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brunogirin

@brunogirin@mastodon.me.uk

Technologist designing software to address the climate change emergency and helping improve diversity in tech.

Some things I enjoy:

  • travelling, by train or tall ship if possible;
  • contributing to my community orchard;
  • reading SF&F;
  • baking cake;
  • eating cheese;
  • cat pictures.

Some things I believe in:

  • trans rights are human rights.

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brunogirin, to random
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When did packs of butter go from 250 to 200 grams? #shrinkflation

KaraLG84, to random
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I couldn't think of much worse than joining a local area's WhatsApp group.

brunogirin,
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@KaraLG84 I can confirm. I did and I left within a week.

proactivepaul, to random
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currently working with a client by Cannon St, heading home after this, back in the office tomorrow

brunogirin,
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@proactivepaul I used to work in Cannon St. I was on a project that used the Post Office Address File when I discovered that the postcode we had printed on all our official material and business cards was in fact the postcode of the wine bar next door.

glassbottommeg, (edited ) to random
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I just found out about the SQlite code of ethics, and now I'm feeling bad about ever recommending that database to anyone. https://www.sqlite.org/codeofethics.html

EDIT: this is a gag, I know you don't have to follow this to use it, I just find it impossibly cringe (and not the bad-good kind of cringe) to find this sitting like a turd in the middle of my favorite solve for SQL DB problems.

brunogirin,
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@glassbottommeg 😬🤢🤮 I was unprepared for how bad this is.

TarkabarkaHolgy, to 13thFloor
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So in honor of #PrideMonth

I am reading an article about how every time ancient art depicts a goddess as sexually alluring, they always get labeled a "goddess of fertility". Even when there is no indication of children, pregnancy, or anything fertile.

The article argues that some goddesses were deities of sex and pleasure, without the maternal fertility aspect.

I am like 🤯 🤯 I have a whole entire archaeology degree and we never addressed this...

#mythology #sex #religion #archaeology

brunogirin,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy do you mean that in 2000 years, you'll have archaeologists looking through the remains of red light districts going: "so they had all those shops dedicated to fertility gods and godesses"?

drandrewv2, to random
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#TradeUnion stats are out this week, and there’s some new detail on membership density by age group, so I’ve been able to do some rough estimates of the time-varying age profile of the UK #union movement…

This isn’t quite the story we’re in the habit of telling ourselves!

We all know we have a problem bringing young workers into unions, right? Well… yes: density is indeed lowest among the youngest brackets of the workforce - that’s true (and for reasons not simply to do with age)…

brunogirin,
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@drandrewv2 could that be related to the rise of white collar workers in the service economy? People who don't think they need a union despite being at the bottom of the ladder because they work in an office rather than a factory?

davidho, (edited ) to Hydrogen
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Honest question: I measure gases as a career, and I’m always fixing leaks in my instruments*. How do people who push #hydrogen as a home heating solution propose to avoid catastrophic leaks?

*I use Swagelok fittings, the same ones used on airplanes and in industrial settings.

brunogirin,
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@fmarini @uoou @davidho considering that the main way we detect gas leaks in residential settings today is by smelling it and calling the gas line, using a gas that leaks more easily and is odourless seems suboptimal 🤔

burger_jaap, to random
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Great news for iPhone (and Apple Watch) users: the latest iOS update now allows you to use the device as a 🇫🇷 Paris Navigo Pass - no need for a physical card, especially handy for those just arriving (last month there was a 45-minute queue for the card machines at the Gare du Nord...)

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-and-ile-de-france-mobilites-introduce-navigo-for-iphone-and-apple-watch/

brunogirin,
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@burger_jaap yep, main downside of only checking the ticket on entry rather than entry + exit as London does: it makes it difficult to implement distance based pricing as needed by the RER.

brunogirin,
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@burger_jaap indeed but you need to know when the ticket has been "consumed". There's no way to differentiate between a RER ticket or a single metro ticket being consumed when you enter the network in the central zone, where both are valid, unless you scan on exit too.

brunogirin,
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@burger_jaap yes, that's the use case I had in mind as it's mine: regular visitor to Paris who sometimes need to take the RER. Time limited passes don't make sense as I'm here a few days at a time so I always have a bunch of single tickets on my Navigo. Considering Paris is in the top 10 most visited cities in the world, it's possible that this use case is significant enough to make Navigo RER tickets difficult.

bark_maul, to Dog
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Today's adventure: Scotney Castle. A+, lots of attention from the tourists and especially the National Trust staff, who are trained to adore the Corg.

#dog #DogsOfMastodon #corgi

Canis lupus pembrokensis, standing in a brick archway looking at a lush pond behind.
Canis lupus pembrokensis, sniffing at the edge of a brilliant pond.
Canis lupus pembrokensis, tongue out, looking off to the right, a large rhododendron bush in bloom behind her.

brunogirin,
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@bark_maul National Trust staff are well trained!

brunogirin, to random
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It looks like there's a kick-the-ball game in North London tonight and it appears that some of the Arsenal shirts sport a "Visit Rwanda" message on one of the sleeves. Considering the current political situation in the UK, I'm not sure it sends the intended message.

brunogirin, to random
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Reading climate festival 8th to 21st June: https://readingcan.org.uk/festival/

That might be an opportunity to try the Elizabeth line all the way out West!

evangelos, to random
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What is behind the perceived complexity of #webcomponents as a web standard?

