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@ScottEdelman There is a PhD thesis waiting to be written about how mock Tudor became the wet dream of housing styles.
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My Lancastrian OH was made up to see the Lotus Eaters. #totp
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@madduci@mastodon.social For this to make any difference, they will need to have replaceable operating systems too. Otherwise by the time the battery conks out, your phone is likely out of support and you will have to ditch it anyway.
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@IndyRichard@mastodon.scot @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca Looking at the Scottish independence question as an observer from (just) outside, land ownership looks like a massive glaring problem you will have to deal with: I can imagine wealthy landowners having obscene leverage in Scotland in the same way as the City of London markets have over the UK now.
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@rooftopjaxx@kolektiva.social @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Well Streeting is not going to get any love from the left, but neither does he have the populist X-factor that might win over working class voters who are being attracted by Reform "just to shake up the system". I admit Labour are in trouble for credible leaders atm. Leaders are an annoying single point of failure and we would do well without them. Sadly...
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@kde@floss.social @gnome@floss.social
Maybe this is a good place to plug another BBC programme. This is a far better treatment of Turing's life and death than any other filmed dramatisation you might have seen.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b0074rxv/breaking-the-code
@hembrow@todon.eu
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@ReggieHere@mastodon.social @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us I guess my position is to go to town on Labour for their causation of both Reform and the Green's success. I don't bear the Greens any ill will and I hope they do well, but for reasons I've explained, I don't think they can ever win in England. A Labour party openly amenable to progressive coalition is what we need now. We already needed it anyway.
I've reached acceptance that we cannot ever have nice things, but I'm f*cked if I'm going to put up with having Reform.
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@sloanlance@mastodon.social @arstechnica@mastodon.social Skulls. ☠️ I've been waiting for someone to put that sketch in context. Thanks for posting!
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@daviddoes@mastodon.social @datarama@hachyderm.io @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place I remember NetBSD claiming to run on toasters, maybe 20 years ago. Probably gave the wrong people ideas. But I guess if I had to have software on my toaster I could do a lot worse.
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@robj@mastodon.social @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us I tend to think about it not so much in terms of a conspiracy, but rather how the self interest of certain privileged groups can work against the common good. A redistributive economy is made difficult by globalisation, and also by the reluctance of middle earners to bear a heavier tax burden.
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@rooftopjaxx@kolektiva.social @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us My OH astutely observed today that Burnham may prefer to sit tight for now: if he could arrange a by-election nearer the end of his mayoral term it might play better for him.
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us 🫣 If Streeting is the answer, then Labour have failed to comprehend the question.
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Has that been colourised? I'm not sure I've ever seen it in colour before.
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@Sadderp@mindly.social By "Labour is now populated by..." I think you are really referring to the slice of the parliamentary party that aligns with the current leadership. I'm sure there are thousands of people at the grass roots level in Labour who are despairing as much as you: Not least the many dedicated Labour councillors who have grafted to keep their councils afloat through the best part of two decades of austerity, only to leave them in the path of the Reform wrecking ball. :-(
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Now the old party affiliations are all in flux. But if anything the centre of opinion has shifted right in England. On here people are optimistic about the Greens, but I don't see how they are going to fare any better with the rump of English voters. There are such huge ideological gulfs opening up and we're retreating into a safe space where everyone broadly agrees, but from which we're never likely to see a government. 2/2
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us People talk about our two-party system, but since the '80s up until recent events, I've always thought of England as basically a one-party system: Conservative is the default party of government. Occasionally, when the Tories are too busy infighting to run the country they let Labour have a quick go. This has led to Labour constantly triangulating between the values of their own support base and the soft centre right. This worked for Blair but has utterly failed for Starmer. 1/-
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@JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social Well remember they killed Ed Milliband over a bacon sandwich. Meanwhile here in the North, I don't think the Greens figure much in the equation, except perhaps in Newcastle city council. I worry that several councils will be lucky to escape falling to Reform control. ☹️
I noticed this BBC News Item a few days a go about the North East Heritage Archive. Annoyingly they failed to include a link to the site.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpdpvx4g4g8o
I've linked the site below. It is a nice idea, although I feel they could dial back the annoying modern web presentation style and focus more on the content.
