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Benjamin Howe

@beh.uk

Senior Software Engineer (they/them or he/him). #ActuallyAutistic, probably #AuDHD. Views my own unless stated otherwise. https://www.beh.uk/

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... is this some coded message? Blink twice if you need help!

29.09.2025 18:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Elon is lying. Not only does the Social Security Administration use SQL, the agency has an entire IT division dedicated to database operations. The SSA's entire Master Files index runs directly on DB2.

12.02.2025 00:12 πŸ‘ 2283 πŸ” 555 πŸ’¬ 66 πŸ“Œ 22
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🀦 www.google.com/search?q=sit...

09.02.2025 14:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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⚑️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid.

On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.

09.02.2025 09:36 πŸ‘ 21537 πŸ” 4526 πŸ’¬ 441 πŸ“Œ 440

Selfishly I'll miss seeing your new uploads but all the best with your future endeavours. But thinking positively, this gives me a great opportunity to catch up on your extensive back catalogue!

31.12.2024 20:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Small origami turtle folded from one sheet of square paper with a patterned red blue and yellow shell, and white head and legs, sitting on a beige cable knit hat

Small origami turtle folded from one sheet of square paper with a patterned red blue and yellow shell, and white head and legs, sitting on a beige cable knit hat

So I’ve been obsessively doing origami for the last couple of weeks or so. I kind of hate origami but I also love it? Here’s a thread of things I’ve made:

Turtle

19.12.2024 17:31 πŸ‘ 78 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3
Get your work recognized: write a brag document Get your work recognized: write a brag document

@b0rk.jvns.ca are you aware of any good tooling for managing brag docs? (for the uninitiated: jvns.ca/blog/brag-do...)

20.12.2024 10:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
GitHub - angristan/wireguard-install: WireGuard VPN installer for Linux servers WireGuard VPN installer for Linux servers. Contribute to angristan/wireguard-install development by creating an account on GitHub.

If you're thinking of setting up your own WireGuard server, save yourself the faff and use @fuolpit.bsky.social's script: github.com/angristan/wi.... I wasted hours on Sunday trying to get things working, this evening it took me 5 minutes including public IPv6 without NAT. Nice.

18.12.2024 22:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Or... we could stop making excuses and make the station accessible. Sure, it's not easy, but it's very worthwhile. Perhaps they could fund bonuses or similar using over site development instead?

14.12.2024 20:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com not sure if you've thought about Substack in this way?

14.12.2024 20:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When will you be stocking the monitor?

09.12.2024 08:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for compiling this -- is there a way to check with Northampton if a particular station from this list has been done? I guess their social media team on X is the only way?

06.12.2024 08:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
National Autistic Society
Scotland
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autistic people. However, we are not seeing the same progress for those who are trapped in hospital.
Shockingly, there are 195 people with learning disabilities and autistic people living in hospitals, more than last year, and a fifth of them have been in hospital for more than 10 years. This is not acceptable.
Autism is not a mental health disorder and hospitals are not homes.
We want autism to be removed from mental health legislation and increased investment in local support services and appropriate safeguards in place, so autistic people can live in the community, a fundamental human right that many of us take for granted.
Autism is not a mental health disorder and hospitals are not homes.

National Autistic Society Scotland 23h β€’ 0 autistic people. However, we are not seeing the same progress for those who are trapped in hospital. Shockingly, there are 195 people with learning disabilities and autistic people living in hospitals, more than last year, and a fifth of them have been in hospital for more than 10 years. This is not acceptable. Autism is not a mental health disorder and hospitals are not homes. We want autism to be removed from mental health legislation and increased investment in local support services and appropriate safeguards in place, so autistic people can live in the community, a fundamental human right that many of us take for granted. Autism is not a mental health disorder and hospitals are not homes.

Autism is not a mental health disorder and hospitals are not homes.

