In other news: the UK Gov has said it's decided not to pursue a ban on VPNs.
Saying they've listened to people who said it would be harmful to deny them their use.
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mastodon 4.6.8Technologist, mainly from the media sector, but also consumer electronics. Kinda London based.
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I stay up late to keep the doors open and allow the house to cool down.
It's late and everyone else is asleep.
After this hot spell I am really quite tired.
A colleague just replied to a Teams conversation with a response clearly written by Co-Pilot.
I have now lost interest in the conversation.
I just picked my son up from after-school club, and we walked home on this pleasant evening.
When I got home I realised I'd driven to the school because I was on my home from the office.
I am now walking back to school to collect my car. I already walked over an hour in London today, as pleasant as this walk is, I didn't need it.
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@aaron@cutie.city @anon_opin@mastodon.social
I hope people listened and understood what happened to Michael Mosley when he died from heat exhaustion in Greece.
But people's memories are short, so I doubt it.
Good luck to the SATS kids doing their exams today!
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk despite my somewhat excessive home network, earlier this year I downgraded my broadband from 1G because I realised I don't get a great deal of utilisation.
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@WiteWulf@cyberplace.social
I have a UniFi network as my main home network. I did get a second router earlier this year to try out "Shadow Mode" (automatic failover).
Which was fortuitous because my aging existing router collapsed a month later.
I need to see what it needs to resurrect it and restore Shadow Mode.
I could go to OPNsense, but it would mean giving up the convenience of UniFi. But I have already put my dual WAN on VLANs, so I can move anything anywhere when I need.
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Incidentally, for those wondering how I can afford to buy 96GB of RAM, I bought that RAM last year.
I'm actually sitting on far too much hardware that has gone up significantly in value.
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@cccpresser @wieserfalke
I think it's most important that the conductors don't appear to be connected in any way.
And that it doesn't look too much like a capacitor.
I think the wavy lines also separate it from the idea of an optoisolator, but if you did want to imply a connection, you could use the Optoisolator concept but have nothing inside (except wavy lines?)
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@rpbook@gts.phillipsuk.org this just appeared in my YouTube feed:
https://youtube.com/shorts/GQEa3SvbBaU
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@welshpixie@mastodon.art
My Brother A3 MFD (printer/scanner) has been working solidly for the past 15 years.
It's been thoroughly abused and hasn't once tried to extort me.
It happily accepts off-brand inks as well.
Interesting, companies and institutions across Europe are looking at cloud providers who aren't under US jurisdiction.
And the message is it doesn't have to be better, it just has to be good enough and sovereign.
https://youtu.be/yU70qYau3gU
USA Freaks Out: Amazon DITCHED for Lidl - Dutch Central Bank Exits Amazon, €11B Investment
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@occult@vox.ominous.net
It's 2029, RAM is now so expensive that we need to use Wyse terminals instead...
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Yes, I do work for one of the companies that does transmission, but I've always been a champion of groups who are traditionally overlooked and ensuring inclusion.
Question about #clactonbyelection : on the off chance that @CountBinface@mastodon.world actually wins...
What will he or the Speaker of the House do about the dress code?
Is the outfit considered respectful business attire?
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My wife's confidence:
You'll probably be dead by then.
This text hurts my noodle...
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@rpbook@gts.phillipsuk.org
while I don't recall having that combination, I probably should give it a go.
Yesterday morning, my wife decided we needed to paint the stair handrail and posts.
Last night she regretted the decision.
So today we spent the day scraping paint and sanding. We're now halfway done getting back to wood.
Probably another one or two weekends to fix this error.
Okay, I just realised that in British English trialled has two Ls, and yet trailed has one L.
I can't find a good reason for this other than "because".
But in American English trialed with one L is acceptable.
On this occasion I'm siding with the Americans.
Just saw a comment on LinkedIn by a former colleague, Julian Tellez, the final line:
"Feeding AI to AI, might not be that different to feeding cows to cows."
