@theadhocracy@indieweb.socialThe #WorldCup may be over halfway done, but it's taken me that long to get fed up having the outcome of matches being spoiled on #BBC Sports.
So I made a little #Stylus stylesheet to hide everything, and wrote up the process. Not the most important work, but quite fun, and has already paid dividends in my enjoyment of the football ⚽
https://theadhocracy.co.uk/wrote/hiding-bbc-world-cup-spoilers
@lornajane@indieweb.socialI love docs as code but have never enjoyed Jekyll as much as the alternatives. What I hadn't realised is that the dependencies for GitHub Pages ( the place where I normally run into this tech stack ) are now so old that they aren't installable on my modern operating system.
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@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://indieweb.social/@alineblankertz/116668813007916370
This sounds compatible with what I was suggesting at the EU Parliament and what we’re working towards with Small Tech and Small Web.
Thoughts?
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialRE: https://indieweb.social/@tg/117022764569677489
This looks great. Bookmarked.
@thijs_lucas@norden.social
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialRE: https://indieweb.social/@alineblankertz/116822789781344785
Fascism has always been there in Sweden, it was just well hidden due to 40 years of social democratic government. Main nodes: rich parts of Stockholm, non-progressive agro types in Skåne…
@sherold@mastodon.onlineRE: https://indieweb.social/@dealingwith/116664297817533928
What the f*ck is wrong with Bentonville?
@jon@henshaw.socialRE: https://indieweb.social/@tg/116817481470474674
This is good. You should watch it. Especially if you're a maker/creator of things.
@stephane_klein@social.coop @lornajane@indieweb.socialBecause I prefer to own my own data, I've just had to struggle through the phone setup routine of installing fdroid and then the passwordstore app, then getting my pgp key onto the phone and generating a GitHub token. All this stuff should be easier for normal people, even I had a moment where I looked at the phone and went "how do these pieces go together, again? ..."
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://indieweb.social/@gklyne/117002572402471175
“…critical ecosystems underpinning global food systems and climate stability are degrading worldwide and every critical ecosystem is now ‘on a pathway to collapse’”
– UK joint intelligence committ…
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeRE: https://indieweb.social/@jbz/116944636210824537
Me when a kitty lets me pet it soft belly.
@shanmukhateja@social.linux.pizzaumm what is this weird timeline? Whoever’s incharge of this reality, I’d like to speak to your manager. What are you spoking?
Why would vim need GTK toolkit support? It’s meant to be a TERMINAL based editor!!!
I realise there might’ve been similar functionality with Qt and/or GTK3 but I don’t know man, this feels weird.
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@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeRE: https://indieweb.social/@elgg/116770044804461133
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Some of what's done by companies such as Suno is deplorable.
I like this recent article by Alex Reisner in The Atlantic:
The Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music
@lornajane@indieweb.socialI’ve ordered a refurbed pixel 8a as a stopgap, and will just miss things when I’ve left it somewhere around the house I guess! Hopefully some better options will show up at some point.
Mind you I had the iPhone mini for years and useful notifications on that are not allowed, presumably because they ruin the aesthetic. That never stopped being annoying.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotRE: #Bitcoin
@lornajane@indieweb.socialDoes anyone know of an android phone I can buy in the UK that is less than 150mm on its longest side? I'm having to return my motorola razr (flip phone) under warranty and there is no point having any phone that does not fit in a (ladieswear) pocket. Suggestions gratefully received!
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://indieweb.social/@jbz/116968637309109024
Actually, this is a great idea.
“Hello, Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Please leave your message after the beep” also works.
@acka47@openbiblio.socialRE: https://indieweb.social/@tg/116522563497941266
"The reason your mee-maw and your bank and your boss can all reach you at the same email address is that the protocol that made it possible was published more than forty years ago, and the people who publi…
@sherold@mastodon.onlineThere are some nice metaphors in there.
#IndieWeb
@lornajane@indieweb.socialIs there a danger that working with coding agents will improve the quality of git practices? I hope so! Ask your agent to read this excellent post #linkTuesday
@aral@mastodon.ar.alJust heard that my posts are being blocked on indieweb.social.
I’m very clear about who I am and what I stand for. So you make of them what you will.