04.12.2024 12:51 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

FYI for anyone else who finds typing in the Relay UK app annoying -- at least on Android you can connect a keyboard to your phone and it works much better. Still not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but...

02.12.2024 17:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In fairness that'll still end up as efficient as a conventional resistive heater, I think

02.12.2024 17:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Won't that just result in the car pumping heat from the garage to... The garage?

02.12.2024 16:39 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Feels like they should have a stock of iPads as a backup, at least for non-economy classes...

02.12.2024 16:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m going to keep banging on about adult content tagging because I’ve got a bee in my bonnet about it currently. I’m not satisfied with the tone deaf responses I’m receiving about it. If you’re tired of hearing from me about it I highly suggest you block me. So where do we begin?…

02.12.2024 08:04 πŸ‘ 100 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 6

I'd be cautious, last time I checked they didn't support IMAP so getting emails out could be difficult.

28.11.2024 09:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not the right voice... At this time πŸ™‚ But I doubt they mean that you should never re-apply!

25.11.2024 11:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also interested in the answer to this question πŸ™‚

23.11.2024 20:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A photograph taken on a rainy autumn night. A single decker red London bus is in the centre of the frame, parked under a charger for electric buses. The display on the front of the bus advertises that it is the number 358 to Crystal Palace. Although the bus is parked under an electric bus charger, it is an Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 diesel bus.

A photograph taken on a rainy autumn night. A single decker red London bus is in the centre of the frame, parked under a charger for electric buses. The display on the front of the bus advertises that it is the number 358 to Crystal Palace. Although the bus is parked under an electric bus charger, it is an Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 diesel bus.

Failed attempt to try and ride the new ie tram bus on route 358 between Crystal Palace and Orpington (pictured at Crystal Palace). The driver practiced parking under the charger but it's clearly a diesel bus πŸ˜‚

23.11.2024 20:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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America’s most popular autism therapy may not work β€” and may seriously harm patients’ mental health A growing body of research has found the evidence for applied behavior analysis (ABA) is too thin & of too poor quality to justify its widespread adoption.

β€œIt doesn’t seem to be on anyone’s radar that these interventions could cause harm.

There seems to be this unwillingness to listen to autistic people who say that it does.”

- Prof. Kristen Bottema-Beutel, Boston College

🫠

22.11.2024 22:59 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 6

Urgh, people. Thanks to you and @holly-cummins.bsky.social for highlighting this problem which I (shamefully!) didn't realise existed.

22.11.2024 08:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There are also risks of burning through funding by deploying to the cloud and autoscaling... I suspect they chose to prefer poor performance over poor OpEx πŸ™‚

20.11.2024 22:18 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@kaziasaurus.bsky.social welcome to BlueSky!

19.11.2024 22:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Welcome back! Glad to see you appear somewhere :-)

15.11.2024 19:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Screen shot of "Accessibility Settings" with two main categories: "Alt text" and "Media." Under Alt text, there are two toggle options labelled "Require alt text before posting," which is switched on. β€œDisplay larger alt text badges" Under Media, there’s an option labelled "Disable autoplay for videos and GIFs," which is switched on.

Screen shot of "Accessibility Settings" with two main categories: "Alt text" and "Media." Under Alt text, there are two toggle options labelled "Require alt text before posting," which is switched on. β€œDisplay larger alt text badges" Under Media, there’s an option labelled "Disable autoplay for videos and GIFs," which is switched on.

New to @bsky.app? We’ve got some etiquette just for you!

Turn on the little feature that reminds you to post alt text with your images. Alt text allows blind and partially sighted people to understand what's in your images using screen readers. Without alt text, it just says "image".

14.11.2024 17:11 πŸ‘ 405 πŸ” 298 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 35

Ah fair – I wasn't sure if there would be IP-based limits for unauthenticated reads :-)

10.11.2024 09:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Presumably these are only "write" actions, and the limit for "read" actions is higher?

10.11.2024 09:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0