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Art Na Crea 🇮🇪 
@artnacrea@mastodon.ie
mastodon 4.7.3AKA: Andy Linton
I'm from Ireland but I live in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Ex Unix and network geek with a passion for trad music.
I've been on the internet since 1983 and I'm mildly optimistic about the fediverse for now.
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Joined November 13, 2022
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#history#JukeboxFridayNight
Easter Rising 1916
References "perfidious Albion"!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35CBWwy98nc
Luke Kelly The Foggy Dew
RE: https://mstdn.social/@winderful/117318377070658239
Is there public data available in NZ that would allow us to have a winderful.nz site?
And similar solar, geothermal and hydro equivalents?
#nzpol
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Right now #wind is meeting 30% of the National Grid's electricity demand. https://winderful.uk
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Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
The height of sophistication at an Irish Saturday night dance back in the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLILwWNeSjg
#royalty#JukeboxFridayNight
The Royal Showband – The Hucklebuck 1964
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@RobynNuthall@mastodon.nz @ClareBear@mastodon.nz I think you can make a case for having an upper age limit for politicians. And I'd suggest that 80 is too high.
75 or maybe even 70?
#thePlaylistSuggestion
Someone has already suggested a couple of songs linked to Cú Chulainn but here's my favourites for that hero:
Horslips - Dearg Doom
Horslips - Faster than the Hound (Roll Back version)
Plus:
Donovan - Sunshine Superman
Andy Irvine - Forgotten Hero
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io There was a young man from Dhargee
Who was stung on the neck by a wasp
When asked "Did it hurt?"
He said no not a bit
It can do it again if it likes
I believe this may have been Spike Milligan but not 100% sure.
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@elCelio@mastodon.uno @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk Seems hard to talk about Cardiff, Gloucester and Birmingham being in The North.
When I lived in Newcastle upon Tyne, there was a lot of doubt that those effete southerners in Manchester qualified
I took this some time ago. I love the irony. It's near Waterloo station, London
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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @ausgroucho@aus.social @jtk@infosec.exchange Your comment about 30 year vs 5 year cycles may be more important. When you restrict your thinking to choosing things from companies you think will be around for a long time you restrict your options and those left on your list know it.
I last worked for Telstra in 2001 and unsurprisingly not much seems to have changed.
I used to be their Chief IP Engineer in Aotearoa New Zealand and had Xmas Eve interrupted when someone
1/2
Fed up with all those notifications swamping your phone? Some really interesting insights here.
https://youtu.be/Ira28fgSF7M
The Lost Discipline of the Alarm: What Notification Design Forgot
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@roytoo@mstdn.social @georgepenney@sunny.garden
The whole alt text is an excellent example of "that's the way to do it" as Mr Punch would say.
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Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man (Official Audio)
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@ausgroucho@aus.social @jtk@infosec.exchange @paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange The section on Chronometers in this article seems pertinent. It's been a known problem for centuries!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_modular_redundancy
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@book
Given the expression "it's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick", this is that stick.
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@bennomatic@appdot.net
Santana - Black Magic Woman
This is debatable but it's probably better than the Fleetwood Mac original.
The original Fleetwood Mac of course was a vast improvement over the later version.
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@Nickiquote@mstdn.social @DJDarren@mendeddrum.org
After a huge round of applause, he thanked his listeners sincerely, "Thanks for giving me The Clap"
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@DJDarren
A couple of antipodean songs:
Hunters & Collectors - Do You See What I See?
Attenborough has spent his life asking us this question.
The Mutton Birds - Nature
And given the state of the world he's been warning about:
Barry Maguire - Eve of Destruction
#ThePlaylistSuggestion
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@larand @bennomatic
I remember being in a small shop on the west coast of Ireland in 1981, hearing someone give their number to a visitor as Ballinskelligs 8.
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@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
This map from the article was instructive.
Europe's final deliveries are from 10th April. New Zealand - most deliveries stop from 20th April.
#nzpol
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@swisslet @WiteWulf
I remembered 2) from reading the books several times 50 years ago so I was quite pleased with myself.
I checked online and I didn't like the US arms company that has appropriated the name:
.....is a company that develops and produces autonomous systems for land, sea and air, powered by an AI-based operating system called Lattice.
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@benjistokman@mast.benstokman.me @scy@chaos.social
"Things ain't cooking in my kitchen"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag8XcMG1EX4
Crowded House - Weather With You
"In none of the coverage do we get the viewpoint of the sheep or indeed the sheep dogs. I for one fully support their right to self-determine their own identities."
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@sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
It's good that we all can access it freely too.
https://nationalarchives.ie/collections/search-the-1926-census/
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@paulrosen@hachyderm.io
You might want to look at OpenWRT, an open source router package. They have a list of supported hardware, an active support bulletin board and you don't need to have Amazon (or any other external org) anywhere near your traffic.
There's some joke here about being as easy as ABC to setup but I've found it better than the proprietary systems.
And that would let you choose second hand systems and PC based hardware too.
https://openwrt.org/
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@ClareBear@mastodon.nz
There's plenty for Aotearoa New Zealand to consider in here as well but I guess it will have to wait until after the election.
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@drewtowler @SnowyCA
From a cartoon from many years ago:
And now for a balanced discussion with a government spokesman and a wild-eyed Trot from the lunatic fringe.
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@zkarj
I've had a good experience with Aegis - open source but only Android
https://getaegis.app/
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Joe Cocker - You Can Leave Your Hat On (Official Video)
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@DJDarren@mendeddrum.org @northernscrub@m.dollha.us
I've been using DAVx5 for syncing contacts and calendars on Android. It might be helpful.
https://f-droid.org/packages/at.bitfire.davdroid
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@miramarmike@cloudisland.nz ASB - Google, Adobe
Kiwibank - Google, Dynatrace, Airship
And as far as I can see it all still works fine after you turn the tracking off.
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Also John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers were cornered into this at the end of a concert in Northern Ireland.
#royalty#JukeboxFridayNighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y15UQQIyy4s
God Save The Queen (Live)
TIL that if you go the Wikipedia page for "Hectare" the football field used to illustrate how big it is:
"St. Enda's GAA ground, in Omagh. The playing field used in Gaelic football and hurling is a little over a hectare in size."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hectare
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@ausgroucho@aus.social @jtk@infosec.exchange @paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange Here's a cheaper option. ;-)
Seriously there seems to be no shortage of appliances available and I'm picking that your number is way over the mark.
But the telco procurement process costs would push the price through the roof.
https://crewdogelectronics.com/build-stratum-1-ntp-server-raspberry-pi-gps/
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@kottke@mastodon.social
I've seen that working in the wild where groves of trees standing shoulder to shoulder do really well.
I'm thinking of some groves of kahikatea in the Orongorongos in particular
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@gjm@mathstodon.xyz @inthehands@hachyderm.io
You are probably right. Not sure where I got the idea that it was Spike.
Either way I'm very fond of it.
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@DJDarren@mendeddrum.org But you've now reached the next level where installing the game is the game.
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@rmi@cloudisland.nz @ThisCJ@mastodon.nz You left out the bit about Stephen Fry being a pompous twat.