Paul Martin

@citizen428@chaos.social Our Labrador would do a trick with a digestive biscuit. He'd allow it to be balanced on his nose, and would hold still until told he could have it. Then he'd flip the biscuit up in the air and catch it in his mouth. ... until he worked out that if he got it wrong on the first attempt he'd get a second biscuit.

@revk@toot.me.uk I had grew up with raw milk in the UK from about 1970 to 2000. Local farm with doorstep delivery. Very high standards with regular brucellosis and TT testing. Milk was guaranteed to be no more than 48 hours from leaving the cow. Never any problems. I wouldn't go for raw now. However most milk is homogenised nowadays and I miss the ritual of shaking the bottle to mix in the cream layer. The taste was subtly different due to the different fat structure.

@ftp_alun@infosec.exchange @petrillic@hachyderm.io My first encounter was of the BBC 2 TV series. Then when I was at University it was conveniently repeated on Radio 4. I even sat with a boombox on Castle Hill a few Saturday afternoons to record some of the episodes of series 2. And shortly after that the CD box set came out.

@jmax@mastodon.social @dgar@aus.social There's always one Bad Apple.

@brianbilston@mastodon.online Had to look up diphthong in my copy of the Uxbridge English dictionary: very skimpy swimwear.

@ProphetsCross@mastodon.social @Nickiquote@mstdn.social When I used to wear "normal" shoes. I used to go into shoe shops and not ask "Do you have this style in my size?" but "What do you have in size X?" Being at the extremities of the bell curve is a pain.

@_thegeoff@mastodon.social "All right! Did you remember to pack the ape suits?"

@jae@mastodon.me.uk Set SMTP to AUX.

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party @Rob_T_Firefly@masto.hackers.town @monkeyninja@10base2.dev @RickiTarr@beige.party Every. Word. Is. Its. Own… Sentence.

@catsalad@infosec.exchange Cross purr pussies.

@Szescstopni@circumstances.run Sadly 3141-59-26T53:58:97.9 is not valid.

@Extelec@mstdn.social We should do the same to them on July 22.

@neaveeng@hachyderm.io Sounds like someone could be having a whale of a time.

@HailsandAles@metalhead.club Please bite and subscribe.

@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk @todbot@mastodon.social Did something similar with a Sangean 803A (actually its Tandy rebadging) on a PC back in the early 1990s. The word Wetterdienst on the North Atlantic maps was most memorable.

@collectifission@greennuclear.online That joke should have come with a trig warning.

@EnfysBook@kind.social Now if there were a way of neatly folding them...

@emilyjmacaulay@mastodonapp.uk Yes it is. I suspect the last two stories in the series might have been switched in transmission order.

Problems with @pachli@mastodon.social and #snac. Images don't always get fetched in the timeline, and Pachli assumes the format of timeline markers and throws an exception.

@anthonybearles@mastodonapp.uk [Picard] THERE ARE FOUR BINS!

@standupmaths@mathstodon.xyz Random Parker post.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social There's a lot of Latin influence in Welsh. pont, ffenestr, eglwys, ysgol, llaith, pysgod, mur, corff, llyfr, ...

@globalmuseum@mastodon.online Not so fast! Tom Scott wants to have a word. https://youtube.com/watch?v=NUyXiiIGDTo

So, Calor Gas, what _is_ considered too high?

@simontatham@hachyderm.io @phistev@nrw.social IIRC the destination could also be a device special like lpt:

Spent a decent part of the afternoon fault finding Dad's through-floor mobility lift, originally installed over fifteen years ago. It's stopping short when descending.

The manufacturer/installer said "You can't afford it" to the distance charges for a service (they're on the south coast of England and we're on the northwest tip of Wales) and no local firm seems to want to bother with us.

Found a service manual online for an adjacent model. The control board is different but the wiring harnesses and working principles are the same.

Isolated the problem using the circuit diagram to a magnetically operated reed switch (which should bypass other limit switches when it's operated), and further narrowed it down with a multimeter to being one or two potentially broken wires in a flexing wiring harness linking a static part to the moving lift.

So it's still not fixed but we now know roughly where the problem is.

@RuthSalter@mastodon.scot "If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes."

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social The use of llefrith for milk suggests the café is in North Wales. You don't see it as much nowadays. The Hwntw Welsh word for milk, "llaith" meant buttermilk in Gog Welsh.

@Krazov@mstdn.social @felwert@fedihum.org @aral@mastodon.ar.al It can get a little frustrating if you follow only one person in the thread of replies. You only see one side of the conversation.

@StefanThinks@beige.party That's a barrel of laughs.

@sheddi@mstdn.party @revk@toot.me.uk @Walrus@toot.wales @Edent@mastodon.social There were mutterings recently of dropping the substation voltage to nearer the lower end of the tolerance band to accommodate more domestic PV contribution. Nominally we are 230V but most British¹ domestic supplies are still 240V when measured. __ ¹ Northern Ireland is a separate grid and might be doing their own thing.

@sargoth@mastodon.social You really don't want to mess with the mean tone systems.

@jenny753@indiepocalypse.social Does it come with an HO scale version of the infamous 11ft 8 bridge?

@rhyswynne@toot.wales Could be worse. The one and only organised race I have taken part in was a 10km run there in October 2021. The start was up Angina Hill and the finish was down it, but the killer about 7km in was a slog up the long hill from the golf club car park (opposite Sainsbury's) up to the Orangery.

@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk MST3K as a service.

@etchedpixels@mastodon.social @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Round here (Pen Llŷn) "mushy peas" is "pys slwj" (pronounced "peas sludge"). I've seen it on a hotel menu.

@tomwsmf@mastodon.social @mathew@universeodon.com Nah, it's got to be the 2 inch Quad of protocols.

@ada@blahaj.zone Usually parkrun has a page of the form https://parkrun.country-code/cancellations I didn't find out about this until after I turned up at a cancelled event whilst on holiday. I wasn't alone: with three others in the same situation we decided to run the course anyway.

@davidnjoku@mastodon.world Many libraries were originally sponsored by the industrialist Andrew Carnegie.

@ninawillburger@social.anoxinon.de "Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in-for-me." (Frank Muir and Denis Norden, "borrowed" for Carry On Cleo)

@kinnison@social.flarn.net Our Labrador didn't know he was too big to be a lap dog.

@standupmaths@mathstodon.xyz SitStayMaths?

@etchedpixels@mastodon.social @redsad@ohai.social prefab sprout?

@benjancewicz@mastodon.social Did nobody notice the headphone jack?

@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer @psf@oldbytes.space What if a TOTP shared secret is also leaked? Some forms of 2FA are good for frustrating MITM attacks but not data breaches.

@diffrentcolours@tech.lgbt @teamonkey@mastodon.social @guyjantic@infosec.exchange @mcc@mastodon.social "messaging sadly" sounds too close to home.

@rl_dane@polymaths.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social 0.0070 on an OLED phone screen and I'm definitely deuteranomalous. I got lucky with one of them with a random selection being the correct one.

@jmax@mastodon.social @Jer@chirp.enworld.org @cstross@wandering.shop @isaackuo@spacey.space Planck time. As in "as thick as two short plancks".

@jima@mspsocial.net @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @dalias@hachyderm.io @ryanc@infosec.exchange @owen@mastodon.transneptune.net Is the collective noun of DNS weirdos a delegation or a resolution?

@mathew@universeodon.com @tychotithonus@infosec.exchange @inthehands@hachyderm.io There was a young man of Tralee Who was stung on the neck by a wasp When asked did it hurt, he replied not at all. (Milligan, T. A. "Spike")