Is there an article that addresses the reasons behind its design decisions?

brunogirin,
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@evangelos shadow DOM, templates and slots are complex.

However, you don't have to use them and I found this article by @adactio enlightening: https://adactio.com/journal/20618

djsundog, to random
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Good morning fediverse :cofepats:

Any chance any of you have a favorite open source way of mapping and cataloging trees? I don't think I need a lot of bells and whistles but would like to have a journal of maintenance for each tree.

:blobpats:

brunogirin,
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@djsundog I'm trying to do the same for our community orchard. For now it's a spreadsheet and records in OpenStreetMap but I'd like to improve the process and make the data entry usable by non technical volunteers.

ohno, to random
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Hiya fedi, I need your knowledge! The family wants to digitise a big collection of old photographs, negatives and photo slides. I know there’s services we can send the material to that do this for a living, but grandpa is afraid to hand them off for fear of them getting damaged, lost etc. So I need to figure out how to do this “in house” as best I can.

I’ve figured out there’s specific photo scanners, instead of a flat bed scanner, that should be able to handle the negatives and the slides.

But what I don’t know is about good software to scan and archive them properly, what things to watch out for when doing this and what kind of software exists that could help restore and enhance the digital copies.

It doesn’t matter if this is a slow going process, there’s no deadline here.

If you have any recommendations for hardware equipment, software or documentation and protocols to read I’d be very grateful. I would prefer to do this using open source software but if there’s proprietary software that makes a meaningful difference I’m happy to consider it.

(I know how to search the web myself, so I’m looking for advice from folks with practical experience, not just a Google search hit or whatever an LLM misgenerated.)

Boost would be appreciated since unfortunately I’m short on folks with this type of knowledge in my own social circles.

brunogirin,
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@ohno I used to have a slide + negatives scanner that had a SANE driver and therefore could work with most image capture software. Hardware wise, check that it has a SANE or TWAIN driver as it will offer the widest range of software options.

Software wise, it really depends on your workflow. I used to use Shotwell on Ubuntu to manage my image library because it was non destructive and always kept the original when applying image correction so I could always roll back any adjustment.

jessie, to random
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Weird question: are there other languages where governments are putting money behind affordable, general-access language education as a restoration pathway like Welsh?

https://learnwelsh.cymru/

Asking for me, who loves language learning but also keeping to budgets.

brunogirin,
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@jessie oh good question! I'm interested in the answer too!

BathysphereHat, to random
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Wait, is a "hot minute" a long time or a short time?

brunogirin,
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@BathysphereHat see also "ahorita" in Spanish.

girlonthenet, to random
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Something that massively annoys me in TV and movies is when someone kisses a cis dude for like 5 seconds, slides their hand down his pants, then goes “oh... nothing’s happening?”

Of COURSE nothing’s happening? His dick is not a light switch.

brunogirin,
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@girlonthenet indeed, and normalise foreplay.

RandomYarning, to random
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I am making cakes to take to work tomorrow. I know I don't do this very often because the box of food colourings has a use by date of April 2022, and I've only opened the purple.....

brunogirin,
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@RandomYarning only opened the purple? That's a surprise!

oldrawgabbit, to random
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We put birdseed out, and a couple of these suet blocks in holders. The larger birds love them.
But I noticed how clever jackdaws are - I saw one actually trying to undo the catch to get the suet block out!

brunogirin,
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@oldrawgabbit corvids FTW!

emma, to random
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Knee-deep as I am in this year's exam season, I am so over the adult-centric nature of children's education.

e.g. the forced delineation of knowledge into subjects, to fit the career path and interests of "a geography teacher", "a physics teacher".

see also: schedules that fit with an adult not a teenage brain; lack of real application of overwhelmingly theoretical teaching; subjects designed only to help the minority who study further; assessment oriented to career, not child, progression.

brunogirin,
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@rgarner @emma a fair few years ago, I decided to scratch that fractal itch using Octave. It's all here if you're interested: https://github.com/brunogirin/octave-fractals

stavvers, to random
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I just wish you could complete laundry, like one day you have done Sufficient Laundry and never need to do it again, everything just reappears clean, dry and folded. Surely that isn't too much to ask.

brunogirin,
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@stavvers I am in this picture and I'm not sure I like it...

EarthOrgUK, to repair
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https://www.ttkingston.org/repair-cafe-kingston/

There is now a #RepairCafé in #KingstonUponThames!

It runs on the first Saturday morning of every month at 10:30 in Kingston Library.

#reuse #repair

brunogirin,
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@EarthOrgUK is that tomorrow then? (1st june)

brunogirin,
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@EarthOrgUK I'll see what I can do.

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