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Rob Sharp

@qnm

Scot in Aus. Does computer things. He/him.

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Beautiful!

05.12.2024 10:40 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well deserved. Always a great read.

05.12.2024 10:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah - clicked through to the article with that same thought. Glad it’s not matrix.org !

05.12.2024 09:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community I did not expect this! > [...] we are announcing today the general availability of a foundational open data set, Foursquare Open Source Places ("FSQ OS Places"). This base layer …

Foursquare just open sourced their 100 million place point of interest dataset! Some notes on poking around with it using DuckDB (it's Parquet files on S3) simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/...

20.11.2024 06:08 πŸ‘ 459 πŸ” 113 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 16
A bitcoin logo with the phrase β€œmake war unaffordable” on a sticker, attached to a petrol pump.

A bitcoin logo with the phrase β€œmake war unaffordable” on a sticker, attached to a petrol pump.

Spotted at my local servo

13.11.2024 09:32 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A baby mynah bird facing the camera. They are sitting on a grey pavement near some grass.

A baby mynah bird facing the camera. They are sitting on a grey pavement near some grass.

Met a baby mynah who was learning to fly. Hadn’t quite worked it out.

03.11.2024 07:58 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trick-or-treating - Wikipedia

I often hear that Australians don’t β€œdo” trick-or treat at Halloween, or that it’s β€œan American thing” but in my childhood back in Scotland on the 31st Oct we always went β€œguising” - dressing up and knocking on doors, maybe reciting a poyum, for sweets.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-o...

31.10.2024 09:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Migrating my Twitter follows into bsky.

Loads more since I did this a year or so ago!!

30.10.2024 02:04 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t think so - heard a few folks have had to recreate accounts in order to do tax etc.

30.07.2024 13:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I’d love to see an offical release of Justice at Coachella 2024 Γ  la Alive 2007 - it’s such a great set!

30.07.2024 11:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A screen grab showing password login disabled on the Australian MyGov website.

A screen grab showing password login disabled on the Australian MyGov website.

My Australian myGov account was closed due to too many failed logins.

I created a new one, and I’ve found that after enabling passkeys you can disable password login. Good to see govt taking security seriously.

24.07.2024 12:02 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Looks like there are more null checking fails out there in the wild.

21.07.2024 03:47 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s one thing I do see on nostr - a real drive to expand the underlying protocol beyond micropost social media. Haven’t seen that here yet - or maybe I’m following the wrong folks.

29.05.2024 09:06 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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24.05.2024 07:00 πŸ‘ 273 πŸ” 73 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

Yeah same. Soon I hope!

23.05.2024 03:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Yes. There’s also Damus (on Nostr)

04.07.2023 09:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ok! Did you know that the character of Spock & the Vulcan β€œlive long and prosper” πŸ––πŸ½ is actually drawn from the Torah & informed by Nimoy’s Jewish heritage?

As a child, Nimoy was in synagogue & snuck a look at the Konahim blessing πŸ––πŸ½. ST centered pluralistic society & he made it part of his character

15.06.2023 18:59 πŸ‘ 1320 πŸ” 125 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 19
Stencilled spiders on a communications cylinder

Stencilled spiders on a communications cylinder

25.06.2023 08:32 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Though I suppose there’s nothing to stop that content being proxied by the relay.

08.05.2023 02:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Currently, just the URLs.

08.05.2023 02:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Underrated comment!

07.05.2023 02:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Gosh, so much and yet so little.

Tell you though, my youngest (10) has taken to playing that gorgeous bass guitar I picked up from you all those years ago! Long may that continue!

Hope you are all keeping well?

05.05.2023 09:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, can’t help feeling that one needs a birb though!

04.05.2023 08:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah exactly.

30.04.2023 21:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, it’s great! S3 is shaping up well, too!

30.04.2023 05:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also, hi Mark πŸ‘‹

30.04.2023 04:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Janglebrackets

30.04.2023 04:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I *think* it’s when an account is very similar to a well-known twitter account and the Bluesky team can’t verify. It’s a manual process, from what I can tell.

30.04.2023 01:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

apparently muting the hellthread doesnt work? technically that's a bug but it's hilarious so

29.04.2023 03:52 πŸ‘ 152 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 4