🤷♂️
@lornajane@indieweb.socialThe transcript of this video is quite a long read but I think it is worth your time to reflect on how current geopolitics may give room for a new era of internet. https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition
The main takeaway is something I'm trying to carry with me: " don't despair"
@lornajane@indieweb.socialI'm technically not a manager but I'm juggling enough things at work right now that I've just set up the second calendar, one of my favourite ways to give the impression of having ducks in a row https://lornajane.net/posts/2023/managers-secret-second-calendar
(One of the ducks is a chicken, and the row was inspired by a fractal, but I'm getting there)
@lornajane@indieweb.socialI enjoy rail travel in general but today I'm settled in the window seat with a book on one of my favourite routes: East Coast Mainline between Newcastle and Edinburgh #WinningAtLife
I'm in Edinburgh for about 10 days, let me know if there are things to do or people to meet!
@theadhocracy@indieweb.socialI'm getting into #IKEAHacking and #DIY, making some cabinet doors, raised garden beds, and "boxing in" existing IKEA wardrobes.
Don't have a huge budget, but what power tools should I prioritise? I have a drill, thinking some kind of saw, maybe a router? Hoping for advice from the hive mind!
@sherold@mastodon.onlineRE: https://indieweb.social/@dealingwith/116553946193122185
This is beautiful and weird. I love it.
@kineticdiplomacy@infosec.exchangeIt seems the weird POSSE mechanism on my website now works for the three content types: articles, photos and book reviews. All will be posted as normal content to this account, and a cronjob periodically checks for interactions, and adds them to the content on my website. Had to rewrite a significant portion because of some edge cases.
#POSSE
@lornajane@indieweb.socialThese "recipes" for switching away from big tech are a fabulous resource! If you've ever wondered what you'd need to do to change providers, start here!
Digital Switch Recipes — Digital Independence Day #DIDit
@lornajane@indieweb.socialI spend so much time with Claude Code but I am constantly worried about how someone with less experience is supposed to get good outcomes. I'm a VERY experienced developer/maintainer but WTF Claude just flipped the ahead/behind commit count on a list of branches and tried to get me to clean up everything that was up to date. I'd specifically asked for written file report and a count/summary before we started, and It "smelled" wrong when I saw them, but is so easy to miss these things!
@lornajane@indieweb.social
@teledyn@mstdn.caRE: https://indieweb.social/@jaredwhite/116540751383740895
Electronic Music explained in a single toot:
@lornajane@indieweb.socialDigging out some of my old resources to help upskill a colleague and while the git diagrams still make the point I wanted, the branches named "master" make me cringe!
Repeat after me: the branch is a lie.
@lornajane@indieweb.socialBearing in mind that I wasn't always great at publishing all talk materials (especially if I gave the same talk a few times with minor changes), I created a lot of content for clients/employers as well that isn't listed here - and I also wrote multiple books. This is a LOT of content!
@lornajane@indieweb.socialBlog migration story update: About 1000 blog posts converted okay, I've got <100 still hanging around too broken to render. But then I realised that the migration lost all the embeds from the "more lornajane" section and there are hundreds and hundreds of articles, slide decks, videos, all now needing some sort of rescue. I used to give a lot of talks, but actually I also did it for a lot of years and so it's really a lot of content when you try to look at it all at once!
@lornajane@indieweb.socialEvery #emfcamp is a different experience. Health issues cramped my style this time, but I still connected with people and came away daring to hope for our shared futures. This event and community means so much to me, and I'm so grateful it exists.
@lornajane@indieweb.socialThe actual remedials will have to wait for the weekend, this is a personal blog and there's nothing else on that box so it'll just have to stay like that for now. I have backups and will just nuke the server and rebuild when I have a spare day.
@lornajane@indieweb.socialIt's been a while since I had bother with my Wordpress but today I had a visit from the wp2shell exploit. I saw additional "garbage" output on both the website frontend and the admin login page. A rogue plugin had been added, and I also had a new admin user. I've removed those and upgraded to newest wordpress (wp cli allows upgrade within your current major version if needed). Be careful out there, folks.
@lornajane@indieweb.socialI've been meaning to move my blog to a static site for years ... but on a 20 year old site with >1k blog posts, with a variety of plugins that don't all work and a sort of custom posts implementation that predates actual custom post types in wordpress, plus all the talk/article entries, I've been sort of putting it off!! Yesterday's wp2shell was a strong reminder to keep that migration on my todo list though.
@lornajane@indieweb.socialI talk to teams about risks and costs when delaying decisions to reduce uncertainty, but even better is this analogy of decision making severity as hats, haircuts, or tattoos #linkTuesday
