Twitter: @ewenmcneill -- April 2022
Fri Apr 01 03:47:46 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @developerjack
YYYYMMDDnn? đ¤
(Personally Iâve never had anyone comment on invoice numbers except (a) when I accidentally duplicated them for the same client â âcomputer says noâ â or (b) very early on when I started at four digits to make formatting easier. But I ~always invoice monthly.)
Fri Apr 01 07:18:59 +0000 2022 (#)
New Tim Hunkin series on components started yesterday (2022-03-31). First new one (âepisode 9â) is on sensors (~1h long, with chapters).
(IIRC according to the announcement video thereâs 5 videos in this series, to be released weekly.) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FNnP84tTSFY
Fri Apr 01 07:23:04 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @bunniestudios
Iâm all for âugly but functionalâ, and recyclable đ
Just wanted to let you know it seems very close to the margin of safety on surviving long shipping the way Mouser pack it (ie loose inside a larger box). Even slightly wider cardboard âjointsâ/thicker tray card might help.
Fri Apr 01 21:37:11 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @RealSexyCyborg: Now live for everyone! Killing Viruses with UV- Safely!
Open Source Upper-Room UVGI Fixture https://youtu.be/QSnUce9xdNo htâŚ
Fri Apr 01 21:52:08 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @theavalkyrie: Y'all hate UUIDs? Me too. I use ULIDs instead. They are 26 chars long using base32, lexicographically, monotonically soâŚ
Sun Apr 03 06:31:45 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @MeanestTA: Everyone on my team (5 men ages 48-75) texts me to make sure the slang theyâre using is correct in context. Some examples beâŚ
Mon Apr 04 06:20:29 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @ComfyConAU: Finally, the Youtube Links for the weekend are going to be here. Sat 9 April - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p5RuK0Jmpk Sun 10 April - httpsâŚ
Wed Apr 06 07:03:58 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @__fincham
Find a computer from the 1980s you like, with its OS in ROM. Acquire a few spares, and keep them in working order. Pretend the last 30 years never happened. RetroComputing is very in these days.
(I mean itâs not what I did. But some days it sure is temptingđ)
Wed Apr 06 07:06:13 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @__fincham
- store the spares carefully :-)
Wed Apr 06 07:12:23 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @ngumenyuk: In a moment of crisis Ukraine turns to be an incredibly functioning & effective state.Volodya&Igor job is to restore interneâŚ
Wed Apr 06 07:30:36 +0000 2022 (#)
If you like your sudoku solves âmovie lengthâ, and âmystery reveals itselfâ style, âThe Ultimate Miracle Sudokuâ is for you: empty grid, 9 â?â marks outside the grid (which are X-Sums & Sandwiches).
A beautiful solve by Simon of @crypticcracking (1h27m). https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k0fngu2aML4
Thu Apr 07 00:30:38 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @__fincham
The names of icons on the home screen of a phone need to be short, hence Settings.
System Preferences on macOS is just a (usually hidden) menu item on a much larger screen. (Fairly sure itâs been System Preferences for a very long time if youâre wondering which was first.)
Thu Apr 07 04:52:28 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @danielgoyal: Omicron is far more dangerous than the Flu.
Many have bought into the âCovid is now like the Fluâ narrative.
So hereâs tâŚ
Sat Apr 09 02:22:07 +0000 2022 (#)
#ComfyConAU is on now, streaming on YouTube so you can watch from your couch. Sat/Sun afternoon/evening for those of us in Aotearoa.
