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This is a condensed version of a twitter thread in response to @silverSpoon asking about how Farset Labs would comment on recent news of Dublins hackerspace (TOG) being uncerimoniously turfed out of their third home thanks to developers just wanting to flip sites Agreed, and it shouldn't be down to companies to fill up the gap. https://t.co/Np46Znn3xH — Andrea (@silverSpoon) June 8, 2021 I wonder if @FarsetLabs has comments on how that works on NI? — Andrea (@silverSpoon) June 8, 2021 It’s similar up here, but that’s more challenging (and lines up with @jeffrey_roe’s comments in the piece) that hackerspaces fall between a crack in local development support between ’entrepeneurship/startups support’ (aka subsidised professional services and office space), the classical arts sector individual and studio support (which has its own significant issues, often a lot more bureaucracy than it’s worth, and stifling community revenue generation by arcane entertainments licensing that I’m sure if you start @adamtucks he’ll chip in) and last, the classical community centre/sports groups (such as the GAA clubs discussed in the original article). ...

This is a Rough Transcript from The Virtual Bash on Ethics Introduction Around two thousand, two hundred and 20 years ago, Archimedes said “Give me a place to stand and I will move the world”. Archimedes has come to be (rightly) associated with many fundamental innovations in mathematics and engineering, and while I’m sure we’re all sick and tired of screws and levers and jumping out of bathtubs, I’d like to start off with a discussion on one of his more mundane creations, the compound pulley. ...

** After a long time in the oven, Farset Labs is up and running. Unforanately we don’t have any of the crazy equipment yet, since we’re broke. As my first ‘official’ Farset Labs project, I’ve installed a ‘Big Red Button’ to notify the @FarsetLabs twitter feed and #FarsetLabs on Freenode to the status of the space. Basically, first person pushes the BRB down in the morning, then one of the directors key-unlocks the space to ‘close’ it. ...

Working on the Farset Labs Big Red Button for space occupancy, had to find a simple way to tweet a status. This is a post to remind myself and anyone else who has dived through hundreds of incorrect, out of date, or inapplicable examples of Oauth 2 with Twitter using a pre-generated auth-token pair. import oauth2 as oauth import urllib ckey='$CONSUMER_KEY' csecret='$CONSUMER_SECRET' akey='$AUTH_TOKEN' asecret='$AUTH_SECRET' def post_twitter(status): try: consumer = oauth.Consumer(key=ckey, secret=csecret) token = oauth.Token(key=akey, secret=asecret) client = oauth.Client(consumer, token) resp, content = client.request( postapi, method='POST', body = urllib.urlencode({"status": status, "wrap_links": True}), #headers=http_headers, #force_auth_header=True ) except oauth.Error as err: print("Twitter Error:"+err) return resp, content post_twitter("Hello Twitterverse")

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Northern Ireland, its history, and its current situation, are a guaranteed topic of conversation to any self-identifying Northern Irishman, especially one travelling around Europe. As I am neither a historian, a bigot, or particularly political, I don’t know a whole pile of detail, so my explanations become rambling personal perspectives which I generally suspect make things less-clear; otherwise I dumb it down so much that the point is kinda mixed, usually ending something like ‘its weird; its British, but we get to be Irish too, except without being quite so broke’. ...

Rebecca Pollock - stars and moon. (original) gang fight! knocked out! Best action scene ever. ever. ever. – Endhiran (Robot) We Humans Are Capable of Greatness Halo Reach Tribute

Inspired by Barry Haughey’s recent facebook post; Dear International Banking Conglomerates and other major employers, I just spent 3 hours of my life writing custom cover letters, answering pointless assessment questions, and entering my ‘skillsets’ on 4 different occasions for an application for one job… Just gimme the bloody job already; you’re big enough and ugly enough to have been able to pick up all that infomation from either a) My extensive and detailed resume, b) my attached university transcript. ...

I cant for the life of me remember who it was who pointed this out on Twitter, either @cimota or @stuartgibson. Jesse Schell , Author, Educator, Game Developer, Ex-imagineer, Futurist, spendshalf of this video deliberating over the unexpected rise and rise of facebook. The last half is what I found really interesting; Jesse eulogises on his image of points-based future, in line with Lee Sheldon’s High School XP Grade replacements. If any of these predictions come true, I expect it’s going to be a very interesting decade for advertisers. ...

Everyone and their dog has a walkthrough of adding @anywhere hovercards to your blog. But the default has a small failing that irked me when I was re-doing my Blogroll (check them out, they’re all great! I promise!), and that was that if you take a tweep, like @god for example, it’ll happily wrap the hovercard around it, but if you have a link to this great status that @god posted, @anywhere won’t pick this @god up. ...