Chatting with someone I was at school with 32 years ago last night via the Zuckverse. He’s now a consultant plastic surgeon, as you do.
Gonna meet up in April, probably have a drink, reminisce a bit, and then he says he can have a look at my #dupuytrens contracture.
Raspberry Pi swapfile config be like, “maximum upper limit is 2048 megabytes. Do not change this!”
And I am like, “yeah, whatever xxxxa8192^[:wq”
Sarah Brown likes this.
You know what really pisses me off about sexual reassignment surgery?
It's that my surgeon (may he rest in peace: he died of Covid 😞) didn't come in afterwards and say, "congratulations, Mrs Brown, they weren't cancerous".
Talk about a missed opportunity.
Lorraine Lee likes this.
Susan reshared this.
China: stop winding up America. It isn't big, and it isn't clever.
America: You don't have to use ALL THE WEAPONS. The balloons can't hurt you.
Seriously guys, grow the fuck up. The rest of us are watching this and it reflects badly on both of you.
Best thing about driving an EV (Nissan Leaf): coming up to the autoestrada, single lane sliproad, 270º bend, some guy behind tailgating me because I refused to speed round the bend. A lot of people do this. I guess they see a family hatchback EV and decide it must be a "little old lady"-mobile, and they have a desperate need to show me how I'm holding their impressive petrol burner up.
Bend straightens out to join the main carriageway, and I just press the "tailgater begone" switch (the accelerator, all the way to the floor).
And then suddenly an obscenity of kilowatts is delivered to my wheels, and I'm just ... gone.
About a minute later, he does a spite overtake when he's finally got up to >120kph and caught me up.
But I know I'm living rent-free in his head for that 😊
AnCuRuadh ΔΘ reshared this.
I was leaving Linacre Water near Chesterfield, scenic dog-walker spot which has a narrow single-track lane back to the main road, and stopped at the end of the lane because I spotted a car coming the other way.
A dude in an Audi S4 Avant decided to overtake me in my PHEV Golf, and make a dash for the lane. He got alongside me before the oncoming car came around the corner, and had to reverse back behind me.
I enjoyed the next five minutes of 30 MPH driving through the next village. He didn’t get another opportunity to overtake me before I turned off for Sheffield.
I do get the same satisfaction from driving the Golf GTE. The GTE mode that runs the petrol engine and the electric motor at the same time for ridiculous throttle response is brilliant to catch show-offs out, but I’ve knocked it off lately because men do scarily dangerous things when they’ve been shown up.
Sarah Brown likes this.
We live in a world beset by people who live a sufficiently charmed life that they are able to spend their entire time “fucking around” without ever encountering the “and find out” stage.
Be nice if that changed, wouldn’t it?
reshared this
reshared this
Sarah Brown likes this.
Today the wind is blowing from the east. This generally creates very choppy waves and today is no exception. As a result, the port of Lagos is “closed to all traffic”, as the entrance is considered risky.
Portugal does this. It closes ports in conditions judged to be unsafe. This is a very different attitude to UK port authorities, which can generally be summed up as, “it’s your own stupid fault if you die”.
like this
reshared this
Just seen the worst take about the ChatGPT thing. It was basically “we should support open source chat models instead”
A bullshit fountain is still a bullshit fountain even if you can pull its source from Git.
Abbygail "Abby" reshared this.
For all the people wondering about why there’s so much fuss over someone personally deciding whether or not to play Grand Theft TERF or not, consider that there is a campaign to drive trans people from society in much of the English speaking world right now.
Trans people need to know who has our backs. Anyone who won’t cross the “please chose literally one of a thousand alternate and equally creative ways to get your dopamine hit” picket line (and let’s be honest, it’s the easiest picket line to not cross ever) certainly, does not have our backs.
We are used to this, but some of us persist in being optimists and expecting better of people anyway.
Meanwhile, this is an utterly amazing dopamine hit. It’s basically Tetris meets 2048, and I guess no queer people were harmed in its production. I’ve been playing the same session for weeks on and off now and have a 2^25 cube.
reshared this
reshared this
Hello! We are DOCKER! We are a serious company providing services to the THE BIGGEST COMPANIES IN THE WORLD.