(Opening talk, on now, is Laura Bell. Join the ComfyCon Discord for chat; invite link at bottom of http://au.comfycon.rocks) #ComfyConAU2022 https://twitter.com/ComfyConAU/status/1510860801997164545
Sat Apr 09 02:47:46 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @ewenmcneill
Now live at #ComfyConAU is a talk on âThe Birth of the Surveillance State in Artefactsâ. If youâre interested in early tech, and arenât watching live, itâd be interesting to go back and watch later (about 50 minutes into live stream link up thread). https://twitter.com/loop_disconnect/status/1511508269374001152
Sat Apr 09 03:20:03 +0000 2022 (#)
Podcast suggestion via #ComfyConAU and the Surveillance tech talk: âI Spyâ. Each podcast episode featuring a spy telling the story of one operation (seems to have 3 seasons so far) đ
https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ispy/ https://twitter.com/ewenmcneill/status/1512623275201171456
Sat Apr 09 06:46:49 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @ewenmcneill
đ§ľwith sneak peek into some of the excellent Surveillance Technology (of the past, mostly East Germany) talk from this afternoon at #ComfyConAU (to wet your appetite for the talk if you missed it). https://twitter.com/OzziePriya/status/1512629894802403332
Sun Apr 10 00:47:47 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @minxdragon
Depends how it is implemented: at least in some cases âby ministerial approvalâ basically means âsubmit a good reason in writing and itâll be approvedâ.
As you say often Ministers (and managers) donât know the details; theyâre just âprocess has been followedâ check points.
Sun Apr 10 03:35:48 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @minxdragon
Likely, yes, itâll add some (mostly unnecessary) delay đ˘
But where it falls on the âsomewhat badâ to âextremely terribleâ range depends on the people running the process. (âSuch consent will not be unreasonably withheldâ is often added to legally codify good will.)
Sun Apr 10 04:19:43 +0000 2022 (#)
RFC3339 date/time formats versus ISO8601 date/time formats, with live updating examples. (Via #ComfyConAU chat.)
(RFC3339 is basically the subset of ISO8601 date/time formats you want to use, although RFC3339 allows a few other reasonable variations.)
https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/
Mon Apr 11 08:36:17 +0000 2022 (#)
Back in the days of floppy disks, loading programs was slow (and RAM was expensive, so no disk cache): what if you could rerun the previous program without loading from floppy again? Such a helpful utility could be very small⌠đ http://peetm.com/blog/?p=55 https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/04/07/empty/
Mon Apr 11 10:01:19 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @OzziePriya: Inspired by the #ComfyCon talk on early surveillance engineering , nerded out on google for some reading/visual material. FâŚ
Mon Apr 11 21:31:04 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @farmgeek: Masks! If we're going to abandon most other public health measures (with or without justification) we should be going hard onâŚ
Mon Apr 11 21:33:35 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @cstross: Herd immunity can only work against a virus when infection (or vaccination) confers a long-lasting immune response. It's now câŚ
Tue Apr 12 08:55:27 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @winegeeknz and @BR3NDA
As best I can figure out The Warehouse are currently shipping each (set of) things from the nearest store which has them in stock. Which makes sense for expediency (and I guess in person shopping is quieter while deliveries have picked up).
Tue Apr 12 08:57:47 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @winegeeknz and @BR3NDA
But yes theyâre clearly subsidising the shipping a bit in the process. (Fortunately I got only two boxes out of one order, on different days: one from Wellington, one from Auckland.)
Some other brands are also shipping deliveries from random stores, but not as split up.
Tue Apr 12 09:24:16 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @xssfox: TV show idea: Air crash investigators but for website outage incidents
dramatic music Narrator: "There was only a single ECSâŚ
Tue Apr 12 09:30:08 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @BR3NDA and @winegeeknz
Curious đ¤ As best I can tell âAuckland Oaksâ Warehouse is near the airport so sending a package from there makes sense. Maybe 2 if waiting on incoming stock. But 6 separate packages for one order/store makes less sense.
(I got one Auckland Oaks, on Rongatai, a day apart.)
Wed Apr 13 03:00:59 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @BR3NDA
Given the timing of âparcel delayedâ and the time of year (a day before a 4 day weekend), it may just be that it didnât arrive in Wellington until after the couriers had left for todayâs deliveries. And theyâre not sure of getting it to you today.
(Hopefully no leaks!)
Wed Apr 13 08:37:52 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @__fincham
Beyond the other (great) descriptions, by modern convention Iâd usually assume a bearer token was issued by something other than what is validating/accepting it (eg like JWT).
Whereas a Session ID (cookie, form param, URL) is usually created by same entity that is checking it.
Thu Apr 14 06:21:55 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @aurynn
Itâs a pretty common pattern to have a system boot, notice its file system is smaller than the full disk, resize the partition and file system, then restart.
