"I've found a lovely community of people. I get my parasocial fix without being inundated by cryptogrifters shilling shitcoins, nor by thought-leaders posting inflammatory takes for clout. There are no disingenuous politicians and remarkably few celebrities trying to sell me their bathwater. There's no advertising. There's a great API for bots. "But, just to be contrary, let's list some of the bad points about it." https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/10/seven-years-on-mastodon/
My old employers are hiring technical talent in the UK. Fully remote / hybrid (London). * Senior Data Engineer * Senior Security Engineer (Developer) * Engineering Manager - (Genetic Data) And several more. Great team with an amazing mission. All the jobs are listed at:
Our Future Health
Our Future Health will be the UK’s largest-ever health research programme, designed to help people live healthier lives for longer through the di...
 (I don't work there any more so can't answer specific questions about the roles.)
This is remarkably sensible and level-headed. We need politicians who are willing to explore. Even better, we need politicians who are able to do a retro on what did and didn't work.
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What β€˜AI Mark’ taught me about the realities of the new technology
In a future that no one asked for, but many predicted, I took the plunge and turned myself into the first AI MP.
 #UKPolitics
Fantastic job for the right person. Please apply - or share with those who could do the most good.
Quick Check Needed
 (I don't work there any more, so can't answer specific questions about the role.)
I need some #Linux touchers and #HomeLab gurus to explain in excruciating detail what I'm doing wrong. I want my #JellyFin server to be served over HTTPS. I had nginxproxymanager running, but it has stopped working with Let's Encrypt. What's the *simplest* way to add HTTPS to #JellyFin? It's an Ubuntu box with the default Jellyfin installed (no Docker or anything complicated like that). Informed speculation welcomed!
I have a knotty #GitHub problem. I have a README file which is updated by an action. Is there a way to ignore any changes that a user makes to the readme when they send a PR?
There's a new way to liberate purchased Kindle books from Amazon's DRM.
Cats with power tools
How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked
As it turns out they don't actually want you to do this (and have some interesting ways to stop you)
 A few points to note: * Hardcoded to the .com store, but trivial to change to .co.uk * Uses OCR - so some odd / annoying mistakes - especially around punctuation. * Every line is wrapped in a `<p>` element - which breaks reflow. But, other than that, remarkably capable. Once you've got your session token, it only takes a couple of minutes to get an ePub. #Kindle #DRM #DeDRM #eBook
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