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penguin42

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Chocolate eating computer geek, Manchester, UK
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dick_turpin, to random
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Fuck me! David Cameron is running around telling everyone how the UK is beefing up its defences and strengthening ties we have with our allies, and now we are being warned to keep three days of supplies somewhere safe, just in case!

There's definitely something they're not telling us.

Are the Tories taking a leaf out of Maggie's playbook, Falklands.yml, and looking to start a small war to win the next election?

https://news.sky.com/story/britons-should-have-three-days-worth-of-tinned-food-and-water-government-says-13141114

penguin42,
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@dick_turpin Well, Putin is doing Nuclear war excersises, and they'll probably start showing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)

(Which, well, as long as they target that side of the Penines, all is fine....)

dick_turpin, to Israel

Hmm? If Palestine is recognised as a State, that should cause problems for Israel.
bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-6904…
#Palastine #Israel #Gaza

penguin42,
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@dick_turpin Or it would be much easier - I mean a war on a state is much easier than people complaining that you're fighting people you're supposed to protect.

penguin42,
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@dick_turpin Yeh but they know that Jordan etc don't want them.

cawhitworth, to random
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So yeah I work for Microsoft. The product I work on is a Linux-derived platform and all my personal devices are Apple. Just sayin’.

penguin42,
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@cawhitworth From other large companies, I'm more used to being open-warfare between departments rather than monolithically...

dick_turpin, to random
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TFFT!
The children finally have milk. Plus 300 cans of Tango and a case of Red Bull. I've nabbed a couple of cans of Red Bull before this lot guzzles everything.

penguin42,
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@dick_turpin Eww longlife.

mjg59, to random
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This is art (from https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/COPA-v-Wright-Judgment.pdf)

penguin42,
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@mjg59 Wonderful doc isn't it - none of the forgery here is even slightly careful; it wouldn't have been that hard to find a ~2007 era PC and the version of OpenOffice used to produce the actual white paper.

pwaring, to random
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I’ve never understood why some diplomats (or their embassies) refuse to pay the congestion charge in London (and similar fees in other countries). I get that there’s no sanction other than expulsion, but it seems extremely undiplomatic to not just refuse to pay for things in your host country, but to do so blatantly and repeatedly.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/20/us-embassy-owes-15m-in-congestion-charge-fees-says-transport-for-london

penguin42,
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@pwaring It's something about Diplomats not being charged taxes by the host country and them arguing that it's a tax. (I can't honestly say what's a tax and what any other type of charge is)

avavsystems, to random
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One for my old BGM Buddies today

“I’d like Smooth Pop 10, Chart Hits 36 & Instrumental Piano pls”

Found a few DATs & CDi Audio Discs. DAT is dated March ‘92. Lettered A to H. Therefore DAT Masters for the 8 Bands on CDi Audio, to be pressed up at Nimbus.

Anyone got an M810?

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penguin42,
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@avavsystems Can you explain what 'professional CD' is - and how did it squeeze 8 hours on?

penguin42,
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@avavsystems Oh fun; I did some CDi back in ~92

dick_turpin, to random
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Sony to build a dedicated production line for the

https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/sony-plans-dedicated-raspberry-pi-5-line-ahead-of-ipo/

penguin42,
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@dick_turpin ...in Japan hmm.
I do hope they call it the Pi factory.

fedops, to random
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@fitheach @simon_brooke @giantspacesquid do any of you sell your trees?

Thinking of getting a piece of land cleared to convert into a pasture with fruit trees. That means removing 300 dense-stand silver firs; 40 years old, average 40 cm breast height diameter and 15m high.

The offer I've gotten is 5 Eur/tree, for thermal use. This is ~8% of what firewood goes for, or 10% of the equivalent cost in heating oil. But it saves me min. 5 years of work and still leaves me with 700 trees.

Thoughts?

penguin42,
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@fedops @edavies @Tay0 @fitheach @simon_brooke @giantspacesquid Hmm nice new word of the day to me 'spalted'

penguin42, to random
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Oh, McKittrick is dead 😠
'McKittrick : General, the machine has locked us out. It's sending random numbers to the silos.'

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001056/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-69013314

codewiz, to web
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I haven't paid attention to Netcraft's Web Server Survey, which was once a battlefield between Linux and Microsoft (namely Apache httpd vs Microsoft IIS).

Nginx took the lead from Apache in 2019. However, for the past 3 years Nginx's market share has been on a steady decline, matched by the growth of Cloudflare (10%) and "Other" (25%). Is Amazon AWS lumped with it?

https://www.netcraft.com/blog/april-2024-web-server-survey/

#nginx #apache #web #linux

penguin42,
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@codewiz I've used Caddy for my latest setup -it's very very simple.

penguin42, to random
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I think I just found a unused in the Xserver since ~1996.

penguin42,
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@suihkulokki surprisingly it's been meson-ised.

dick_turpin, to random
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Sunday dinner er in the sun nice.

penguin42,
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@dick_turpin what are the two beige blobs at top upper-right of your plate - just above the leafy stuff and next to the tom?

penguin42,
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@dick_turpin ah yes, they must be your stuffed balls.

penguin42,
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@dick_turpin soak them in gravy and they might be less wrinkly.

sil, to random
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The Rollright Stones, a stone circle in the Cotswolds. The story is that they were the servants of a king who were turned to stone by a witch, although as far as I can tell when someone came up with that story, the stones had already been there for about three thousand years. I’m sure whoever assembled them is happy about that.

A lovely place to be in the sunshine. Far from the world of people and jobs and hassle.

A small collection of big stones in a sunny green grass field. The stones are all taller than a person, and heavily eroded by water; they lean up against one another almost like a tent. They’re surrounded by a metal fence at waist height, painted green

penguin42,
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@sil You can never be too sure if it was some ancient religious ceremonial site, or a bored farmer.

penguin42, to random
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Do self-driving cars have horns? When do they use them?

cablespaghetti, to random
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The downside of my parents living in an area full of littering vape addicts is there being litter everywhere.

The upside is I’ve just walked their dog and obtained lots of free lithium ion batteries. Some still in vapes. I wonder if I can do something with the heating elements too…

penguin42,
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@cablespaghetti Youtube's Big Clive has pulled a few to bits in the past.

mansr, to random
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What's so special there?

penguin42,
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@mansr It doesn't seem modern though; they're still labelled that way in a 1830-1880 map; https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=20.0&lat=51.06957&lon=-1.80314&layers=257&b=22&o=100

penguin42,
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@mansr My bet is that there was a basic cross there sometime long ago.

penguin42,
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@mansr There's this fun US case recently about quadripoints in the US: https://www.hcn.org/articles/public-lands-judge-rules-wyoming-corner-crossers-did-not-trespass/

cyrus, to Matrix
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If this lands on your feed, tell me about different features that are just missing in Matrix.

It can be anything, but please don't include memes like "unable to decrypt message" or other things that are already in the works, or maybe has already been merged (e.g media captions)

Some examples include better forwarded messages, rich profiles, or a live location sharing, just to name a few.

(I am writing something about this, boosts appreciated!)

penguin42,
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@cyrus You say 'live location sharing' - didn't the original Matrix spec including a message type for a location?

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