Struggling to understand exactly what a ‘headless’ CMS is and why it might be useful. (It get the gist, but need more precision). Can anyone help or point me at an explanation.
@billbennett@TechCrunch It has to do with decoupling the thing that holds the content (and lets you, as author, interact with it) from the presentation of it. A common use case is a high-traffic blog - you can edit content in a CMS, but it's set up to automatically push that content into a static site generator when you save, and the resulting site is entirely static (capable of very high performance and very secure)... e.g. https://ghost.org/docs/jamstack/ - it can give you the best of both worlds...
It's really frustrating that many consumer electronics manufacturers don't offer replacement parts for their goods. I've had 3 sets of earbuds go through the wash (my boys, one of them twice!), damaging the charging cases, although the buds themselves seem fine. But you can't buy replacement cases - you need a whole new set, rendering the old earbuds redundant. Wasteful. I've managed to find second-hand cases on eBay, but none of the vendors ship to NZ. Tried YouShop, but... 1/2
... turns out NZPost considers them 'Dangerous Goods' - they need a 'Material Safety Data Sheet' (MSDS) for anything that contains a LiPo battery, even a fairly tiny one like the cases have. Ugh - try finding an MSDS on an OEM website. No chance. Such a freaking pain in the neck. So many barriers to repairability and conservation. Waiting to hear from a couple OEMs.
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Given the frequency of this sort of thing being posted, seems to me that NZPost's YouShop could at the very least provide a selection of such documents for different classes of goods being posted. Surely this sort of good - an electronic device with a rechargeable battery - makes up a substantial proportion of what their service ships. At this stage, I consider their service so unhelpful I'm considering never using it again (assuming I can get it to work this first time!) out of spite.
@richardhulse@thomasbeagle I love inviting them in, pouring them a cuppa, offering a few bicuits and then systematically explaining to them how their entire world view is fundamentally ridiculous, replete with with examples, metaphors, and citations. It's sort of a serial denial of service attack that gives my neighbours respite.
Because, let's face it, that's what they're coming to our house to do to us.
This makes me quite angry. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/518319/tiwai-point-aluminium-smelter-to-stay-open-until-2044 this just extends our unhealthy co-dependency on an unreliable multinational corporation, who's exploiting our environment and our people. Will they make good on their obligations to clean up when they're 'done'? Time will tell. But I think we're chumps for not giving them the boot. The poor buggers depending on Rio Tinto for livelihoods need to be supported for retraining sooner than later. Who wants to bet R-T cuts and runs before 2044?
And, of course, Greenpeace is quite right - committing so much of our carbon neutral hydro power generation to RioTinto's shareholders, at a massively discounted price, is ensuring that we need to maintain fossil fueled excess power generating capacity at Huntley. We need to show RioTinto the door. To do that we need politicians who are actual vertebrates. Let's use our climate neutral power generation for the benefit of NZers - it's our commonwealth after all!
@strypey yes, I use Docker all over the place. Mostly, I currently upload them to hub.docker.com - not the best situation, but haven't yet changed to a different hub as it'll require a fair bit of work. I'm (at last count) hosting at least 91 Docker-based services. Will do a trial eventually, though, as I'm not overly happy with the way the Docker folks do stuff.
Why, oh why, does the NZ gov't continuously get bamboozled into making shitty web-based systems that are 100% dependent on proprietary Microsoft technologies? Yes, 'new' DOC booking system, I'm looking 🤔 at you.
It'll perform poorly, cost a bomb, scale ungracefully, and be very expensive to maintain... until Microsoft suddenly end-of-lifes the technologies on which it depends. At which point the taxpayer will bail you out (again).
@puck@carl_klitscher@stephen yep. MSFT are very good at 'burying' a story they don't want people to hear... and promoting (astroturfin'?) the ones they do...
@billbennett@puck@carl_klitscher@stephen Yeah, don't think they bother with journalists anymore, they just suggest "hey, nice industry rag you've got there... be a shame if something happened to it" or the like. They're big enough that they can probably do that just by pulling all their (and subsidiaries') advertising...
@billbennett@puck@carl_klitscher@stephen don't worry, MS pulls the strings on any advertising-based publications - they can also 'suggest' that various OEMs for whom they provide 'marketing co-payments' advertise with 'preferred' publications. See earlier in the thread...