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golang Software Engineer at #couchbase from #manchester with views and hot takes that are very much my own πŸ”₯

Ben Brooks πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»πŸ§™πŸ»

No YOU broke #reddit
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Ben Brooks πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»πŸ§™πŸ»

Break the impulsive habitual tab opening with uBlock filters!

https://reddark.untone.uk #reddit
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Ben Brooks πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»πŸ§™πŸ»

You know something has gone really wrong when an IM platform needs to add a Kanban style workflow to dealing with messages.
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TIL: lace cards

It’s a computer punch card with every possible spot punched out, so what remains is a flimsy filamentous net of paper that instantly tears and jams up the card reader.

Old-school denial of service attack.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lace_card

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In case you haven't heard, Red Hat is laying off people today, and I'm one of them. My 'career' as a Hatter lasted just over 15 months, much less time than I had planned or expected.

Many of you know me well, and know that I have extensive background in open source software, project management, open source business, and lots of related activities. If you're aware of any opportunities which may be of interest, feel free to send them my way via any channel you like.

Boosts much appreciated, of course, and thanks in advance!

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Ben Brooks πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»πŸ§™πŸ»

@raymierussell Eventually! At 20 past
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Ben Brooks πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»πŸ§™πŸ»

@thecrawford I just finally got it. Only 1 of 6 phones here went off at 3pm
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My recent toot about the iconic lost Amiga work of pixelart from 1985, Jack Haeger's "Four-Byte Burger," received by far more reactions than any of my others.

YouTuber "Ahoy" has just posted a video in which he sleuths rather deeply and manages to recreate this wonderful piece, pixel by pixel, with apparently great accuracy.

It's an incredible process not to be missed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4EFkspO5p4

#1985

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"why are my plant's leaves curling"

google result: "it's probably one of four simple things:
* too dry
* too wet
* too much light
* not enough light"

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Ben Brooks πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»πŸ§™πŸ»

I'm back!

I accidentally bricked my Akkoma/Pleroma install trying to updare it and have now heroically recovered it.

hacker_h hacker_a hacker_c hacker_k hacker_e hacker_r hacker_m hacker_a hacker_n
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Ben Brooks πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»πŸ§™πŸ»

The year is 2023 and Jira's comment visual preview _still_ doesn't match the _actual_ rendered output after posting the perfectly crafted comment you wrote in text mode because the visual editor fails to achieve even the most basic of markup tasks.

#jira #atlassian #WHY
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Ben Brooks πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»πŸ§™πŸ»

@Justice30 I've seen others have this issue until they disable aptx - I think mine was already off for Bluetooth stability reasons on Android 11 anyway

https://forum.fairphone.com/t/bluetooth-audio-bug-on-android-12/92932
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Ben Brooks πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»πŸ§™πŸ»

@Justice30 USB-C dongle or bluetooth? I've not tried either yet but have noticed 5Ghz hotspot is not working correctly either.
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Ben Brooks πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»πŸ§™πŸ»

Android 12 finally on Fairphone 4 with an OTA update! Build version SP1Y.B.0041

#fairphone #fairphone4 #android #android12 #aosp
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Wow, there's innovation in propeller shapes (which i thought we're close to optimal for a century): toroidal propellers https://newatlas.com/aircraft/toroidal-quiet-propellers/ >50% performance improvement at midrange rpms in liquids!

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Ben Brooks πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»πŸ§™πŸ»

Apparently Wordle has made its way into British daytime TV and infuriatingly none of the contestants know how to play it
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Ben Brooks πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»πŸ§™πŸ»

Pictured: Whenever I get a slack message or meeting invite

RE: https://hachyderm.io/users/VimLinks/statuses/109675731560211624
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So, just to avoid any confusion, when you run Windows 11, the product you are using is Windows 10. The Windows version is 2009 (which of course doesn't fall between versions 2008 and 2016, duh). So if you are using Windows Server 2022, the product is called 2022 but the version is 2009 because those two numbers seem like the same but they aren't.

The "Windows Current Version" for Windows 11 is 6.3. But don't use that number because Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 were also version 6.3. Windows 8 was 6.2.

Or if you want, just use build number 22621, also known as 22H2. The version 22H2 update is also called the "Windows 11 2022 update" because there never was a 22H1. But at least they changed their naming scheme and didn't call it Fall update because it was spring in half the world when it came out, heh.

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Ben Brooks πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»πŸ§™πŸ»

@duck Wrong. Steamed in a frying pan with a lid πŸ§‘β€πŸ³
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