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I live on the edge, by which I mean that I'm replacing a laptop battery 12 hours before the laptop and I head to the airport.

Royal Mail could save a fortune in hosting costs and massively reduce its carbon footprint by replacing its package-tracking web service with a static HTML site that reads "Sorry there was a problem, please try again". No change in functionality at all.

If you have to ask, you're streets behind.

Morning coffee thoughts: font file formats are like 75% technical debt plus 75% corner cases.

Why yes, I am indeed waiting for a big build to complete. Silence will resume shortly.

Screaming "you can't trust the news!" is a BS tactic when right-wing conspiracy nuts use it to pry people away from informing themselves about the issues, and it's equally a BS tactic when you retweet somebody complaining about something you think sounds reasonable to your ears in light of some topic you've got opinions about. Don't be like them, and don't spread their tactics either.

https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/113598119503667118

Actually, don't bulk-delete your old content. That just makes the Internet worse for other normal people, which is a shitty thing for you to do, and it also has jack-all zero impact on the vendor/CEO/villain you tell yourself you're stickin' it to.
https://infosec.exchange/@cyd/113600987726560606

Instead, self-archive your stuff, and be a good example of preserving the Internet for everybody — https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/gb/2024/MiniDebConfCambridge/Willis

It's #humpday; find a relaxing read to take your mind off of things, because #selfcare is important

@mattl I tried a few hoping for the best and quickly regretted it.

@mattl The spam here is delivered through hashtags. If you follow any of the spamprone varieties (e.g., looking-for-work ones), you see it.

I'm going to fork Android just to restore the one-touch "Toggle Bluetooth On/Off" button on the little pull-down top menu.

Crazy person making a rose-engine lathe, in his shed, by hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5QI5Ou7DlM

Which I say only as a means of broad topical orientation. There's so much else going on in this video that a single sentence can't contain it. Watch it if you think people diving headfirst into any niche oddball obsessions is relatable.

#yourthingisnottooweird

Oh, great. ReadTheDocs suddenly dumped in a transient-overlay "search results" floating box feature, replacing the existence of an actual, usable HTML results page.

And by "great" I of course mean "colossally stupid." This modal-disappears-on-mouse-click junk is completely unusable. Don't blame me when all FOSS software development dies off a month from now as a result.

#IToldYouSo

I'm not as whiny as a lot of people are about the popular position "all search results are AI crap now" ... partly because I have always been selectively suspicious, but mostly because in 100% of the cases when I've needed to query what sort of adhesive is best for glueing a particular material, I have seen that the top 75 results are ALWAYS some humans on some web forum who say Super Glue and two-part epoxy, and both those answers are 100% incorrect.

I know it's a serious event, but every time the news mentions it, I can't help thinking that "Storm Bert" sounds like the title of a YouTube documentary about Scott Adams's downward public spiral (and one that takes a decidedly troubling noncommittal stance, at that).

#Font and #type nerds - where can I find something quasi-definitive about Adobe's "SING"/"Glyphlets" tech?

All that I turn up in normal search avenues is ancient and in non-standard material, like an isolated PDF that claims to be a presentation from a conference. Better than 50/50 that it's legit, but that's still far from an authoritative source of truth you would cite.

Yes, it seems like the format is no longer actively developed, but this is for reference purposes.

Your #DailyWikipediaTimewaste — the Bodélé Depression in central Africa, where North and South America get the majority of their dust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bod%C3%A9l%C3%A9_Depression

#SellersMarket #TheBalladsDontWriteThemselves

New HTML-form failure mode:

- Email is required, phone is optional.

- But when *updating* the email, phone is mandatory (well, assumed, but with the same result).

Guess the UK public service that has pioneered this technique and win 20, uh, shillings!

I wonder what it's like to report a issue and have a developer actually listen to what you say

@onpaperwings Shortcut to the actual converter tool is here: https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser in case the full talk sounds overly detailed. The high points are that this utility produces clean output that's easily enhanced if you need to do that (and you likely will, since API rate limits restrict how much auto-repurposing any outside tool can do).