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Did not find GCB9ZGB Church Micro 2416...Appleton - St Laurence
Worked out the coordinates on the way out into the woods but was prevented from searching by muggles. Had a hint on the way back out of the woods but couldn't lay eyes, hands, nor paws on it. Maybe a job for another day.
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Found GCB9ZHJ Besselsleigh Wood - The Old Coppiced Tree
Found in the second place we looked. The geohound and I definitely approached this one from the wrong direction and the poor pupper's little legs weren't well-equipped for the brambly terrain: she had to be carried for the last bit! Eventually though we found the right host and were able to extract the generously-sized cache. …
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Found GCB9ZHR Besselsleigh Wood - The Fallen Stump
(Excellent) container was undisguised and visible from the path, and with both latches unfastened! But I still had something to open, thanks to the fun (but not too challenging) inner puzzle box. Sealed everything up properly and added a stack of camouflage but it might have enjoyed even more effort to hide it: sadly I …
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Wrote note for GCB9ZJK Besselsleigh Wood - A Little Birdie Told Me
Passed the GZ twice without being able to perform a proper search owing to endless streams of muggles on one or the other side of the fence. One for another day perhaps.
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Did not find GC27K1V Church Micro 1146...Bessels Leigh
While doing the series in the woods nearby the geohound and I figured we'd look for this cache, too. It might still be there, but if so it's deeper into the brambles than I was willing to probe!
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Found GCB9ZJG Besselsleigh Wood - The Conifer
Easy enough to sight this one despite its disguise, but a bit of a challenge to retreive and return it! Coming back out to the footpath I spotted one of the biggest wild mushrooms I've ever seen.
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Found GCB9ZJB Besselsleigh Wood - Across The Ditch
Had a bad GPS fix and stumbled about for a while before we found this, yet another container sized perfectly for its environment. TFTC!
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Found GCB9ZJ0 Besselsleigh Wood - The Lightning Strike
An easy find of this brilliant container, not least because it was a little exposed: almost completely without camouflage and with its lid unfastened. Contents seem fine though, and I took care to re-hide tree cache better using nearby resources. TFTC!
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Found GCB9ZJ6 Besselsleigh Wood - The Holey Tree
QEF, the cache winking out at us from its hiding place as the geopup and I approached. TFTC, and Happy Halloween!
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Found GCB9ZH3 Little Bridges # 3220 - Besselsleigh Wood
Out for a dog walk around Appleton when I figured I'd have a go at this offset. As soon as we approached the starting waypoint we were faced with multiple warning signs warning that a nest of aggressive wasps was nearby! I got a nasty sting (in a sensitive area) from an angry wasp on …
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Found GCB9ZGP Besselsleigh Wood - The Little Oak
A relatively easy find (with a nice container) for the geohound and I while out on a walk around Appleton this morning. TFTC!
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Is Anthropic going to prove me wrong?
Anthropic's latest numbers seem to suggest that they're the first GenAI company to actually make money! But we ought to take that with an enormous pinch of salt.
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Man Who Identifies as a ‘Humanist’ Gets Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work
If your religious beliefs are incompatible with your use of a particular tool that isn't essential for a particular kind of work, then you should absolutely be able to be exempted from using those tools. At least, that's the legal verdict in this case!
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Fragments
Photographic fragments from the last six weeks of my camera roll, presented without context, inspired by Eric Foltin.
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Installing Websites Must Be Easy
Some excellent recommendations from the W3C's TAG on installability of web applications to the "desktop", whether or not they have defined manifests/are PWAs. I really hope to see the major OS and browser manufacturers take these recommendations on board!
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Did not find GC6Q39P Cur.Bri.Lew 9
Made two searches for this - one on the way out, one on the way back - but I'm confident that it simply isn't there. CO attention needed.
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Found GC6Q39H Cur.Bri.Lew 8
A quick find while walking the dog after running an errand nearby. Container in very poor condition, unlikely to survive a big winter storm. Re-hid as found. TTFC.
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/domains - a /slashpage for people who buy too many domain names
I buy too many domain names. So to help keep track of them... and to let the world see how bad my purchasing problem has gotten... I've come up with the "/domains" /slashpage. Perhaps you want one, too?
