Matthew Slowe

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Working in IT to help HE & FE (and other public sector) organisations work better together.


Somewhere in the vicinity of the far South East of #England
 and occasionally in the farther reaches of #Scotland

#photography #kent #highlands #linux #federation #eduroam #shibboleth #saml #itsecurity #highereducation #academia

And it pains me to need to say that I do not consent to any third-party Mastodon or other fediverse instance's Terms of Service, as I am not a user of their service. All posts are my own, and permission to propagate them is always revocable.

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@lennybacon @fooflington https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2023800#c14 - the fix is in the process of being uplifted to 149.

Thanks for pinging me on this! But it looks like a fix will land in 149 (and 150) soon.

2023800 - New certificate error pages contain misleading information on http errors

RESOLVED (jbrown) in Firefox - Security. Last updated 2026-04-01.

@lennybacon @fooflington looking into it. It's fixed in Nightly.

@fooflington I assume Moz are looking to make error pages less confusing/intimidating for less technical users - which is probably reasonable.

What's not reasonable is that this page gives wholly incorrect advice - "try again in a few moments" is not gonna work for a 403 or indeed any 4XX since they're all client/request errors.

FWIW/tangentially related, I'd still love an "I'm technical, show me all the details" setting on web browsers/software/OSs.

Latest #firefox #ESR (v149.0) appears to have stopped reporting the HTTP error code when something goes wrong… in this case for a 403. It used to include the HTTP code and some useful words.

In this error, it looks like the connection just didn't work rather than we got an error from the server.

Is there a way to turn this back on?

fuck employee of the month, my cat just made the pet spotlight of the month for my husband's national nonprofit job

he's the most hard working boy but I'm pretty sure it was his dazzling looks (I made my partner submit this picture)

Latest #firefox #ESR (v149.0) appears to have stopped reporting the HTTP error code when something goes wrong… in this case for a 403. It used to include the HTTP code and some useful words.

In this error, it looks like the connection just didn't work rather than we got an error from the server.

Is there a way to turn this back on?

Open Letter to European Citizens
The door to digital sovereignty is open, please come in
We ask European citizens, and through them those who govern European countries, to understand one important thing: the door to digital sovereignty does not open simply by choosing different software, but by understanding what sovereignty actually entails.
It requires open document formats, open fonts, continuity of expertise, and honesty about what "open" means.

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/31/open-letter-to-european-citizens/

@libreoffice #odf

My search has, thus far, been fruitless so I am asking here as a last ditch attempt …

I am looking for a self-hostable web based application to be an inventory of the (real, rather than e-) #books in the house. It should be able to accept a list of #ISBNs as input for importing items and look them up (with covers) to ingest their metadata.

It doesn't need #library style circulation (I don't want to run a library so don't want #Koha or equivalent)

I've been using #HomeBox which is ok but only understands "things" rather than "books" (I've written a isbn2homebox script to make that easier). I'd like something purpose designed for books though.

Does anyone use anything like this? There are plenty of free or subscription things available online, but I want to run this myself.

Thanks ☺️

#selfhosting #inventory

Controversial UK public transport opinions.

- HS2 needs to built. All the way to Scotland.
- HS3-13 also need to be built.
- We need another rail connection to the continent.

"But how do we afford to do that ?" I can already hear some of you racing to type.

To which I ask one very simple question.

"How can we afford not to?"

#Trains #GBRailways

I did not know about this kind of insidious pricing. Thank you for highlighting it!