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IT consultancies and contracts pay the bills, but here is mainly other stuff.
Keen caravanner, campervanner, narrowboater and skier.
Pitch black sense of humour.
Woke (or trying to be, anyway).
Social battery only charges up to 5%.
Mostly harmless.

Alt-Avatar: A gate's metalwork crafted to form a face in one of the curls.
Alt-Header: Airstream pitched in snow at La Grand Bornand, France.

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ScaredyCat, to DuckDuckGo

Self host searchXNG - when there's an outage you still get search results - albeit from a limited subset of engines. #duckduckgo #selfhost

*edit because you have to get the name right?!!

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@ScaredyCat Are you using it? If so, how are you finding it?

steve, to diy
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I wonder if B&Q ever considered how much their website harms their brick & mortar stores. I used to check the B&Q website before going to the store to see if they had what I want in stock, but now the website is a "market place", which means 95% of the stuff on there is never available in store - its mostly sold online and shipped by third parties. There's no way to filter out this crap, so now I can't check if I'll have a wasted journey, so I go to their competitors' stores instead.

#DIY

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@steve we did exactly this on Sunday. Wanted a new hosepipe. Was passing B&Q so thought I'd check the website before I left. Found what I wanted but it turned out it was delivery only. Found another and that too was delivery only. Drove straight past B&Q and went to Screwfix after checking their site and seeing exactly what we wanted and that it was in stock.
I hadn't realised, until you mentioned it, that they'd turned their website into a marketplace. I won't bother using it or them again.

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@steve are they? Well don't I look foolish!

NAB, to Eurovision
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Last thoughts of the season.
should have won - a better song and better sung.
deserved more points.
tried to make up for a so-so ditty with incredible staging, but I'm not sure the sweaty-sexy side of it worked well (but it could just be that it wasn't aimed at me).
were missed (the song, anyway, we'll see what has to be said about the singer)
was still my favourite and for bonus points the singer seems to be a nice person too.

Floppy, to random
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Who on mastodon.me.uk is coming to @emf? I wonder if I should organise a little meet upโ€ฆ?

NAB,
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@Floppy @emf ๐Ÿ‘‹

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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And the lolz just keep on comin'

From the Sky Local Elections liveblog

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@fkamiah17 I don't believe for a moment that he forgot - it's far more likely IMHO, that this was the easiest way for the narcissist in him to get some attention.

NAB, to random
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A quick favour if anybody can help - I volunteer with a charity, Clothing Coventry (https://clothingcoventry.org/). They've just taken on a full-time administrator who needs a computer. I have a PC, keyboard and mouse, but I'm short of a monitor.
So.... Does anybody happen to have a monitor they don't need any more and they're happy to post to Coventry? Ideally 16:9 1080p minimum?
Your help would be very much appreciated.

NAB, to random
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If I'm following somebody and remember that they posted something within the last fortnight (which I failed to bookmark) and I know what one of the words was in their post, how on earth do I search for that post?
It can't be difficult, so I'm missing something obvious. Feeling grrr with myself.
Posting this here as I've given up and am hoping somebody will point me at the (no doubt blindingly obvious) button to click.

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@tony Hmm. That's what I thought but it's not working for me.
I can search for "from:@user", no problem. But searching for "from:@user keyword" returns no results - even if I look at one of their latest posts and can definitely see the keyword there.
Now, I've just tried exactly the same thing but with your username and the keyword 'click' and it's come back immediately with two results.
Is it possible the user's instance has disabled searching and I've been pointlessly banging my head on this?

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Argh. Panic. samknows.com, that trusty site for broadband availability and exchange capabilities, has disappeared - well, it's now Cisco and all the useful stuff has disappeared. Shame.

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A friend wants to use Splitwise to sort out who's paying what for a holiday. I've read their privacy policy and I don't like it one bit - "personal details used for advertising and may be passed abroad where anything can be done with them".
If it were up to me, then a shared spreadsheet would be fine, but I wondered if anybody knows of and can recommend a FOSS alternative?

sciencebase, to random
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This is the first Emperor moth of the year in our garden. He didn't get the memo about being dull and grey/brown did he?

