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VR Game Review: Get The Heck Out You don't need to pay £££ and download GB of files in order to have a good VR game. It turns out that the Web is perfectly capable of serving a decent VR experience. You can open up your VR rig's browser (I use Wolvic) and start playing instantly. I've just completed "Get The Heck [...]

VR Game Review: Get The Heck Out ★★★★⯪

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/vr-game-review-get-the-heck-out/

You don't need to pay £££ and download GB of files in order to have a good VR game. It turns out that the Web is perfectly capable of serving a decent VR experience. You can open up your VR …

Movie Review: Oppenheimer Oppenheimer is... fine? I guess? For ever gorgeously composed shot, there's a minute of plodding exposition. For every heart-breaking moment of self-doubt, there's a minute of plodding exposition. For every celebrity cameo, there's a minute of plodding exposition. That's why this is a decidedly average film. Every single actor is incredible - stuffed as it [...]

Movie Review: Oppenheimer ★★⯪☆☆

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/movie-review-oppenheimer/

Oppenheimer is... fine? I guess? For ever gorgeously composed shot, there's a minute of plodding exposition. For every heart-breaking moment of self-doubt, there's a minute of plodding exposition. For …

Movie Review: Oppenheimer Oppenheimer is... fine? I guess? For ever gorgeously composed shot, there's a minute of plodding exposition. For every heart-breaking moment of self-doubt, there's a minute of plodding exposition. For every celebrity cameo, there's a minute of plodding exposition. That's why this is a decidedly average film. Every single actor is incredible - stuffed as it [...]

Movie Review: Oppenheimer ★★⯪☆☆

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/movie-review-oppenheimer/

Oppenheimer is... fine? I guess? For ever gorgeously composed shot, there's a minute of plodding exposition. For every heart-breaking moment of self-doubt, there's a minute of plodding exposition. For …

Safelinks are a fragile foundation for publishing Microsoft loves you and wants to protect you. So every time you receive an email with a link in it, Microsoft Outlook helpfully rewrites it so that it goes through their "safelinks" system. Safelinks allow your administrator, or someone at Microsoft, to stop you visiting a link which is malicious or suspicious. Rather than going [...]

Safelinks are a fragile foundation for publishing

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/safelinks-are-a-fragile-foundation-for-publishing/

Microsoft loves you and wants to protect you. So every time you receive an email with a link in it, Microsoft Outlook helpfully rewrites it so that it goes …

Safelinks are a fragile foundation for publishing Microsoft loves you and wants to protect you. So every time you receive an email with a link in it, Microsoft Outlook helpfully rewrites it so that it goes through their "safelinks" system. Safelinks allow your administrator, or someone at Microsoft, to stop you visiting a link which is malicious or suspicious. Rather than going [...]

Safelinks are a fragile foundation for publishing

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/safelinks-are-a-fragile-foundation-for-publishing/

Microsoft loves you and wants to protect you. So every time you receive an email with a link in it, Microsoft Outlook helpfully rewrites it so that it goes …

Book Review - How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History by Samantha Cole This book is a rather pleasing wander through two interconnected topics. From the earliest chat rooms (A/S/L?) all the way to haptic-feedback in the Metaverse, this breezes through the way sex has advanced the technology and the resulting impact technology has had on sex. The book is well illustrated - skirting a fine line between [...]

Book Review - How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History by Samantha Cole ★★★⯪☆

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/book-review-how-sex-changed-the-internet-and-the-internet-changed-sex-an-unexpected-history-by-samantha-cole/

This book is a rather pleasing …

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Book Review: Babel - R. F. Kuang This is an astonishing book. On the one hand, it's the basic "Harry Potter" trope - a young orphan is gifted, gets sent to school to learn magic, becomes pals with the other weird kids, has adventures, and fights a monster. Except here, Harry is Chinese, is sent to Oxford University to learn magic, and [...]

Book Review: Babel - R. F. Kuang ★★★★★

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/book-review-babel-r-f-kuang/

This is an astonishing book. On the one hand, it's the basic "Harry Potter" trope - a young orphan is gifted, gets sent to school to learn magic, becomes pals with the other weird kids, has …

A (tiny, incomplete, single user, write-only) ActivityPub server in PHP.

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A (tiny, incomplete, single user, write-only) ActivityPub server in PHP I've written an ActivityPub server which only allows you to post messages to your followers. That's all it does. It won't record favourites or reposts. There's no support for following other accounts or receiving replies. It cannot delete or update posts nor can it verify signatures. It doesn't have a database or any storage beyond [...]

A (tiny, incomplete, single user, write-only) ActivityPub server in PHP

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/a-tiny-incomplete-single-user-write-only-activitypub-server-in-php/

I've written an ActivityPub server which only allows you to post messages to your followers. That's all it does. It won't …

Book Review: The Constant Rabbit - Jasper Fforde I love Fforde's provincial epics. They are dystopias set in the endless wastelands of suburban England. Whole new worlds brought to life in sleepy villages. The Constant Rabbit isn't exactly subtle in its politics - fears that "the Rabbits" might out-breed us leads to a rise in an anti-rabbit dictatorship. But it is the way [...]

