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@DefectiveWings I would like to read that!

@ivor Yes!

Please do buy a copy and let me know what you think of it 🙂

@paul_j ask your admin to upgrade hackyderm to the latest version of Mastodon.
The quote post stuff is still new and your instance appears to be ~3 months out of date.

"I've found a lovely community of people. I get my parasocial fix without being inundated by cryptogrifters shilling shitcoins, nor by thought-leaders posting inflammatory takes for clout. There are no disingenuous politicians and remarkably few celebrities trying to sell me their bathwater. There's no advertising. There's a great API for bots.

"But, just to be contrary, let's list some of the bad points about it."

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/10/seven-years-on-mastodon/

Having a look through the filesizes of the SVG logos at https://github.com/edent/SuperTinyIcons

And, yeah, that sounds about right for C++!

If you use DP Alt Mode / HDMI on #GrapheneOS - I'd love your advice!

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/27613-how-to-use-dp-alt-mode

@tychotithonus
It does - but I've found that I have to add each email address manually.
I can't have a gravatar of *@example.com

@tychotithonus Gravatar works in a world where everyone only has one email address.

There's always a risk that a large organisation could add weird and proprietary extension.

@db I agree that people shouldn't hotlink the images.

But as for logs, the domain serving your avatar already knows your address and should already restrict sensitive logging.

@db Not really. You've given your email address to the service - so they know it.

@emily_s That's a reasonable point.

For a static site with only one user, you can just save a .jpg as `avatar` (without the file extension and it'll be served up.

🆕 blog! “Alpha launch - .well-known/avatar - feedback wanted”

I've gotten sufficiently annoyed with a trivial problem that I'm preparing to write an IETF RFC. Yeah. That's how ticked off I am!

Every site that I sign up for asks me to upload an avatar to represent myself. Whenever I change my photo, I have to log in to a hundred sites and change it…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10/alpha-launch-well-known-avatar-feedback-wanted/
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#IETF #ReDeCentralize #standards #web

@calmeilles There are dozens of Android based eInk devices. They seem to work pretty well.

The NHS gives out the best laptop stickers.
Get yours at https://www.blood.co.uk/

🆕 blog! “Was my website mentioned in a GitHub issue?”

This is a quick GitHub action to get alerted every time your website is mentioned in a GitHub issue.

Doing it manually

You can search GitHub for a URl, and sort the results with the newest first, like this:

https://github.com/search?q=%22shkspr.mobi%22&type=issues&s=created&o=desc

Using the API

GitHub has a fairly…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10/was-my-website-mentioned-in-a-github-issue/
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#blog #github

Woman on the tube has a phone in each hand.
Right hand has an email from her boss.
Let hand has ChatGPT.
She scrolls the e-mail into view, then has ChatGPT take a photo of it.
She gives the LLM a prompt, waits for the answer, and then thumb-types it into a reply.

I'm on my way to the #AIforTheRestOfUs conference. Didn't expect such an early demonstration!

@eivindmork Yes, the obsequious nature is a part of the US culture which I'll never get used to.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/115358000440761104

One guard always tells the truth.
The other guard always lies.

Excellent post by @arya on the @frameworkcomputer mess.

https://crimier.github.io/posts/Framework-Omarchy/

@BrianSmith950 yes. You either need to refresh, or upgrade the instance.