I’ve spent most of this afternoon trying to understand how Web Push works, particularly under Safari on iOS. As with all things web this involves reading the documentation for 15 vaguely overlapping standards, and then divining the remaining bits via random blog posts.
My evening has been made by Siri responding to “remind me to buy AAA batteries tomorrow” with “ok, I’ve added buy triple-uh batteries for tomorrow”, somehow pronouncing it more as tripleuh.
Today in apps that should be websites news, I’ve received an email to let me know my coffee machine has an after sales support app now. I specifically bought it because it’s notoriously reliable and needs minimal maintenance.
I see Call the Midwife is still going with Christmas specials. Presumably they’ve now overtaken the present day and it’s a heart warming period drama from the post-apocalyptic hellscape of 2049.
Jusant is really quite a game. Captures the essence of climbing a cliff face, judging whether you can make a hand hold or a jump, without ever really having hard fail states so far. A very meditative experience.
@simon apparently he pushed really hard for the role because he wanted to be in something his daughter could watch.
@gsuberland I’ve just checked the confirmation of the order I’m picking up this afternoon. Every herb ordered has been substituted with coriander. I have 3 bunches of coriander and no other herbs, why would anyone think that was the right thing to do?
For the last week I’ve been saying I’ll get an early night, and yet here I am, at 11pm, vaguely thinking about going to bed and reading for an hour or so.
@james@strangeobject.space if he put their bank balance and run rate with those no one would ever donate again. Last I looked at this Wikimedia Foundation are *fine*. Worst case they’d have to shut down a couple of the umpteen side projects no one uses.
@CatherineFlick this was the one bit of Christmas shopping I failed to fit in this afternoon.
@solderandchaos oh, that was a day ago. Apparently over £20 is typically the point where corporate overlords are going to make it awkward.
@solderandchaos please hold, consulting my brother, who is a barista.
@ehproque @Reb@strangeobject.space @james@strangeobject.space I once paid for a gym subscription for one full year without ever walking through the front door. I meant to, but after three months of “oh, I should go do the onboarding” I couldn’t face explaining it to the inevitable look of disbelief from the staff.
“The signal is repeating! We’ve got the whole thing.”
“How many bits?”
“Almost 500k. 454,957 bits”
“I got a hunch, factorize that number”
“Bingo, seven fifty seven times six oh one. Think it could be a rectangular bitmap?”.
“It’s what we used to do back before those assholes let Arecibo fall down. Try bm2png.pl in my bin dir.”
“That worked. Holy shit I know that image. It’s the Pioneer plaque. That diagram from Pioneer 11 of human figures, and a map to Earth.”
“What, thats impossible, it’s only been, what, 70 odd years. That probe would still be in our own Kuiper Belt.”
“Outside it, actually, it’d be about one sixty AU out. They lost contact in the mid 90s. Still basically in our backyard but.”
“It’s too soon! If someone’s found it now, that would mean. Shit. They’re. Already. Here. Inside the Solar system.”
“And all they’ve got to say, is ‘Hi, we liked ur meme’.?”
“Maybe not, can you bring up an image of the original plaque? Are the images identical?”
“I’ll do a layer subtraction. Hey, there /is/ a difference. In the map of the planets. They’ve omitted Pluto from their copy.”
“Fucking hell. Little green reply guys.”
At least when Ubuntu did this they had the good sense to start each release name with the next letter in the alphabet. For the last four years Debian releases have all started with B.
Is there a document somewhere that explains why Debian insist on referring to releases by the names of Toy Story characters rather that the corresponding release number, because every time I have to look up whether Buster is more recent than Bullseye or not I age another year.
I am disproportionately sad that when using an Apple TV for music it shows an endlessly looping animation that's kind of like an EQ, rather than it being an actual EQ.
One day people will look back on "net zero by 2050" as one of the dumbest things ever.
How on Earth do Github still not have ARM runners for Actions three years after Apple made ARM processors common place on developer's laptops?
If your ActivityPub server is offline for long enough then other instances give up sending notifications to it. Entirely coincidentally I’ll be spending some of this evening refollowing everyone.
@Edent I've bought *so many* cheap USB-C docks. The only one I've found which consistently works, and doesn't randomly drop out every now and again, is the Caldigit TS4 (although I here good things about the earlier models as well). Everything I've bought in the sub-£100 range was laughably bad.
@saramg I'm only late 30s, and definitely tick most of the con boxes already. I'd like to think I also tick the pros, but would feel like tooting my own trumpet to declare them as fact.
@tehstu @thomasfuchs and they leant into that hard ://support.eveonline.com/hc/en-us