Raspberry Pi (raspbian) does that, and Iâve used cloud-utils âgrowpartâ to do the same in a VM. https://github.com/canonical/cloud-utils
Thu Apr 14 07:10:34 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @DrEricDing: Finally official acknowledgement that aerosols is the main method of transmission. Deeming #COVIDisAirborne places a burdenâŚ
Thu Apr 14 09:38:50 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @__fincham
The most successful solution I had was a perl script called âtowebâ (which I wrote) that used ImageMagick (via perl), to resize/rename/annotate the photo, and also build a thumbnail. Plus rsync to the web server.
(Then perl or markdown to build the webpage.)
Thu Apr 14 09:41:10 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @__fincham
Ironically at some point 6-8 years ago I decided âI should process photos betterâ, and got various Adobe things and lots of RAW photos. But the actual volume of photos published with this âbetterâ system is nearly zero (vs thousands with the old perl script) đ¤
Thu Apr 14 09:43:31 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @__fincham
My blog is ikiwiki, edited (in markdown) with vim. Embedded photos just get git added to a resources directory along side, and git pushed with the built blog HTML.
I guess it depends just how textual you want to be :-)
Thu Apr 14 09:45:21 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @__fincham
Also FWIW I highly recommend AirDrop for getting adhoc photos off a phone onto something else to publish them. Itâs 50% of what I use AirDrop for (the rest is links to another device). And quick enough I actual do use the photos from my phone elsewhere.
Thu Apr 14 09:48:59 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @__fincham
Thatâs basically what I did, but the VM hosting the (old) photos is on my colo box (Iâm already paying for). And thereâs a 20 year old perl/sh publishing pipeline and no web apps insight :-)
(ikiwiki is a perl Markdown to HTML static site generator; I run it as a git hook.)
Fri Apr 15 06:15:58 +0000 2022 (#)
0208 C9 RET https://twitter.com/KimMaida/status/1514652490683367438
Sat Apr 16 08:06:44 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @apollo_50th: T-9 hours and counting. The Apollo 16 countdown has resumed on schedule after a nine-hour planned hold. #Apollo16 #Apollo50
Sat Apr 16 22:46:04 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @apollo_50th: Lift-off! #Apollo16 #Apollo50
Sun Apr 17 06:05:07 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @ChrisByrnePhoto: Wild horses in Torres Del Paine. The last photo taken on my trip with Marc Adamus. Itâs been a wild couple of weeks toâŚ
Sun Apr 17 07:35:12 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @developerjack
Your fx-82AU Plus looks somewhat fancier than the fx-82c we were allowed to use in school.
(Still works, I end up using it every week or two; only real issue is the membrane to battery connection is fairly worn, resulting in dim display at times.)
Sun Apr 17 07:44:44 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @notsolonecoder
âAirâ was provided for breakfast; I guess thatâs not their usual breakfast?! :-)
Sun Apr 17 23:52:23 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @tveastman
Do you have any means of taking donations that doesnât require creating a PayPal account (something Iâve avoided for the last 10+ years)?
Bank account transfer? Something that takes credit cards? (Some Ko-Fi account do cards directly but it seems to need Stripe set up/linked.)
Sun Apr 17 23:54:53 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @tveastman
Also possibly worth considering Patreon or similar that would allow $.n/month type on going donations from people who already have recurring payments there.
Mon Apr 18 00:06:32 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @__fincham and @tveastman
Normally yes PayPal will take donations without an account via a card.
In the specific case of Ko-Fi, no it wonât. It wants you to create an account. I tried, a bunch. (Ko-Fiâs advice seems to be âcreate PayPal account hereâ, or âconnect Stripeâ.) https://help.ko-fi.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003980153-I-Don-t-Have-a-PayPal-Account
Mon Apr 18 07:32:17 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @Tamora_Tea: @jsrNZ
Tue Apr 19 01:55:28 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @tveastman
âSeasonalâ as in Autumn, Winter, Spring, and Summer waves.
(I think âordinary seasonal virusâ is code for âyeah, weâre not going to do anything to make it go away any longer.â NZ feels pretty close to on that path now TBH.)
