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by edent 10mo ago
Please build it! There are lots of lovely tree memorials which should also be preserved.
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by edent 10mo ago
Built it and they will come. OK, it was a mixture of things. I told my friends about it and they were sufficiently nerdy to try it out. I responded to early feedback - specifically about creating a leaderboard. Originally it was all anonymo
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by edent 10mo ago
You are welcome to fork our code for OpenBenches https://github.com/openbenches/openbenches.org/ It is fairly standard PHP + MySQL. We use Auth0 for authentication - people editing have to use a social network to
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by edent 10mo ago
> I wish there was a law that assigned a dollar value to different types of PII leaks There is. It is called GDPR. Plenty of companies have been fined for leaks like this. Some countries also have whistleblower bounties but, as you might
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by edent 10mo ago
BitWarden offers users a choice of US or EU hosting.
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by edent 10mo ago
Do you want to know a secret? Sometimes my friends post on social media platform A "Hey, I've just posted on platform B. Upvotes appreciated." Or a newsletter will say "please share this post on…" Or people on Disco
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by edent 10mo ago
Where's the evidence that users want this? By users, I mean the people who browse marketing websites. Do they think having their company name / information in your copy is going to be helpful or creepy? Oh, and did the IP owners g
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Get an Old Laptop(cyberaether.xyz)
4 points by edent 10mo ago|0 comments
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by edent 10mo ago
As I wrote: > Like most WordPress blogs, my site has an API. WordPress, for all its faults, powers a fair number of websites. The schema is identical across all of them.
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by edent 10mo ago
In fairness, they were relatively popular back when I got the domain in 2007 :-)
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by edent 10mo ago
It isn't a custom schema. It is the WordPress standard one - as used by [m|b]illions of sites.
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Stop crawling my HTML – use the API(shkspr.mobi)
128 points by edent 10mo ago|131 comments
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by edent 10mo ago
I've been using an eInk screen for over 12 years - it is refreshed multiple times per day. It is as crisp and clear as the day I got it. Admittedly, I'm not trying to run video on it constantly and it doesn't get hot. But eIn
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by edent 10mo ago
It also looks beautiful when printed out - I made it into a spiral which hangs on my wall. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/07/the-mostly-complete-unicode...
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LastPass fined £1.2M by ICO for data breach(ico.org.uk)
25 points by edent 10mo ago|1 comments
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by edent 10mo ago
There are plenty of "synthetic" flavours - Takis, Twinkies, and bubblegum drinks spring to mind. There are also a wide variety of textures that are heavily industrialised. If you go to some fine dining restaurants, you'll fin
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by edent 10mo ago
When I occasionally venture I to standards-land, I always ask "what user research have you done on this?" So many weird design choices in computing are because one person said "this seems right to me" without considering
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by edent 10mo ago
We appear to be in violent agreement with each other :-) I'm not sure if my writing was unclear, but I said "Anyone who preaches the ideology of hate has no business here." That's who my screed was against. Those who use
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by edent 10mo ago
Again, you'll notice that I didn't actually ask anyone to join a campaign. I rather conspicuously didn't ask anyone to become a member of a political party, sign a petition, or donate money to a cause. I am literally not orga
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by edent 10mo ago
The author (me) we not trying to rouse hate against specific people. Indeed, I didn't mention or name anyone. If you truly believe that 50% of people are full of hate, then I can only suggest you get off the computer and go out into yo
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Former Twitter Attorney Files for 'Twitter' Trademark(gerbenlaw.com)
47 points by edent 10mo ago|13 comments
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by edent 10mo ago
You'll notice that the author (me) didn't actually credit the invention of the computer to Turing's sexuality. But it is an undeniable fact that he was gay. If the British government had banned him from working at Bletchly
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by edent 10mo ago
Is it? Capitalism is about choice. If my local greengrocer is rude to me, I can choose to take my business elsewhere. If the author of a text editor doesn't share my sentiments on whether to ban tobacco adverts, I can choose not to use
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by edent 10mo ago
"there are only: Two races: white and "political" Two genders: Male and "political" Two hair styles for women: long and "political" Two sexualities: straight and "political" Two body types: no
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by edent 10mo ago
The idea that the US has experienced anything even close to moderate left-wing policies is - from the perspective of an outsider - laughable. I'd love to know what extreme positions you think US politicians have enforced and what the
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by edent 10mo ago
Thank you very much for your constructive criticism on my writing. I appreciate the candid feedback. I must take one small issue though. Every engineering project I've worked on has very definitely specified a tolerance. Something may
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by edent 10mo ago
The author (me) wasn't writing for you. If you haven't been paying attention to the various bigots trying to rouse hate from their position of technology prominence, then I don't think my post will convince you of anything
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by edent 10mo ago
The author (me) is one of literally dozens of people who doesn't live in the USA. We don't all obsess over a foreign politician. As for Sophie Wilson, I suggest you speak to your trans friends about whether they were trans before
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Frequently Asked Unicycling Questions(vale.rocks)
72 points by edent 11mo ago|50 comments
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by edent 11mo ago
In the UK, the newer trains and tube carriages all have USB ports for charging. But, it is kind of a non issue. You are responsible for your ticket. Having a dead battery is no different to losing your paper ticket.

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