If you use our product and don’t pick a name for what it creates, we will randomly name it after an Ann Summers vibrator.
Thank you for choosing DOCKER (version 69.69, dangling-donkey).
Your regular reminder that John Money lied about the results of what he did to the Reimer twins, covered up the fact that David appeared to express an innate gender identity of male, and that both twins died by suicide, likely as a result of what Money did to them.
Furthermore, through his covering up the damage his wholly unethical experiment did, he gave legitimacy to subsequent decades of mistreatment of trans and intersex people by quacks.
It’s a shame hell isn’t a real thing, because by god, he deserves to rot there.
Alexandra Lanes reshared this.
reshared this
My dockerised homebridge was logging using the American date format, and I found this incredibly annoying. Worked out how to fix it: you add this to the docker-compose file...
environment:
LANG: en_GB.UTF-8Took me long enough to work that out though.
building a fancy tool using MS's cloud services a few hours
Getting it to write and read out in non-fucked dates on the other hand...
like this
Rui Malheiro reshared this.
oh, joy! Looks like something I will block on principle.
"Likecoin is a digital currency that the authors of content are rewarded for each YouTube like.
Likecoin is based on Blockchain technology using the mechanism called “Proof of Popularity”: the higher the popularity of the video and the more likes it gets, the bigger is the amount of cryptocurrency rewarded to the author.
This technology makes it possible to monetize video content easily and to get a decent reward without adding any advertising or attracting advertising agencies."
reshared this
I am, unusually, awake for the sunrise. This means I just got to see a bird fly straight into my window with a loud THUMP!, turn round, and fly away again.
I guess this is the bird equivalent of me randomly walking into things. Hope it’s ok.
like this
The mission architecture for the ESA/NASA Mars sample return mission is becoming clear. As the spacecraft approaches Mars, it will break into an entry vehicle and an orbiter (from ESA). The entry vehicle will land and the samples will be loaded onto it by rover or helicopter.
It will then launch into Mars orbit to rendezvous with the ESA orbiter and deliver the samples. The ESA orbiter will then burn for Trans Earth Injection and coast to Earth.
Once it hits the atmosphere, it will decelerate rapidly in a blaze of fire before slowing to subsonic speed and deploying its parachutes.
At this point, the United States Air Force will scramble an elite F22 Raptor squadron and shoot it down for being a Martian Spy Capsule.
jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia25338-n…
This illustration depicts three different of models of NASA's solar-powered Mars helicopter.NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
I now understand why you can’t share photos from a Mastodon client when using it with #Friendica:
In Friendica, photos have permissions. Mastodon doesn’t understand this, so when it uploads the photo it doesn’t set any. The Friendica server seems to see this and decide it needs to default to the most restrictive set, i.e. private.
So the created post does not contain a shareable photo.
If you then go into your gallery and edit the photo permissions to be public, then make a bullshit edit to the post, so that it refederates, it’ll suddenly appear.
like this
HïMY SYeD🟩 reshared this.
I have the exact opposite problem (and have already pulled all my hairs out trying to solve it), the Friendica instance I incompetently installed sees pictures but not text from the non-Friendica parts of the Fediverse.
Rui Malheiro reshared this.
It's still hovering somewhere, and the more excitable right-wing congresscritters are trying to convince folks to take random pot-shots at them.
Because that'll totally work...
@Elk Interestingly, I can use Mastodon features with it that I can’t use on the friendica native UI, such as changing audience mid thread.
It can’t upload pictures though.
@Elk It’s also limiting me to 500 characters, or at least displaying a countdown to 500.
This is actually very nice. Currently I’m maintaining two fediverse accounts: one Friendica, one Mastodon, because Friendica is great as an aggregator, but it makes a very poor Twitter replacement. Mastodon is much better at that.
But elk gives me the mastodon experience on my friendica account.
And I’m now wondering if I really need to maintain both.
reshared this
An interesting fediverse quirk. On Mastodon, you can change visibility midway through a comment thread.