Tue Apr 19 03:07:49 +0000 2022 (#)
I think the Kawaiicon ticket site is a bit more excited about the idea of an in person conference this year than I am.
But Iâve bought the âopportunity but not the obligationâ to attend (and live in the same city so can decide how I feel about it on the day). So maybeâŚ.? đ¤
Tue Apr 19 03:25:09 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @__fincham
Firefox 91.8 ESR on macOS in case it helps you debug style sheet issues. The âBARROW LOADâ âmenuâ was always in that second row for me. Window width appears to make no difference (until very narrow, when the whole menu bar disappears).
Tue Apr 19 03:31:01 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @__fincham
Left arrow Glyph seems to be U+2F75 (e2 9f b5 as UTF-8). Seems like the same length as on other pages to me. Both Firefox to Firefox and Firefox vs Safari screenshot of Unicode page.
Maybe a font selection thing? https://utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?start=10112&number=128&names=-
Tue Apr 19 03:39:11 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @__fincham
Looks like the BARROW LOAD link is a âpwa-linkâ and is being âfloat: rightâ as a result. None of the other ul/li items seem to be floated. Float and non-float items live weird parallel lives in CSS, so at a guess you were relying on undefined behaviour đ¤
Tue Apr 19 04:10:20 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @__fincham
FWIW it might be possible to use âdisplay: float-rootâ on the parent ul these days to constrain the float range. Cross browser support seems to be âlast few yearsâ. Otherwise there are several old kludgy work arounds. https://caniuse.com/flow-root https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2062258/floating-elements-within-a-div-floats-outside-of-div-why
Tue Apr 19 05:42:26 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @BreeNewsome: This is why I keep saying Covid is one of the greatest indicators weâre in a period of collapse. Abandoning mitigation meaâŚ
Tue Apr 19 06:16:56 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @aurynn and @chrisjrn
Iâve got rather more trust in my personal willingness to say âyeah, this is unsafeâ and just go home. So Iâm tentatively willing to go âweâll see how it plays outâ on mask compliance, for local (ie easy to just go home) conferences which are trying to do the right thing.
Tue Apr 19 06:20:02 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @aurynn and @chrisjrn
Even aside from any âignored RAT testâ situation, it seems to me inevitable at a large enough event someone will genuinely not know theyâre infected until afterwards.
So my risk calculations are based on air turnover, and spread reduction steps (like everyone in masks).
Wed Apr 20 04:10:14 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @helenleigh: Tell friends you admire their repo and compliment your colleagues' schematics today! I don't think us nerds gas each otherâŚ
Wed Apr 20 06:04:25 +0000 2022 (#)
Signs youâre working with an âEnterpriseâ software product: debugging a (SAML) authentication issue involves parsing JSON, XML, and YAML.
Wed Apr 20 06:06:44 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @ewenmcneill
In this case as best I can tell after looking for 90 minutes (after someone else looked for most of today) the final solution is âoh yeah, in that edition you have to run a reconfigure step after editing the config fileâ (otherwise it uses a cached config) đ
Wed Apr 20 06:38:19 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @idreesali114: A dog waits in front of an operating room while medical team performs surgery on a Ukrainian soldier in a hospital, amidâŚ
Wed Apr 20 10:38:42 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @tqbf: Welp. Itâs the crypto bug of the year. Mark it down for April. Java 15-18 ECDSA doesnât sanity check that the random x coordinateâŚ
Wed Apr 20 22:35:38 +0000 2022 (#)
Apparently thereâs a water outage affecting at least two suburbs (including mine), big enough to make the start of the main council phone message. With no ETA. But Wellington Water donât even mention it on their website, or either Twitter feed đ
Wed Apr 20 22:46:18 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @ewenmcneill
Spoke to someone helpful at the Council. Burst water main 30 Broderick Road, crew on site but needing traffic control, digging, etc. From that location itâs going to take 4+ hours Iâd guess.
Council person is going to ask @WgtnWaterNZ to actually report the outage on map.
Wed Apr 20 22:48:25 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @pearofdoom
Indeed!
As best I can tell it made it to the map as â50 housesâ in Churton Park, but actually is N,000 houses in multiple suburbs.
Hopefully my encouragement of real status updates gets something posted soon.
