2026-08-14T16:36:26Z https://yabu.me Ric https://yabu.me/npub135sc20pj3vfch9jcq2ajqqdr23ye076ztc5xgj6rylqwrcphue0qat8wax https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonqwebcouk/accounts/avatars/115/531/810/986/447/901/original/4e83d769de537a77.jpg https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonqwebcouk/accounts/avatars/115/531/810/986/447/901/original/4e83d769de537a77.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrh3vf0z084p9hfwl03k55yt9nf0rpqwczvysvd842kqmanqxeuxgzyzxjrpfux2938zuktqptkgqp5d2yn9lmgf0zseztgvnupc0qxln9ukw7lqq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqy0c869n0d2ml4ks76rke4ffme0kfs73x2z0hq3vqjtvzcs4euas3vwxwr'>nevent1q…wxwr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Ah, I feel slightly less bad about the 2 cheesecakes I&#39;ve already eaten today then! 😆 2026-08-19T16:15:55Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfqw5ujxtzuew49u4x367se4eskvtudc05ng5t82xqwtf3u5kntwgzyzxjrpfux2938zuktqptkgqp5d2yn9lmgf0zseztgvnupc0qxln9ut3d0cp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdqch8q0ta2sspykjuscltw3s4rdnz27alfmewslauxmlj9k7fmwg5qnk5m'>nevent1q…nk5m</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>you only snack in the evening? 😅 2026-08-19T15:11:11Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsychzjdvl43hmvuepyz5d0aw2n9e7c6qxjlxrr9f3v3gnjduyhwmqzyzxjrpfux2938zuktqptkgqp5d2yn9lmgf0zseztgvnupc0qxln9uwq00zp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspwzlqps27ekwj0z9ejxjymlamz622q3fky3njz63kxnjqsr4040qxvpqr9'>nevent1q…pqr9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>being able to just whip out a dock from the car, plug a phone in, and suddenly have a proper terminal to SSH in through would actually be very useful. I could cope with a beta windowing engine for that.<br/><br/>Whether it&#39;d be useful enough times to warrant buying one though, I&#39;m not yet sure. When we go anywhere over night I always have my laptop with me anyway. It&#39;d only really be for the few times I&#39;m like, out shopping or something and a server starts alerting.<br/><br/>Hmmmmm. 2026-07-23T06:43:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrvvd4w2dt3nnt0yw89gtp3mympjk9esemk45wdvmm4n5fr4m6hzgzyzxjrpfux2938zuktqptkgqp5d2yn9lmgf0zseztgvnupc0qxln9u80pgfz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs030ggf8c3pc85zfre6pe8m0fcs78s0zd0324tn8sz9xckx659ywgvx4jpj'>nevent1q…4jpj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I didn&#39;t know either Android Desktop or Lapdocks were a thing, but this does admittedly sound very cool!<br/><br/>Now lightly considering getting one just to keep in the car for emergencies. There&#39;s a lot that I can technically do from the phone in terms of server admin and such, but hooking up to a proper keyboard and screen would definitely make things easier.<br/><br/>I&#39;m often frustrated by how little it seems Android innovates these days. Why aren&#39;t they raving about features like this??? 2026-07-22T23:21:57Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstcezhyzrqcw4ckn7lup7xfa066vhwcln0caaw7x99qwmyr3fu5fgzyzxjrpfux2938zuktqptkgqp5d2yn9lmgf0zseztgvnupc0qxln9u2dts8f In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy4xw2khxksdrkjvpudaytgg9vytpzp4dn5u9xy434xpvyjynal2qknv3rg'>nevent1q…v3rg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>technically ChromeOS is Linux ( <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChromeOS">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChromeOS</a> ), just not GNU.<br/><br/>That is an interesting point though - the high street does stock ChromeOS pretty much exclusively as their Linux option, yet I don&#39;t know anybody who uses it. It&#39;s purposefully very restrictive too, which in my view probably works against Linux as a marketing tool. I wonder how many people stumble across them and just think yuk, Linux doesn&#39;t do much. 😬 2026-07-08T07:08:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvmsfz0z08jt5t97leqy48htqhlq05stjxxae7pgemgkm4m3d3usszyzxjrpfux2938zuktqptkgqp5d2yn9lmgf0zseztgvnupc0qxln9usss7qy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst4zzufekyxwqvgrz8fpfqe906reyvcw9dwc8drynk5dyqm4ng4kc0ceth0'>nevent1q…eth0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t use it at all, no. Just poked around with it recently and knew that it&#39;s goal is essentially what you&#39;d described wanting.