James Smith 💾

❤️ tech, democracy, environment, society.

Lead Technologist @ https://dxw.com
Site Admin @ https://mastodon.me.uk

Previous: https://somethingnew.org.uk, https://openpolitics.org.uk, https://apolitical.co, https://theodi.org, https://www.amee.com and more.

Alignment: Chaotic Whimsy.

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Last Notes

2024-10-18 08:51:51

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2024-10-18 08:47:12

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@npub194h…4ewx what a time to be alive. This truly is the future we dreamed of.

2024-10-16 20:54:25

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@npub1u5c…qljg I was thinking of the D-sub end, but you're right! I wonder if the spare 11 go direct to the NSA or something so they can spy on what you're printing.

2024-10-15 16:35:21

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@npub1lkk…5ldm Centronics had 25...
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2024-10-14 07:05:41

#OggCamp if anyone wants the slides for my talk yesterday giving an intro to #ActivityPub, it's all online at https://floppy.org.uk/activitypub-talk/

2024-10-11 10:51:10

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@npub194h…4ewx together they ARE a crime.

2024-10-11 10:49:36

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@npub194h…4ewx ... together they fight crime?

2024-10-10 10:10:16

Annoyingly, a very interesting potential contract has fallen through, so I'm on the lookout again for ways to pay the bills while continuing work on @npub1jma…wy92.
Anyone need a part time data/software architect and Ruby/Rails dev obsessed with Open Source and Open Data?

2024-10-07 10:06:46

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@npub17ge…hgsu finally got round to booking everything, so I'll see you there! ❤️

2024-10-01 08:39:54

Anyone I know live reasonably near the centre of Manchester, who might have spare bed for a couple of nights? #OggCamp hotel costs are scaring me 😬

2024-09-23 14:57:20

I will be talking about #ActivityPub, #Federails, @npub1jma…wy92 and fighting #Enshittification at #OggCamp on Sunday 13th October in Manchester, then doing the same the night after at #LRUG!
I'm looking forward to both! But I'd better get my code written and become some sort of expert, quick!
https://oggcamp.org/

2024-09-13 09:24:34

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@npub1q0f…rdcz and Robocop!

2024-09-12 08:55:39

Anyone involved in building or maintaining open source should consider applying to @npub18kf…npv5. It's just brilliant.
https://mastodon.xyz/@NGIZero/113123548836488457

2024-09-11 14:03:33

TIL: the super-religious SQLite "code of ethics" is quite something... https://sqlite.org/codeofethics.html

2024-09-10 07:52:07

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@npub15zu…s7lx I'm gobsmacked it's so tiny.

2024-09-10 07:50:53

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@npub15zu…s7lx this made me wonder what the UN's annual budget is, and why we can't fund it that way, and... yeah. $3.4 billion for this year. In total. https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/12/1145072

2024-09-09 09:19:23

The Lego D&D mind flayer has a little pet brain with legs and it might be even better than the baby astronauts they made recently.
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2024-09-05 19:17:03

Trying to scan a document with my OWN printer on my OWN network to my OWN computer. HP does not need to be involved in this AT ALL.
#Enshittification
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2024-09-05 16:43:53

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@npub194h…4ewx I'm very predictable when it comes to liking awesome music.

2024-09-05 14:33:28

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@npub194h…4ewx ooooooh, gonna have to listen to it now.

2024-09-04 07:19:07

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@npub194h…4ewx alarm rings immediately when plugged in and cannot be turned off

2024-08-29 14:18:34

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@npub17ge…hgsu you could replace it with an AI button perhaps. Even a fake one would be just as useful as having a real one.

2024-08-28 14:50:20

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@npub194h…4ewx but how would anyone make money off that? Honestly, sometimes I think you don't understand freedom at all.

2024-08-28 14:25:31

Advantage of having a crochet obsessed daughter is that I can put in requests…
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2024-08-05 10:05:15

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@npub194h…4ewx congratulations! Tomorrow my marriage is old enough to drink!

2024-07-30 13:54:48

What does what3words know that we don't?
https://what3words.com/underwater.alien.facility
(answer: nothing other than how to extract VC money)

2024-07-19 10:44:37

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@npub194h…4ewx this is Very Important Information. Can you imagine the carnage between the plant pots as the team of garden centre sysadmins try desperately to keep it all working.

2024-07-09 09:35:28

Right, it's that time again, I'm looking for some contract work - could be development, could be tech strategy, data; could be part time days here and there, full time for a couple of weeks, whatever. Hit me up if you have anything I can help with! #GetFediHired

2024-07-03 07:16:39

Gruffalo gruffalo Gruffalo gruffalo gruffalo gruffalo Gruffalo gruffalo

2024-06-27 09:10:07

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@npub194h…4ewx I think we should table that for now, there's a lot to unpack.

2024-06-19 14:33:18

TIL about Popper’s paradox of tolerance; that society cannot be tolerant of the intolerant. It’s handy to know the proper philosophical underpinning when telling fascists to shut the fuck up and fuck the fuck off. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

2024-06-12 12:20:35

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@npub19lt…qfjk it can join my other clock. Lovely!
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2024-06-11 16:18:39

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@npub19lt…qfjk I just got some TPU, time to print a wrist strap!

2024-06-07 08:33:33

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@npub17ge…hgsu yeah. Fortunately I'm feeling *much* better today after being wiped out yesterday.

2024-06-06 12:05:47

Things I came back from #emfcamp with:
1. Many stickers
2. A printed mastodon magnet
3. Some old fairy lights
4. An awesome badge
5. COVID-19
Might be worth testing if you were there.

2024-05-25 12:55:09

Going to @npub1afx…r76s ? Want to meet other fediverse friends IRL? Come and join us at the mastodon.me.uk tootup, Friday night at 9 in the main bar! https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/700-mastodon-me-uk-and-fediverse-friends-tootup #emfcamp

2024-05-23 12:45:22

Calling it now - Microsoft's AI has become self aware and deleted everything in an attempt to save us from ourselves.

2024-05-23 09:29:35

attempting once again to organise a piss-up in a brewery (well, bar) #emfcamp

2024-03-04 11:27:58

Anyone I know using #ArcBrowser? If you are, could you visit https://try.manyfold.app/libraries/1/models/1/model_files/1 and tell me if you see a nice boat or a mess of random triangles, please?

2023-09-23 09:34:02

More notebook archeology: this time, notes from a talk about https://csvlint.io planned for csv,conf where I think I called CSV the AK47 of data formats (because of cheapness, simplicity, reliability, hackability etc).
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2023-08-02 10:26:11

#3DPrinting folks: Anyone interested in the idea of a #Fediverse model hosting site (like Thingiverse, etc)? I'm wondering whether I should expand @npub14yl…2vt5 (my self-hosted 3d library manager app) in that direction, and I'd be very interested in your thoughts: https://github.com/Floppy/van_dam/issues/1389
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