Book Review: The Constant Rabbit - Jasper Fforde ★★★★☆

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/book-review-the-constant-rabbit-jasper-fforde/

I love Fforde's provincial epics. They are dystopias set in the endless wastelands of suburban England. Whole new worlds brought to life in sleepy villages. The …

Book Review: The Constant Rabbit - Jasper Fforde I love Fforde's provincial epics. They are dystopias set in the endless wastelands of suburban England. Whole new worlds brought to life in sleepy villages. The Constant Rabbit isn't exactly subtle in its politics - fears that "the Rabbits" might out-breed us leads to a rise in an anti-rabbit dictatorship. But it is the way [...]

Book Review: The Constant Rabbit - Jasper Fforde ★★★★☆

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/book-review-the-constant-rabbit-jasper-fforde/

I love Fforde's provincial epics. They are dystopias set in the endless wastelands of suburban England. Whole new worlds brought to life in sleepy villages. The …

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Book Review: Terry Pratchett - A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins Like a million fans, I have a precious memory of (briefly) meeting Terry Pratchett and getting him to sign something amusing. I hold on to it dearly. This is half-way between a biography and autobiography. Parts were clearly dictated and recorded prehumously and are interspersed with observations from others. Terry's voice shines through although, as [...]

Book Review: Terry Pratchett - A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins ★★★★★

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/book-review-terry-pratchett-a-life-with-footnotes-by-rob-wilkins/

Like a million fans, I have a precious memory of (briefly) meeting Terry Pratchett and getting him to sign something …

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Book Review: Terry Pratchett - A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins Like a million fans, I have a precious memory of (briefly) meeting Terry Pratchett and getting him to sign something amusing. I hold on to it dearly. This is half-way between a biography and autobiography. Parts were clearly dictated and recorded prehumously and are interspersed with observations from others. Terry's voice shines through although, as [...]

Book Review: Terry Pratchett - A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins ★★★★★

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/book-review-terry-pratchett-a-life-with-footnotes-by-rob-wilkins/

Like a million fans, I have a precious memory of (briefly) meeting Terry Pratchett and getting him to sign something …

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The Far Side comic strip by Gary Larson from Tuesday, January 30, 2024 | TheFarSide.com A cartoon from The Far Side® comic strip by Gary Larson from Tuesday, January 30, 2024 | Transcript:

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Book Review: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin This deserves all the accolades going. A perfectly rendered tale of childhood best-friends-forever growing up and trying to make video-games. It is funny, well observed, and grim. It's sort of like Nick Hornby's "High Fidelity" for the 21st century. There's a desperately sad trope about how some men believe that women are a video-game where, [...]

Book Review: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/book-review-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-gabrielle-zevin/

This deserves all the accolades going. A perfectly rendered tale of childhood best-friends-forever growing up and trying to make …

Book Review: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin This deserves all the accolades going. A perfectly rendered tale of childhood best-friends-forever growing up and trying to make video-games. It is funny, well observed, and grim. It's sort of like Nick Hornby's "High Fidelity" for the 21st century. There's a desperately sad trope about how some men believe that women are a video-game where, [...]

Book Review: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/book-review-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-gabrielle-zevin/

This deserves all the accolades going. A perfectly rendered tale of childhood best-friends-forever growing up and trying to make …

Dark Season - Russell T Davies' new show starring Kate Winslet A dark and shadowy figure is using laptops to terrorise a school and convert its pupils into mindless automata. Only one person can stop this dastardly scheme - Kate Winslet! Who, for some reason, plays a 15 year old. Because she is 15. Because this is 1991 and Russell T Davies has written one of [...]

Dark Season - Russell T Davies' new show starring Kate Winslet ★★★⯪☆

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/dark-season-russell-t-davies-new-show-starring-kate-winslet/

A dark and shadowy figure is using laptops to terrorise a school and convert its pupils into mindless automata. Only one person can …

Dark Season - Russell T Davies' new show starring Kate Winslet A dark and shadowy figure is using laptops to terrorise a school and convert its pupils into mindless automata. Only one person can stop this dastardly scheme - Kate Winslet! Who, for some reason, plays a 15 year old. Because she is 15. Because this is 1991 and Russell T Davies has written one of [...]

Dark Season - Russell T Davies' new show starring Kate Winslet ★★★⯪☆

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/dark-season-russell-t-davies-new-show-starring-kate-winslet/

A dark and shadowy figure is using laptops to terrorise a school and convert its pupils into mindless automata. Only one person can …

In case you're not aware, one of the primary issues with what3words is addresses containing words that are indistinguishable from others when spoken: w3w.me.ss

I do not know what two of those words mean. So I will just smile and nod.