<br/><br/>I&#39;ve been using <a href="https://news.google.com">https://news.google.com</a> for years but I hate that it&#39;s Google, and also that half the times you click through to an article that sounds interesting it&#39;s just a paywall these days. I&#39;d love to replace it with a proper aggregator and I&#39;d love to like Ground, but nothing seems quite right for me 😞 2026-06-22T22:42:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgv2kzekclgpuedu5sap3mc0gc5gugz6wfdgsf4t08yuj9cm79u9szyzxjrpfux2938zuktqptkgqp5d2yn9lmgf0zseztgvnupc0qxln9urrgams In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszqpg9gh7qjftvyc0dst9aqzaper4euckngdlqdaqu6d46y5886mgjsnpzr'>nevent1q…npzr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>you might like <a href="https://ground.news">https://ground.news</a> , that&#39;s basically exactly what it is - AI summaries of what differently leaning news sources say about each news item.<br/><br/>I like the idea of it, but I can&#39;t trust that the summaries aren&#39;t just hallucinations. I&#39;d have to read the individual articles myself which totally defeats the point really, so it&#39;s no good for me. If the summaries were by humans it&#39;d be perfect. 2026-06-22T22:26:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs295wr8pq8gqftr8g45vl8ku97f9w954g4qgr56r6jnexgax9l88qzyzxjrpfux2938zuktqptkgqp5d2yn9lmgf0zseztgvnupc0qxln9uszrmt3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvz2th87jfwmqsmujqengxv5hdzxyvt5jstjekyw9kulmlu75q52cjjn965'>nevent1q…n965</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>oh that sucks, sorry Kev.<br/><br/>She&#39;ll be feeding pups this time of year so more brazen, and won&#39;t be far away. Make sure the others are as secure as possible &#39;cos she&#39;ll be back regularly after a successful grab. 2026-06-12T07:37:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxal0784xfq44xr7q2pj934rygmmcd0dwvsxxrmea7nxnmmcdqrzczyzxjrpfux2938zuktqptkgqp5d2yn9lmgf0zseztgvnupc0qxln9uu373zx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq80w8n5k47gq60d7jrwf6u94khk4npmttf34j3fnjh6j6wj5wmfsamepgq'>nevent1q…epgq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>our accountants are genuinely the loveliest people. We met them while they worked for another firm and followed when they left to set up their own, because they&#39;d already been so excellent. Been with them for over 13 years now and they&#39;ve 100% saved us more than we&#39;ve paid them. We&#39;re web dev primarily, but I know that they have game devs on their books too.<br/><br/>Tell them Ric from QWeb sent you. They&#39;ll arrange a quick video call and just see what you think. 👍<br/><br/><a href="https://www.tlcaccountants.com">https://www.tlcaccountants.com</a> 2026-05-29T06:53:57Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszf9j8gyr7jvqfhvygssq9n0qngdvl6kfwax627mnpc768d59cmxqzyzxjrpfux2938zuktqptkgqp5d2yn9lmgf0zseztgvnupc0qxln9uw9le3r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgfuf244qat0qf0sesfqnn50meq6w2yn29dsgzu4d507e903x9dlgzza9jf'>nevent1q…a9jf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>it&#39;s because if you see somebody doing a terrible job of it, it triggers your &#34;omg I can do so much better than that, give it here&#34; response. Where if you see somebody doing an impressive job of it, you think &#34;oh wow, I&#39;d never be able to do that, I won&#39;t even try&#34;.<br/><br/>Basically they get more downloads. It&#39;s a frustratingly good tactic. 2026-05-21T18:05:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszgvw7p7csrm38z8y8qu68g0yzv07vdnk9mg5gctrqmt62rnc22dqzyzxjrpfux2938zuktqptkgqp5d2yn9lmgf0zseztgvnupc0qxln9u308tt9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst46mm69v09ctp5n6zlvg6npme5fthfj8p25gypqvktayj0pt8vcc7rc32x'>nevent1q…c32x</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ve seen a few clips of big tech people getting booed at university talks for mentioning AI recently. It&#39;s quite lovely to watch the next generation workforce so blatently telling today&#39;s CEOs that they don&#39;t want an AI world. But also quite sad to see how terrified our youth is that AI is killing their career before it&#39;s even begun. 