STILL wrangling javascript asset pipelines after DAYS. This is doing my nut.

@liaizon I made a thing, thanks for the great graphics package!! https://sellshirts.com/product/11905

@pikesley I'm having fun. Shall we get one for @JeniT ?

Been meaning to do this for years... HTTPShirts is now live for all your HTTP-based clothing needs. https://sellshirts.com/marketplace/httpshirts

@phlash @films the more I think about it, the more I'm convinced "Singalonga War of the Worlds" would be an amazing event. It's frowned on when you go to the live concerts... probably... I didn't actually try I guess 🤣

Accidentally made a thing whose logo looks good on a tshirt...

@films I had an idea! How about showing Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of War of the Worlds? I quite fancy a singalong… https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1071242/

Following on from the @EUCommission Tech Sovereignty and Open Source Strategy (and Mastodon’s direct mention within it!) that was announced this week… Our team is proud to have signed and contributed to the drafting of the Europe Open Declaration alongside our peers in the #socialweb and […]

I appear to have turned 50. Who is to blame for this travesty‽

RE: https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/116685960727005287 RIP John. Thanks for all of it. ❤️

Anyone know how to get esbuild to copy WASM from an npm package into `outdir`? https://github.com/Tschrock/esbuild-plugin-wasm seems to work OK for your own WASM, but won't pull from node_modules. (I don't understand the WASM toolchain really yet) #esbuild #javascript #wasm

Very disappointed to see that @Thangs3D have got rid of their cross-site model search capability. One more reason we need independent federated tools like @manyfold I guess.

Some heavy shaving this afternoon, and I don’t think I got anywhere. How annoying. It’ll have all grown back in the morning.

I like the new Boards of Canada album, but I'm not sure it's *working* music, as such, it gets a bit too wibbly.

Made some bread this morning, but it's been a while and I think my yeast has died; it's basically https://wiki.lspace.org/Dwarf_Bread

Really good essay from @iris_meredith, "The Attack on Competence". It provides a very intelligent answer to my question of "why do we no longer care if things are correct or not?" https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/attack-on-competence

I want to give some huge appreciation to everyone who helps pay for this instance! We have a 6 month runway of money in OpenCollective, although our disk space needs (and thus the bill) keep creeping up, so every single donation, no matter how small, is hugely appreciated! If you appreciate […]

When did we stop caring if things were correct?

Pasting a huge AI generated explanation to a problem in an issue or pull-request is nothing but RUDE. Don't do it. You look stupid and the receivers of that feel insulted. We are humans. We communicate like humans. Fine, use the tools you like, but don't insult us.

I want to make a simple ICS calendar feed for a few local events that I can share to some people. Nothing fancy required, don't want to use Google, but also don't really want to self-host Mobilizon just for this, and there's no UK instances. Any ideas?

An apparently progressive and open organisation scared of unionisation? Colour me incredibly unsurprised. Unionization is the absolute best litmus test to get an organisation to show its true colours.

Oh look GitHub's broken again.

Is OpenUK an open source advocacy organisation or an AI advocacy organisation? I find it very hard to tell.

> A button gives the option to “text President Trump,” which, when clicked, opens a text message to a pre-selected number with the default text “Greatest President Ever!” What absolute fucking losers […]

Thinking about becoming a bus driver

I don't know what I typed into my search bar, but this isn't what I meant.

The new EHRC guidance on trans people's access to services and facilities is so fucking stupid. I'm so disappointed in this country (yet again), and I'm so angry for everyone whose life is made even more difficult because of this through no fault of their own. And all because arseholes always […]

Do any normal keyboards in any languages have an em-dash key?

I have a dilemma. Manyfold has a no-GenAI policy; a one-line PR has been submitted which I am pretty sure is AI generated (long detailed description, brand new GitHub account). However, it's a good bugfix I'd like to include. Is it reasonable and in line with the policy ( […]

Mood

Making a general relationship model and basing it on an RDF triple. However, I need alternative wording for "subject / predicate / object" which doesn't use the rather overloaded term "object" so Ruby doesn't complain at me. Any suggestions?

The sheer amount of time taken to generate a Fitbit data download archive is a horrifying sign of how much data there is... Or, it's an intentional delaying tactic.

There we go, found them

Added "self hosting media node" to my profile for the like five people that will get it.

Put in my next @NGIZero funding application. Manyfold is pretty featureful these days, but needs to reach a stable point, so the application takes a fairly general "bugfix, polish, document, hit 1.0" approach. I hope that's to their taste.

> the authors believe genAI has a social and environmental impact that undermines the very humanist foundations of free software Bang on. I am anti-genAI in all its uses because it commoditises, devalues and undermines the very nature of human creativity. I care about craft, I care about people […]

Must... not... snark...

"So what radicalised you?" "A 1989 Beastie Boys record"

Gitlab about to go to shit https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

"It's important to us not to miss out on this race-to-the-bottom"

Didn't get my #emfcamp talk in this year, which I'm kinda relieved about; it would have taken a chunk of work beforehand, so now I can just relax and enjoy the weekend.

RE: https://cathode.church/@kaye/116549489237944586 10/10 would enable communism mode

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@pauloldhamsnp/116549517590212043 Really good point. Anyone with a Reform representative, let’s not them get away with being inept.

#minipainting finished my Deathwing captain. Pretty pleased with it actually.

#pensionbee customers on the climate plan. You may be unaware (is I was) that the top 10 holdings on your pension are AI, big tech and chip companies, and that the portfolio is overwhelmingly US-based; see […]

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116537372614635109 So much this

I *hate hate hate hate hate* AI-generated bug reports. No human I've ever met writes anything that long, with sections and bullet points. It's a lot quicker and easier to understand a problem reported as "when I do X, Y happens instead of Z" instead of a wall of text that finishes off with a […]

[ukpol] In general the results are horrible, I mean who actually looks at Reform and says "ooh yes, I want angry incompetents to run everything", but I take some minor solace in the fact that Sussex is currently 2:1 Lib Dem to Reform, and my own ward just declared Lib Dem. It's like an island […]

Been fruitlessly looking for an online password generator with URL parameters for length etc. Anyone know one? I want to include a single simple link in the Manyfold docs to generate a suitable secret key (and for various obtuse reasons, doing it in-browser with javascript is a pain).