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@estebano.bsky.social Please can you remove me from the list "Gov Folk "? This account is now defunct. Thanks.

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Please stop following this account. It is now archived to prevent squatting. I've swapped my handle to @edent.tel Follow that instead.

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VR Game Review: Get The Heck Out ★★★★⯪ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/vr-game-review-get-the-heck-out/ You don't need to pay £££ and download GB of files in order to have a good VR game. It turns out that the Web is perfectly capable of serving a decent VR experience. You can open up your VR …

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Movie Review: Oppenheimer ★★⯪☆☆ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/movie-review-oppenheimer/ Oppenheimer is... fine? I guess? For ever gorgeously composed shot, there's a minute of plodding exposition. For every heart-breaking moment of self-doubt, there's a minute of plodding exposition. For …

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Movie Review: Oppenheimer ★★⯪☆☆ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/movie-review-oppenheimer/ Oppenheimer is... fine? I guess? For ever gorgeously composed shot, there's a minute of plodding exposition. For every heart-breaking moment of self-doubt, there's a minute of plodding exposition. For …

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Safelinks are a fragile foundation for publishing https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/safelinks-are-a-fragile-foundation-for-publishing/ Microsoft loves you and wants to protect you. So every time you receive an email with a link in it, Microsoft Outlook helpfully rewrites it so that it goes …

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Safelinks are a fragile foundation for publishing https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/safelinks-are-a-fragile-foundation-for-publishing/ Microsoft loves you and wants to protect you. So every time you receive an email with a link in it, Microsoft Outlook helpfully rewrites it so that it goes …

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Book Review - How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History by Samantha Cole ★★★⯪☆ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/book-review-how-sex-changed-the-internet-and-the-internet-changed-sex-an-unexpected-history-by-samantha-cole/ This book is a rather pleasing …

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Book Review: Babel - R. F. Kuang ★★★★★ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/book-review-babel-r-f-kuang/ This is an astonishing book. On the one hand, it's the basic "Harry Potter" trope - a young orphan is gifted, gets sent to school to learn magic, becomes pals with the other weird kids, has …

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A (tiny, incomplete, single user, write-only) ActivityPub server in PHP. shkspr.mobi

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A (tiny, incomplete, single user, write-only) ActivityPub server in PHP https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/a-tiny-incomplete-single-user-write-only-activitypub-server-in-php/ I've written an ActivityPub server which only allows you to post messages to your followers. That's all it does. It won't …

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Book Review: The Constant Rabbit - Jasper Fforde ★★★★☆ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/book-review-the-constant-rabbit-jasper-fforde/ I love Fforde's provincial epics. They are dystopias set in the endless wastelands of suburban England. Whole new worlds brought to life in sleepy villages. The …

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Book Review: The Constant Rabbit - Jasper Fforde ★★★★☆ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/book-review-the-constant-rabbit-jasper-fforde/ I love Fforde's provincial epics. They are dystopias set in the endless wastelands of suburban England. Whole new worlds brought to life in sleepy villages. The …

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Book Review: Terry Pratchett - A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins ★★★★★ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/book-review-terry-pratchett-a-life-with-footnotes-by-rob-wilkins/ Like a million fans, I have a precious memory of (briefly) meeting Terry Pratchett and getting him to sign something …

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This is an excellent book and you should buy it. Yes! You! Buy it!

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Book Review: Terry Pratchett - A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins ★★★★★ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/book-review-terry-pratchett-a-life-with-footnotes-by-rob-wilkins/ Like a million fans, I have a precious memory of (briefly) meeting Terry Pratchett and getting him to sign something …

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Book Review: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/book-review-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-gabrielle-zevin/ This deserves all the accolades going. A perfectly rendered tale of childhood best-friends-forever growing up and trying to make …

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Book Review: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/book-review-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-gabrielle-zevin/ This deserves all the accolades going. A perfectly rendered tale of childhood best-friends-forever growing up and trying to make …

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Dark Season - Russell T Davies' new show starring Kate Winslet ★★★⯪☆ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/dark-season-russell-t-davies-new-show-starring-kate-winslet/ A dark and shadowy figure is using laptops to terrorise a school and convert its pupils into mindless automata. Only one person can …

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Dark Season - Russell T Davies' new show starring Kate Winslet ★★★⯪☆ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/dark-season-russell-t-davies-new-show-starring-kate-winslet/ A dark and shadowy figure is using laptops to terrorise a school and convert its pupils into mindless automata. Only one person can …

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Envelopes and GDPR https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/envelopes-and-gdpr/ Privacy is a funny concept, isn't it? Very few people want the whole world to know what medical complaints they have. But most hospitals are open-access buildings, where the waiting rooms have large monitors to tell …

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VR Game Review: Get The Heck Out ★★★★⯪ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/vr-game-review-get-the-heck-out/ You don't need to pay £££ and download GB of files in order to have a good VR game. It turns out that the Web is perfectly capable of serving a decent VR experience. You can open up your VR …

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Rebuilding FourSquare for ActivityPub using OpenStreetMap https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/rebuilding-foursquare-for-activitypub-using-openstreetmap/ I used to like the original FourSquare. The "mayor" stuff was a bit silly, and my friends never left that many reviews, but I loved being able to …

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Book Review: Babel - R. F. Kuang ★★★★★ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/book-review-babel-r-f-kuang/ This is an astonishing book. On the one hand, it's the basic "Harry Potter" trope - a young orphan is gifted, gets sent to school to learn magic, becomes pals with the other weird kids, has …

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My first pet was "wn6GNvqT(kpzYr]&f2KAb". Generate a random password and save it in your password manager. Don't try to remember it and certainly don't use information that someone else could know.

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Happy Burns Night!

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What's the incentive to tell the truth on surveys? https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/whats-the-incentive-to-tell-the-truth-on-surveys/ I recently received a survey from an event I'd attended. Look, I've read The Circle, so I know that I have to give individuals scores of 10 or they'll be fired. …

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Book Review: Refuse to Choose! A Revolutionary Program for Doing Everything That You Love - Barbara Sher ★★☆☆☆ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/book-review-refuse-to-choose-a-revolutionary-program-for-doing-everything-that-you-love-barbara-sher/ I am decidedly unconvinced by this book. What do …

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The Gender Politics of Conference T-Shirts shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/01...

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I need to find more people to follow, preferable actors, film makers, casting directors and people who post funnies. I do like Dr Who but all I am getting here are posts about it! And a bit of Bilston poetry which is splendid.

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Book Review: Refuse to Choose! A Revolutionary Program for Doing Everything That You Love - Barbara Sher ★★☆☆☆ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/book-review-refuse-to-choose-a-revolutionary-program-for-doing-everything-that-you-love-barbara-sher/ I am decidedly unconvinced by this book. What do …

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The (theoretical) risks of open sourcing (imaginary) Government LLMs https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/the-theoretical-risks-of-open-sourcing-imaginary-government-llms/ Last week I attended an unofficial discussion group about the future of AI in Government. As well as the crypto-bores who have …

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I've arrived in Brussels for PrivacyCamp24 If you fancy a pre-conference drink, give me a shout 🍻

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