2026-05-19T20:33:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs24anejwg6w9p39fda2ar3pqlvnstmvcljrgdhfve5wmnqp9rkz5qzyzxjrpfux2938zuktqptkgqp5d2yn9lmgf0zseztgvnupc0qxln9uh0m30c In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw4epnywa8u3x7n0fv9pkd9lrj6qckl2w5wl730sj7sehnghdqu8qjly3m2'>nevent1q…y3m2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>oh Jesus... What? Why??<br/><br/>No. No no no no no!<br/><br/>Who gave them keys to the Linux cupboard?<br/><br/>Legitimately can&#39;t think of anything worse except... wait... Meta aren&#39;t working on one too are they? 😬 2026-05-19T19:22:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsztv62tf9wavhfvchqt3cpcu5v77k7wg5vn5kdqq3fjf90wv2dg9qzyzxjrpfux2938zuktqptkgqp5d2yn9lmgf0zseztgvnupc0qxln9ukmudmk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs003x8rmhssk3pjqrdrxmsv2vkee989jeqc2d7lsastk6qy8k67ssqwc48x'>nevent1q…c48x</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>oh lame. Why would anyone even need 15 addresses to a single mailbox? 🤨 2026-05-05T20:51:39Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrpemv0s2paql6n74eq09q6wft2whfgcdkeymwcyvw9z766lmgyaqzyzxjrpfux2938zuktqptkgqp5d2yn9lmgf0zseztgvnupc0qxln9usvgrpd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswvrlee4g9sc7h9mqhc6mp06gq64usfkk3w7a5spw0cvydkqwd34qjdaws4'>nevent1q…aws4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>more likely the latter. It doesn&#39;t make any difference from a host&#39;s perspective how many addresses they give you, it only matters how much space you&#39;re using up with them.<br/><br/>We always quote hosting on whole account size and effectively offer an unlimited number of mailboxes. 2026-05-05T20:42:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs082wfu9pj7uf85z50j8g0h0tltfpmj8swhskvpjjtxfquzr6ad8gzyzxjrpfux2938zuktqptkgqp5d2yn9lmgf0zseztgvnupc0qxln9usuvajh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8gz5whtful8wu8rjw7msj39w3ve7klrfq85quu7877ulzzdqmxmgqfpwwd'>nevent1q…pwwd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;The Blender developers have created an MCP connector&#34;<br/><br/>Ah, I think I&#39;ve found the problem. 😩<br/><br/>Cite: <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-creative-work">https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-creative-work</a> 2026-04-28T21:39:59Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfmzw35vydkeq47ejz3pv8ds6hnczhdffj6ldtn3tzwfutypclrkczyzxjrpfux2938zuktqptkgqp5d2yn9lmgf0zseztgvnupc0qxln9ut7s328 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfkuljcy3e6rd7h4ct0zfzuhw4sq9568jelfzllhavx0g8r5p5w6qv3prr7'>nevent1q…prr7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>sorry Kev, that really is crap. I&#39;ve spilled countless teas and coffees over keyboards and laptops in my career, but thankfully never managed to blow a whole motherboard. Tracks and pins are so horribly close together these days! 😬 2026-04-18T08:19:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8ahnge0krjmqxfflmr4mp7dkv7n0dp4pxxrvjafrqxl5vahdsk4qzyzxjrpfux2938zuktqptkgqp5d2yn9lmgf0zseztgvnupc0qxln9u66jc7c In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgdye9n2ead7g2lh2sw42xde4spg59a8v60lq03qxhxxmrqv7l63q9etwxa'>nevent1q…twxa</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>the best I&#39;ve managed is 93. As soon as I get to the mid 80s I start to panic and just eat through the lives 😆<br/><br/>Who knew a 1-button game could invoke actual panic? 2026-03-25T09:23:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgqv4t4y6j939dnpmlaqd8n93908grqq0qs9yltq3p3evvzzn3qdqzyzxjrpfux2938zuktqptkgqp5d2yn9lmgf0zseztgvnupc0qxln9uzh4auc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2jstgdtmlxqd9rf9z0kqw965dwjkjf4882h05mtxa8q8dglftznc0nuhvl'>nevent1q…uhvl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ve been trying to beat this damned thing for 9 days now. Nine! 😫<br/><br/>I mean... Not continuously, of course. That would be mad. 