(Guessed ETA is âthis one will take a whileâ.)
Wed Apr 20 23:29:25 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @ewenmcneill
There is now an official notification, saying 4-5 hours interruption of water. Although the Wellington Water website still says â2 hoursâ and âlast updated 10:00â so clearly thatâs not very frequently updated. https://twitter.com/WgtnWaterNZ/status/1516912294931836928 https://www.wellingtonwater.co.nz/work-in-your-area/#map
Wed Apr 20 23:33:32 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @ewenmcneill
Wellington Water work in your area map status Iâm seeing now (~90 minutes later) for 30 Broderick Road water outage; link to map up thread (thereâs no links to individual jobs AFAICT).
Wed Apr 20 23:42:23 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @ewenmcneill
Turns out 2 hours was closer to the truth: I refreshed the page again a few minutes later and now it says âresolvedâ. And I have water again \o/
Guess it involved less excavation than they originally thought, at least to patch up. https://www.wellingtonwater.co.nz/work-in-your-area/?popupID=2820835#map
Thu Apr 21 00:13:41 +0000 2022 (#)
The story of Prussian Blue leading to Cyanotypes leading to Blueprints is fascinating, and merely a side story to this Kickstarter (which is a book touching on less pleasant uses of cyanide).
âThe fundamental interconnectedness of all thingsâ indeed đ¤ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/602932569/depravitys-rainbow-a-dark-history-of-space-travel/posts/3483138
Thu Apr 21 01:58:54 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @Danjite: Today's very sensible #COVID19 thred. https://twitter.com/debra_caplan/status/1516816659125874695
Thu Apr 21 07:35:28 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @RealSexyCyborg: What's quite frightening to me, and the millions of Chinese like me- 1st tier, educated, middle class, is this is our fâŚ
Thu Apr 21 09:23:01 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @travisgoodspeed: Holy hell was this a good lecture. Elias made Starcraft Remastered backward compatible with memory corruption exploitâŚ
Thu Apr 21 21:42:08 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @ravenslofty
The only way I can be sure youâre not talking about my city is that we waited until weâll into the 2000s to ditch the trolley buses. (âEventuallyâ to be replaced by battery buses: itâs been like 5-10 years and thereâs less than a dozen of them so far đ˘)
Fri Apr 22 01:48:08 +0000 2022 (#)
TIL that an AWS HTTP API (sporadically) failing JWT authorisation with â401 Unauthorizedâ and âJWKS communication errorâ probably means it couldnât fetch the RS256 public keys. https://auth0.com/blog/securing-aws-http-apis-with-jwt-authorizers/ https://auth0.com/docs/secure/tokens/json-web-tokens/json-web-key-sets
Fri Apr 22 01:50:59 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @ewenmcneill
I say âprobablyâ because itâd be nice if this was documented⌠anywhere.
Yesterday/today happening occasionally for one API, apparently at random. (~3-4 known failures in 24h; at least 50 known successes, with the exact same JWT token, including soon before/after failure đ¤ˇââď¸)
Fri Apr 22 07:51:45 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @apollo_50th: Apollo 16 Commander (CDR) John W. Young jumps as he salutes the Stars and Stripes at the Descartes Highlands on the lunarâŚ
Sat Apr 23 01:27:11 +0000 2022 (#)
Youâd think if you searched for the exact title of a popular video it would come up at the top of the search results, right? Or at least the first page of results. Definitely before someone who just reuploaded the same video, right? Seems to depend who the video creator is⌠đ¤ https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1517520470555316230
Sat Apr 23 01:48:33 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @mongoosenewyork and @RealSexyCyborg
âIf you give a man a steak, you feed him for a day; if you teach a man to prepare and cook his own steak, you feed him for a lifetime.â đ
(This video is BBQ, but the skills look pretty transferable⌠đ¤) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpt-t2Wuwz0
Sat Apr 23 09:40:16 +0000 2022 (#)
The QT tour of ~10 years of outages/causes was interesting, but one of the mitigations (from several years ago) surprised me: âReboot hosts more than once every two yearsâ đŽ
(To reduce memory fragmentation; these days even 2 months uptime seems long.) https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1491937013548740612
Sun Apr 24 08:07:32 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @glowcoil: The x86 ISA is a declarative format for specifying parallel compute tasks. Units of work are scheduled dynamically across a sâŚ
Mon Apr 25 21:26:32 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @__fincham
Yeah, Iâm guessing Discord is next for the âtodayâs a poor day to be a digital sharecropperâ news. (Hopefully not any time soon though.)