This makes sense because Mastodon is a Twitter-like microblogging platform and each response is a post in its own right.
But this is a federal system and your toots may be going to something that isn’t Mastodon.
This, that you are reading now, is not a Mastodon post. It’s a Friendica post. Friendica is not Twitter-like; it’s Facebook-like. That means that a post includes all responses as comments on that post and not first class posts in their own right.
Which means you can’t, e.g., change the audience midway through a comment thread, even if the people you’re replying to are on Mastodon, because the idea of changing the visibility midway through a comment thread is absurd in Facebook-like parlance.
As different fediverse protocols become increasingly popular, we’re gonna have to het used to these quirks.
like this
reshared this
Sent an email to our conveyancing solicitor. Got an automated reply back:
Thank you for your email, which has been safely received
It’s SMTP, guys, not a consignment of dynamite sent through bandit country.
Sarah reshared this.
Some might be so unkind to suggest that conveyancing solicitors are those who couldn't hack the legal profession and barely scraped a pass.
But that would be a very unkind stereotype.
Might explain their apparent inability to fucking read, though.
#Friendica server now migrated from a 2 gig RPi 4 to an 8 gig early 2015 retina MacBook Pro running Ubuntu.
The MBP was headed to the skip, but it turns out it makes a pretty kick-arse #ActivityPub server.
Reuse is better than recycle.
Here it is, in my server cupboard! If you're reading this post, that dilapidated Mac in the corner served it!
like this
reshared this
Dateline: a petrol station outside Tavira on the main road between Tavira and Faro last night. Action: I park there and, a few minutes later, an older gentleman in a jeep pulls up and I hand him a brown paper bag through my car window.
We then both drive off.
I’m sure this all looked perfectly innocent to anyone observing.
(I was selling the old autopilot unit from my boat)
Sarah reshared this.
Sarah reshared this.
Discovered why my Friendica server has an occasional massive load spike for several minutes: it’s running out of physical RAM and thrashing the swap.
Machine it’s on only has 2 gigs. I have an old 2015 MacBook Pro that is in a very dilapidated state, but it works perfectly as an Ubuntu server.
Will migrate to that. It has 8 gigs of RAM. That should be plenty.
reshared this
The longer I live, the more I come to the inescapable conclusion that most "successful" captains of industry, managers, and politicians are literal psychopaths.
We are ruled by psychopaths working for psychopaths. The only way you can succeed in their hierarchy is to be a psychopath.
This is the Bad Place.
reshared this
reshared this
Oh, Britain needs me, and other early retirees, does it? Maybe it should have thought of that before Brexit, before all the transphobia, before I got so pissed off I said “fuck it” and buggered off to Portugal with its, *checks notes* 300+ days of sunshine and subtropical beaches.
Well, Jer, old buddy, Britain may indeed need us. We, however, do not need it.
Off you fuck, now. Toodles. Mwah.
Jeremy Hunt has called for early retirees to return to work after a surge in early retirement since the pandemic.Kieran Kelly (LBC)
reshared this
Sarah Brown likes this.
String theory was supposed to explain all of physics. What went wrong?Ars Technica
Sarah reshared this.
Hey, Liberal Democrats! People are keen to try and fix Brexit, they want standards on clean air indoors for public health, and we really, really need proper and urgent action on Climate change. What can you offer?
"We'll try and make sure that if you need a doctor, one will phone you within a week"
It's utterly, utterly tragic how far my former party has fallen. What an utter, utter lack of ambition. It's just, "The future is going to be shit and there is nothing we propose to do about it".
Sir Ed Davey has a plan to avoid another Lib Dem general election flop but it will be a challenge.By Jonathan Blake (BBC News)
reshared this
They have got into a situation where the MPs care first, and foremost, about defending their own seats. This means never doing anything that might cause strong feelings in the people who are currently electing them, on the basis that if they don't spook the horses, they will vote for the name they did last time.
That tactic, however, goes to only one place: eventual total extinction.
like this
reshared this
like this
Kincaid
Unknown parent • • •Sarah Brown likes this.