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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party Easy to turn on, but kept safely out of reach where it can't do any damage.
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Douglas Spencer
@dougs@masto.nd2.uk
mastodon 4.2.29
Middle-aged, fat, British, cis, bi, HoH, likes beer; anti-fascist and anti-genocide; voted Remain; mucks around with computers; writes and delivers inclusive/affirming ceremonies for funerals and other occasions; he/him.
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Joined April 27, 2022
I have revolutionised cable management.
Previously each usb cable has been kept under control with an elastic band of a matching colour.
Now I have put the WHITE elastic band round the BLACK usb cable, and I have put the BLACK elastic band round the WHITE usb cable.
This has immediately made each cable much more visible when I'm scrabbling around the medium-grey interior of the bag they live in.
John Dowd, Feb 1952 to May 2026.
Treasurer for multiple conventions, including the 2014 Worldcon in London and several Eastercons.
Supporter of lifeboats.
Teacher, even when no longer at school.
Always answered the question that was actually asked, not the one that was implied or intended.
Inventor of a ten-minutes-in-the-telling story about "precessed cheese".
And a friend.
When the dust has settled, all AI code submissions which have been accepted should be rolled back, the last known AI-free version should acquire a new version number, and the documentation should read "reverted vandalism".
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@DocAtCDI@mastodon.social I was quite healthy until I learnt to ski. Then I went downhill very quickly.
Absolutely delighted this morning at about quarter past or half past eleven to have my suggestion taken up for the BBC Radio 3 Essential Classics Playlister.
They ask for recommendations for a playlist based on a piece they play; today they played "Telephone and Rubber Band" from the Penguin Cafe Orchestra; I sent in a suggestion for one of the "Knee Play" interludes from Philip Glass's opera "Einstein on the Beach".
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> "The Castlegate scheme has encountered delays and rising costs as a result of archaeological finds uncovered during construction."
Sheffield City Council is continually astonished and wrongfooted by the surprise discovery that the Castlegate Scheme, at Castlegate, on the site of the former Castle Market, had some castle remains on site.
I don't know how Stargate can have a spin-off series, let alone several.
I've seen the original Stargate series and that thing turns really slowly.
As is traditional I have turned up at a church I was last in about thirty years ago, and immediately been given a job (choirs are always short of basses)
When someone asks me how I am (and it's not just conversational lube), sometimes I'll answer "I have a representative sample of the ailments of my agegroup", and often (particularly if they're around the same age as me) I'll get the sympathetic answer "haha yes, me too, there's a lot of it about", and we have a comforting mutually supportive moment. It's good.
If I use the acronym, saying "I have arsotaoma", there will be alarm and questions about appropriate medical care. This is not so good.
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@lproven Bah, I just listen to the vibrations of the proximal yoghurt pot when the header of the IP packet is passed from the main frame onto the bit of string.
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@chrisaldrich@mastodon.social This is one of the reasons why it's fun -- not just typewriter, but perpetuity, proprietor, repertoire and others all coming in at ten letters.
rupturewort
If your system works well for everyone, it's probably a good system.
If your system works well for 999 out of 1000 users, and you have maybe forty users, it's probably fine.
If your system works well for 999 out of 1000 users, and you have maybe a million users, then it's absolutely unfit for purpose.
I wonder how many users Google, Microsoft, Amazon have?
The systems hosted by Google, Microsoft and Amazon are absolutely unfit for purpose.
Microsoft: "Oh yes of course, the recent Microsoft Update screwed over the RDP client and completely broke the workflow over your entire enterprise for any of your users who rely on RDP. Here's the change you need to make to the registry on all those user-facing machines; you should be aware that a future Microsoft update may disable this workaround and you should make plans for the RDP client to be permanently broken for all users who rely on it, at some unpredictable point in the future."