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.well-known/slashpages
Matthias Pfefferle proposes an OPML-based .well-known/slashpages in a similar vein to my own .well-known/feeds. I love it, and I've implemented it right here on DanQ.me!
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The Mythical Man-Month in the age of AI
Jan van den Berg suggests that the corollary to the Mythical Man-Month in the age of AI might be: "Adding agents to a project with unclear requirements gets you the wrong answer faster."
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We Played Hide & Seek across Greater London
The rest of the family and I spent a long weekend playing Jet Lag's "Hide & Seek" across Greater London. Here's how that went, and what we learned about playing the game (and, in particular, playing it with preteen children!).
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It’s Time to Come Back to Firefox. The Internet You Loved Is Still Here
The Firefox team absolutely knocking it out of the park by rallying the faces of the memes you've missed and using them as a reminder that the Web you've missed is still out there. And your choice of web browser is part of your choice to see that.
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Let this be your reminder to check on how your computer systems truncate long strings for public display.
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Cinema films list starting with the truncated title 'Ghosts: The Possession of Butt'
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Found GC13NEG From a Swan to the Canary: Hermit
I'm in London for a long weekend of Jet Lag Hide & Seek, staying at a hotel a little to the North of here. After having to DNF Aldgate East Sidetracked, which is pretty much below my bedroom window but seems to have gone walkabout, I felt like I needed a geocaching win so I waked down here to hunt for this one.
Initially starting atop the bridge I soon realised that I needed to approach this one from the waterfront. I first found a more-obvious hiding spot - perhaps the home of the larger muggled container? - before checking the hint and locating its younger sibling.
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Did not find GC6R926 TUBE SideTracked - Aldgate East
I've been in London playing Hide & Seek (by Jet Lag rules) and my hotel overlooks this fountain. I came down to take a look - the "running hooves" splash effect is pretty great!
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Found GC9BD0E Church Micro 14013...Clerkenwell - St Marks
QEF in the second hiding place I tried, while out playing Jet Lag The Game with the family (my hiding zone is the 500m around Angel Station and I wanted to find a generic looking church that I can send a picture of if the seekers' team asks for one!). TFTC!
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Ascending
Sometimes it's just time to go up the wooden hill... during Weird Web October! Let's roll some shapes...
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Well, it looks like I've committed to playing this on the wettest imaginable weekend. Wish me luck!
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Customised maps of Greater London's transit network alongside a boxed set of Jet Lag: The Game - Hide & Seek and its expansion.
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Incognito (Weird Web October)
In another Weird Web October contribution, I'd like to introduce you to Incognito Mode for Wikipedia. Yes, it's stupid.
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There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability
Elias's experience of the PHP CVE matches mine: it's real, it's serious... but it's not actually that easy to exploit "in the wild" except in conjunction with OTHER exploits, so it's not by-itself catastrophic. Patch your servers, yeah. But calm the fuck down while you do so.
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Dem Bones! (Weird Web October)
The hand bone's connected to the cellphone. The cellphone's connected to the website. The website's connected to the puppet. Now shake 'dem skeleton bones!
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So elegant. So demure. Much doggle.
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An inelegant looking French Bulldog in a teal jumper lies in her back, with her tongue out, on top of Dan.
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Found GC8VFV3 Freeland to Hanborough - Bonus Cache #2
A very quick final find on our walk with Menssana Martial Arts. Thanks for maintaining this series!
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Found GCAXYB9 Freeland to Hanborough #04 - Revived
Found in the third candidate place I looked, as the other walkers from my youngest kid's taekwondo school escaped into the woods ahead. Had to jog to catch up after this find! Discovered my kid leading the pack, when I finally got there.
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Found GCAF07M Freeland to Hanborough #06 - Revived
A second diversion from the taekwondo group to find a cache just off the beaten track, this gloriously clear morning!
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Found GCAXZQ5 Freeland to Hanborough - Bonus Cache #5
A quick find while out with the younger kid on a walk with his taekwondo school. TFTC!