😬👀 2026-03-25T09:01:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrqy89gj67dnv6pws5q2me3q5qn7znl0n3ah8hn95wj8w556qpe5czyzxjrpfux2938zuktqptkgqp5d2yn9lmgf0zseztgvnupc0qxln9uhany80 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs27panlu0gvakdznpgyvjc90lxfrzggfkqjmsdnkpu0qyq5pufdugq2f03q'>nevent1q…f03q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>full disclosure, I&#39;m not a photographer mind! Just used to enjoy these kinds of shots when I had a DSLR. Traffic, water, and lightning are all good subjects for slow shutters! 2025-11-24T16:41:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs27panlu0gvakdznpgyvjc90lxfrzggfkqjmsdnkpu0qyq5pufdugzyzxjrpfux2938zuktqptkgqp5d2yn9lmgf0zseztgvnupc0qxln9unhw950 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst0fvjlgc8twkc7qhj8nl87ezr0c6h8rtmfcm5fumf3jty7p8y9pc0c8lgr'>nevent1q…8lgr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>oh the long shutter is for the blur, not for the light. With day-time shots you&#39;d want to stick an ND filter on to compensate for the additional light intake. I&#39;ve never tried a multiple exposure approach.<br/><br/>At night though, if you stick with slow but not ridiculous delays, you catch the head/tail lights as they move but the rest of the shot is unlit enough to not really show much obvious motion blur from your actual camera movement, and there isn&#39;t much of that in ~.5 seconds anyway. 2025-11-24T16:38:59Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9k2r8jte5wcjsa4mjwyc2njwzt6a3duyce08fss00sp3wtapg42czyzxjrpfux2938zuktqptkgqp5d2yn9lmgf0zseztgvnupc0qxln9u86svnh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsruy5v42qgmwrx4055h3ww96ur3v94dasqeu5xwxflgp3s09lc0agj5mnm9'>nevent1q…mnm9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>yeah you really need a tripod for long exposure shots. You should still be able to get good night time shots with even just 500ms ish shutter delays though, and not necessarily need a tripod for those. 2025-11-24T08:14:17Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs82trr27r8tgxqdezdg7vs82nkye7ujk58xm6rv09mmh943k5zyrszyzxjrpfux2938zuktqptkgqp5d2yn9lmgf0zseztgvnupc0qxln9uc7d2u0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspa29x27jmp7e6t6laempwf02vs0x2d4a3caqt5nqt9tfse8epexc5er8fv'>nevent1q…r8fv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>yeah, it&#39;s absolutely absurd. Being open access with free unrestricted APIs and easily embeddable JS widgets etc, literally gave these platforms their user base. Ok they weren&#39;t directly profiting from that base, but it&#39;s what made the platforms valuable to advertisers. Somehow* they seemed to forget this and just see the operational expense, of course leading to today&#39;s closed doors.<br/><br/>*Elon. It was Elon. He didn&#39;t** understand the model. 🤦‍♂️<br/><br/>**(he probably did understand it though 😔) 2025-11-17T21:36:57Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9skzhd5n83yuc30vk2r8jdmc5ug8xt0nxm4h0e0z22lmx6llcujczyzxjrpfux2938zuktqptkgqp5d2yn9lmgf0zseztgvnupc0qxln9u5zh943 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz8h2c2a7tne38t3xcqyzgsccn8fgl64ushc6qdq7yue3g9ppkf5ccxzj7d'>nevent1q…zj7d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>ah, cheers. I&#39;ve absolutely no idea whether anybody will want to join up, but I wrote <a href="https://www.qweb.co.uk/blog/join-us-on-the-fediverse">https://www.qweb.co.uk/blog/join-us-on-the-fediverse</a> today and emailed our current clients, and tomorrow I&#39;ll work through emailing some of our former clients too. So we&#39;ll see. 🤞 2025-11-17T21:09:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy05h37pr6jcld4l3n3qwpgml5fmt32vdvjr6n2ut3qmluvxyh9dszyzxjrpfux2938zuktqptkgqp5d2yn9lmgf0zseztgvnupc0qxln9u7vaner Sooo, QWeb has it&#39;s own Mastodon server now, hence my migration from #fosstodon - sorry <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1z3w83dlmzp0fe48fzjwew7gj82dre0zagf0dmrxpkkgu65a4l7qsfac039" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Gina</span> (<span class="italic">npub1z3w…c039</span>)</a></span> and co! I know how big of a loss this must be for everyone 😆<br/><br/>I&#39;ve been on Fosstodon since I first joined Mastodon, but it just doesn&#39;t make any sense for me to admin a server and not migrate my own account to it really. End of a chapter I suppose. 😢 2025-11-14T20:51:17Z