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wamonite

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dev | ops | maker | runner | insulin addict
software architect @ ookla | spatialbuzz and downdetector

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Floppy, to random
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attempting once again to organise a piss-up in a brewery (well, bar)

wamonite,
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@Floppy why you tempt fate so?

jsbilsbrough, to random
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Great start to the day!

Excel’s beyond a joke collaboration features have meant all of my work yesterday has been wiped out because one of my colleagues saved over the versions.

This is why you don’t use Excel for fault tracking!

wamonite,
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@Floppy @jae @jsbilsbrough

Angry Episode 1 GIF by SpongeBob SquarePants

Floppy, to selfhosted
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Looking for #SelfHosted advice: Thinking of binning my home-made Ansible setup of various docker containers in favour of something more off the shelf.

Any recommendations for user-friendly orchestration systems that work well across multiple nodes so that I can cluster my various raspberries pi?

I think Portainer can do it, are there others?

wamonite,
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@Floppy a friend was raving about docker swarm for his setup. I didn’t like it when I tried but that was a looong time ago now.

wamonite,
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@Floppy I thought so too but apparently been in active development and fully supported by compose

Floppy, to random
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I’m at Crawley STEM fest and the Thales kids quiz thing has this question in it. I am unreasonably angry.

wamonite,
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@Floppy yep, plus the Thales milk round is aiming younger and younger!

Floppy, to random
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@mdales OMG this thing is beautiful, I love it! https://youtu.be/jD_w_YT5kkE

wamonite,
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@Floppy @mdales oh yes please, me too!

Floppy, to 3DPrinting
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Annoyed to discover that Lychee Slicer's scene files are proprietary. I could spend the time to reverse engineer the format as long as it's not encrypted (it wouldn't be my first, eh @wamonite?), but I have much better things to do.

Does makes me want to stop paying for Lychee though and find another slicer. Only losers use secret formats.

@3dprinting #3DPrinting

wamonite,
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@k1m @Floppy @3dprinting you have the resin printer experience that I don’t, although it's disappointing to hear the proprietary nature of the file formats. While there’s enjoyment in reverse engineering, your time is way better spent in improving @manyfold. I’m all for voting with your feet and spending your cash and dev time on more open formats.

wamonite, to random
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Walked the dog over to the lit up building I’ve seen from afar on prior walks. This is University of Surrey land and need to find more info on the project.

A large greenhouse in a field filled with plants, industrial equipment and bright purple and blue lamps

wamonite,
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@Floppy ooo it is close to the new accommodation. Hiding in plain sight!

Floppy, to random
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What is generative AI for if not for writing lyrical analyses of dance tracks? In this case, “on a ragga tip”:

> The protagonist is repeating the phrases "ba day ba wadladie day" and "ay um ba da-da-da-da wadladie day" multiple times while occasionally adding "one". The lyrics don't provide a clear storyline or message.

From https://radio.callmefred.com/en/song_story/on-a-ragga-tip-sl2/

wamonite,
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@Floppy we are boiling the sea for such insights.

I foolishly went to the site on my phone away from my pi-hole and could not find the text for the wall of ads. Generative AI has truly enabled the ad-focussed Internet race to the bottom.

The next successful search engine will hopefully be the one that excludes generated content, not embraces it.

codinghorror, to random

Poor Things is like a much, much more accessible The Lobster. It is almost as good as Everything Everywhere All At Once which is an unbelievable compliment. See it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlbR5N6veqw

wamonite,
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@codinghorror I did not know of the connection. I loved The Lobster. Was looking forward to see Poor Things anyway!

wamonite, to random
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If you end an email with BR, I’m not convinced your regards are best or even genuine

Floppy, to random
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Last day of employment for a few months at least. Feeling a bit weird, finally, as I wander around London giving back various laptops.

wamonite,
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@Floppy how many jobs did you have? 😉

wamonite, to random
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I knew it! Bobby Fingers, of the YouTube diorama fame, is Bobby Chrome from the Rubber Bandits, of the ‘Horse Outside' fame!

wamonite,
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@CatherineFlick my pleasure, I am glad to have shared the wonder of his craft!

Floppy, to random
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Well, I got myself a blood pressure monitor which seemed decent, only to discover that in order to get the data into Apple Health, the MedM app demands a fiver a month for a premium account. Fuck's sake.

wamonite,
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@Floppy or find the app without the subscription 🤣

Floppy, to random
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Was looking for something completely different in my office and found this 23-year-old copy of Edge, which contains a review of the work @wamonite and I did for a Millenium Dome exhibit under the headline “Valid reason to visit Millennium Dome found” 😂

Valid reason to visit Millennium Dome found BT and technology company AvatarMe have provided gamers with a reason of sorts to visit the Millennium Dome. Visitors to BT's Talk Zone will be able to enter one of three AvatarBooths and generate a 3D image of themselves, which can then be downloaded from www.bt.com/ takzone or www.avatarme.com. Initially avatars will consist of 2,500 polygons, but from this month users will be able to download avatars that feature vaniable levels of detail - from 600 polygons up to 40,000. BT envisages a wide range of uses for these avatars, from purchasing clothes over the Net to online dating, but the most rewarding will undoubtedly be multiplayer gaming. Avatar files can currently be converted for use in Quake III Arena and The Sims, but AvatarMe plans to support a wide range of genres in the future, both by offering a conversion service on its site and by sending out dev kits that will enable games to be designed for use with the file format. The big advantage that this technology has over competitors like Digimask and CyberExtruder is that the whole body is captured, and, as Edge can testify, this makes all the difference. Image: a low-poly but realistically textured avatar of a man named “Taurus” holding a large gun in the game Unreal Tournament. Image caption: The results AvatarMe can come up with can be shockingly realistic, as the Taurus model (above) attests. It's the full body that does it.

wamonite,
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@Floppy hehehe I found a few of the screenshots we took. Were some of these in that issue of Edge or another?

@floppy and @wamonite’s Avatar-Mes in The Sims
@floppy’s Avatar-Me in Unreal Tournament

Animating @floppy in the Avanew tool I wrote for creating reposed Half-Life animations

wamonite,
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@Floppy we didn’t but we put out a note on how to use the HL installer ones in Q3. Interesting though as there was definitely an Edge article that included images of Half Life and The Sims. Only time I've ever appeared in the magazine!

pikesley, to random
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Love to have that flu-jab sore-arm

wamonite,
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@Floppy @pikesley got a Covid booster booked. Chasing up on my flu jab, which is proving troublesome as my surgery has replaced their website with a looping set of pages saying ‘your surgery does not provide this online service, try here’

pikesley, to random
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Fucking hell

wamonite,
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@Floppy @pikesley I seriously hope so!

pikesley, to random
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LL Cool J is 55 years old and still goes by LL Cool J and I think you have to respect that

wamonite,
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@Floppy @pikesley I did not see that coming 🤣

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