@gsuberland I assume there’s now a giant note on my account saying DO NOT SEND PARCELS TO NUMBER 3, WE WILL FIRE YOU IF YOU DO.
@gsuberland DPD got really good at getting packages to me after I opened a support ticket pointing out they’d misdelivered the apology cookie they’d attempted to send me because I complained they kept sending my parcels to the same person up the road. I only knew the cookie had been misdelivered because that same person called me to say he had another of my parcels.
@rachel but I never plan to BIG PROCRASTINATE. That’s just a thing that organically happens and then I realise it’s been a week since I did anything useful.
@rachel oh this is great - I think I’ve largely fallen into washing up as a fairly routine procrastination exercise but I like the idea of being more conscious about it. Now I just have to get over not doing things I enjoy as procrastination because I feel guilty about doing enjoyable things rather than whatever unenjoyable thing I’m procrastinating.
@jonty if they released during lockdown they’d have pivoted to providing an enterprise version with SSO and bookable meeting rooms by now. I wouldn’t even hate them for it, positional audio plus the ability to step away and have a quick side chat are the features I wish most for as someone who spends a lot of time in online meetings of various sizes.
@CatherineFlick @jonathanhogg did you tell him about how this is the text book example of a thing not worth crying over?
@CatherineFlick @MikeFromLFE @agvbergin I’ve had occasional success with Googling the CEO’s email address and going to them - I assume in most cases I’m actually getting their PA but the CEO’s office taking an interest is usually quite effective at solving problems that just need more than one team to think about it at a time.
@jarkman yeah, that’s about 4x as much as I’d be looking to pay, especially since it costs £8 to get a box sent back to you as well. I’d maybe be ok with £6/month/box if I wasn’t also going to get billed for shipping.
I’d like to be able to say box up my Flight Sim controllers, slap a shipping and a storage label on it, then have Royal Mail turn up the next to take it away for storage, maybe bringing with them a box of random electronic components I’m suddenly interested in again.
This would presumably be even cheaper to run than a standard storage facility because it can just be a big warehouse with shelving since the people storing things don’t have direct access.
A service I would like to exist: a storage facility which I can send items to/request items from without having to do so myself. Surely I can’t be the only person with lots of hobbies they’re periodically into, a tiny flat, and no driving license.
@networkstring @CatherineFlick something has gone very wrong when setting up a VPN connection and forwarding traffic over it from a server elsewhere to Minecraft on his laptop is an easier option for letting the boy play with friends than paying the developers to run a server.
I’ve once again been told in a podcast ad that Nando’s are “shaping the future with AI” and I just don’t get why anyone would think that’s a plausible line. They make chicken with varying degrees of spiciness, this is in no way shaping the future. It’s barely shaping the present.
Reposting on behalf of a friend who’s only on Bluesky, do spread it further if you like.
Hi! I'm looking for trans athletes affected by gender rules in sports (or other competitions like chess) for a possible panel at transliberationgroup.org.uk conference in Manchester 26/27 September
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Can we please agree on a single name for whatever this social media thing is, preferably one that doesn’t make me cringe whenever I have to use it? It’s not Mastodon because other implementations exist, it’s not ActivityPub because that’s wider, and Fediverse sounds like some sort of furry sex club (which while not an entirely inaccurate description of this place isn’t a great entry point for normal people).
@gsuberland I pressed the Like button but please know it was a grudging like on account of there not being an Ugh button.
@fallenhitokiri I suspect I’m a little bit (but not far) further along my Rust journey and while I can see the value of lifetimes and the borrow checker it really is a mind fuck when presented with something like that. Thankfully most of what I’ve actually needed to write so far hasn’t required that level of contortions.
@0xabad1dea frustratingly the UK is increasingly full of these developments, a massive blob of nothing but houses (because they’re where the profit is) behind one, maybe two, access roads and without any actual amenities. They’d be lovely if they just had a few corner shops and maybe a couple of cafes/restaurants scattered in amongst the houses.
@histoftech the point at which I knew I had to get out was when I took a few weeks leave to help run a festival (as one does), which is really quite stressful. My general anxiety levels dropped and I noticed I was no longer getting frequent borderline anxiety attacks.
@histoftech via acquisition of a startup I worked for I ended up in senior management at a multinational media company. This is not my natural domain, I’m a jack of all trades nerd at heart.
Anyway, turns out I’m reasonably good at it but it sucks the life out of me playing politics all day and never *doing* anything. I ejected for a 50% pay cut, left a significant bonus behind, and couldn’t be happier now I’m back writing code for a small company.
@CatherineFlick great analysis from you, classic BBC with the presenter sounding baffled that anyone would want to buy a games company.
Having one of those days where I really get why everyone is so keen to just go build some completely new software for their specific needs as I attempt to glue together half a dozen open source servers into doing what I want them to.
Long term this should work well, and I get to build on top of incredibly well tested software that I know will scale. Short term I can’t help but think it would be easier to write some code that does exactly what I want.
@pascoda firmly on the German end of the spectrum. The British way would be to join the improper queue and then complain knowingly with everyone around you about how improper the queuing is and that They should do something about it.
My work day so far has mostly consisted of opening tickets for other people. I’d better write some code before I start turning into a middle manager and have the urge to log in to LinkedIn to share my wisdom on how all my greatest achievements were done by other people.
@alexanderadam @issyl0 I have a rule that if the renewal email comes round and I’ve still not done the project I let it expire otherwise things would be silly.