Stuart Langridge
@sil.kryogenix.org
Builds stuff for computers, advises other people how to do so, plays PBP D&D, makes the occasional solo game, eats sandwiches. Part of Open Web Advocacy. Runner of the Critical Role transcript search. In the People’s Republic of Brum. https://kryogenix.org
I don’t think I’m ever going to finish developing Counterpoise, a ttrpg ruleset I made for duet PBP play. Should I release it despite not being happy with it, because it’s better for it to be out in the world to be seen? Or bin it because I got the enjoyment from the attempt and that was the point?
My name’s Stuart Langridge and I approve this message. Signed, a youngish man, barely fifty.
Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · 2h agoI am reading "The Division Bell Mystery" by legendary Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson, and this is now my favourite line in all of world literature: "George Gleeson was a youngish man, barely fifty". Thank you, Ellen, from all the forty-somethings out here.
please, my government, stop trying to do this. Regulate big tech companies, yes; ensure fairness and competition. Don't ask for back doors; they make everyone less safe, you can't be trusted, future governments can't either, and it makes it harder to regulate Google and Apple when they are wrong.
Liberty@libertyhq.bsky.social · yesterdayNEW 🚨 Apple are challenging the UK Government's secret data access that could create a 'backdoor' to our encrypted information. Liberty and Privacy International are also challenging these secret orders, known as 'Technical Capability Notices' (TCNs). www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...
how much milk you put in your tea, and how strong it's brewed, are two different questions. Anyway, 5, 2/3, and I'd ask for medium with the expectation I'd get a 4 medium well because that's what I actually want.
B_Rye989@brye989.bsky.social · 2d ago3 5 4
The tournament at Harrenhal seems to be the bloody Omphalos of the A Song of Ice and Fire world: just about everything that formed their current world seems to have got started there. I wonder what actually happened there? Maybe this will tell me. www.rsc.org.uk/game-of-thro...
Don’t forget: like and subscribe. Or possibly Here’s a serpent’s tooth, brother Or possibly Wills, you’re in the chair
RadarOnline@radaronline.com · 2w agoPrince Harry is said to have offered five words as a 'peace' gesture to his older brother, William.
do the people who build HMRC's phone maze feel guilty about how much it routes you to a "we hung up without you ever talking to a person" end, or do they feel happy about that? once you fool the maze and speak to an actual HMRC person, they are smart and courteous and solve it in seconds, of course.
100 years ago, two of my grandparents weren't born, and the other two were 7 and 5 years old. But one of them grew up and joined the army as a chef. I'm OK at cheffery, but I suspect less so if I had to do it for 8000 people at once
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d agoEnough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?
Watching a series of short developer interviews of Laravel/PHP people by Dan at @jumptwenty4.bsky.social. First up, @zuzana-k.com from @larabelles.com. Neat! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgkh...
Zuzana Kunckova on Larabelles, Community & Finding Your People | Laravel Live UK
YouTube video by Jump24
youtube.com
🚨 New pod Bruce chats with Alex Moore (Open Web Advocacy) about why your iPhone still can't run real web apps, and the five year fight to change that. Tune in here or on your favorite podcast platform: youtu.be/U-qAoGisVRE
Inside the Five Year Fight Against Apple's App Rules
YouTube video by Vivaldi Browser
youtu.be
This is probably not gonna go this bloke’s way, legal-wise. But I admire him, especially since my guess is that he will deploy the “plums” defence, i.e., when he’s told using a duress password to wipe your phone is unlawful, he’ll say: suck my plums
The Verge@theverge.com · last wk.The case of a traveler who allegedly entered a ‘duress password’ to wipe his phone raises a legal question with no easy answers. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/report/97214...
I think you can get extra funding for films in Nantucket, too
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
I know someone who will see this and sigh so ruefully that it causes a vacuum
New-Cleckit Dominie@ncdominie.bsky.social · last wk.This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
what the heck is "Veezu"? Is this basically poundshop Uber, with all the horrible treatment of laws and drivers? or is it actually like a real taxi company? I've not heard of it.
Birmingham City Council, no! An email: "register on the electoral roll", with a link to some random site (elecreg.co.uk). The email saying "check it's authentic, at www.birmingham.gov.uk/ecanvass%22. Actual official council webpage! well done! And the web page. Which DOES NOT MENTION ELECREG. Argh!
Once upon a decade eerie, while I wandered, weak and weary Swimming all the way to Scherie, obverse of the Trojan War Draped with wounds and dark edemas, sought we he who might redeem us The one I'd hoped for: Polyphemus, but he then nobody saw We left him blind drunk on the floor
Jessica Ritchey@jmritchey.bsky.social · last wk.This is just to say I have eaten the sun god's cattle on the island which you were probably saving for Apollo Forgive me they were delicious and so charred and so warm
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains. Who dares to condemn?
Aram Zucker-Scharff@chronotope.aramzs.xyz · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains.
"There are many browsers out there but only a few maintain their own engine, and that's Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, the engines being Blink, WebKit, and Gecko. And ours, Firefox, is the only major engine that isn't owned by a company that profits from its own walled garden native app platform." 👩🍳💋
Firefox for Web Developers@webdevs.firefox.com · 2w agoA little dive into web standards… Why changes were made to popover="hint", and why diversity in browser engines is important: (sorry again for the YT link - video uploads are still broken on bsky) youtube.com/shorts/9LDmd...
ruin a book by adding a word: The Pop Art of War
Captain Disillusion@captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 2w agoruin a book by adding a word: The Twelve Electric Chairs
Folding up a bag of Smiths scampi fries, as is right and proper. My daughter does this and it really annoys her partner. I am quietly proud. (Also she tells me that they don’t do Cheese Moments any more! The humanity!)
"it’s the difference between work and the gym. At work if your job is to move heavy things...use whatever assistive tech you have on hand. The point of [the gym] isn’t to move heavy things; it’s to actually lift those heavy things." Sure, but… students don't think it's the gym! they think it's work!
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoShould you use AI for a task? Here’s a simple way to decide | Bruce Schneier
wtf, this had happened to me and it was set to "no-one". Have changed it.
alex benzer@alexbenzer.com · 2w agothere was a recent bug in the Bluesky app that caused some people's chat permission settings to switch to "No one" we already fixed the bug, but folks may want to double-check their settings to make sure they are set the way they want. go here: bsky.app/messages/set... look for these settings:
Tell your friends, we have less than 15 tickets left for #SotB2027
can somebody please tell me what kind of a world we live in where a̶ ̶m̶a̶n̶ ̶d̶r̶e̶s̶s̶e̶d̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶a̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶b̶a̶t̶ ̶g̶e̶t̶s̶ ̶a̶l̶l̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶p̶r̶e̶s̶s̶ we can be four-nil up and still be in danger
what the thufferin' thoccotash is going on with this game of England vs France
Age of Umbra: Sallowlands now added to the Critical Role transcript search archives.
for the love of mike stop knocking it around in your own half, lads
