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Terence Eden
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Longer hair than you.
Got the ⏻ symbol into #Unicode.
Open Standards / Source / Data geek.
Known as @Edent on most social platforms.

Bit obsessed with #SolarPower […]

🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@Edent, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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🆕 blog! “Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!”

How can you measure the popularity of a social network site? Perhaps by counting the number of active accounts, or the quality of the discourse, or even how many people reply to your witty memes.

Me? I prefer to look at how […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
🆕 blog! “Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!”

How can you measure the popularity of a social network site? Perhaps by counting the number of active accounts, or the quality of the discourse, or even how many people reply to your witty memes.

Me? I prefer to look at how […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
RE: https://bot.openbenches.org/posts/69226b37-7b52-38e1-91df-84faff36a5ca.json

There at *so* many memorial benches in Tokyo's Ueno Park.
But my Japanese isn't good enough to say "hello respected elder, please stop sitting down so I can take a photo for my silly website."
bot.openbenches.org
November 23, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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🆕 blog! “Magazine Review: DOCTYPE”

D'yer remember the eighties? The eighties, eh? Remember 'em? With the Acorn Archimedes an' that? What were we like? Remember them mags what y'got? The computer mags? Wirral the source code? Remember typin' it all in be hand? If yer semicolon were outta place […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🆕 blog! “Magazine Review: DOCTYPE”

D'yer remember the eighties? The eighties, eh? Remember 'em? With the Acorn Archimedes an' that? What were we like? Remember them mags what y'got? The computer mags? Wirral the source code? Remember typin' it all in be hand? If yer semicolon were outta place […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
RE: https://solar.bots.edent.tel/posts/69208d37-a4f8-93f0-af7b-f4d198bf5259.json

Clear skies and low temperatures in London.
This is about the max we could hope for. Just over 50% of our average daily use.
Today, my #SolarPanels generated 5.37kWh of solar electricity.

FAQ: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/solar-faq/
November 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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I think that's the most annoying thing, to me: You can't debloat Linux because the package management tools forbid it.

Cups is pretty damn good, I have nothing against the project, it's *way* better at just working than any print stack in the commercial operating systems, but if I'm not […]
Original post on mastodon.monoceros.co.za
mastodon.monoceros.co.za
November 21, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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🆕 blog! “The Peaceful Transfer of Power in Open Source Projects”

Most of the people who run Open Source projects are mortal. Recent history shows us that they will all eventually die, or get bored, or win the lottery, or get sick, or be conscripted, or lose their mind.

If you've ever visited a […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@grapevinesocial/115576842932151809

I've no idea what this project is? Some kind of AI to shoe-horn in local references to popular posts?

Here's what it makes of mine - just utterly wrong. All the other posts are similarly deranged.

Any idea who is behind it?
mastodon.social
November 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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prospect.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
🆕 blog! “The Peaceful Transfer of Power in Open Source Projects”

Most of the people who run Open Source projects are mortal. Recent history shows us that they will all eventually die, or get bored, or win the lottery, or get sick, or be conscripted, or lose their mind.

If you've ever visited a […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Amazing headline!
"Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $60bn"
https://www.ft.com/content/064bbca0-1cb2-45ab-85f4-25fdfc318d89
Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $74bn
And suddenly, there may be a reverse Midas at the centre of AI’s circular economy
www.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Another spam wave hitting #codeberg

Bunch of AI generated issues which look superficially legitimate, interspersed with spamming random crap.
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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🆕 blog! “2025 - A Year In Review”

Much like the emperors of old, the year ends on my birthday. As of today, the world is reborn anew as I ascend into the next year of my life. So, what was being 45 like?

Odd.

Odd but good.

At the end of last year's post, I said:

I only have one goal. Stop […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"Cynicism quietly becomes the national operating system."

https://martha6j5h2.substack.com/p/this-is-public-life-in-2025-who-would
November 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Resurrecting an ancient IP Camera.
I'm unable to view the contents of its SD card because it didn't anticipate being used beyond 2020 😆
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
🆕 blog! “2025 - A Year In Review”

Much like the emperors of old, the year ends on my birthday. As of today, the world is reborn anew as I ascend into the next year of my life. So, what was being 45 like?

Odd.

Odd but good.

At the end of last year's post, I said:

I only have one goal. Stop […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Amazing headline!
"Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $60bn"
https://www.ft.com/content/064bbca0-1cb2-45ab-85f4-25fdfc318d89
Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $74bn
And suddenly, there may be a reverse Midas at the centre of AI’s circular economy
www.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
More good news!
Green energy discounts on heat pumps now includes air con.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/discounts-for-families-to-keep-warm-in-winter-and-cool-in-summer
November 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I've been watching #pluribus. It is *gorgeous* and mostly entertaining.

But *so* frustrating that the protagonist doesn't even bother asking the most basic of questions about the rules of the world.

I get that they don't want to make "Exposition! The Show! but there's a fine line between […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM
@camelliakyoto where in Kyoto can we visit you? Heading there next week 😃
November 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115569820207257167

One of the things we don't talk about enough is how to secure the peaceful transition of power in open source projects.

We've all seen BDFLs turn into mad kings.
There are innumerable projects which have collapsed when the founder left […]
November 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
RE: https://solar.bots.edent.tel/posts/691b4864-6d9e-fcfe-9356-38588f760c4e.json

Cold and clear in London yesterday.
Turns out, that's perfect for increasing the efficiency of solar panels. Not many hours of sunlight, but they all got slurped into my battery.
Today, my #SolarPanels generated 5.08kWh of solar electricity.

FAQ: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/solar-faq/
November 18, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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I wrote a short story about James Bond Vs The Blockchain.
shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/11...
Chapter 18 - Nobody Did It Better
Welcome to NaNoWriMo, where I - and thousands of other plucky souls - try to write a 50,000 word novel in a month. You are reading "Tales of the Algorithm". A compendium of near-future sci-fi stories...
shkspr.mobi
November 18, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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🆕 blog! “OpenBenches 💖 OpenStreetMap”

When Liz and I created the OpenBenches website, it was just designed to be a fun way for people to record memorial benches. Since then things have got out of hand and we now have over thirty-nine thousand benches recorded!

Our plan was never to compete […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM