James Smith 💾 @Floppy@mastodon.me.uk

Finally, after 10 years, my Joggler is doing something useful!

*looks at self*

Don't start another project...

*inches towards keyboard*

Stop that...

*reaches out*

Don't you dare...!

`git init .`

GODDAMMIT

Merch from the EMF that never was... 🥲

As we all know, people only use roads in one way. People in cars can't walk, and cyclists can't own businesses.

I got 99 problems and DNS-SD might be one of them but I wouldn't know because I can't browse any DNS-SD services on the machine that's trying to tell me.

@Edent we proposed direct access for the customer in the original report, but I can absolutely understand why that's not been a big focus of the standard that's emerged; security is hard, and the API could be easily subverted to use customer access as an attack vector.

So pleased to see Open Banking doing what it was intended to do 😃 : https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/10/unofficial-moneydashboard-api/ (by @Edent)

I woke up anxious this morning, and spent the next hour or so telling myself that there was no reason to be, asking rhetorically “why am I feeling anxious? Honestly, get a grip”. But then I managed to admit to myself that the world is still crazy, life is still hard, and just because it’s been this way for 6 months doesn’t make it OK. And I don’t think I feel any better, but at least I’m not blaming myself so much. This is still tough, and it’s OK to admit it.

This is a brilliant explanation of face detection and it’s use - well worth a few minutes of your time, *especially* if you know nothing about what computers can do with your pictures these days: https://www.hownormalami.eu

Surely tiers 1, 2 and 3 are Physical, Data Link and Network?

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Today I’ve been reminded of the time we made Tim Berners-Lee into a spider, for some reason.

It's really my own fault for trying to use xargs and xpath and xmllint all at the same time. I think I'll replace it all with a dumb grep.

Has anyone in the history of the world ever got xargs to work. 😬

While I'm glad DT has learned a lot about COVID, I'd rather he'd already done that over the last, say, six months, by listening to his scientists.