly it’s become a bit of a major label shovelfest so I won’t be visiting today BUT record shops are still the best shops and I love them so much.

2024-04-18 18:31:52

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@npub12ze…hunm I’ve had aloe before but not cactus. Does it taste of much? I’m imagining it’s a bit like cucumber.

2024-04-18 16:40:17

Brought back the most Norwegian thing possible from holiday: cactus flavoured licorice-ish… things.
‘With taste of cactus.’ Because everyone knows what that tastes like?
(They are good though)
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2024-04-10 20:40:30

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@npub12ze…hunm The chaos of their brief career is really something.
While digging around in a charity shop once I found a signed original copy of Stutter. Very quickly purchased!

2024-04-06 10:14:43

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@npub1y9z…3ykm A purist would say it’s a bit of a con - your one is true analogue whereas mine is a digital camera with a printer attached. Don’t care though. It’s FUN.

2024-04-06 10:11:12

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@npub1y9z…3ykm https://instax.co.uk/cameras/mini-evo/
The images are saved to a microSD card so there’s probably a way to rip them regardless but I kinda like that limitation.

2024-04-06 10:05:07

I got a silly novelty camera. It’s half-digital half-instant. If I print a photo I can get a digital copy. A fun design choice!
I’m uploading printed photos to @npub1z57…7azf as a bit of an experiment. Follow along if you like.

2024-04-05 20:36:32

If I wanted to have a little account of novelty photos what’s my best option? Pixelfed somehow? @npub1jl7…zmv2’s some.pics? Ten years ago I’d have just set up a topic specific Tumblr.

2024-04-04 20:37:01

Literally the day before my actual date of birth. Unbelievable. https://xoxo.zone/@todayonscreen/112213961301797316

2024-03-27 17:56:12

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@npub1y9z…3ykm If you do, make sure you get the v2. The original doesn’t work with Xbox controllers; the v2 works with pretty much everything.

2024-03-27 17:49:22

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@npub1y9z…3ykm https://www.8bitdo.com/usb-wireless-adapter-2/
Highly highly recommended

2024-03-27 17:34:29

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@npub1y9z…3ykm Yes: have you set up a script so that when you hit the first big button it makes a Mario jump sound and when you hit the second it makes a fire throwing sound? If not why not??

2024-03-19 12:54:21

Yay!! It’s another omg.lol promo event!!
Five years of one of the BEST online services. 50% off any purchase (new accounts/credits) with promo code BIRTHDAY.
Insanely cheap one-page profile websites, the very best Mastodon instance, a great community, /now page, blog… so much!
Well worth it.
https://home.omg.lol/referred-by/bendaubney
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2024-03-18 18:32:59

It’s the twentieth anniversary of what might be the best game about your dad being god, losing the planets after a drunken bender, and demanding that you gather material from earth to remake them.
<３ｋａｔａｍａｒｉ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7EXlS9-XpU

2024-03-17 16:56:45

The servers for Mario Maker on the Wii U are due to shut down shortly. There’s a big community effort to try and win some of the insanely hard levels that, until now, have been unbeaten.
These skills are insane. Watching some of the efforts to win these levels makes my head spin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roIFvn569VI

2024-03-08 19:06:26

I LOVE the new trend for quick little blogging services, like @npub1f35…h9ym’s https://pika.page/ and @npub1w9g…zs4d’s https://scribbles.page.
Any other newish ones?

2024-03-06 19:36:24

Well, the light mode/dark mode selector here’s way more fun than expected.
(One for the web front end/CSS folks to geek over. @npub19kd…4jdw, maybe?) https://xoxo.zone/@xoxo/112050062532454618

2024-02-29 23:06:38

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2024-02-29 15:03:44

“Hey our fun, open platform lets you do anything and customise everything to your heart’s content"
Great. Can I display a YouTube video on my default list view please?
“lol no”

2024-02-27 16:42:58

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@npub1ewx…y3dm Looks like the service needs an explicit date (e.g. “last updated 25th February”) rather than a relative date (“last updated two days ago”). Is there a tag that has that? {last-updated} is relative, I think

2024-02-27 16:11:33

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@npub1ewx…y3dm Oh that is neat!
Just looking to add mine from omg.lol and it doesn’t find an upload date, presumably because I’m using the {last-updated} flag. Is there a similar one for last updated date?

2024-02-22 20:21:54

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@npub12ze…hunm Oh man, 300+?! I’ll call in sick tomorrow so I can check

2024-02-22 17:41:05

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@npub12ze…hunm The game I’m most looking forward to this year - another indie - is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siT1HTSCY4g

2024-02-22 17:37:01

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@npub12ze…hunm Very glad that Penny’s Big Breakaway is out. That looks superb. Going to wait for a few bug fixes before diving in.

2024-02-14 18:32:38

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@npub12ze…hunm @npub12e0…5rwn Hey, it’s my SO’s birthday today as well! She hates that it’s on Valentines and would prefer a day all to herself, but everyone makes a fuss of her.
Happy birthday, @npub12e0…5rwn !

2024-02-13 17:54:25

Me, two hours ago: “Oh, this should be easy enough to do in Excel. I shouldn’t even need to do a pivot, just a quick formula.”
Me, now: 🥲
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2024-02-04 19:02:47

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@npub1y9z…3ykm Sir, may I introduce you to my lord and saviour:
https://www.schwartz.co.uk/products/seasonings-and-blends/world-flavours/garlic-italian