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Re: My Hobby Is Learning
Like me, Kev Quirk's hobby is learning... to the point at which he, like me, picks up hobbies like they're fistfuls of popcorn. I've got some thoughts on what this lifestyle means for me, too.
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Alternate timeline in which all Greek and Latin roots are swapped
Remoteoscope and equigamic are both wonderful words and I envy our alternate-universe buddies. Concavenator has some more.
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/pfp - a /slashpage for profile picture history
/pfp is a /slashpage standard intended to showcase a timeline of 'profile pictures' you've used to represent yourself online over the years. I've added one, now, and man do I look young in some of those photos!
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I continue to fight to make BBC News' RSS feeds not-suck, despite ongoing efforts to dilute their value by the BBC themselves.
Last month they started injecting ads for their email newsletter-based subscription option into their RSS feed. But I don't need email: I have RSS! The ad initially slipped through the filters because it looks like the URL of a news article: sneaky move, BBC!
Anyway; it's fixed now and these newsletter ads should no longer appear in the feeds available on https://bbc-feeds.danq.dev - hurrah!
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A peep behind the curtain: here's an animation illustrating how I had to learn to dissect/think about origami in order to make origami.danq.dev for my Weird Web October contribution today:
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Origami (Weird Web October)
A (well-folded) love letter to the Weird World Wide Web: my entry for day 14 of Weird Web October is "Origami". Go play with virtual paper!
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Webpage Copy-Protection is Impossible (and that's great!)
A friend of mine was inconvenienced by an over-eager bit of Web copy-protection JavaScript this week, and it reminded me that more-than-ever, these scripts are both harmful (to legitimate users) and pointless (ineffective at preventing downloading).
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Last time I made a dental insurance claim, Aviva insisted on sending me a cheque. So I asked them via live chat if I could claim via bank transfer. Yes, they say, although apparently I have to ask every time because "they can't store bank details". Sigh. Fine. At least they'll pay this one by bank transfer.
Except a few days later they emailed to say they'd lost my bank details and could I provide them again. They asked me to add it to my claim, but their website won't let me do that because the claim is already agreed to pay-out. So now my claim's stuck in limbo.
Back into live chat I go. I give all the details and we're getting there but then... I suddenly get cut off from the human and I'm back with the robot.
The robot says live chat closed at 6:30pm so I'll need to come back tomorrow.
But it's only 5:45pm.
Is the whole world going mad, or is it just me?
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Live Chat gatekeeping chatbot saying that live chat is open until 6:30pm, which is in the future, but it's claiming that it's closed.
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What Argentine Tango is like...
A series of metaphors about what tango feels like, to me. Like improvising music. Like spinning tops. Like an flock of birds. Or something like that.
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Ruth and I stopped at Hanley Swan for a picnic lunch on our way home from our weekend of Argentine Tango classes. Within seconds our lunch had attracted a large flock of ducks from the little duck houses on the village's adorable duck pond.
But better yet: I managed to catalogue like eleven memorial benches around the pond and the village green, all previously unknown to OpenBenches (@openbenches@botsin.space): #46341, #46342, #46343, #46344, #46345, #46346, #46347, #46348, #46349, #46351, #46352!
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A slightly dried-up duck pond with ducks and cute like pontoon duck houses.
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Found GCB19MJ St Ann's Well
There's some kind of foot race going on today and the well area is heaving with people: spectators lining the roadside are cheering and whooping as the runners barrel past. My partner Ruth and are only in town for a weekend class in Argentine Tango and didn't anticipate being able to find this cache at …
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On the window sill of the bar at the hotel where Ruth and I are learning to tango... this morning I made a squirrel friend!
At least now I'll have succeeded at something today even if I can't get the hang on not-treading-on-toes!
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A grey squirrel lies against the glass pane of a stone-framed window.
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The bed in my hotel room tonight is made up for not one, not two, but three occupants. Did they... see me and instantly clock me as polyamorous?
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Wide bed with three sets of pillows laid out.
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Firing squad execution to be livestreamed, Pentagon says
The public will be able to watch the execution of a former US Army major by firing squad, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has said. I feel physically sick.
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