I also find the route planner works a bit backwards: You have to plan a route first before it shows points of interest.
Still, a nice try.
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@susankayequinn@wandering.shop He's facing Edward VII on horseback I think.
Edit: The most meaningful statue nearby from my POV is of Sir John Franklin, who sailed off to find the Northwest Passage, never to be seen again.
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@rexana @caseyliss I've had a play around with using []{}() and so forth in filenames and it seems quite happy with them - found quite a few examples of those living on my server already. So I suspect this bug is either long gone, or quite specific.
Even so, I can see why minidlna isn't everyone's cup of tea. It doesn't do transcoding, and it isn't particularly configurable, which limits flexibility.
I rather like it though: it has given me trouble-free service for a very long time now.
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@peter@thepit.social "don't reproduce enough" is a very subjective observation. What constitutes "enough"?
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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @beemoh@mastodonapp.uk For someone who is ostensibly hard right, ordinary people on the right sure do seem to hate him. In fact I can't remember another politician so hated by both sides of the polical spectrum.
I think we've forgotten the Faustian pact that Labour always makes to get into office. They got it badly wrong this time, but I wonder if there is any political position that could get it right now.
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@kaiserkiwi@corteximplant.com @madduci@mastodon.social I'd settle for being able to install an open source OS. This has worked for PCs and it would work for phones too, if manufacturers were not allowed to lock down the bootloaders or obfuscate the hardware.
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@rexana @caseyliss Ah that's interesting; I've had it running for what must be over 10 years now and it's been rock solid. I suppose I must have got lucky with special characters. If you can give me an example to reproduce I will have a look at it. Is the problem with file names or metadata?
Apparently the Beatles covered this.
#totp
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@JoBlakely@mastodon.social That is not exactly true. About 25 years ago we encountered a tortoise in Homebase. It was for sale for about £100. Why they were allowed to sell tortoises I do not know. But it seemed to be struggling to get a drink of water, which we pointed out to the staff. We often think about that tortoise, and whether it got bought by a loving person or perished in its display cabinet. So if I ever came across an elephant I might just have to buy it to assuage the guilt; consequences later.
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@xkcd@mastodon.com.br Deepwater Horizon? Hold on a moment, I'm sure I heard of that before, I can't quite think of the context...
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@TJ1001@mastodonapp.uk Alt Text:
A meme reworking the WWI recruitment poster "Lord Kitchener Wants You". Kitchener is pointing his finger directly at the viewer. The text reads:
Your country needs YOU...
To say FUCK OFF to Reform UK!
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@robhawkes There seems to be an enormous void in northern England on that map. I'm sure we have a lot of wind farms around here.
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@robj@mastodon.social @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Or they think voters won't buy certain choices. There is a lot of talk of "tough choices" but that is usually code for "we decided we couldn't change anything".
I tend to think we have been heavily consumerised, so that when people have money, they very strongly resent giving it to the state. Of course we definitely should tax billionaires and big corps, but they will ferret a lot of money offshore and make threats, so ultimately we will be left with taxing ourselves.
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@metacurity "99.98% accuracy" is potentially not very high at all, if you consider the daily footfall in UK shops. What is that figure supposed to represent, specifically? Put another way, falsely accusing one in every 5000 customers of being a shoplifter doesn't sound very sustainable.
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@kaiserkiwi@corteximplant.com @madduci@mastodon.social That's good, but not great. My phone is 3 years old and the battery is still fine. I will probably need a new one just as support is running out on the OS. We need to be looking at 20 year lifecycles minimum.
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@HollieK72@mastodonapp.uk @cstross@wandering.shop Ah yes. Chips, chips, big as battleships etc. Thanks.