Another 5 or so turned up soon after.

He flew in from the west, so somewhere between here (Cottenham) and Swavesey (where our local bird reserve is) there must be some heathland-type terrain with the larval foodplant, heather, perhaps in bloom, and the females awaiting their suitors.

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@sciencebase fantastic photograph.

Edent, to random
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I've been invited to apply for a market stall at . There's a number of interesting things I think I could sell there.

But they all involve me buying at wholesale price and selling retail price. Like, I get that's the way commerce works, but it also feels kind ofโ€ฆ I don't know how to explain. Rude?

If I buy 100 things at ยฃ10ea, assume I only sell 75% of them, plus VAT, plus credit card charges, then I have to sell for ยฃ16.50ea.

That doesn't account for my time or dealing with returns.

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@CatherineFlick @Edent @byjp agreed, great idea. For small traders, profit is what puts food in their mouths and I'm all for openness and transparency about that.

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This morning's 'WTF?' moment - I've just been asked by a solicitor to provide my name, DOB, NI number, address, telephone numbers, bank account details (name, sort code and number) and facsimile of my signature ... BY PLAIN TEXT EMAIL.

NAB,
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Solicitor has confirmed that they believe plain text e-mail is secure and that they have no other secure channel for communication.
They did suggest that I fax them.
Good grief.

steve, to privacy
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Another day, another email from the to tell me that they have closed my complaint about an organisation not responding to my Subject Access Request because they too couldn't contact anyone there... I mean, what's the point of the ICO?

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@steve Oooh. That's worth noting for if ever we are ever contacted by the ICO - we'll just ignore them and they'll go away.

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@steve Cross fingers that goes OK for you - let me know what happens.
I've heard other people say before that they take the law, throw it away and then apply whatever they think the law should be instead. Not good.

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A good evening spent online with the @emf kitchen team menu planning/sizing a week's worth of food. If you're coming and if you're volunteering, you should be well fed!
And if you're eating breakfast there, you can thank me for a great full English (or curse me if you don't rate it).
#emf #emfcamp

NAB, to discworld
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โ€˜Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?โ€™ - Going Postal
#GNUTerryPratchett
#Discworld

NAB, to random
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Today is the last day of a dry month. I thought not drinking may help me break through the weight loss target I set last year. It didn't - it seems I don't drink enough for it to have made a difference.
So what has a dry month done for me? About the only thing I can put my finger on is it's made me more grumpy - I really missed sitting down with a decent glass of wine or pint of beer at the end of the day two or three times a week.
Ah well, I won't be making that mistake again - live and learn!

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@ScaredyCat No. Doing the 5:2. Nice and slow and suits my lack of will power! Lost 18kg in 14 months. Only got half a kilo to go.

CatherineFlick, to random
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FYI my symptoms have been: sneezing, runny nose, sore throat, sinus pain and stuffiness, fatigue, cough (seems to be nasal drip related though), blocked ears, muscle soreness. Taste and smell still active! (Though diminished, but thatโ€™s probably because my nose is really stuffed up.)

NAB,
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@CatherineFlick Snap, snap, snap.....
For me and my wife, Lemsip every four hours really took the edge off. It was waking up at three in the morning with the worst sore throat I've ever had every day for a week that was the killer.
Hope it isn't as bad for you as it was for us.

CatherineFlick, to random
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Yay positive for covid, this blows

NAB,
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@CatherineFlick
Boooooo. Get well soon.

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@neil I know it's not what you're after, but this has been on my mind for a while and I think I have a solution for my use case. Posting it here as I have this thread bookmarked... ๐Ÿ™‚
For various reasons, I want to be able to play audio around the house (like "Front door has been left open", "Garage unlocked" etc.) and so having some form of cheap remote speaker hanging off a media server I can control from the home automation system would be perfect.
...

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@ScaredyCat Took me a while to get it compiled (old dependencies) and it works for text to speech and ringtones, but not for mp3 playing or streaming.... More digging required.

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@ScaredyCat Arduino.

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