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@Edent@mastodon.social @OneInterestingFact@mastodon.ie
Proponents of plug in solar don't necessarily expect to be paid for it and in many places where it is used exports aren't paid.
Plug-in solar is designed to be small and mostly just offset your personal demand.
If you're only contributing say 100W (after personal use) then it's not really going to move the dial on net metering benefits.
If you want kW scale exports then that's what a fixed installation is for.
Today I rebuilt a dated gaming PC that's been hiding under my desk, unused.
I just finished in the BIOS getting it all ready, and my wife came in all grumpy and complaining.
Saved the BIOS and rebooted.
It turned itself off and didn't come back.
Overdose of negative energy?
I was having a discussion with someone who is a personal trainer the other day.
One of their customers is apparently on the weight loss injections, which would be fine, except that customer is already slim.
It's disturbing that people feel the need to emaciate themselves and worse, abuse medicine to do it.
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For completeness, the requisite screenshot.
I'm contemplating if I need another node, even if even numbers are considered bad for clustering.
Tiny IoT Lora mesh board inside a solar beacon, and there are through hole connections that are unlabeled...
Or are they....
Well FU designers of the board for using the underside of the PCB to label the pinout...
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@JdeBP@mastodon.scot
I've not been entirely convinced by the few videos I've seen of hers, but that one worked.
My wife just had a brain fart and said Salamander instead of Adam Sandler.
We all know Bill Gates is no saint, but what I've read about him and Epstein seems to be benign.
Some of Gates' associates asked him to have meetings with Epstein. Epstein was proposing to arrange substantial donations to his foundation. Melinda didn't like Epstein and Bill didn't think it was going anywhere.
Epstein attempted to blackmail Gates. Epstein tried to use the thin association with Gates to further his own influence.
That's about it.
Last year it was the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea.
There have recently been meetings between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church.
One of the key topics is the potential fixing of the misalignment between Orthodox and Catholic Easter.
I welcome this because my wife is Greek and taking my son to Greece for family Easter is a legal and logistical nightmare with the schools here.
But maybe while they're at it, they should also align with the Jewish religion, given they're supposed to be from a common base?
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@paulmasson@mathstodon.xyz
We're not capturing it at the rate that's sustainable.
Current estimates put the available supply at 300 years unless we find new sources.
Now, 300 years is a long time, but it's around the corner in human scale.
Before we know it, it'll be gone.
Or we can keep treating it like it's inexhaustible and not care.
I got a message from a recruiter asking if I was interested in a role.
Sounded fun.
I've been wondering about becoming a Product person instead of an Architect.
And they were upfront about the salary.
It was just that number was a simple fraction (1/n) less than I make today.
I chuckled for a bit and wished the recruiter luck.
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I did a storage cluster speed test, I got a modest 15Gbit/sec. Could be higher but I don't have enough drives and it's highly resilient storage with 3:1 redundancy.
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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems after my wife recently had a nightmare trying to renew her Greek passport she's been considering shelling out for British citizenship instead of just Settled Status.
I'm not against Labour, I'm a middle ground voter with no allegiance.
But Labour really shouldn't be campaigning so negatively against the Green party.
The most recent attacks on the Greens by Labour haven't been productive and should be an indication that these tactics don't work.
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social
Kessler Syndrome
AND
Carrington Event
A little, curious part of me wants to experience a Carrington Event, most of me doesn't want everyone to have to go through that.
Talking sages can be trash, but Rory Sutherland really does seem to speak in a productive way.
https://youtu.be/6SXCJhqXubU
I had a vision for a particular style of radial diagram for an architectural document I am writing.
So I used up some Fable credits and spent some time this evening to make a Python script that generates the diagrams.
Not that I expect anyone else to need this, but I think it's cool and it's inspired by PlantUML:
https://github.com/bobdvb/circlechart
I was a double winner at the school raffle, winning close to £100 in prizes this week.
Then tonight I got £5 on the "school lottery".
After years of donating through these competitions, I am apparently winning in my son's last month at that school.
Gambling pays... sometimes.
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@james@bne.social some of them can do image composition:
https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/io/overlay/