Tue Apr 26 01:53:31 +0000 2022 (#)
TBH the weirdest thing about the possible sale of Twitter is that today feels like Monday here (due to a public holiday yesterday), yet the news just came out of the USA today. The future is weird.
(Today is not Monday here, itâs Tuesday; it only feels like Monday.)
Tue Apr 26 03:08:22 +0000 2022 (#)
RT @chx: Apparently some/many/most powered USB C hubs with Ethernet are causing serious problems when not connected to a computer. This isâŚ
Tue Apr 26 03:12:34 +0000 2022 (#)
This (isolated USB network devices sending PAUSE frames) strikes me as yet another good reason to turn off Ethernet PAUSE receive on switches, everywhere except storage networking (where PAUSE frames are alive and well, and basically required by storage vendors). https://twitter.com/chx/status/1457848563199721472
Wed Apr 27 00:01:29 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @TProphet
I guess this means weâre stuck in the âbargainingâ phase of the 5 stages of grief: âwe can just go back to normal, soon, right?â âRight?!â
(Hopefully it doesnât just slip back to denial all over again đ˘)
Thu Apr 28 04:49:39 +0000 2022 (#)
Desperately missing:
GRANT privilege ON CURRENT DATABASE TO user;
In PostgreSQL today. Or command substitution in PostgreSQL.
(You can do the above, but you have to âjust knowâ the database name to include in command; I ended up fixing this with shell/sed/awk as a wrapper.)
Thu Apr 28 04:52:59 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @ewenmcneill
Ironically I wouldnât even need this GRANT if the AWS RDS PostgreSQL actually gave you a real PostgreSQL superuser. Then I could just do âCREATE SCHEMA ⌠AUTHORIZATION userâ. But that only works if you are superuser, the destination role, or a member of the role đ˘
Thu Apr 28 08:47:04 +0000 2022 (#)
Iâm amused that a 747 loaded with BluRay discs still managed to beat an Internet download of the same (Kickstarted) movie, even in 2020.
(The BluRay did get a weekâs head start; and the slowest part of the download is getting past âquota exceededâ try again in 24 hours⌠đ)
Thu Apr 28 08:49:39 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @ewenmcneill
(It turns out that Google Drive isnât a great way to deliver multiple N GB movie files to hundreds of people who pre-purchased it, and all got notified to âdownload nowâ at about the same time; not sure the daily quota but much less than 20GB * 500+ backersâŚ)
Fri Apr 29 05:58:52 +0000 2022 (#)
âŹď¸
Also if your conference is âonlineâ, the timezone you are running the conference from should be on the front page and the schedule page.
UTC+nn and UTC-nn are good timezone formats, but Iâll also accept Olson TimeZone Database tags (ie, Country/City). https://twitter.com/IanColdwater/status/1519847771251126275
Sat Apr 30 08:47:51 +0000 2022 (#)
âKeeper of Timeâ is indeed a beautifully shot documentary, and I think worth watching (I watched it tonight). [CW: a couple of short periods of flashing video]
It may turn up in the Documentary Film Festival, or NZIFF, but if not Vimeo streaming available from early next week. https://twitter.com/slyall/status/1518375144636387329
Sat Apr 30 08:51:01 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @ewenmcneill
For me the documentary experience is somewhat tainted by being a KickStarter backer, and seeing the KS backers fairly poorly treated: film withheld from backers until in-person premiere, a year after it was finished, and pretty limited communication in the last 18-24 months đ˘
Sat Apr 30 08:53:17 +0000 2022 (#)
Replying to @ewenmcneill
FTR ironically Keeper of Time wasnât the movie I was struggling to download from Google Drive (KoT used Vimeo, which provided quick convenient downloads).
I just happened to have two KickStarter backed films release the same week! https://twitter.com/ewenmcneill/status/1519599064417206272