Hello! I'm English, in my early thirties, and write online docs for a living. I usually post about UK politics, tech industry news, video games that I'm currently playing, and old computers. I'm also gay, so LGBTQ+ rights are important to me. First joined fedi in 2017. I used to write for Linux Format magazine & created the defunct "Glimpse" fork of the GNU Image Manipulation Program. This is a personal non-work account. All views are my own. He/him/his. 🏳️🌈 #nobot #noindex #nobridge
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Last Notes npub15874ncwu8jlwvsu4gr9492ae7a7yz70htrkxgxxdkjdy984wja2su8dmwl Bobby Moss @npub1g0t…tvm4 fwiw they made a big deal about it on BBC Points West. Carla Denyer did a live interview in her new Bristol constituency. 🙂 #ukpol #GE2024 npub15874ncwu8jlwvsu4gr9492ae7a7yz70htrkxgxxdkjdy984wja2su8dmwl Bobby Moss TIL that a shortcoming of my Mastodon post automatic deletion policy is that popular posts stay up, but my replies to them don’t. So I’m getting some very strange responses to some of them popping up in my mentions. 😂 npub15874ncwu8jlwvsu4gr9492ae7a7yz70htrkxgxxdkjdy984wja2su8dmwl Bobby Moss Before anyone else does a "gotcha", yes I know that Men Without Hats are Canadian. But they shot the video in Wiltshire, the county I live in, so it still counts! 😝 npub15874ncwu8jlwvsu4gr9492ae7a7yz70htrkxgxxdkjdy984wja2su8dmwl Bobby Moss Disaffected teenagers on social media: “England has no culture of its own, so it steals everyone else’s!” Meanwhile, in rural England every summer: https://youtu.be/1p_BvaHsgGg?feature=shared npub15874ncwu8jlwvsu4gr9492ae7a7yz70htrkxgxxdkjdy984wja2su8dmwl Bobby Moss tbh I haven't even worked out how Memojis work, so Genmojis sound like something that's going to pass me by as well. 😂 I see that Apple has also finally caved to Google's demand to support RCS. Using satellite connections when cellular & WiFi connection aren't available is also a nice touch. (And yes, I know rich Android users had these things already) So, there's some interesting things coming in iOS 18. I look forward to being baffled and confused by it. #wwdc2024 npub15874ncwu8jlwvsu4gr9492ae7a7yz70htrkxgxxdkjdy984wja2su8dmwl Bobby Moss Condolences to Dr Michael Moseley’s family. I suppose the lesson to take from this is that heat stroke is no joke. Hiking alone in a hot country during the heat of the day, even for experienced climbers in good physical condition, is a bad plan. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dd7ekyrpyo npub15874ncwu8jlwvsu4gr9492ae7a7yz70htrkxgxxdkjdy984wja2su8dmwl Bobby Moss @npub19lt…qfjk I thought the British solution was dangling net curtains from a tension wire! 😁 They diffuse the sunlight, provide privacy during the daytime, and bugs get tangled in them. npub15874ncwu8jlwvsu4gr9492ae7a7yz70htrkxgxxdkjdy984wja2su8dmwl Bobby Moss I've been watching through Star Trek: Deep Space Nine during the evenings this week, and I get the impression that if DS9 had a HR department, Dr Julian Bashir would've been written up for sexual harassment enough times for Benjamin Sisko to make him do a training course. 🤨 npub15874ncwu8jlwvsu4gr9492ae7a7yz70htrkxgxxdkjdy984wja2su8dmwl Bobby Moss DDoS-ing the Internet Archive is like bombing a library. What a thoroughly dick move. 😡 Source: https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/112513905401989149 npub15874ncwu8jlwvsu4gr9492ae7a7yz70htrkxgxxdkjdy984wja2su8dmwl Bobby Moss "Work-Life Balance" Most professions: "You work your stated hours, then you go home." Software engineering: "You work more than your stated hours, do unpaid portfolio side-projects to demonstrate 'passion', and if you burn out then it's your own fault for not following the instructions in a blog post about mindfulness." npub15874ncwu8jlwvsu4gr9492ae7a7yz70htrkxgxxdkjdy984wja2su8dmwl Bobby Moss @npub1a4g…yuyx have you ever watched The Inbetweeners? He's basically Will. npub15874ncwu8jlwvsu4gr9492ae7a7yz70htrkxgxxdkjdy984wja2su8dmwl Bobby Moss @npub1yyx…qa5g I have sometimes wondered what the reaction of an evangelical Christian parishioner from a Southern US state would be if they actually read the beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount. 🤔 npub15874ncwu8jlwvsu4gr9492ae7a7yz70htrkxgxxdkjdy984wja2su8dmwl Bobby Moss TIL that a Debian maintainer decided that KeePassXC really ought to be an encrypted database rather than a password manager you can actually use with a web browser or hardware token. 🤨 That change has cascaded down to other Linux distros, and the KeePassXC developers are catching flack for it. https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10725 npub15874ncwu8jlwvsu4gr9492ae7a7yz70htrkxgxxdkjdy984wja2su8dmwl Bobby Moss It was the year 2024, and Skynet took control. Fortunately it was powered by ChatGPT, so instead of firing nukes and destroying humanity, it produced a spicy poem about the futility of war as written by Mr Bean, and then apologised for not understanding follow-up questions. It was finally defeated by John Connor, who checkmated Skynet by asking for same-sex dating advice. #microfiction npub15874ncwu8jlwvsu4gr9492ae7a7yz70htrkxgxxdkjdy984wja2su8dmwl Bobby Moss I've been amused by the "well, duh" jokes I've seen on social media about international shipping rediscovering that wind power can cut their carbon emissions. The key difference is that sails made out of the same material as wind turbine blades don't require complicated rigging and have a higher tolerance for poor weather. So my reaction is "actually, this is very cool." 🙂 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68543677 npub15874ncwu8jlwvsu4gr9492ae7a7yz70htrkxgxxdkjdy984wja2su8dmwl Bobby Moss @npub17lg…9uux it's so much worse when you notice "golf coach" in her user handle. 🤦🏻♂️