˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺☠️✊: @dajbelshaw@mastodon.social

Deleting my Patreon account

http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2020/08/30/deleting-patreon/

Hire me!

http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/hire-me/

Hey all, about to migrate my account to @fosstodon

For the first time in ages, I can say that was an excellent working week 🙂

PSA: Don't work with people who make you anxious

🙂 Toast
😄 Toast with butter
😎 Toast with butter and honey

Just had a smashing time with a glass dish. Shaking a tiny fist at whoever put a jar of peanut butter *sideways* in one of our cupboards 🤦‍♂️

This was shared by the Director of IT & Infrastructure at Brave Software. Not sure of the original provenance.

Happy to see it would currently take 193 trillion years to crack the unique passwords I generate to login in various places.

Not sure how quickly quantum computing will change all this, though? 🤔

While I'm still using Firefox...

I use Pop!_OS and saw really high CPU spikes with Firefox. Changing the web render setting using about:config as shown in this article has helped a bit:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/07/firefox-enable-webrender-linux

It's a shame about the grey sky, but this tree (an oak, I think?) caught my attention during my run this morning!

#treesofmastodon

I think I've used Firefox for about 17 years. Most of the time it's been my main and default browser. During that time, I worked for the Mozilla Foundation for 3 years.

So, given the recent news, it really pains me to even think about switching to Chromium. But, miracles aside, I can't see how Firefox as a browser is going to survive in 2021 with its current market share and resourcing levels 😔

Giving consent

http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2020/08/12/giving-consent/

#100DaysToOffload

Today's involved interesting work!

AM: Putting together a survey instrument and framework around digital readiness for delivering online programmes

PM: Adding finishing touches to new We Are Open Co-op email course entitled 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Open'

Images in the course were all created by the fabulously talented Bryan Mathers, with my co-writer for the course being the wonderful @epilepticrabbit. Both are currently on holiday.

I don't know how UK police forces can even *consider* continuing to use automatic facial recognition on the population when the error rate for women of colour is up to 35%

Pretty sure if the error rate was that high for white men there wouldn't even be a question of it being used so widely.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/aug/11/south-wales-police-lose-landmark-facial-recognition-case

FML I'm going to have to reactivate my Twitter account just to login to Medium and Bitly 🤦‍♂️

Sad to see Mozilla laying off 250 people.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/11/changing-world-changing-mozilla/