At the risk of angering the gods and a million more tasks spawning, we are two weeks out and the end of my EMF todo list is in sight. I think this might be a first, at least since I fell down the orga rabbit hole in 2018.
@gsuberland @pascoda this is the shit I love about EMF! People just going “this is a thing that I think should happen so I’ll make it happen”.
@Workshopshed by “somewhere near Leeds Hackspace” I assume you mean the actual Leeds Hackspace in Leeds given that criteria.
@CatherineFlick @jonathanhogg is it even a thing at EMF if you haven’t attached some RGB LEDs to it?
@joenash you know I’m not convinced we’ll even *need* Windows for that. The only person with exotic Windows based needs is bringing their own Windows machine.
Climbed for the first time in several weeks yesterday and my shoulders are really letting me know about it today. Don’t skip exercise for a while and then jump straight back in where you were before folks.
@TomF @JamesWidman technically yes but it can be buried somewhere in the settings menu under a mysterious option nobody but the real sickos go looking. Also if you don’t enforce it then practically anybody with someone who handles these things will do so and anyone who doesn’t will be oblivious of their obligations whatever license you choose.
I just had an ad tell me Nando’s are “shaping the future with AI”, I can only assume they mean a different Nando’s because the one I know sells chicken.
@TomF kind of depends on your objective though. Do you want to encourage as wide a use as possible, or would you like to subtly put off big corporations from using it? If the latter the wtfpl mentioned in another reply is great because all the super serious lawyers don’t like to put the word Fuck in their documentation.
@TomF MIT is probably the way to go, Unlicense is a bit less known and may result in people deciding not to use whatever it is due to uncertainty while MIT is understood and permitted by basically all licensing lawyers.
@grajohnt so many cases of people get lost or injured because everyone with experience was up front charging off and didn’t notice someone lagging ever further behind the group.
@grajohnt one of the best bits of group hiking advice I ever heard was from a friend who’d worked in a kid’s residential activity centre. “Always have one of the most capable people at the back of the group so they can stay with the ones who start falling back”.
Acast have decided I’m German. This is wonderful because I can tune out all the podcast ads much easier when they’re in a language I don’t speak.
Come on Sky. You and I both know that selling 900Mbps-5Gbps connections as being best for 4K streaming is only true if what you’re streaming is the raw video from every single camera covering a sports stadium.
James Hoffman demolishing a terrible coffee machine really was a treat to experience over breakfast.
@pikesley @thechaoszone @jonathanhogg the deer park isn’t big enough to maintain an appropriate distance between your ukelele and me.
@jonathanhogg far, far away from wherever I happen to be at the time please.
One of my favourite bits of the EMF lead up is the point at which the Unaffiliated Village, an anarchic collective of whoever felt like attaching themselves to meet some new people, achieves self-organisation.
It starts as nothing more than a registered village and a link to (this year) a Signal group, and by the time gates open it’s 20 odd people who’ve got a communal tent, things to sit on, and this year a Tim Curry Shouting SPAAACE flag.
The boy’s school have very generously assisted in EMF preparation by taking him and 60 or so other children to Cornwall for the weekend. The opportunity to lock myself away for a few days and get shit done really couldn’t have come at a better time! (Just got to get through a day of doing my real job first)
@BodgehamVillage I’d like to issue a correction to my previous statement about almost saying bad words.
Fuck you too, buddy. 😘