Don Thompson

@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk Frank Gardner’s a ‘security correspondent’. Maybe he should be aware that USAF temporary deployments don’t exceed 180 days (he mentions 7mths, it’s been 6). U-2S ops at Fairford be a detachment from Beale AFB, they haven’t left (different ‘rules’ deployment vs detachment). No reported force changes at Lakenheath or Mildenhall, lights still on at Feltwell. This idea that there was a specific risk, let alone spookage, doesn’t hold water. The pumpkin prince needs to keep things quiet over the coming weeks, bigly elections, no rocking of boats lest his popularity with his base tanks further. Adding, I believe the USAF now has other forward deployment options, notably Diego Garcia where recent accomodation ‘issues’ have been overcome - it’s much closer to the Gulf regions for air operations.

@rolf Structure from which a punch bag was suspended, as reported in 2017, but recent StreetView image shows punch bag has been removed. Let’s hope only removed for maintenance! https://epoznan.pl/news-news-79903-wandale_dewastowali_przystanek_autobusowy_soltys_zainstalowala_obok_worek_bokserski

@ScottishGreens@mastodon.scot It’s complicated: the previous UK government approved development of Rosebank in Sept 2023. The field is now near, if not at, production status. I think now way too late to stop it without an interminable argument for compensation from Adura (Equinor & Shell). https://web.archive.org/web/20230927120028/https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/uks-rosebank-oil-field-development-gets-go-ahead-2023-09-27/ Burnham’s best compromise would be to commit all gov income from Rosebank to fund residential solar grants. (Haven’t given Jackdaw sufficient attention to comment).

@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk … and this a written piece also highlighting the circular funding of ‘neoclouds’ (primarily, by Nvidia) who are, in turn, renting capacity back to ‘hyperscalers’ who allegedly can’t build out capacity as quickly as neoclouds (who have enormous power demands in their futures, sources unspecified). So many billion dollar and giga-watt dependencies… h/t @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.nethttps://io-fund.com/ai-stocks/nvidia-coreweave-nebius-circular-financing-gpu-boom

@Stevenheywood@mastodonapp.uk FrogFace’s conundrum: "Do I want to spend every Friday for the next five years in Clacton?" He could’ve bought a little sail boat with the £5mn, used it for constituency ‘surgeries’, taken the locals out for booze cruises. The man has a terrible lack of imagination. (A touch of sarcasm, hopefully, obviously)

@az@scorpinc.social Don’t tell me it’s controlled from a bluetooth connected games console controller?

@Lana@beige.party Receiving an emergency infusion of Miracle Gro?

@ninkosan @sephster @robhawkes Offshore survey for EGL5 seabed route is presently underway (3x OI ‘Armada’ vessels presently engaged) & ‘WGL2’ route survey is perhaps now complete (Fugro leading on that). Yet, some time remains before the interconnectors will be operational.

@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk Benn Jordan’s recent ‘presentation’ on the subject is thought provoking. Haven’t had time to ‘stress test’ the ideas but some of the fundamentals reminded me of a fragile ‘lap game’ (in which one link, eventually, fails). https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZy1lBNykA

@mo@icelandphotos.co.uk @clickhere@mastodon.ie Put pressure on MSPs too, in every constituency & Westminster MPs. Old style, leafleting the community, and directly writing to them. Draft a pro-forma letter that can be cut & pasted into emails. (and signed)

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social The engineering challenge has been overcome: Google & Meta have done it, they’re laying far more capacity on the ocean floor with fibre optic cables than SpaceX & Amazon Leo could ever hope to realise from space with RF. The largest of the UK’s FTTP terrestrial infrastructure providers serves more customers than SpaceX does, globally. It’s a horrific waste of energy to sate the ambitions of one sociopatic malcontent.

@SaschaWenger @rolf Pretty confident that it’s the same location. Looking through Streetview history the street ‘furniture’ has evolved. A notable match involves the ‘tag’ on the bus stop sign from Streetview to the OP’s image. OP’s image certainly predates Streetview of May 2023 and, likely, 2019 also (which correlates with the original report of 2017). Not my first image/geolocate/match effort.

@Geri@mastodon.online Isn’t it that most gas was extracted in the southern North Sea whereas oil was more dominant in the northern North Sea? Another thing Norwegians (& other Scandanavians) seem to excel at is offshore engineering, not that Scotland/GB is void of such skills but they carry over to offshore wind & GB isn’t at the vanguard there.

@ifixcoinops@retro.social Odd coincidence, read this after reading an article about Chris Stanford & Sylvia Spruck Wrigly.

@TheSnoopySnoop@mastodon.scot My fella loves meeting his buddies, 0-30mph instantly! My suspicion was kinda tongue-in-cheek, haven’t heard about the horse racing idea but quite possible too. Great views, close under approach for 04 at the City.

@TheSnoopySnoop@mastodon.scot We’re (that’s me & George the whippet) often there. Walked through nearby by shaded, tree covered paths yesterday. The NT has recently re-opened a path that meanders thru a wildflower meadow between Minnowburn car park & The Giants Ring. There’s a bunch of greyhounds, whippets, & other sighthounds that frequent the spot. I have suspicions that it was actually an ancient race track for them.

