The greatest thing about the internet is that it's given every one a voice.
The worst thing about the internet is that it's given EVERYONE a voice.
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Tip for well-meaning people doing diversity monitoring: if your form expects trans women to, at any point, tick anything that says “male”, then that is profoundly offensive and most of us will just lie to you.
Please stop doing this.
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“The following programme contains strong and frequent language”
So, like, swearing really fast?
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There will come a time when the Raspberry Pi Foundation does not require a super secret mythical combination of USB C power supply and cable that is only dubiously complainant and can only be obtained on the third Thursday of the months with no R in them.
That time is not now.
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Given how they were told of by the AUTHOR of the power delivery portion of the spec because of what they did to the 4, you'd think they'd have made *some* effort on the 5.
But hey, this version has AI in it, so yay?
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Today’s lesson. Most of the time when you ask “how do I do this?” and get the answer “don’t do this, do that” you’re talking to an irritating fuckwit. The lesson is that this is not all of the time.
The practical application of this was learning that digit is a very cool tool for editing Debian packages.
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I now ask interview questions about frustrating replaced commands to anyone who says they have a history with Linux.
"Which netstat flags have been replaced with other commands?" tells on a person
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Gold loos: not only are they tacky as fuck; they would be really cold on your arse.
Maybe that’s why Trump is such a miserable fucker.
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At first I thought fracking, but almost all fracking in Poland is east or north of there. ...Maybe something top secret blew up underground?
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@mercedesallen I’m sort of hoping this - the whole counterrevolution against any process made since the 60s - is all an extinction spike, like the anti abortion referendum in Ireland in the 1980s.
Not confident, but hopeful.
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Increasingly getting the impression that MacOS Sonoma is a lemon, and best avoided.
Interestingly, when it bricked my M1 Pro MBP, and I had to recover from the recovery partition, it reinstalled Ventura.
And the new Macs ship with Ventura, with no Sonoma upgrade available.
Now seeing that the 14.1 update has screwed a load of webcam stuff used by remote workers.
I think I'm gonna keep my MBP on Ventura for now. My Mac mini server is on Sonoma, but all that's doing is hosting Linux VMs.
@Miguel Arroz That sounds profoundly buggered indeed.
Touchwood I’m ok. The 6 days uptime is because of a power outage 6 days ago.
Every so often I encounter someone who is very stridently advocating for understanding and sympathy for narcissists, to the point of sacrificing yourself to give them what they crave: supply.
And every time I smile, nod, and then instantly file them in the same mental drawer as “psychotic tiger in a bad mood”.
Never believe their bullshit, ever.
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Person in front of me in the pharmacy: Have you got something for a deep, persistent cough?
So how’s your day going?
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I like the idea of a "Car Trap". Perhaps we should have more of them elsewhere.
Seriously though, why are they there?
We should have more guided busways and light railways on Beeching's closed railway lines. Hertford to Luton. Buntingford to Broxbourne.
Curious how they cope with single track sections.
@Normal for '23 😷🇪🇺🍸 They’re there to stop cars going further on the busway, presumably so that they can be retrieved more easily than half way down a guided section. (This section is an anomaly because it’s not guided except at the entrances; the proper guided sections are narrow trenches.)
Wouldn’t recommend guided bus as a transport solution even if reusing closed railway alignments for transport is a good idea.
Single track sections are controlled by traffic lights.
So it seems there are still, despite increasing numbers of “leaders” involved in “crypto” ending up in prison for being con artists, true believers in NFTs (if you’ve forgotten about those, they were briefly bigger than COVID 19 and about as beneficial to humanity) held a party in Hong Kong last night.
The organisers thought they were lighting the stage with black lights (like they have at LaserQuest to make your clothes glow).
They were not.
They were lighting the stage with UV-C sterilisation lights.
Apparently everyone involved is now in accident and emergency with extensive sunburn and BURNS TO THEIR RETINAS!!
In 18 months there are going to be a bunch of people wearing dark sunglasses and refusing to meet outdoors trying to sell you something expensive to do with “AI”. You probably shouldn’t buy it.
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In case anyone reading this has been at an Ape Event in Hong Kong recently, here's a version of all the images with alt text.Bluesky Social
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Is it Lagos in Portugal ?
Nice picture !
Sarah Brown
in reply to ♻ Citoyen Candide ☮ • •♻ Citoyen Candide ☮
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Anyway it look like you do.
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♻ Citoyen Candide ☮
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Did you choose to live there ?
(You don't have to ping me each message with the @ , i get the notification anyway 😉)
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in reply to ♻ Citoyen Candide ☮ • •♻ Citoyen Candide ☮
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Was it long ago ? Did you made friends easily in there ?
Feel free to ask whatever question you like about me 😋
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