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cawhitworth

@cawhitworth@mastodon.online

In another life, I am an erudite, fascinating, witty, sexy libertine. As it stands, I am mainly a disappointment.

Profile pic: me and a grumpy owl. I’m the one on the left.

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simontatham, to random
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How is it supposed to work, when you get one of those emails whose body reads 'Sender Name would like to recall the message, "Subject Line"'?

I assume some mail system like Exchange is supposed to find the matching previous message and delete both. And my normal Unix mail system doesn't.

But how does it decide on the matching message? I can't find any header that unambiguously identifies it. No 'Recalled-message-id:' or similar. How does a system supporting this feature make it work?

cawhitworth,
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@simontatham I assume that, for systems that support it, there's an proprietary non-SMTP way of doing it that identifies the exact message but, when interacting with SMTP-based mailservers, they just did the absolute minimum and fall back to sending a simple message because shrug what else can you do?

cawhitworth,
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@simontatham Oh totally.

Anyway, uh, I work for the company that makes Exchange so I had a dig around. I found a dev spec for message recall in OWA and while the transport is proprietary, there's definitely an identifier in the recall message payload you could put in the SMTP headers too.

(I suspect the reason why they didn't is somewhere between "did the bare minimum for interop" and "if you want this to work properly, pay for Exchange")

Jyoti, to random
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We all know it's true.

cawhitworth,
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@Jyoti I run my synths through a pedalboard. I am the worst of all worlds.

cawhitworth, to Birds
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The Skomer Island Puffin Cam is even better than I could possibly have hoped

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBIeSFm62wA

#birds #puffins #skomer #livestream #nature #wildlife

A perfect idiot flying in to land directly in front of the camera, legs and wings everywhere, extremely dignified, definitely a real birb that can do proper birb things

cawhitworth, to random
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Happy March 0th

cawhitworth, to random
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You know what maybe I’ll just not get on another plane for a bit

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/24/delta-air-lines-plane-nose-wheel-falls-off

llamasoft_ox, to random
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It strikes me that I have never squatted pissed in the tubehole at Tottenham Court Road.

I have, however, come out of the Ship after having drunk several pints of lager.

cawhitworth,
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@llamasoft_ox so many things to see and do on the tube home

Mega mega

cawhitworth, to random
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Can't help feeling like a bit of a lede is being buried here: lots of handwringing about electric car sales stalling but you have to get to nearly the end of the article before it says that the most popular category of car in the UK is the supermini (Fiesta, Corsa, etc) - a category that functionally doesn't exist in the electric car market (beyond the nonsense 'mild hybrid' segment).

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/05/electric-car-sales-in-uk-flatline-prompting-calls-for-vat-cut

cawhitworth, to wildlife
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Barn owl at Rutland Water, England

Canon R7, Sigma 150-600, 1.4TC

cawhitworth, to random
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Sorry I can’t come to work this morning, I’m not allowed

cawhitworth, to random
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12 years ago I hacked up a little BBC Micro/6502 emulator in Python as a hobby project. I got it booting and, after intercepting OSWRCH, writing text to the terminal. A little while later I threw it up on GitHub and more-or-less forgot about it.

Yesterday I got a PR from broadly refactoring the entire thing to make it reusable and pluggable, and expanding it way beyond what I’d originally done.

And I’m not entirely sure what to do with it.

cawhitworth, to random
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To be fair my mental health was extremely poor before and during the lockdowns too, but

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/21/people-who-stuck-by-uk-covid-rules-have-worst-mental-health-says-survey

cawhitworth, to random
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Jesus that Sam Altman getting fired from OpenAI thing is absolutely wild. What on earth is going on there.

cawhitworth,
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Of all the explanations for this, the one I least expected was "the board absolutely shat the bed, completely fucked it, totally destroyed the company without thinking things through at all"

cawhitworth,
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@dickon It's quite the thing if Sam "Worldcoin" Altman was the sane one on that board

cawhitworth, to random
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If I'm reading this right, Mike Lynch's defense is "Not all of the billions HP lost on the Autonomy deal were down to my doing a big fraud, some of it was just that Autonomy was rubbish" which is certainly a position to take about your own company https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/15/hp-lynch-autonomy-writedown

cawhitworth,
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@penguin42 I mean, I'm not saying HP's due-diligence wasn't deeply flawed because it was very apparent to anyone who cast an even slightly critical eye over Autonomy that they seemed to be selling snake-oil bullshit, but also the quibbling here is about how much fraud, not whether there was any at all. Multiple things can be true at once - it can be true that HP massively fucked this, and Autonomy also cooked their books. Allegedly etc etc

cawhitworth, to random
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Slade? Already? Fucksakes

cawhitworth,
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@penguin42 It’s bloody not though

cawhitworth,
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@penguin42 There is my mum, brother and wife’s birthday to get out the way before Christmas is allowed to start.

cawhitworth, to random
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Dave the Diver is a lovely game and perfectly suited to the Switch, but the load times are brutal. What's it doing that means the load times are in Animal Crossing territory, and far more frequent?

cawhitworth, to random
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v glad about the sheep

llamasoft_ox, to random
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Noting the specular highlights gleaming off assorted bald heads in the crowd last time I saw an Underworld gig made me reflect (heh) that it's nice VR tech is getting good now that a good portion of the raver generation is approaching their dotage.

Give it a few years and there will be people doddering about in their retirement homes wearing headsets running 90s Rave Simulator, feebly waving their arms in the air as they swing their virtual glowsticks, croaking "MAKE SOME FUCKING NOISE!" haha

cawhitworth,
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@llamasoft_ox the VR version of Rez (the game, not the Underworld tune) taps into this a bit.

llamasoft_ox, to random
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TEA INTERRUPT

cawhitworth,
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@llamasoft_ox "TEA INTERRUPT" is definitely something I've seen flash across the screen in Space Giraffe, right?

jonty, to random
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Average Friday night, had a beer in the crawlspace under a listed building

cawhitworth,
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@jonty wasn’t until I zoomed in that I realised the thing on the left was a drill and not a beer pump.

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