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Éibhear, 2022-02-10 06:49:00 GMT
As mentioned elsewhere on this site, I run a number of services myself. A couple of them are hosted by my hosting provider, Blacknight, and the rest are hosted in my own home. Some definitions of the term "self-hosting" would exclude those services hosted by the ISP (this site, and my e-mail service), but given that I am the administrator of both and decide how each is used
Éibhear, 2022-01-28 11:15:00 GMT
I have, at last, turned on comments for this blog. The comment policy for the site can be reviewed here.
If you have any feedback, please let me know (in the comments, if you wish!).
Éibhear, 2022-01-27 07:00:00 GMT
I've just joined an interesting, open project, and they are – at the moment – using GitHub to manage their collaboration across a geographically diverse membership.
The thing is – and I know this will be a surprise to some, and totally not a surprise to others – I don't have a login for GitHub, despite being an avid coder and promoter of FLOSS1 since a time long before any of GitHub or
"Free/Libre and Open Source Software", though I prefer "Free Software".
Éibhear, 2022-01-21 06:24:00 GMT
This post is a long-time coming, and it may be too late, but I wanted to note what I did in case it's useful for others. It describes how I prepared my use of matrix-synapse for the deprecations, first of earlier versions of python, and then of PostgreSQL 9.5 and 9.6.
The quick and the short of the actions are:
Éibhear, 2022-01-05 10:26:00 GMT
I was asked to come on to Morning Ireland again this year to talk about @theauldsthretch, and just like last year it was great fun.
This time, it was Rachael English doing the interviewing. I was thrown a bit at the start when – during Rachael's second question – someone from the studio started speaking in my ear over her, and I didn't know either when the question ended
Éibhear, 2021-09-07 14:10:00 IST
After many years of resistance, I have at last signed up for WhatsApp, and I have to say it's all I thought it was going to be: a half-baked solution that has captured so many people who don't (yet1) appreciate what they've opened themselves to.
The installation process was straight-forward enough. You download the app onto your 'phone and you tell it your 'phone number, and bang
I haven't fully despaired of the human race. Yet.
Éibhear, 2021-09-01 21:39:00 IST
The following is a wee script I wrote today for a sketch. It's a take on Henry Morton Stanley encountering Dr. David Livingstone in November 1871 in what is now Tanzania in Africa.
Dr. Livingstone sitting, drinking from a coffee-cup and reading a Gray's anatomy. Stanley struggles into shot, panting StanleyDr. pant, pant Livingstone pant, I presume? Livingstone2 doors down, on the left. I'm Mister Deadrock Stanley, confused, starts to walk away LivingstoneNo no. I
Dr. Livingstone sitting, drinking from a coffee-cup and reading a Gray's anatomy. Stanley struggles into shot, panting
pant, pant
pant
Stanley, confused, starts to walk away
Éibhear, 2021-08-20 06:13:00 IST
My daughter, Amy Rose, 8, entered a short story competition hosted by Dogs Trust. We were all stunned at the quality of her submission. You can read it below, but one of the things that I enjoyed about the process is how she targetted the 500 word limit as she composed the story. She did so well, that the first draft overshot the limit by something like 20-30 words. She
Éibhear, 2021-03-08 21:42:00 GMT
The termux-dialog speech command doesn't work on Android 11. Looking briefly into it, it seems that Google changed the speech-to-text API in Android 11, and termux-api hasn't adopted that change. It's not fair to call it a bug, as such, but until the termux guys get a chance to fix it, what follows can be described as not working on Android 11.
termux-dialog speech
termux-api
agdad on github has
Éibhear, 2021-01-15 18:30:00 GMT
Yesterday morning, 14th January, I was interviewed briefly by Áine Lawlor of Morning Ireland regarding the @theauldsthretch twitter account.
You can access a recording of the interview here1
Update [2021-01-19 Tue]: Initially, the spelling of my first was incorrect. Upon a request from me, the Morning Ireland team fixed it.
