Mark Goody @marramgrass@nitech.online
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Programmer. Reads books. Plays guitar. Belfast-born, living in Leeds. he/him.
Joined Sep 2018
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You'll never see Romulans posting on mastodon because they are enemies of the federation
We watched the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special last night. It was alright, and passed some time. But that’s not the revelation of the evening.
The revelation was that, to our kids, Kevin Bacon is “the EE guy” 😱
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Didn't have time for a proper #ArtClubIE attempt this week, so just a quick doodle for the prompt "Comfort Food" 🧀
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adulthood means hurting your back when you relax incorrectly
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twitter migration
I reckon it's at least three weeks since I more than glanced briefly at Twitter, and at least a week since I last did even that.
Being a member of none of the groups to whom Twitter is such a hostile place, I have had a personally mostly positive experience of it. I can trace my current job and my last several to friends met there, while being fortunate to not have to rely on Twitter for ongoing employment or income.
But I think I am happier and better off ignoring it now.
I play guitar, not keys, but every time I visit a particular instrument shop in town I'm inexorably drawn to the Moog Grandmother they have on display. There's just something about it, threatening to lure me to the dark side.
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Sometimes I wish the computers would just stop it.
Tickets obtained for Cory Wong in Manchester next October 🎉
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it is astonishing to me, as a technical person, how monstrously inept TicketMaster is at literally the one single thing they are paid exorbitant sums of money, mostly by ordinary music fans, to do
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Climate change
> There are 8 billion people on Earth. But that isn't causing climate change, scientists say
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/climate-change-population-1.6653545
> He said when they dived deeper, they found problems of overconsumption and fossil fuel use would be the same "at six billion, seven billion or eight billion" people.
> The key to understanding climate change, scientists say, is to look at who is consuming the most — and who is suffering because of it.
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if you hack a mastodon server does that mean you’re rootin’ tootin’?
@ryangadams Well, hello!
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I’ve asked this on Twitter before but let’s also try it here in the hope to reach more people outside of the #infosec bubble. Do you use a password manager? Reblogs appreciated!
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I rarely post about work, but this is quite important to me.
https://cddo.blog.gov.uk/2022/11/15/is-it-time-to-retire-the-gb-top-level-domain/
We're discussing retiring a #ccTLD and are looking for comments & questions.
Please share with any organisations you think might be interested - or boost it here.
Today:
- The weather is _foul_ ☔️
- I figured out an approach to a code problem while in the shower, which isn't that unusual for me. Perhaps less usual is that the shower approach then worked 🛀
- At lunchtime we were visited by a neighbour's cat, who decided to use me as a bed. Which is lovely and all that, but I am somewhat allergic to the creature 🐈
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@atomicpoet FOSS and adjacent cultures often have a weird blind spot where they are unable to distinguish between people making a modest living and rapacious corporations.
The fediverse needs to allow and encourage individuals and small businesses to discuss and promote, and sell their activities therein.
The alternative is the all too common model of well paid people doing evil all day in a day job and building something lovely at night for free. Which results in a net win for evil.
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