@fazalmajid @davefischer Mid-90s thru mid-00s worked for a service provider, everytime the Sun sales guys got wind of a new solution being built for a customer they were knocking on the door, ‘looks like a good fit for an E10K’. Rarely was it!

@geerlingguy Is that case/enclosure doubling up as a heatsink?

@cstross@wandering.shop Concise summary. DID racoon just wants to be with its closest neighbouring raccoons, the bear can just lumber off into the woods.

@andyb@mastodon.au There’s devilishment in me that wants this to be an AirBnB’s kitchen or maybe just some random neighbour’s kitchen, someone who left their door unlocked.

@crazyeddie@mastodon.social @Lana@beige.party I am not sure that’s true. On the back of a Sky News (UK) report explaining that US refineries preferred heavy crude, as the majority of Venezuala’s reserves are, I did a bit of a dig. Broadly, this Sky News was correct. This heavy glop is preferred, maybe to be blended with naptha or lighter crudes before processing by US refineries to mostly produce gasoline & diesel/kerosene products. Heavy stuff good for that limited range of products.

@jacqui76@mastodon.ie Very impressive, that site is on a bend in Carey St at the rear of the RCJ, surveillance cameras all around.

@fishidwardrobe @rms ‘ Ruter said: “There is access to the control system for battery and power supply via mobile network through a Romanian sim card. In theory, therefore, this bus can be stopped or rendered inoperable by the manufacturer.” ‘ Pull the SIM card? Replace it? Disable it? Relocate data aggregation into the customer environment? Is this story actually inferring ‘the UK’ has only woken up such risks?

@psneeze It’s not an entirely uncommon event (to redesignate a runway). If I have it correct, Heathrow’s two parallel runways were redesignated in 1987 for the same reason.

@LonM@social.vivaldi.net @ReCyclist@toot.community Is it even really necessary to reinvent the app wheel? England based rail operators, nationalrail, trainline, tfw.wales all seem to deliver a functional app experience.

@lproven Maybe you’ve hit on a thing there. Pass ‘go’ if you can provide a customer bill from a long demised ISP. I reckon I could dig out a Demon Internet statement, pre-Scottish Telcom/Thus days.

@andywalmsley@mastodonapp.uk @brie Is the Nauen station in Germany no longer operating?

@fazalmajid @davefischer Mid-90s thru mid-00s worked for a service provider, everytime the Sun sales guys got wind of a new solution being built for a customer they were knocking on the door, ‘looks like a good fit for an E10K’. Rarely was it!

@crazyeddie @Lana Anyway, it’s seems that the leaders of US oil behemoths carry the heaviest chips anyone can load on their shoulders. Iran: another nation that kicked them out - centre of the axis of evil; Venezuela - see above; US domestic, progressive & environmental concerns - see author of above.

@LonM@social.vivaldi.net I’ve been receiving emails about the ‘upgrade’ over past weeks. Never used a Scotrail app, only ever used the website to buy tickets. Yet another reason to eschew ‘apps’ and transact using a web site with ‘receipts’, QR codes, etc, via email. Like… Scotland: mountains, glens, the mobile internet (4/5G) coverage isn’t (yet) stellar.

@rasterweb Might I offer that the new != better came very soon after stuff began to be inherently reliable & accessible. I’m told I’m a ‘boomer’. I grew up with TVs warming a room from valves/tubes. Transistor radios used LC circuits for tuning & drifted. I bought a Sony PLL radio circa 1981, it seemed ‘revolutionary’, eventually I dropped it too many times. CD was magical (obvsly, not really but seemed so). Digital cameras meant images, immediately. No 3rd party processing.

@Cdespinosa@mastodon.social So $1bn is the default rounded, base unit of everything now? New shoes for first lady - $2bn ($1bn each foot) New VC-25AB (bridge spec) - suspected to be $1bn

@sdw@mastodon.social Perhaps bad GPS more often than one might expect in certain areas at random times.

@ahltorp@mastodon.nu @ScottishGreens@mastodon.scot At this point, there is no ‘new’ oil & gas drilling, that’s all been done: the seafloor infrastructure, FPSO, gas export pipeline, all in place. Rosebank is very close to production. This is certainly a test for UK gov, these two projects kicked off yrs ago, even before NetZero targets were introduced. If UK gov terminates now what has been approved up til this point there’s little difference to the Orange Oaf’s attitude to ‘windmills’. Politicians make compromises, a compromise here is for ‘Adura’ to proceed but levy/tax the products so as to fund UK homeowner’s transition (& permit no more).

@Wifiwits Another group who appear oblivious to their entitlement of reduced excise fuel (40p/l difference). Resurgence of connections from right wing GB politics to ‘grass roots’ organisations in NI?

@newsguyusa@flipboard.social Flying 80nm long holds over the Bristol Channel & South West Wales after an 4500ft/min descent from initial cruise at FL360 down to 9000ft. Significant issue but not serious enough to get back on the ground asap.