The local ice cream van has adopted a new stopping location of... Right outside my house.
I now feel slightly guilty if I don't reward its arrival with my patronage.
Anyway, no guilt today.
This is not a complaint.
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We occasionally hear an #icecream van bleating out its eerie call nearby, but either it's just before tea time, or despite pounding the streets around the house I've abjectly failed to locate it.
NOT TODAY!
Not only did I hear it, but it was after lunch so prime pudding time, not only did I find it, but I actually flagged it down and it stopped!
Four and a half decades old and FINALLY I obeyed the "Stop Me And Buy One" commandment.
Just don't ask about the price.
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@girlonthenet@mastodon.social I was in our local Budgens earlier. They had their AC cranked up to insane levels. It was icy cold. Utterly brilliant.
Admittedly, they'd probably frown upon you doing date night kinda activities in aisle 2.
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@mattblaze@federate.social Absolutely. And the tendency to assume the worst, because, sadly, that's all too often the truth, is leading to a worrying collapse of trust across tech, and even worse behaviour in some.
Neighbour is welding his railings next door.
He warned me, no problem.
But still, I keep jumping at the sound of electrical arcing and seeing the shadows of the spark dance through the windows.
Turns out electric arcing is a trigger noise for me.
Bzzzzzzzzzttt!
I am pleased to report that just now I encountered the PERFECT alignment of bathroom floor linoleum, slight dampness due to the shower being recently used, and whatever my socks are made of.
...When I balanced on my heel and span around slowly, it sounded like I was letting one rip. Loudly and slowly. Repeatedly.
It was so convincing, $child2 angrily told me to get the spray out.
I'm still chuckling about this, an hour later.
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@boffbowsh@mastodon.me.uk @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk That's brilliant. (The piss off bit, not the lawyer threat bit)
Yet again, #EurovisionSongContest blows large scale staging out the water. So. Many. Lights.
That was quite a good evening of recreational networking: #UniFi router connected via #Wireguard to a #Mikrotik.
It took a bit of jiggerypokery around firewall and NAT rules on the UniFi, but eventually - thanks to a Reddit comment or two - I have persuaded the WG client to act as a site-to-site VPN.
I'm quite pleased.
The key? Adding a NAT bypass rule to stop the UniFi masquerading the LAN into the WG VPN. And a PBR rule to direct VPN traffic accordingly. And some FW rules for the incoming.
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@Tijn@dosgame.club Yes. It's also how I learned Photoshop and from there got into Adobe's products. Where I still am; they've done well out of me all because I was able to learn for free whilst a kid.
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@lmorchard@masto.hackers.town @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Decades ago a colleague microwaved fish in the office for their lunch. It was so bad we almost had to evacuate the building, and the awful smell is buried in my nostrils to this day.
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@chad I run a few controllers and all the ones set to automatically update did so last night.
Thanks for flagging this issue though, it kicked me into updating the manually updated ones immediately rather than just getting around to it eventually.
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@girlonthenet@mastodon.social I'm reaching the age where such exams become recommended.
This is all good knowledge about what to expect.
Thanks to all.
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@revk@toot.me.uk A momentary brown out overnight perhaps? That just knocked over a few microcontrollers?
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@davidrevoy She's adorable.
I've tried my hand at drawing characters like this, inspired strongly by manga. I have discovered I absolutely cannot do eyes.
But you can. Your characters' eyes are so sparkly, so emotive, I can get lost in them. They set your work apart and bring every panel to life.
Thank you!
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@fesshole@mastodon.social I mean, no, we're really not, but whatever. Please continue fucking the cute girl next door but please submit future fesses to update us with your adventures.
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@SerialWhiner@beige.party That's such an ominously moody photo! I love it.
Hope the storm passed uneventfully.
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@russss@chaos.social Can confirm. Sometimes I see the Edinburgh Fringe operation we run as a pop up distributed office for 150 people, not a company running theatres.
Power, internet, WiFi, phones, printers, windows updates..
And yes we also run a custom written CMS, self service portals for performing companies, ticketing website etc.
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@courtcan @ObsidianUrbex I was just about to say the exact same!
I adored the aesthetic in Loki. They did such a wonderful job imho.
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@Naich@fosstodon.org That's one of the stupidest things I've seen.
And I thank you for it!
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@OddJob@beige.party Lasagne is awesome. Fact.
I cooked a great lasagne on Wednesday. And, now you mention it, I would like some again right now.
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@airwhale @TheBreadmonkey Yeah, but Morpheus was all like "Where'd ya think he is" and Lovejoy was all like "who knows" so they definitely left it open if they wanted.
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@SuperSelena64@vmst.io At least it's not Windows XP! (Although, then they wouldn't have a popup like this, so...)
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@guyjantic@infosec.exchange This is wonderful. Accurate and captures the zeitgeist perfectly.
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@catsalad There's at least one Dyson stick vacuum that has a pair of conical carpet beaters, which claim to self clean themselves of hair.
No idea if it works as advertised though.
As a Brit, my knowledge of "Greek" culture comes solely from what I've seen in films over the years.
In these films, the hazing, the "code", the drunken parties etc. are all depicted in a positive light. And yet, even with this gloss, it's utterly obvious isn't it - the whole culture is rotten.
We don't have such a system in the UK, but there is similar behaviour hidden away in places.
Kate Manne calls it out it perfectly in this excellent post.
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@mattblaze Fascinating thread, thank you. I had no idea this existed, although now you explain it, it makes perfect sense.
RE: @girlonthenet@mastodon.social
A superb piece from Girl on the Net - it's important we (men) remember we ALL have roles to play in tackling this ghastly behaviour, not just shaking our heads when it turns up in the news.
Go read.
That was the best explanation of the voting I've yet seen. #eurovision
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@alexhaydock Oh great, because HDMI, HDCP, CEC and EDID all work so seamlessly already, let's add more complexity.