Notices by Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social), page 3

I bought the cheapest pair of USB-C headphones I could find.
https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DFR7n73

And… they work! Plugged into Android and sound came out. Plugged into my laptop's USB-C port - and it was instantly detected by Linux.

Volume and play buttons all worked.

Not bad for £2!

About the cheapest non-customisable USB-C headphones I can find are £2.90ea.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/176450421173

Almost cheap enough to hand out to people on public transport who play their music out loud for everyone to enjoy.

Still trying to find a bulk supplier who will let me print a logo on the case.

If you know of a company which does cheap custom USB-C headphones and can ship to the UK, please tell me!

Hello #MastodonAPI and #ActivityPub friends.

I've created a bot which has several test cases for you to try: @test_posts

If you've built something which consumes posts, this will (I hope) give you some confidence that everything renders correctly.

Are there any other types of posts you think it should have?

@Gargron @bruno Interesting! It's always fun to see what happens to early posts. I've got some on Twitter which have been badly mangled over the years.

🆕 blog! “Social Media Blocking Has Always Been A Lie”

What does it mean to block someone on a social media site? Way back in the mists of time, we dealt with trolls on Usenet with the almighty PLONK - PLaced On Newsgroup Killfile. It meant your newsreader never downloaded their posts. They could rant at you all day long, and you'd never …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/09/social-media-blocking-has-always-been-a-lie/
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#ActivityPub #BlueSky #mastodon #SocialMedia #twitter

@silverwizard Yes, there is a shell. I can usually log in after a few minutes.

I'm trying to work out why ssh hangs while scp can transfer files.

@mhoye @fuzzface
Here's the -vvvvv output.
Nothing obvious I can see. It authenticates, connects, then hangs.

Hey #Linux friends (and enemies) I have a weird #SSH question.

If I try to SSH into a server, I get a timeout. If I try to SCP some files to it, it works!

What's going on?

The server has an entry in ~/ssh/config

This fails: ssh server
This works: scp text.txt server:/path/

Can any shed some light on why one works and the other doesn't?

@evan @thisisaaronland
Sorry to have missed that.
I wrote an AP server which publishes geotags. And I think PixelFed supports them.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/rebuilding-foursquare-for-activitypub-using-openstreetmap/#activitypub

@evan
Different banks. In the UK, interbank transfers are free and instant.

I have a sincere question about #Ethereum.

Why does it cost money to transfer money?

Someone sent me about US$50 worth of ETH. In order to transfer it from one of my wallets to another, I had to pay a gas fee of a few ¢.

Why is this a good thing?

Last week I transfered literally thousands of £ between my bank accounts and I didn't pay anything.

(I'm interested in genuine answers. Please don't bother replying if you're a #crypto sceptic. I actually want answers, not snark.)

Looks like the cheapest #ccTLD at the moment is .ru / .рф

Not *entirely* sure it's a sensible idea to buy one though…

A comprehensive list of Internet #TLDs which are also valid #HTML elements:

🔊 <audio> / .audio
🇧🇷 <br> / .br - Brazil
🗂 <data> / .data
🇭🇷 <hr> / .hr - Croatia
🇱🇮 <li> / .li - Liechtenstein
🔗 <link> / .link
🗺 <map> / .map
☰ <menu> / .menu
🔎 <search> / .search
👉 <select> / .select
🧥 <style> / .style
🇹🇩 <td> / .td - Chad
🇹🇭 <th> / .th - Thailand
🇹🇷 <tr> / .tr - Türkiye
📹 <video> / .video

There are a couple of deprecated HTML elements as well:
🖕 <center> / . center
🇹🇹 <tt> / .tt - Trinidad and Tobago

🆕 blog! “No, ActivityPub votes aren't anonymous”

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/09/no-activitypub-isnt-anonymous/
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#ActivityPub #fediverse #mastodon #privacy

🆕 blog! “Yet another AI Racism example”

Here's a good pub-quiz trivia question - which Oscar-winning Actors have appeared in Doctor Who? It's the sort of thing that you can either wrack your brains for, or construct a SPARQL Query for WikiData0. I was bored and asked ChatGPT. The new Omni model claims to be faster and more accurate. But, in my […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/09/yet-another-ai-racism-example/
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#DoctorWho #racism

@kitten_tech @jwz @docpop

Yup. Here's the little code I wrote. You might want to run it note for note.

https://github.com/edent/Tweet2Embed/blob/main/mastodon2html.py

Turns any public Mastodon status into semantic HTML & CSS for embedding.

Happy to answer any questions.

🆕 blog! “The tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth”

You know that ice-breaker game "Two Truths And A Lie"? When I'm forced into some mandatory office fun, I always say... I've sat in the seat of a space shuttle. I still have two of my baby teeth. I used to be a voice-over artist. Well, one of those truths is about to come crashing […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/03/the-tooth-the-whole-tooth-and-nothing-but-the-tooth/
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#health #teeth

Using Aliza for Linux (https://www.aliza-dicom-viewer.com/) I was able to load the DICOM images from my CT Scan and turn them into a 3D model of my teeth.

Holy shit! This CT Scan is so good that I can see my "Mental Foramen".

Up until today, I had no idea that I had a couple of holes in my lower jaw.

Trying to work out the privacy ramifications of posting a screenshot. This is so freaking cool!

Update!
I now have a CT scan of my teeth. Comes with a Windows executable - wonder if that'll run in WINE?