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Chloé Raccoon
@chloeraccoon@mastodonapp.uk
mastodon 4.6.8IT consultant, with social issues and tea. Bad^W Terrible puns a speciality. Albino Raccoon. Supporter and offshore membership holder of RNLI
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Joined November 09, 2022
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Preferred tea:
By the Pint
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@drchaos@sauropods.win @bellinghman@wandering.shop @DrJLecter@beige.party @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social @patterfloof@meow.social I was born in the same hospital as my mum. In the same town. In different counties. The county I was born in no longer exists. It can get weird sometimes.
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@stefano Client had a new CCTV system installed, old one was accessed via web page or an app directly from a phone.
New one does all that if you configure it correctly, but they set it up so you didn't need any firewall rules or anything.
So I checked the firewall... and I asked "why is this making multiple connections to Hong Kong?"
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@patterfloof @andycarolan @peter ...weather? You call this weather? We got proper weather when I was young. Now you get metrology with a short attention span... ;)
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@andycarolan @peter @patterfloof you'd replace it almost instantly. Not like there's a shortage of stuff to moan about in the modern world.
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@flargh@mastodon.social @darac@furry.engineer
As Larry is obviously a civil servant...
In my head now:
James Hacker: Have you ever known a civil servant resign on a matter of principle?
Sir Humphrey Appleby: I should think not! What an appalling suggestion!
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@ForgottenHero18 @georgepenney @PetraPhoenix Naturally I now have lines from Holy Grail in my head...
"He'll do you up a treat, mate."
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@dryak@mstdn.science @TechTangents@dialup.space The fun with the big email providers is how they insist on DKIM/DMARC/SPF for incoming emails to "cut down on spam" and do sweet FA about the spam coming _out_ of their servers....
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@PetraPhoenix@beige.party "I know quote tooting this is blowing my own trumpet" My professional opinion of this is *ppppbt*
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@crocodisle@woof.tech @patterfloof@meow.social I have Vivaldi for the times I need a chromium based browser. For every day use I have multiple mozilla based solutions installed instead.
If twitch didn't screw up more on them than in vivaldi, I'd probably never open it...
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@cynder_coyote@pawb.fun @patterfloof@meow.social "Don't blame me, I thought it was a dead cat"
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@Fanfalla@meow.social @patterfloof@meow.social "It only let me have 10 options" "now I know why the answers are yes and no"
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@bonzoesc@m.bonzoesc.net @patterfloof@meow.social "so how do you play kerbal space program....?"
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@PetraPhoenix@beige.party how are you getting on with your singing? Are you half way there....
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@PetraPhoenix@beige.party @bigvimto@mendeddrum.org it's ok Petra, we all know you flipped years ago ;)
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@PetraPhoenix@beige.party I should contact them at some point and ask if they are ever going to deliver them, it's been 6 years....
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@PetraPhoenix@beige.party even more ludicrous when they then suggest sharing bins with a neighbour, it's like, you threaten to sue someone and then ask if we can do the exact thing you want to sue them over? Seriously?
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@DJDarren @TheBreadmonkey @PetraPhoenix comment from chat last night:
Me: someone just put shit through my letterbox
Streamer: that's disgusting.
Me: you could tell it was shit, it said reform UK on it
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@kiaun@meow.social @patterfloof@meow.social I blame @Beckydog@hydaelyn.coerthansnowstorm.online. I tend to find if socks aren't around, she has them.
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@dec23k@mastodon.ie @dryak@mstdn.science @TechTangents@dialup.space 30% of the spam hitting my servers is from google email servers. 45% of the rest is protection.outlook.com...
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@dec23k@mastodon.ie @dryak@mstdn.science @TechTangents@dialup.space Oh, we rarely get spam from LW.. Connections yes, actual emails being accepted.. no ;)
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@TechTangents@dialup.space The rebate thing always seemed a very US model.
It was something that over here in the UK you mostly saw people talk about on usenet about hardware.
Here, you paid the price and lumped it.
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@alextoth@mastodonapp.uk or the old one: how many Dec field engineers does it take to change a blown lightbulb?
Depends how many replacement blown lightbulbs they brought with them.
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@PetraPhoenix@beige.party (it was a toss up between that one and "If you think Petra's singing is good.. Raise your hands...")
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@UnholyOrdnance@mastodonapp.uk alttext is a description of an image, linked to the image. You normally see it by hovering over an image with a mouse based system, or tapping with a touch screen system. This does depend on the instance and client though. My system will often put an "alt" spot on an image which has alttext, for example, so you have a set spot to tap.
The use of it is to help people, those who can't see the image, and to help the poster of the image to clearly explain what the image conveys.
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@PetraPhoenix@beige.party The last paragraph is true btw. My neighbour pulled my bin in to her back yard to stop it being stolen, the bin crew reported her, and the council sent her a formal letter threatening her with legal action for this act.
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@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt @patterfloof@meow.social I have no need to test the waterproofing claims of my phone's vender inside the house.
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@MarfyMazie@yiff.life @Beckydog@hydaelyn.coerthansnowstorm.online Yeap, you won't find a premade adapter, as due to the most common use would be to plug a 1363 device into a hotel's lighting feed, and risking overloading it.
Therefore no one is going to sell a commercial version due to the liability.
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@MarfyMazie@yiff.life @Beckydog@hydaelyn.coerthansnowstorm.online 5A is the most common, you can stil buy them new (even on amazon!) as they are used in this exact usage - to have a controlled light with out being able to plug a "normal" plug (BS1363) into it.
So you find them to this day in hotels, etc.
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@MarfyMazie@yiff.life @Beckydog@hydaelyn.coerthansnowstorm.online For the light: 546 is old, but still valid - 1363 itself is over 80 now, being first introduced in the late 40s.
546 has multiple plug/socket types, the most common being 3 and 5 below the (massive!) 15A.
A modern light (led) isn't going to get anywhere near the capacity of a 3A, let alone a 5A 546 plug.
Using it: If you don't want to mod the lights, I'd get the right plug and a single socket extension and use it to make a (short) converter from 546 to 1363, and mark it very clearly for lights only.
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@gothiccard@mastodonapp.uk I live in Grimsby, you don't need to be old here to remember it, the legacy is still all around
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@kentishfran@mastodonapp.uk you think this one will also end up under investigation for electoral "abnormalities", or do you think they dont get to choose who gets dropped in it?
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@PetraPhoenix@beige.party I have Chesney in the car... I mean, both cars have around 20Gb of music, so it's not the one and only, but.. *ducks*
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@TechTangents@dialup.space None standard height drives was a mess for a bit.
At my school our BBCs had drives ranging from full height, though half height, to 1/3rd heights.. and some really horrible drives about 1.5cm tall.
I think they were based on a toshiba mech. You put the disc in, pressed it home, and pressed an eject button at the upper left corner to lock it, which stuck out about .5cm.
To eject it, you pressed the eject button again, it came back out the .5cm, and the disc was sprung out about 2cm from the drive (hitting your hand pressing the eject button, of course..).
Horrible design, terrible read quality when loading software.. when we took a machine home for the holidays (parents were teachers) I would go from class room to class room to select a BBC to take away and avoiding any paired with that drive unit!
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@patterfloof@meow.social Well of course, they can't discuss anything else with you with out Sheldon's consent...